I can’t remember the last time someone ‘spot’ me properly in the gym and by properly I mean not doing the exercise on my behalf. I wish it was just my fellow gym members but I’ve found instructors to be some of the worst offenders. Continue reading
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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Overtraining & Calorie Restriction
I just finished listening to Robb Wolf’s Paleo Solution podcast. Always entertaining and informative.
Leptin Rx 5 Week Review
I’m officially 5 weeks into the Leptin Reset so it’s about time I did a quick progress update. You will remember I started the reset at 68.2kg and 18% body fat. My weight hasn’t budged until this week where I’ve come in at 68.8kg!
The SIM card roaming game
I tweeted this back in early March when I was travelling and as usual had to mess around with multiple local SIM cards.
Can we get rid of #SIM cards now? Choose network like setting a profile, in any country, select tariff & pay with #Apple ID or CC #roaming
— Mishaal AlQurashi(@Mishaal) March 5, 2012
Leptin Rx – Breakfast
An essential part of the Leptin Rx is the BAB (Big Ass Breakfast). After months of intermittent fasting on Leangains, I must admit that I struggled for the first few days eating 50g–70g of protein as soon as I woke up.
Ribbit alternatives in the UK
I had been using Ribbit’s voicemail transcribing service since they started their beta trial in the UK which must have been about three years ago now. You receive a voicemail, the message is converted to text and sent to you by SMS and/or email. The email also includes an MP3 of the actual voicemail.
This is what you get for using a Star Trek reference…
@Mishaal YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED
— Borg Collective (@_BorgCollective) April 2, 2012
DXA Total Body Scan
Dual-emission X-ray absorptiometry or DXA to his friends is a medical device used to measure bone density. It’s main use is to diagnose and assess osteoporosis. What interested me was that it can also be used to measure total body composition including fat content.
There seems to be some debate about it’s accuracy in calculating fat mass. I don’t have access to hydrostatic weighing, callipers are too fiddly and the consumer
scales and handheld devices are far from accurate. So I’m very happy to rely on the DXA.
The scan took a total of 12 minutes and the machine doesn’t make any horrific noises and despite my feet being strapped together I found it fairly easy to relax but perhaps that says something about me?
Resistance is futile! Or how to restore leptin sensitivity
In my last diet post I went through what leptin is, how it works and the effect it has on body composition. My reading and experimentation have now brought me to leptin resistance and how to restore leptin sensitivity. Very simply, leptin resistance is when the hormone isn’t working properly, causing the leptin receptors in the hypothalamus to down regulate or when something is blocking it from reaching the receptors.
