<p>I watched this a long time ago and don’t remember much, but it’s a five part series from PBS Frontline on Diet Wars and one of the segments is a visit to Pritikin, showing stuff like searing fish with no oil and so forth.</p>
<p>Here’s the link to to the first segment:</p>
<p>[1</a> of 5 PBS Frontline: Diet wars - Low fat vs low carb - YouTube](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>
<p>There are other segments with Gary Taubes, which is, if I recall, how Google led me to this series.</p>
Anyone see the movie Fat Head? Highly recommended; a lot of nutritional info (think: Gary Taubes, who appears in the movie), and interesting exercise info too. Also very funny. You can probably netflix or amazon download if you are interested.
<p>Fathead the movie is fantastic. Big chunks of it are available on YouTube, along with some bonus scenes. Here’s the YouTube page of the film maker:</p>
<p>Hi all! Just back from several days in Chicago. H was invited to a “Summit” at his grad school alma mater, U of Chicago Business School. I tagged along and had a GREAT time sightseeing, etc. So, I just skimmed the last several pages of posts. Of course one of the first things I read is about MOWC’s D’s pedicure experience and BC’s link to the article about nail salons in the Boston area – this after walking in the door from getting my first pedicure in our new neighborhood! It seemed like a good place – and it was less expensive than where we moved from in CT!!</p>
<p>Anyway, our hotel in Chicago had a great Health Club/Spa, so I made good use of it. Now I have to find a gym here… Have been walking all over creation, both in Chicago and here in Cambridge. Today it really feels like fall. I’m always sorry to see summer fade …</p>
<p>Recovering by ordering Indian food delivered – chicken curry and alu chole. I have done a lot of laundry. That involved standing, climbing stairs, etc.</p>
<p>Tomorrow I will try to run/walk again. Scheduled for a swim lesson Friday. Trying. I’m really trying but I like things that you do sitting down . . . like this!</p>
<p>Ran 1 mile - 9:51 pace. A bit of cramping in the right calf. Back to Emergen-C packs tonight. Also did Smith Machine and free weights. Looking forward to an efit30 tonight.</p>
<p>While stretching at the office today in front of a mirror, I noticed something strange. I can straighten my left arm completely but I can’t straighten out my right arm. Best I can get it to is about a 20 degree angle. I’ve never noticed this before but I’ve probably had this for a long time. It’s probably from tennis as forehands are hit with a bent arm and half of the backhand stroke is execute with a bent arm. It may be that holding it at tension has resulted in a ligament that can only retract the arm so far.</p>
<p>It doesn’t seem to be a problem - just a curiosity.</p>
<p>Making roasted spaghetti squash with roasted onions and baby bellas, grilled Hot Italian turkey sausage and covered in a fresh marinara sauce. It smells so good!!!</p>
<p>I have already soaked in a hot bath and put my jammies on for the night. The workouts so far this week have me a little sore! Will be in bed early I bet.</p>
<p>Whoah. I had to put on my big boy pants for today’s workout. I went up in weight for three of the four strength exercises and I had gone up on the fourth last time. Three sets of everything:</p>
<p>2 x 35lb for the alternating bench press on the stability ball. 8 reps per side.</p>
<p>2 x 35lb for the split squats. Eight reps per leg. Saw a heart rate of 85% on the last set. That’s pretty high for an exercise where I’m just standing there. 70 lbs was OK on that, but I definitely knew I’d been working at the end of each set.</p>
<p>Then, I reconfigured a couple of dumbells with six 10 lb plates, so each one weighs in at 64 pounds counting the bar. I did DB deadlifts with two DBs for a total of nearly 130 lbs. That’s not a lot by strong guy standards, but it’s a lot for an ol’ (formerly) fat guy.</p>
<p>Then, I used one of the DBs for single arm DB rows, eight reps per arm.</p>
<p>I’m still kind of tingling all over. That was a pretty good workout.</p>
<p>Oh, core was Valslide painful pushaways, stability ball mountain climbers, and half-kneeling resistance band chops.</p>
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<p>Big boy dinner, too. Boneless pork roast from the grill last night, with homemade South Carolina style mustard BBQ sauce and some fresh brocolli I’ll sautee up.</p>
<p>The broccoli saute sounds good – but somehow I have a terrible time actually getting mine to fully cook. I don’t want mush at all, but I also don’t want to bite into it and feel the crunch of uncooked broccoli. </p>
<p>Did another bout of snow shoveling, and I am really noticing those latissimus dorsi (thank, iDad!) – apparently they’re pretty heavily recruited in the shovel, twist and throw exercise, especially with seventy or eighty reps. (This was heavy, wet snow, so I only fill about the first four inches of the snow shovel.) I think I’ve more than earned my glass of red wine tonight.</p>
<p>I sautee it over high heat, tossing it around for a few minutes, salt and pepper, etc. Then, I put in a couple of TBS of water and throw a lid on the skillet, turn the heat down to low, letting it steam just a bit to finish cooking.</p>
<p>Play baseball when you were younger? A lot of baseball players, especially pitchers, have a contracture which is in the biceps brachii that causes there to be that bend in the elbow. It’s possible tennis has something to do with it as well, but more typical in baseball…</p>
<p>For some reason, I did not feel like running tonight… So I did some of the exercises suggested by the trainers. Wall sit-ups with a basketball between the knees - ouch! Butt burners - double ouch! Side planks with moving the upper leg up, forward and down - yikes! Finished off with 30 clamshells per side and 30 pushups (good form). Will I be able to sit at work tomorrow, that is the big question. :)</p>
<p>AfIter being shown all of these, I asked the trainer if I had to do them all every day. “No, just rotate them so you do 10-15 min every day” So I reserved a few for tomorrow. Beach body or bust! </p>
<p>Ouch. The wall sits, butt burners, and side plank with raised leg are all really hard. It’s amazing to me how challenging these simple little bodyweight exercises can be.</p>
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<p>I can barely walk right now. I worked every muscle in my body about as hard as I can this afternoon and I’m definitely feelin’ it.</p>
<p>I don’t think that I’ve ever thrown a baseball in my life. A softball in elementary school, yes.</p>
<p>The only stroke similar to that of a pitcher’s throw is the serve. It’s odd because the serve (or a baseball pitch) doesn’t really use the bicep. Tennis doesn’t really make that much use of the bicep muscle which is why many pros don’t have particularly large biceps.</p>
<p>Got in a 6:00 AM stretching and abs workout this morning. Will do some weights and then head into the office. I’m bringing my running stuff in though I don’t know if I will have time for it. Yesterday was very busy in the office and I did my workout very late in the afternoon and it wasn’t so good as I was off my usual schedule. Today at least I got in a nice amount of working out before it really starts.</p>
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