Diet, part one

It's been awhile, and an e-mail request from my Pastor motivated me to get back to posting.  Yes-I'm my Pastor's personal trainer, while he's my spiritual trainer!

Diet-"Die with a T" as Garfield used to say, will be the topic of the next few posts.  I'll try to get them posted up over the weekend so I don't lose momentum and you don't lose interest.  Our diet and how we should eat is one of the reasons this blog is titled "Creation Fitness".  I am a staunch creationist, and believe God created this world with great wisdom and design.  He created all the world, and created us to be in this world.  What is here physically is good for us to use and enjoy, and we are to be stewards of the physical world.  I am not a "Gnostic" at all (but I love gnocchi, so maybe I'm a "Gnocchist")  Just as I believe we are most fit and healthy when we use our bodies in all the ways they were created to be used, we are healthiest when we eat the foods God created, not some laboratory, and in the great variety God gave us.

So starting at the beginning, here are two verses from Genesis that will be the basis for the next few posts:

1:29 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.

9:3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. 

Time to go use that body God created for me to use in full body compound movements, but that's a whole other topic!


 

Two-fer today, and witnessed an impressive deadlift Pr

One of the base gyms I frequent is going through a renovation and at first I thought it was closed.  Actually it has been relocated, and is now crammed into 1/2 the basketball court.  When I got there, a sailor already had an "eight pack" (405 pounds) loaded on the bar from the squat rack.  So I warmed up and asked to work in when he got to a decent weight.  YEAH RIGHT!  I went right to overhead presses but still kept an eye out for his lifts.  While a bit younger, he was moving 405 pretty easily at a bodyweight around 210.  Then he added 2 more 45s.  Quick math-getting close to 500 here, which isn't too common especially on that base.   He adds the 5 pounds to even it up and makes the lift!

So while I'm happy with how my workout went, still got a way to go.  The two-fer is related to the remodel-since the locker room is closed, the base pool locker room is doing double duty.  I haven't swum laps in too long, so I decided to swim a quarter mile.  Wow-I am out of shape'for swimming!  To think I averaged about 2 miles a week for years is humbling!

Getting back into the swing of things

After taking a couple of weeks off, and some lighter workouts last week, this week I started another rotation of Stronglifts 5x5.  I dropped the poundages, but between starting lifting again and a whole slew of medical/dental work, I am sore!  It's a good sore, and I'm ready to get back in the gym tomorrow for workout "B" (squats, presses, and 1x5 deadlifts).  It will be good to see how presses and DLs go-I was pretty close to grip failure on DLs but have dropped about one-third in weight, and presses are heading back up close to my traditional stall area.

Guess what else I did this evening?  I went for a run-walk, my first in a long time.  Don't tell anyone!  Running is probably my least favorite aerobic exercise, but makes the most difference when time or equipment (like a pool) is limited.  I'm sure I looked bad but fortunately after a few minutes things started coming back.  Still the slowest Navy diver ever!

Have a good and active weekend-