mday, some off those guys don’t need viagra, they’d need splints.
Eco, Studing up the links skid gave me. Think I’m going to give it a go. Also a lot easier to prepare and keep the foods on the street. Need to convince the wife. Told her about it and she’s worried it will increase my cholesterol.
Never have had a problem with it but she hears lots of meat. eggs, and it’s the first thing comes to her mind.
There’s no provable causal relation between high cholesterol and heart disease. My cholesterol is through the roof, but my arteries are clear.
It’s inflammation caused by overproduction of insulin due to chronically high intake of carbohydrates that causes weakening of the arterial walls and subsequent plaqueing of same. Cholesterol is a bystander pressed into service to patch but not fix the underlying problem.
Most statins don’t do squat for you except stress your liver and make you unhealthier by reducing bloodstream cholesterol your body needs to make life-enhancing hormones and Vitamin D.
My (former) Doc wanted me to take them and I politely declined.
That’s my opinion of the whole thing, anyway. Watch me keel over from a plaque-induced stroke now…
Given what fish oil did to my cholesterol, not to mention, weight loss will always drop it, the diet is fine, especially for the short run of only a year or so, as long as you get 2-3 grams of fish oil a day.
[quote]skidmark wrote:
There’s no provable causal relation between high cholesterol and heart disease. My cholesterol is through the roof, but my arteries are clear.
It’s inflammation caused by overproduction of insulin due to chronically high intake of carbohydrates that causes weakening of the arterial walls and subsequent plaqueing of same. Cholesterol is a bystander pressed into service to patch but not fix the underlying problem.
Most statins don’t do squat for you except stress your liver and make you unhealthier by reducing bloodstream cholesterol your body needs to make life-enhancing hormones and Vitamin D.
My (former) Doc wanted me to take them and I politely declined.
That’s my opinion of the whole thing, anyway. Watch me keel over from a plaque-induced stroke now…[/quote]
Very true, but don’t tell anyone …
Seriously, Skidmark hit the nail on the head about the truth, the last thirty years has seen an explosion of cardiologists getting rich as heart disease breaks through the roof due to high carbs and low fat.
I’m sold. Just trying to convince the boss, I mean wife. She kinda worries about me and babies me. She also eats mainly fish, veggies, and very little red meat.
hel, tell your wife you’ll get your cholesterol checked one month into the diet. Insulin is the bad guy and by keeping it in check on a low carb diet all your blood work should come back no worse and probly better then pre diet.
[quote]Elaikases wrote:
skidmark wrote:
There’s no provable causal relation between high cholesterol and heart disease. My cholesterol is through the roof, but my arteries are clear.
It’s inflammation caused by overproduction of insulin due to chronically high intake of carbohydrates that causes weakening of the arterial walls and subsequent plaqueing of same. Cholesterol is a bystander pressed into service to patch but not fix the underlying problem.
Most statins don’t do squat for you except stress your liver and make you unhealthier by reducing bloodstream cholesterol your body needs to make life-enhancing hormones and Vitamin D.
My (former) Doc wanted me to take them and I politely declined.
That’s my opinion of the whole thing, anyway. Watch me keel over from a plaque-induced stroke now…
Very true, but don’t tell anyone …
Seriously, Skidmark hit the nail on the head about the truth, the last thirty years has seen an explosion of cardiologists getting rich as heart disease breaks through the roof due to high carbs and low fat.
[/quote]
Which is just about the same time high fructose corn syrup started being added to any kind of processed food. It’s in everything now. No wonder diabetes has gotten worse in the last 30 years as well.
[quote]skidmark wrote:
Elaikases wrote:
skidmark wrote:
There’s no provable causal relation between high cholesterol and heart disease. My cholesterol is through the roof, but my arteries are clear.
It’s inflammation caused by overproduction of insulin due to chronically high intake of carbohydrates that causes weakening of the arterial walls and subsequent plaqueing of same. Cholesterol is a bystander pressed into service to patch but not fix the underlying problem.
Most statins don’t do squat for you except stress your liver and make you unhealthier by reducing bloodstream cholesterol your body needs to make life-enhancing hormones and Vitamin D.
My (former) Doc wanted me to take them and I politely declined.
That’s my opinion of the whole thing, anyway. Watch me keel over from a plaque-induced stroke now…
Very true, but don’t tell anyone …
Seriously, Skidmark hit the nail on the head about the truth, the last thirty years has seen an explosion of cardiologists getting rich as heart disease breaks through the roof due to high carbs and low fat.
Which is just about the same time high fructose corn syrup started being added to any kind of processed food. It’s in everything now. No wonder diabetes has gotten worse in the last 30 years as well.[/quote]
One thought why statins work is that they’re anti-inflammitories and that the lowering of cholesterol is not why they help.
I work with cardiologists and the first thing they reach for is meds and say get some exercise and lose some weight. No explination as to how or why.
[quote]hel320 wrote:
I’m sold. Just trying to convince the boss, I mean wife. She kinda worries about me and babies me. She also eats mainly fish, veggies, and very little red meat. [/quote]
Once you get the wife on board everything becomes easier.
The fish oil, and cooking with olive oil is a plus. Could use almonds and walnuts and since its the south why not pecans.
Some studies have shown -that people with high activity,
have a resistance to high cholesterol.
Just to chime in. Statins robbied my cognative ability for some time. By the time I stopped I would be mid sentance making a point and completely forget my thought. Thankfully I got off.
When I started a diet with lean meats, leafy veggies and no starches my chloestrol fell 40 pts.
Now my doc sprung this VHDL number on me. Guess I need to cut back on the butter in my oatmeal!
Thanks to all for the advise. Hit the gym real early this morning.
Cleans
135,155,175,195xmax
hammer btn press
90wu,180xmax x 5
Cable lat raises
65xMax x5
rear lat press
110xMax x5
Face Pulls
100xMax x5
Ez Curls
bar +60,+70,+80,+90,+100 x max
Staright bar curls
70,80,85,90,95 x Max
rope curls
90xMax x 5
Reverse curls
65xMax x 5
Cooked breakfast at the vets home and made sure everyone was ready for Tuesday. Took a vid last night and cut the picture out. Tried to add more light this time. No stomach yet. You got to wait for that.
Looking pretty good Hel.
Ditto what Skidmark says.
Looking good
Good definition
May be its the lighting but appears you have slimmed down a bit-compared to avatar.
Thanks all. Yeah, daudowen, my high rep/set routine seems have tighten things up a little bit more than made me grow. Pants are getting loose in the waist but my body weight is staying the same and I’m just getting around to working on any kind of diet/meal planning. I definitely need to learn how to pose and take a picture with something besides a video camera.
This morning
Squats
135wu,225,275xmax x 5
Leg Ext
110x max 5
Leg Curls
70x Max x 5
Calve raises
135xMax x 5
Seated Row
150xMax x 5
Shrugs BB
225 x Max x5
Pullups (aided) wide grip
4 x max
3x 6 (unaid, narrow)
Things look like they are really coming along hel. You have a lot of mass and if you really dial in the diet things will really change.
As you well know, don’t watch the scale too much for a measure of progress. Given your activity level (lifting, swimming, throwing, work), and your overall size, you will still need to eat a healthy amount of calories. This can sometimes be tough at lower carbs. Make sure to get the right carbs before, during, and after the workouts.
Referring to your picture and the ugly throws far theory, you are in serious risk of never throwing the shot past 40 feet again. Be careful.
Look great to me…are you happy with the ways things have turned out???
Great work, Hel – showing the way.
No worry there, Carl. As my niece has told me, “Uncle, your body looks younger than your face?” Anyone know any face exercises?
Art, don’t think I’m really cut out for the body building thing. Never gonna compete at it and I miss going after the heavy lifts. Haven’t thrown any lately or gone for any big lifts so I’ll have to see how it’s affected me there.
Thanks Geech.