New diet and workout evolution

I've been slowly modifying my fitness plan over the last few months. I've been very busy moving my gym to a new, bigger location AND moving my home back to my old home town of East Bridgewater. I'll post details and pictures later but I want to elaborate on the title of this entry.

Since I always like to keep an eye on our ancestral past and use it to give me clues on how to act NOW, I've been experimenting on myself with some interesting protocols pertaining to both exercise and nutrition. In my research, coupled with a little touch of logic, I've figured out that eating heavily throughout the day is anethema to being alert, aggressive and driven. We all know how we feel following a heavy meal no matter what food is eaten. A large meal slows us down. It HAS to! It's the old warning our mothers gave us to not swim on a full stomach because "you'll cramp up". They may not have known why they were right, but they were right nonethless.

The reason is that we have only so much blood in circulation at one time. When we eat anything substantial, our blood is diverted to our digestive organs (and away from our extremities) in order to facilitate digestion. Our muscles are not able to recieve enough oxygen etc. to sustain intense physical activity. On the flip side of the coin, when we exercise intensely, our blood is diverted to our musculature and brain and AWAY from our digestive organs. Quite often, our bodies reaction to us asking it to both digest and exercise simultaneously is to puke. Far better to throw up lunch and survive a battle than to cramp up, lose the battle and be killed.

How I've decided to use this new thinking is this: I've been doing is making my espresso (I love coffee, what can I say?) at 6:30am, Then another by 9 or 10. At some point before lunchtime, I'll have some melon, a banana or an apple and plenty of water. I may have a small amount of protein around lunchtime but very little else until I get home from work. And then it's go time! I usually consume three meals' worth of food in one sitting.

I'll get more into details of how much I eat, the order I eat etc. in my next few posts. I'll be honest though. I get quite a bit of inspiration from Art DeVany and Ori Hoffmekler. If you know either of these guys, you'll know what I mean. I do want to add however that I have a short book I wrote almost eight years ago about evolutionary eating and activity. Perhaps a full six years before I had heard of either of these fine gentlemen. That's all I got to say 'bout that.