Start YOUR Fitness Journey for 2023 Podcast

 

It doesn’t matter where you are now.  Not at all.  This is, as they say, the first day of the rest of your life!  So let’s get started.

It all starts with diet and exercise.  Everything in your future life of fitness and wellness. So, this January 1^st of 2023 (or whenever you are reading this, I’m writing on January 1^st) clean out your cupboards and refrigerator.  Get rid of anything toxic.  First and most importantly, get rid of any toxic seed or vegetable oils!  Corn oil, soy, canola, peanut and the rest- they are the most damaging fake foods you can consume. They are fake fats, that your body uses to replace natural good fats that your cells and brain is made of.  From now on, you only use beef tallow, lard, olive and coconut oil.  

Not only will you be immeasurably healthier, but your food will taste much better as well.  Throw your old oils out.  Don’t even donate them to a food bank- all those oils are good for is machinery lubrication.  That is ALL.  Very toxic, trust me on this.

And don’t forget- this includes fake fats in solid forms, such as Crisco, margarine, and Cool Whip as well.  True poisons all.

Start to exercise if you don’t already.  Walking doesn’t count, running either!  We are talking strength training.  Resistance training, whether using bodyweight, weights, bands, machines, or self-resistance; they all do the same thing: trigger your body to increase its strength, both in muscle, tendons, ligaments, and bones.  Also, this forces improvements in the cardiovascular system and oxygen utilization.  

  The very best, and by far the most convenient and sustainable method of this is not in a gym.  It’s at home, in your living room in front of the TV!  Just get a good mat that you can unroll, and each morning place it in front of the television set.  To start, you can just lie on the mat, and stretch.  And sit, and stretch, and stand and stretch!  Experiment with your stretching, perhaps using a book such as my own Perfectly Paleo Exercise.

There are so many ways to combine stretching movements with strength ones, and they are so natural and feel so good.  Lots of my podcasts and blog posts at www.paleojay.com describe how to do them.  And remember, you will be kind of ‘at play’, like a cat as it rebuilds its body by self-resisting on a daily basis.  There are no ‘wrong moves’, just do movements that feel right- like squatting down to the floor barefoot, and just holding it while you are watching your TV show.

This is the Hindu, or Asian squat, and it is incredibly beneficial as a stretch for Westerners.  Straight-legged situps, and of course pushups are wonderful adjuncts to your routine.  Self massage of your feet is great, and also good for your hand strength, and is something I do daily.  

Planks are good; I usually ‘pulse’ them up and down rather than just hold, and key for me it what I call ‘Virtual Resistance’, which simply means flexing throughout a range of motion.  I have a brief video explaining this, but it just means you flex throughout a muscle groups full range of motion (like doing a double biceps pose as a bodybuilder would, but slowly, flexing constantly throughout, for reps.  Just imagine you are using resistance, and flex from within, isometrically as you move.  You create your own resistance, and it is every bit as taxing as using real weights, or bands, or a machine.  And it is VERY safe, while being just as effective.

That’s about as far as I want to go for now.  Just get started-

1^st thing every morning, work out by the TV.  Every morning!

Eat like a caveman.  Eggs, fermented dairy like yogurt and kefir, and cheese.  Some berries on occasion, usually in your smoothie if you incorporate that, but mainly you will be eating MEAT.  Beef is the best!

We evolved eating ruminants, like aurochs, mammoths, cows, and buffalo.  This is the best thing we can consume!  If you are too fat and sick, it will make you lean.  And if you are frail, skinny, and sickly, it will build you up.  

And if you are failing mentally- Beef will restore your mind and sanity!

Stay tuned… 

pqtd 48 Get Rid of your S.A.D. diet like an old, ridiculous Leisure Suit

pqtd #48  Get RID of your S.A.D diet like an old, ridiculous Leisure Suit

That might seem like a strange analogy- comparing the standard American diet of today to that ridiculous costume of the early, disco-fueled 19970’s...
But, the two are not that different in their very outmodedness!

Think of the 1930’s and 40’s, when cigarettes were commonly prescribed by medical Doctors for various, made up and ridiculous reasons: improved digestion, enhanced relaxation, and other silly reasons with no foundation in fact.  Much the same thing happened in the 1960’s and especially in the 1970’s, when medical Doctors prescribed LOW FAT diets, counting calories, and long, punishing sessions of Aerobic exercise- mainly slow running, for hours and hours each week!

And at the same time, millions of Americans (probably including most of these deluded doctors) were wearing stupid leisure suits, of which I will try to find some pictures to put up at www.paleojay.com-
Suffice it to say that they were silly, ridiculous disco outfits that were only popular among disco dancers in the late ‘70s or so for a few years.  They were kind of like Elvis’ later costumes, but without the glitz and show biz glamour...

And so, since you are probably NOT smoking cigarettes

or wearing leisure suits today, what is it that many of you are doing that is wrong, out-dated, and proven to be wrong by current science??

Well, if you are eating low fat foods of any type, especially processed ones like low fat yogurt, breakfast cereals- anything in which the fat has been artificially tampered with-

Well then you are essentially wearing a leisure suit, doing aerobic dancing, and smoking cigarettes!  You are so out of date you are a sad joke, and hurting yourself while you embarrass others...

And so, what to do?  BURN that old suit!  Throw out your cigarettes!! If you can’t quit, get a good eCig, and just smoke that instead- the same experience, but you’ll be smoking water vapor which is harmless instead of tobacco and chemicals!
And also, get rid of any kind of processed food, fast food, vegetable oil,

and wheat!  Do NOT do long sessions of aerobics; do short sessions of intense, body weight, virtual, and self resisted exercises.  Rebound on a mini trampoline!  Sprint barefoot occasionally.

Now, your family won’t be embarrassed anymore!  You’ll be cool, wearing your Xero sandals, and sprinting in your yard or park.  Get a set of gymnastic rings for your basement or garage!  Shop for REAL FOODS at Trader Joe’s or best yet with your local farmer or rancher!!

NOW, you are COOL AT LAST!!

Check out this episode!