"Why" seems to be the recurring theme. It is the under current of what we are doing to ourselves. Here's a thought, the next time somebody asks you why you try with bells take a look at them and say why do you accept your current condition. Why is walking around with a six pack unproductive to some people but the keg hanging over their belt is ok. Do you really think your 'mate' accepts you for who you are? Lose 30 pounds and watch how they light up like its Christmas. Feel how easy you move. How easy you breathe.
Recently I decided to lose some body fat. Okay, cut silly looks. What I mean is I have decided to really 'cut' myself down. Just once. Only because I have never pushed myself like that in the past. The goal is to drop the body fat but not the strength.Not an easy process. It is the hardest thing to do if your a competitive lifter or bodybuilder. Why? Because it's constant. You can never drop the ball. You have to stay with it 24/7. Focus on a workout for 1-2 hours a day is easy. Get motivated and do it. But, keeping to a very strict course of eating takes more grit. This would increase my strength to weight ratio so theoretically I will be able to use a bigger bell for pull-ups or pistols.
So, I'm doing the reading. I haven't started yet. I am compiling information on nutritionally dense foods. I won't be able to eat a lot of volume so what I do take in must count. No empty calories. I have found myself looking into more and more organic stuff. Say what you want about organic foods and the expense because it is all true. Damn stuff is expensive. But it's real. Real food. Does it make a difference nutritionally? Oh hell-yah. Cost point?...I can spend $60 at the co-op and come away with maybe 10-12 meals. That same $60 bucks won't get me and my 2 kids one meal and a beer at Granite City Grill. The three dollars for a dozen organic eggs is a bargain compared to the $4 latte I continue to suck down. It really is about choices. What is my point!!! My point is I have been eating less food and partying more in the past week. I have had some events that needed attending and It just worked out that way. The food I have been eating is more nutritionally dense. Ice cream twice yesterday but otherwise no empty calories. I am slowly moving into 'cut' mode. This morning on an empty stomach I had a PR. I pressed the Beast on the right. It was towards the end of my training but I felt good. I can't get the beast off my arm typically. The next bell down is not a problem and the Bulldogs get 'rep'ed out anytime I have the desire. The Beast just sat there for years. At least two. I can only account for the increase in strength by the simple fact that I am eating real food. Not better. I have always ate well. But the grass fed meat from the co-op is just better meat than I was getting from Cub or Rainbow. The veggies are better because they are real. They have flavor. The Bushel Boy tomatoes at Cub taste like the paper sack they used to come in. My body is responding to it. I suspect Ready Meats has the same corn/grain fed meat. Shame. I will miss going there. This is my path for the summer. If I begin to look gaunt and eco-friendly mid-summer I hope somebody will rush me to BK and shovel a Whopper down my throat. I think that's basic CPR. Meanwhile, I am setting up more dates with the Beast.
