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New video from Brad Pilon

February 19th, 2010 by Henrik Flensborg

I just finished watching another video from Brad Pilon.

Not as funny as the Diet vs. Exercise videos he made together with John and Craig, but I have a feeling that there’s a punchline inside the teleseminar that this video is leading into.

The premise of the video is 8 lbs of lean mass from 1 single workout, but knowing Brad I think that this is NOT about gaining 8 lbs of lean mass from a workout, but an exposé about the weight training fast gain promises we’re force fed with through advertising.

The workout he goes through looks plenty tough though, but I wish he had added some music to it – a silent movie piano track would have worked really well.

(Brad Pilon is the author of Eat Stop Eat, of which I’m an affiliate)

Phi Life just launched

February 3rd, 2010 by Henrik Flensborg

Brad Pilon and John Barban just launched a site called Phi Life which they describe like this:

PhiLife is a logical discussion about things you can do to effectively improve your health, well being, fitness (whatever that means) and overall life satisfaction.

The current podcast on the site talks about mixing up WHY with HOW and how this mixing up blurs the information available in the health and fitness industry.

It’s a good 40 minutes with the no-nonsense approach to health and fitness that I like about Brad and John

First week of the 5th Turbulence Training Transformation Contest

May 13th, 2009 by Henrik Flensborg

A week ago I signed up for the 5th Turbulence Training 12 week Transformation Contest.

So far I’ve been through 4 great training days with Turbulence Training.

Maybe it’s because I’ve only done two different Beginner Workouts (which is only 2 sets of each superset), but I’m in and out of the gym faster than anybody else.

It feels great to leave home, drive to the gym, change, go through the resistance training, do 20 minutes of interval training and be done showering within an hour.

When I move away from the Beginner Workouts to workouts with 3 set of each superset then it will take a bit longer, but my guess is that I’ll still be the fastest in and out of the gym.

The first time I did each exercise I brought both the exercise plan and the illustration of the exercises with me, because I had no clue what DB Row, 1-Leg Hip Extension or any of the other exercises looked like.

Right now I’ve learned the exercises from the Beginner Workouts so I don’t need the illustrations, but I guess the illustrations will come into play again once I move on to new workouts.

I set a goal to lose 20 kilo in 12 weeks, but so far I’m behind schedule with a minimal weight loss of .8 kilo in the first week.

I’m going to increase my rest day activity by doing some bodyweight exercises and will probably also incorporate 1 or 2 fasting days per week into my schedule.

My initial experiment with combining Eat Stop Eat with resistance training worked well (but that was before I even started with  the Turbulence Training workouts) and there is a lot of people on the TT forum who have been combining Eat Stop Eat and Turbulence Training with great success, so I don’t think it will be a problem at all.

I’m using FitDay to track my weight and to some extent my diet and I’m keeping a contest journal updated daily on the TT Forums – and then there is of course my already published Before photos which helps me keep on track.

Commuter snacks vs. Kettlebell snatches

April 19th, 2009 by Henrik Flensborg

Another video with Craig Ballantyne doing Kettlebell snatches while trying to match the calories consumed by Brad Pilon going through a Starbuck Frappuccino and two brownies

Brad end up consuming a scary 1100 calories while Craig only manages a measly 50 calories during the 2 and a half minute battle.

The scary part is that it’s sooo easy to consume the enormous amount of calories in a very short time.

Grab a Frappuccino and brownies on your way to work, have the same going home and you’ll be looking at spending several hours in the gym just to prevent weight gain -- each day.

How about doing something sensible -- grab a bottle of water as you leave for work, bring a small container with a few slices of apple or maybe a handful of almonds so your workout can actually help you lose weight rather than just trying to prevent you from getting fatter.

2nd fasting day in my Eat Stop Eat experiment

April 17th, 2009 by Henrik Flensborg

Yesterday I ended my second fasting day on my Eat Stop Eat experiment.

I’ve deliberately fasted on the gym days to see if it had any negative impact on my training.

So far I’ve been able to add more weight on my first fasting day, I added more weight on the training day between the first and second fasting day and I added more weight on my second fasting day.

So I haven’t experienced any negative effects on my training so far.

I had sugar cravings on both fasting days, but nothing serious – and nothing a few cups of Rooibos or Green Tea couldn’t “cure”.

The weight so far have looked like this:

99.6 kilo

98 kilo

98.8 kilo

98.8 kilo

99.4 kilo

97.7 kilo

97.9 kilo

So my weight dropped by 1.6 kilo on the first fasting day, I gained back 1.4 kilo over the next 3 days, then I dropped 1.7 kilo on my second fasting day and so far I’ve only gained back 0.2 kilo of that weight loss.

I fully expect my weight to go up a bit more over the next two days, but as long as I’m not gaining back more than what I’ve lost then I’m pleased with the weight I’m losing.

Except for some cravings I’ve had no problems with fasting, and the best part about Eat Stop Eat is perhaps that I haven’t had to changemy diet in any other way.

I still eat what I used to eat on my non-fasting days and I haven’t had to read food labels and weigh everything before I eat it.

So far I can only recommend Eat Stop Eat – It works for me and reading the book really put my mind to rest about “starvation mode” and the idea that the body needs a constant supply of protein throughtout the day in order to build muscle.

You don’t really need Eat Stop Eat in order to fast, but it’s really good for answering a lot of the questions you might have about fasting and it’s definitely good to be able to back up your decision to include fasting as a part of your lifestyle with facts rather than myths and hearsay when people around starts questioning your sanity ;-)