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F1, I sent the link for these to my best friend and she fainted! Looking good buddy. All that hard work is paying off big time.

xoxoxo

Oh my you look fantastic.

Go raw power how would have thought that someone could look so good on raw.

You're just a total hunk F1 - just as well you're protected from me by distance LOL.

Congratulations on all you're achieving with raw.  I'm doing my best to follow in your footsteps.

Love
May

Hey thank you guys so much, I think it's so important to see the benefits and possibilities of the raw/Fruitarian lifestyle, I've vowed to live everyday as a celebration of what Fruitarianism has done for me, there's no way that I'd be in the shape I'm in if I was still comitting slow suicide on cooked foods!

Having said that here's some more!

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Thanks again guys!

You realize it's only a matter of time before you get picked up as a pro fitness/sports model!! You look fabulous!

How many hours a day would you say you're physically active?

Thanks so much, oh I haven't even thought about that, hey what better way to spread the word...eh!

Well I've been experimenting on the whole calories/protien  thing and I get by on less than 200 calories sometimes none per day while only training 5 mins a day, but those 5 mins are intense, I want to see what progress I can make doing that, hense all the pics!

I'm doing this so  can prove that you don't need to stuff yourself or spend hours training....in other words there's no excuses!

Ha,Ha!

F1

Okay F1 you have me very curious about the 5 minute routine you're doing. Can you describe it? By 200 calories do you mean that's all you eat? Can you describe your diet?

Thanks!

There's nothing to explain....I do 4 exercises that cover the whole body and I do 1-3 sets depending on the season, right now it's summer so I'll be doing 3 sets, so my workout will be a little longer!

And I do this on 16-32 oz of fresh oj.

F1

Just on the oj? That's amazing.

Nah....it's not that amazing really, most of us eat when we are not even hungry anyway.....

Here's some pics!

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Ummmm...errrr...No comment...Gotta go take a shower...lil bit too hot..LOL

You look beautiful F1, well done on chosing life and inspiring others.

Love BB

Awesome F1!
I'm very interested in how long you keep up the 5 mins training on 200 calories/day.
I think we all overeat and am intrigued to hear what you discover from your experiment.

Thank you so much for your kind words...you made my day now!

F1

Well buddy, there's really nothing to it.....I've reached the point where food gets in the way if not eating out of true hunger/thirst.

The experiment is over, it's a wrap, as you can see by the pics, with what I've experienced I've already proved to myself that I can thrive/stay in shape by listening to my body, infact out of nowhere I've gained 10lbs this month, this proves to me that when you let your body do what it's gotta do, you will get to your natural weight.

It's been a very long and hard road for me but now I'm reaping the rewards....

F1

Hiya F-1....words fail me..."incredible" springs to mind.

Just wondering what are the four excecises you do to cover the entire body and are they the same excercises daily or do you cycle between various excercises?

John

Incredible....nah not really, I've just worked hard!!!!

Work out your favourite exercises that cover the whole body then do them intensly, find what works for you and stick to it.

F1

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F1, I'm curious if your 4 exercises are similar to Roger Haeske's "Lightning Speed Exercise Program"?

exercises would be different for individual person for many reasons, availablity of equipment, weak or strong body parts etc. Some of exercises F1 is capable of doing I cant do, like handstandpushups - I am not suggesting this is his 1 of 4, but he does them when there is such a challenge etc.

I would say, that for average person, the simplest choice could be:

pushups (many variations)
pullups or chinups
squats
deadlift

I would say that dips could alternate with pushups...

another usefull exercises is hanging leg raises
If I was designing 4 exercises per day system, I would alternate 2 different days.

A - pushups, pullups, squats (weight or 1 legged), hanging leg raises
B - dips, chinups, deadlift, core twisting

I've no idea what "Roger" does and I don't follow anyones routines but my own based on what works for me, to me exercise is exercise...you choose what works for you and you go from there....

Ruddies right, I wouldn't recommend 4 exercises as a one size fits all program, that's what I do based on my own progression with my diet and fitness!

It's all very personal to each individual depending on what stage they are at and what mindset they have!

Cool. Good advice guys.

Rudolf, Is a deadlift a chinup from a straight armed hanging position?

Grant, deadlift is exercise for hamstring, glutes, and involves also calves and lower back, but beacuse You hold heavy BB it is also working upper back and arms.

You standing with straigh legs (knees only slightly bend), You bend in hips, but keep back straigh, and lift the heavy BB off the floor with just moving upper body up - straighteing the hip, without arching the back and at the end the bar will end up on Your thights., that go down again and repeat.

This exrcise is working the chain of muscles on the beg of legs starting with muscle of the foot, achiles, calves all for stability, than actively hams and glutes, and teh chain passively continues to lower and upper back.
If heavy BB also works muscles of the abs. It is nearly all body workout, but specificaly it is exellent running exercise if done with light BB but done in speed to work the breaking forces on the way down - concentric and exentric stuff. The cooperation of glutes and hams with the support of feet, calves and back makes it an ideal and most important exercises for runners and walkers.


It is one of the 3 exercises of powerlifting and on powerlifting websites there is plenty of theory about how and what and plenty of supportive and partial and preparatory exercises for the deadlift exercise.

Quadriceps is the only muscle not working.


as for chinups and pullups terminology is not that clear and i found lots of comnflicting use of the terms, so this is how I use them :

both are done from hanging down from straight arms, the only difference is how You hold the bar, I call pullup the position when I hold it from the top,
and chinup, when I hold it from the bottom, which is more biceps exercise.


sometimes pullups is used when body is paralel with the ground legs suported and it is like inverse back row exercise using body weight instead of BB.

Dips I call the vertical dips on the paralel bars - working pecs as wel as tric

Tric dips I call, what is call sometimes bench dips - legs suported and hands on the edge of bench or chair and moving bum towards the floor and up, it isolates the triceps, but I feel also some parts of shoulders

Grant,

A deadlift is lifting a weighted bar from the floor and simply standing up straight with it.

Google it to get the technique.

It develops/strengthens the erector muscles either side of the spine in the lower back plus works some leg muscles.

Advanced practioners can lift some pretty hefty weights with this excercise....and i'm assuming that is the deadlift Rudy is refering to.

John

Yes John, but my empfasis is, that if done correctly it is a hamms-glute exrecise, spine errectors should be only secondary, as the spine should not realy move, it is just turn around hip joint.

Thanks for all the details Rudolf!
And thanks for the info John.

Strength is my greatest athletic weakness.
I'm the opposite of F1 :-)
So this stuff is very important for me.

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Wow excellent i will show my partner these pics and get him motivated.

Anyhow are you that yoga guy they keep showing on tv commercials? you look so much like him.

Wow F1, your pics and this thread has made my day. Thank you. I’m inspired now!
Nic