Caterpillar2Butterfly's Journal, 24 July 2016

The thought of exercise entered my mind this morning while meditating, so I let it stay & pondered upon it a bit. You also have the argument of whether cardio is better (including what how to do cardio: steady, HIIT, etc) or strength training (including how to do it: light weight/more reps, heavy weight/less reps, time under tension, lean season, bulk season, etc.) is better (along with which diet). Then there is also the study of mTOR suppression, newbie gains, muscle memory, etc. What if it's supposed to be a seasonal thing too? I think (like with diet) there are too many good studies for any one plan to be wrong. I think they are all right & all wrong at the same time. I think it all has a time and place to be implicated.

I'm not talking body building competitions, or looking like Hollywood. I'm talking about health & longevity. I'm talking taking it back to the days when there were no mirrors, and the only instinct was survival & reproduction. In the months that things could be gathered, I think we likely let animals get fat, mate, and care for offspring. There was an abundance of food growing for our taking, so why would we kill off our means of survival during the barren winter months?? I think cardio may have been more prevalent during gathering season, as we likely spent much of the day walking at a slow/steady pace looking for food with the occasional sprint running for our lives. I don't think there wouldn't have been any type of heavy baskets to carry, thus little strength training. I think there would have been the lugging of animal meat through the snow during the winter months when plant life was barren, with little cardio. Why would we run from our kill?? Variations of strength training would likely mimic this.

I think the only perfect diet is one where no supplementations of any kind would be needed. No B12, Iron, etc. as needed for vegetarians, or multivitamins, magnesium, etc. for LCHF. I think that every vitamin, mineral, amino acid, etc. trickle down and last until the next season if we got plenty of it all during the appropriate season. I think our body is smarter than anyone gives it credit, and can store all of these things (just as it does with body fat) to use when the time is appropriate.

"The 3 Season Diet" has some type of exercise protocol, but I have no clue as to what it is. To be honest, I'm sick of reading & researching only to find conflicting evidence. I feel so in-tune with myself and nature now, I will follow my animal instincts. Call me over the top, call me crazy, but these are my thoughts and I'm sticking to them.

Happy journey in finding your individual path to all, and have a marvelous day! :)

SN... All ideas are subject to copyright. If anyone write a book or anything of the sort, I want half...lol.

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860 kcal

Fat: 9.45g | Prot: 20.56g | Carb: 173.62g.   Breakfast: IF. Lunch: IF. Dinner: Cooked Cowpeas, Field Peas or Blackeye Peas, Tomatoes, Peach, Mahatma Basmati Rice. more...