I've become very interested in Nootropics and "hacking" the body recently. After listening to some podcasts with Tim Ferriss (http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/) and Dave Asprey (http://www.bulletproofexec.com/) and hearing about their approach to life, working out, eating, and just living the things they said made a lot sense to me. As a very brief overview, both have their own ideas but come together on a lot of things in practice. Neither agree the FDA and conventional wisdom about health works. Tim pioneered the slow carb diet which is basically eating nothing that could be white, no fruits, starting the day with 30 grams of protein within 30 minutes of waking up, and eating a ton of beans and veggies. He's a master at using the MED (minimal effective dosage) to produce amazing results and has the independent science and research from UC Berkley, Harvard, and UC Davis, among others to back up his findings. Dave made his first million at 26, spent $250k on testing his own body to prove his theories and has spoken at Wharton, Kellogg, and University of California. Both have the science and continue to believe that the correlation of something doesn't mean the causation of something. After looking looking at how I process things and learn I was on board. I've believed that for a long while but I didn't seem to have or know how to acquire the tools to change certain things about me. While always doing things my way I've succeed in some things and failed miserably in others. But now I have a plan....
Background: I started my first "real" job doing data entry for a law firm making $14/hr. This was fan-fucking-tastic to me when I signed on. After 3 years and working my way up the later I made a move to get out of the business and production side to move over to developing Crystal Reports and databases; without ever writing code or having an understand of it before. When I started learning to write code I was always at odds from the way my lead was doing things. Most people who write code come from an MIS background; as you're building the code you build it in in an specific order, when problems arise or additions are needed you add a secondary table with the needed information and since this was an after affect you don't index it by the primary key nor do you have a single primary key, oid, or Dim_Skey to link to the main tables. MIS developers build what is asked, but not necessarily what is needed. Coming from the business side I would ask numerous questions of the end users and report writers to see how each table should interact with each other along with their purpose. After 2 weeks of frustration the lead gave up on me. So took the most basic code I could find and would change various pieces, I also took complex code and dissected small pieces to see what they did. While this wasn't the optimal way of learning for some it gave me a great base. If you understand what the code should do then changes or new additions aren't as daunting. You approach things as a puzzle to solve not a problem to fix as soon as possible. That was kind of a long way of getting to the current topic but here it is:
I've gone in and out of shape for the last 10 years. My weight in the military was 128 at it's lowest and hovered around 155.
Right now I'm 223 but I've been as high as 240. I could give you the excuse that my lower body is roughly built like an NFL linebacker while my upper body could easily been mistaken for the comic guy from the Simpsons, Benji Monlina or Seth Rogan most resemble it. I've had 3 major injuries in the last year and a half: a torn left calf muscle, torn popliteal (which they thought was a torn ACL), and a broken elbow. Getting older sucks dick. To Now:
2007: Now:
Monday I started walking to and from work. It's not far, a little over a mile. But I needed to start small. Walking gave me a little more exercise than I was getting but it also set my mind in motion for planning my work day. One the way home it gave me time to relax, figure what all I needed to do around my house and get familiar with the city and where I lived. It took one day of this to convince me I needed to implement it full time. I spoke to someone randomly in line at the samich (how it should be spelled) joint in our cafeteria and found out we have a gym with showers. That cemented the idea even further and gave way to new possibilites. Now that it's mid 40's when I leave for work at 630 I can walk and not be a sweat box that smells like ballsack all day. Add to it that we have showers and my fat ass can now run (or gallop) the 1.2 miles to work. Here's my plan and thought... It's ambitious to say the least but I'm motivated.
Goal Weight- 180
time: 27 weeks
Motivation: not be the fat American as I run with the MF bulls in Pamplona; and not to donate to a Superpac on the StickK site
Methodology:
Breaaakfast (say it as Jay did in Jay and Silent bob strike back and you'll have a smile every time): 30 grams of protein in 30 min of waking up. followed by Bulletproof Coffee (single source organic coffee, 1 Tablespoon of MCT oil, and 2 tablespoons or unsalted organic butter) sounds gross but its fucking delic!
Lunch and Dinner: some concatenation of beans with meat. This is one is pretty easy since I don't eat veggies anyway. But I do love Pho and Soup so that part blows.
Work out Goal: run to and from work 3x a week and kettlebells 3x a week.
Cheat Day: once a week to spike the levels
Drugs I'll take:
Protein powder a combo of whey and hemp. Hemp protein tastes whey better (get it) but costs more since we're retarded in the US and think Hemp is weed.
Pills:
And it starts, time to get less fat.... Results and updates to follow!
Background: I started my first "real" job doing data entry for a law firm making $14/hr. This was fan-fucking-tastic to me when I signed on. After 3 years and working my way up the later I made a move to get out of the business and production side to move over to developing Crystal Reports and databases; without ever writing code or having an understand of it before. When I started learning to write code I was always at odds from the way my lead was doing things. Most people who write code come from an MIS background; as you're building the code you build it in in an specific order, when problems arise or additions are needed you add a secondary table with the needed information and since this was an after affect you don't index it by the primary key nor do you have a single primary key, oid, or Dim_Skey to link to the main tables. MIS developers build what is asked, but not necessarily what is needed. Coming from the business side I would ask numerous questions of the end users and report writers to see how each table should interact with each other along with their purpose. After 2 weeks of frustration the lead gave up on me. So took the most basic code I could find and would change various pieces, I also took complex code and dissected small pieces to see what they did. While this wasn't the optimal way of learning for some it gave me a great base. If you understand what the code should do then changes or new additions aren't as daunting. You approach things as a puzzle to solve not a problem to fix as soon as possible. That was kind of a long way of getting to the current topic but here it is:
Right now I'm 223 but I've been as high as 240. I could give you the excuse that my lower body is roughly built like an NFL linebacker while my upper body could easily been mistaken for the comic guy from the Simpsons, Benji Monlina or Seth Rogan most resemble it. I've had 3 major injuries in the last year and a half: a torn left calf muscle, torn popliteal (which they thought was a torn ACL), and a broken elbow. Getting older sucks dick. To Now:
2007: Now:
Monday I started walking to and from work. It's not far, a little over a mile. But I needed to start small. Walking gave me a little more exercise than I was getting but it also set my mind in motion for planning my work day. One the way home it gave me time to relax, figure what all I needed to do around my house and get familiar with the city and where I lived. It took one day of this to convince me I needed to implement it full time. I spoke to someone randomly in line at the samich (how it should be spelled) joint in our cafeteria and found out we have a gym with showers. That cemented the idea even further and gave way to new possibilites. Now that it's mid 40's when I leave for work at 630 I can walk and not be a sweat box that smells like ballsack all day. Add to it that we have showers and my fat ass can now run (or gallop) the 1.2 miles to work. Here's my plan and thought... It's ambitious to say the least but I'm motivated.
Goal Weight- 180
time: 27 weeks
Motivation: not be the fat American as I run with the MF bulls in Pamplona; and not to donate to a Superpac on the StickK site
Methodology:
Breaaakfast (say it as Jay did in Jay and Silent bob strike back and you'll have a smile every time): 30 grams of protein in 30 min of waking up. followed by Bulletproof Coffee (single source organic coffee, 1 Tablespoon of MCT oil, and 2 tablespoons or unsalted organic butter) sounds gross but its fucking delic!
Lunch and Dinner: some concatenation of beans with meat. This is one is pretty easy since I don't eat veggies anyway. But I do love Pho and Soup so that part blows.
Work out Goal: run to and from work 3x a week and kettlebells 3x a week.
Cheat Day: once a week to spike the levels
Drugs I'll take:
Protein powder a combo of whey and hemp. Hemp protein tastes whey better (get it) but costs more since we're retarded in the US and think Hemp is weed.
Pills:
- Fish Oil- 3,000 mg
- B-complex- 100mg of: B1, B6, B12
- New Mood (www.onnit.com): 15 mg of B6, 1000 iu d3, 25mg niacin, 150mg magnesium, 500mg l-trytophan, 100mg 5-HTP, 200mg Valerian, 200mg Chamomile, 100mg Lemon Balm, 100mg Jujube seed extract.
- Alpha Brain (www.onnit.com)- 10mg B6, 100mg Alpha GPC, 40mg Hupezia Serratta, 5mg Vinpocetine, 350mg AC-11, 50mg Phosphatidylserine, 100mg Bacopa, 750mg Pterostidylserine, 300mg L-tyrosine, 200mg L-theanie, 100mg oat straw.
- Multi Vitamin
- PhenylPiracaetam- 100mg
And it starts, time to get less fat.... Results and updates to follow!
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