Okay here we are 2018. Let’s try to figure out what to do with you. I think about getting mixed up in some familiar and not so familiar 50k trail challenges. I also revisit and discuss finding your way to Vinnie Tortorich’s NSNG® lifestyle, a No Sugar No Grains way of eating. Check out the site at www.ruelsrunning.com
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RER189 : Figure Out The Year’s Runs | Find Your Way To NSNG
An end of summer run update. More importantly to address a new listener question, I provide some personal perspective on being a new runner and starting out with the NSNG (No Sugars No Grains) Lifestyle. Also if you’re like contests ENTER TO WIN THE BEST VITAMINS SUPPLEMENT ON THE PLANET.
Can I complete a 50 mile distance in Oct if all I do is run laps around a kid play structure in a park?
Health
I haven’t talked about it much lately for whatever reason, but I follow a No Sugar No Grains lifestyle. I also subscribe to using Fat for fuel. Have spent some time on this lifestyle experimenting and enjoying nutritional ketosis. Doing the whole pee stick. Also experimented with 4000 calorie days most of which were calories from fat. And other crazy things to see how my body experiment with dietary shifts of more whole real food and elimination of sugars and grains. After a couple of playing around, I’ve settled into a groove. I’m like Stella. Getting my groove back. For most of my life never realized my groove was taken from me.
Fortunately times have changed, information about food has improved. Unfortunately there is a lot of learning that has to go on. Conventional wisdom about food is everywhere and change is slow. Fortunately a groundswell of change is happening from some in the medical community, the fitness community, health and wellness. The forming books, diet and lifestyle principles, and video and podcasts.
I’m not an expert, but hope to spread the good word and live by example. Not perfect but better each day.
Diet
Olive bar (olives, cauliflower, mushrooms, artichoke), spoon from soup area, can of sardines packed in water (Season Brand), half handful of almonds and Brazil nuts. GT’s organic raw kombucha Bilberry.
Incidentally, olives and the kombucha seems to be, for me, a recipe for explosive poop action. Olive bar then slam back the fizzy booch. On an empty stomach.
Play & Family
I’ve exited the various AppleTV apps. Since we’v e ditched and cut cable subscription, there are a set of AppleTV apps I won’t be able to use because the programming requires activation with a cable subscription. I have explored or discovered the Vevo app for music videos. I love music videos ever since the MTV of the 80s. Before the games shows and reality TV took over. With a Vevo account I can set up a playlist of videos I like and play it on the TV to rock out to with the kids. There are certain video my daughter wants to dance to.
Shout outs to the world. That way no one is left behind. Except for the folks aren’t listening to the podcast. So it is doubly important that you spread the word and share this podcast. As Cameo said “Tell your brother, your sister and your mamma too, cause we’re about to go down and you know just what to do. Wave your hands in the air like you don’t care. Glide by the people as they start to look and stare. Do your dance, do your dance, do your dance quick mamma. Come on baby tell me what’s the word”…aand I digress. “Well it’s all right, riding around in the breeze. Well it’s all right, if you live the life you please.” sang the Traveling Wilburys.
Announcements:
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Run Update:
Not much running lately. Am getting antsy and have missed a few days planned for runs. Time has been spent strength training and on a periodized plan towards an October 50 mile run.
Running News:
Anybody else following Scott Jurek’s AT FKT attempt? In case you don’t know. Scott is attempting an Appalachian Trail (AT) speed record. This dude is a beast. As of this writing, he’s on Day 46.
The topic of compulsive eating came up on the Vinnie Tortorich No Sugar No Grains closed group on Facebook. It got me thinking about emotional eating. I’ve found myself time to time eating at odd times, usually late in the evening. Sometimes on not the most optimal of foods. On my journey, I’ve learned to be kinder to myself and less strict. It’s much easier to be self-forgiving and relaxed after about three years on the NSNG (no sugar no grains) lifestyle and seeing my health improve and body composition change and improve slowly and steadily. Allow me to repeat. Now it’s been three years and I’ve slowly and steadily improved health and body composition at over 40 years of age. So committing to a lifestyle and not a diet is what it is all about for me. Back to emotional eating. There are times when I eat a crap ton of food. I guess I get really hungry. However it does cross my mind as I stuff my face, whether or not I am emotionally eating or have a problem. They way I see it is…No. Now if I stuff my face this way regularly… yes. It did get me wondering about the topic of emotional eating though. It also made me wonder if humans are the only animals that have this condition? If it has always been something humans dealt with? Or just in recent history?
As I attempt to periodize my training somewhat. I’m looking to build strength first. Most my time will be experimenting with the Front Squat where I work on it once or twice a week for several weeks. I’m new to it so I’m learning as much as I can to do it properly and safely. One resource I’ve found useful in getting familiar with the movement is this video from Mark Rippetoe titled “The Front Squat with Mark Rippetoe”
In podcast episode 52, i talk a bit in the areas of family and play as well. I get into potty training, watching Magic Mike XXL with my wife, Memorial Day weekend fireworks, pushing cars, and canceling cable service.
Friends in the Jefferson, MO and surrounding areas, check out Lonnie Beauchamp @ Restore-It Restoration and get Life Back To Normal. Tell him Ru sent you!
This is a well done and entertaining podcast coming from a "relatively normal" guy. lol I found this podcast through Vinnie Tortorich and was drawn in by Ru's take on running and the NSNG lifestyle. While I am not a runner, I walk fairly fast so that counts, right? I love that he talks about the ups and downs of balancing his family life with his running and working, like all of us. His recommendations and interviews are relaxed, informative and fun. Take a listen and learn something people! Sorry it took me so long to post a review :(
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Ru El's Running Podcast
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This is a well done and entertaining podcast coming from a "relatively normal" guy. lol I found this podcast through Vinnie Tortorich and was drawn in by Ru's take on running and the NSNG lifestyle.
