225 Clean

Today is a day which will live in infamy. I FINALLY Power Cleaned 225. A New Years goal. I feel pretty accomplished right now. A couple months ago this was hard to get off the floor. I'm pumped!

What to Eat

I love the "Talk To Me Johnnie" website.  Written by John Welbourn, NFL veteran and creator of CrossFit Football, this is an incredible blog with solid, no-bullshit articles about fitness and strength.  My favorite article is "Just Tell Me What To Eat..." where he dispenses diet advice handed down from "Chuck Norris" - hahaha.  There's a full list of what to eat, what to limit, and what to avoid.

The most basic element is to eat at least 1 gram of protein per pound you weigh.  John sums up the diet in another article:

This is about as basic as I can make it... for strength and good health…Eat meat, seafood, veggies, saturated and mono unsaturated fats, root veggies such as sweet potatoes and turnips, eggs, milk and cheese, limit fruit, nuts and seeds and avoid sugars, all grains and processed foods.

So there it is.  If you want to be strong and healthy, follow this plan.  Read the article: "Just Tell Me What To Eat..." then check out the rest of the site.  You won't be disappointed.

Smith Machines are the devil

"Squatting" in a Smith machine is an oxymoron. A squat cannot be performed on a Smith machine, as should be obvious from all previous discussion. Sorry. There is a gigantic difference between a machine that makes the bar path vertical, and a squat that is executed correctly enough to have a vertical bar path. Muscle and skeleton should do the job of keeping the bar path vertical, not grease fittings and floor bolts.

– Mark Rippetoe