And the more I think about it, for a variety of reasons, I think Griff may be right after all in putting me in the pluma category along with guys similarly-sized guys like Cobrinha, Ryan Hall and Professor Christiano.
Pena is 154 pounds in the gi, 149 without. Without killing myself, I've managed to reach a walk-around weight of about 154-155 in recent months and, truth told, the vast majority of the reasons why I haven't been able to stay down there and instead have drifted back up over 160 are reasons that can be dealt with and reduced - if not eliminated.
To that end, here's some familiar advance on the topic of losing weight.
How to Lose 20 lbs. of Fat in 30 Days… Without Doing Any Exercise
It is possible to lose 20 lbs. of bodyfat in 30 days by optimizing any of three factors: exercise, diet, or drug/supplement regimen. I’ve seen the elite implementation of all three in working with professional athletes. In this post, we’ll explore a variation of the “slow carb” diet as used by Dean Karnazes, an ultramarathoner famed for completing 50 marathons on 50 consecutive days in 50 different states. The most impressive part of this, for me, is that he did so, not with the typical anemic marathoner build, but with a well-muscled mesomorph body.
In the last six weeks, I have cut from about 180 lbs. to 165 lbs., while adding about 10 lbs. of muscle, which means I’ve lost about 25 lbs. of fat. This is the only diet besides the rather extreme Cyclical Ketogenic Diet (CKD) that has produced veins across my abdomen, which is the last place I lose fat (damn you, Scandinavian genetics.
