What's in your lunch?

Rather, what' will you eat at work? I pack my lunch, everyday; cheat a little with my honey on the weekends. Below is what I am taking with me when I leave the house at 4:15AM. It is now 4:00AM; I will be home at 6:30PM this evening.

1 apple
1 orange
2 c. Organic spinach w/ pepper and mustard
2 oz. yogurt with blueberries (Greek yogurt with frozen blueberries added)
1 shake - pea protein, almond milk, 1/2 c. strawberries, 2 T. flax meal
4 oz. nut and bean trail mix - almonds, pecans and edame soybeans
20 oz. water; to be refilled 4 times before I return home.
1 c. steamed spring vegetables
1 CLIF Builders nutrition bar
1 Odwalla Nut mix nutrition bar

I graze all day. Will eat a meat and a couple of vegetables this evening.

What's in your lunch?

How'd we get so Fat?

We will begin with some points of emphasis and demographics:

1. The fitness/exercise industry has evolved from a 30 billion dollar industry in the late 1990's to over 100 billion dollar industry in 2010.

2. Those that are in my age bracket (over 40) can remember when fast food and restaurants were local and regionalized. For example, was there an Olive Garden chain in the 70's, how about Wendy's...was it national?
McDonalds and KFC were two of the few restaurants that were national. Look at us today....there are many fast food stops at every exit on the freeways. Whataburger! has made it out of Texas and onto the national scene.
Do you remember when you were a child on family vacations and MAYBE ran into a McDonalds or KFC every 30-60 miles?

3. Restaurant meal sizes are enormous. Remember when the only big burger choice was a Big Mac or a Big Boy? Today we have Monsters and Whoppers...and Double Whoppers.

4. We are a push button society. Our ancestors worked and created sweat by building things through physical means. That has gone by the way of the ipad for communicaton. I am proud to say that I have yet to send a text message and still carry a spiral notebook for my daily notetaking.

5. There are more single parent households and households with both parents working. This puts todays' families in a nutrition grind. It is afterall easier to grab the Giganta-Burger on the way home from day care.

6. We are fatter than ever and the previous points do a pretty good job of explaining that with the exception of number 1. Why?

Because fitness is a business. Today, AS AN EXAMPLE, we have home shopping and you can buy the latest and greatest DE-CHUBBER machine for 3 easy payments of 399.95....what a bargain for something that is going to evolve into a close hanger in two weeks....DO NOT IMPULSE BUY FITNESS CRAP! There are a lot of people getting rich off of you while extracting very little effort to truly educate you toward a healthy lifestyle.

I won't get started on "Nutrition Store Chains" and will spare them my wrath.

7. Furthermore, the previous points indicate that we need to attack this national problem (IT IS NOT A FREAKIN' EPIDEMIC...IT IS A PROBLEM) from the nutritional side of the calories in verses calories out equation.

Eat less!!!!
Eat at Home!!

It really is that simple....

Wednesday workout:
1. Deadlift 6 X 2 @ 80%

2. Strength Endurance-5 rounds:
a. Sledge strikes(16 pound Hammer) X 10 e
b. 450# tire flip X 10
c. Overhead lockout walk (2-24kg KB's) X 60 yds.

Seeing Dead Relatives

Smack dab in the middle of RSR for the Deadlift. Yesterdays' workout "Seeing Dead Relatives" per Brett Jones, MRKC

Deadlift 6 X 6 @ 80%

Double Press/Pull Up Complex X 10 rounds
a. Double Press X 10 (20 kg's)
b. Tactical Pull Up X 5
*Aim to complete the complex in under 30 minutes

Mastermind Group and RSR

I am pleased and fortunate to be included in a "Mastermind Group" led by Jeff Green, an elite performance specialist out of Birmingham.

The Mastermind group is a group of 12 specialists that possess a variety of interests and methods in the field of Health and Fitness. We will gather at a central location to discuss the development of new methods and ideas to better the state of health in Alabama and beyond. I will post more detail after our initial meeting in June.

On a personal note.... the Russian Squat Regimen applied to the Deadlift

I will begin the 3rd week of the 6 week RSR/strength program. I can definitely feel the strength gains and am accelerating beyond the gains from the pre RSR program. Yesterday (Saturday) my legs were very heavy after 6 X 5 @ 80% and sledge and flips on Friday, yet I turned in my best performance in my Saturday Strength Endurance Circuit.

I wish all moms a very Happy Mothers Day

I'm sooo Busy...

When I was in Grad school some friends (you know who you are) and I would poke fun at people that would always state how "busy" they were. I would even catch myself saying it from time to time...what a Hypocrite!

Now that I am working a large project, seeking expansion within organizations, attempting to explore new avenues of changing peoples' lives, husband, father to an autistic child, father to a typical child (which can be more work than the latter) I laugh at these comments made when all that dominated my life was school, weightlifting, and bad food...I'M SOOOOOO BUSY...;-).

Here is what I am going to slap today:

TGU's 3 X 3/3

Heavy Windmills 3 X 3/3

Conditioning couplets; Perform each together, alternating between a and b until the rep scheme is complete in numerical sequence

Rep Scheme - 20-16-12-8-4:

1a. Sledge Hits

1b. Push Ups

2a. Wall Ball

2b. 2-Bell Swing

3a. Ball Slam

3b. Sit Up