Persistence to land a trick has taught me many invaluable lessons in life.
To accept this kind of pain just to land a trick on your bike changes you mentally and subconsciously in such profound ways.
I wasn’t aware of it in the beginning but in my last few years competing and progressing, I started to become conscious to what was going on.
Now I harness it all for my purpose to serve and support those around me and willing to hear what I have to say.
Josh P. 💚🧠✌️
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. 💚✌️
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
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.
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. 💚✌️
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. 💚✌️
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.
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.
How do you push your limits and increase your potential in life?
I never thought weight lifting would be apart of my life or even half of the role it plays in my life today.
I got into fitness after I blew out my knee in 2013. That’s what I call being “reactive” rather then being proactive”.
Today’s it’s a passion of mine. I love the health benefits, of course, but I also love the challenge mentally and physically, learning a new skill, how it supplements my riding very well, and how the risk factor is not as high as BMX but sill presents that mental and physical challenge.
That said, here is a face of joy and relief as I successfully cleaned my highest weight so far (88kilos) and got it after just missing it on the attempt prior. I’ve come a long way his last year of introducing Olympic lifting to my programming and mobility as played the biggest factor. I had some strength, and it does keep increasing, but my lack of mobility held me back so much in terms of technique and form, which determine how successful my lifts are.
I’ve been working hard with Jackie and 919Spine to correct that and have been stoked! 💚✌️
-Josh P.
Almost got in the 200pound club for power cleans today.
Hit a PR (88kilos) for power cleans after an 85 kilo cleans, and then just missing 88 before getting it. I’m liking week 1 of my new block from Coach Matt Hunter at Athletic Lab.
I’ve been working with Matt for a little over a year now and am getting more and more comfortable and strong with these Olympic lifts. Have more work to do to get this weight cleaner and advance. So stoked! 💯🙌🏼💪🏽
-JoshP.
I’ve grown to love training over the years and recently was sharing why I love it so much beyond just the health benefits.
Training vs. bmx when your mind isn’t right is safer to me. Training has less risk than bmx. Both of them push me mentally and physically but if I’m not 100% feeling like riding, or am in a bad mode for whatever reason, I’d rather train.
I enjoy the aspect of pushing myself mentally and physically with both bmx and training. It’s just different with bmx if you’re not all in it because you can get fucked up.
I’m not competitively power lifting so the risk factor for my training is nothing compared to my level of risk riding as a professional bmx athlete, but I can still push my body and mind. 💚✌️
Why do you train?
-Josh P.
