Those minor details…
That’s definitely a genetic predisposition to diabetes induced heart attacks surely!
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Just like kidney and heart failures after years of steroid use are without an exemption always to blame on predispositions and unrelated health issues.
Tbh I get it, no one likes to kick those who are down and no one should. But belittling the influence of these things is ridiculous.
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Haha yea for sure. It wasn’t the tren it was genetic. (Although some people get away with it for longer - which is genetic).
But let’s face it we all know what’s healthy generally and what isn’t, as a general population we just chose poorly.
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Weighed in at 14.10 - 206.
Skipped session yesterday due to craziness of life. Made up for it today and will just train 3 days in a row - they’re only deload sessions.
Today:
10 mins (well not quite cut short due to injury) sandbag work
Rough idea of work:
Load to 4ft wall, carry to 5ft wall and load, take down and squat X5 carry to 4ft wall (approximately 3m away), breath really heavy. Take to 5ft wall try and load, fail, drop breath, fail drop, carry to 4ft wall, 4 X 10m(ish) runs non stop, drop, breath, load to 4ft wall, try to shoulder - pop something in mid back (mildly painful to breath) drop. Cut session short by a minute. Carry bag up to garage.
Emom banded bench
80kg & blue band X 3 X 12 sets (I think, I got confused too busy trying to browse forums whilst looking at stopwatch!)
Sandbag was destroying me before I injured myself! My biceps are feeling is - did a lot more manhandling from floor this time. Don’t think injury is anything major, kind of eased during bench, couldn’t arch much but then I never have done, so no major issue, plus I’ve got a sports massage this afternoon so I’ll get it looked at.
Pwo: curry and chips!
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That’s not right.
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The logs are all sorts of FUBAR’d today so I have no idea of anyone said this, but I think we need to eat natural foods. Don’t worry about saturated fats being bad; worry about eating saturated fats from meat instead man made crap.
I apply the same logic to all of those fancy things on the blood tests.
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Food for thought:
About half of myocardial infarction patients had a history of high blood pressure, making high blood pressure a significant indicator of future heart attack.
But it also means half didn’t have high blood pressure prior to their heart attack… what to believe???
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I assume it’s a combination of factors many lifestyle some genetic - taking any single one in isolation only tells part of the story.
As @Frank_C said eat natural, and I’ll add train consistently in various physical disciplines you probably (and avoid the obvious smoking, heavy regular drinking and drugs) shouldn’t go too far wrong (apart from modern day intense farming screwing up our natural food, but that’s a different subject!)
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It definitely is. I was being kind of ridiculous. I think there are a number of lifestyle modifications we all can, and should, make to maximize our life span and quality. Nothing is going to beat genetics, though, which is why I love those case studies with some 107-year-old woman who drinks a bottle of whiskey and smokes a carton of cigarettes a day!
Quality is the big one for me, I’m not particularly concerned about longevity, I just ideally want to be healthy and as able bodied as possible for whatever time I’m given - I say that as I am cooking up my second portion of fries for the day, this time their curly! Maybe I should work harder on the healthy thing!
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That speaks to your concern for quality
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I just want to add that, from recent dietary self evaluations, I discovered lots of ways to have significantly elevated saturated fat intake while keeping everything natural, haha.
So maybe there’s something to be said about keeping things natural AND employing moderation.
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I ate an ice-cream after my curly fries and battered fish, just to make up for your assault on my log!
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Yea that was kind of the thought behind my original question, I’m guessing increased cals from something other than sugar would probably be best for me, maybe some more protein and a bit of fat, I get plenty of saturates (mostly from cheese, eggs and chocolate!), So maybe something a bit healthier!
I’ve been experimenting with higher fat pre-training meals by relying on almond butter, and also add supplemental fats to my diet by way of pistachios and walnuts. Serving size for all is quite small, as nuts tend to be dense.
I was also a fan of avocados added to diet during periods of weight gain.
For protein, I’ve been using a drinkable egg white that’s really pretty amazing, but only ships in the US. You could always just cook up some egg whites.
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I eat 6 whole eggs most days and I don’t care enough about sat fat to separate them, I probably won’t increase consumption either - Mrs might not share a bed with me if I do!
Nuts are a good shout used to eat a lot of those when trying to add weight previously, I’ve got lazy and relied on junk food for gaining over the last few years, it’s not a great idea long term, so I’ll add in some more nuts again, thanks.
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Butter
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I eat a fair bit of butter, but it’s always on bread or cooked into food, never on its own (or in coffee) that’s just weird!
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I used to eat a tablespoon straight before training- always felt like I took a swig if coffee