Jax, You helped me start my fitness journey in one of my darkest mental times. Everything you say in this video is true about the eating healthy thing, once you start eating healthy and you stick to it all those greasy foods taste not nearly as good. Currently on my way to restart my journey again because I'm human I make mistakes. But I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Love u dude!
Hey sometimes life makes ya fall off the preverbal horse & all you gotta do is get back up on it!! You've done well and Im proud of you and best of luck to ya! You GOT THIS
This video sort of distills everything I've learned recently about doing a sustainable diet. Once I learned that there was a way to make French toast that had reasonable calorie levels and high protein - I was set.
I'm glad to see someone so unapologetically fusing two things they are so passionate about, and the want to help other people really shines through. I was just struggling thinking of how to implement a simple diet routine and this really helped spell out what I was trying to think of. Thanks for helping out Jax!
Also, doing everything in steps helps make it so much more manageable. Going from "eating fast food every day" ---> "eating fast food once or twice a week" is so much more manageable than telling yourself "I'll just never eat it again". Introducing healthy meals and substitutions over time helps you be more successful in making these healthier lifestyle decisions and it's a hell of a lot easier to stick to that than just cutting everything you enjoy out of your diet at once. Keep up the great content homie!
That 7-7-7 meal plan idea is great, especially since half the battle is figuring out what to eat. Looking forward to your cookbook, Jax! 😁 What has helped me tackle my eating habits is seasoning everything with either Morton Season-All (salt, garlic, pepper, paprika, etc) or my most recent favorite seasoning Shichimi Togarashi (Japanese seasoning with red chili pepper, orange peel, sesame seeds, Japanese pepper, ginger and seaweed). Makes a bowl of veggies taste so good! 😋 Also if anyone is having a problem with too much red meat (sorry Luffy), seriously try Impossible meat products! It may not taste better than a restaurant burger, but it's waaay better than fast food ones in my opinion! The chicken nuggets they sell are pretty good too.
somagoals chicken breast with garlic seasoning + rosemary rice fried with red onion and chilly flakes new York seeded bagel with Cadbury spread and pumpkin seed sprinkle on top (perfect chocolate cake/ chocolate snack replacement )
yo jaxblade you inspired me to start working out, losing weight, focus more on my body than most things and since November ive lost weight, gained muscle, in november i was 230 lbs, i can see muscle building but im not sure about body fat percentage, muscle mass that stuff but now in May i’m 194, thank you from the bottom of my heart bro keep making content, you’ve pushed me to go harder these past couple months imagine all the other people that watch your channel, stay safe man hope your may is great 👍🏽
Jax brother I want to thank you for getting me on that Baki hype! I hated on the series at first because of the unique animation but after watching your videos on various Baki topics I gave it a chance and now I can't get enough. Started with Baki The Grappler and I'm on episode 45 with Jack vs Baki. And the one thing that I love so much about this series that I think is unique to it is that it's got so much heart. I always get hype and inspired because of it. And it makes me hype for my marital arts journey as well. Baki is phenomenal and everyone should give it a proper chance before blindly hating like I did back then. Thank you for the amazing content Jax🙏
Love the diet videos! Food is one of the biggest parts of health and fitness and looking like a god yet there’s so much info that everyone gets paralysis by analysis and doesn’t know where to start. Can’t wait for the cookbook!
Lots of good tips! I certainly do struggle to not lose control around sweets, but I'm working on it! I've also found that I would rather make my own cakes/cookies then go out and buy them. I'm so excited for your cookbook!!!😍
This was awesome to listen to. I really appreciate that you're so positive, uplifting, and down to earth about the fitness advice that you give. Hope you have a good time at Momo-Con 🙏🏾
I look up to you Jax, I watched a lot of your workout videos and put them to good use in finding a good routine that works for me. Thank you for everything that you do!
Soma goals indeed Jax.One of the things I do to help with my meal preps for the week is sheet pan meals, they bake and usually use a lot less oils or butter than you would normally use cooking in a pan, plus it helps retain flavor from meats into the veggies at the same time. Food wars is definitely one of thr series that rekindled my love of cooking and doing more than the baked chicken and broccoli days.
Love the video, Jax! With sweet stuff, I've found that baking with vanilla protein powder has been an easy way of getting more protein in and making more carb heavy items balanced. Pancakes, waffles, lemon cake, banana bread, all of them are real tasty if you sub out some of the sugar and flour for vanilla protein powder!
Thank you. I love weight training, I have no problem with that. But food is so so so so so so so so so hard. Espiclaly because I'm always out and about. But I think your variety advice will be very helpful. Thank you for all this advice, honestly from the bottom of my heart, thank you.
Hey jax, I just wanted to say thank you. Over the past year I have seen more progress in my training then all before it, and it was your videos that helped me get here. Thanks for everything
Been doing this for a while and I love keeping it going: I have a rice cooker and it has a steam inlay for me to steam veggies and the like while cooking the rice, so I love to get some lean fish and several veggies I just feel like eating, chuck those in the steam inlay and there we go. You can season however you want to and the steaming process is fairly healthy, especially compared to actually frying stuff in a pan. Being able to switch between different forms of carrots, broccoli, peppers, potatoes, and so on helps me get that feeling of variety while essentially sticking to "fish with veggies and rice" plus you can always steam stuff in there without rice if your rice cooker allows that. for breakfast I like to use a protein heavy muesli by mixing some protein powder with a fruity muesli and dinner is basically a mixed plate of fruits with one slice of whole grain bread with hummus or peanut butter. This sounds like a lotta carbs (cuz it is), but the low fat and regular workout make it work wonders for me and I can keep it varied by going for different fruits, veggies, types of fish/meat and so on. Make sure to stay hydrated and maybe substitute that coffee with green tea and/or matcha and you've some nice little #SOMAGOALS
Somagoals nice! This video is the most helpful for me, diet is extremely tough for me and made tougher by living with people that push desserts on you.
SOMAGOALS I am one of the few that I know is able to eat the same meals over and over. Been doing it for 2 years now. Loving the meals every time ^_^ Everything was spot on. Only thing I add to your going out with friends is if you plan to just manage your calories better. What I do. Don't eat as much till you go out and then can eat whatever you want with them. Just like your 85/15 diet you mention. As long as you health most of the week nothing wrong with enjoying the times when your friends go out. Just dont be like the Rock cheat meal and you should be fine. Good rule of thumb I try to follow is eat to point you feel good not to the point you feel stuff. enough to satisfy you but not to push you over and you just feel like sleeping
Thank you Jax I’m I long time fan and had always played sports when I was younger but in 2020 I had lost a lot of my athletic ability and had to basically start from scratch and restart my fitness journey at the start of 2021 you’ve been a huge help and a big encouragement every time one of your videos pops up in my subscriptions it gives me a nudge to train. I’m happy that scince 2021 I am down to 160 from 200lbs and feel great. One thing that really helped me at the start was to down a tall glass of water before starting cooking to help get my water in and also helped shrink down the eyes in my stomach
Protect this man at all costs. Love the positive vibe you give and the excitement and enthusiasm and you can see the pasion he has on this stuff that all of us like
Soma Goals!! This is kind of something i did for a bit before i hit a wall and got stressed and frustrated and had to take care of my mental health first (i have medical issues that make losing weight both dangerously easy, but safely very difficult). then the pandemic hit and everything fell apart. but Jax is so wholesome and supportive. always makes me feel positive about my possibilities of improving. Anyeay. I love to cook, i am well trained for someone who's not a professional. So i love to experiment with food and have learned a lot of little tricks. 1) have a fat (butter, coconut oil, duck fat, bacon fat, etc.) brush; instead of knifing or spooning a knob or whatever into the pan, brush the hot pan with the fat on the brush to leave a thin film to do the work and add flavour, but keeps the amount low. You can also use a paper towel, but a food safe heat safe brush (like for basting) is reusable. 2) Use Coconut Water in place of water you would eat in a dish, not for large volume boiling. IE. rice, soup, sauce, etc. not for potatoes or pasta. It's got a little extra plant sugar, but it's gonna give a little more flavour and it's LOADED with potassium, which you need in obscene amounts. (i can't stand bananas) 3)Fermented foods make your gut happy. but also slows down everything coming after them. which evens out insulin spikes. that's your kimchi, hummus, yogourt, miso, etc. all great. 4) get yourself a handful of Flavour liquids. like Worcestershire, fish sauce, sriracha, lemon juice, and Better than Bouillon (or...) 5) stock is easy to make if you've got a day to chill out or do housework, just make a huge pot of it, and freeze it for a few months in single serve containers. can make sure there's not too much salt, plenty of nutrients, and even proteins if you do bone broth, and can add lots of flavour for very few calories. I've also got an app "Lose It" on Android that i find intuitive to track my meals, and it's got a crowd sourced database of foods, but also a verified list.
I find tacos to be an easy fix, you can easily user leaner meats like fish or chicken, with enough spice you won't really notice. I saw someone have a protein wrap recipie basically a handful of spinach with some eggs blended then heated in a pan apparently makes a good wrap
Somagoals But for me chickpeas and kale have been my favorite replacements or foods in general. Like if I make a nice spicy curry sometimes I’ll just mash up some canned chickpeas and fry them for a little bit to put in it as a meat replacement (I do this when I don’t feel like eating meat)
SOMAGOALS. Love all the energy you put into your videos. My roommate is trying to get fitter and have more energy throughout the entire day like myself(I can easily been up from 4am in the morning until Midnight everyday). Luckily for myself I have a very high motabolism so no matter what I eat my weight only ever fluctuates by 5lbs up or down. I've introduced her to your videos and will be showing her this one as well. I especially love your Tuff like the Toons videos and find all the videos you do very informative.
@@SamzSKILLZ 😂. Idk how new you are to reading but clearly you must be brand new. At no point in my statement did I say that I only get 4hrs of sleep. You just assumed by where I said that I can stay up from 4am-Midnight that I only get 4hrs. That’s not the case at all. I get anywhere from 6-8hrs a day everyday. I’m not up from 4am-Midnight 7 days a week nor did I state that I ever am. Thanks for playing though 😂.
First I wanted to say great video! Lots of good pointers here! A tip I would recommend is get some fiber wraps. There a several brands and you can find them in most grocery stores. They're are like 50-60 calories each. You can of course make wraps out of them or you can use them to make a low calorie pizza. Put a couple of tablespoons of marinara or pizza sauce and then cover with low fat mozzarella. Heat over a medium cast iron skillet until they are crispy. I'd say 5 minutes or so. You can loud them up with veggies. You are looking at around 300 calories or less for a personal pizza depending how much cheese you use.
I have found that this is by far the hardest thing about fitness but probably the most important. I did the Gon/Killua training for a few months but kept eating whatever. While I definitely got stronger, faster and a lot more endurance my body didn’t visually change very much and I didn’t progress as fast as I would have liked. Eventually I fell off the fitness wagon due to stress from school and not feeling like I had time to work out. But now I’m back at it again mainly trying to focus on learning how to cook and eat healthy. If you have never cooked like me and eating healthy seems overwhelming to you definitely consider focusing completely on that aspect of fitness first. It may be less appealing than the working out but taking the time to learn that first will make everything else easier later on and while you may slack in your training and lose your progress you’ll never forget how to cook. Not to mention cooking and eating healthy is an important life skill pretty much everyone should know in general. If it is overwhelming to you, start small. Find a few easy recipes online and start from there or alternatively pay for a meal plan from a personal trainer. I personally paid for a year of personal training from Jaxblade and got a meal plan from him. It’s expensive but I like being given easy recipes and not having to worry about tracking calories and macros yet. Don’t feel obligated to prepare three meals a day right away. Starting out preparing one meal a day should be good, probably dinner or lunch so you can learn dishes a little more complicated than just cooking eggs. Slowly build up your skills and get comfortable making a few recipes. The idea is to ease you into either preparing all your meals for the day or doing meal prep for multiple days of the week. It may be too early for me to be giving advice on this type of thing but this is currently what I’m doing now. I’m also looking into healthier sources of caffeine than soda because sticking to a meal plan is pointless if I get all this extra sugar and calories from soda. I probably want to transition to either coffee or tea but unfortunately I don’t really like the taste of either one. Hopefully I can acquire a taste for one of them so I can reduce my calories and sugar intake from drinks.
Yo Jax, your videos have helped me quite a bit, and this video really will help me out quite a lot. Thanks for all the work you do! Btw I'm so sorry for asking this for almost 4 months consistently, but how's the weighted ab routine coming along?
I'm currently turning things around in my life. A mixture of COVID and mental health caused me to lose my motivation for fitness. But due to a lot of support from family and friends, I'm training 5-6 days a week, and getting back into martial arts. Thank you for the encouragement and ideas on how to enjoy food, not just eating healthy. My first 13 days of training consisted of nothing but fruits, vegetables, and water. It was awful. Since then, I've added fish, rice, and lots of paprika. I still have a lot of work, but you've been inspirational. Thank you.
one thing people never talk about, you should have a little garden in your house if you have a balcony you should have plants and garden them well because plants bring oxygen and if you have plants in your house/balcony/outside your house environment and you garden them well good oxygen could possibly go inside your house which could also help your lungs alot💪🏼
I also highly recommend the manga Dungeon Meshi, or Delicious in Dungeon. It's about a group of adventurers who don't have enough money to buy rations to delve deep into a dungeon, but they meet a dwarf who lives off of only monsters and plants found in the dungeon. Really good story and really makes me want to nourish my body with everything I eat.
Add Riced Cauliflower to half your Rice intake, chop up your veggies and incorporate them into your grounded meats when making burgers, meatloaf and whatnot. About the Triple 7 idea, you can also just plan out not so much meals but what types of foods are dedicated to which days like chicken Sun/Tues/Thurs, fish/seafood Mon/Fri, Other Wed, [Insect here] on Sat.
Here's a pizza idea that's good for cheat days and Somagoals where your trying to save money by not ordering delivery. Feel free to modify as needed. Ingredients - Pizza Dough (can be store bought or fresh made) - Pizza sauce (any brand will do) - Shredded cheese (I use a pizza blend, mixture of mozzarella, romano, parmesan, etc.) - A block of mozzarella (can be a square block or a round one, just big enough to slice) - Shredded cheddar and jack cheese (used to sprinkle on top of the pizza before going into the oven.) - Olive Oil - Garlic and Herb Mrs. Dash (or a mix of italian herbs and garlic powder.) 1. Let your dough rest on the counter until it's room temperature. This will make it easier to work with. (If you want to speed up the process a bit, turn your oven on to the lowest temperature, let it heat for 5 minutes, and then turn it off. Put the dough in a metal bowl coated with oil, cover the top of the bowl with a wet wash cloth and place it in the warm, but OFF oven and let it rise for 30 minutes.) 2. Once the dough is ready, preheat your oven to 425° F. (If you have a pizza stone, put it in the oven before preheating so it will heat up with the oven.) 3. Roll out the dough to your desired size and then brush the entire crust surface with olive oil. Sprinkle the seasoning on the oil covered crust. 4. Place your tomato sauce on the crust and then sprinkle the shredded cheese. Add some extra seasoning on top if desired. 5. Take your mozzarella block and slice off a few slices about 1/4 of an inch thick. For a pizza about 12-14 inches, you'll need only 4 slices. Place these slices on top of the shredded cheese already on the pizza. 6. Top the pizza with any additional seasonings like Basil or Rosemary, as well as a small amount of a different cheese from what's already on it, like cheddar, colby or monterey jack. You can also try sprinkling parmesan on the crust edges as well. 7. Place the pizza in the oven. If cooking on a pizza stone, it should take about 12 minutes. If your using a small countertop convection oven, it was take even less time, so check on it after 6 minutes. 8. Once the cheese slices are melted and have started to brown, pull it out of the oven. Let it sit for a few minutes before cutting. This became my go-to when I had a pizza craving but didn't want to get fast food. It usually comes out with fewer calories than most chain pizzas.
I'd say that incorporating a variety of "spices" or a "spicy sauces" is a great of enhance your meals. For one, it improves the flavor, and it would support gut health (iykwim). For example, you could replace the ketchup in your eggs (if you believe in ketchup with eggs) with sriracha, or even salsa as another level up from sriracha.
Soma goals!! You are awesome bro Great energy!! My recommendation is to drink a lot of water and I add lemon to it to give it a better taste and for the health benefits of lemon and if I get tired of water I switch to soda water
I just started my journey to get fit and build lean muscle yesterday and I came across your video which is a god send because I have been curious about what to diet since I know the way I was eating before wasn't going to cut it, so thank you so much for this. #SomaGoals 💪 #BlessYou 🙏
I like you because you can see you're natural. You're not the biggest guy but you're lean, fit and strong. You look great and you seem to love the training you do. It's good to be genuine. I hope you don't give up on being a natty and think you gotta get huge for the views because you're pretty cool the way you are
I'm a pizza addict so I used to struggle ALOT when I couldn't control myself and had to completely restrict it when I was cutting. The main problem with pizza is that the dough has most of the calories and that can be upward of 1000, especially if you order out. Here's a recipe I use to make a crust that's under 600 cal and the entire pizza typically comes out to about 750-800 cal in total with low cal cheese, protein, & veggie toppings: Makes 4 crusts 500g flour 325g water 25g salt 1g yeast 2 tsp olive oil
i do agree that having a burger over steak is way better in flavor and texture, but those steaks in baki looked too damn good. i wish steaks were like that in real life lmao. SOMAGOALS
If you live tacos or any Mexican dish like me then I highly suggest mixing those small wholly guacamole cups with non fat greek yogurt for an awesome low cal condiment. Turns a bland homemade chicken breast Chipotle bowl into something magical. somagoals baby!
Here's an idea for pizza lovers. I came across a recipe for pizza where the base was made only with flour, Greek yogurt and a pinch of salt (have to have a little, am I right). Chose to use wholemeal flour as opposed to white flour as it filled me up without having to eat too much (8-9 inch pizzas for reference instead of the 14 inches I used to get) and was just easier on my stomach. It was great. If I find the original recipe I'll link the video, see if anyone else has ways of making it more delicious and nutritious.
Also found out recently that actually cooking your own food and watching what you make and what you buy an grocery shopping all benefit being avle to enjoy
Loved the video and If you're in a rural area replacing some of your normal meat sources with local fauna I found is really good since it's less fatty and usually has higher protein levels not to mention a good way to stick it to the meat packaging corporations and their cruel practices, Somagoals
So I always like sweets and even on a bulk I don’t want them much so I do this instead: get a blender put one big tablespoon of cacao two tablespoons of smth sweet but healthy (examples: honey, maple syrup or dates syrup) then add 250 ml of milk (not oat or anything just good whole cow milk). This literally tastes like chocolate milk and will kill your craves. If you don’t have a blender get egg whites and add chocolate syrup and this will do the same thing and literally taste like chocolate milk (the more chocolate syrup the stronger the taste) hope this helps and don’t mock this until you try it!!
I was an avid watcher long ago, but then due to the whole situation the past few years, fell back out into an unhealthy lifestyle, but I'm finally starting to get my stuff together and start working out and taking my diet seriously again. While I feel like I can be disciplined about counting calories, at some point, the reason I looked forward to cheat days wasn't because I could let a bit loose, but rather because it meant I didn't have to worry about counting calories for that day. It was always such a hassle measuring things for every single meal and math-ing out what I had to make sure I didn't go over. What would you recommend to solve at least some of that tedium?
Ok @JaxBlade suggestion would you ever do a video on recovering from smoking or vaping with cardio? Btw been a fan of your channel its awesome entertaining and informative content 👍 your vids dope man keep it up. #somagoals
My Reese's protein oatmeal recipe: 4 squares of lindt 95% chocolate, 2 table spoons of natural creamy peanut butter ( the kind that has the oil on top when you buy it), 2 scoops of vanilla protien powder, and 12oz of oatmeal. poor boiling water over the 4 squares of chocolate and peanut butter, then add a scoop of protien powder stir in, then add the next scoop of protien powder. once mixed add oats. P.S make sure the bowl can take boiling water.
What can help is changing the small habits you have in life. Find ways to work around your schedule and adjust from there. Something as simple as eating low calorie, fulfilling meals will greatly reduce your hunger.
Somagoals One thing I've done is to add different seasoning to different types of chicken. The one that I mostly do is some garlic powder, onion powder, basil, oregano, Italian seasoning, minced garlic, and red vinegar wine. Cooking oil is olive oil, on the pan up and add a healthy portion of olive oil and spirited around the pan. Then add minced garlic and shifted around the pan and then add seasoned chicken that's been marinated overnight in a bag. Mostly use only chicken breasts. After putting the breast in the pan a little bit more minced garlic on top spit around with a fork and then dose it with some red vinegar wine and then cook it until nice golden brown. You can add probably tomato paste and bell and onion peppers and other vegetables in the stir fry and then have it with it as an option If I have chicken thighs, I usually add the seasoning before cooking it, such as barbecue sauce, sweet and sour, lemon pepper seasoning, or anything else. Usually the runoff will dilute it somewhat. With chicken variety is the spicy of life.
Sounds a lot like Intuitive eating mentality. which is something i'm trying to give a go since tried Intermittent fasting, Calorie counting and Paleo all for them to work.....then become unreasonable as life happens. But I do like the idea of the 7 meals due to my partner's picky eating style. I do want to say thanks for being a positive influence on the fitness world and having different views then just "THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY!"
For pizza I replaced it cassava base crust and toppings with in season vegs as well as using sausages that dont have all the additives. its good to the point that i had to start making a bigger size beacues my family likes it as well
Something that may help others. Listen to your body and not just what's healthy. For my own body protein and oatmeal is a disaster. I am hungry again in 45min -1hr. But egg whites with green onion and some chicken sausage. Is a perfect meal
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Can you review "What the Health". Not related to health but have you seen "Everything Everywhere All at Once".
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Hey Jax could you make a home workout routine focusing mostly on cardio and calisthenics, with some dumbbells?
A work out focused on losing weight.
Jax, You helped me start my fitness journey in one of my darkest mental times. Everything you say in this video is true about the eating healthy thing, once you start eating healthy and you stick to it all those greasy foods taste not nearly as good. Currently on my way to restart my journey again because I'm human I make mistakes. But I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Love u dude!
Hey sometimes life makes ya fall off the preverbal horse & all you gotta do is get back up on it!! You've done well and Im proud of you and best of luck to ya! You GOT THIS
@@JaxBlade love your videos bro and you should make a discord sever
He did the same thing for me
This video sort of distills everything I've learned recently about doing a sustainable diet. Once I learned that there was a way to make French toast that had reasonable calorie levels and high protein - I was set.
I'm glad to see someone so unapologetically fusing two things they are so passionate about, and the want to help other people really shines through. I was just struggling thinking of how to implement a simple diet routine and this really helped spell out what I was trying to think of. Thanks for helping out Jax!
Also, doing everything in steps helps make it so much more manageable. Going from "eating fast food every day" ---> "eating fast food once or twice a week" is so much more manageable than telling yourself "I'll just never eat it again". Introducing healthy meals and substitutions over time helps you be more successful in making these healthier lifestyle decisions and it's a hell of a lot easier to stick to that than just cutting everything you enjoy out of your diet at once.
Keep up the great content homie!
That 7-7-7 meal plan idea is great, especially since half the battle is figuring out what to eat. Looking forward to your cookbook, Jax! 😁
What has helped me tackle my eating habits is seasoning everything with either Morton Season-All (salt, garlic, pepper, paprika, etc) or my most recent favorite seasoning Shichimi Togarashi (Japanese seasoning with red chili pepper, orange peel, sesame seeds, Japanese pepper, ginger and seaweed). Makes a bowl of veggies taste so good! 😋
Also if anyone is having a problem with too much red meat (sorry Luffy), seriously try Impossible meat products! It may not taste better than a restaurant burger, but it's waaay better than fast food ones in my opinion! The chicken nuggets they sell are pretty good too.
Togarashi is so slept on, my coach put me onto it and holy cow it's fire.
somagoals
chicken breast with garlic seasoning + rosemary
rice fried with red onion and chilly flakes
new York seeded bagel with Cadbury spread and pumpkin seed sprinkle on top (perfect chocolate cake/ chocolate snack replacement )
yo jaxblade you inspired me to start working out, losing weight, focus more on my body than most things and since November ive lost weight, gained muscle, in november i was 230 lbs, i can see muscle building but im not sure about body fat percentage, muscle mass that stuff but now in May i’m 194, thank you from the bottom of my heart bro keep making content, you’ve pushed me to go harder these past couple months imagine all the other people that watch your channel, stay safe man hope your may is great 👍🏽
Jax brother I want to thank you for getting me on that Baki hype!
I hated on the series at first because of the unique animation but after watching your videos on various Baki topics I gave it a chance and now I can't get enough. Started with Baki The Grappler and I'm on episode 45 with Jack vs Baki. And the one thing that I love so much about this series that I think is unique to it is that it's got so much heart. I always get hype and inspired because of it. And it makes me hype for my marital arts journey as well.
Baki is phenomenal and everyone should give it a proper chance before blindly hating like I did back then. Thank you for the amazing content Jax🙏
Happy to hear it man! and thanks for the kind words
Love the diet videos! Food is one of the biggest parts of health and fitness and looking like a god yet there’s so much info that everyone gets paralysis by analysis and doesn’t know where to start. Can’t wait for the cookbook!
Hey Jax love your content bro but please don't overwork yourself too hard and take some rest if your tired sometimes and love your videos and Thnx 👍
Lots of good tips! I certainly do struggle to not lose control around sweets, but I'm working on it! I've also found that I would rather make my own cakes/cookies then go out and buy them. I'm so excited for your cookbook!!!😍
Great VIDEO BRO! And Valid points on the same meals every day thing. HATE that shit but it gets me Cut everytime lol
This was awesome to listen to. I really appreciate that you're so positive, uplifting, and down to earth about the fitness advice that you give. Hope you have a good time at Momo-Con 🙏🏾
I look up to you Jax, I watched a lot of your workout videos and put them to good use in finding a good routine that works for me. Thank you for everything that you do!
Soma goals indeed Jax.One of the things I do to help with my meal preps for the week is sheet pan meals, they bake and usually use a lot less oils or butter than you would normally use cooking in a pan, plus it helps retain flavor from meats into the veggies at the same time. Food wars is definitely one of thr series that rekindled my love of cooking and doing more than the baked chicken and broccoli days.
This was an awesome video, thanks for the advice! SOMAGOALS
Glad to have helped!
Hey Jax back on the fitness wagon again after being gone for a long time. Thanks for still being here.
love to see that my diet is actually already in really good shape love the 777 idea ill give that some thinking
Love the video, Jax! With sweet stuff, I've found that baking with vanilla protein powder has been an easy way of getting more protein in and making more carb heavy items balanced. Pancakes, waffles, lemon cake, banana bread, all of them are real tasty if you sub out some of the sugar and flour for vanilla protein powder!
Another good alternative for sugar: dates. They're naturally sweet. You can blend them up in a mixer, and there are some that come prechopped.
Thank you. I love weight training, I have no problem with that. But food is so so so so so so so so so hard. Espiclaly because I'm always out and about. But I think your variety advice will be very helpful. Thank you for all this advice, honestly from the bottom of my heart, thank you.
YESSSSS WE NEED THAT COOKBOOK!!!!🔥🔥
Hey jax, I just wanted to say thank you. Over the past year I have seen more progress in my training then all before it, and it was your videos that helped me get here. Thanks for everything
Jax, I watched close enough s3 yesterday and you're here making references.
It was GREAT haha
@@JaxBlade A Josh tough like the toons would've been a nice April Fools treat
You helped me get back into working out when I had a dark time in college. I’m lean fit now but I still want to get that strength
New camera, dope
Lol its actually the same camera I just adjusted the lighting :)
Been doing this for a while and I love keeping it going:
I have a rice cooker and it has a steam inlay for me to steam veggies and the like while cooking the rice, so I love to get some lean fish and several veggies I just feel like eating, chuck those in the steam inlay and there we go. You can season however you want to and the steaming process is fairly healthy, especially compared to actually frying stuff in a pan.
Being able to switch between different forms of carrots, broccoli, peppers, potatoes, and so on helps me get that feeling of variety while essentially sticking to "fish with veggies and rice" plus you can always steam stuff in there without rice if your rice cooker allows that.
for breakfast I like to use a protein heavy muesli by mixing some protein powder with a fruity muesli and dinner is basically a mixed plate of fruits with one slice of whole grain bread with hummus or peanut butter.
This sounds like a lotta carbs (cuz it is), but the low fat and regular workout make it work wonders for me and I can keep it varied by going for different fruits, veggies, types of fish/meat and so on.
Make sure to stay hydrated and maybe substitute that coffee with green tea and/or matcha and you've some nice little #SOMAGOALS
Somagoals nice! This video is the most helpful for me, diet is extremely tough for me and made tougher by living with people that push desserts on you.
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I am one of the few that I know is able to eat the same meals over and over. Been doing it for 2 years now. Loving the meals every time ^_^
Everything was spot on. Only thing I add to your going out with friends is if you plan to just manage your calories better. What I do. Don't eat as much till you go out and then can eat whatever you want with them. Just like your 85/15 diet you mention. As long as you health most of the week nothing wrong with enjoying the times when your friends go out. Just dont be like the Rock cheat meal and you should be fine. Good rule of thumb I try to follow is eat to point you feel good not to the point you feel stuff. enough to satisfy you but not to push you over and you just feel like sleeping
7:43 "We live in a society!"
Bruh, I'm dead! Wasn't expecting that 😂
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Thank you Jax I’m I long time fan and had always played sports when I was younger but in 2020 I had lost a lot of my athletic ability and had to basically start from scratch and restart my fitness journey at the start of 2021 you’ve been a huge help and a big encouragement every time one of your videos pops up in my subscriptions it gives me a nudge to train. I’m happy that scince 2021 I am down to 160 from 200lbs and feel great. One thing that really helped me at the start was to down a tall glass of water before starting cooking to help get my water in and also helped shrink down the eyes in my stomach
Protect this man at all costs. Love the positive vibe you give and the excitement and enthusiasm and you can see the pasion he has on this stuff that all of us like
Thanks.
Can't wait for your cookbook, you were the first fitness CZcamsr I started watching
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This is kind of something i did for a bit before i hit a wall and got stressed and frustrated and had to take care of my mental health first (i have medical issues that make losing weight both dangerously easy, but safely very difficult). then the pandemic hit and everything fell apart. but Jax is so wholesome and supportive. always makes me feel positive about my possibilities of improving.
Anyeay. I love to cook, i am well trained for someone who's not a professional. So i love to experiment with food and have learned a lot of little tricks.
1) have a fat (butter, coconut oil, duck fat, bacon fat, etc.) brush; instead of knifing or spooning a knob or whatever into the pan, brush the hot pan with the fat on the brush to leave a thin film to do the work and add flavour, but keeps the amount low. You can also use a paper towel, but a food safe heat safe brush (like for basting) is reusable.
2) Use Coconut Water in place of water you would eat in a dish, not for large volume boiling. IE. rice, soup, sauce, etc. not for potatoes or pasta. It's got a little extra plant sugar, but it's gonna give a little more flavour and it's LOADED with potassium, which you need in obscene amounts. (i can't stand bananas)
3)Fermented foods make your gut happy. but also slows down everything coming after them. which evens out insulin spikes. that's your kimchi, hummus, yogourt, miso, etc. all great.
4) get yourself a handful of Flavour liquids. like Worcestershire, fish sauce, sriracha, lemon juice, and Better than Bouillon (or...)
5) stock is easy to make if you've got a day to chill out or do housework, just make a huge pot of it, and freeze it for a few months in single serve containers. can make sure there's not too much salt, plenty of nutrients, and even proteins if you do bone broth, and can add lots of flavour for very few calories.
I've also got an app "Lose It" on Android that i find intuitive to track my meals, and it's got a crowd sourced database of foods, but also a verified list.
I’ll buy a cookbook from Jax blade this man is so cool
I like doing hamburger steaks with ground Turkey instead of beef, over brown rice, with a side of veggies.
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I find tacos to be an easy fix, you can easily user leaner meats like fish or chicken, with enough spice you won't really notice. I saw someone have a protein wrap recipie basically a handful of spinach with some eggs blended then heated in a pan apparently makes a good wrap
SOMAGOALS i absolutely cannot WAIT for you cook book jax !! love you man
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But for me chickpeas and kale have been my favorite replacements or foods in general. Like if I make a nice spicy curry sometimes I’ll just mash up some canned chickpeas and fry them for a little bit to put in it as a meat replacement (I do this when I don’t feel like eating meat)
SOMAGOALS. Love all the energy you put into your videos. My roommate is trying to get fitter and have more energy throughout the entire day like myself(I can easily been up from 4am in the morning until Midnight everyday). Luckily for myself I have a very high motabolism so no matter what I eat my weight only ever fluctuates by 5lbs up or down. I've introduced her to your videos and will be showing her this one as well. I especially love your Tuff like the Toons videos and find all the videos you do very informative.
@@SamzSKILLZ 😂. Idk how new you are to reading but clearly you must be brand new. At no point in my statement did I say that I only get 4hrs of sleep. You just assumed by where I said that I can stay up from 4am-Midnight that I only get 4hrs. That’s not the case at all. I get anywhere from 6-8hrs a day everyday. I’m not up from 4am-Midnight 7 days a week nor did I state that I ever am. Thanks for playing though 😂.
@@SamzSKILLZ Not rude at all. Just stating the obvious.
Not gonna lie, I would buy a fitness science textbook from you titled "It's Jax with Science Facts"
This was the perfect upload to see after finishing S2 of Food Wars
Forever grateful
Definitely gotta be looking to improve my cooking game, I appreciate the pointers you're throwing out there! Somagoals
Thank you for making content ❤
Somagoals!
Thank you for being here on CZcams. I feel like I can finally follow programs in a fun way!
Somagoals, thanks for the info
Now I’m gonna get my cooking on like Sanji
First I wanted to say great video! Lots of good pointers here!
A tip I would recommend is get some fiber wraps. There a several brands and you can find them in most grocery stores. They're are like 50-60 calories each. You can of course make wraps out of them or you can use them to make a low calorie pizza. Put a couple of tablespoons of marinara or pizza sauce and then cover with low fat mozzarella. Heat over a medium cast iron skillet until they are crispy. I'd say 5 minutes or so. You can loud them up with veggies. You are looking at around 300 calories or less for a personal pizza depending how much cheese you use.
I have found that this is by far the hardest thing about fitness but probably the most important. I did the Gon/Killua training for a few months but kept eating whatever. While I definitely got stronger, faster and a lot more endurance my body didn’t visually change very much and I didn’t progress as fast as I would have liked. Eventually I fell off the fitness wagon due to stress from school and not feeling like I had time to work out. But now I’m back at it again mainly trying to focus on learning how to cook and eat healthy. If you have never cooked like me and eating healthy seems overwhelming to you definitely consider focusing completely on that aspect of fitness first. It may be less appealing than the working out but taking the time to learn that first will make everything else easier later on and while you may slack in your training and lose your progress you’ll never forget how to cook. Not to mention cooking and eating healthy is an important life skill pretty much everyone should know in general.
If it is overwhelming to you, start small. Find a few easy recipes online and start from there or alternatively pay for a meal plan from a personal trainer. I personally paid for a year of personal training from Jaxblade and got a meal plan from him. It’s expensive but I like being given easy recipes and not having to worry about tracking calories and macros yet. Don’t feel obligated to prepare three meals a day right away. Starting out preparing one meal a day should be good, probably dinner or lunch so you can learn dishes a little more complicated than just cooking eggs. Slowly build up your skills and get comfortable making a few recipes. The idea is to ease you into either preparing all your meals for the day or doing meal prep for multiple days of the week. It may be too early for me to be giving advice on this type of thing but this is currently what I’m doing now.
I’m also looking into healthier sources of caffeine than soda because sticking to a meal plan is pointless if I get all this extra sugar and calories from soda. I probably want to transition to either coffee or tea but unfortunately I don’t really like the taste of either one. Hopefully I can acquire a taste for one of them so I can reduce my calories and sugar intake from drinks.
Spinach is my secret weapon pretty tasty in so many things wilted down or fresh for some crunch
Good job man my friend 👍
Yo Jax, your videos have helped me quite a bit, and this video really will help me out quite a lot. Thanks for all the work you do!
Btw I'm so sorry for asking this for almost 4 months consistently, but how's the weighted ab routine coming along?
I'm currently turning things around in my life. A mixture of COVID and mental health caused me to lose my motivation for fitness. But due to a lot of support from family and friends, I'm training 5-6 days a week, and getting back into martial arts. Thank you for the encouragement and ideas on how to enjoy food, not just eating healthy.
My first 13 days of training consisted of nothing but fruits, vegetables, and water. It was awful. Since then, I've added fish, rice, and lots of paprika. I still have a lot of work, but you've been inspirational. Thank you.
one thing people never talk about, you should have a little garden in your house if you have a balcony you should have plants and garden them well because plants bring oxygen and if you have plants in your house/balcony/outside your house environment and you garden them well good oxygen could possibly go inside your house which could also help your lungs alot💪🏼
I also highly recommend the manga Dungeon Meshi, or Delicious in Dungeon. It's about a group of adventurers who don't have enough money to buy rations to delve deep into a dungeon, but they meet a dwarf who lives off of only monsters and plants found in the dungeon. Really good story and really makes me want to nourish my body with everything I eat.
7:44 “We live in a society” Nice Joker impression, that caught me off guard🤣🤣
Just when I needed it! You are a real life legend Jax! 🔥
SOMAGOALS btw love your videos they’ve helped me so much
Looking good Jax. I’m glad you’re touching this topic.
Ive been asked it many times and figured ehh why not lol
Yoghurt on toast bangs and its good protein low cal or high cal if need!
great Video. Working on a diet myself to get that SOLDIER first class physique. Buff but not too buff.
Somagoals^^ I'll check that mental help video I really need something like that thank you 😊
Add Riced Cauliflower to half your Rice intake, chop up your veggies and incorporate them into your grounded meats when making burgers, meatloaf and whatnot. About the Triple 7 idea, you can also just plan out not so much meals but what types of foods are dedicated to which days like chicken Sun/Tues/Thurs, fish/seafood Mon/Fri, Other Wed, [Insect here] on Sat.
Somagoals, I'd check out your cookbook
Here's a pizza idea that's good for cheat days and Somagoals where your trying to save money by not ordering delivery.
Feel free to modify as needed.
Ingredients
- Pizza Dough (can be store bought or fresh made)
- Pizza sauce (any brand will do)
- Shredded cheese (I use a pizza blend, mixture of mozzarella, romano, parmesan, etc.)
- A block of mozzarella (can be a square block or a round one, just big enough to slice)
- Shredded cheddar and jack cheese (used to sprinkle on top of the pizza before going into the oven.)
- Olive Oil
- Garlic and Herb Mrs. Dash (or a mix of italian herbs and garlic powder.)
1. Let your dough rest on the counter until it's room temperature. This will make it easier to work with. (If you want to speed up the process a bit, turn your oven on to the lowest temperature, let it heat for 5 minutes, and then turn it off. Put the dough in a metal bowl coated with oil, cover the top of the bowl with a wet wash cloth and place it in the warm, but OFF oven and let it rise for 30 minutes.)
2. Once the dough is ready, preheat your oven to 425° F. (If you have a pizza stone, put it in the oven before preheating so it will heat up with the oven.)
3. Roll out the dough to your desired size and then brush the entire crust surface with olive oil. Sprinkle the seasoning on the oil covered crust.
4. Place your tomato sauce on the crust and then sprinkle the shredded cheese. Add some extra seasoning on top if desired.
5. Take your mozzarella block and slice off a few slices about 1/4 of an inch thick. For a pizza about 12-14 inches, you'll need only 4 slices. Place these slices on top of the shredded cheese already on the pizza.
6. Top the pizza with any additional seasonings like Basil or Rosemary, as well as a small amount of a different cheese from what's already on it, like cheddar, colby or monterey jack. You can also try sprinkling parmesan on the crust edges as well.
7. Place the pizza in the oven. If cooking on a pizza stone, it should take about 12 minutes. If your using a small countertop convection oven, it was take even less time, so check on it after 6 minutes.
8. Once the cheese slices are melted and have started to brown, pull it out of the oven. Let it sit for a few minutes before cutting.
This became my go-to when I had a pizza craving but didn't want to get fast food.
It usually comes out with fewer calories than most chain pizzas.
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I'd say that incorporating a variety of "spices" or a "spicy sauces" is a great of enhance your meals. For one, it improves the flavor, and it would support gut health (iykwim). For example, you could replace the ketchup in your eggs (if you believe in ketchup with eggs) with sriracha, or even salsa as another level up from sriracha.
Soma goals!! You are awesome bro Great energy!! My recommendation is to drink a lot of water and I add lemon to it to give it a better taste and for the health benefits of lemon and if I get tired of water I switch to soda water
I just started my journey to get fit and build lean muscle yesterday and I came across your video which is a god send because I have been curious about what to diet since I know the way I was eating before wasn't going to cut it, so thank you so much for this. #SomaGoals 💪 #BlessYou 🙏
I like you because you can see you're natural. You're not the biggest guy but you're lean, fit and strong. You look great and you seem to love the training you do. It's good to be genuine. I hope you don't give up on being a natty and think you gotta get huge for the views because you're pretty cool the way you are
I'm a pizza addict so I used to struggle ALOT when I couldn't control myself and had to completely restrict it when I was cutting. The main problem with pizza is that the dough has most of the calories and that can be upward of 1000, especially if you order out. Here's a recipe I use to make a crust that's under 600 cal and the entire pizza typically comes out to about 750-800 cal in total with low cal cheese, protein, & veggie toppings:
Makes 4 crusts
500g flour
325g water
25g salt
1g yeast
2 tsp olive oil
i do agree that having a burger over steak is way better in flavor and texture, but those steaks in baki looked too damn good. i wish steaks were like that in real life lmao. SOMAGOALS
RIGHT Like ANIME STEAK HIT DIFFERENT!!
Can u do a tough like the toons of kid Gohan from DBZ I love your videos keep working hard
Thank you.
If you live tacos or any Mexican dish like me then I highly suggest mixing those small wholly guacamole cups with non fat greek yogurt for an awesome low cal condiment. Turns a bland homemade chicken breast Chipotle bowl into something magical. somagoals baby!
Here's an idea for pizza lovers. I came across a recipe for pizza where the base was made only with flour, Greek yogurt and a pinch of salt (have to have a little, am I right). Chose to use wholemeal flour as opposed to white flour as it filled me up without having to eat too much (8-9 inch pizzas for reference instead of the 14 inches I used to get) and was just easier on my stomach.
It was great. If I find the original recipe I'll link the video, see if anyone else has ways of making it more delicious and nutritious.
Also found out recently that actually cooking your own food and watching what you make and what you buy an grocery shopping all benefit being avle to enjoy
Loved the video and If you're in a rural area replacing some of your normal meat sources with local fauna I found is really good since it's less fatty and usually has higher protein levels not to mention a good way to stick it to the meat packaging corporations and their cruel practices, Somagoals
ur topics are always interesting!!!
making your own protein energy balls is really easy and its a great way to get your protein powder if you are tired of drinking it
Jax i would love to see you do an akuma from street fighters vid
Would that workout or tough like the toons
So I always like sweets and even on a bulk I don’t want them much so I do this instead: get a blender put one big tablespoon of cacao two tablespoons of smth sweet but healthy (examples: honey, maple syrup or dates syrup) then add 250 ml of milk (not oat or anything just good whole cow milk). This literally tastes like chocolate milk and will kill your craves. If you don’t have a blender get egg whites and add chocolate syrup and this will do the same thing and literally taste like chocolate milk (the more chocolate syrup the stronger the taste) hope this helps and don’t mock this until you try it!!
I was an avid watcher long ago, but then due to the whole situation the past few years, fell back out into an unhealthy lifestyle, but I'm finally starting to get my stuff together and start working out and taking my diet seriously again. While I feel like I can be disciplined about counting calories, at some point, the reason I looked forward to cheat days wasn't because I could let a bit loose, but rather because it meant I didn't have to worry about counting calories for that day. It was always such a hassle measuring things for every single meal and math-ing out what I had to make sure I didn't go over. What would you recommend to solve at least some of that tedium?
Ok @JaxBlade suggestion would you ever do a video on recovering from smoking or vaping with cardio? Btw been a fan of your channel its awesome entertaining and informative content 👍 your vids dope man keep it up. #somagoals
Somagoals thank you Jax blade
SOMAGOALS - love to try
I need this cookbook😤
My Reese's protein oatmeal recipe: 4 squares of lindt 95% chocolate, 2 table spoons of natural creamy peanut butter ( the kind that has the oil on top when you buy it), 2 scoops of vanilla protien powder, and 12oz of oatmeal. poor boiling water over the 4 squares of chocolate and peanut butter, then add a scoop of protien powder stir in, then add the next scoop of protien powder. once mixed add oats. P.S make sure the bowl can take boiling water.
4 squares of lindt 95% is one serving, and only has 1g sugar. so it is really bitter, which is why you use vanilla protien powder to sweeten it up.
What can help is changing the small habits you have in life. Find ways to work around your schedule and adjust from there. Something as simple as eating low calorie, fulfilling meals will greatly reduce your hunger.
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One thing I've done is to add different seasoning to different types of chicken. The one that I mostly do is some garlic powder, onion powder, basil, oregano, Italian seasoning, minced garlic, and red vinegar wine. Cooking oil is olive oil, on the pan up and add a healthy portion of olive oil and spirited around the pan. Then add minced garlic and shifted around the pan and then add seasoned chicken that's been marinated overnight in a bag. Mostly use only chicken breasts. After putting the breast in the pan a little bit more minced garlic on top spit around with a fork and then dose it with some red vinegar wine and then cook it until nice golden brown.
You can add probably tomato paste and bell and onion peppers and other vegetables in the stir fry and then have it with it as an option
If I have chicken thighs, I usually add the seasoning before cooking it, such as barbecue sauce, sweet and sour, lemon pepper seasoning, or anything else. Usually the runoff will dilute it somewhat. With chicken variety is the spicy of life.
What Jamie Oliver noticed when he did his healthy eating shows, is that all of the people who ate poorly couldn't cook.
Diet for sure is one of the things I struggle with.
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Sounds a lot like Intuitive eating mentality. which is something i'm trying to give a go since tried Intermittent fasting, Calorie counting and Paleo all for them to work.....then become unreasonable as life happens. But I do like the idea of the 7 meals due to my partner's picky eating style. I do want to say thanks for being a positive influence on the fitness world and having different views then just "THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY!"
For pizza I replaced it cassava base crust and toppings with in season vegs as well as using sausages that dont have all the additives. its good to the point that i had to start making a bigger size beacues my family likes it as well
great video
Something that may help others. Listen to your body and not just what's healthy. For my own body protein and oatmeal is a disaster. I am hungry again in 45min -1hr. But egg whites with green onion and some chicken sausage. Is a perfect meal
Somagoals! I replaced my soda with sparkling water and I’ve really notice the difference in my body fat.
My go to meals are hamburgers with gluten free bread with ground sirloin, and spaghetti with gluten free noodles and lean ground beef