A blog from Mike Leng, owner of Unorthodox Nutrition.I blather on about diet, nutrition, health, life style design plus my own take on a whole host of other topics.
Today I want to share with you a great video from Dave Tate on how bigger guys should lose weight.
Here is what he had to say about it, Dave knows quite a bit about going from huge and bloated to lean and jacked. He makes a game out of it: get as heavy as you can to push the limits right before starting a phase of dieting to bodybuilding levels of leanness. He has nearly mastered the pendulum swing of bloated to shredded, some of his most impressive transformations being well-documented.
This makes Dave the perfect person to answer the question in this week's Table Talk: How should a big guy eat and train to lose weight? Dave approaches this question assuming that "big guy" means a man weighing at least 350 pounds who also has muscle — the typical super heavyweight powerlifter. Dave gives several important pieces of advice regarding the dieting process for these people:
Use a seven or ten fold skin measurement to determine your bodyfat percentage at the start. Use these measurement to track progress over time. This will not be the most accurate form of bodyfat measurement but if you are consistent, it will give you a clear indicator of what direction your bodyfat percentage is moving.
The scale? Not so important. The scale plays tricks on you. If you're a bigger guy weighing 350 pounds or more, your hydration can cause weight swings of 10 or more pounds in one day. This is why you should care less about the scale and care more about your other indicators of progress: appearance, performance, and bodyfat percentage.
Make it your goal to get to 15% bodyfat by eating better half of the time, drinking more water, and lowering your rest periods between sets in training. If you can't get there, you might have other problems to address.
Make small changes and hold back at the start. If you add in hours of cardio every week, increase your training volume, and drop your carbohydrates from the very beginning, you're going to have nothing to do when you get stuck. When your weight loss stalls, you won't have any way to get it dropping again. This is why you should start slowly and make changes to your diet and training over time, not all at once.
Today I want to share with you a great video on fad diets from the guys over at Elite FTS.
Fad diets are always going to be in the industry as they are a quick way for people to pray on the insecurities of others by offering the next 'miracle pill'. The truth of that matter is that these diets probably have certain qualities that can be used as tools to help your diet but anyone who says that there way is the only way is misleading you.
Just thought I would share the latest trailer from our friends over at Eat Films. Off the back of their success with the Roll documentary they have decided to do an amazing full length feature called Jujitsu VS The World.
Today I wanted to share with you a video that will quite possibly change your career.
If you are an athlete who makes their living through their sport or you are an aspiring Pro, then you need to find a way to make this your business, and a business needs promoting!
Whether you like it or not, we all need to make money. This video is by a VERY smart guy called Gary Vee. If you need to market yourself or your business, then you need to take 10 mins out of your day to watch this video!
As we all know steroids is a massive topic in any professional sport but none more so than the UFC and mixed martial arts at the moment. It seems like every week another fighter is failing a test or at least coming back with some very respectable results.
If the UFC wishes to keep getting main stream exposure, they need to get a handle on it quick!
Here is a brilliant Video from the Joe Rogan Experience in which he talks to Jeff Novitzky, a member of the UFC team in regards to what they are doing to prevent the use of steroids.
Take a look!
If you want to read my thoughts on steroids then have a look at the article section of the website!
Today I want to share this amazing video from Tim Ferriss and Marcelo Garcia.
This video in one in a series of videos by Tim Ferriss on how to hack certain skills. In this videos he looks at one portion of BJJ which is the high percentage 'Marcelotine'. If you have an interest in BJJ, Tim or Marcelo you will really enjoy this video!
Today I had the pleasure of chatting to Dan Lewis from Eat Films.
Eat Films is an amazing brand that does all sorts of video content from fashion to music videos, but their main area is amazing BJJ films. Eat Films has done loads of brilliant work in the past including great pieces on athletes, events, brands and high light reels. However their most successful work is their ROLL Film.
You can't watch that here,
I think we can all agree thats pretty sweet!
Dan has another feature coming up and we can all get behind him to help him produce something we can all love and enjoy. I caught up with him to hear all about it.
Hey Dan, can you tell people a bit about yourself and Eat Films?
I'm a freelance Filmmaker and Video Editor based in London. I started training jiu-jitsu coming up 5 years ago and pretty much fell in love with it from the off. A few years ago I decided to combine my two passions and started producing free BJJ videos online. Most of the jiu-jitsu videos I make are done in my spare time around work, shooting BJJ films isn't something that pays but it's something that I enjoy and find really rewarding. I spend the majority of my time working on non jiu-jitsu related content.
What is the project and what are you looking to achieve?
I'm aiming to produce the jiu-jitsu film. I want to produce something that you can show people as an answer to "What is this jiu-jitsu thing you do?".
The project is called 'Jiu-Jitsu VS The World and it's a feature length documentary that aims to find out why we all train BJJ and what it is that makes the sport/art so addictive. In the same way as 'ROLL: Jiu-Jitsu in SoCal' the film will look at the origins of jiu-jitsu on both coasts of the US and how the sport has grown and evolved into what it is today. We've got a great mix of old school legends and new generation champions lined up but I wanted this film to be more about the average guy that trains jiu-jitsu - the 97%.
Throughout the trip we're going to be meeting some "average Joe's" and finding out about why they train jiu-jitsu and how it impacts their life in a positive way. I think every BJJ fan loves to watch videos on the their favourite jiu-jitsu athletes and the big names of the moment but for this film I'm wanting to focus more on people that we can all relate to, the guy/girl who is just like me and you, kind of a different take/angle than most jiu-jitsu videos.
I've chosen to crowdfund this project which is something that I wasn't too sure of at first but after talking to people in the BJJ community and asking for feedback in various forums I decided it was the best way to go. All of my projects in the past have been self funded and done when I've had spare time, and this is fine, it's something I enjoy doing. With ROLL it was a much bigger scale and a lot of work, myself and James from Progress covered the costs of the trip and production ourselves and made the finished film free to watch online. Unfortunately as of now I'm not in a position financially to cover the cost of making this film on my own and thats why I've reached out to the BJJ community to ask for help in supporting the project. Some of my friends have helped out by offering up cool items to use as 'perks' to those who back the project; things like magazine subscriptions to JJS, artwork by Chris Haueter and some awesome JJVSWRLD T-Shirts from Shoyoroll.
Why should people watch it?
If you already train jiu-jitsu it'll make you feel good and motivated to train, if you don't train it'll make you pick up a gi and start!
Who inspires you to keep making awesome shit?
The feedback I get from everyone thats watches and enjoys my work. The response we received from ROLL was crazy, I've had countless emails and messages from people saying how much they loved the film, the BJJ community is pretty awesome and it's that kind of thing that motivates me to keep producing content and coming up with new ideas to make better films.
You speak about being THE Juijitsu film. Where do you think previous films have fallen short and why will yours be different?
It's not that I think other films have fallen short I just don't think this kind of story has been told as of yet. When I say The Jiu-Jitsu film I mean I want to produce a film thats the first film you think of when you want to show someone who has no previous knowledge of the art/sport what it's all about. If you were to ask me or probably 95% of the jiu-jitsu guys what their favourite film on jiu-jitsu they'd say Choke. Choke is such a good film, whenever i'm trying to get a friend into jiu-jitsu I tell them to watch Choke. That's the where the bar is set and thats what I'm aiming for.
Ok so how can people donate and help? Are there other ways people can help as well as donations? You can help out by visiting the Indiegogo page http://igg.me/at/jiujitsuvstheworld and reading more about the project, and then donating if you'd like to help support the project. Aside from donations you can help by just spreading the word, share the campaign and if you enjoy my films share them on Facebook etc or leave a comment on YouTube.
Thanks Dan!
As you can all see it is an amazing project and we all need to get behind it! Even if you can only spare a tiny amount, please click HERE and donate!
You can also see more of Eat Films amazing work by clicking below,
Today I thought I would share this video from our friends over at BJJ Hacks.
The video is on BJJ coach John Danaher. John approach to coaching is amazing and he has produced numerous high level grapplers including the recent submission super stars Eddie Cummings and Gary Tonnon.
Today I thought that I would share this great video. I'm a big fan of Tims and he always has some really interesting things to say when it comes to nutrition!
Today I wanted to share with you a great interview between Tim Ferriss and Josh Watzkin. Josh was a chess prodigy at a young age (the movie Search for Bobby Fischer was based on him) and them moved onto become Tai Chi Push Hands World Champion and a BJJ black Belt under Marcelo Garcia.
To say that just one of these things is amazing is an understatement but all of them in one lifetime is absurd! Give the full interview a listen as it covers some amazing stuff, especially on learning.
If you are in the fitness industry (or are wanting to be one day) then here is a great lecture from prep coach and business owner Marc Lobliner. In the lecture he covers a range of great topics that you can take a lot from.
