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Good afternoon, FingerMan!
My name is Egor. I live in Western Siberia, Tyumen.
At me to you some questions.
1. Tell about base principles of your trainings (as, for example, principles of Weider’s).
2. Tell about base principles of a food (proteins, carbohydrates and other).
3. How your day schedule looks?
Many thanks that you do it free of charge and in all sincerity!
Thanks for your comments! As far as the Weider Training are you referring to reps and sets?? That is the working out I grew up on, what I used for 10 years before changing my workouts. I wasn’t familiar with statics when first changing my workouts, but found greater benefits from doing one heavier set full range than three or four. After learning of statics I found that statics developed the strength that I had been searching for! Does that answer your question, if not let me know.
As far as proteins, carbs, and other I only eat raw foods. I break the categories into vegetables, living foods like sprouts and vegetables that I get at a farmer’s market or pick from my own garden, meat of all types, usually bison, turkey both white and dark, and grass fed beef, some fish, and some chicken, and eggs. Dairy including goat, sheep, and cow raw milk products like cottage cheese, hard cheeses, soft cheeses, and yogurt. Lastly other nutritious foods like vegetable juices and sprout juices, sea weeds, green powders like spirulina, bee pollen…honey is the only sweetener I use and kind of in a category of its own. All natural foods, all whole foods, and all raw foods! I don’t eat much fruit at all, unless I pick it myself or get it at a market where it has been picked within the past day or so, in the store fruit has to be picked before its ripe and the sugars don’t develop properly.
A daily schedule for me starts at about 3 AM, some stretching, then breakfast, then my workouts, Sundays off road riding-3hrs, Mondays walking with a weightvest-now 35 lbs-1 hour, kinda an easy day for me, Tuesdays statics-now lower every three weeks, upper every 2 1/2 weeks, Wednesdays road ride-2 hrs., distance with sprints mixed in, Thursdays road ride or box, kinda an off day for me, Fridays road ride-2 hrs with sprints, Saturdays Hike with vest 1 hour. I generally don’t take off completely but off days are important for growth! After work I do my finger pullups 3-4 days a week, or walk with the weight vest! Sometimes an easy ride. My workouts change with the seasons though, winter xcountry skiing, more rock climbing, less riding, more workouts at home to stay strong. Practice martial arts, nunchakus, stuff like that! I probably eat 3 or 4 times a day, and I try to stop eating by 2 PM, I sleep better, go to sleep at 9PM! Let me know if that answers your questions! Thanks for joining in, if I can share my experiences and help others to grow then I am reaching my goal for starting this blog!
Hey just wanted to say I agree with the raw foods idea. I have been a raw vegan since November of 2008 and I feel like I am getting in better shape than I have ever been. I found your blog through Kevin levrone’s youtube channel and I was happy to see a real pro bodybuilder get into eating raw foods. I have some really good raw shakes you might want to check out on my youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/1ShaolinStyle. I also make vids on growing your own food. If you have the time, stop by and check it out. In the mean time I am glade to have found your blog. Much Respect……Peace Out
That’s great that you have your own garden and that raw veganism is working for you. When I have tried it in combination with intense workouts I am simply hungry all the time, doesn’t work, but at times it works! Good to have you here! You can learn more about other raw foods you might want to include here, or you might want to check out beyondveg.com!
You know the famous Soviet weight-lifter Yury Vlasov, the champion of Olympic games? It together with trainings in powerlifting style used static trainings. Initially it carried out them rising in a doorway, and tried to dissolve hands in the parties, having rested against walls. Then it laid down on a back, planted the feet against a wall and from all forces pressed on it. And some other exercises. It is called isometric gymnastics. Similar trainings he spent 3 times a week, on 2-3 exercises in the morning. Rest between sets of 1-2 minutes. Such exercises and mode of trainings are familiar to you?
If you will not complicate, I would like to see a mode of static trainings by your eyes from the very beginning. These are base principles for isometric trainings:
1. Quantity of trainings in a week,
2. Quantity of exercises for training,
3. Time under which muscles should be in pressure,
4. Time of restoration of muscular groups after isometric trainings,
5. Importance of a food
6. Massage and other means of restoration.
7. …
Whether play in general me the listed principles on efficiency of trainings and how?
I am not going to devote myself all to isometric trainings, but I am going to use them as the additional and effective tool of trainings. And with gratitude I will receive councils of the guru.
English not my basic language. And if I have lost something in translate, and to you is not clear, let to me about it know.
This Soviet weightlfter sounds like he knows what he is doing! Isometrics, the concept and the term were created by Bruce Lee, maybe Yury Vlasov thought up his movements as the same times as Lee. When did this weightlifter create his exercises? Lee started this in about the 1960′s and 1970′s. He would do curls against a bar that did not move, or bench press lying on his back, again against a bar that did not move.
John Little, who is was an editor/writer for many of Lee’s books took Lee’s Isometrics one step further and created Statics. The reason for this was because although Isometrics were good the weight was not a “free” weight and did not work other muscles that should and could be worked, and two the progress could not be measured. Lee knew he was getting stronger, maybe could check that when doing a full range movement, but he could not measure his Isometric strength. With statics you can begin with a certain weight for an excercise, get stronger, and measure your growth over time.
When I first started doing statics I did upper one day a week and lower one day a week, upper consists of flatbench, closegrip flatbench (tri’s), lat pulldowns, shrugs, lower back, curls, and stomach. These are the upper body excercises that require the most amount of weight. Those that require more weight will allow the body to grow the most. As my statics progressed I started to break up my upper body workouts into two days, the second day I now do stomach (weighted cruches), curls, forearms-in addition to my finger pullups, and military press.
Lower days I do squats, leg extensions, leg curls, leg press, and straight leg calf press-do not keep my knees locked so that the muscles retains the weight and pressure is not on the knees.
I will record a static workout for each of my workouts and post them, although I lift every three weeks for lower body, that’s right once every three weeks. When I began once a week, the stronger I became once every other week, then every three weeks! Upper (large muscle group workout) I lift every 2 or 2 1/2 weeks, the smaller muscle groups I could every week to two weeks. The larger the muscle and the more weight being lifted the more time that is needed to recooperate from the workout and then allow the growth! Those two are separate. After I do my leg workout is takes 4 or 5 days to recoop, then another two plus weeks to grow. When I lift again I increase weight, this is how I am measuring my progress. The number of seconds have to be between 5-15 seconds. Don’t include in that time the weight dropping down. Just the time the weight is held statically. Once you are at 15 seconds it is too much time and you need to increase the weight. Less than 5 seconds you will not receive the benefits. Start by targeting 10-15 seconds for the first month, so that you become comfortable and familiar with the movement, when you feel the power of the excercises target 7 or 8 seconds.
What I’ll do I will record for statics all of my workouts and post with a light amount of weight so that every one can see and understand the workouts, I can stop and explain the workouts, then I will record my real static workout, which is a very intense workout, I am completely focused on lifting during my workouts and wouldn’t be able to stop in between excercises and explain needed information. This might help everyone watching to learn more.
Massage I don’t find the need for, although I did when I was riding a lot and I didn’t know about raw then. Although I get sore from my static workouts on the whole I recover quickly, within a day or so I do other workouts, although day after the workout I usually call it a rest day for legs at least, sometimes for upper.
In my next post I will address the value of food! Thank you so much for your post, please continue to post. This blog is a way for me to share all that I have learned and answer all questions. If I don’t answer a question of someone satisfactorily please let me know and ask again!
Man, oh, man. What’s all this crap? That is supposed to be strength training? Where’s all the strength at? The 10 pull-ups you did are laughable. How much do you weigh in at? My guess would be around 90 pounds? With that little weight and your “famous” strength you would have to do at least 50 pull-ups, no sweat. My advice to you: stop eating raw foods and doing this crap. Do some real weight lifting and grow some muscle.
You’re right those 10 pullups were nothing, there was a camera error, and that’s what I had so posted it to put something up. Need not worry you’ll see more. I weigh about 165 lbs. Some pullups I do with very little grab for my fingers, others I do put on a weight vest, or add weight to a belt, depending on what I am going for with that particular workout! At a guess I followed a diet/weight plan similar to yours at one point and at a certain time it didn’t work for me, so I decided to make some drastic changes and the benefits started to show in a big way. At one point I stopped doing statics and went back to full range for about 3 years, lost significant power and went back to statics to regain the intense strength that I am used to. I do understand where you are coming from, try to stay open minded here, maybe this will work for you, if anything you could integrate the principles into your current workout and see what happens then see if you want to make more changes. How old are you, what kind of lifting program do you follow now? How long have you been working out. My guess is you’re here to see if there is anything you can add to your current program, I would be happy to help if I can, let me know what you do now, what kind of weight do you increase from one workout to the next now? Thanks!
Fine technique.
I think it could work for me.
Not many will dare try it though.
Great stuff.
Eager to try that raw food too.
Raw means healthy, I guess.
Must buy some eggs, too.
And sushi.
Nice!
Still, want to see some more interesting stuff.
Unlike most of you, I’m a newby.
Come on, show some more.
Kills me to wait.
See ya!
Glad you like the technique, the idea is that you can build real strength, and build muscle, without the risk of injury. We are talking about a large amount of weight for these excercises and the exercises that bring the most amount of growth are those that allow you to use the most amount of weight! Guess you’re right not many dare try it, in fear of what I am not sure. The number one mistake people make doing statics is they don’t use enough weight, then they don’t get stronger, or they lose strength and aftter a couple of weeks they give up. I am going to post a workout without weight, explain what I am doing, and then post an actual work out! This will help explain more of what is going on and why things in my weight room are set up the way that they are. Statics done properly over a period of 3 months will hook you into doing them. I’ll give you what you what info you need in the first simulated workout, then show the real thing in the second. I’ll do this for upper body and lower body. Stay tuned!
Its me, the norweigian from the levronereport.com. I hope its ok with you that i join inn to see. I just followed the link on Kevs site. Nice to see you again. I havent seen much yet, but i think i will look around for a while:-). I dont very much about you yet and i dont know what kind of mma(?( your into, but i will find out. Im a bodybuilder, but i have a little mmadude in my stomach and my favorite youtube-surf is on UFC, Pride and Cage Rage. If you are good enough for Kevin, you`er good enough for me and im eager to get to know you and what kind of visdome and knowledge you can offer. And when i see and hear you talk, i think you are an interesting and a nice guy.
So from now on, your site is on my daily surf-list!
Have a nice day, greetings from Norway, Trondheim city.
It is more than ok that you joined in to see, you’re needed here. The more people who are watching and listening the better it will be overall. All of you can learn from me, and then give your input and it will become a location of sharing. If someone is not growing, then we will get to the cause of why not and solve the problem. What I do works, but I have made many errors and found what doesn’t work, and I will share those errors with all of you along the way! Soon I will post a simulated work out, without weight, and explain what I am doing, then I will do the same workout with actual weight! Good to see you here!
Hey buddy hope all is well today. I wanna know your opinion on supplements in the area of anabolic steroids, im sure youve done your research since you seem to know alot. Whats your opinion on them if you have on?
Really glad to have you here, glad you could join us, and a great question!
I view supplements and anabolic steriods as two different animals. Supplements are supposed to do just that, they supplement what we are not getting to build muscle.
Anabolic Steroids on the other hand are totally different. In the history of body building they have been used by most if not all top competitors. After using them how many of those competitors look back and say that is something that I shouldn’t have done? They help the muscles to grow, but destroy the organs of the body. They don’t promote any future health of any kind at all. When used for medical purposes, prescriptioned by a doctor the muscles could also grow, without weightlifting, but they are used for short periods of time, and it is one type prescribed. Doctors don’t keep their patients on steriods for long periods of time, as far as I know they use them to address an issue, then take the patient off of the steriod. The difference between bodybuilders and patients who are prescribed steriods is that bodybuilders, as far as I have heard use various steriods in combination for longer periods of time, damaging the body. Are you lifting to get big for the short term or are you lifting to obtain the type of power and or size that will stick around with you for a long time. There are many weightlifters out there who lift using all natural means and become intensely strong or huge and understand that overall health of the body is just as relevant with buidling continuing to build future power. Anabolic steriods do not help anyone with that kind of growth in any way.
When you incorporate proper lifting and a healthy diet you can achieve great things with the strength and size of your muscles. I have found something that works for me, gives me what I want, but it took me years to find that! I created this site to share what I have learned, and only hope that people can get their answers, read postings, and learn from what they read.
You can make huge gains here, that I am sure! Steriods will you one component of what you want in the short term, but damage your body in the process, and will not give you anything in the long term that you are looking for.
What kind of diet do you follow now, what kind of exercise program do you follow? How long have you been lifting? Please tell me more about what you are doing now and what your near or distant goals are. There are some other things you can do before you start statics where you can break through a plateau your at now, or start to get you on the path you want to be on!
Hey FingerMan, good to be here! First off, I want to say forget what boo said! We all have different and unique goals and interests, and everyone’s routine and diet should be just as unique! As for weight, who cares! We all need to stop being slaves to the scale and what the media portrays as ideal!
I actually got into raw eating a while back when my college biology professor had a lecture on human digestion and nutrient uptake and the relationship between cooking and bio availability of our foods. I do not have a full raw diet, but about 70%. My favorite are greenie shakes mixed in a vitamix…some spinach, lemongrass, and strawberries…all picked fresh. I have certainly felt a difference in my training and hope others will be intrigued.
I love seeing something different, and believe me, you definitely are! And take that as a compliment! I look forward to more from you, and I look forward to seeing the results from the static holds I have put into my routine. Thank you and keep it up!
Good to have you here, you are right, being open minded is what brings us further, with our workouts and any other aspect of our lives! Thankss for the compliment, being different is just what works for me, and when I started wanted to break through new levels I came to realize that traditional training wasn’t going to do that for me. It is great to have other people on the site here who are interested in learning what they can integrate into their workouts or diets to better their training!
You are so right about the weight about not being slaves to the scale, on the flipside I will mention something else here that I have not yet mentioned. About nine months ago I completed a water only fast of 23 days. It was intense and I lost a lot of muscle, although I am more interested in the long term effects of the fast. Over the past few weeks I have been steadily gaining muscle weight at roughly a pound every one to two weeks. It is said that water fasting does promote healthy weight gain after the fast is over. I am seeing a change in my weight and a change in my power, although I don’t have any predetermined goals of what I want to weigh, or need to weigh. I just want to be as healthy and powerful as possible. Break down all of societies barriers and predetermined nutritional concepts and see what really works. If I weigh 160 lbs, so be it, if 190…I do look at my own bone structure and estimate what amount of muscle gain I could achieve, but I am going for solid pure muscle, the kind you see on a wild animal! It’s funny when I write about t to all of you it becomes so clear to me, we can develop that sense of community here where we all feel that, and then all get stronger, more powerful together! When I see the muscles of a horse when running, that’s what I think of when I think of power!!!
That shake sounds good, you college professor knew what he was talking about! That is so awesome that you are making shakes from FRESH GREENS!!! Good for you!
I want you all to know that I am trying to reorganize what I do so I can post video rerularly, this Wednesday I will post a portion of my static contractions. Weekly…for starters I will post something either about working out, or diet. As I get organized with that I will post biweekly, and I am very interested in all of your comments!
What else do you eat that is raw? How long have you been eating raw, its awesome to hear that you are!
I eat all of my vegetables raw, especially carrots. Raw carrots are some of the most powerful foods you can eat, as you probably already know. Eggs are another raw staple for me. Lots of people are afraid of the bacteria, but I’ve never had a problem. Seaweed is awesome as well. I live right near the ocean, so I go to the farmers market, and they’ve got plenty of it fresh. Rinse it off, make sure it’s clean, and you’re good to go.
I have not yet gotten into eating meats raw though. I’m still a bit afraid of the diseases and worms that can possibly come from it. I know there are ways of preparing it correctly, and I do not know them. Maybe once I learn more about it, I will.
And a water only fast sounds incredibly difficult! I don’t know if I would have the determination to go more than 3 weeks without food. I do understand the logic behind it though. Your body will be so purified and cleansed by the end of the cycle that your body will soak every single nutrient up like a sponge.
Wow that’s awesome that you are eating raw like you are. I do eat a lot of carrots, or I juice them, which is another video episode. I eat a lot of carrots because they stay fresh for longer than some of the greens which I really like to eat as well! A variety of veggies is really what I like best! Bean sprouts, green beans, corn (tastes great raw), jalapenos, onions, broccoli, cauliflower, and sweet potato, and many greens. Kale, chard, collards greens, spinach, and romaine are great!
There is a farmer’s market here too, with organic growers and that is the best, unless of course you have a garden of your own! I know there are many farmer’s markets where you are, and fresh seaweed, that’s amazing! Why the big shift to eating raw? What inspired you?
If you don’t eat raw meat is that the portion of your diet that you cooking? You’ll find when you start eating raw meat that you just feel better. The worms and that, I’ve heard that also but I have been eating raw meat for more than 10 years, and animal foods of any kind were one thing I stopped cooking at all. The fatty acids change, and I find I need to eat a lot more food when it is at all cooked, I don’t feel as satiated! Buy the best red meat that you can find, whether its beef or bison, preferably grass fed meat, and if you want to be super safe freeze it for 48 hours. After it thaws you can prepare it however you want to. Personally I like ground meat! I scramble two eggs in a bowl and ad ground meat, then I like raw honey on top! That’s a great mix and a perfect blend of foods! I don’t freeze meat before eating it, red meat is really pretty safe over all, fish has to be clean fish, really fresh! Chicken and turkey are also good, which you might want to freeze first for 48 hours, then you can make ceviche, use lemon or lime juice to “cook” the chicken. Cut up chicken in small pieces and put in the lemon juice in a small jar, and leave it there for a few hours! I have never tried it with turkey. Personally I don’t freeze meats or use lemon or lime juice but those are ultra safe ways of preparing the foods!
The water fast was very difficult, and I have a lot of fasting experience, 36 hrs weekly for a year or two, many 3 day fasts, 4 and 5 day fasts! Eating one meal every 48 hours I did that for about 4 months at one time and for 1 month another time! Fasting is a natural way to purify the body and keep things running smoothly. The more you get involved with the raw food diet you can try a short fast, and see how it works for you. I just mentioned it to explain one reason why I look thin in the videos. Slowly I am gaining back muscle weight, more solid than prior to the fast!
Thanks for sharing, keep going with the raw foods! What kind of workouts are you doing? How many hours do you sleep, do you wake up rested? What are you near or distant goals for your health?
Thanks for all the tips! I’m definitely trying that ground beef/egg/honey dish tonight, that sounds delicious.
The big shift came when I was in a biology lecture, and my professor showed me all of the connections to raw eating and bioavailability of nutrients, and the negative things cooking does to our food, including protein degradation and a destruction of vitamins and minerals. Once explained on a cellular level, it all made perfect sense. The prof. then handed out greenie shakes (raw veggies mixed in a blender), and a few minutes after I drank it, I felt incredible, and I had the greatest workout of my life that night. After one shake it did all that! So I wondered what would happen if I ate more foods raw. That’s when a big shift happened in my physical threshold, my mental state, and my health. High blood pressure runs in my family, and I’ve been mildly hypertensive, but when I started eating raw, it was lowered considerably. I feel great!
Also, I am a mixed martial arts fighter with the Brazilian Top Team of Melbourne, FL. Since I started eating like this, my focus and intensity is through the roof. I can push myself harder, yet stay more concentrated for very long periods of time. My supplemental training is CrossFit, which I absolutely love. I originally began with a very cookie cutter approach, with a typical powerlifting/bodybuilding routine. I even started delving into illegal and unhealthy forms of performance enhancement. It turned me into an even worse athlete. I will never go back to it again.
My hopes for the future are to become a professional MMA fighter, and to live the healthiest and longest life possible. Everything is going according to plan so far!
What’s cool is that you learned something and then applied it to your life. Many people know a lot about health but they don’t apply it. What kind of professor hands out green shakes? That is just out of this world! How long have you been training in martial arts, which one’s? Cross Fit is cool, great workouts! A friend of mine does it! Good for you getting away from the wrong training mechanisms, and getting on the path to true health! I hope you stick around, you and I have some of the same goals, living a long healthy life! What did you end up with a degree in? Hey, that Beef, Eggs, and Honey dish, try to use grass fed meat if possible, and make sure you use raw honey, when cooked honey was fed back to bees they died!
1. When doing a static muscle contraction squat are you locking out your knees or are you keeping them slightly bent?
2. Could you do a video demonstration of a bench press using static contration.
3. Will this sort of training develop strength for a full range of motion exercise and how much strength as a percentage will be added?
Thanks for joining us, all questions are welcome! No I am not locking out my knees, I never lock out my knees before, during, or after the exercise. Locking out the knees puts the weight on the cartilage in the knees and its best to do what we can to preserve our knees. Locking out the knees also takes the weight off of the muscles so it decreases the amount they are working. Even when I did full range exercises I didn’t lock my knees because I want to save my knees and work the muscles more. Same with bench or military press, never lock the arms for the same two reasons.
Static strength will absolutely increase full range strength. If you do statics correctly and observe your strength gains you can return to a full range exercise to check and see how much power you have gained! I noticed after returning to full range for too long I started losing all of the power that I gained. Static training builds a lot of power both in full range movements, and more importantly for other things, like sports, cycling, boxing, running, basketball, any sport where you need power, or just lifting a couch and bringing it up a few flights of stairs. Static training makes the muscles stronger in a static position, but also in any position. The stronger a muscle, the stronger a muscle, period!
I did record some close grip bench press and will soon post it. Little by little I will post all exercises that I perform for statics and go over some of the variations that can be used in place of what I do, other options to change the workout!
Years ago I read a book called Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder by Samuel Fussell. I was curious too about steriod use and its effects. Personally I have never used steriods of any kind. Was always scared about the negative after effects. I knew I would want to have kids one day, and didn’t want to destroy any of my organs for that matter!
Working out is something I absolutely love, lifting iron for the sake of lifting iron is awesome, but I have achieved and continue to grow into the kind of growth that I am looking for. Steriods give the initial build desired but at what cost. Some guys use steriods and stop at a certain point without many after effects, some have problems from steriod use. How many weightlifters are out there who have used steriods and would have gone back and changed that decision if they could? I don’t know.
I have a huge amount of information about diet, lifting, and overall health. Steriod use is not an area I know a lot about. Just understand that the benefits of steriod most often come with a price. That price can often be very high, The second question is what percent of those benefits can be had using natural means? A really good diet, and truly intense workouts! Diet can be very specific and everyone is different, hopefully you can learn and implement concepts from this site. Working out is also individual and you can learn to cater a program to your body type, what you need to do get as strong as possible, and what you need to do to build the mass you desire. Explore and learn about these things from a variety of sources and you will achieve great heights!
Where are you at now? What kindo of diet? What kind of workouts? What are your goals? How long have you been working out? Thanks for joining us!
I heard about Static Contraction on an Anthony Robbins video and your site from youtube. I was really interested to find out about Static Contraction mainly because I like the idea of a gym visit once a week (I’m not a fitness fanatic – yet!). Little and Sisco said on the Robbins vid that women have a lot to gain from strength training, but it was disappointing to me they only showed pics of men with HUGE muscles, would have been good to see more “regular” sized people doing this. What I would like to know please, is SC even appropriate for a woman who just wants to shape up a bit for improve health and wellbeing? I guess I would need to do some form of aerobic exercise too?
I agree with the raw concept too. I have to say that my only experience of eating raw fish (at a resto) made me quite ill and only drinking V dilute H202 managed to shake off the illness. Other than that I use recipes from a raw food advocate John Tobe.
Please forgive the stupid questions, I am a complete noob at this!
thanks and looking forward to reading more on your blog
Static contractions do mean lifting once a week, but the idea is that it is very intense lifting once a week. Little and Sisco, the creators of SC show people that everyone can benefit from strength training, the stronger a muscle the stronger a muscle. Women can of course receive benefits! The big muscular guys they use is just a good way to sell the concept of SC training, but there are normal looking people they use in some of their books to show that yes normal looking people do statics for strength and growth as well. Yes, absolutely YOU can benefit from doing statics to simply improve your health and well being. Increase muscle tone, blood flow to all parts of the body, statics really push the body hard, really hard, with out stressing the joints, not to say that you shouldn’t build to larger amounts of weight…ubt most people can’t lift the amount the need to lift right away anyway, they build to it!
Personally I think aerobic exercise is key to health, whether biking, running, swimming, rollerblading, aerobics keep the body strong and healthy in a different way. You would need to plan a schedule to make it work for you, for example if you do statics for legs on Monday, you probably wouldn’t want to go running on Tuesday. I take an off day the day after any static work out, and I do upper and lower body every other week. Time between workouts all depends on how quickly you recover, how your body reacts, how much your lifting, and what kind of working out you were used to before doing statics!
Raw foods are awesome, but you have to find your path, fruit, veggies, nuts and seeds, dairy, eggs, fish, white meats-chicken and turkey, red meat-cow, ostrich, and bison, fish and seafood. Some have a problem eating raw fish…sounds like you might have been served bad fish at that restaurant, they don’t really care about is served, because it is served in such small amounts, and the sushi bar owners figure as long as people aren’t falling over its ok. You might be better off to go to a place that sells high quality fish, or buy some sashimi grade fish at a supermarket of some kind. Raw red meat is actually very clean and easy to eat raw-whole steak is the cleanest. Eggs are also very clean. These are my own experiences, I ate raw chicken at a restaurant two weeks ago, and thought nothing of it, but that’s just me-when you are starting out though red meat, or raw dairy is an easy route to start with, even raw cheese can be found in most health food stores, and it tastes excellent!
That Blatant Raw Food Propaganda, I think that’s John Tobe, that’s a vegan raw food book, right??? There are many other vegan raw food books that are good out there, Hippocrates Health Institute has many! The “sprout man” has a few books out that are my favorites, stuff that you can make that’s easy! I’ll also start posting some more recipes and things that you can make that are easy, and discuss the basic tools needed! I am a true believer that there are no stupid questions, 15 years ago I knew nothing about any of this, and I had to learn or suffer the ill health I was experiencing! In other words ask whatever you want, the questions I receive really help me to understand what I need to explain! I don’t know what the V dilute H2O is though, you could enlighten me there if you would like! Thanks so much for your comments.
July 10, 2009 at 11:01 am
Good afternoon, FingerMan!
My name is Egor. I live in Western Siberia, Tyumen.
At me to you some questions.
1. Tell about base principles of your trainings (as, for example, principles of Weider’s).
2. Tell about base principles of a food (proteins, carbohydrates and other).
3. How your day schedule looks?
Many thanks that you do it free of charge and in all sincerity!
July 10, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Hello Egor-
Thanks for your comments! As far as the Weider Training are you referring to reps and sets?? That is the working out I grew up on, what I used for 10 years before changing my workouts. I wasn’t familiar with statics when first changing my workouts, but found greater benefits from doing one heavier set full range than three or four. After learning of statics I found that statics developed the strength that I had been searching for! Does that answer your question, if not let me know.
As far as proteins, carbs, and other I only eat raw foods. I break the categories into vegetables, living foods like sprouts and vegetables that I get at a farmer’s market or pick from my own garden, meat of all types, usually bison, turkey both white and dark, and grass fed beef, some fish, and some chicken, and eggs. Dairy including goat, sheep, and cow raw milk products like cottage cheese, hard cheeses, soft cheeses, and yogurt. Lastly other nutritious foods like vegetable juices and sprout juices, sea weeds, green powders like spirulina, bee pollen…honey is the only sweetener I use and kind of in a category of its own. All natural foods, all whole foods, and all raw foods! I don’t eat much fruit at all, unless I pick it myself or get it at a market where it has been picked within the past day or so, in the store fruit has to be picked before its ripe and the sugars don’t develop properly.
A daily schedule for me starts at about 3 AM, some stretching, then breakfast, then my workouts, Sundays off road riding-3hrs, Mondays walking with a weightvest-now 35 lbs-1 hour, kinda an easy day for me, Tuesdays statics-now lower every three weeks, upper every 2 1/2 weeks, Wednesdays road ride-2 hrs., distance with sprints mixed in, Thursdays road ride or box, kinda an off day for me, Fridays road ride-2 hrs with sprints, Saturdays Hike with vest 1 hour. I generally don’t take off completely but off days are important for growth! After work I do my finger pullups 3-4 days a week, or walk with the weight vest! Sometimes an easy ride. My workouts change with the seasons though, winter xcountry skiing, more rock climbing, less riding, more workouts at home to stay strong. Practice martial arts, nunchakus, stuff like that! I probably eat 3 or 4 times a day, and I try to stop eating by 2 PM, I sleep better, go to sleep at 9PM! Let me know if that answers your questions! Thanks for joining in, if I can share my experiences and help others to grow then I am reaching my goal for starting this blog!
July 10, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Hey just wanted to say I agree with the raw foods idea. I have been a raw vegan since November of 2008 and I feel like I am getting in better shape than I have ever been. I found your blog through Kevin levrone’s youtube channel and I was happy to see a real pro bodybuilder get into eating raw foods. I have some really good raw shakes you might want to check out on my youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/1ShaolinStyle. I also make vids on growing your own food. If you have the time, stop by and check it out. In the mean time I am glade to have found your blog. Much Respect……Peace Out
July 10, 2009 at 8:11 pm
That’s great that you have your own garden and that raw veganism is working for you. When I have tried it in combination with intense workouts I am simply hungry all the time, doesn’t work, but at times it works! Good to have you here! You can learn more about other raw foods you might want to include here, or you might want to check out beyondveg.com!
July 11, 2009 at 3:54 am
Hello!
You know the famous Soviet weight-lifter Yury Vlasov, the champion of Olympic games? It together with trainings in powerlifting style used static trainings. Initially it carried out them rising in a doorway, and tried to dissolve hands in the parties, having rested against walls. Then it laid down on a back, planted the feet against a wall and from all forces pressed on it. And some other exercises. It is called isometric gymnastics. Similar trainings he spent 3 times a week, on 2-3 exercises in the morning. Rest between sets of 1-2 minutes. Such exercises and mode of trainings are familiar to you?
If you will not complicate, I would like to see a mode of static trainings by your eyes from the very beginning. These are base principles for isometric trainings:
1. Quantity of trainings in a week,
2. Quantity of exercises for training,
3. Time under which muscles should be in pressure,
4. Time of restoration of muscular groups after isometric trainings,
5. Importance of a food
6. Massage and other means of restoration.
7. …
Whether play in general me the listed principles on efficiency of trainings and how?
I am not going to devote myself all to isometric trainings, but I am going to use them as the additional and effective tool of trainings. And with gratitude I will receive councils of the guru.
English not my basic language. And if I have lost something in translate, and to you is not clear, let to me about it know.
Many thanks again!
July 11, 2009 at 11:35 am
This Soviet weightlfter sounds like he knows what he is doing! Isometrics, the concept and the term were created by Bruce Lee, maybe Yury Vlasov thought up his movements as the same times as Lee. When did this weightlifter create his exercises? Lee started this in about the 1960′s and 1970′s. He would do curls against a bar that did not move, or bench press lying on his back, again against a bar that did not move.
John Little, who is was an editor/writer for many of Lee’s books took Lee’s Isometrics one step further and created Statics. The reason for this was because although Isometrics were good the weight was not a “free” weight and did not work other muscles that should and could be worked, and two the progress could not be measured. Lee knew he was getting stronger, maybe could check that when doing a full range movement, but he could not measure his Isometric strength. With statics you can begin with a certain weight for an excercise, get stronger, and measure your growth over time.
When I first started doing statics I did upper one day a week and lower one day a week, upper consists of flatbench, closegrip flatbench (tri’s), lat pulldowns, shrugs, lower back, curls, and stomach. These are the upper body excercises that require the most amount of weight. Those that require more weight will allow the body to grow the most. As my statics progressed I started to break up my upper body workouts into two days, the second day I now do stomach (weighted cruches), curls, forearms-in addition to my finger pullups, and military press.
Lower days I do squats, leg extensions, leg curls, leg press, and straight leg calf press-do not keep my knees locked so that the muscles retains the weight and pressure is not on the knees.
I will record a static workout for each of my workouts and post them, although I lift every three weeks for lower body, that’s right once every three weeks. When I began once a week, the stronger I became once every other week, then every three weeks! Upper (large muscle group workout) I lift every 2 or 2 1/2 weeks, the smaller muscle groups I could every week to two weeks. The larger the muscle and the more weight being lifted the more time that is needed to recooperate from the workout and then allow the growth! Those two are separate. After I do my leg workout is takes 4 or 5 days to recoop, then another two plus weeks to grow. When I lift again I increase weight, this is how I am measuring my progress. The number of seconds have to be between 5-15 seconds. Don’t include in that time the weight dropping down. Just the time the weight is held statically. Once you are at 15 seconds it is too much time and you need to increase the weight. Less than 5 seconds you will not receive the benefits. Start by targeting 10-15 seconds for the first month, so that you become comfortable and familiar with the movement, when you feel the power of the excercises target 7 or 8 seconds.
What I’ll do I will record for statics all of my workouts and post with a light amount of weight so that every one can see and understand the workouts, I can stop and explain the workouts, then I will record my real static workout, which is a very intense workout, I am completely focused on lifting during my workouts and wouldn’t be able to stop in between excercises and explain needed information. This might help everyone watching to learn more.
Massage I don’t find the need for, although I did when I was riding a lot and I didn’t know about raw then. Although I get sore from my static workouts on the whole I recover quickly, within a day or so I do other workouts, although day after the workout I usually call it a rest day for legs at least, sometimes for upper.
In my next post I will address the value of food! Thank you so much for your post, please continue to post. This blog is a way for me to share all that I have learned and answer all questions. If I don’t answer a question of someone satisfactorily please let me know and ask again!
July 11, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Man, oh, man. What’s all this crap? That is supposed to be strength training? Where’s all the strength at? The 10 pull-ups you did are laughable. How much do you weigh in at? My guess would be around 90 pounds? With that little weight and your “famous” strength you would have to do at least 50 pull-ups, no sweat. My advice to you: stop eating raw foods and doing this crap. Do some real weight lifting and grow some muscle.
July 13, 2009 at 6:05 pm
You’re right those 10 pullups were nothing, there was a camera error, and that’s what I had so posted it to put something up. Need not worry you’ll see more. I weigh about 165 lbs. Some pullups I do with very little grab for my fingers, others I do put on a weight vest, or add weight to a belt, depending on what I am going for with that particular workout! At a guess I followed a diet/weight plan similar to yours at one point and at a certain time it didn’t work for me, so I decided to make some drastic changes and the benefits started to show in a big way. At one point I stopped doing statics and went back to full range for about 3 years, lost significant power and went back to statics to regain the intense strength that I am used to. I do understand where you are coming from, try to stay open minded here, maybe this will work for you, if anything you could integrate the principles into your current workout and see what happens then see if you want to make more changes. How old are you, what kind of lifting program do you follow now? How long have you been working out. My guess is you’re here to see if there is anything you can add to your current program, I would be happy to help if I can, let me know what you do now, what kind of weight do you increase from one workout to the next now? Thanks!
July 12, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Fine technique.
I think it could work for me.
Not many will dare try it though.
Great stuff.
Eager to try that raw food too.
Raw means healthy, I guess.
Must buy some eggs, too.
And sushi.
Nice!
Still, want to see some more interesting stuff.
Unlike most of you, I’m a newby.
Come on, show some more.
Kills me to wait.
See ya!
July 14, 2009 at 8:10 am
Glad you like the technique, the idea is that you can build real strength, and build muscle, without the risk of injury. We are talking about a large amount of weight for these excercises and the exercises that bring the most amount of growth are those that allow you to use the most amount of weight! Guess you’re right not many dare try it, in fear of what I am not sure. The number one mistake people make doing statics is they don’t use enough weight, then they don’t get stronger, or they lose strength and aftter a couple of weeks they give up. I am going to post a workout without weight, explain what I am doing, and then post an actual work out! This will help explain more of what is going on and why things in my weight room are set up the way that they are. Statics done properly over a period of 3 months will hook you into doing them. I’ll give you what you what info you need in the first simulated workout, then show the real thing in the second. I’ll do this for upper body and lower body. Stay tuned!
July 14, 2009 at 5:06 am
Hey Fingerman
Its me, the norweigian from the levronereport.com. I hope its ok with you that i join inn to see. I just followed the link on Kevs site. Nice to see you again. I havent seen much yet, but i think i will look around for a while:-). I dont very much about you yet and i dont know what kind of mma(?( your into, but i will find out. Im a bodybuilder, but i have a little mmadude in my stomach and my favorite youtube-surf is on UFC, Pride and Cage Rage. If you are good enough for Kevin, you`er good enough for me and im eager to get to know you and what kind of visdome and knowledge you can offer. And when i see and hear you talk, i think you are an interesting and a nice guy.
So from now on, your site is on my daily surf-list!
Have a nice day, greetings from Norway, Trondheim city.
July 14, 2009 at 8:16 am
It is more than ok that you joined in to see, you’re needed here. The more people who are watching and listening the better it will be overall. All of you can learn from me, and then give your input and it will become a location of sharing. If someone is not growing, then we will get to the cause of why not and solve the problem. What I do works, but I have made many errors and found what doesn’t work, and I will share those errors with all of you along the way! Soon I will post a simulated work out, without weight, and explain what I am doing, then I will do the same workout with actual weight! Good to see you here!
July 14, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Hey buddy hope all is well today. I wanna know your opinion on supplements in the area of anabolic steroids, im sure youve done your research since you seem to know alot. Whats your opinion on them if you have on?
July 15, 2009 at 11:09 am
Hey Matt-
Really glad to have you here, glad you could join us, and a great question!
I view supplements and anabolic steriods as two different animals. Supplements are supposed to do just that, they supplement what we are not getting to build muscle.
Anabolic Steroids on the other hand are totally different. In the history of body building they have been used by most if not all top competitors. After using them how many of those competitors look back and say that is something that I shouldn’t have done? They help the muscles to grow, but destroy the organs of the body. They don’t promote any future health of any kind at all. When used for medical purposes, prescriptioned by a doctor the muscles could also grow, without weightlifting, but they are used for short periods of time, and it is one type prescribed. Doctors don’t keep their patients on steriods for long periods of time, as far as I know they use them to address an issue, then take the patient off of the steriod. The difference between bodybuilders and patients who are prescribed steriods is that bodybuilders, as far as I have heard use various steriods in combination for longer periods of time, damaging the body. Are you lifting to get big for the short term or are you lifting to obtain the type of power and or size that will stick around with you for a long time. There are many weightlifters out there who lift using all natural means and become intensely strong or huge and understand that overall health of the body is just as relevant with buidling continuing to build future power. Anabolic steriods do not help anyone with that kind of growth in any way.
When you incorporate proper lifting and a healthy diet you can achieve great things with the strength and size of your muscles. I have found something that works for me, gives me what I want, but it took me years to find that! I created this site to share what I have learned, and only hope that people can get their answers, read postings, and learn from what they read.
You can make huge gains here, that I am sure! Steriods will you one component of what you want in the short term, but damage your body in the process, and will not give you anything in the long term that you are looking for.
What kind of diet do you follow now, what kind of exercise program do you follow? How long have you been lifting? Please tell me more about what you are doing now and what your near or distant goals are. There are some other things you can do before you start statics where you can break through a plateau your at now, or start to get you on the path you want to be on!
July 18, 2009 at 5:49 am
Hey FingerMan, good to be here! First off, I want to say forget what boo said! We all have different and unique goals and interests, and everyone’s routine and diet should be just as unique! As for weight, who cares! We all need to stop being slaves to the scale and what the media portrays as ideal!
I actually got into raw eating a while back when my college biology professor had a lecture on human digestion and nutrient uptake and the relationship between cooking and bio availability of our foods. I do not have a full raw diet, but about 70%. My favorite are greenie shakes mixed in a vitamix…some spinach, lemongrass, and strawberries…all picked fresh. I have certainly felt a difference in my training and hope others will be intrigued.
I love seeing something different, and believe me, you definitely are! And take that as a compliment! I look forward to more from you, and I look forward to seeing the results from the static holds I have put into my routine. Thank you and keep it up!
July 20, 2009 at 10:08 am
Hey Stellfox-
Good to have you here, you are right, being open minded is what brings us further, with our workouts and any other aspect of our lives! Thankss for the compliment, being different is just what works for me, and when I started wanted to break through new levels I came to realize that traditional training wasn’t going to do that for me. It is great to have other people on the site here who are interested in learning what they can integrate into their workouts or diets to better their training!
You are so right about the weight about not being slaves to the scale, on the flipside I will mention something else here that I have not yet mentioned. About nine months ago I completed a water only fast of 23 days. It was intense and I lost a lot of muscle, although I am more interested in the long term effects of the fast. Over the past few weeks I have been steadily gaining muscle weight at roughly a pound every one to two weeks. It is said that water fasting does promote healthy weight gain after the fast is over. I am seeing a change in my weight and a change in my power, although I don’t have any predetermined goals of what I want to weigh, or need to weigh. I just want to be as healthy and powerful as possible. Break down all of societies barriers and predetermined nutritional concepts and see what really works. If I weigh 160 lbs, so be it, if 190…I do look at my own bone structure and estimate what amount of muscle gain I could achieve, but I am going for solid pure muscle, the kind you see on a wild animal! It’s funny when I write about t to all of you it becomes so clear to me, we can develop that sense of community here where we all feel that, and then all get stronger, more powerful together! When I see the muscles of a horse when running, that’s what I think of when I think of power!!!
That shake sounds good, you college professor knew what he was talking about! That is so awesome that you are making shakes from FRESH GREENS!!! Good for you!
I want you all to know that I am trying to reorganize what I do so I can post video rerularly, this Wednesday I will post a portion of my static contractions. Weekly…for starters I will post something either about working out, or diet. As I get organized with that I will post biweekly, and I am very interested in all of your comments!
What else do you eat that is raw? How long have you been eating raw, its awesome to hear that you are!
July 20, 2009 at 11:29 pm
I eat all of my vegetables raw, especially carrots. Raw carrots are some of the most powerful foods you can eat, as you probably already know. Eggs are another raw staple for me. Lots of people are afraid of the bacteria, but I’ve never had a problem. Seaweed is awesome as well. I live right near the ocean, so I go to the farmers market, and they’ve got plenty of it fresh. Rinse it off, make sure it’s clean, and you’re good to go.
I have not yet gotten into eating meats raw though. I’m still a bit afraid of the diseases and worms that can possibly come from it. I know there are ways of preparing it correctly, and I do not know them. Maybe once I learn more about it, I will.
And a water only fast sounds incredibly difficult! I don’t know if I would have the determination to go more than 3 weeks without food. I do understand the logic behind it though. Your body will be so purified and cleansed by the end of the cycle that your body will soak every single nutrient up like a sponge.
July 20, 2009 at 11:31 pm
I forgot to mention, I started eating raw foods about 9 months ago, and I’ve been eating primarily raw for about 6 months.
July 21, 2009 at 8:38 am
Wow that’s awesome that you are eating raw like you are. I do eat a lot of carrots, or I juice them, which is another video episode. I eat a lot of carrots because they stay fresh for longer than some of the greens which I really like to eat as well! A variety of veggies is really what I like best! Bean sprouts, green beans, corn (tastes great raw), jalapenos, onions, broccoli, cauliflower, and sweet potato, and many greens. Kale, chard, collards greens, spinach, and romaine are great!
There is a farmer’s market here too, with organic growers and that is the best, unless of course you have a garden of your own! I know there are many farmer’s markets where you are, and fresh seaweed, that’s amazing! Why the big shift to eating raw? What inspired you?
If you don’t eat raw meat is that the portion of your diet that you cooking? You’ll find when you start eating raw meat that you just feel better. The worms and that, I’ve heard that also but I have been eating raw meat for more than 10 years, and animal foods of any kind were one thing I stopped cooking at all. The fatty acids change, and I find I need to eat a lot more food when it is at all cooked, I don’t feel as satiated! Buy the best red meat that you can find, whether its beef or bison, preferably grass fed meat, and if you want to be super safe freeze it for 48 hours. After it thaws you can prepare it however you want to. Personally I like ground meat! I scramble two eggs in a bowl and ad ground meat, then I like raw honey on top! That’s a great mix and a perfect blend of foods! I don’t freeze meat before eating it, red meat is really pretty safe over all, fish has to be clean fish, really fresh! Chicken and turkey are also good, which you might want to freeze first for 48 hours, then you can make ceviche, use lemon or lime juice to “cook” the chicken. Cut up chicken in small pieces and put in the lemon juice in a small jar, and leave it there for a few hours! I have never tried it with turkey. Personally I don’t freeze meats or use lemon or lime juice but those are ultra safe ways of preparing the foods!
The water fast was very difficult, and I have a lot of fasting experience, 36 hrs weekly for a year or two, many 3 day fasts, 4 and 5 day fasts! Eating one meal every 48 hours I did that for about 4 months at one time and for 1 month another time! Fasting is a natural way to purify the body and keep things running smoothly. The more you get involved with the raw food diet you can try a short fast, and see how it works for you. I just mentioned it to explain one reason why I look thin in the videos. Slowly I am gaining back muscle weight, more solid than prior to the fast!
Thanks for sharing, keep going with the raw foods! What kind of workouts are you doing? How many hours do you sleep, do you wake up rested? What are you near or distant goals for your health?
July 21, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Thanks for all the tips! I’m definitely trying that ground beef/egg/honey dish tonight, that sounds delicious.
The big shift came when I was in a biology lecture, and my professor showed me all of the connections to raw eating and bioavailability of nutrients, and the negative things cooking does to our food, including protein degradation and a destruction of vitamins and minerals. Once explained on a cellular level, it all made perfect sense. The prof. then handed out greenie shakes (raw veggies mixed in a blender), and a few minutes after I drank it, I felt incredible, and I had the greatest workout of my life that night. After one shake it did all that! So I wondered what would happen if I ate more foods raw. That’s when a big shift happened in my physical threshold, my mental state, and my health. High blood pressure runs in my family, and I’ve been mildly hypertensive, but when I started eating raw, it was lowered considerably. I feel great!
Also, I am a mixed martial arts fighter with the Brazilian Top Team of Melbourne, FL. Since I started eating like this, my focus and intensity is through the roof. I can push myself harder, yet stay more concentrated for very long periods of time. My supplemental training is CrossFit, which I absolutely love. I originally began with a very cookie cutter approach, with a typical powerlifting/bodybuilding routine. I even started delving into illegal and unhealthy forms of performance enhancement. It turned me into an even worse athlete. I will never go back to it again.
My hopes for the future are to become a professional MMA fighter, and to live the healthiest and longest life possible. Everything is going according to plan so far!
July 22, 2009 at 5:59 pm
What’s cool is that you learned something and then applied it to your life. Many people know a lot about health but they don’t apply it. What kind of professor hands out green shakes? That is just out of this world! How long have you been training in martial arts, which one’s? Cross Fit is cool, great workouts! A friend of mine does it! Good for you getting away from the wrong training mechanisms, and getting on the path to true health! I hope you stick around, you and I have some of the same goals, living a long healthy life! What did you end up with a degree in? Hey, that Beef, Eggs, and Honey dish, try to use grass fed meat if possible, and make sure you use raw honey, when cooked honey was fed back to bees they died!
July 23, 2009 at 11:47 pm
I have a few questions:
1. When doing a static muscle contraction squat are you locking out your knees or are you keeping them slightly bent?
2. Could you do a video demonstration of a bench press using static contration.
3. Will this sort of training develop strength for a full range of motion exercise and how much strength as a percentage will be added?
Thanks
July 24, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Hello Big D-
Thanks for joining us, all questions are welcome! No I am not locking out my knees, I never lock out my knees before, during, or after the exercise. Locking out the knees puts the weight on the cartilage in the knees and its best to do what we can to preserve our knees. Locking out the knees also takes the weight off of the muscles so it decreases the amount they are working. Even when I did full range exercises I didn’t lock my knees because I want to save my knees and work the muscles more. Same with bench or military press, never lock the arms for the same two reasons.
Static strength will absolutely increase full range strength. If you do statics correctly and observe your strength gains you can return to a full range exercise to check and see how much power you have gained! I noticed after returning to full range for too long I started losing all of the power that I gained. Static training builds a lot of power both in full range movements, and more importantly for other things, like sports, cycling, boxing, running, basketball, any sport where you need power, or just lifting a couch and bringing it up a few flights of stairs. Static training makes the muscles stronger in a static position, but also in any position. The stronger a muscle, the stronger a muscle, period!
I did record some close grip bench press and will soon post it. Little by little I will post all exercises that I perform for statics and go over some of the variations that can be used in place of what I do, other options to change the workout!
July 25, 2009 at 2:26 am
Hi Fingerman,
Thanks for the reply!
What is your knowledge as a steriod guru? Have you ever experimented with steriods. If not, what was your decision not to take them?
what are your thoughts on winstrol, anavar, dianabol, primabolon, testosterone and equipose?
Thanks
July 25, 2009 at 11:26 am
Years ago I read a book called Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder by Samuel Fussell. I was curious too about steriod use and its effects. Personally I have never used steriods of any kind. Was always scared about the negative after effects. I knew I would want to have kids one day, and didn’t want to destroy any of my organs for that matter!
Working out is something I absolutely love, lifting iron for the sake of lifting iron is awesome, but I have achieved and continue to grow into the kind of growth that I am looking for. Steriods give the initial build desired but at what cost. Some guys use steriods and stop at a certain point without many after effects, some have problems from steriod use. How many weightlifters are out there who have used steriods and would have gone back and changed that decision if they could? I don’t know.
I have a huge amount of information about diet, lifting, and overall health. Steriod use is not an area I know a lot about. Just understand that the benefits of steriod most often come with a price. That price can often be very high, The second question is what percent of those benefits can be had using natural means? A really good diet, and truly intense workouts! Diet can be very specific and everyone is different, hopefully you can learn and implement concepts from this site. Working out is also individual and you can learn to cater a program to your body type, what you need to do get as strong as possible, and what you need to do to build the mass you desire. Explore and learn about these things from a variety of sources and you will achieve great heights!
Where are you at now? What kindo of diet? What kind of workouts? What are your goals? How long have you been working out? Thanks for joining us!
November 8, 2009 at 10:15 am
Hi,
I heard about Static Contraction on an Anthony Robbins video and your site from youtube. I was really interested to find out about Static Contraction mainly because I like the idea of a gym visit once a week (I’m not a fitness fanatic – yet!). Little and Sisco said on the Robbins vid that women have a lot to gain from strength training, but it was disappointing to me they only showed pics of men with HUGE muscles, would have been good to see more “regular” sized people doing this. What I would like to know please, is SC even appropriate for a woman who just wants to shape up a bit for improve health and wellbeing? I guess I would need to do some form of aerobic exercise too?
I agree with the raw concept too. I have to say that my only experience of eating raw fish (at a resto) made me quite ill and only drinking V dilute H202 managed to shake off the illness. Other than that I use recipes from a raw food advocate John Tobe.
Please forgive the stupid questions, I am a complete noob at this!
thanks and looking forward to reading more on your blog
November 9, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Hi Alex-
Static contractions do mean lifting once a week, but the idea is that it is very intense lifting once a week. Little and Sisco, the creators of SC show people that everyone can benefit from strength training, the stronger a muscle the stronger a muscle. Women can of course receive benefits! The big muscular guys they use is just a good way to sell the concept of SC training, but there are normal looking people they use in some of their books to show that yes normal looking people do statics for strength and growth as well. Yes, absolutely YOU can benefit from doing statics to simply improve your health and well being. Increase muscle tone, blood flow to all parts of the body, statics really push the body hard, really hard, with out stressing the joints, not to say that you shouldn’t build to larger amounts of weight…ubt most people can’t lift the amount the need to lift right away anyway, they build to it!
Personally I think aerobic exercise is key to health, whether biking, running, swimming, rollerblading, aerobics keep the body strong and healthy in a different way. You would need to plan a schedule to make it work for you, for example if you do statics for legs on Monday, you probably wouldn’t want to go running on Tuesday. I take an off day the day after any static work out, and I do upper and lower body every other week. Time between workouts all depends on how quickly you recover, how your body reacts, how much your lifting, and what kind of working out you were used to before doing statics!
Raw foods are awesome, but you have to find your path, fruit, veggies, nuts and seeds, dairy, eggs, fish, white meats-chicken and turkey, red meat-cow, ostrich, and bison, fish and seafood. Some have a problem eating raw fish…sounds like you might have been served bad fish at that restaurant, they don’t really care about is served, because it is served in such small amounts, and the sushi bar owners figure as long as people aren’t falling over its ok. You might be better off to go to a place that sells high quality fish, or buy some sashimi grade fish at a supermarket of some kind. Raw red meat is actually very clean and easy to eat raw-whole steak is the cleanest. Eggs are also very clean. These are my own experiences, I ate raw chicken at a restaurant two weeks ago, and thought nothing of it, but that’s just me-when you are starting out though red meat, or raw dairy is an easy route to start with, even raw cheese can be found in most health food stores, and it tastes excellent!
That Blatant Raw Food Propaganda, I think that’s John Tobe, that’s a vegan raw food book, right??? There are many other vegan raw food books that are good out there, Hippocrates Health Institute has many! The “sprout man” has a few books out that are my favorites, stuff that you can make that’s easy! I’ll also start posting some more recipes and things that you can make that are easy, and discuss the basic tools needed! I am a true believer that there are no stupid questions, 15 years ago I knew nothing about any of this, and I had to learn or suffer the ill health I was experiencing! In other words ask whatever you want, the questions I receive really help me to understand what I need to explain! I don’t know what the V dilute H2O is though, you could enlighten me there if you would like! Thanks so much for your comments.