A classical education teaches you to despise the wealth it prevents you from earning ~ Lord Taverne So, here we go!…fade in to Theory to Practice’s brand new venue — Ancestral Momentum. This is a joint venture for Michelle (AKA, Meesus TTP) of Eclectic Kitchen/Caveman Cuisine and I; a chance for us to combine [...]
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Keith Norris
Heads-up my friends, TTP has now joined forces with his lovely and accomplished wife (AKA Meesus TTP), of Eclectic Kitchen and Caveman Cuisine fame, and has shifted his S & C dog-and-pony show across town to Ancestral Momentum. Hopefully, I’ll soon have an automatic redirect at this address, but until then… Everything from this site [...]
Intelligence requires that you don’t defend an assumption ~ David Bohm The setting: a recent Friday, early evening, alone and between clients at Austin’s Efficient Exercise Rosedale studio. Shuffled tracks from Van Halen’s late 70′s/early 80′s stuff (Van Halen II, Fair Warning, Women and Children First, Diver Down…) blasting from the stereo. I’m 8 sets into a [...]
I recently decided, in an on-going effort to better quantify an n=1 sweet-zone within my health vs performance continuum, to have an in-depth blood panel examined by Austin’s premier Ancestral Wellness savvy practitioners, the Merritt Wellness Center, and specifically by their resident nutritionist and bloodwork guru, Holly L’Italien. Holly’s grasp of bloodwork analysis from an [...]
The basic concept of a Paleo-like diet is that our bodies are genetically best adapted to utilize the foods we evolved to eat, and that humans (and ergo, the human genome) evolved over a few million years as hunter-gatherers. Agriculture did not appear on the human landscape until between ten to fifty-thousand years ago. Although [...]
“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.” – William James So I’ve decided to follow the look under the hood with a purview of how the ol’ chassis is holding up, and what better method to do so with than the gold standard body composition [...]
“Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.” – Germaine Greer I recently decided, in an on-going effort to better quantify an n=1 sweet-zone within my health vs performance continuum, to have an in-depth blood panel examined by Austin’s premier Ancestral Wellness savvy practitioners, the Merritt Wellness Center, and specifically by their resident nutritionist [...]
“The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.” – Bertrand Russell OK, so it’s been a while since I documented a run of workouts, so what better time to take a snapshot of things than Thanksgiving week? Actually, this turned out to be a fairly [...]
“Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.” – Henry David Thoreau As a frequent Forum, with Michael Krasny listener, I was pleasantly surprised by the exceptional Ancestral Wellness literacy expressed in this recent show (Are Humans Meant for Monogamy?) by guest Christopher Ryan, psychologist and co-author of “Sex at Dawn: The [...]
“The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.” – Bertrand Russell Ok, big BIG news today, y’all. Check it out: PaleoFX Austin Partners, a leading organization dedicated to educating fitness, nutrition, healthcare professionals and laypersons on practical applications of ancestral lifestyle theory, is proud to [...]
“Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.” - Bertrand Russell Yeah, the “Bowflex Killer” — that’s what Anthony Johnson, architect and founder of the 21 Convention, has dubbed the ARX Fit Omni. The Omni is the “home” version of the industrial units we use as part of our overall training [...]
How would one “program” the following workout into a trainee’s overall regimen? What the hell would you call such a thing? Other than, “insane”, I suppose. Touche Here was the evenings happenings: – a three-mile fixie huck, chock-full of starts, stops and sprints. – a stop at Epoc Coffee, for a redeye and a wade through [...]
All are lunatics, but he who can analyse his delusions is called a philosopher – Ambrose Bierce First, a little prospective… My Efficient Exercise clientele, widely speaking, consists of folks situated smack-dab in the bullseye for being the most susceptible to “diseases of affluence” — those maladies exacerbated (and, arguably, initially brought-on) by poor dietary choices and lack of proper [...]
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. Seneca Soundbites: high fructose corn sugar for the intellect? I see it as a disease of consequence affecting (infecting?) any and all genres of serious study; the consequence, of course, of living in a “soundbite culture”. Lack of time (due to playing the winner-take-all game [...]
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth. Thomas Mann I know, I know; the idea of nutrient timing is not exactly Paleo in the most strict sense of the term, and certainly not part of the DeVany-esq, Evolutionary Fitness schema. If you’re a performance-driven athlete, however (or just an average Joe/Jane [...]
