My relatively spartan paleolithic diet
wouldn't really qualify me as a foodie, but I am, as I have realized,
a work-out and food snob. It could be the fervour of the newly
converted, although four years have passed since I radically switched
diet and work-out routines. It could be a reactionary defence
mechanism against the surrounding societal pressure to eat a
carbohydrate dense diet and to exercise based on a series of outmoded
concepts. But, it is most likely that I feel entitled to some smug
self-righteousness because, no matter how difficult it was, I got up
early, did my WOD, walked wherever I had to go within a reasonable
distance, engaged in active outdoor sports, and spent a whole lot of
energy avoiding eating all the good tasting but bad for you food that
surrounds me every day. And, did that day after day, week after
week, month after – well you get the picture - even if I felt
tired, muscle sore, weak or really, really would have liked to join
you when you ate that big chocolate cake.
Whatever the origin, I know that I,
however surreptitiously and covertly, feel just a bit superior to –
what really amounts to 95% of the population – who eat a the
standard Western diet with it's heavy emphasis on dense carbohydrate
sources and slot in their thrice weekly fitness class at some
globo-gym, which some how miraculously means that the rest of the
week can be spent in slothful indulgence.
Exercise and activity should be
something that comes naturally to you and which you enjoy and
shouldn't be something you force into your 45 or 55 minute work-out
window. Driving to a fitness class is asinine - in fact, driving
anywhere you can easily walk in half an hour is asinine - so is
standing on an escalator when you can take the stairs, sitting when
you can stand, and any of a hundred other things people do that
reduces their energy output.
Eating a diet that is slowly killing
you is similarly foolish. You don't have to be Crossfit games
rigorous, but the least you could do is cut out the grains and dial
back the treats so that they are treats not daily occurrences.
But, I gotta go, it's sprint day today,
time to get outside and run hard.
Today’s WOD:
Warm-up: Three rounds of 10 back
extension, 10 air squats, 10 warrior sit ups.
Work-out: 15 rounds of 10 seconds
on/10 seconds off sprints.
Working some lock-offs on the train on the way home from a hike
http://reason.com/reasontv/2013/04/22/debunking-the-caveman-craze-paleofantasy
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