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Finding Myself: Why I Started Exercising

Finding Myself: Why I Started Exercising

Hey Folks, Today’s Article Is Kind of Different  Instead of tackling a specific facet of fitness I wanted to go in-depth with why I started and continue to train week to week, year to year. Preface

I know I talk about who I am and why I started training in my “About Me” page on my site. After re-reading the movement manifesto and principals based on watching his catby start bodyweight training,…

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Building a Iron Neck with Calisthenics

Building a Iron Neck with Calisthenics

 Hey UnmeasuredFitness Readers.

Today I’ll be focusing on a topic seldom discussed in the calisthenics realm. The subject of neck strength and development isn’t as sexy as let’s say learning how to do a muscle-up but it’s vital none the less. A strong neck prevents injuries and helps build a thick masculine neck. Your traps will grow (which personally I had troubles building with calisthenics…

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Bad Yogi's, Physiology, and Much More with Antranik

Bad Yogi’s, Physiology, and Much More with Antranik

Hey UnmeasuredFitness Fans!

I’ve got a great surprise for you today. I had the opportunity to interview Antranik from https://antranik.org/

Not only did we get to chat about such things as how Antranik got his start in fitness but about subject matter ranging from DIY hot yoga sessions to how his programs were developed.

You’re in for a treat with today.

Don’t forget to stay tuned.

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Strength and Size, Training Methods for Both

Strength and Size, Training Methods for Both

What’s the Most Effective Way to Gain Strength and Size?

If you Answered “Exercise” you’re not wrong, but you’re also not exactly right. Strength and size tend to come together hand in hand with exercise.

What am I saying, of course, it comes with exercising!

More importantly, though, it originates from doing the RIGHT things in your workouts.

One often overlooked aspect is the method by which we…

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Seems incredibly small but I can’t imagine dealing with weight at 5 foot 1 is easy. I’m glad you found a diet plan that works for you. 

-Nick

How to get to low weights without dying of malnutrition first

For starters i am not pro anorexia. This is a terrible fucking illness and i wish recovery for every one of you. But i cant force anyone to recover. But i can help you stay alive.

I am currently 77 pounds and 5 foot 1. I do heavy lifting at my job and only when i fast for too long do i feel like shit. I’d say i eat pretty healthy but have a habit of binging and purging at least once a week. Im working on improving my diet. But I’m doing great considering.

Ive done a lot of research on this so you can trust me when i tell you if you eat these things daily you will get nearly full nutrition. I take a multivitamin that i got from Sam’s club it has a lot of vitamins and i take half the serving (1 gummy) a day. I also take a calcium supplement with 600mg because im lactose intolerant and hate milk anyway. I also take a high dose of iron once a week.

Now onto food:

Spinach 3 servings. One serving is 25 calories.

A can of starkist tuna - 90 calories

Pumpkin seeds(pepitas)- 1 ounce or 170 calories.

A medium avocado (about 230 calories)

Total calories is 556 including the gummy vitamin.

Now you should add more protein into your diet if you are a taller person. Some chicken cooked in a tablespoon of olive oil will give you more fat and protein. You need fat to absorb nutrients which is why this diet is ketogenic. Carbs are necessary but can be created by the body.

Also timing of eating isnt so important. I do best when i eat 3 times a day but you can skip breakfast if you’d like or even just eat one meal a day. Look at when you need your energy the most. If you struggle with cravings and dont want to give up the foods you love, let yourself have your favorite food once a week or alternate your calories each day between the 556 and 1000(but stay keto the whole time). Keto retains muscle and burns body fat instead. I wish i had known about keto before i started losing weight. My body fat percentage is 23% even though im very underweight. I used to be a lot stronger than i am now. Speaking of exercise, this diet works best with low intensity workouts and short bursts of speed in between. Thank you for reading this and i hope I’ve helped keep at least one more person alive.

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Training to Failure, How Sleep is Important for Your Gains and More from James Ruckert

Training to Failure, How Sleep is Important for Your Gains and More from James Ruckert

Today I had another great chance to catch up with my dear friend and go-to associate for all things calisthenics, James Ruckert from straighttalkingfitness.com, a website all about progressive calisthenics.

Listen in today to hear our chat about our thoughts on training to fatigue using methods like AMRAP and total volume goals, how critical sleep is for making gains on and off the bar, and…

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In Trying Times

Recently I’ve been facing repeated failures. 

Rejection, belittlement, questioning my self-value. 

Something weird happens when you start feeling at your lowest, it really shows how your mind handles the worst of the worse. 

Do you get back up or do you stay down? 

Personally, I’ve never been able to stay down for too long. Something in my soul tells me to cry and give up, but immediately following that is the urge to get up and prove “them” wrong. 

Everyone has their down times, just know you can always get back up. 

-Nick

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Small Steps Make Immense Progress

The next time you think you’re not making any headway by doing something small, think of compounding math. The more often you do something the more it piles up. The more it piles up the greater the outcome.

This applies to fitness as well as various other aspects of life. 

Maybe exercising once isn’t going to get you where you want to be, but getting active consistently in some way shape or form will.

You just have to do something consistently, trust me. Measure your starting point and compare it to where you are three months from now. If you were honest and consistent, I can promise you will see progress. 

Keep up the kick-ass work. 

-Nick

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Detox Water: 6 Things You Can Add To Your Water To Improve Digestion

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Hell yeah!

Due to my changing of my weigh ins.

My starting weight was 266.6

As of this morning I weigh 222.2

Which means I lost 44.4

Just thought the numbers were pretty cool!

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Why Your Starting Place Doesn’t Matter

I remember starting out. 

Weighing in at close to 300 pounds, I felt behind everyone else. I didn’t move as fast as other people. I couldn’t exercise for as long as others. 

Why even bother? I’m already behind before I started.

That’s exactly the mentality that was trying to hold me down. 

What I failed to see, and most people do is that your starting place doesn’t matter. 

What matters is actually starting. 

When I got rid of the preconceived notions of what my fitness should be, where I should be, and where I should have been when I started. I realized that fitness could be fun. I just needed to stop measuring myself with someone else's ruler.

Fight yourself, compete with yourself, overcome yourself. 

In the end, that’s who you’re doing this all for. 

You’re in control of your life and your fitness, it’s one of the few things we can directly control in this life. 

Keep up the kick-ass work,

-Nickolas McKeever, ACE Certified Personal Trainer