Category Archives: workout

Time for an update week 12 to 19

Posted by on May 14, 2012 2 comments

So its been a while and its time for some random rambling. Its spring here and the sun is showing itself occasionally, its about 13 degree Celsius right now and I am hopping its get warm and sunny soon.

The last few weeks I have made great process, my knees and feet’s have strengthen and adjust enough to my more minimalist running technique. I have been enjoying my ability to exercise fully again, and have been training multiple days a week with different types of trainings, like hill intervals, bootcamps, road intervals and duration trainings. I ran about 45 km weekly and did 21 km, 24 km and 21 km on my last Saturday duration runs both with my newer shoes and so far without injuries/overtraining and I can tell you this is a great feeling! I feel supercharged again and hope it will last!

I have been enjoying my fruity lifestyle as you will see in the pictures below. I have read and experimented through the past months. I have concluded in both theory and practise its better to not eat garlic, unions, salt or fatty non-fruit foods. I also figured out nice ways to do BBQ’s with friends by making and sharing large salads and a junk food alike veggie burgers. It will not give me a sick feeling when I take them down with a few kilograms a fruity salad, it also gives me a nice reload after a long run, but I prefer to stay fullyraw whenever possible!

I also bought a water distiller and have been amassed with the quantity and really bad chemical smell of the residue, I adjusted to the taste of distilled water within a week and now definitely prefer it above other water. I also got the feeling it started a detox phase and improved my running performance.

Feel free to comment if you got any questions ;)

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Winter photo recap update

Posted by on February 15, 2012 2 comments

It’s time to give an update. A lot of small tweaks have been made to my lifestyle in the last two months. On the end of last year I found 30bananasaday.com together with it a lot of fellows that where having the same goals and methods as I was leaning towards.

I became a member and started sharing and receiving information, and so far I am really enjoying it. I also bought the The 80/10/10 Diet book and read it in a few days. It was a nice addition to my other books that all recommend a high carb low fat raw vegan diet with exercise and sleep.

My knee’s are also slowly getting better, I really pushed my body over the edge last year and am now feeling the consequences. I hope to start my trainings again on the first of March, I still haven’ t given up on the marathon on April 15 and 1/2 marathon in March, but I just have to feel how it will go and if my legs will carry me with the same strength and speed as last year.

The P90X workout program is really good, I have gained some nice muscles and strength. I am also staring phase two, and there are a lot of nasty difficult exercises in them. I am not doing the full program due two my knee’s, but I am a adjusting the program and it’s all good. I have stopped eating the raw protein powder for now, since I noticed negative changes to my body when using it. I now believe the body needs very little protein less then 9% of total calories and I seem to be doing fine without it.

I am also using this rule now: If I can’ t make a meal out of it.. it is probably not food, and if it ain’t food for my body, it is probably toxic, so don’t eat it!

I am just going to dump a lot of photo’s again to show my eating changes. One of my bigger changes last month are the use of only leafy greens and not steaming vegetables any-more, and so far it is all great!

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iHerb.com happiness and vegan supplements

Posted by on December 19, 2011 No comments

[update: I don’t take or recommend these products any more with exception of vitamin B12, D2/3 and Iodine]

Hi Folks,

So I needed some supplements and wanted them to be vegan and a bit affordable, so I went to iHerb.com on advice of some-like-it-raw.com. You can get a $5 discount if you use my discount code JIV377. I received my order in four days with the weekend included, which is really fast!

So here is my first order list:

Now Foods, Multi-Food Complex Vcaps, For Men, 90 Vcaps(NOW-03837)
Deva, Vegan Multivitamin & Mineral Supplement with Greens, 90 Coated Tablets(DEV-00002)
Frontier Natural Products, Irish Moss Flakes, 16 oz (453 g)(FRO-02206)
Avalon Organics, Bath & Shower Gel, Ylang Ylang, 12 fl oz (350 ml)(AVA-35195)
Now Foods, Guar Gum, 8 oz (227 g)(NOW-05040)
Arrowhead Mills, Whole Grain Organic Pastry Flour, 32 oz (907 g)(ARW-47172)
Now Foods, Sports, Creatine Monohydrate, 100% Pure Powder, 2.2 lbs (1 kg)(NOW-02032)
PlantFusion, Multi Source Plant Protein, Vanilla Bean, 2 lb (908 g)(PLF-00195)
Sun Warrior, Protein, Raw Vegan, Natural, 35.2 oz (1 kg)(SUW-51469)
Nature’s Plus, Source of Life, Garden, Vitamin D3, 60 Veggie Caps(NAP-30735)
Protocol for Life Balance, Liquid B-12, 5000 mcg, 4 fl oz (118 ml)(PRT-10452)

This is pretty default stuff. I hope I don’t have to tell you all why to take vitamin B12 and D3 supplements living in Holland and all. The Whole Grain Organic Pastry Flour, Guar Gum and Irish Moss Flakes are for cooking and there is some Bath & Shower Gel. So nothing special there.

I am advising against any other supplements unless you have some specific shortage. You body should be used to getting what it need from all natural foods.

However I am planning on a 90 day extreme workout (strength, flexibility and cardio) together with training for a marathon (duration). I will be writing more about this later, since I am still in the preparation phase and have a nasty knee injury from over-exercising (running).

Because of this extreme workout I’m planning adding an additional 20/30 grams of Protein, 5 grams of Creatine Monohydrate and a multi vitamins B supplement to my daily lunch smoothie. My daily intake of protein has been less then 7% on average the past six month or so I don’t mind adding some extra supplements for 90 days with all the heavy workouts and recovery phases.

I would like to read all your opinions :)

Cheers

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