Thursday September 22nd
Workout of the day
Training:
Deadlift 5 x 5
WOD:
Complete AMRAP in 15 minutes of:
5 Power snatches (135/95lbs)
10 Burpees
15 Wallball shots (20/14lbs)
Taken from Mark's Daily Apple (Primal and Paleo are interchangeable terms for all intensive purposes)
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How to Deal with Common Primal Stumbling Blocks
Sleep/Stress/Sun
“I get sleep, but I’m still tired.”
Sounds like you need better sleep. Luckily, I’ve got seventeen ways to get better sleep. I won’t go into detail here, but let’s just say it involves candlelit dinners of beef heart, sweet potato, and chicken liver.
“I struggle with shift work.”
Shift work stinks, but it pays the bills, so you gotta do it. And yes, sleep matters, and a happy circadian rhythm is good for your health, but neither put food on the table. But, by embracing your situation, eating strictly, training smartly, supplementing wisely, and tricking your body into thinking that everything is normal, you can definitely make it work.
“I can’t deal with stress.”
Nobody wants cortisol coursing through their body on a perpetual basis. If you truly can’t avoid stress (and I can’t, nor can most of humanity), then you have to mitigate it. To lessen its load. To reduce its impact on your life. Here are 15 ways to mitigate, avoid, and manage the stressors in your life. There are some lifestyle changes, some supplementation, and some dietary modifications, but they’re all effective.
“I burn too easily.”
Don’t slather on the sunblock. Instead, bolster your internal, endogenous resistance to UV rays by employing any number of dietary and supplementary strategies. In other words, eat more cooked tomatoes, drink tea, eat more animal fat, eat fish, and take some vitamin D – to name just a few.
“I struggle with my doctor’s recommendation that I avoid all sun.”
Look, it doesn’t take a lot. I’m not saying you should lay out for two hours every day and develop a deep, dark leathery tanned hide. I’m simply suggesting that you get 15-20 minutes of unfiltered sunlight on as much of your exposed skin as possible. Vitamin D synthesis in the skin happens pretty quickly, and for a fair-skinned person 15-20 minutes of full sun are enough to produce 10-20k IUs. Barring that, of course, you could just supplement with vitamin D, but I prefer to get it from the sun.
I thank thee that I am none of the wheels of power but I am one with the living creatures that are crushed by it.
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