It's funny how my attitude toward lifting weights has evolved over the last few years. I started out as most young guys do wanting huge muscles, but after enduring several knee and shoulders problems I've come to realize that being a functional human is more important
100%. I just had this conversation with a friend pushing past his 30s. The pursuit of big macho muscles is long gone, now it's about longevity, flexibility and functional fitness. I want to be able to do a LOT with my kids well into old age and that needs preparation.
YUP. I lift a couple times a week and I haven't thought about size in years. I train for basically two things.. being able to lift heavy stuff from the ground and hold it above my head at work for a long time, and surfing 😎
Wow! I loved the gym in the middle of the jungle. Nature everywhere. No masks!!! And the sunset... So beautiful! It must be amazing to live in a place like this! 🌅
Living the life bro, I have that much time too cause I am self employed but sometimes it gets boring or lonely because you don't have coworkers and most people can't relate to you because all they have known is the 9-5 grind, so people looking from the outside may think it's great (it is pretty great, not gonna lie) but it's not peaches and rainbows, everything has its downsides, so be grateful for whatever you have in your life and appreciate it, because everything always has two sides. More importantly think about this: When you want what you have, you will have what you want. That is probably the most important sentence I have ever known because as humans it is very easy to be dissatisfied with our life's, specially in todays modern society, more than ever, we need to be grateful and thankful for what we are and what we have so we can feel peace and be in harmony, and not be stressed out, tense, and fragmented in our minds. Peace brothers and sisters
Wow it’s crazy how me and Paul have almost the exact same routine. I just wake up at 5:15 and go to work at fedex for about 10 -12 hours then I come home and take care of my elderly mother for couple of hours then go home and eat and shower then pass out from exhaustion.
Well done! Love the vid. My son, Mike (17 yr old Carnivore) just got back from hiking Costa Rica for a month...he said you need to go explore and see the waterfall that spills directly into the ocean near you...(He cannot remember the waterfall nam, LOL)
Definitely stealing your workout routine. Also got some Heart and Soil products! Health is something to take very seriously and I’m glad we have people like Paul on the Earth to help us out ❤
This is my jam! beach life for ever healthy living, waking up early, exercise, breath that ocean, eat clean right from the farms just the way I grew up! Next year I'll be doing this again and again! Great video!
LOVE the video Paul. You really are an inspiration for those people who wants to achieve radical health and an amazing lifestyle. Thanks Paul for spreading this message. I am actually in my first month of eating an animal-based diet (animal meat, organs, least toxic fruits, honey and raw dairy) and I noticed some changes in my energy levels and physic already. I feel more energized and focused during the day. And I also learned some amazing recipes like The Perfect Steak and the carnivore waffles. I've never cooked this way before so I am learning some much from you Paul. I am grateful for that humans like you are walking on this earth. Keep up the hard work and always learning from you. Thank Paul :)
What? No wave footage? Blasphemy! And as far as genetics, you are definitely on the upper range for natural muscularity and in the top 1% for flexibility. Your morning loosening up would be most folks lifetime goal after 10 years of yoga. You're hanging out with the wrong people if you think you're average genetically.
That’s weird to say. Paul has nothing special from what I can tell. Anybody can achieve this with PROPER training in a few years. Top 1% is inaccurate, a top 1% percentile human would look much much different. He may be top 1% of people in practice since nobody in the modern world lives like this - but it’s achievable for us all
@@StanislavKozlovsk I've been surfing for 36 years. i surf every day for about two hours. I live in santa Cruz. Paul's physique would stick out in the lineup for sure. Especially for the actual effort he puts into maintaining and building muscle. I know exactly one surfer who sports a legit six pack. And only a handful who carry that much lean mass in the water. Extra muscle not needed for surfing is hard to maintain. Your body tries it's best to get rid of it. He's actually more muscular than most pro surfers. What you see in the gym doesn't count. PEDs are rampant and most guys in the gym aren't athletes, meaning in training for a sport. Their sport is getting jacked. But when you venture outside that and see athletes training for a specific sport other than building muscle, you really don't see those types of physiques because they lack adaptation. And his flexibility it top 1% for sure. I only know a handful of surfers with that type of flexibility and they all rip. The more flexible the greater your athletic potential. This is universal in all sports. Even golf. So, not achievable for most, especially the flexibility. That is entirely genetic. Lots of guys can build a solid physique dedicating themselves to weightlifting and easily surpass Paul's current physique, but that kind of baseline physique that he has (well muscled and lean), that he maintains with so little effort, is not common. His physique reminds me of a local dude who was an alcoholic. He would slowly ride his beach cruiser every day, totally wasted. Never exercised or wore a shirt. Even in winter. He was probably pushing 60 and he was jacked. No one could figure it out. But obviously he had insane genetics for building and maintaining muscle mass because he had chimpanzee arms and only lifted a 40oz for exercise ;)
@@claybutler Eh, if you do Tom Merrick's 10 minute flexibility morning and night time routines, you will get to the 1% flexibility range within about a month because nowadays, 99% of people are insanely INflexible 😂 Also look at Paul's training, he incorporates functional/primal movement patterns (Ido Portal comes to mind) to not only strengthen the muscles, but increase flexibility at the same time. He has 1% flexibility because he trains like 1% of people, nobody does knees over toes exercises in my gym except ONE guy I know besides myself. Nobody stretches in between sets exceps ONE other guy I know that also comes from a calisthenics/yoga background. Being in the 1% flexibility range isn't really difficult. I just believe that Paul is incredibly disciplined when it comes to eating a ton of protein, that's all. For me personally, after having adapted a similar version (carbs in the morning OR post workout, trying to up my fats and eating more organ meats) I've seen huge improvements in muscle gain.
@@bowtiedreynard9167 See, the problem is the assumption that we all have similar genetics. I did yoga for 10 years straight and I could still barely touch my toes. Three full sessions a week plus a mini one before bedtime. On my mom's side of family we have these incredibly tight hamstrings. My grandfather was a lifelong athlete even almost made the Olympic team in cycling for Canada. Professional bowler. Picked up quite a few trophies for powerlifting. He could do the strong man routine where you could tear a phone book. But that guy could barely bend at the waist. There's a baseline flexibility that everyone is born with and they really can't go that much farther past it. When you see those yoga teachers who flop around like a rubber band what they don't tell you is they were like that on the very first day they did yoga. They haven't made that much progress in all the years they've been doing yoga. They were just doing advanced poses on their first day. So no if you can't do what Paul's doing right now with no training within maybe 90% of his flexibility you will never get there. Not everyone can build muscle mass very easily. Everyone has different levels of flexibility that are determined largely by genetics. You can't change your muscle insertions. You can't change your proportions. Everyone can improve, but somebody who has bad flexibility will never reach the level of somebody who was born with good flexibility and never trained a day in their life. We accept all sorts of genetic limitations except when it comes to exercise when suddenly supposably we're all equal and we just need to work hard. But that's not how it works. I'll give you a very concrete example. I used to paint custom designs on ceramic sinks and tiles. We use these little brushes and we had to paint inside the bowls. Most people had to leave the job due to chronic pain in a couple years. But there was three of us who were long-term employees in the 8 to 15 year range. My boss wanted to understand what was going on. Why some people could do this job physically and others couldn't. So they brought in a workplace ergonomics expert and they measured everyone. All of our limbs how far we could bend and so on. Everyone that had been there for a long time had these unusually long torsos and very long arms and especially forearms. We were in the top 10% easily of the population. And if you combine all of our features we were probably in the top five percent. So the ergonomic requirements of the job weeded out people pretty fast if they didn't have this unusual body proportions. Because if you can't get up and over into the sink with your arm easily the job will cause a lot of pain. There's no amount of stretching, or special adaptive devices or ergonomic considerations that can get around that situation. You either are born with these proportions that allow you to do the job or you're not. This is literally everything in life. The people that are well genetically suited to whatever endeavor they are getting involved in, have the opportunity to get really good, and to flourish and become elite. Those that don't have the genetic predisposition get frustrated, get injured and have a much harder time. And they generally find something else to do that's a better match for the way they were born.
@@claybutler of course he has abs have you seen his diet ? He’s a freaking carnivore! The food in California is totally trash - so much unhealthy options everywhere, why would the surfers there have good bodies? I am arguing that the alleged 1% in flexibility is not genetics but rather achievable with focused training
Nice form in the gym lad! We're seriously thinking of sailing our boat south out of what is becoming an oppressive country (Canada)... I just hope we aren't too late next summer.... who would have ever imagined you could be held prisoner in your own country...
Hey Paul, Thankyou for the video it was really nice and I appreciate the education regarding harmful stimulus, and the adaptive effect. You said near the end of the video that you don’t know why we are here, me and my wife didn’t know that aswell, and it was hard us to see the beauty In life. I am glad you can see how beautiful the sky is and the way waves form that we may surf them, the way livestock is made perfect for our consumption in its natural form, and all the other things that allow us to function fruitfully in this life. I’ll tell you this my friend, it was something my dad told me before he passed away, and it let to me getting married, and to me finding a much deeper purpose in life, a deeper understanding, hope, not darkness. He told me to ask GOD for truth knowledge wisdom and understanding~ I didn’t know if God was real at the time, but I tried it.
It takes a lot of energy motivation and dedication to be able to live a life like this. Something which very few people have I think.. most people drag themselves to their 9-5 jobs, get home and watch Netflix
@@dinajohansen8932 I think this is the anti-success attitude. I’ve never heard of anyone with an attitude like that being successful at anything. It’s because they spend their time bringing people down instead of themselves and those around then up and rejoice in peoples successes.
@@dinajohansen8932 look how privileged your life is compared to people living in poverty their whole life, and YOU’RE complaining wishing life was better. Do something about it! No ones forcing to stay in a country that makes you broke! He lives in Costa rica, much cheaper than most places..
This video is so cracking me up man. I think you’re living like my exact life but in CR. I surf or skate every morning here in Kona, HI. You even have the same shoes and socks I skate in man. I also workout and do all the knees over toes, and squat press stuff. I eat mostly meat, but start my days with papaya avo smoothies daily. I also fast 16 everyday. I wish I had that surfskate snake run though. I also have a couple FireWire setups. Anyways, I cracked onto your videos from a guy I see in the lineup who buys your organ supplements. Cool man. Aloha.
The people in Okinawa are like this. Plus it's so gorgeous here how can you not partake! We like finding waterfalls only known by the locals also ❤️ Haven't ran into any Habu yet, thank goodness!
Does it get old or feel unfulfilling at a point when all you’re doing is this basic stuff? I found something similar for myself when I focused more on simple in the moment movements/living (albeit not to the same extent)
Materialistic culture has polluted your brain to want temporary secondary satisfaction. Long term satisfaction is not based on the senses but on the mind. Dalai Lama
No wonder he can burn 150 to 200 gr of sugar with such a life style.. But recommending eating that amount to sedentary people in the northern hemisphere is quite another thing.
A bigger issue for most people is carb addiction. I cannot eat honey or fruit without wanting to binge, it is impossible for me to moderate my intake, I have to completely abstain, far easier to eat none.
@Keto_Carnivore Controls Tech Thank you for mentioning Dr Robert cywas. I was not familiar with his videos, but after reading your comment, I have watched video after video.
@hypercarnivore controls tech so what healthy carbohydrate did our ancestors eat that they never got diabetes from? Oh they ate fruit.. Do you know that carbohydrates from things like bread break down when digested into? Sugar. Our body’s are well adapted to process natural fructose from fruits, not processed grains etc
@hypercarnivore controls tech you talk about spikes and peak insulin load, but are ignorant to the fact that what matters more is cumulative insulin load. With this diet your body responds and insulin drops much faster (about 1 hour), as well as has a lower fasting insulin load. This results in a much lower cumulative insulin load. The dangers are in processed sugars. Not natural fructose from fruit
Not a longboard, but also not a popsicle. Gotta love those retro decks. I’ve got a Steve Saiz Powell deck with some Welcome Orbs for wheels, and nothing flies around a park better
Looks like a great day! Your approach to the gym is great and very positive/healthy. You should try working in se sort of horizontal press like bench press or weighted push-ups - it does wonders for your pop-up when surfing!
A note on training for strong ligaments, tendons and bones: I fully believe that an animal-based diet and heavy, functional lifting is why I can weather my chronic Lyme disease and I'm not bed-bound. Yes, I lost 24 lbs of muscle before I manged to reset by going strict carnivore for a month, and yes, Lyme damaged my connective tissue. But I had the muscle to lose and protect my organs, and my joints, ligaments and tendons would probably be unusable if they weren't prepared. After adding back carbs from fruit, raw honey and dairy, I gained back all the muscle and then some. I'm not 100% yet, but without training and an animal-based diet I may have been in the ground.
I have been totally a carb addict always on a low fat diet …I never lost weight and was constantly starving and subsequently gaining weight. I tried your way of eating and am blown away. I’m never hungry and satiated with far less food because it’s quality ingredients. I am 94.7kg so let’s see what happens. The biggest hurdle of being hungry is now not a problem.
its such an easy diet to follow. Youll lose waist sizes really before dropping weight in my case. Dont really need to lose weight. Just healing autoimmune problems. Try to stay strict. It gets easier as you go. good luck
If I may suggest something , you should check out functional patterns , coz honestly the workout you do are damaging to the bones and tendons . And lead to weak core and dysfunction in the body . Knowing the best way to train is like knowing the best way to eat . It takes time moving from sport to another , training style to another following the rabbit hole till you find the truth , some people give up , others find it . Hopefully you do .
Hi A very nice life, but there are also people who do not have these benefits and have to work all day to feed the family and pay the bills, sometimes they even have 2 jobs. A sauna is an unreachable universe for someone. You have a beautiful life and enjoy it. You are inspiring and I enjoy watching your video. 💪👍
PAUL, THANKS for sharing. This is the way to be play as an adult, never grow old. Indeed yes to the sauna. I have been doing the sauna for decades now and yes swimming in the ocean is soooooo healing. Now that I reside in the Ozarks, I start my day with soaking in the not/cold mineral springs outside! Water is soooooo amazing. Way to go, Paul. I have been to Central America, already and I did massage by the sea outside in the sunlight as well as I went swimming in the pacifico..................................................................... stay safe and be well, Ozarks, drinking fresh spring water daily
A video to aspire to. I am there physically, I would say my stretching is Intermediate compared to yours. Great stuff, keep up the good work (: P.S - I had the Pfizer first dose of the vaccine on Wednesday Oct 12th. The following 5 days after, were near-death experiences as I would personally describe them. Chest pain, problems breathing, near fainting, near heart-attacks. I am doing better now (one week later) but there is still slight discomfort in my chest. I went to the ER and they ran my blood and did X-Ray's and could not see any problems but my heart rate was over 100 for days. The ER Doctor mentioned there had been hundreds, or even thousands of these cases in young healthy men and since they could not see anything wrong, they could not do anything. I asked him if he thought it was OK that this amount of people felt as if they were severely ill and that he couldn't find anything and his eyes just went red and a little watery and just repeating the blood sample and x-ray came back negative.... I then asked him if he was in my position and he had a choice between Canada or Mexico, what would he choose? He said "Fair Question" and left it at that. Do you think I should get the 2nd dose?
I’m not a doctor, but I wouldn’t do it, because I’ve read about so many cases where the second dose was even worse, if not deadly. If your livelihood does not depend on it, don’t do it! And have your D-Dimer tested, the red blood cells count, the doctor should draw a sample of your blood and look at them under the microscope. I saw a video on the red blood cells drawn from the vaccinated with health problems after the vaccination and they were glued together in rolls, which means they’re not able to provide enough oxygen to the cells because they can’t get through the capillaries due to their deformation!
This surely isn’t his everyday. But nevertheless - one can make a lot of money to sustain such a good and honestly financially modest life. The internet allows you to scale 2 hours of work into a large payoff. Use it
I think he is one of the famous people in internet that talks about carnivore diet. He has his company, his podcast and he is a doctor. It is not that hard afford his lifestyle.
Great video! When I see it , I wish to live at the sea again with always comfortable temperatures and far more I wish to have a flexible healthy body like you. After a spine surgery last year I am unfortunately not as sporty and supple as I used to be
A minimally materialistic lifestyle of a man living clearly below his means as a successful accomplished Medical Doctor & Entrepreneur. No fancy cars or other toys. Find happiness and fulfillment in your own life less bringing down others for having found theirs. Jealous is a disease.
Your hips are tight! Whenever sitting cross legged for any period of time your knees should be below your hips. You should sit on some kind of booster or block to achieve this. This allows for energy/ blood flow properly from the hips to knees. Your posture is almost often in a back bend/ arched and you move too much from L4 and L5. You should hold your ribs in to emphasise kyphosis. And your sitting bones should be down and forward, think something close to “tucking the tailbone” but you are not doing that , your sitting bones are down and forward. This will allow you to move from other stiffer parts of the spine. Unfortunately, mostly everyone moves from L4 and L5 not ideal! When you perform these actions you are creating space between the vertebra of the spine often referred to as the lengthening of the spine, but this is the proper way to it. Think of these actions on a human skeleton and you will see that this is the way to create space between the vertebra. Physiologically, this creates: 1) stability as it activates the opposing muscle group around the joint complex around the thoracic spine 2) better energy flow.. As you know the spine is the only place in the body where blood flows both ways Also learn to initiate all movements from the core/ dantien/kanda. I. E. Your spine moves before you hips, your spine moves before you knees, head etc. This just needs to be practiced. Indeed, hanging from any monkey bar like structure does traction the spine and is a wonderful exercise. Of course if you do not have the strength there are other ways to traction the spine without hanging from monkey bars.
