I am new to this thread and believe something I ran across earlier today may be of interest to you. The speaker is a preacher that is discussing Fetal Microchimerism. An amazing benefit of motherhood that is an eye opener.
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FIT.Y.E.R.O. (Meathead, wellness, fitness, diet, exercise) Thread
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I get it considering where you're at in the process. However, only childs are weird most of the time. Siblings are good for you. Plus, the world needs a many good people reproducing as possible. Lean into it.
Hank, haven't used that feature because i have trainer mapping my workouts. I'm probably about done with whoop. I don't care for wearing it and a watch now that the 8S is tracking my sleep. I like the recovery portion but probably not worth it.
Hank, haven't used that feature because i have trainer mapping my workouts. I'm probably about done with whoop. I don't care for wearing it and a watch now that the 8S is tracking my sleep. I like the recovery portion but probably not worth it.
I haven’t wanted to post in this thread until after the holidays but I kinda feel like I need to to not self explode and stay on track. Can’t remember what thread it was (maybe a New Year’s resolution one if not this one) about my goals being to be generally healthier - maybe drop 5 lbs and workout 3 days a week(from my 1 from the last 5 years). I started with the peloton 2 days a week in January and did that until April (did 18 weeks in a row) and lifted one day a week. After casually following this thread and realizing I averaged around 10-12k steps a day at work I decided to stop the Peloton and just lift 3 days a week (1 a really good hour lift at the gym and then 2 shitty 15/20 min ones at home).
Anyway after doing that for the last 5 months I’ve been able to achieve my goals. I stopped drinking my protein shake as a food lunch/snack and subbed it with 2 hard boiled eggs. After May I was able to cut down on my drinking (though that’s still a huge vice), I started creatine about 6 weeks ago and have noticed a huge difference in my strength/endurance. Overall heading into Labor Day weekend I felt about as good about myself as pre-kids. Was consistently 163 lbs (which to toot my own horn I was very proud of at 43), which was down 5 - 10 lbs over the last 7 years but was stronger. The summer tan helped my appearance tremendously as well.
The last two weeks have been a disaster - Napa for 4 days with 16 wineries and tons of good restaurants and the start of football season and wings/burgers/pumpkin beers has been incredibly tough. It’s my favorite time of the year and filled with the biggest hurdles. Sept-January is brutal. Love old fashioneds and manhattans, love pumpkin beer, have a major sweet tooth, so this is going to be a huge 4 month stretch to not revert. Currently it looks like someone stuck an air pump in my stomach and blew it up so I’ll need to clean it up the next week or so to get back to where I was. Decided I should probably add some cardio in so I did a 20 min peloton today for the first time in months and thought I was going to die.
This thread has been huge for me and extremely helpful and inspiring, thanks for all.
Anyway after doing that for the last 5 months I’ve been able to achieve my goals. I stopped drinking my protein shake as a food lunch/snack and subbed it with 2 hard boiled eggs. After May I was able to cut down on my drinking (though that’s still a huge vice), I started creatine about 6 weeks ago and have noticed a huge difference in my strength/endurance. Overall heading into Labor Day weekend I felt about as good about myself as pre-kids. Was consistently 163 lbs (which to toot my own horn I was very proud of at 43), which was down 5 - 10 lbs over the last 7 years but was stronger. The summer tan helped my appearance tremendously as well.
The last two weeks have been a disaster - Napa for 4 days with 16 wineries and tons of good restaurants and the start of football season and wings/burgers/pumpkin beers has been incredibly tough. It’s my favorite time of the year and filled with the biggest hurdles. Sept-January is brutal. Love old fashioneds and manhattans, love pumpkin beer, have a major sweet tooth, so this is going to be a huge 4 month stretch to not revert. Currently it looks like someone stuck an air pump in my stomach and blew it up so I’ll need to clean it up the next week or so to get back to where I was. Decided I should probably add some cardio in so I did a 20 min peloton today for the first time in months and thought I was going to die.
This thread has been huge for me and extremely helpful and inspiring, thanks for all.
Football season right into the holidays is definitely the most challenging time.
Like anth said before, try to make 17-18 of 21 meals per week solid (the so called 80-20 rule; meaning 80% of the time you stay on point, 20% you relax the standards a bit). I’m not a 3 meals per day guy, but I stay within that relative protocol. You have to let yourself go wild a couple of times a week.
It’s a huge motivation when you’re slogging through the boring shit, and those flex meals (I hate the term “cheat”) can keep you going.
Like anth said before, try to make 17-18 of 21 meals per week solid (the so called 80-20 rule; meaning 80% of the time you stay on point, 20% you relax the standards a bit). I’m not a 3 meals per day guy, but I stay within that relative protocol. You have to let yourself go wild a couple of times a week.
It’s a huge motivation when you’re slogging through the boring shit, and those flex meals (I hate the term “cheat”) can keep you going.
I'm planning on doing a Sober October and, horror of horrors, actually using MyFitnessPal to track my diet.
Please respect my decisions on November 1st.
Please respect my decisions on November 1st.
Tons of logged food that other people have put into the app. You can just type in what you’re eating and it’ll probably pop up. Better UI also.
This old man trying to lose fat, not muscle. Therefore slow and steady with about 300 calorie deficit reduction and about 120 grams of protein per day. Lifting weights 4 days per week. Lost 11 pounds in last 7 months. I have type 2 diabetes, but can’t afford the ozempic med that was prescribed. My A1C has been controlled using this eating and exercise program. This thread has been extremely helpful.
Yep.
I have been at a 95% clip of orthodox clean eating since June 21. This thread and the gym regulars are a great support along my journey. Nobody saw this coming…. Certainly not me. My wife is kinda annoyed with my rigidity to the whole thing. But I always tend to go all in/obsessed on most things I focus on.
30+ years of desk jockey atrophy have been usurped by motivation and confidence. Reshuffling of priorities.
Sounds weird, but just looking in the mirror is enough evidence that effort works. I got a bulging vein in my forearm today that got me stoked.💪🏻
Nowhere close to my goal, but the change in me is significant already. Entering year three of my gym membership. I look forward to going every morning.
I have been at a 95% clip of orthodox clean eating since June 21. This thread and the gym regulars are a great support along my journey. Nobody saw this coming…. Certainly not me. My wife is kinda annoyed with my rigidity to the whole thing. But I always tend to go all in/obsessed on most things I focus on.
30+ years of desk jockey atrophy have been usurped by motivation and confidence. Reshuffling of priorities.
Sounds weird, but just looking in the mirror is enough evidence that effort works. I got a bulging vein in my forearm today that got me stoked.💪🏻
Nowhere close to my goal, but the change in me is significant already. Entering year three of my gym membership. I look forward to going every morning.
I have to buy new clothes. Shirts went from XL to medium.
thats awesome.
I’m clearly out of the 2XL realm. Sinching my old belts tight with 15 yo pants. Kinda look like MC Hammer for now.
Went to Bloomingdale’s last week to look for some new clothing items, got ambushed by the smokeshow fragrance ladies and ended up buying cologne instead🤣… idiot. So not investing in new clothes, yet. Gonna wait.
Moncler Le Solstice… highly recommend.🥰
I’m clearly out of the 2XL realm. Sinching my old belts tight with 15 yo pants. Kinda look like MC Hammer for now.
Went to Bloomingdale’s last week to look for some new clothing items, got ambushed by the smokeshow fragrance ladies and ended up buying cologne instead🤣… idiot. So not investing in new clothes, yet. Gonna wait.
Moncler Le Solstice… highly recommend.🥰
cool as hell to read everyone's new leaves and commitment to health. proud of all y'all, seriously. that stuff makes my day.
...feel free to send your garbage food my way for the next 8-9 weeks, though. hahaha.
...feel free to send your garbage food my way for the next 8-9 weeks, though. hahaha.
-Moving from splits to whole body has been a really nice change. I've done whole body before but not close to the same level. Easier on the muscle groups but overall hard af. I'm worn tf out at the end of each workout. That pleases the former cardio junky in me. Recovery seems to be great. Need to make sure I'm allowing a solid recovery day in there, which is a real struggle for me.
-HRV(hitting 70s on the reg now) and recovery keep slowly clicking up since the 8sleep. Other than the nights where UK loses a heartbreaker and I stay up until 2:30a watching UFC.
-Keep crushing the goals, y'all.
-HRV(hitting 70s on the reg now) and recovery keep slowly clicking up since the 8sleep. Other than the nights where UK loses a heartbreaker and I stay up until 2:30a watching UFC.
-Keep crushing the goals, y'all.
Anth, what’s your take on increasing the HRV? Mine varies anywhere from 35-55 (today it said 17), but yesterday was 54. Looking through my history I can’t figure out what drives the changes. For example, it doesn’t go up with my VO2max.
Booze is #1. Anymore than a single drink and I'm lucky to get out of the 30's. I was pretty low that week I was sick. I've been hitting mid to high 70s on the regular the last month or so. Which is apparently good. I can definitely tell when I get that high.
Apparently consistent sleep and wake times are key. As well as hydration, not over training, stress, late use of screens.
So, recently I've actually been staying up a little later on Sunday-Thur so my weekend bed times are typically in range of my week night. LMNT for hydration. Sauna has been consistent. Back to reading for 30+ minutes before sleep and trying to avoid looking at the phone after that. 8Sleep has been great. Feels like it's just a lot of little trial and error changes helping out rather than some drastic shift.
BTW, WS's HRV is superhuman.
Apparently consistent sleep and wake times are key. As well as hydration, not over training, stress, late use of screens.
So, recently I've actually been staying up a little later on Sunday-Thur so my weekend bed times are typically in range of my week night. LMNT for hydration. Sauna has been consistent. Back to reading for 30+ minutes before sleep and trying to avoid looking at the phone after that. 8Sleep has been great. Feels like it's just a lot of little trial and error changes helping out rather than some drastic shift.
BTW, WS's HRV is superhuman.
My Apple Watch and it measures the HRV several random times a day. I read that you should only really measure it when you are in a rested state. So on my flight just now I did the mindfullness app which triggers the capture of HRV. I kept coming in at 90+. But who knows if this is the real number I should focus on or the random ones that app records.
I hope so. One of the articles said that given my HRV I’m not long for this earth.
When we first got the 8 Sleep, my wife was horrified to compare RHR and HRV. From our brief internet research, women typically have higher RHR and lower HRV. If WS is higher than you on that, that's super human, especially for a working mom.
I signed up for a mastermind group with my boy Dan John. Supposed to last 12 weeks and start the first week of October. I have no doubt that Waterhead will heckle me about it but I'm excited. Supposed to be freeform where you consult with him and other members of the group about first forming long-term fitness goals and then start working on them as well as other work on strategic goal-setting and task accomplishment in other core areas.
I'm pretty excited. This year my wife and I have finally gotten consistent about diet and exercise and we are in a good place. Professionally, this year has been wild but good overall. I'm excited about spending three months in an intentional community focused on long-term goals as a springboard to also start thinking about making my business behave a bit more to meet my lifestyle needs rather than vice versa.
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Had my highest HRV at 86 last night which is really good. Still nowhere near hers.
Whoop does a 1 month free trial if you're interested.
Whoop does a 1 month free trial if you're interested.
My HRV was 25 yesterday, and per Google that means I'm at imminent risk of...something. Kinda concerning?
Per my Apple Watch, it was around 31 pre-pregnancy, so I may need to look at ways to lower my stress levels. Just as likely, pigs will fly out of my butt. Frankly, it's one of those stats I've always regarded as "interesting" but not super informative given my good bloodwork and blood pressure that runs on the low side of normal even on prescription stimulants. Same for resting heart rate - it's impacted by sleep, hormone shifts, and everything else under the sun, and I can control very few of the factors that feed it. Weirdly, despite what I've read about it rising dramatically in pregnancy, mine has only risen significantly from my norm in the third trimester. Idk man.
Per my Apple Watch, it was around 31 pre-pregnancy, so I may need to look at ways to lower my stress levels. Just as likely, pigs will fly out of my butt. Frankly, it's one of those stats I've always regarded as "interesting" but not super informative given my good bloodwork and blood pressure that runs on the low side of normal even on prescription stimulants. Same for resting heart rate - it's impacted by sleep, hormone shifts, and everything else under the sun, and I can control very few of the factors that feed it. Weirdly, despite what I've read about it rising dramatically in pregnancy, mine has only risen significantly from my norm in the third trimester. Idk man.
(Nice Wayne’s World reference, we don’t get enough of those around here.)
What is Heart Rate Variability (HRV)? [The Ultimate HRV Guide]
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I'm done with pretending to like chicken breast. Making the move to thighs. They're just so much better, especially when reheated. IDGAF about the slight increase in fat content, they taste better. Respect my decision.
What you’re really saying is, despite all your “nice lil’ rides” over the years, WS has better heart health running and walking the boys, Clyde, and Shep around the ‘hood.
HRV - 32 average year-to-year on Apple Ultra Watch. Guess I'm not long for this world 
Chicken thighs are dope, I just have to cook up a ton more to get satiated. Little buggers are like a finger food. Pork tenderloin has been recently added to the menu with overwhelming positive reviews.
Was down for the count the past 10 days with a sinus infection. First lift this am and shew boy, between the slight atrophy and still getting strength back, amazing how quick you lose endurance. Bulgarian squats felt like I was Atlas trying to lift the weight of the world with a mere 50# dumbbells.
That said, two weeks in of full body, 4x a week and I'm a big fan.
Chicken thighs are dope, I just have to cook up a ton more to get satiated. Little buggers are like a finger food. Pork tenderloin has been recently added to the menu with overwhelming positive reviews.
Was down for the count the past 10 days with a sinus infection. First lift this am and shew boy, between the slight atrophy and still getting strength back, amazing how quick you lose endurance. Bulgarian squats felt like I was Atlas trying to lift the weight of the world with a mere 50# dumbbells.
That said, two weeks in of full body, 4x a week and I'm a big fan.
Don't you use oura?HRV - 32 average year-to-year on Apple Ultra Watch. Guess I'm not long for this world
Chicken thighs are dope, I just have to cook up a ton more to get satiated. Little buggers are like a finger food. Pork tenderloin has been recently added to the menu with overwhelming positive reviews.
Was down for the count the past 10 days with a sinus infection. First lift this am and shew boy, between the slight atrophy and still getting strength back, amazing how quick you lose endurance. Bulgarian squats felt like I was Atlas trying to lift the weight of the world with a mere 50# dumbbells.
That said, two weeks in of full body, 4x a week and I'm a big fan.
Ditched that thing as soon as they ended the complimentary service for monthly subscription, which was 9 months after owning. At that point, I had a sense of what my RHR and sleep were. Activity measured on the watch and all metrics were damn near verbatim between the two devices. Plus, I hate wearing rings.
-BTT
-Diet has been off the rails with travel the last 3 weeks. Pigeon Forge deep fries everything. 5 clean weeks ahead. Tighten it up before Holiday (dirty)BULK. Logging everything in MFP, yuck. Eating like shit is so much more fun.
-Full body is a beast. Dropping down to 3 days. 4 is just too much.
-Whoop is out. Left it at my brother's house and haven't worn in two weeks. Getting all the sleep data I need from 8.
-Picked up a different low emf sauna for $1300 off Amazon, they have a $900 option as well. Didn't expect much out of it but that little bastard is a flame thrower. Will flat run you out of there in 20 minutes. Grabbed a cold plunge for around $1000 from the pod company that includes a chiller, it'll do the trick as well. So, if you're wanting to jump in the sauna and/or cold plunge game these are the cheapest options I've found and both are legit.
-Diet has been off the rails with travel the last 3 weeks. Pigeon Forge deep fries everything. 5 clean weeks ahead. Tighten it up before Holiday (dirty)BULK. Logging everything in MFP, yuck. Eating like shit is so much more fun.
-Full body is a beast. Dropping down to 3 days. 4 is just too much.
-Whoop is out. Left it at my brother's house and haven't worn in two weeks. Getting all the sleep data I need from 8.
-Picked up a different low emf sauna for $1300 off Amazon, they have a $900 option as well. Didn't expect much out of it but that little bastard is a flame thrower. Will flat run you out of there in 20 minutes. Grabbed a cold plunge for around $1000 from the pod company that includes a chiller, it'll do the trick as well. So, if you're wanting to jump in the sauna and/or cold plunge game these are the cheapest options I've found and both are legit.
