I know the last episode of of this new series was just a few weeks ago but my goodness with the holiday season in full swing also are the mind boggling questions.
Enjoy...
Subject: Holiday Damage Control
Question: Phil I’m a bit stressed out with the holidays coming up. Any tips to minimize the damage and maximize results for someone interested in a nice physique during these times
Answer: Yes you can minimize the damage by giving cards, not presents and only to those who really mean something to you. Mail them, cards are cheaper and will save you some cash and are much more sentimental then some cheap gift they will just re-gift. Be sure to sign it large and dark enough those cheap bastards wont be able to reuse it either. If you do give gifts use gift bags. don’t wrap them. Then when after you give the gift take the bag back and use it on someone else.
As far as food. PERFECT time of the year, tis the season to put on mass. Go to every single party / dinner you are invited. The host ALWAYS makes enough extra to feed a small army. Never turn down, and even outright request a take home a plate of their fine cuisine. Hell even bring your own Tupperware, load up on their turkey, deviled eggs, goose, pies, mashed taters and gravy, rolls, all the things a growing boy or girl needs to pack on some functional mass.
Bonus, its all free and prepared for you. If you play this right and give the cards, like stated above, to the correct people in a timely fashion they will feel obligated to invite you to their shindigs, Then there is no reason you take good grub away from each of these and have enough to cover your diet for weeks into the new year.
Eat and be merry
Hope that helps,
Phil
Subject: is it better?
Question: I was just wondering if a bowl of cereal ( special k ) better than a bowl of ice cream or frozen yougart even though the calories are about the same?
Thanks
Answer: Jess-
Special K isn’t that special really, and I would not think of it as a health food at all. I remember a friend and colleague telling me of test they did on common boxed cereals, and Special K came in LAST as far as how drastically it spiked insulin. I suppose you could make an argument, yes, that it could be better due to the fact you will get a few more mirco nutrients (vitamins, minerals etc) in the cereal. But in reality the ice cream and certainly the yogurt are likely to jack your insulin no more and possibly less.
If your looking to find a reasoning to make your having a small treat of icecream etc acceptable. DON’T!!! Just have it the icecream. Accept it and move on. Its OK to have and accept treats, don’t try and make up weird excuses that allow them. Have your treat and move on. If you eat 90% good food and you exercise its OK.
I like Coldstone Creamery
Phil
Subject: Meat
Question: QUESTION: Hey! I am a guy who´s working out and I just wondered if you have heard people say that it´s great to eat meat because of the increase of strength or whatnot, I wondered if you know what type of meat it is or is it okay with just about any kind of meat?
ANSWER: Meat is good. Red meat, chicken, fish, turkey, anything that used to walk, run, fly, swing, or make noise under its own power.
Red Meat is natures multivitamin, packed with tons of vits and minerals. Fatty fish is great. The only time you would logically think about ultra lean meats is if you were needing to cut down for a contest etc, and needed the protein high and caloric intake lower.
Enjoy the Animals bro. Then add a bunch of veggies and fruit. To be blunt about it, that's why they are lower in the food chain then us, so we can consume them. Eat big, grow bigger. :)
Id supplement your diet with 6 -10 grams of fish oils as well to strike a nice fatty acid balance.
Mooo = Eat me in Cow Speak,
Phil
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QUESTION: Hey again! Thanks for the answer man! Good one! But you said red meat, what exactly does it mean? Steak or something?
Anyway, thanks!
Answer: :) Glad you liked it, but Jimmy?? How the hell do you not know what red meat is???
Jimmy, bro, red meat is cows, venison, bison stuff like that. Generally base your diet on thing that walked, swam, flew, moved and or made noise under their own power at one time. Or things that came from those things, like milk, eggs etc. Then add your fruits and veggies.
Red = Not White, think Blood red,
Phil
Subject: Im Weak Why?
Question: "Hi recently i have been feeling weak i am 30 years old I am 5ft4inchs tall i weigh 100lbs I no i am very skinny I just cant seem to gain weight. I always thought that if you were skinny that you were also fit and strong. My sister in law who is my height but weighs 190lbs I always thought she looked unfit and over weight But she out does me in every department. She does not Exercise at all but then neither do I
A couple of days ago my husband and i went round to there place for a BBQ The conversation came up about my skinny arms when i replied there stronger than they look!! my husband said not as strong as my sister with a smile,
So Kim challenged me to an armwrestle!! she beat me sooo easy her arms are strong but they are very fat and flabby why is she so much stronger than me? we also done a squeeze thing with our hands like a test of strength I had to ask her to stop I cant believe how weak i am.
She has also just got a new treadmill the day before I pointed to it a said I can beat you on the tread mill Kim. well so i thought WRONG!! I could not last half the distance she did I just run out of energy and felt dizzy and really weak in the legs.
Why when she does not exercise and is over weight that she can beat me so easy??
IS it normal for fatter women to be stronger than someone skinny like me??"
ANSWER: Sally-
NO! skinny has Nothing to do with fit and definitely NOT! Strong. One can be relatively both of course dependent on ones training and genetic But skinny low BF and small size definitely never has translated to mean maximal strength. Over skinny and under nourished will lead to your feeling tired, being weak, as well as potential health problem.
Fitness is the ability to do whatever activity you require of yourself and have hopefully a little left in the tank. Take a sumo wrestling champion. By definition he is VERY fit. He's a champion, where as Lance Armstrong as a marathon runner lost, did very poorly. By definition the Sumo wrestler is much more fit.
Marathon runners in relative terms are very weak maximum strength wise. When you see models in pictures that are very thing they are usually very weak, shockingly so. Fitness models and the like DO NOT stay extremely lean year round. They do so for photo shoots and they are generally at their weakest and least healthy at that point. Many times as well more then you'd like to think are on various large amounts of pharmaceuticals.
It is flat out sickening the portrayal of fitness in today’s media, and the amount of health problems and eating disorders it leads to in people. I have been a victim as have many others trying to live up to the crazy, subjective, appearance driven shallow standards.
To answer your question, Yes it is very common for a woman like your sister-in-law to be stronger then you. Maximal strength is NOT obtained at low BF % generally without he use of pharmaceuticals. Extremely low BF % can lead to more health problems then being over fat in many cases. Your sister-in-law has excess fuel to build and retain muscle, and use for activity other then sustaining her simple life functions. You are very thin and your bodies #1 goal is stay ALIVE. It does not care if your strong as long as your breathing. You are giving it no excess fuel to build or retain lean mass which is very energy expensive.
Anyway, take home message. NO thin has nothing to do with strength or even optimal health, and many times not fit. Fitness is relative to your goals and what you aim to achieve.
I would urge you to eat more food, you will be amazed at how you feel, perform and look.
Fit, kinda fat, and fairly strong,
Phil
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