Recipe Friday - Vegetarian Lasagna

I found this really delicious looking vegetarian lasagna over at Craig Ballantyne's Fat Loss Blog:

“Livesagna”
Ingredients:
1) 4 to 6 oz. sun-dried tomatoes
2) 2 to 3 fresh tomatoes
3) Fresh Italian Herbs, such as basil or oregano, to taste
4) 1 tsp Himalayan salt
5) 1 Tbsp. olive oil
6) 1 soft date, pitted
7) 3 to 5 garlic cloves
8) 1 to 2 cups of pine nuts, macadamias, or Brazil nut
9) 2 bunches of spinach leaves

Sauces:
Blend sun-dried tomatoes with fresh tomatoes, herbs, 1/2 tsp salt, olive oil, date, 2 to 3 cloves garlic

Cheese:
Process or blend nuts, 1/2 tsp sea salt and 2 to 3 cloves garlic. Allow to remain slightly chunky.

Directions:
In a glass dish, layer spinach leaves, sauce(can add shredded carrot, zucchini and red bell peppers as layers or in to the sauce), then cheese. Dehydrate for 1 hour until warm.

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The Original 300 Workout

Back awhile ago, I posted this workout by Craig Ballantyne on a great 300 workout.

I was at a seminar a few weeks ago where I found out the Original 300 Workout was actually only 3 exericses: Pullup, Pushup, and Squat. You did 100 Pullups, 100 Pushups, and 100 Squats and tried to get that done in 30 minutes.

Now i don't know if this workout was created by someone recently who is calling it by that name or whether this is actually a workout that was done 2000 years ago in ancient Rome.

I tried it out last week and it was pretty good. I made one slight adjustment in that I did inverted rows instead of pullups (I might be able to squeak out 50 pullups, but I'll be honest, there's no way I could have pulled out 100 of them).

How I did it though was I did everything in sets of 5 in circuit fashion. I did 5 inverted rows, 5 bodyweight squats, and then 5 pushups and then repeated that over and over again until I had done a total of 20 sets.

My time wasn't too bad. 14:30 the first day I did it, 13:45 the second time I did it.

I'll tell you what though, for a workout that lasts less than 15 minutes, I was drenched in sweat when I was done and boy did my upper body feel it the next day.

Another good example of how designing workouts effectively using the biggest muscles you've got can cut down on the amount of time that you have to workout but give you the same (if not better) results than if you worked out longer.

Give it a try and e-mail me at mike@leanbodyfitness.com to let me know how you did.

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Turbulence Training 300 Workout

Craig Ballantyne is without a doubt one of the top trainers that I learn from in how to develop workouts that are the most efficient at burning fat.

He's always coming up with the greatest (yet most painful) routines I've ever seen and tried.

In this video, he takes you through 10 exercises where you do 10 repetitions of each exercise. You rest for a minute, and do that workout set 2 more times, so that when it's all over, you've done 300 repetitions. Take a look and give it a try...if you dare...

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