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...