Paul Chek
Training All AthletesTuesday 3/9/10
150 KB Swings for time.
L 2 – 72/53
L1 – 72/44
E- 53/36
Nuts ?
What are three things that the average person could do tomorrow in the gym or in the kitchen that could improve their training or their health?
Paul Chek: Number one, if it’s deader than you are, don’t eat it. When you eat crap, you must invest considerable energy into processing and utilizing it. Don’t further stress an already stressed system.
Most people are unaware that the body utilizes between 50-70% or more of its daily calories just to cover the energetic and nutritional costs of running food from mouth to anus (digestion, assimilation, metabolism, and elimination).
Just to keep the lights on! If you’re eating food that costs more to run through the body than it delivers in energy and resources, naturally, you can expect trouble. Consider, in this regard, that 90% of all the food eaten in the US is fast food!
Number two, drink water! Not coffee, not tea, not Red Bull, Monster, but water. You need an average of half-ounce per pound of bodyweight, so a 200-pound guy would need 100 ounces a day. We live in a polluted world, and the best solution to pollution is dilution. About 90% of the population is dehydrated, and it’s an easy, cheap way to improve how you look and perform.
Number three, 50-60% of the population is gluten sensitive or intolerant. I suggest trying an elimination diet where you eliminate all forms of gluten, seeds, and nuts from the diet.
I put my clients on my version of the so-called “caveman diet,” which is composed of vegetables and meats, and I allow the use of butter, or ghee for the really sick ones. This allows one to easily begin to identify any offending food because after the seven days is over, you begin introducing any potential offender one at a time and monitoring your responses.
Whoa, I’ve heard eliminate gluten before, but eliminate nuts? They’re on basically every nutritional authority’s “good foods” list?
Paul Chek: And what research are these “authorities” basing their recommendations off of? Each other’s bullshit, incestuous, agenda-driven research.
I’m a clinician. I work with patients every day, and 95% of the time when I remove all gluten, nuts, and seeds, I see dramatic improvements within five days.
Nuts and seeds have phytic acid in their coating, which is a known mineral and enzyme blocker and is broken down in the sprouting process. If eaten without breaking it down first, phytic acid inhibits the absorption of a variety of minerals and trace minerals, and can neutralize our own digestive enzymes.
This results in many of the digestive disorders experienced by people that eat unsprouted grains. Eating nuts and seeds without soaking them in quality drinking water for at least 8-12 hours to break down the phytic acid can, and frequently does, block our digestive enzymes from functioning. This has led to un-estimable problems with digestion, which can, and often do lead to disease.
I go into all this in my book How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy. -Paul Chek.
( Paul’s book is a phenomenal read-BK)
Interesting stuff, that book is on my “to-read” list. We always underestimate how much energy (food) it takes to keep the machine operating. Anyways, once Phase I ended I thought about hitting up Whole Foods/Fresh Market to go back to my beloved Almond Butter…but NO! I am keeping it out of my diet as I binge on it too much and right now I am feeling way too good to mess with it. Will have an avocado tonight though.
WOD-
150KB/Weight: 53lb
Time: 7.52
Notes: Felt pretty good. Focused hard on form, breathing and unbroken reps. Started at about 45 UB and then took it in sets of 7-12. Post-WOD Ice bath was amazing, March is the time to hit the beach as the water is frigid while you dry up with some sun! Lovin’ this weather.
Vinny, great time on those KB swings. I know they’ve been in your kitchen at times. Keep up the solid work, both at the box and with the eating, it’s paying off.
150 KB Swings w 1.5 pood – 9:22
KB swings felt pretty good. Started with 30 unbroken. Sets of 10 thereafter. Wish there was a 1.75 pood since 2 pood is too heavy.
Feeling much better after yesterday’s debacle. I liked the KB swings, the last time I did 100 with the 53# it took 7:37
150KB swings with 53#
9:23
Breathing was really good till last 50 then started getting sloppy. Did the first 40 unbroken then was doing 20, 15, 15, and the 10’s till the end.
My traps and forearms are stupid!
Not sure I’m sold on eliminating nuts . . . . though I agree about almond butter “binges.” A whole lot of epidemiological studies — the Nurse’s Health Study, the Iowa Women’s Health Study, the Physician’s Health Study, the Adventist Health Study, among others — have demonstrated lower incidence of cardiovascular disease and type II diabetes in people who eat nuts on a regular basis. These are all huge, multiyear studies (21,000-86,000 subjects), and they show serious results: eg, 51% reduction in heart attack risk among those who ate nuts at least 5 times a week compared to those who ate no nuts (that’s from the Adventist study). Granted, what’s being compared is most likely standard-American-diet vs. standard-American-diet-plus-nuts . . .
Anyway, I’m a week behind everyone else on the green faces plan, and I’ve been feeling great . . . eager to see what happens when I reintroduce nuts (in moderation!!) into my diet.
wod time today: 9:41, 53#kb
Thanks Diego—just trying to keep up with CFP’s Coverboy!! Haha…Jenny, thanks for the info. I doubt I can swear off nuts for too long and I agree they have benefits but keeping them away for 3 weeks has truly helped and now I can re-introduce next week with a tsp here and there…I can go through multiple jars a week if it’s within arms reach! Too good.
I encourage everyone to download Robb Wolf’s podcast on iTunes…free of course, and you can pop it on in the car or at your office or when you have some downtime. Can’t wait for his book to be released in the next couple months!
Tommy, I totally agree with Afro, you have taken your training to a new level and it is showing in all the wods. Keep up the hard work!
skipped this mornings workout, I am mentally and physically drained. Slept through the night for the first time in a yr last night, but I will see everyone tomorrow!
last night did the thruster du wod: 9:42
today 150 kb for time: i stopped @ 135, my back was LITUP, felt it burn from left side of lower back all the way around thru to my hip flexors. i do not need to re-injure my back 2 weeks before sectionals
i think chek’s goal is to take out anything that has a potential to inhibit digestion, create an allergic response, etc. as an effort to see what foods the individual processes most efficiently by introducing them back individually…
“I put my clients on my version of the so-called “caveman diet,” which is composed of vegetables and meats, and I allow the use of butter, or ghee for the really sick ones. This allows one to easily begin to identify any offending food because after the seven days is over, you begin introducing any potential offender one at a time and monitoring your responses.”….
so eat meat and veggies (don’t think there are too many people allergic here), then add some almonds… tummy feels good, almonds ok. try some rice, tummy feels good, ok… try some bread, blow up like a tick on a dog, no good. i never considered myself lactose intolerant in anyway, but i now know that cheese def gets my stomach going, same with hummus and peanut butter
Speaking of the sectionals if anyone plans on going to cheer on our CFP athletes (and i suggest you do!) you need to register as a spectator and purchase a ticket. i was told spots are limited and it could sell out. It is a little pricey at $50 but if you have never been to a comp it is totally worth the price just in the amount of energy and excitement you will leave with to apply to your own training. here is the link
https://secure2.regsvc.com/registration/index.aspx?TYPE=e&ID=57&LC=&PIN=&REF=&dbGUID=72E99DF6-3F2B-4662-A5B9-717207135B37&
150 kb swings at 44# – 12:50
I was hoping to get away with doing the 35# kb but Rocket wouldn’t have it! Towards the end of this workout I almost cried. That’s how taxing it was on me. But I’m glad I finished. And I am not going to focus on how much time it took me.
Thanks for the encouragement at the end ladies!
Abbi and I started green faces today since I was on the road the last three weeks. I am a bit concerned about my cravings and it didn’t help matters that I have been sick in bed for the past 2 days.
11am – breaky – 4 eggs scrambled
half a serving of brussel sprouts
snack/lunch – 1.3 lbs lean ground turkey
1 can of sardines
dinner – pork chops and grilled asparagus -
150KB swings @ 35lbs: 8:02
already feeling the back and shoulders…
mmmmm, who knew an apple could taste so good! Lovin’ Phase 2!
I didn’t post last night because I was so dam tired I fell asleep but the workouts leading up to sectionals have been intense.
Please tell me the rest of you feel the same?
last nights Thruster/double under workout was tougher than I anticipated..9:26. When The double under’s actually felt like active rest you know you are in trouble.
Today I came in SORE and attacked the 150 Kettlebell swings with 53lb in 8:37…My forearms and Traps are fried!!
Also Awesome job Frank..cranking the 72 lb in under 10 min…way to go!
Quick mention about the diet…echoing what Brian said it just makes perfect sense…The whole reintroduction of certain foods done little by little…..I have added oatmeal and a few strawberries….Today about 10 almonds..So far still feel good. the next couple weeks will be telling…If I have that glass of red wine or happen to dive into Pizza after sectionals..will I blow up like a tick?
5 am: 1 cup of steel cut oatmeal, 2 strawberries, 3 egg whites, 1 strip turkey bacon…fish caps…
8 am 2 egg whites, 1 yolk
11 am 4 oz grilled chicken
1 am 4 oz turkey 1 cup of roasted cauliflower and broccoli…10 almonds
too long a break between meals….Had post workout shake around 6:15 pm
7:30 pm 7 oz of grilled salmon and 3 oz roast chicken (I know allot of protein!)….., 2 cups of broccoli rabe with olive oil.
Im ditching the sweet potato after workout the next 2 weeks unless I’m REALLY hungry. I had the oatmeal today and I really want to maintain or even drop another lb or 2 before sectionals if possible….
Missed this workout this morning…had some shoulder issues which manifested into sharp pains up to my neck! Didn’t sleep much but I’m heading to bed early tonight and will try to make it tomorrow…bummed!
150 KB in 6:56 with the 72 lbder