Health & Fitness
Personal Nutrition, Health and Fitness Notes
by Randy on Mar.06, 2010, under All Posts, Health & Fitness, Summary of Suggested Readings
By Randy Ngan
Nutrition notes
- Buy food with less than 10% calories from fat
- Drink half of body weight in ounces
- Portion Control
- Eat 5-6 times a day (every 3 hours)
- Prepare meals in advance
- Eat natural foods no boxed items
- High Fructose corn syrup makes you less able to feel full
160 lbs Eat 315 cals x 6 Meals = 1900 Cals
140 lbs Eat 265 cals x 6 Meals = 1600 Cals
Drinks
- Juices with no calories
- Green Tea and Water
- Non fat milk
- Almond milk
- Green lemonade
- Egg whites
Carbohydrates
- Whole grain bread
- Brown rice
- Oatmeal
- Vegetable
Protein
- Chicken
- Egg whites
- Fish
- Dairy whey isotope
Fats
- Peanut butter
- Olive oil
- Fish Oil
Fiber
- Pear
- Blueberry
- Plum
Snacks
- Turkey Jerky
- Dried Fruit (Just Brand)
- Nuts & Seeds
- Flaxseed Crackers
Protein shake recipe
- Cup of orange juice, 25g Dairy whey, 1 frozen banana
- 1 cup water add 5-6 ice and crush. Then add 20g whey protein and ½ cup of oat meal.
Fitness Notes
· Having more muscle burns more fat
· To gain more muscle use heavy weights and do low reps
· Can build 1-2 pound of dry muscle a month = 5-6 pound of lean muscle
· Don’t lose more then a pound a week. You will start losing muscle.
· To much cardio will start to burn muscle
· Work out leg muscles since they can get bigger then arm muscle
Workouts
· For ever push exercise have a pull exercise to equalize you muscle.
· Bench Press for Chest (push)
· Seated Row (pull)
· Military Press for Shoulder (push)
· Pull Up Chin Up (Pull)
· Swats for legs (push)
· Dead Lift (pull)
· Dips
· Bent over rolls
· Clean and press
Dumbbell work out
- One arm clean and press (through legs, pull, dip and blast)\
- One arm push press
- Two dumbbell curl and press
- Dumbbell chest press
- Standing concentration curl (2 sec hold)
Abs
- 3-6 sets 15-25 reps, short rest periods
- Reverse crunch
- Ab roller
- Reverse ball crunch
- Wood chopper
- Saxon bend (weight over head)
- Side bends
- Plank (one leg one arm out)
- Farmer walk
- Toe tap when doing crunches
- Breath out when you contract
- Have knees slightly bent when doing leg lifts
Cardio
- Do cardio at the end of workout
- Interval Cardio works best
- 5 min warm up jog, sprint 1 min, walk 1 min interval for 10 min
