Ditch the Gimmicks: 5 Ways to Get Fit for Free and Without Equipment
As North American men continue to push the physical boundaries of their standard pant sizes, the diet and fitness industries are quick to follow by pumping out crazier, and crazier contraptions and products in an attempt to cash in on us supposedly overfat, hypo-muscular consumers.
Take for example the phallic ”Shake Weight for Men” – a frivilous piece of fitness equipment that looks mildly to moderately inappropriate when in use (c’mon, you so lol’d!).The “Shake Weight” is only a one example from the seemingly endless stream of sensationalized fitness equipment on market today, most of which are sitting underneath our beds, stashed in the basement, and eventually end up in a landfill (or doomed to be unattractive lawn chairs).
Rather than contribute to the massive amounts of waste and money spent on products that seem to do little to curb our bounding bellies, here are some greener ways to get fit. And if you’re like me and have an attention span that’s too short for the gym (or you’re just allergic to gym fees), here are 5 free ways to get fit for free or inexpensively (without the fandangled infomercial equipment): Continue reading
Tears for Ears: Manly Men Go Vegan?
It seems the former heavyweight champion and infamous ear biter, Mike Tyson, has been following a plant-based diet for nearly a year. He describes the result of changing his diet as extreme, but the results have made it worth sticking to.
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Men are creative folks. Since time in memorial, we’ve used whatever nature has provided us to survive and thrive in this crazy world. Take for example, the case of George Vera:
A morbidly obese inmate at a Texan prison was discovered to be concealing a 9mm handgun in his rolls of flab. 36 stone [504 lb] criminal George Vera was arrested this week for selling illegal bootlegged CDs and taken to a correctional facility. Despite being searched by police officers three times, he still managed to smuggle the unloaded weapon into the facility by hiding it under his flabby tits. Police spokesman Victor Senties told The Houston Chronicle that Vera was searched when he was initially arrested, again more thoroughly when he arrived at the city jail and one more time when he was transferred to the county lock up. On all three occasions the searching officers failed to notice the firearm lodged in Vera’s folds of skin.
Beyond Protein I Say
Men love food. Not only do we generally eat more of it than our female counterparts, food (especially meat) plays a significant role in how we produce our identities as men and how we relate to each other. As poignantly stated by one of the chefs, er, manly food cookers, in Man Cooking: Swiss Meat Roll, “Little known fact, weaving is manly, as long as you’re weaving with BACON!” Meat, cooking (particularly with fire, not an induction stove top), and our ideas about manliness are inextricably linked to one another in the defining of the masculine. The average male body requires more protein than a female one simply by virtue of body size, we’re generally bigger, unless you’re a giant Dutch woman… But how much do our bodies actually need? According to Gloria Tsang, Registered Dietician for HealthCastle.com:
The average requirement is calculated based on 0.8 grams of protein per kg of body weight. Therefore, a 165 pound (75 kg) man would need 60 grams of protein daily. In general, both healthy men and women (regardless of body size) will do fine with 60 grams of protein a day. That is equivalent to eight ounces of meat.
I’m about 170 pounds or 77 kg, so according to this calculation, my daily protein needs average to about 61 grams a day. 8 ounces of meat? That’s about the size of a deck of cards! If you’re the average guy like me, you eat far more than a deck of cards worth of meat a day, chances are you’ve eaten a Caesar’s Palace worth in one sitting. The average Canadian eats about 62.61 kg (132 lbs) of meat (inclusive of red, seafood, and poultry) a year. 132 lbs!? That’s a f*cking person worth of flesh! Nonetheless, that averages out to about 172 grams a day, nearly three times the necessary intake for the general man population without counting non-meat sources of protein.
Despite the fact that the average man (read: not an elite athlete, ‘roid monkey, or Chuck Norris) doesn’t need any more protein for nutrition’s sake, according to Food Ethics Council, the worldwide consumption of meat is expected to be double the 229 million tonnes we consumed in 2000 by 2050, especially in heavily populated and increasingly wealthy countries like China where the population already consumes nearly 50% of the world’s supply of pork. And you thought you liked bacon… Continue reading
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