The importance of physical fitness and being healthy cannot be overstated. I know most of us are unvaxxed and all that, and that's of course great. But eating healthy, working out, and staying fit are equally - if not - more important.
Over the last 8 weeks, I started working out 3-4 days a week. All at home stuff with a set of dumbbells and a yoga mat, 30 minutes or so a day. I've been working on full body stuff.
Coupled with regular exercise, I've started eating much cleaner. A cup of black coffee and 2 meals a day. 4-6oz of clean meat (fish, beef, turkey or chicken), and 1-2 cups of green vegetables (brussels sprouts, asparagus, green beans), and some kind of healthy fat (avocado, mixed nuts, peanut butter). I give myself a cheat meal a week, where I'll allow myself to add bread or pasta or something sugary to an otherwise clean meal, but only once a week as a little gift to myself.
My fiance has been my partner on this plan, she's been a motivator, she's been a positive accountability partner, and, if I may say so, is looking reeeealllll good (not that she didn't already). Together we've lost over 30 pounds in 8 weeks and added abs and muscle tone to our bodies. (Side note: this makes appendix carry a lot more comfortable).
In these last 8 weeks, I've found I have more physical and mental energy. I've found my productivity at work and at home have skyrocketed. I've found my research has been more productive. I've found my sleep is deeper and more regenerative, my days are generally more positive, and my overall feeling and well-being is so much greater.
The truth is, they want us unhealthy. They want us obese, on their drugs, and not physically able. The relevancy in this forum is that when the shit ultimately hits the fan, and society collapses or there are riots or whatever, I know that we're going to be physically fit enough to make it through. If we have to run, we can run. If we have to fight, we can fight. If we have to build, we can build - because we're focusing on our physical fitness now.
Can you run, if you need to? Can you fight if you need to? Can you build if you need to?
I encourage all of you to start becoming physically fit, no matter your age or your current fitness level. It's never too late, you're never too old, and you're never too fat or too disabled. Your physical fitness is the number one way to expand your life expectancy and keep your brain functioning well.
Godspeed, anons. Love and prayers to all of you and your families.
Feel free to PM me if you'd like to learn more about our workout and diet program. I promise I'm not selling anything, ever.
And if you don't have even some dumb bells just do:
Here's a video from a great yt channel with a tone of pushup variations to target pretty much everything
But really if you just want to focus and being able to perform when time comes nothing better than simple burpees, try to work yourself up to doing 200/300 daily (4-5 days a week)
All of this can be done with 0 equipment and the barest minimum of space
Start small and pace yourself, structure your workouts accordingly, give yourself enough rest, and do some stretching at the end of the day
Yes!!
“Just do burpees” lol
The joke escapes me
We fat people fear such workouts I was making a fat people joke 😂 I hate burpees with a passion
Dude, trust me, you can do it, ex fat person speaking here
You don't have to start with freaking 100 burpees or whatever, ultimately you are only competing against yourself.
Start with like 30 a day, 3 sets of 10, resting like 40-60 seconds (no more than 2 minutes) in between, and then go up from there
Then when that's not challenging you as much you go up to 60, 3 sets of 20, or something along those lines, always progressing a little bit, you'll be doing 100+ a day in no time.
The reason why I like burpees is that you can do them anywhere, and it's a billion times better, in terms of it's effect, than just going jogging
When I was a little kid, like 5, I always wondered why my dad called them burpees. When I started doing them, I found out... that motion makes me so sick, it's unreal. Even when I could run a 4 minute mile, burpees made me throw up. It's horrible.
The motion you mean just the squatting, pushup, then jumping back up?
Yes, but you do it quickly. The act of jumping up quickly many times over makes me sick.
Try Turkish get-ups
You can do it without the jump, like squat down > kick legs out > pushup > bring legs in > squat up and repeat, you can also pace it a little slower, as long as you pump your legs in and out explosively instead of doing like one leg at a time heh, I've seen some people do that.
This guy is all about burpees, he's a bit hardcore though, goes for crazy volume, but if you follow his form doing burpees you should be fine (he also foregoes the jump), you don't have to count em out loud, since it does make it harder, this is just to see his form.
Ah and he's an active marine, so he knows his burpees
Of course you don't have to do em, like for conditioning you can do something as simple as a HIIT of high knees, and for strength the many variations of push-ups in the video I linked before.
Anything is better than nothing :)