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This is day 49 of my Transformation Challenge and my day of rest from workouts. Tomorrow I will be back hitting it hard with the first workout of week 8 of the Challenge. I decided to post a Saturday blog.

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Saturday-March 16, 2013-Brad Pilon on Intermittent Fasting …

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So, three weeks ago I met with Jason Seib who is the owner of Clackamas Physical Conditioning (where I am currently training) and author of The Paleo Coach: Expert Advice for Extraordinary Health, Sustainable Fat Loss and an Incredible Body, which is available on Amazon now! I haven’t read it yet, but so far it has awesome ratings from those who have. Jason really knows his stuff!Anyways, so, I met with Jason to talk about body fat.

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Clarifying Butter and Intermittent Fasting (AKA, Is it Weird that I Drink …

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Make Me a Hollow Reed –The Benefits of Intermittent FastingReligion must agree with science, so that science shall sustain religion and religion explain science. (Abdu’l-Baha, Divine Philosophy, p. 26)Journalists have called the Baha’i Faith “the reasonable religion” and “a logical, science-friendly belief system,” because the Baha’i teachings focus so strongly on the essential harmony and agreement of scientific fact and spiritual faith. But it’s taken science a while to catch up with the Baha’i Fast.Every year, during the nineteen days before the Vernal Equinox, Baha’is all around the world voluntarily go without food and drink during the daylight hours.

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The Benefits of Intermittent Fasting | BahaiTeachings.org

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TABATA Training

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emailEditors Note: This is a re-posted article from April 2012 to provide easily referenced information on Tabata work. It comes to us from Kelsey Romshek. Kelsey is a CrossFit L1 Trainer, NSCA-CPT and he is a Firefighter/EMT-B, in Lincoln Nebraska. He also works as a trainer at CrossFit Lincoln.As Firefighters, we have to be fit, and we have to be strong.  We wear over 70+ pounds of gear each time we go to work at an alarm.  Our hydraulic tools weigh 40+ pounds.  We have to move medical patients, rescue victims, and downed firefighters.   That said, we have to be able to move our bodies efficiently, as well as be able to apply force to move external objects.  This is where the CrossFit training program comes into play for Firefighters.As Chris has pointed out, CrossFit is simply “Constantly varied, functional movements, performed at high intensity.”  How does CrossFit do this?  By incorporating a good balance of three things: metabolic conditioning, gymnastics, and weight lifting.  For quick reference, metabolic conditioning is considered to be a repetitive, full body movement that causes a rise is cardiorespiratory output such as running, rowing, or jump roping; gymnastics is simply moving the body through space;  and weight lifting is applying force to move an external object.In February, Travis Rask wrote a great article about the back squat.  I couldn’t agree more with what Travis wrote about the back squat and the importance of lifting and training heavy for our profession.   But what about the guys in the fire houses that don’t have access to that equipment?  What about when guys take off on a vacation to the beaches of Cancun, or the mountains of Colorado? How can they maintain what they’ve trained so hard for

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TABATA Training

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Kyle gets really excited about not eating!For most of my athletic “career” I’ve been adding more features: more movements, more good foods, more cutting edge methods.  It never occurred to me that less could be better, especially with my food intake (I’ve always been skinny and trying to add weight). But recently on Primal Personality, Mark Sisson’s site (Marksdailyapple.com), I came across a series on intermittent fasting that brought up some pretty persuasive arguments for the benefits of occasional fasting. Further research corroborated the information on the Daily Apple: that going without grub for extended periods of time can have serious advantages for weight loss, lean muscle retention, longevity, brain health, disease prevention and improved determination and confidence.Coming from a guy who ranks eating among his top three favorite things to do close behind baby-making and sleep, fasting doesn’t exactly have strong appeal.  But in the face of the facts, I’ll be observing a weekly fast day for a month and reporting the results to you.One of the primary affects of fasting is pretty obvious: weight loss.  Not only does fasting restrict calorie intake, but it also encourages the secretion of growth hormone and decreases insulin levels.  GH is a primary fat burning hormone and insulin is what stores fat in our bodies (less of it allows more fat to be burned)[i].  All of these factors working together make for a mean weight loss punch, while keeping that lean muscle mass you worked so hard to get at Rugged Crossfit.With some of the junk we put in our bodies today, it’s not crazy that some days we feel like trash.

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GONE GHANDI: INTERMITTENT FASTING | DigBoston

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