ONLY 30%

                   (None of the pictures I'm going to use are mine. I found all images on Google.)

When trying to get fit, most people think, “Man, I need to start working out more” which is good but it’s not the main thing, it’s only 30% of getting fit; the other 70% is what you eat. Today’s post is not about what you should eat, I’m going to delve into some exercises that are simple and don’t require a health club or tons of money. I know exercising can be a hassle. When you think about it, for 30 minutes of one’s day one is putting themselves through extreme pain. “Why God would you make the human body something that needs to feel pain?” Because my son/daughter, Adam ate the apple.” That’s your answer, the one thing that makes me healthy is punishing me for thirty minutes out of three days!?!” “Yes” Well anyways, exercising doesn’t have to be painful, it can be fun as well. The key is: eat right and train well. Once you hit your goal weight, you can eat well and train hard. For those who really hate exercising, I suggest eating right. Well let’s get into some exercises shall we. 

1. Sex- Men burn 100 calories during sex and women you burn a 1,000 calories. I’m joking, you only burn 69 calories during sex but could you imagine how many pick-up lines would be born from that? I know it sounds like a joke but if you think about it, set the mood. Go out dancing to a salsa club, somewhere that get’s you moving and get’s you close and steamy. Once the two of you are in the mood, go burn some more calories. If you don’t get lucky, you can still burn about 20 calories from chocking the chicken or petting the cat; some say you can burn almost up to 100 calories but you have to be really and I mean REALLY be furiously cartoonishly masturbating in order to reach that number. 

2. Dancing: Which is connected to number one. When dancing at a night club someone who weighs about 155lbs loses about 205 calories just by dancing for only 30 minutes. “LA, what about me? I’m more so close to the 200 plus range.” Hip-hop dancing burns 610 calories for those who weight 180 and up. “But what if I don’t dance hip-hop?” Look there’s all kinds of dancing, let’s just say dancing burns anywhere from 200-1000 calories to keep it simple; now combine that with the number of calories your burn during sex or masturbation. Let’s say men you burn 300 at the club and you and your gal go home for a nice night of passion. You’ve burned 400 calories or 420. Ladies, let’s say you burn 600 calories and go home for a nice night of passion, you have burned 669 calories or 620.  

3. Jump rope- Aww, I’m done reading this shit. You had me at dancing and sex. Yeah, I know but I had to keep your interest so we could get to the things that can lead you to dancing and sex. It’s really a fun work out and if you have kids, you can implement them into it as well. Jump roping works out your calves but if you do it long enough, you began to shape up your upper body as well. Jump roping involves the whole body. Let’s say you weight about 200lbs, if you jump rope for about 10 minutes at a moderate rate, you burn 158 calories, if your about 155 lbs you burn about 123 calories. Definitely give it a shot. 

4. Bicycling- Everywhere in the world, people ride bikes. I’m glad a few hipsters went to Europe one summer and made it a style here in America because we need it, badly. Bicycling can burn quite a few calories. At 220lbs, riding a bike at 14-16mph for 30 minutes, one can burn up to 528 calories. If your about 170lbs, one can burn up to 408 calories. It truly is a good exercise and its fun. 

5. Weights/swimming- Both are really great ways to burn calories. I’m not going to go to deep in depth with numbers because this is getting long and I’m going to cut it short but weights and or swimming burn a massive amount of calories and help you get tone. If you don’t have weight’s push-ups or lifting your own body weight is a awesome alternative as well. 

All in all, if you failed at 1-5, there is always the one alternative you can do. You’ve been doing it since about age 2 and that’s walking. As with anything, check with your doctor before you try any of the above 1-5, I’m neither a doctor nor a nurse so any information that I give is strictly from me trying and learning. If you’re getting back into working out, remember moderation and time. DO NOT hurt yourself trying to lift 200lbs, swim in the ocean during a rip tide thinking, “Rip Tide? This is a Challenge!” No, it’s not, it’s nature’s way of saying stay away or don’t swim in the pool thinking “maybe I can have sex with the pool jets and swim at the same time that’s Burning a lot of calories”, take some kind of sex pill or Viagra if you don’t need it (trust me, when I was 18 my friends girlfriend dipped into her dad’s medicine cabinet and dared all the guys to take a Viagra pill. It was a hard night. Pun intended.) Dancing, I’m not sure how you can hurt yourself but PLEASE be safe and Bicycling, if you’re starting out, stay the F***K out the street. Well, I hope this was an informational and entertaining read and as usual, this is not my normal style of writing but that’s why it’s called “No Title” it’s random. Feel free to look around and check out my other writes and if you have any other questions, let me know in the comments. Bye-bye. =)  

Keep your diet alive

 

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Eating healthy can be a challenge for us sometimes. It’s a challenge because everything that taste oh so good may actually be bad for us; usually when you switch to eating healthier, that leads to cutting out some of the good stuff that makes your food, well, good. That doesn’t have to always be the case. In the long run, all you really need is some salt and pepper to really liven things up a bit and your good to go, for some of us that works, but for the rest of us, we want a little more color then black and white.  If you’re already dieting and feel your diet may be getting a little bland, maybe this list might help you; unless I’m naming things you’re already using then this may be a waste of time. However for everyone else whose finding it hard to make that transition to healthy food for the fear of losing taste, this might help you. Let’s get this list kicked off with number one.

1. Cayenne Pepper- About five years ago, I lost about 85lbs. The weight loss came from eating food like fish, rice, chicken, fruit and vegetables. I’ve always had a love for spicy food and Spanish paprika just was not cutting it. So I ventured out and stumbled across Cayenne pepper. I noticed right when I started using it, it revamped my weight loss. I was a tad shocked. I didn’t know why until I read that Cayenne Pepper helps one lose weight. I should’ve known that because anything that still burns your mouth after you drink a glass of milk is probably doing more on the inside of your body. Why it helps you lose weight? The heat from the Cayenne pepper, a thing called capsaicin is what helps you. Capsaicin is the measure of heat in a pepper and this thing really packs a punch. I’ll put a chart up so you guys can see where it stands against other peppers. It’s a really hot pepper so eat it or sprinkle the powder on your food sparingly. However this pepper will add zest to your food and take inches away from your waist. Give it a shot.

2. Cinnamon- Still a spice but not like Cayenne, this spice is pretty powerful. Cinnamon can help those who suffer from type two diabetes; it helps regulate spikes in blood sugar levels. They sell cinnamon capsules that one can take but one can cook with it or if you’re like me, just sprinkle some on a spoon and dive right in. I wouldn’t suggest it. I tried it and damn near coughed up a lung. Have you ever eaten raw cinnamon by itself?? I thought it was going to be a tad sweet but NOPE. It was like cotton mouth time’s five. However, after the first horrible experiment, I did it again; just made sure I had a cup of water next to me. After a while I said fuck it, I’m going to find something I can cook it with. I sprinkled just a little on my broccoli and it came out SUPERB. Cinnamon also helps with headaches as well, so if you’re out of Advil, try some cinnamon. It might work but everyone is different; however, it’s known to get rid of headaches.

3. Low sodium salt- Iodized salt, found on Mc Donald’s French fries has 590mg of sodium, sea salt found on Wendy’s French fries has 570mg of salt (it’s getting a tad batter) and Morton’s Lite Salt has 290mg. So if you have high blood pressure and are thinking “fuck me, I have to eat this crappy ass food without any salt!?!” The answer is no. My best advice: still use it sparingly, (that pretty much goes for any seasoning) but just because it has less sodium DOES NOT mean you can go crazy and start shaking salt all over the place. If anything you’ll be defeating the purpose of what the low sodium salt is suppose to do: letting one use salt while keeping one's blood pressure in check. 

4. Coconut oil- Oh the sweet taste of Coconut oil when cooking a piece of Salmon that’s sprinkled with a tad bit of cayenne pepper and a little bit of garlic seasoning or Cajun seasoning…I’m hungry. Lol For real, Coconut oil is better than olive oil and vegetable oil. This oil will give any of your foods a tropical taste. So if you’re sick of all your food being from the Mediterranean, take it to the Caribbean. This isn’t a spice but the simple switch of oils can revamp one's recipes and possibly make one season things differently; also one can enjoy the good HDL that comes with it. Like anything, use it sparingly and enjoy the tropical taste while you get a tropical body.

            Well, this concludes my list of things to help keep your diet alive or help you get on the right track. As with anything, PLEASE and I mean PLEASE check with you doctor before you try any of these spices or oil. I know it’s only food but I don’t want someone’s relative cursing me out because their loved one started having heart palpitations after eating 3 spoonfuls of cayenne pepper. It won’t do that but everyone has different reactions, so I can’t stress this enough, check with you doctor. Well I hope you enjoyed my list, once again, this is not my usual style of writing but that’s why it’s called “No Title”, it’s random. Feel free to roam around and see if there’s anything else you like. Thank you for reading and if you have any more questions, feel free to ask me in the comments section below. Bye-bye. =)