Monkey2Runner

Forget the gym , ive been practising parkour for a few months and really enjoy this art of movement especially along with a paleo lifestyle , its the basic way of just moving around the objects in the environment and its also a great all over body conditioner.

Just a post, to clarify in my own mind what is the paleo or paleolithic or primal or caveman method of eating. It basicly looks at what food is available when , you take away all the noise , all the packaging, advertising bullshit media, what cool or comes with a free toy. All the rubbish that is vacume packed coloured and preserved. Any thing that is enhanced or played with. All the trickery and cons, and additional stimulants. I want my food to be real, and original. I want to eat what man has eaten for hundreds and thousands of years. Somthing that  my body was designed to use. And the optimal food for my mind. I've become sick of the use of the term normal food when associated with words like chocolate bars and crisps and microwave meals. The norm is cheap, easy and your getting taken for a ride. So I'm keeping , to what I see as real food, with its origins found on the earth I walk and Il let the puppets keep getting their strings pulled.

I went to market and picked up , allot of bacon , a kg of turkey, lots of eggs and also bags of nuts. In these Pictures I've got my 3rd week on paleo pictures, there is my food shopping. Cooking up a bacon salad. My big ol bowl of fruit The can is I am saving my fats from cooking, when cooking bacon or meat have an old tin can ready to save the fats. Bacon fat and other fats really help to give extra flavour to allot of meals.

Part of my primal efforts, is having more rest and getting more sun. Today I woke up with the sun, I had allot more energy today and felt a whole lot more positive for my day. I made vegetable juice with cucumbers, pears carrots and apples. Which was nice and sweet and had my salad and also today while out on a trip with friends, I had a dinner kebab. This is basically meat lamb chicken and salad. Was very good, mayonaise must be paleo as well as its eggs and oil. So I used that as a dressing. My exersise of the day , workout of today was pullups and working the Grok hang . Hanging from my pullup bar for as long as possible. The Grok hang mainly trained my hands and my grip as that was the first thing to go as I Hung from the bar. I also did various pull and chin up exercises assisted with a chair. I actually found this very usefull, using a chair to do pullups allowed me to get more repetitions, I was able to train the movement for allot longer. Using a chair under the chin up b...

So 2nd day in this week , and I've been reminded of the rule to get more rest. Today felt like a long struggle, partialy worn out from a late night and an early morning being rudely interupted by the alarm and fact I had to be at my desk within the hour. So when I got in I put a beef stew on the slow cook , read about the importance of rest and took a nap and so far tonight , I've been practicing the art of taking it easy and having a rest to just get a handle on where I am  at the moment. I'm aching from my work outs so , just taking it easy and having naps and rest. Tomorow is a nice long walk in the countryside and a day spent looking around, uni. Another idea which was suggested to me was keep tihe curtains open, sleep with the curtains open, and also have the window open a but for some air. Allowing the sunlight to come in the room in the morning should help, towards my morning tiredness. So I am sleeping with the curtains open , and taking more naps and also trying t...

Going in to week three of eating my paleo diet, I've started to become tired of the price of wanting to eat clean food. My food budget for this week was $30 so far I've spent $45 and my meat and eggs that I stocked up on Saturday are running low. As I didn't have anything for my evening meal I had some eggs, so now I'm short on eggs for breakfast. My lunch today was revolting, cucumber and lettuce, cheap lettuce and cucumber which was overripe and full of seeds. Did not enjoy when I got home I googled meal ideas for paleo diet and meal ideas for primal eating and it even turned out Tue cashew nuts were out of the picture. I love cashew nuts! So my mind is giving me sticking points what to do for food, tomatoes and peppers mushrooms and greens. Then what about dressimg, trying to keep thus simple but like I've said previously this meal choice on eating just meat and veg , is difficult especialy on a budget. I have stewing steak , but what do I stew it with, potatoes ...

I've been watching some videos to day one which I will put below about just turning off the distractions, I play computer games , watch movies and look on endless webpages, in a loop constantly searching around. Looking for some advice, keeping my self amused. I find a movie that will take my fancies, watch it to distract mysself. I will watch some porn or look at adult sites, and silently feel a regret for doing so. I will sit and browse through Facebook and look at others profiles or endlessly, skim through YouTube and Blogs and forums , obsessing over the little details of food health exerise and opinion. Traveling to work in the same old routine and waking up alone looking in the same mirror at the reflection every morning. I'm not depressed, I just find it difficult to break the cycle of patterns I have fallen in to. Much like the others who I work with and associate , seems life makes it easy to get in to a groove. The people who do well always do well and the people wh...

Yesterday morning was fine, went and did my weekly hunt for food , walked around the markets and got my meat eggs fruit vegtbles and can home and got my Grok on with some Bacon and eggs. All was good this was the aniversery of my second week on paleo. Or week 2 eating a primal diet, then came the challenge friends.and forien places. We decided to got out for the day and check out a new city. I had 3 meals away from home and although o took a back pack full of fruit with me, it was impossible eating full primal. The first place we stopped of for lunch I managed to just about get away with it by having the salmon salad, although this did come with bread and included baby potatoes, and a bread roll. There was nothing on the whole menu that was purely carb free. Then we stopper for coffees which included sugar, another hit to the system, allot the way we visited relatives who brought out cups of milky tea with buiscuits and cakes, I had to oblige and have a little cake, the evening meal...

So now on week two of eating paleo diet and I have to say its been easy so far and I've also seen and felt great results , but as I go along with this I'm running out of ideas for food . Ok so I will have a big salad for lunch and some eggs for breakfast but its after work my evening meal , struggling to come up with intresting ideas. While I'm also trying to stick to a budget. I attempted to mate a boiled cabbage and it was awful. Todays cabbage stir fry was sick. So I'm scratching my head. Tomorrows shopping and paleo day is getting my meat and veg and also come up with some recipies. I've seen grilled peppers, need to use up my carrots also, and bin some of my carb stuff like potatoes, for The time being I'm sticking to this way of eating. Drank a fruit juice that was high in sugar today, I was almost like being whacked on drugs, when I was talking to my customers I was all disoriented. I was mixing up their account numbers and very unfocused. Have to really ...

Today I ate my salad for lunch and had my eggs for breakfast and also a snack when my evening meal turned out rubbish , I tried to make some kind of stew/soup or boiled veg with a bit of chicken and Bacon in it but it turned out rubbish . Tasted poor and not very appealing or satisfying. Running out of food ideas for this primal way of eating, I must state for the record the clarity of mind that I have had for the last 2 weeks has really been great, apart from the bouts of depression, I am starting to feel like this is working.  There has been a noticable reduction in body fat even after just 2 weeks and my skin tone and leanness is really improving. Worked out. I really targeted the areas that dont get used much today, I sit at a desk  all day so I really targeted my legs and core tonight, did allot of squatting and plank. Paleo American primal for tomorrow Salads Eggs Dinner, this is the hardest meal for me, I don't just want cabbage every day, need to look on the net and get som...

So I've been eating all primal now for a week and a half , paleo foods salads and meat and veg. I have found the variety on veg is very limited, cabbage brocaly and some cucumbers and celery, most other foods seem to be off the menu. Started to save the fats , I cooked my eggs in Bacon fat this morning and stir   fried my cabbage in chicken fat from ky baked chicken portions. Meat box in the fridge is starting to fill up. Finding it hard  to see how this is going to work long term, I feel great on the stable energy from this method of eating . But I'm running out of ideas on the food front. If in doubt then ol check out the web. Have been feeling lazy, and I'm worried that although I am eating high fat , I don't want to start getting fat. I thought the idea was that exersise when you feel , like it and rest when you need to I've done a session which is a hard session yesterday. Although if you read that post, I only actully did the lower level routines, which kicked...

Decided to start doing some primal fitness this evening .  I could squeeze 4 of the five movements. Thinking I would be at the level 4 already I thought as a warm up I would just do a set of the lowest foundation exersises, so with arrogance I got in to the starting position and to my disbelief o struggled to finish the full set. The aim is to master each movement before moving on. I am still on the basic set, my pressups felt flimsy. My squatting was awkward and my back and legs creaked. In the half plank position I trembled all over and felt loose after 60 seconds. Don't be fooled by all these fancy movements, get the basics down first, tomorow is going to be another play day as bodyweight goes, more focus on doing each rep well with good motivation, taking time to build the power in to each movement. Although number of reps is important , as I am at a foundation level, I thinly that its more important to learn each position well. Grease the groove, do allot of sets of low reps...

Drinking green tea for a long time but its mostley been the variety that is I the tea bag form don the supermarket. Recently decided to go to market and but the fresh loose leaf quality stuff. I was in shock and owe how crisp and fresh / flavorful the green tea was. Usally I drink it not really enjoying the taste but for the percieved health benifits, also under the assumption this drink is going to be good for my sexual health and hormones. I drink it and think nothing of it. Good quality green tea is another storey Having said that not only was I amazed at the flavor of the good unprocessed tea, the relaxation was deep and almost imediate. The next thing this was making me super horney. This is funny to put but the increased energy and blood flow was amazing, green tea would find a definitive place in the bed room and also as a pre work out tonic. The increased vigor , stamina blood flow the flushed of the capilaries.. was very noticeable. The effect was something to look forward to ...

This my first of many bloggs using my phone for my blogging , being the first its a good way to keep the blog updated without having to air at my desk. As I go in to my second week of eating like the primal man I've noticed a few things , I really enjoy the clarity of mind at my work. I absolutely destroyed my work today. I can't wait to see the stats tomorow . I looked at my billing history also i took 70 k last year in payments.  What do I got to show for it not much there is no commision. Going Grok , even though there has been some bog temptations today , cheap cookies at work and cheap chocolate I resisted pretty good. Just working and smacking on my salad at lunch. Still there were a few things I could have done without , had allot of cheese and cream sauce on my veg and after half a bar of dark chocolate after eating that I passed out for about 2 hours. After that I haven't really had the motivation to do much with the last 3 hours tonight. I'm getting pumped alr...

First impression Despite what you may read as allot of negative and unwanted results from this style of eating below, I believe that what I have felt this week has been a part of the process of coming of the coffee and junk and sugars, I've felt bad but its felt like a part of the process. As I look on the web of peoples results and stories I just think that the first week and possibly week 2 are just the shock to the system, I'm still going to give this way of living a long enough time to see if this is going to work for me. I feel slimmer although I've no way of weighing myself, I'm not doing this for how much I weigh, I don’t care, its more about body composition, i.e. how lean I am and how functional I am on my own 2 feet, how heavy I am is not the goal, I want to bring my fat ratio down I want to become more productive and motivated in my mind. But on the whole taking the rough with the smooth, it’s been an enjoyable week and some great meals and lessons alon...

Primal Paleo eating experience day 2 Yesterday was my first full day as a hunter gatherer, I walked for hours around my town looking for meat and vegetables, I had a sack on my back full of food and my catch, by catch I mean the food I snared by handing money over to the stall owner. It felt nice giving my money to individual vendors as opposed to just paying my money at a till at a massive supper market. My money felt like it was going to something local as opposed to an unknown entity or business corporation. Felt good to give to local stores and sellers. Walking around I noticed sugar was everywhere there was one person who was caring a sack of sweets a huge bundle of those tubes that contain flavoured sugar. My Back pack was full of meat. I purchased Rabbit, I cooked and ate a rabbit for the first time yesterday also ate its kidneys and liver. Very interesting flavour and something felt simple about just cooking up some meat, can’t wait to get back outside and use the BBQ, chicken ...

Going Caveman Blueprint Paleo for 30 Days Paleo diet eating like a caveman, I've ordered a book and from what I’ve seen and read. You eat your meat and you eat your fruits and veg. What you don’t eat is stuff that was not around millions of years ago. You don’t eat bread you don’t eat pasta, or potatoes. I've been eating allot of bread recently as I've been trying to bake it and work out how to make the perfect loaf of bread. I've also noticed that I'm not as vibrant and active as I have been in the past few months. Not sure if these are linked or might just be I'm drinking too much coffee now that there is a free vending machine at work. I have experimented with raw foods and found great success with those and also juicing and making smoothie’s I still stick to a mainly junk free and vegan diet , but this makes more sense to me. Cut out the stodgy the pasta and the sugar and caffeine and just live like the caveman the animal that man is. Being grain fed almost ...

Paying to have time off work, you know that work is wrong when it cost money not to do , free time cost me £258 for 5 additional days off work. To get away you have to pay , don't think that working 40 hours a week is enough. You want to see something other than a computer, I want to see your money. You want freedom you have to pay of it.  One day I will be financially secure to not have to work all the time, work any place any time and live off my own results. I want my freedom, I want my own time table I want to see. Even if it cost's me money, I will pay money to have more free time. Just a bitch for the boss's dollar at the moment , every day working on a way to break out of the rat race.

FreeSole Barefoot review Nike , after looking at buying the Vibram five fingers for a long time I decided due to the fact they are so hard to get hold of in the UK, I would go for a pair of Nike Free instead, the Nike Free sole is a flexible sole , the sole is not as thin as the Vibram nor does it have the toe pockets for each toe, but what it does do is double as a shoe that can be worn almost any place walking bareoot. The Nike Free TR is a good enough looking cross trainer that is goes with most jeans and trousers , and is a good start for free running and a closer barefoot experience for walking barefoot, I know that these have strengthened my toes and feet the first few weeks these trainers were painful. My toes and feet ached.  I will have some Vibram's the feeling is that they are coming at some point in my life. I am very happy with my Nike Free Barefoot trainers at the moment, i mite even buy a second pair of the same shoe just ...