Category: Workouts

Building Vegan Muscle w/ Robert Cheeke in Vegas


Here’s some of his advice:

BREAKFAST IDEAS:

* cubed Yucan gold potatoes made in pressure cooker night before and heated up

* Some days oatmeal with fruits and nuts

* Other days have fruit bowl with lots of berries like blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, and I’ll add bananas, something oranges, and apples.

PRE-WORKOUT IDEAS:

* eat bananas

* stay away from pre-workout supplements

* don’t consume any caffeine, ever 

* eat two to three bananas

* drink water

POST-WORKOUT IDEAS:

* burrito bowl with beans (like lentils),  rice, broccoli

* buddha bowl with yams, quinoa, lentils, vegetables, avocado, add peanut sauce

* good mix of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and leafy greens in their whole form

WEIGHT WORKOUT:

* Train 1-2 muscle groups per workout. Either

* chest and back, or

*arms and shoulders, or 

* legs and abs.

* Do  8 – 12 reps per set

* 4 sets per exercise 

* that’s normally 5 or 6 different exercises

* Finished in 1 hour 15 mins

He’s hosting free online conference July 26 – Aug 1. I’ll be projecting it on my livingroom big screen! 😊

https://virtual.holisticholidayatsea.com/

EXERCISE & COVID-19 SURVIVAL RATE

Regular exercise may reduce the risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome, a major cause of death in patients with the COVID-19 virus.

[…]
Research [by Zhen Yan, PhD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine] suggests that even a single session of exercise increases production of the antioxidant [discussed in article], prompting Yan to urge people to find ways to exercise even while maintaining social distancing.

EXERCISING AT HOME

If you’re interested in indoor exercise this mini-trampoline I bought is the bomb!

It’s from a new company – Leaps & Rebounds. Got 48 inch w/ $20. discount code “PAMPHLET”. It has silent bungees instead of springs, supports up to 250 lb, thirty day free returns. Feel like I’m gonna fly thru the roof!

https://leapsandrebounds.com/products/bungee-rebounders-mini-trampoline

And to replace weightlifting (because we don’t want our muscles atrophying while we stay at home) try this awesome Total Gym:

The platform glides up & down, you adjust height to add/reduce resistance… easily adaptable for multiple users. This is the model I bought at Costco, but there are other models online.

https://www.costco.com/total-gym-xtreme-home-gym.product.100519748.html

Less expensive are these TRX style door-mounted (non-elastic) straps. Lots of reasonably priced deals out there, TRX brand knock-offs. Just search Amazon & be sure to get door anchor (just a pillow thing w/ canvas tail that you slide over door & close it – see lower left corner in pic). And buy the TRX *POSTER* on Amazon to help you workout.