FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION The Final Fantasy XV Workout Guide

Preface

I've found this game is pretty good for getting some exercise while chilling out at the same time.

All you have to do is different sets of work outs while you drive between locations and earn small amounts of XP and AP.

GG EZ

Thank you all for your patience since I have finally gotten around to an update, the reason this has taken so long is because I was very thoroughly mulling over what I wanted to say and how I wanted to say it.

Thanks to the comments and overwhelming support, my goal is to turn this guide into what the player could think of as the book that Gladio reads while being taxi'd around.

Previously, this guide only contained some instructions for a work out, but at this point I think that it needs to become something more wholesome in the sense that there is a lot more to working out than just working out. The reason that I think this is because there are entire warrior philosophies that I think are important to myself and should be to other people such as Sun Tzu's The Art of War, which is so much less about legitimate warfare and so much more about some basic principles that concern the intangible physics of the world and the way in which it works. Miyamoto Mushashi's the The Book of Five Rings is an even more modern interpretation of Sun Tzu's The Art of War and while it does contain literal instructions on how to sword fight with two katana's and the best and quickest way to kill ones opponent in a duel, a deeper read between the lines will reveal that it is about developing the internal perspective and philosophy, mindset and overall out-of-the-box thinking and ability to adapt the skills acquired through warfare and vice versa in their opposite arena's.

To me, a book fashioned in a similar manner to Miyamoto Mushashi's The Book of Five Rings is what Gladio would be reading in the car, it was passed down to him by Cor and so on and so forth. If it helps, imagine the book was actually written by Auron, or even a compilation of all the great Final Fantasy warriors

10 Sets Of 10

Work through this list of exercises, rest for 10 minutes then work through it again, rinse and repeat 10 times. Make sure to drink plenty of water and have some good workout snacks ready like Greek yogurt & oats, fruit & nuts, some dried meat & cheese or even a little bit of everything. I know that it is do-able because this is a part of my old calisthenics routine.

10x Jumping Jacks

10x Normal Squats (Feet shoulder width apart, descend until the legs create a 90 degree angle keeping the back straight, hold for 5, then ascend)

10x Forward Narrow Arm Mills (Hold arms perpendicular to body and rotate arms in narrow circles forward

10x Reverse Narrow Arm Mills (Same as Forward, but rotate backwards

10x Normal Toe Touches (Stand with feet shoulder width apart and bend down to touch the toes without bending the knees, hold the descended position for 10-15 seconds before ascending; if you can't touch your toes there is no shame in that. Simply reach down as far and best you can without bending the knees and very gently pulse your hands further down, over time you'll be able to touch your toes and even go palms to the floor)

10x Forward Wide Arm Mills (Same as narrow, except for rotating in wide circles)

10x Reverse Wide Arm Mills (Same as forward, except wide circles backwards)

10x Cross Toe Touches (Instead of trying to touch your right and left hands to your right and left feet, cross over to separately touch your right foot with your left hand and vice versa, hold for 10-15 before ascending)

10x Clock-wise Neck Rotations (Lean the head to the right and roll backwards to the left then down and across back to the left shoulder)

10x Counter Clock-wise Neck Rotations (Same as Clock-wise except start on the left shoulder and roll backwards to the right and the back across to the left)

10x Hindi Squats (Stand with feet and legs together, keep hands at side and raise forward to shoulder level as the squat descends until the legs form a right angle keeping the back straight, hold for 5 then ascend and lower the arms while rising, rinse and repeat the motion)

10x 90 Degree Leg Hang Crunches (Lay down and hold legs up to form a 90 degree angle as though sitting in a chair, use one if necessary to help with posturing but don't rest the legs or it defeats the purpose, place hands behind head and raise head up as though lifting the chin towards the sky, making sure that the legs don't move)

10x Reverse Plank (Lie flat, place the hands at the waist or small of back if necessary and raise legs and upper body off the ground at the same time at about a 10-15 degree angle, or as much as the bodies current core strength will allow. Hold the position for a good 10-15 seconds and on the final hold, for as long as the body can allow)

10x Flat Crunches (Assume the reverse plank position, except for instead of holding the position, rise in and out of it by keeping the hands flat at the sides and reaching towards your feet while bringing the knees in and trying to touch the chest without falling or assisting yourself.)

10x Reverse Crunches (Lay flat and put the hands out to form a T, lift the legs together into the air until they reach about a 65 degree angle, hold for 5-10 seconds, then control the descent and repeat)

10x Normal Push-Ups (Make sure to keep a flat back and hands shoulder width apart, look straight ahead and push-up when the chest hits the ground)

10x 10 Second Forearm Planks (Hold a plank position by taking the push-up position except support yourself by the forearms)

10x 10 Second Ascended Push-up Planks (Hold the regular push-up position for 10 seconds)

10x 10 Second Descended Push-up Planks (Take a push-up position, descend until the chest is touching the floor and maintain the pose for 10 seconds)

10x 10 Second Wall Stands (Find a clear wall, face away from the wall, get into a push-up position except with your feet on the wall, then "walk" backwards using the wall for support until the body is totally vertical, hold this position for 10 seconds before relaxing into a controlled descent, it is usually best to tuck the neck and roll onto the back. Once the person begins to feel comfortable with it, the next step of this exercise is to try and do a push-up(s) from this position)

10x Wide Stance Squat (Stand with your feet slightly wider than shoulder width apart, descend until the legs from a 90 degree angle, hold for 5, then ascend)

10x Narrow Stance Toe Touches (Stand with the feet together then bend down and try to touch your toes, hold the position for 10-15 seconds before ascending)

10x Normal Lunges (Stand with the feet shoulder width apart, step out with your preferred leg to form a 90 degree angle, while bending the other to form a 65-90 degree angle without the knee touching the ground, step back in and alternate)

10x Wide Stance Cross Toe Touches (Stand with the feet slightly wider than shoulder width apart and try to touch the opposite foot with the opposing hand, hold each reach for 10-15 seconds before releasing)

10x Back Lunges (The same as the forward lunge, except this time the position is in reverse and instead of stepping forward, step backwards, hold each lunge for 10-15 seconds before ascending)

10x Squatters Pose (Stand with the feet shoulder width apart, keeping the back and body straight slowly descend into a sitting squat position without touching the ground or holding the knees, hold for 10-15, then very slowly and carefully try to ascend without assisting yourself)

10x Side Lunges (Stand with the feet shoulders width apart and attempt a lateral squat pose without changing the direction you face and keeping the anchor foot facing the same direction as you face)

10x Wide Stance Reverse Crunches (Lay flat and put the hands out to form a T, lift the legs into the air, holding them about 6 inches or shoulder width apart until they reach about a 65 degree angle, hold for 5-10 seconds, then control the descent and repeat)

10x Leg Ups (Lie flat, place hands outward so the body forms a human T, or behind the small of the back for a more assisted position, raise the legs up as though in a reverse crunch, slowly bring them in to the body as though laying in a fetal position, then slowly push them up towards the ceiling and as high as the torso can push, if done correctly the lower back will lift off the ground, briefly hold then do a controlled descent by gently easing the lower back down folding the legs inward or keeping them stretched out and lowering the feet back down. Once comfortable with the exercise, increase the speed while maintaining stability until it becomes more of a foot thrusting action towards the ceiling. Done correctly, it should feel like doing a reverse "burbee")

10x 10 Second Bicycle Kicks (Lay flat, support the neck with both hands and raise lift your chin towards the ceiling while raising the legs at about a 150 degree angle Cycle one leg, then the other until performing a bicycling maneuver maintain this action for 10 second spurts or as long as possible before stopping, resting and repeating)

10x Alternating Crunches (Assume the lying 90 degree sitting position and do a crunch except for instead of simply lifting the chin and back towards the ceiling, add a twist to each side and attempt to touch the elbow to the alternate and opposing knee, so the right elbow towards the left knee and vice versa)

10x Alternating Flat Crunches (Assume the reverse plank position and do a flat crunch, except for this time as you rise and and out of it bring the hands in towards the body as you rise and reach out to the left and right alternately, bringing them back in as you descend)

Mastering The Mind

The only true place to begin in a mastery of ones self is in the mind.

It is difficult to imagine or think about just how out of control the modern mind may be, while simultaneously being the easiest thing in the world to understand. Think of all the distraction, the noise, the chatter, the incessant sounds of society and then stop to ponder this:

If the mind is out of one's own control, then how can one control one's own mind; let alone, if ones own mind is out of their own control, how then can one attempt to guide themselves along the path of life with any success?

Often I day dream of drowning or being lost at sea, alone, afloat upon a shoddy raft assembled of the flotsam and jetsam that I have collected in an attempt to avoid drowning while being harried by sharks, storms, and all the perils of open water. Meanwhile I'm passed by other's, whose boats are boats and not shipwrecked components, they gather crews and flock in great fleets and generally pilot themselves through life in a better and easier manner, almost as if they were unaware we were even at sea or of its dangers to begin with.

This is the manifestation of my subconscious psyche lashing out at my own lack of control and what it really says, is this is how I fell about my life. I am unsure of how other people feel about themselves but what I do know is this:

Life is a boat;

Pilot it.

A simple, but difficult truth to master in the modern world and it is one that can easily be lost or forgotten amongst the distractions of the modern world.

The easiest way to strip away these distractions is through meditation, which can be difficult, due to how out of control the human mind can be, much like attempting to wrangle a wild horse.

There are many different methods an descriptions, but the two key concepts that any and every one should learn are:

Contemplative or Empathic Meditation

Breathing and Moving Meditation

Contemplative Or Empathic Meditation

Contemplative or Empathic Meditation is good for many things,however, it's primarily best for attempting to develop nuanced perspective and for controlling an overactive imagination. However, while I called it Empathic Meditation it is important to divine that there is a concrete and fundamental difference between Thinking and Feeling and that while empathy is feeling and feelings are a good thing to have, it is important to not allow your mind to be ruled by your feelings and to think with your brain and not your heart.

Often our feelings tell us to do something for one reason or another while our brain will most definitively lead us in a better direction despite what our feelings may be telling us and this is very important to today's day and age. This is fundamentally important because everything in today's society is designed and developed specifically to gain control over your feelings and their for your thoughts, because the heart is for less heavily guarded than the mind.

Contemplate or Empathic Meditation is the extrapolation of reality, in an attempt to better understand actuality. For example, wake up early in the morning, before the sun has rise or more preferably just as it is rising, make a cup of tea, (my recommendation would be lemon ginger green tea with a dallop of honey, fill a large mug with hot water or pan with water, microwave or heat the water until it is just barely boiling but not quite, pour the water into the cup, add the honey, then dip the tea bag in and out of the water, the tea bag should fizz, until the fizzing stops and dispose of the tea bag) take your tea out in to the cold of the morning and watch the sunrise.

It takes roughly 8 minutes for the warmth of the sun to reach the planet and strike the cheek and in those 8 minutes, contemplate what it would be like to be a photon of light and a ray of warmth shot out from our flaming hydrogen sun. Imagine traveling through space, hurtling through the absolute vacuum of a desolate abyss, a thousand times further and faster than the human mind can possible conceive as that photon of light is the microcosmic child to it's macro-cosmic parent.

Far flung and fast moving through an eternal void to strike the leaf of the tea which was made to warm the hands of the beholder. In the darkness before the 8 minutes that it takes to travel through space, imagine that the heat of the mug in your hands is the same as the heat coming through the sun while you wait; if you are cold take warmth from this heat as though you were cooling yourself around the microcosm of the macrocosm, because you are.

As your mind travels the distance of space, think back in time, attempt to imagine the same photon of light traveling towards you is the kin of many others and those many others which were shot out in cold blooded astro-calculus all strategically fed and landed on not only the tea leaves in the tea bag, but the other spices and additives. Not just the leaves of the tea, but the hands and face of the person who picked them, bent backed and burnt, sweating their salt into the earth underneath the same sun that brought the sweet and soothing taste of the tea to your tongue. Imagine back as far and as thoroughly as possible as you wait in the cold darkness of the void between the Earth and the Sun, to be caressed by the same and only life giving force in our galaxy.

This is the heart of Contemplative and Empathic Meditation and it can be applied in many ways to anything and while it may be the heart, the true idea is to harness the mind to travel in a controlled and constructive manner. To me, I believe this to be what is referred to as an Einsteinien Thought Experiement, except Albert Einstein would have been applying mathematical calculations to the photon of light as it traveled and indeed did, otherwise he would not have developed the theory of relativity. In theory long term practice and application of Contemplative and Empathic Mediation is supposed to re-wire the brain in a beneficial manner.

Breathing And Moving Meditiation

Breathing and Moving Meditation is much simpler and ironically therefore difficult.

Firstly, Moving Meditation is the advanced form of breathing meditation, but we more than likely all experience subconsciously through certain soothing tasks that we enjoy. Breathing Meditation is the classic misinterpreted form of meditation in which one can imagine the stereo-typical trope of one sitting back straight in a pose. The point being that some stereotypes exist for a reason, because breathing meditation involves sitting still, in a comfortable position and taking deep breaths.

What the trope does not capture, is the true difficulty in silencing ones thoughts and mind, especially in a room full of like minded people being given instructions from someone that is in the end profiting off of your lack of control. The point being:

Peace will never be found by those who instruct you on how to find it.

(Yes, the irony of this is not lost on me, but I am not giving anyone instructions on how to find peace. Peace is an illusion because nature is violent, but violent nature is not natural and therefore I'm freely offering a tool for taking back control of oneself if they haven't already found it, not giving instructions on how to find inner peace.)

The key to breathing meditation is learning to form ones will into an iron hatchet in which they can split the trains of thought that run through ones mind. My only advice is this:

Sit in a comfortable position, in comfortable space. Take deep breaths in through the nose, filling the lower diaphragm and then the lungs; breathing out slowly through the mouth, with each breath in feel the tension in your body and with each breath out release the felt tension. Meanwhile block out any thoughts be forming your mind into that iron, train stopping wedge by focusing on the bodily tension and releasing that tension with every breath. Over time focusing and blocking out the unwanted thoughts will become easier and second nature to a mind out of control; however, it is easy to set the train stations off again, which is the purpose of constant practice.

For anyone who doesn't know what breathing through your diaphragm feels like, its the area where getting hit the gut hard enough "knocks the wind out of you" if you're hit in it, just below the center of the sternum and it's a breathing muscle that is little used which controls the access to your lower lung area and learning how to breath using it is key and vital for a lot of things. To practice the feeling if filling your lower lungs, try sucking air through your mouth like you were trying to suck a thick milkshake through a straw, the ballooning feeling in your mid chest area is your diaphragm and lower lungs filling with air.

The important part to learning how to breathe, in through your nose and then slowly out your mouth, is that our bodies actually produce natural nitrous oxide inside the nasal cavity, which is what causes the feeling of giddy-ness from hyper ventilating; and this natural nitrous oxide is good for us. The purpose of breathing out the mouth instead of the nose is simply for a more controlled, fully body exercise and release of the lungs and makes for good practice during bodily exercise when one should be breathing in and out according to whether they are taking strain in or putting strain out.

Moving Meditation is simply, active breathing meditation while doing literally anything and going about ones daily life. For some people it might be washing dishes, for others it might be gardening, and yet others it could be going for a run, playing an instrument or any other myriad number of activities. The while a key difference is that in a state of moving meditation, the person is not breathing out their mouths but through their nose entirely while taking deep breaths and blocking out any wanton thoughts that don't involve the present moment. The true to key to utilizing this state, is maintaining oneself in the present and not dwelling on the past or future, but only focusing on the task at hand and remaining free from worry or distraction.

True mastery of meditation eventually comes from the blending of all forms of meditation, due to the fact that one should be practicing their breathing while they ponder the vastness of space and time or performing any other contemplative exercise.

Food, Nutrition And Eating Like A Human Should

The only real diet is a human diet, what that means is there is no real diet.

If you've ever watched any kind of survival show, especially a lot of them, you'll notice that it does not take much before the human body starts to break down and when it does, it happens very quickly. If you then study ancient culture, the evolution of the human race and general food requirements across the planet, what you'll find is that humans evolved to eat just about anything our stomach can successfully tolerate and extract some form of nutrition from.

What this really means is that we evolved to be omnivores, and depending on our ancestral genetic heritage, we evolved in different parts of the worlds eating different but very similar types of food depending on the location and relation from one culture to one another. Despite this, the main things that the human body requires are: Water, Protein, Roughage (fruit and vegetable matter), Digestible Fats, Salt and Micro-Nutrients (I.e the various vitamins and minerals)

Give a person all of these things in the appropriate proportions and they can indefinitely survive anywhere at any time. Deprive a human being entirely of: Water, Protein and Fat in their appropriate proportions, and they will die in 30 days or less, this is because these are the foundational building blocks that our body requires to manufacture cells. The sources of these foundational dietary requirements does not matter, except in the sense of excess and maintenance of balance, a good example being salt. Salts should mainly be from derived from the meat, vegetables and fats, because humans no longer salt food as a preservation requirement, we now add salt into our foods, which is why just about everything has it, ergo an over-exposure to salt being possible.

This is also why it is possible to substitute animal for plant proteins and exist on a vegetarian or vegan diet, however, this highlights the importance that not all molecules are the same and that while a piece of meat and a certain amount of vegetable may both contain the same types of proteins and fats and appear to be an equivalent substitute, the molecular structure of these organic chemical chains, are completely and entirely different.

A good example of this key difference between molecular structures, is the difference between baking with cow's milk butter and coconut oil. The two fat chains are different at the molecular level and the body handles these differences accordingly, cow's milk or any animal milk for that matter, contains a wider and higher organic fat content for obvious reasons; which is then processed into it's many ingredients. Butter can be clarified and it's fat chain altered, but the fat chain in coconut oil is simpler and therefore easier to digest, furthermore, the body processes coconut oil differently in that it burns the coconut oil for energy only without having to process and store the additional indigestible animal fats which require mechanical breakdown instead of chemical.

While this is positive and beneficial, in the ancient world, coconuts and coconut oil was not widely available to everyone and to select few whose regions contained the necessary palms until global trade was established in the last 70-80 years. What this means is that the human body had to rely on dairy products for hundreds of thousands of years, all of which contained live and healthy bacteria and micro-organisms which aid the digestive tract in processing the indigestible, Greek or live culture yogurts are the best examples of this. Conversely, this should mean that the global rise of dairy intolerance stems from the modernization of dairy sterilization through homogenization which kills all of the good which should always outweigh the bad bacteria found in healthy animal milks.

Homogenization allows for the long-term storage of dairy products so that what is here today is no longer gone tomorrow, instead it can be good for up to a period of 3 months from some expiration dates that I've seen. If the molecular structure of modern preserved food is that difficult for organic molds to break down, how difficult do you think it is for your stomach to break down and extract useful and live nutrient and mineral content from?

Please keep in mind that this is not a villainization of modern day sterilization, it's to point out the importance of thinking about the base and key fundamentals that surround healthy food and a nutritious diet. Too much food waste is now the worlds largest problem when it comes to ending world hunger, not a lack of food and while there may be people starving in the world, their starvation is the result of bureaucracy, politics, corporate greed and the subsequently agendized food marketing campaigns.

The perfect example is the bad reputation that meat has in today's world, as though it is somehow a crime. Life feeds on life, nature is violence, and what we do not eat we throw away; which is worse, to forgo eating meat and restrict yourself to only vegetables and fruit, to see the waste thrown in the trash to rot away in a land fill poisoning the earth as it slowly decays, or to enjoy some steak and bacon because it tastes great and would have otherwise gone to waste if left unconsumed?

It is true that the modernized food industry is gruesome and ought to be despised, but it is not true that boycotting something makes much of a difference in the 20th century. The oligarchical titans of industry will simply turn their back on the woe-begone consumers in that particular market and redirect their efforts elsewhere. The only truth in modern vegetables and fruit being better than modern meat, is that modernized meat is lacking in the quality contained in it's wild counter parts and even then the true quality is still lacking due to the tarnished and worn state of our modern world.

What is not true is that vegetarian or veganism is not the answer to a modern diet, one key reason lay in the fact that without a knowledge of vitamin and mineral supplementation along with careful planning and consumption of high quantity substitutes processed down into digestible volumes, attempting to go vegetarian or vegan can and most likely will result in malnutrition that can and does require people to go to the doctor. This is because as stated before, like for like substitutes with food, are not equivalent to each other. Ruminate animals are called ruminates for a reason because they have multiple and specialized stomachs with varying and different acid and bacterial contents which are strictly necessary in order for them to survive on the foods which they eat by the ton because that is how little nutritional value there is to be found in the food they eat. This is why goats are the hardiest animal on the plant and can survive in the harshest of conditions, humans are not goats.

In fact, modern agriculture has stripped the required and precious soil nutrients required across the majority of the earth, if you don't believe me look up the earliest satellite pictures of the planet, then go to Google Earth or look up the most recent images. This effect of desertification has to do with modern agricultural techniques which are the equivalent of stripping mining the earth and the only reason we have made it as far as we have is due to the creating of the artificial nitrogen used in fertilizer. The difference being humans as a global population, removed the vast majority of the worlds previous and mind-bogglingly herd and other animal populations, who previously fertilized the soil that was so rich as to bring us to where we are.

The answer to all of this?

Humans require whole foods, of various kinds in appropriate quantities and if we are allergic, that means there is a compound in the food that our body cannot process and it should be substituted or avoided. Avoid overly processed foods, learn to cook and using a myriad of whole food ingredients. Figure out a way to start producing

Work In Progress Note

This guide isn't currently complete and will be a work in progress as I get around to it, but it should be getting some attention in the coming months.

Editorial Section:

Here's a fun fact: It was recently discovered that there is a latency delay of an estimated 15 seconds between what the human eye visually sees and it's transmission for interpretation and registration by the brain, what this mean is that as you are sitting and reading this, your brain is 15 seconds behind what your eyes are seeing and reading and registering to you as actively reading.

(I'm not going to quote or cite anything because I'm not attempting to state any of these facts this as if it were my own discovery, if you can't understand how any of these things are possible, try looking it up, or educating yourself on history and the physical principles of actuality versus reality)

Conclusion

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The Final Fantasy XV Workout Guide