Recently a friend of mine decided he was going to do a cleanse to prime himself for his latest fitness program "Insanity: The Asylum" (read my Asylum journey here). I have written about him before in the Body Experiment series of blogs under the alias "Noob" (Body Experiments I, Body Experiments II, Body Experiments III). Since he has transformed his body he is now comfortable dropping his alias and "unmasking" and will be addressed by his real name, Gursh. Funny how the need for anonymity is in direct correlation to his waist size and body fat percentage.
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| Also Day 1 of P90X as he started right on the heals of Insanity |
Gursh has just completed one round of P90X and to prepare himself for the Asylum performed a 3 day cleanse. Three days seems to be a bit short for a cleansing program but his cleanse was not designed for weight loss. Gursh performed a Shakeology cleanse. The main focus of this type of cleanse is to maximize the amount of nutrients you take in with minimal calories. It is all about priming your body to accept nutrients more efficiently and reach a level of homeostasis to maximize results of an upcoming workout/nutrition program. Nutritional efficiency is the name of the game.
Despite the fact that this type of cleanse is not truly designed to lose weight or inches, Gursh did see a drop in both. In the three days he lost a total of 7lbs and about 1.5 inches around his waist as a bonus (currently 166lbs down from 191lbs in Jan, waist from 40" now at 32", body fat from 27% to about 10%). Gursh will continue to have a Shakeology shake daily as it is super nutrient dense and will help with maintaining and improving on his current results. When you focus on becoming healthy and improving physical performance rather than just "losing weight" or getting a six pack the results are life augmenting - and you end up losing weight and getting that six pack anyway lol.
By the way Gursh is not the only one to "unmask" from prior blogs. Say hello to Mitch aka "Sub Zero" and his results from his journey with P90X...and if you haven't guessed these two are both official Super Mudders!
