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Following up and yesterdays blog post on body weight exercises this post in on Advanced body weight exercises.
As Aaron rightfully point out in the comments section, you don’t have to increase the difficulty of your body weight exercises by adding weight right away, you can also increase the difficulty by using more advanced movements.
Part of my last post (HERE) was a promotion for Craig Ballantyne’s body weight workouts (see them here –> www.AbsLikeCraig.com), but I noticed that one my favorite body weight workouts was excluded from his program…
(I’m pretty sure at least..he lists over a hundred exercises…)
Either way, today I thought I’d share one of my favorite body weight back exercises – The front Lever.
Admittedly I’m not perfect at these, but I am improving.
BP

Last post here ==> Body Weight Training

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I've recently read some conflicting advice on Omega 3 supplements in regard to weight loss. Studies have shown that fish oils and other Omega 3 supplements do promote weight loss, but are these supplements healthy? How much is healthy? How much do you need to lose weight? Do you need to even include these in your diet? So time for a little research.
Read more on Omega 3 Supplements for Weight Loss? What My Research Uncovered….
Tags: Main, antioxidant, fat loss, HGH, insulin, krill oil, omega 3

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Hi folks! I’m Emily Deans, M.D., a psychiatrist who normally blogs over at Evolutionary Psychiatry and at Psychology Today. However, Mark Sisson was kind enough to ask me to do a guest blog for Mark’s Daily Apple, and of course I am thrilled to oblige. My main interest is to explore how the differences in our modern lives and diets compared to a traditional/evolutionary experience may influence how our brains work and leave us more vulnerable to mental illness. If modern diets and lifestyle do leave us ragged in brain as well as body, The Primal Blueprint, being a practical diet and lifestyle that specifically emulates evolutionary conditions, would then theoretically be part of an antidote to modern mental health problems.

Certainly there are a number of anecdotes in the MDA forums of these Primal changes improving mood and anxiety problems, and some other anecdotes where mental state had no change or became worse. Of course, by […]

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I love heavy weights.
Love them.
My body? It doesn’t quite love them as much as I do.
Based on everything I’ve read and learned…and to  a large degree the mistakes I’ve made over the years, the approach I like to training is as follows:
Hard and heavy for 3-5 months. Typically during the winter.
But then after that I take it right down to 2-3 core lifts and a combination of Body Weight & Body Movement training for at least a couple months.
(This is almost always during the summer for me.)
Then after the summer I ramp back up with Adonis training to prep for the next big Winter push.
I find this Eb & Flow of training is my best option for making gains, but also keeping healthy.
Truthfully, I’d love to do body weight exercises only, all year round, but I find I just can’t maintain my size if I do this for an entire […]

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I’m really liking these Monday morning rapid fire question-and-answer sessions – are you? At some point, I’ll get back to the musings, but as long as you keep sending in great questions, I’ll probably keep answering them. We’ve got four this week: vinegar and its effect on insulin levels, sugar and DNA damage, the nutritional merits of lactose-free milk, and whether Miracle Noodles are Primal. So let’s get started.
Dear Mark
I have read that apparently cider vinegar influences/ reduces insulin level after a high carb meal. I was wondering what Grock’s view on this point is?
Thank you for looking into this & your time.
Viktoria

Apple cider vinegar does display some interesting benefits for diabetics. In one study, ten type 2 diabetics, eleven insulin resistant non-diabetics, and eight insulin sensitive non-diabetics were given 20 grams of apple cider vinegar (or a placebo) two minutes prior to a bagel, butter, and orange juice meal. […]

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Max cycles in 15 minutes of:
Grok Crawl
Sprint
Grok Crawl
Sprint

How-to:
Warmup: 30 second Grok Squat, three light sprints at 70%.
Today’s Workout of the Week is inspired by one of my readers, Will Shaw, who sent in one of his favorite workouts. It’s an engaging (but grueling) one.
You’ll need to plot out a large square or rectangle on the ground, either in your mind or with actual physical boundaries. Make it at least 20 meters by 15 meters. You could use a tennis court, half a basketball court, or, if you’re up for it, a full basketball court or half a soccer field. If you can’t find any of those things, plot out a big rectangle using four objects, one at each “corner” – cones, bits of clothing, rocks, sticks, whatever.
Starting from one corner, Grok crawl to the other side lengthwise. Then, spring up, change directions, and sprint diagonally across the rectangle to the […]

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I recently started running for the first time in years since my knee injury. I haven’t been timing myself since I’m just letting my body get used to it, but I can feel that I’m getting faster and closer to my past speed. That being said, I don’t think I ever did the mile in under 6 minutes – something that I definitely want to do. Here are some things I’ve picked up while trying to increase my speed on how to get faster at running:

The Importance of Being “Light on Your Feet”
When it comes to how to get faster at running, you’re going to want to be “light on your feet”. You want to have a very limited time where your feet are touching the ground as you run. It’s a feeling where you’re not running on the ground, but actually flying through the air as you […]

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Making fresh sausage at home can be a bit intimidating at first glance. How does one go about grinding the meat? What makes it taste like sausage and not just ground meat? And how in the heck do you shape it into links? After all those questions about homemade sausage run through your mind, inevitably you’re going to ask yourself, “Why bother?”
The reason is simple – if you make your own sausage you know exactly what’s going into it. Instead of buying sausage made of mystery meat, sugar, and preservative and coloring additives you can choose the meat, add any spices or fresh herbs that you wish and skip all that other junk. Suddenly, sausage is no longer a questionable choice of protein, it’s a healthy, flavorful part of your Primal eating plan.

Besides that, you might even find that you enjoy the process of making sausage. There is something really […]

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Fasting is back in the news again!
Here are just two of the titles that have been sent to me via email over the last week:
“Routine Periodic Fasting Is Good for Your Health, and Your Heart, Study Suggests”
and
“Study: Periodic fasting good for health, heart”
So what’s going on?
Well the mainstream media has caught on to Dr. Ben Horne’s latest research.
Now, Dr. Horne is a friend of ‘Eat Stop Eat’ and we’ve exchanged emails, so I think it’s worth while to really examine his latest findings.
Firstly, Dr. Horne’s work is on 24 hour fasts, once or twice a week, almost exactly the Eat Stop Eat protocol (add in some weight training and it would have been perfect) so it is VERY relevant to us.
Secondly, it’s not just Dr. Horne – He’s among more than a dozen doctors with Intermountain Medical Center’s Heart Institute who discovered the most recent round of physiological benefits from […]

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It’s Friday, everyone! And that means another Primal Blueprint success story. Many thanks to Albert for sharing his inspirational account of how he grabbed control of his health and lost nearly 100 pounds at an early age.
If you have your own success story you would like to share with me and the Mark’s Daily Apple community please contact me here. I’ll continue to publish these each Friday as long as they keep coming in. Thanks for reading!


Hey Mark,
All my life I had been a “chubby” boy, was happy, had friends and all but I knew something wasn’t right when I couldn’t run a set of stairs or catching the bus was a complete struggle…. I always had an emotional relationship with food and whenever I felt depressed or down I would reach for coke, chocolate, ice cream…..you get the picture.
One cold Monday morning […]

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