“How to tinker”. Come to the Level II Nutrition talk if you are ready.

MAKE A WISH.  WHEN YOU GROW UP YOU WILL BE AS FLEXIBLE AND BALANCED AS THEADRA.

I love to listen to Robb Wolf’s podcasts on nutrition.  Seriously, I do not expect you all to put in those kind of hours  listening to nutrition spew (although listening to him while I clean house and chop vegetables makes it all better).  Hopefully, I can pass you little tidbits that will improve your life.  Like Robb’s thoughts on “How to tinker”.  I am hoping that all of you training here now know there is not a one-size-fits-all approach to getting well.  Although, eating Paleo is the closest thing I know of which is why that is the basis of what we do here.  As those of you know who have come to our Level I nutrition lecture: “Paleo Basics”, my philosophy is to not go over the top with any kind of OCD approach to eating that involves weighing and measuring unless the benefit you get will be worth it.But, what if you have hit a plateau (I tried to type “what if you have plateaud” but it looked crazy)?  What if you are starving or tired or something else.  What if you aren’t recovering well? That means it is time to “tinker”.

Tinkering might involve the following things:

1.  Weighing and measuring your food

2.  Keeping a detailed workout/eating/sleeping/stress journal

3.  Identifying clearly who you are, what you want and when you want it.

4.  Regularly evaluating your records and progress

5.  Checking in with someone about what is happening

I am here, and your trainers are here, to help you tinker.  On Wed night at 7pm we will have a Level II nutrition talk where we get into how to tinker and what you might try.  You cannot show your adorable face at this talk until I have 3 wks of food journal from you.  On my desk.  By Monday.  It doesn’t have to be 3 wks of perfection, just 3 wks.  And then, as you get going with your tinkering:

Use your trainer.  Use them thoroughly.  Use them hard.  Use them up.  In a good way.  In a respectful way.  In a loving way.  But be demanding, damn it!  I’m so jazzed up about how the new scheduling system is allowing your trainers to expand their ability to connect with you all and do stuff for you.  Show them your notes.  Ask them questions.

And, as many of you have noticed, I do not train a regular class program these days.  You can find me with the On-Ramp and you can find me waiting to talk about your tinkering with your nutrition, especially if you have data to show me.

Here is a little snippet from Dave’s blog.  It is a really good blog.  It will help you.  Read it.

http://davesmithcfw.blogspot.com/

“There is something spiritual about training. I don’t feel it every time I train, but once in a while I do. Those are the times when there is absolutely nowhere else I would rather be. Except maybe on the space station, but only if I was doing the same workout there. Workouts turn into 3 hour vacations from life where time doesn’t matter, where you don’t have to think about anything but what’s going on at that exact moment. Putting significant loads overhead while your heart is racing and you are seeing stars has a potent way of keeping you focused on the task at hand.”