Big_James’s BodyBlog

This holiday if its a workout day make sure you get that in ahead of the family gathering.  Remember that hard work you are putting in the gym when you look at that food maybe that will help you with some portion control.  My off day is Thursday (just worked out that way) but I am still going to get some cardio in during the morning along with training my wife and her friend.  If anyone has some good links for Turkey Day defense post them below I am sure everyone could use the refresher and some of us it will be new.

Big James

Alright so it was actually "You can’t out work a s%$ty diet!" but hey this is BodySpace.  The quote comes from the guys who trained the movie 300 and the Wolf Pack in New Moon, Gym Jones.  It is however the truest statement I have ever read it is mine and so many others biggest problems.  We have a food addiction sure we can keep it in check but still we eat foods we like to taste and I think sometimes we have to get past that and eat for fuel.  Well I am keeping the saying on my white board to remind me to eat clean.

Here is my workout today it was fun and really hard.  It only takes 20 mins and you will be cursing me afterwords.

10 push-ups

10 lunges

10 pull-ups

10 squats holding a weighted ball above your head.

10 pelvic leg lifts

rest 30-60 seconds repeat.

See how many you can get in 20 minutes it seems simple with 10 but man about round 3 or 4 your are going to be like WOW this actually has my blood pumping.

Big James

Well with my diet at full speed and my exercise routines down its time to tweak just a bit.  I notice that because I am trying to loose weight that I am just not getting enough vegetables.  My Diet right now is high in protein with low carbs tapering off around 2 pm to no carbs.  That in it self is not bad but when you throw in caloric restrictions to try and maximize the weight loss benefit it gets to be a bit much.  So I decided to supplement my veggie intake with Macro Greens.  You might have read about this in the recent Iron Man magazine but the articles have been around for while.

Macro Greens (also known as Miracle Greens) are a powder supplement that basically has 5 servings of veggies in one single scoop.  So this morning was the first time I added them into my diet all I can say is yum…NOT.  This stuff is hard to keep down I had to drink a little of the supplement and then a quick gulp from my coffee to keep it down.  It tastes nasty as all get out I mixed mine with straight water my wife (also working out) wants to add it to her diet as well so she did the half apple juice half water.  Needless to say this did improve the taste but only very slightly this is truly some bad tasting stuff.

One other side note is that they do create some gas so you might belch a few times I did and oh it was such an enjoyment to relive the wonderful taste.

Big James