Up next in 10
A few updates today:
- Frequency of updates
- Focusing on Body Fat %
- Weight training
- New studio in my future!
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Well, good evening everybody. Welcome to Steak Insanity
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It's... Today is day 81 of my carnivore diet and I wanted to make a video tonight
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because I actually really miss doing the daily videos. I know it got... For me it felt a little bit boring
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and like it was just... I felt like I was saying the same thing
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and then I was having to make up stuff every time but it was also quite cathartic for me in a way
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and I haven't really figured out how I want to do this
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what's the right cadence for these. I feel like weekly is too far apart for me anyway
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but every night is too often maybe. And I know just from the little bit of feedback that I got from the poll that I ran
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that most people seem to think either weekly or just when I had something to talk about
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was the preferred cadence. So, I might just try doing it more randomly
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and just talking about stuff when it comes up. I mean tonight this was the thing
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I do have something else that I want to talk about as well. So, I did have another alternative for that
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So, what are we going to talk about tonight? So, the cadence obviously of the videos which we've talked about already
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I want to also talk about weighing myself and keeping track of my stats
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because again I've been struggling with weighing myself every day and that I feel the need to weigh myself every day
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and I've been doing it because I'm more comfortable if I do it than if I don't
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and it does enable me to just keep an eye on what's going on
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What I've actually discovered though which I hadn't really thought about is that my scale records all sorts of stuff
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It records body fat percentage. It records water percentage. It records like bone density and all sorts of stuff
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And what I've really started looking at actually now is I don't really care about the weight as much
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I've now started looking at the body fat percentage as a better gauge of what's going on
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because actually the body fat percentage a lot of times doesn't have anything to do with what the weight is doing
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So, I've started to look at that as more of an indicator of where I am now
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and where I would like to be and where I started. So, this will probably come out in some of the monthly updates as we move forward
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but I just thought it was interesting. So, I went back and because I've been using the same scale the whole time
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I have all the data all the way back to January when I started
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So, I actually went back and put in the body fat percentage for every day
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just to kind of see had it really changed at all. And on the 1st of January when I very first started my body fat percentage was 18.9%
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And over time it's fallen and today this morning it was 17.8%
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So, that's by my reckoning that's 1.1% body fat loss which I think is a reasonable number and I think it's been lower than that
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It's been as low as 17.5% I think or 17.6%
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So, 17.6% is as low as it's been but that funnily enough wasn't on the day that I'd had the lowest weight
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So, again it doesn't directly correlate to weight which I also find is interesting as well
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So, there's a lot of factors at play with weight and we've talked about that
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and people have put it in the comments and there's tons and tons of videos about it as well
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And it's one of the reasons why a lot of people don't recommend that you weigh yourself
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and you use that as any measure because again as you exercise and you start to work out
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then you maybe build some more muscle and you're getting rid of fat and muscle's heavier
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So, your weight could actually go up but you're dropping clothes sizes at the same time
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and it seems to not make any sense. So, anyway I am still weighing myself every day
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and I am still logging all of my metrics and all my food and everything
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but I'm a lot less stressed about it than I used to be which is odd
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So, yeah anyway so I'm focusing a little bit more on body fat percentage at the minute
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which I think is probably a better one. And if you take it that it's correct or somewhat correct
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I don't know where I want to be like I don't know what a target body fat percentage is
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Maybe 12, 12 feels like a reasonable number and I think that if I continue to gain a bit of muscle
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so I am, we'll talk about that in a minute, but if I continue to gain a bit of muscle and lose a bit of fat
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the weight number isn't going to matter but it is going to sort of change the ratios
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which will also help the body fat percentage come down. So, my soft goal at the minute just finger in the air for no other reason
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than to have a target to work towards is 12%. I don't think I'm going to reach that in probably 12 months
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So, I don't expect this isn't like some drastic thing where I think I'm going to do that in a month
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I don't actually expect that. If I got 1% every couple of months which is what it looks like at the minute, that's good
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I think that's a good rate to be working at particularly if I'm not really watching that much what I eat
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and I'm also working out in the gym and actually lifting weights
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So, that's another point. So, I have been back, I've been a lot more active in the gym lately
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and I've changed what I've been doing. So, you'll remember if you've seen any of the videos and if you haven't, I apologize
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but I got back into doing a lot of cardio and running on the treadmill
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and really doing a lot of that, but I felt quite weak
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and I felt like I was getting not just... not that I was losing fat
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but I kind of felt like I was losing a bit of muscle as well and I don't want that
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That's definitely not what I want to do. So, what I've decided to do is I'm now mixing my workouts
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So, I'm doing about a half an hour of weight training and then I do just a half an hour of cardio, but I'm not even running
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I'm doing very slow, low heart rate cardio just to keep the heart pumping, to build up a little bit of stamina
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So, I'm hovering my... I keep my heart rate around 138 to 142, kind of in that area
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and I just do that for half an hour. And I do it on the bike because it's much easier for me to control
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So, I know if I'm going a little bit, if it starts to push a little bit too high
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or I'm going a little bit too fast and my heart rate is going up too much, it's easy for me to control to bring it back down to a level in that range
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I think that's called zone 2. So, I'm just trying to keep it in that range
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but I'm still wanting to actually lift weights. And what I found when I've lifted weights in the past
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and what I'm finding this time as well is that when you go in and you work out
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your muscles get pumped, they fill with water and that's part of the healing process, you know, is you need the water in the muscles
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and that's how you get the pump and that's why you look a bit bigger. And so, some of the weight that's on whatever the number is in my weight
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is going to be from just from the water for me working out
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and the muscles being more engorged and full and that's totally fine
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So, I'm really happy and I actually feel a bit better now that I'm back lifting weights
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So, I have a couple of different, I haven't really decided how I'm going to split them up
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but I generally do one day of legs, I do one push day and one pull day sort of
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and then I do one day that's focused entirely on my shoulders
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because I had shoulder, I had an old American football injury where I separated my shoulder and I had to have surgery on that
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and it's never been right since then. And so, I have to do, I pay a lot of attention to my shoulders
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and I do some special shoulder workouts. So, that was the other thing
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So, yeah, frequency, I'm going to start doing more videos, so maybe every couple of days just to, just because I enjoy it
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Actually, I'm doing a lot of video stuff at work at the minute. So, I am getting my, I'm getting my video fill
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and I'm, like I said before, I'm kind of doing it in other places
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but I do still want to keep doing these because I enjoy doing them
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and it's good for me to talk about. So, hopefully I'll get back to a little bit better routine
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of doing more videos instead of weekly. I am keeping track of my macros but like I said
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I am focusing now mainly on body fat percentage just to see where that goes and how that moves up and down
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and back in the gym. And then the last thing was, I haven't signed the paperwork yet
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but it looks like I'm going to have a new studio soon and that's going to be for work
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and it's mainly going to be an audio podcasting studio that I'm going to run in Tunbridge, Wales
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But I will probably move my camera setup and all my setup that I have in here
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if I have a small studio or an office that I can record in there
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then I'll probably move all my kit there and out of my house which means, A, you'll have a new background
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B, it'll be, excuse me, it'll be really plain probably for a while while I try and get things set up
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and I'll do these during the day instead of at the end of the evening all the time
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But I'm really looking forward to that. It's a whole new adventure and doing sort of podcast production
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and video podcast production and helping some other people out with their shows
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I've already got some customers and some people that I'm helping and I love that and it's really good fun
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So yeah, I expect to see maybe a change in environment on my end into a new office
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and over the next couple of months, I'll be working on getting that office out
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and making it a little bit more comfortable and lived in and a nice place to work
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and then there'll be another studio that comes after that, but we'll talk about that one later
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But yeah, anyway, so lots of stuff going on at the minute. I appreciate this has been probably a longer video than I intended in the beginning
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So if you're still watching, thanks for hanging in there. If you're new to the channel, please make sure and hit the subscribe button
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and hit the bell so that you will get notified when I do updates
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And other than that, I think that's it for tonight. So everybody have a good evening and we will see you soon
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Bye bye. you
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