It's been awhile
When I originally started writing my blog it was so I could share my thoughts and musings.
Somewhere along the way I started getting worried about being politically correct. But maybe it shouldn't be about what you say but how you can express it.
In the late part of the summer I started to read a lot of books about staying young and keeping yourself at a biological age lower than that of your normal age. Now the interesting dilemma in the information I was reading was this.
In every book I read they were talking about the benefits of human growth hormone and testosterone injections. So this threw up a lot of thoughts for me.
Obviously whenever steroids or performance enhancing drugs are mentioned we all have a very strong reaction and views. So I started looking into this a little bit more.
Steroids have been around since the 1950s and were originally developed for enhancing sports performance and other uses such as helping burns victims recover. The interesting part is that on a scale of drugs that are highly addictive and destructive they rank surprisingly low, in fact there are many drugs that are legal that are far more damaging to our bodies. So why are they so vilified?
I always look at things from a very scientific and logical standpoint. I look at the evidence, I look at the causal effects and then I make a decision. If you find yourself reacting strongly and irrationally it means something is challenging your belief system. Beliefs are one side of your brain, logic and reasoning the other.
So the challenge for me was that the evidence says HGH could be good for anti-aging and testosterone would help repair me and potentially turn back my biological clock by up to 15-20 years, BUT this is the same stuff that they demonise. Hmmm difficult one.
Talked it over with my wife and she was vehemently anti.
So I asked her the question....
By the time most people get into their 50s they are on beta blockers, hormone replacement therapy and a whole pile of other life sustaining drugs. So what if I could turn the clock back and use performance enhancing drugs, I'd feel 20 years younger, be stronger fitter and potentially healthier than just allowing the life sustaining drugs to keep me going. Surely that would be better?
So we batted this idea back and forth for the lat 6 months. There are male anti-aging clinics opening in the states and I'd rather follow the advice given by a doctor, so this year I have decided to get myself as healthy and as fit as I can possibly manage by completely natural means then make a decision at a later time.
So where should I start?
Rather than write out a long list of goals, here's a simpler approach:
What 3 things did I do last year that worked?
Easy.
The 5/2 diet. Easy, doable and something I could easily take further.
The Navy Seals Workout. We did this in the summer and I really enjoyed it.
The Adonis index workouts... fantastic!!!
So here's my goals for 2014.
1. Do every workout in the Navy Seals books 1&2
2. Follow the 5/2 diet and enhance it with sensible eating practises that will improve my vitality and health.
3. Once I have completed the Navy Seal workouts implement and follow the Adonis program from start to finish, this is a 48 week program so this could take me well into next year.
Today's workout
15 minutes Cycle
A1. Rotational lateral raises 6x21 7x13 8x8 9x8 9x5 9x8 8x8 7x13 6x21
A2. Rotational front raises 7x13 8x8 9x8 9x5 9x8 8x8 7x13
A3. Upright rows 8x8 9x8 9x5 9x8 8x8
A4. Single Arm Shoulder press 10x8 18x5 18x8
A5. Reverse Lat raises 10x5
Full Body Stretch with bands
200m Run 16km/h then Bicep curls 10x10 Dips x10
200m Run 16.5km/h then Bicep curls 10x10 Dips x10
200m Run 17km/h then Bicep curls 10x10 Dips x10
200m Run 17.5km/h then Bicep curls 10x10 Dips x10
200m Run 18.5km/h then Bicep curls 10x10 Dips x10
200m Run 19km/h then Thrusters 10x5
200m Run 19km/h then Thrusters 10x5
200m Run 19km/h then Thrusters 10x5
200m Run 19km/h then Thrusters 10x5
200m Run 19km/h then Thrusters 10x5
Full Body Stretch with bands
200m Front crawl
50m Butterfly kicking then 25m butterfly
50m Backstroke kicking then 25m backstroke
50m Breastroke kicking then 50m breastroke
50m front crawl kicking 50m front crawl
200m cool down
Todays Food
9am Got up
9.30am 100g porridge oats + scoop protein + handful of raisins
12.00pm NO-Xplode
12.15-2.00pm Workout
4.30pm Tall skinny latte + slice of cake
7.30pm Prawn and salmon wraps
Somewhere along the way I started getting worried about being politically correct. But maybe it shouldn't be about what you say but how you can express it.
In the late part of the summer I started to read a lot of books about staying young and keeping yourself at a biological age lower than that of your normal age. Now the interesting dilemma in the information I was reading was this.
In every book I read they were talking about the benefits of human growth hormone and testosterone injections. So this threw up a lot of thoughts for me.
Obviously whenever steroids or performance enhancing drugs are mentioned we all have a very strong reaction and views. So I started looking into this a little bit more.
Steroids have been around since the 1950s and were originally developed for enhancing sports performance and other uses such as helping burns victims recover. The interesting part is that on a scale of drugs that are highly addictive and destructive they rank surprisingly low, in fact there are many drugs that are legal that are far more damaging to our bodies. So why are they so vilified?
I always look at things from a very scientific and logical standpoint. I look at the evidence, I look at the causal effects and then I make a decision. If you find yourself reacting strongly and irrationally it means something is challenging your belief system. Beliefs are one side of your brain, logic and reasoning the other.
So the challenge for me was that the evidence says HGH could be good for anti-aging and testosterone would help repair me and potentially turn back my biological clock by up to 15-20 years, BUT this is the same stuff that they demonise. Hmmm difficult one.
Talked it over with my wife and she was vehemently anti.
So I asked her the question....
By the time most people get into their 50s they are on beta blockers, hormone replacement therapy and a whole pile of other life sustaining drugs. So what if I could turn the clock back and use performance enhancing drugs, I'd feel 20 years younger, be stronger fitter and potentially healthier than just allowing the life sustaining drugs to keep me going. Surely that would be better?
So we batted this idea back and forth for the lat 6 months. There are male anti-aging clinics opening in the states and I'd rather follow the advice given by a doctor, so this year I have decided to get myself as healthy and as fit as I can possibly manage by completely natural means then make a decision at a later time.
So where should I start?
Rather than write out a long list of goals, here's a simpler approach:
What 3 things did I do last year that worked?
Easy.
The 5/2 diet. Easy, doable and something I could easily take further.
The Navy Seals Workout. We did this in the summer and I really enjoyed it.
The Adonis index workouts... fantastic!!!
So here's my goals for 2014.
1. Do every workout in the Navy Seals books 1&2
2. Follow the 5/2 diet and enhance it with sensible eating practises that will improve my vitality and health.
3. Once I have completed the Navy Seal workouts implement and follow the Adonis program from start to finish, this is a 48 week program so this could take me well into next year.
Today's workout
15 minutes Cycle
A1. Rotational lateral raises 6x21 7x13 8x8 9x8 9x5 9x8 8x8 7x13 6x21
A2. Rotational front raises 7x13 8x8 9x8 9x5 9x8 8x8 7x13
A3. Upright rows 8x8 9x8 9x5 9x8 8x8
A4. Single Arm Shoulder press 10x8 18x5 18x8
A5. Reverse Lat raises 10x5
Full Body Stretch with bands
200m Run 16km/h then Bicep curls 10x10 Dips x10
200m Run 16.5km/h then Bicep curls 10x10 Dips x10
200m Run 17km/h then Bicep curls 10x10 Dips x10
200m Run 17.5km/h then Bicep curls 10x10 Dips x10
200m Run 18.5km/h then Bicep curls 10x10 Dips x10
200m Run 19km/h then Thrusters 10x5
200m Run 19km/h then Thrusters 10x5
200m Run 19km/h then Thrusters 10x5
200m Run 19km/h then Thrusters 10x5
200m Run 19km/h then Thrusters 10x5
Full Body Stretch with bands
200m Front crawl
50m Butterfly kicking then 25m butterfly
50m Backstroke kicking then 25m backstroke
50m Breastroke kicking then 50m breastroke
50m front crawl kicking 50m front crawl
200m cool down
Todays Food
9am Got up
9.30am 100g porridge oats + scoop protein + handful of raisins
12.00pm NO-Xplode
12.15-2.00pm Workout
4.30pm Tall skinny latte + slice of cake
7.30pm Prawn and salmon wraps
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