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Post your fitness tips
Inspired by the other recent fitness challenge thread, let's hear what other webmasters do to stay healthy and fit.
Post some tips and tricks, no need to post complete workout and meal plans, internet is full of those.
Let me start:
Nutrition:
- I try to practice flexible combination of intermittent fasting and carb cycling/lchf, which means I try to push my first meal of the day as long as I can to prolong fasting mode and keep insulin levels low, some days I eat more carbs, some days I eat more fats, depending on my physical activity, but I try to balance to stay at the edge of caloric deficit.
- Protein is overrated so I don't exaggerate with meat, fish or eggs, but I do eat any of those on daily basis.
- Lots of fresh vegetables, organic when possible (which you can eat uncooked) with apple cider vinegar and little bit of extra virgin olive oil.
- Fruit now and then, mostly bananas and apples sprinkled with cinnamon
- Sugar and salt at minimum, I try to avoid both.
- I drink a lot of various teas which help boost metabolism, speed up digestion, suppress appetite (green tea, oolong, pu erh, mint, ginger etc).
- Black coffee / espresso at any time of day, but not too many of them.
- No milk or dairy products, except low fat cottage cheese and greek yogurt, flexible on that rule.
- No processed food, deli meat, sausages, pepperoni etc.
- No junk food, very flexible on that rule.
- Alcohol and beer at very minimum.
- If I do overeat or have a cheat day, I don't eat next day and I try to do more physical activity.
As for training, I do have the flexible following routine:
- push ups every day (feet up, with push up bars)
- gym 3 times a week, sometimes focusing more on strength training, sometimes up to 3hrs cardio on elliptical, depending on motivation, mood and food intake.
- swimming occasionally
- mountain biking and hiking during warmer months.
That's more or less it, what do you do to stay in shape?
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