In the previous article, two groups of exercises are proposed to help create a healthy habit of working out daily. The routine mentioned is aimed at providing a full body work out, while maintaining a busy life with lots of responsibilities and a minimal amount of available time. The routine consist of 3 days in the week spend doing one hard set of the exercises programmed for that day. In between these 3 work out days, you have 3 cardio days, you spend working on your cardio in a functional manner. This can be by activities, such as boxing, working on your ground fighting techniques, swimmin ..read more

In the previous article, we talked about our physical temple and a proper definition of health. From a Christian perspective that is. One that still would be objective, so true for even non-Christians and measurable to prove that point. I stated that health is best defined as functional and metabolic efficiency. In the last article we talked about functional efficiency and what that entails. Now we will shift the focus to that other type of efficiency our body should achieve as much as possible. Metabolic Efficiency If functional efficiency is the ability to use your body to the full extent of ..read more

Five years ago the journey began of blogging on the subject of being a Christian man with a healthy lifestyle. If you think about it, being a Christian should actually mean being as healthy as circumstantially possible, as it is part of our faith to take care of all that we receive from the Almighty. This most definitely includes our bodies. The first ever article was about a daily routine a man can do to sustain a base level of physical fitness. This while also maintaining normal life responsibilities and functions such as; having a job and doing it to the best of your abilities, studying, be ..read more

A post on Reddit little over a year ago was a painful example of how young men in the church and Christian communities nowadays, are suffering because there is no adequate mentorship. In the post a young man (probably still more of a teenager) was asking for prayer, since he had asked a girl (he had met her at a camp or something) to be his girlfriend. She had responded that she wanted to think about it (yes, that dreaded female escape route). He was asking for the fellow members on that particular forum to pray that she would make up her mind and say yes. In his mind she was the one the Lord ..read more

Do you remember the first time you saw the scene where a super cool looking Laurence Fishburne as ‘Morpheus’, presents an almost baby face Keanu Reeves as ‘Neo’ with the choice between the Red and the Blue pill? Blue represented a life where things stayed the same; you knew what you were getting. The red pill represented, getting the veil pulled from your eyes; the harsh reality. It is implied that only the strong, the courageous, the bold can handle taking the Red pill. At some point later in the film the coward/traitor even utters the words: ‘Ignorance is bliss’. You might not know this, but ..read more

When you look around an average Christian congregation (it depends a bit on the denomination). Well let me rephrase that; If you looked around in any given Christian congregation before COVID, you would notice that the obesity pandemic predominantly attacking the developed world, does not stop at religious lines. Many of us haven’t been able to look around a fully packed church in a long time. Watching a YouTube video, I ones heard a very fit fifty something explain that disease is nature’s way of testing us and subsequently culling the unfit. A seemingly constant harsh reality. Looking at the ..read more

Have you ever watched one of those shows where they help obese people lose weight in a record amount of time? They may even pay for a tummy fix if they manage to lose a certain amount of weight which qualifies them for the procedure. I have always watched with a sense of increasing horror. In all of the different shows I saw, whether it was the US versions or some local version, one thing was always true: These people would get seriously tortured. And I am not saying this in a figurative sense. These people would be literally tortured for the entertainment of the viewer. Their torture would no ..read more

So after you read the commandments, you start to pray. But how? Praying (especially if you do it non-verbally) is a difficult mental exercise. One way to stay the course is to pray out loud. It keeps your thoughts from running amok and after a few minutes you find yourself thinking about how you still need to unclug the sink or finish that document you were working on. The second way to combat this is by having a structure, so that every time you stray (and in the beginning there is a very good chance you will), you have a line you can get back to, to stay on course. As praying in itself is a ..read more

The great struggle. That is how I would characterize my journey to work on my relationship with God in a consistent and structured manner. There were times when I would read and pray every day and there were times when my bible actually collected a thick layer of dust. I have the feeling that most Christians know what I am talking about. So what is the current situation you might wonder? At which ends of the spectrum is he now? Well by now I have established a habit of spending time 95% of the week with God. Establishing the habit has been a grueling process which eventually yielded this resul ..read more

Compiling a list of calorie dense food is disheartening. Some of our favourites are prominently mentioned and high ranking. Yet like in all things in which we need to improve, some bravery is called for and the acquisition of knowledge on nutrition is no exception. In the previous article we promised to look at an extensive list of high-calorie dense foods, as well as one on low-calorie dense foods, to help us in for example meal sequencing. So here we go. Examples of foods with a high caloric density – Peanut butter – Chocolate – Cheese – Pasta – Chocolate nut spread – Salad dressing – Olive ..read more