Zen My Fitness – Linking Muscle and Mind

I like to experiment and found a cool technique on how to make your veins pop out especially if you want to highlight your leanness in a photo shoot.

I know I’m diverging away a bit from what I normally write about and it’s not really Zen minded but I like amuse myself.

It will only work if you are lean enough and then use food to explode internally that is to push your veins closer to the surface.

It’s simple and sort of enjoyable when I explain what you need to do but it only last a few days.

If you want vascularity (see those veins)  to last longer then have a look at my last months body transformation workout or have a look at these videos of Visual Impact.

Visual Impact is a body building fitness program that I used to get leaner and build some muscle and the bonus section is the “get ripped” section”. It uses effective and unique techniques to get a lean muscular look.

Anyways here is what I did to make it happen.

Starting off you need to be lean: guys 12% of body fat but less is better. I don’t think girls would want to try it but females need to be about 18% body fat if you do.

I’m around 10% plus or minus a percent.

For 2 weeks diet hard to lower your body fat %.

Over 2 weeks I used intermittent fasting (which is an excellent method of dropping body fat) I did 2  x 24 hour days each week but not consecutively, that’s too hard.

My “re-feed” day was a Saturday so on the day before i.e Friday, I de-hydrated where I drank very little fluids, be careful here don’t go too far.

On the Saturday, I couldn’t wait! This is where you eat 2-3 times as much food as you can.

I normally eat around 3000 calories per day or less. My maintenance level is about 2800 calories but my target on Saturday was 7000 calories but I could only manage to eat 5500 calories, I just couldn’t fit it all in.

My problem was I started off with unprocessed whole foods but they didn’t have enough calories, I was getting full too quickly so I had to turn to junk food (yeah) ! Maybe not a bad thing for some?

Saturday morning Sept2010

Sunday Afternoon 24 hrs later Sept 2010

That’s it:

Wait 24-48 hours and my veins came closer to the surface and I looked a lot harder.

So simple and relatively easy.

Here is my Re-Feed diet:

Breakfast:

1/2 cup of oats, 1 tbsp honey, 2 bananas, mixed nuts and seeds, Mocca coffee, apple, 3 eggs

Lunch:

1 whole BBQ chicken and skin ( I have been a vegetarian for 5 years but I thought I need to try this), 1 large fried chips and sauce

Afternoon tea:

250 gram yogurt, mixed nuts and seeds

Dinner:

1 whole vegetarian large pizza, cheese cake and 2 glasses of red wine.

Total 5420 calories

In doing all this I did make my veins pop out more than they normally do.

It can leave an impression of being leaner than you actually are, I really only did it for a bit of fun.

This is isn’t for everyone but the real idea I wanted to express is:

the importance of cycling your calories like re-feeding or some call it cheat meals!

So you need to “reset” your body for fat loss.

If you have been dieting for a long time make sure you eat up once and a while because your body will love it and so will your mind.

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

You can see the results on my last experiment for following a Crazy Celebrity Diet called “the Cabbage Soup Diet“.