the proper fuel

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forgive me if i sound rude, but I'm gonna have to take you all back to school to start from scratch and to start from scratch we definitely need to be able to read the food label on any given food item, i dont have a doubt in my mind that some people are gonna be the very stubborn type like i was and say, ah he is wrong I'm rite that's nonsense,but if you look at the truth and open your mind you will see that i am very much rite, if what a lot of people were doing was rite 66% of the united states would not be obese, so back to the food labelfirst of all we have energy, which means how many calories are in the food you are consuming and the first key point to remember is that a calorie is not just a calorie, it very much matters which source of energy the the calorie comes from, just off topic for a second, i was working in the gym one day when a guy came up to me all frustrated and asked me why he was not losing weight, he told me he was only having a thousand calories a day and putting on weight, my first question was how do you no you are only eating a thousand calories a day and he said" ah just a guess its about a thousand with a few nibbles on stuff here and there,and there was mistake one i will explain again, then i asked him what was he eating and he said" ah the good stuff pasta bread and potatoes big mistake two but that's for later and mistake three i asked him how many times he was eating a day, and he said your not gonna believe me but i only eat twice maybe three times a day and i said i very much believe that, see your body is way smarter than you and i will ever be i will explain all again, phew back to the food label, first one on the menu protein, protein is our friend we like protein it helps keep our muscle when we are burning fat and keeps you satisfied till your next meal and it only has 4 calories per gram, our main food we want to be getting protein is from any animal dog cat etc ha-ha Na the usual steak chicken duck turkey, vegetarians can get it from protein shakes and beans, next on the list is carbohydrates, oh you mite say now the good stuff and I'm gonna say oh The bad stuff just to a degree, i am not going to go deep into why it is bad just yet,and your gonna say but you need your carbs, that's funny just say we had two islands one with just carbs on the island and the other one with just protein and fats, the island with just fats and protein wood be healthy fit individuals regarding they were not alcholics and smoking all the time on the island ha, and the island with just carbs sorry to surprise you but not one of the people on the island would survive unless he was after sneaking in a bit of fat and protein off the other island,how is that possible you ask and i will tell you again i dont want to fill you with to much information,i will just say that man didn't evolve from walking around a field eating grass all day ah we be all big fat cows, he had to hunt for his food to survive sorry for upsetting vegetarians but its the truth, carbohydrates have 4 calories per gram as well,under carbohydrates you will see of which sugars, there is only two time times in the day in which us lada cars can tolerate these types of carbs and that is strictly in the morningg and just before and after training and i will explain why again,the Ferrari,s on the other hand can tolerate these all day and i will explain why again the types of these carbs are found in sweets chocolate pastry ah all the sweet stuff but there are ways to satisfy that sweet tooth without the damage, the picture you see is a bottle of sugar free syrup that literally has zero carbs but all the yummy taste so no damage to the engine, and no lies i have one of the sweetest tooth's in Ireland and have it well sorted oh the joys of splenda,the other type of carbohydrate you will see on the food label is fiber now thats the the great stuff for us lada cars, you see the body cannot cannot digest fiber and has to use it as energy so that makes it a free food for us hungry people out there, types of high fiber foods all green veg some other types of veg, bran and fruit to a degree the best source are berries, im starting to sound like a parrot but that's for another day ,then there is the last one and by far not the least on the list is fat,oh that's the bad stuff you might say, that's funny seems there was another study done on two groups in the usa one group was on a high carb low fat low protein diet and i am not my own critic they didnt die,i said low fat low protein not no fat no protein and there intake of energy was 1500 calorise,the other group was on ,yes you guessed it a high protein high fat diet and as much green veg as they wanted consisting of 1500 calories as well, and after 10 weeks of this study the high fat diet had lost eight times more weight than the high carb group and there bad cholesterol levels were lower,but the main thing that struck me was that the high carb dieters complained about always being hungry and tired and over half of them left the group i guess the rest of them just needed the money and food, now the high fat high protein group did not complain once and they all said that they had higher levels of energy than they ever had before,one guy even said he felt he could run and take off ah he must of sneaking drugs in ha-ha jus kidding na but no one left early just the lad on the drugs. 90% of them stayed on the diet after the study,ah i hate that word so our new word for diet is lifestyle,people always feel restricted on a diet,if you take any thing in from my articles i can only hope its for life because if its only for a day week month or year at some stage you will go back to being the broken down lada and we dont want that,if you take in one thing from this article please let it be that, you do not i repeat, do not get fat from one two or even three bad cheat meals it is when we are constantly putting diesel in the petrol car that we break down,phew again back to fat,types of fats, the good fats are oily fish salmon sardines types of nuts seeds olive oil some dairy products eggs cheese not milk parrot boy will explain again,bad ugly fats are tran fats which consist of donuts margarine chocolate, cake and vegetable oils, sodium on the food label means salt which isnt a big thing rite now for us,so ther you have it, i hope that helps you out a bit, in the next article i will explain why carboyhdrates can work with us and very much against us,thank you for reading

yours in health and fitness
robert gorman cpt

Fueling The Engine

Sorry all but you gona get this a lot from me,i like puting things in simple terms for people, getting started, for one moment dont laugh and think of your body as a car,now i dont no about you but if i was a car i would like to look drive and have the engine of a ferrari,some people are born like that they have the look and engine and drive like a ferrari, in sports for instant mike tyson, george best, muhammad ali all were born with the look engine and drove like the ferrari what a gift, other people not so lucky but still very lucky, they have the look of a ferrari and the engine but drive like a tractor.

Take a lean normal individual that can eat what they want and still look great but do things arse ways in the gym and are terrible at any given sport,then you have the very unlucky individual that has the look engine and drives like a lada,which kills me because the best part of people that looks like a lada are the most down to earth easy going people you will ever meet,sorry all just off topic for a second,i am not going to go deep into this just yet but when i say your engine i mean your metabolism,which means the speed we burn calories at rest like sitting driving just chillaxing,now the lucky ones have the fast metabolism and thats why they can eat what they want and not put on weight and the not so lucky ones could eat the very same way and be obese,how is that you ask because there metabolism has the speed of a turtle,and yes we can speed the metabolism up to the speed of the lucky and one way to do that is give your body the proper food more and that again , so whats my whole point you ask, well lets say your a lada and you put diesel in your petrol engine, you are not going to drive very well now are you. your just going to keep damaging your engine,now lets say you start to put petrol in the engine this baby is gona start to drive and once we get driving thats when we start to take the car to the body shop,what im getting at folks is that if you dont give your body the proper food it needs you are not going to feel good about yourself so your also gona look bad.



Altough there are exceptions. There are the lucky people that can put crap foods in their bodies and still look great but when it comes to sports they perform like a tractor.

I want to no who made this rule that if you look and feel like crap thats you looking and feeling like crap for life. They seem to think they have to stay like that?! No wonder there is such a high suicide rate in the world every body is going around feeling like dirt, thats not in my rule book! So my first few articles are gona be about nutrition and lifestyle management and not boxing or training like you would expect because i feel there is a need. i want to ensure that you are puting the proper juice in the motor, then you take your motor to the body shop, why? you ask; well i would say i was a lada that kept puting diesel in my car and always felt terrible, i had to drink to feel good about myself but feel even worse the next day,i trained myself into the ground and starved myself to make weight for boxing not very good for the engine and i could list a whole bunch of things i was doing arse ways but thats for later ,i knew i had to clean the car

and start to listen so i started to put petrol into my lada and start driving better than ever, i no some day i can be the ferrari because i believe in myself and as they say if you dont believe in yourself who else will but there is no reason why any individual cant be the ferrari.

The next article is going to be about the food label, you mite as well be looking in a ditch if you cant read a food label properly, it is unbelievable that well more than over half of our country can not read a food label properly, its no wonder the health experts are saying by 2030 over 60 percent of the country is going to be obese, thats a whole lot of people, i dont no about you but i dont want my future kids or grand kids please god going around like umpa lumpas, thank you for reading and i will be updating it soon.

Yours in Health and Fitness,

Robert Gorman CPT

me myself and i

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My nick name is rodge and i will be updating the blog from time to time to help people achieve there goals in there sport training and hopefully in life,

I am writing this l article just so you know a little bit about the man that is going to be writing a few articles for you in your journey through better health and fitness. So then where do I start from well if you must know I jumped out of my mothers womb with a pair of boxing gloves on and a lump of steak in my mouth ha-ha I wish , na when I walked into a boxing club as a young gun I didn’t no what I wanted to do with my dumb self, I just know I wont have any regrets because we are forever learning from our mistakes and if we don’t make mistakes we will never learn, I left high school at seventeen and started out as an apprentice carpenter, I started boxing when I was ten and left when I was thirteen this dumb young lad didn’t know what he wanted, sure i will start smoking and drinking because im hard,I went back boxing when I was seventeen and got a bad whacking,i was stopped in the second round if you must no so that was the smoking kicked out the window but i havnt looked back i love the sport I owe it so much its changed my life,I had done my apprentice for peanuts, I had done four years and had been treated like crap and a piece of dirt in that time so I decided at twenty one I wanted to be self employed, it was great at the start but what a big mistake it was in the end but I learned so no regrets, I started to do small work for a northern guy I don’t want to say any names just yet i will when i go to the top, this guy payed me loads of cash at the start and promised me riches, if a person had of coming up to me at yhe time were i was getting loads of money and said that in two years from now you are gona have very little money but be happier than you have ever being in your whole life i would of laughed but it is the truth, I started with 5 workers then ten workers ended up with thirty workers, the time came where I cudnt handle the stress at twenty four, the way things were going was the more workers I was getting the less money there was coming in so the well was drying up very quickly, one thing I have that stands to me that no one can take away even the bad mouths who put people down to make them selves feel better, is in November 2007 I went away on a multi nations tournament in denmark and kept all my problems to myself I went away with a thirty thousand over draft in the bank not even my own mother knew and i had thirty guys still working for me back home in Ireland, I put my problems to the back of my mind and won gold, I beat an English guy in the finals twenty points to four, I came home and knew it was time to get out of the disaster I had got myself into so I had to let every worker go in the middle of a big job we were working on and to make it worse It was two weeks before Christmas I never felt so bad, even when I wasn’t getting paid I maid sure my workers were, during my time coming to the end of my self employment I decided to take up a personal training evening course and if I must say I didn’t learn a whole lot in the course. The information was outdated and provided simple blanket recommendations that didnt account for each individual persons needs. I am one of them people that if i followed the blanket recommendations i would be a mess! You will find out more about that in future articles.

My great friend and strength and conditioning coach and nutritionist Brian kavanagh thought me the best part of what i know. Its amazing what you can learn when you are interested. I knew him for 2 years and never listened. I thought i knew it all!. . . Back to my life, so yeah I had to finish up and I am now in the middle of a court battle to the same guy and if I don’t get what i am owed at least I learnt and I still have my health which is the best wealth you can have at the end of the day, a little about my family backround my mother is my heart and soul she is a mountain there is no one like her in my life, my father; what about him I’ll just say that’s one

man I pray I will never be like and at a time when my brother had cancer and our father never has the courage or decency to show his face I think that says it all, thank god my brother is in good health now, he is following the lifestyle (diet) and training me and bryan have giving him, and no word of a lie he went to the doctor not so long ago for a check up and the doctor said he was healthier than ever so i was absolutely chuffed, so there it is a little bit about myself, my articles are gona be about nutrition supplements and things I hope you find interesting to take on your journey through life cause at the end of the day we only get one shot at it, from going from 15% bodyfat to five percent body fat without eating rabbit food and traininig for fifteen hours a week has never felt so good.

In 2004 i cudnt make the 69kg division and weighed in at 71kg so we didnt enter, you will here me say we a lot instead of me because i could not have done none of this without my team behind me there is no I, fast forward 4 years and i am after winning the nationals at 64kgs and plan on boxing at 60kgs next year so i must be doing something rite, im rambling sorry that’s for another article, the man I am at the moment;

I was living in las vegas training with wayne mcullaghand floyd maywethers father

I plan on doing a whole lot more so there you have it there is just a little bit about the man who is going to be writing a few of your articles in the future, thank you very much for reading

Yours in health and fitness
Robert Gorman CPT