Monday, January 27, 2014

Do this…Don’t do this…Fasting for mortals

Everyone's favorite Uncle

As noted in previous blogs I’m one ‘those’ people that regularly fast.  For a long-time I kept this weirdness to myself, but after having damn near knock down dragouts with family and friends I finally came clean.  Now everybody, for the most part, just ignores my eccentricities and treats me like the kooky Uncle every family has stowed away in the attic.  But every now then there are people who become interested in fasting practices and they give it a whirl.  Surprisingly, it is seldom ever a pleasant experience for them and part of the problem stems from me. 

I forget to explain to them that it took me years to get to the point where being hungry felt more normal than satiated.  More importantly, I didn’t just jump right in the deep end of the pool, I gradually tested the water and had as many miserable days as good days.  I wouldn’t change the experience even if I could because the misery taught me a lot about myself and how to handle…..well misery.  My fasting has progressed from merely skipping breakfast to daily fasting 19-21 hours (5 days of the week) and fasting for 48 hours the other 2 days of the week.  Over the years I have created all kinds of strategies for distracting myself, building my hunger tolerance and in the end making self-control or self-discipline my number one character trait.  Over the next few days I’ll post some strategies for distracting the hunger, increasing hunger tolerance and how to have the self-discipline of Diogenes ‘the mad Socrates’ of antiquity. 

Today's WOD 
EMOM for 5 minutes
Clean, Front Squat and Jerk complex: Clean 185, Front Squat x 2, Jerk x 1
30 Pullups
30 Sec L-sit hold
20 x 500 meter C2 Concept Rower

Self-discipline training--To face the winds of fortune 'we must undergo winter training' Epictetus
Fasted 20 hours
Weight: 161.8
Read: 5 hours
Wrote: 5 hours
Cold Shower

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

28 Jan WOD
EMOM for 15 minutes
5 x KB Clean and Jerk
5 x Jumping lunges
EMOM for 15 minutes
10 x Hand Release Pushups
10 x Rockers

13 rounds
30 second Airdyne above 80 watts
2 snatch pulls + 1 snatch
30 second rest
progressed from 45lbs to 135lbs (last 7 rounds done with 135lbs)

Self-discipline training--To face the winds of fortune 'we must undergo winter training' Epictetus
Fasted 20 hours
Weight: 161.8
Read: 5 hours
Wrote: 5 hours
Cold Shower

theundisciplinedsavage said...

Woke up with a sore throat and felt like shit. This being mortal thing sucks - I really need to get over it.

WOD-Recovery/slow movement
1000m Row
4x5 Weighted Dips / 5sec pause at top @ 45lbs
3x8 Kang Squats
50 Rockers
25 Weight Plate Situps

Read: 0
Write: Letter
Chinese: 0


theundisciplinedsavage said...

Woke up with a sore throat and felt like shit. This being mortal thing sucks - I really need to get over it.

WOD-Recovery/slow movement
1000m Row
4x5 Weighted Dips / 5sec pause at top @ 45lbs
3x8 Kang Squats
50 Rockers
25 Weight Plate Situps

Read: 0
Write: Letter
Chinese: 0

makutdaf said...

I was wondering what was going on with you Savage. I just figured they ran out of vagisil at the PX. No readin, No chinese, what's that got to with your sore throat:) Hope you have luck finding the old Savage today, hopefully he can keep this current one at bay. For what its worth we got snowed in today and I had to make a special trip to the Grocery store to get me something to clear up a really bad case of sniveling.

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