BMX – Page 13 – Daily Brainstorms

Keto- If I Can YOU Can

I used to eat fast-food, soda, candy, and sushi and now my brain and body actually crave meals like this. Funny how once you make changes externally, changes occur internally you may not believe until you experience it.

Grass-fed burger with some @kerrygoldusa grass-fed cheddar wrapped in lettuce with some @primalkitchenfoods mustard and @chosenfoods mayo and a side of asparagus sautéed in @kerrygoldusa with spices. I believe some avocado was in there after this photo too🔥

Full of healthy fats, moderate protein, and very low-carb. If you’re new to a high-fat or KETO way of eating, you can easily add a side of sweet potato, carrots, beets, berries, or quinoa for some carbs as you transition to fat-adaption.

Although it possible to jump right into KETO, it’s advised to transition into “primal” or “paleo” by eating “smart carbs” as you taper down the carb count to not shock the brain and body. It’s all context, though.

If you’re coming from anywhere close to my old diet (2liter side/day, only fast-food and sushi, candy, pastries, and alcohol daily) then I’d suggest you ease into KETO by lowering your carbs from let’s say 400+g/day to paleo carbs, which will put you at 50-150g/day and be a good transition phase for a few weeks. 💚✌️

Want to learn more about making changes TODAY to improve your brain’s health, remove excess body fat/weight, gain more energy, improve sleep and recovery, clear up inflammation and digestive issues, and putt cravings at bay all while worrying less about food?

HIT ME UP 😊

-Josh P.

Josh@joshperrybmx.com

Strength Training & Keto

Here’s a look into one of my strength days.

https://instagram.com/p/BmECx19nm81/

1) power cleans 3×2 light/quick followed by 3×2 heavy

2) circuit of 4 rounds:

👉🏼trap bar deadlifts x6

👉🏼landmine press 8x/side

👉🏼RFE 6x/side

👉🏼bench row 8x/side

I typically focus on strength/lifting 3 days a week and then mix in stability, HIIT, sprints, and ROM 2-3 days a week while riding BMX 4-6 days a week. I typically workout around 8am and do so in a fasted state, or a “fat-fasted” state (meaning I only consumed some fat in the form of MCT oil/ @kerrygold in my coffee).

Full body workouts are the best for stimulating lipolysis (fat burning) and mobilizing the fat.

Although you can get health and body composition benefits from a ketogenic diet, exercise helps increase the rate at which you see and feel the benefits.

Strength training specifically helps burn what’s called glycogen (stored sugar) in the muscles as well as the liver.

In order to get the solar energy production of ketones (by product of burning fat) we have to deplete the glycogen stores in the liver and muscles. A ketogenic diet and exercise is the best way to do this.

Another interesting thing to note is that when someone has a lot of belly fat to remove, there is typically a lot of fat stored in the liver that needs to be burned. This is why some may not notice too much of a change in the belly fat for some time until the liver is cleaned out.

The liver is what produces ketones once glycogen stores are deleted but it also is where fat may be deposited from a poor diet. 💚✌️

HIT ME UP 😊

-Josh P.

Josh@joshperrybmx.com

They Think I have Neurofibromatosis

I live with 4 separate brain tumors. They estimate I have what’s called “neurofibomarosis”, which is just a fancy way of saying I have a genetic disorder that causes brain and spinal meningioma tumors.

Luckily I just have brian tumors. The only way to know for sure, though, is through a biopsy but I don’t need the risk and toxins of opening my skull. I just do what the research shows as ways to stunt and prevent cancer and tumors growth. Hence, my passion for holistic health and nutrition.

One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is that health is internal. Not just numbers on a scale or piece of paper. Had I followed the ER and urgent care doctors advice, to take pain pills, and not fallen and hit my head in 2010, I’d never had received an MRI or found the tumor.

My surgeon said I most likely wouldn’t have woken up one day soon if it were not fall and hitting my head due to the size of the giant mass taking over my brain.

If you feel as if something is wrong regwrdless of someone telling you “you’re fine” without looking deeper, push to get the testing done to gain clarity rather than suffering both mentally and physically like I did believing I was “normal” and that’s what I had to look forward to the rest of my life. 💚✌️

-Josh P.

Resistance

It’s the vision that allows us to keep moving forward in life even when we don’t feel like it.

Resistance doesn’t feel good but that usually means one of two things: either you’re on the path to a new outcome and resistance is appearing because of new actions, which triggers the ego to go into “protection” mode from a unknown outcome. Or, it’s because you’re doing something you don’t believe in to fulfill someone else’s vision.

Resistance is where people usually get stuck. They either give up when they feel any resistance because they fear failure or their ego is so strong in protecting them from the unknown that they settle for suffering in the moment because it’s familiar, even though it’s undesirable.

Are you taking action to get one step closer to living your vision, and what resistance do you see show up regularly? 💚✌️

-Josh P.

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Keto Friendly Beverage

16 months ago I was diagnosed with 2 new brain tumors, totally 4 in my skull.

That’s when I took the “ketogenic diet” serious and started studying and applying it 100% in my life.

Not just the foods but the lifestyle around the keto benefits, which includes; proper training (no chronic high heart rate training), mindfulness practices (meditation, stress management, doing what I love every day), optimizing my sleep by getting 6-8 hours a night, eating specific foods at specific times, not having specific stimulating lights from screens (TV, iPhones, etc.) in my life at specific times before bed, and learning new things to keep my brain adapting and promoting neuroneogenisus (growth of new neurons and networks).

That said, @kevitadrinks makes an amazing low-calorie and low-carbohydrate beverage full of probiotics and flavor. It’s what helped me kick my sugar/soda habit that I had years ago and keeps cravings at bay. A great choice for those looking for a tasty beverage while watching their carb intake for utilizing keto or living in the keto-adapted lifestyle.

The ketogenic diet is not just a fad or get quick results one and done type of plan. It’s a lifestyle shift that takes time to adapt to properly and takes commitment but should never entail suffering of any kind and isn’t always a long-term plan, more like a tool to utilize when necessary. It doesn’t happen over night and can take 21-days to 6-weeks for people to adapt properly depending on their past history and genetics. The goal is not to be in ketosis. The goal is to become fat & keto-adapted and use ketosis as an annual clean up and day to day tool that can be easily implemented.

This ensures that your body and brain knows what to do with all the ketones it’s producing, burns stored body fat, no longer depends on a constant supply of carbohydrates/glucose, and helps fight disease, slow the aging process down, supports the brain, improves sleep quality, reduces inflammation, and so much more.

It really comes down to hormone control from the choices we have every day, which is what we choose to put in our mouths. 💚✌️

-Josh P.

Adversity Cultivates Success

I was 21 when I was told I would never ride my bike again.

That’s the day I was also told I would die unless my head was cut open to remove a massive tumor taking up half my brain. Even then, I still had a chance I may not make it out alive.

This was one of the many challenges I have faced in life and not the first circumstance that put the fragility of my life into perspective.

I later learned, life is full of gifts in the form of adversity and it’s all a matter of perspective. I have overcome injuries, financial instability, abuse, cancer, heartbreak, living in my car, on couches, or in hallway closets, and even depression.

What most of us don’t seem to see, is that we all have choices. We have a choice to believe the things we’re told or to dismiss them as noise. We have a choice to see all of the abundance and success within our lives, or we can choose to see the failures, set-backs, and the things we lack in our lives.

We have a choice to give up or fight back to beat the odds. Prove people wrong and prove our support right. Some choices are hard to make. But those are the ones that mold who we are today. It’s these choices that make us stronger…and wiser…and allow us to grow. I believe it’s not the cards we are dealt, rather it’s how we CHOOSE to play those cards that determine the outcome of our lives.

Sometimes we fall down in life. It’s these falls that are some of the most important learning opportunities for us. Not failures; learning lessons on the path to success.

But, it’s how we choice get back up that defines us and determines our future. Not our past times when we fell down or failed. We’re defined by how we CHOOSE to move forward in life.

Adversity cultivates success and life is all about choices.

So choose wisely. 💚✌️

Be Proactive, Not ReActive

Starting the week off strong with a PR in hang power cleans (70kilo) and some @go_exxentric squats and 3 second decent bench press.

Be proactive rather than reactive! Take care of your body and mind as they work in a uniform reactive relationship to one another. Be pro-active when it comes to your health and goals with your life.

Don’ settle for the status quo and then react to negatives. Do what you can to prevent a negative from occurring in the first place. It’s never too early to take action towards your goals and your health.

I learned this the hard way. I blew out my knee in 2013 and decided to have it fixed in 2015. 2015 was the year I started to take this fitness bing serious in an effort to strengthen and protect my legs. The more I practiced, the more I experienced benefits in the mind and body. 💚✌️

A Clear Vision

I believe a clear vision is what creates the goal, which creates the motivation and the taking of action.

Our reality is a manifestation of our actions we choose to participate in on a daily basis.

The vision is what motivates us to take action every day and is what keeps us going no matter what challenge arise and doesn’t let us give up. 💚✌️

What’s your vision for your life? Are you making choices to take action that leads you closer to your vision?

-Josh P.

Most Protein Bars Are Candy

Marketing is a tricky obstacle for health enthusiasts.

Labels and words we’ve never heard of on ingredients lists trick us into think protein bars are “healthy” when they’re no different than a candy bar for the most part.

Containing glutenous grains, added sugars, poor quality protein, gmo ingredients, artificial flavoring, colors, and sweeteners, and other junk don’t qualify a food as “healthy”.

Thanks to doctors like Dr. David Perlmutter and other health advocates, the information on why these ingredients are detrimental to our health is abundant and clear.

Tag your favorite protein bar and share why it’s your favorite.

My favorites are @primalkitchenfoods and @gardenoflife. Loaded with quality protein, prebiotic fiber, and healthy fats. 💚✌️

-Josh P.

My Mission

My mission is to create support for those in need, direct patient funding for brain tumor patients, empower people to live as healthy as possible, and create faith, inspiration, and partnerships through sport, education, and story telling. 💚✌️

What’s your mission in life?

-Josh P.