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Ask HN: Fitness, looking great, and performing your best

1 points by matthiasak ↗ HN
I'm getting ripped, healthy, and happy in 13 minutes a week (as seen here from my blog post): [http://mkeas.org/body-by-science]

There are plenty of things that are helping me do this, and I'm taking NO SUPPLEMENTS whatsoever.

- Bulletproof Diet [http://bulletproofexec.com]

- Cold Exposure - 10 min cold showers [http://muscleevo.net/cold-showers-weight-loss/#.UNHXQXPjl_I]

- Whole Body Vibration training

What are the most useful tips from your own habits/methods?

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matt_
"It might help… a little. But I think it’s largely a waste of time as far as weight loss is concerned."

The link you posted seems think cold exposure doesn't work. Why are you doing it?

matthiasak
From 4 Hour Body and Bulletproof Executive, both have found that Cold Exposure indeed does help raise the energy burned by your body by recruiting Brown Adipose Tissue to burn off White Adipose Tissue (Fat cells!)

Also, I find that taking a Cold Shower before going to bed helps me fall asleep drastically faster (from 30-40 minutes to less than ten minutes)

simon
Slow-carb diet (from the Four Hour Body) and Intermittent Fasting (primarily eat in the evenings, per The Warrior Diet) and Kettlebell exercises (swings and getups).

My life is too busy (I'm a pastor) for anything more complicated, but I find that this combination works well for me.

Clickable links or it isn't true! :-)

http://fourhourbody.com/

http://warriordiet.com/

http://www.dragondoor.com/shop-by-department/books/b33/

matthiasak
Intermittent Fasting (IF) is great. I really found that it was more helpful to read up on Ketogenic cycles and Autophagy (the process of removing waste/toxins from cells). Check out Bulletproof Executive and look up some papers on PubMed on these. They are great!

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=autophagy%20fasting

I have found that, after moving away from the Slow-carb diet and moving towards a more Paleo diet, I have more energy, can sleep less, and perform better.

More importantly, I want to help with things like not wasting the vitamins I ingest and help my dental health. Thus I have been trying to not have hardly any gluten or even legumes and oats because they contain Uric Acid, which prevents the body's ability to process vitamins in the gut. See: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21501233, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16643619, http://www.gout-pal.com/lowering-uric-acid/2009/08/

simon
Thanks, I'll look into the links you provided.

Interesting that you mentioned dental health, as after a year or so of following the slow-carb diet, my dental nurse complimented me on the good condition of my teeth and gums. Sugar is not our friend!