I don’t know much about the blood type based diets, except that being A Neg they’d have me on a high-carb low-fat diet and I already know that doesn’t work for me. My main philosophical influences as far as diet is concerned are the Paleolithic/Hunter Gatherer/Evolutionary diet, the work of Weston A. Price and The Metabolic Type Diet.

The logic behind the Paleo Diet is that the healthiest foods for human beings are likely to be those which are most natural and which people have been eating for the longest time. This is largest supported by the findings of Weston Price.

The logic behind Metabolic Typing is that different people have different fat,carb and protein requirements depending on how quickly their body breaks down and uses food. I strongly suspect ethnicity would be the largest factor in determining one’s metabolic type, but they usually use questionaires to determine type on a case-by-case basis.

The book “The Metabolic Typing Diet” by William Wolcott and Trish Fahey is pretty damn good, if anybody’s interested.

BJJ is a blast, huh? I remeber when I started out, I had years of prior experience as a bouncer and in a variety of traditional arts, including Classical Ju Jutsu, and these skinny little Brazilian guys still threw me around like a rag doll for at least the first three months.

I’m jogging and running sprints three days per week at the moment and doing a full-body lifting session 2-3 days per week. I make sure to go for a long walk on the days I don’t “work out”, but the real problem is holding myself back. I feel like I have so much energy, it’s very tempting to overdo it.

I’m itching to get back to a regular grappling class…and a kickboxing class…and some hardcore self-defence training. I’m not really sure how my schedule’s going to work once my son is born, so I’m kind of treating this as my pre-season conditioning phase.

How’s your boy doing?

Oh, I’m not sure if you’re still in “beginner phase” (Your previous extensive experience aside, I don’t remember you having mentioned BJJ before) but if you want some cool free stuff, this book’s pretty good…

http://www.beginningbjj.com/free-bjj-training-book.html

…the current US Army hand-to-hand program is heavily based on BJJ and the field manual doubles as a pretty good introductory guide…

http://moderncombatives.org/

http://www.selfdefenseresource.com/combatives/articles/Combatives%20FM%203-25.150.pdf

…and I just love this page…

http://judoinfo.com/other.htm

Gone are my headaches and I lost 5kg in 1 week without trying. I have more energy than I know what to do with.
I am now doing weight training at 4am go to work then do brazilian jui jitsu in the afternoon.
It is funny the harder I train the more energy I get.