Powerlifting: The Mentality
Mark Bell & Brandon Lilly talk about the mindset of a lifter and savagery ensues.
Calorie Detective by Casey Neistat
Diet programs revolve around a proven principle: if you burn more calories than you consume, you will lose weight. The calorie is the defining metric. And so, in the interest of public health, the Food and Drug Administration requires most packaged foods to list their calories, among other data, on labels. To help combat obesity in New York City, the Department of Health requires most chain restaurants to post calorie content on their menus and fines those who don’t comply. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, a national program will soon follow.
In theory, this is a valuable reform. But there’s one glaring problem. According to the F.D.A. and the city’s health department, no one verifies the accuracy of these calorie listings. The system essentially runs on an honor system. Food vendors can list whatever numbers they want, until someone (somehow) catches a problem and files a complaint. So, as an obsessive calorie counter myself, I wanted to find out: how accurate are these labels?
Let me try to explain my philosophy on eating out when trying to count calories or macronutrients in order to be accurate with your daily intake. It should be done sparingly, limited primarily to special occasions or social events. Whether the restaurant (or eatery) puts up the caloric content hardly matters as they are always, always, always inaccurate. There is always a margin of error, but just how big is the margin of error is really the question.
The best way to more precise with your daily intake is to prepare your food at home. This allows you the ability to weigh (by far the most accurate method) and control the exact portions. Now, I’m not saying that you have to be a religious in weighing your food, in fact, I hope that you wouldn’t ever feel like you always have to. However, you should try it out for a minimum of a few weeks to get an idea of the portion sizes that you should be consuming and the caloric content of those portions.
My last thought is that if you’ve never counted your calories, weighed your food, and prepared it yourself then you really have never known in a given day how much you’ve eaten. How could you? I talk a lot to people that are frustrated with being overweight, yet they don’t count their calories. When I ask why they will swear up and down that they “don’t eat that much” each day. Typically what I find out is that after having the person track their caloric intake for two weeks to a month that these same people come to realize that they truly had no idea how much they were eating each day and it’s usually a bit too much. Oftentimes this is due to what I call “mindless eating” or eating out of boredom and is easily corrected when you realize you’re doing it.
Resources on how to track calories and macronutrients? Check out this page.
An Invocation for Beginnings
Let me not think of my work only as a stepping stone to something else, and if it is let me become fascinated by the shape of the stone. -ZeFrank
Overcoming adversity.
You have been knocked down time and time again but you rise back up every time you are knocked to the ground.
Hannah, 13yo, 105lbs
Deadlifting 135x10 with less than 5mo of training.
The Alison McWeeny Story
She lost a leg in a boating accident on a July 4th vacation trip with friends. Her leg was amputated below the knee. That’s bad enough, but before the accident she was a competitive powerlifter.
Most people will try to find any reason to stop pursuing their goals. They have the case of the “I don’t wannas” or “There’s not enough time” or even “It’s too hard”.
Do you think Alison ever gives those kind of excuses?
Don’t let obstacles stop you from doing what you love or achieving your goals. You have to break down those barriers and overcome the adversity placed before you. You are as tough as you allow yourself to be.
This is motivation. This is Alison McWeeny’s story.
adidas presents Take The Stage: Monique travels to the World Powerlifting Championships
Monique may not look like a power lifter who can lift three times her own body weight. But her strength is inside her. Follow her journey as she tilts for glory at the World Powerlifting Championships in Latvia.
Friday Fitness Funny
I truly am not laughing at the guy. I love the intensity. Learn to love what you do in your own way.
“This commercial isn’t real, neither are society’s standards of beauty.”
By Jesse Rosten
Gym Swagger.
But in all seriousness, please prepare yourself. The newbies are coming.
Dana Linn Bailey, IFBB Pro Bodybuilder
I saw a lot of haters on this original post, so I thought I would reblog. Haters are just confused admirers afraid of the success others can put out. Haters gonna’ hate.
Don’t be mad because she outworks you.
I, personally, think she is gorgeous and the fact that she has such an incredible work ethic just furthers that point.
Rob Bailey, her husband, is also the genius behind Work, Hustle, Kill which is my number one song for the gym right now.
(Source: ppppppat, via crouchtouchset-deactivated20130)
Kane Sumabat: 60sets x 5reps for squats while eating Krispy Kreme donuts.
Here’s the description from his YouTube page.
Goal was to perform 60 sets of squats in 60 min and eat krispy kreme between each set. We did only 5 reps with one plate per side. While I was able to perform all the squats… only managed to eat 7 krispy kremes. This is only the first 12 minutes…
I should also mention that Kane is, obviously, a supporter of an IIFYM philosophy to eating/dieting and eats poptarts on the regular.
