I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating. — Louise Brown There’s this little thing I’m involved in that’s going on in March, here in Austin some of you may have heard about called Paleo FX — Ooh…I think I [...]
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Mens Health & Fitness
Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other — William Faulkner Mistaking a single piece for the whole (and its kissing-cousin, reductionism) is, I suppose, part-and-parcel to the human condition. Why this condition is so is, on the one hand, fascinating — and, on the other, a bit disconcerting. It’s a [...]
Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware ~ Anne Lamott How to spend a lazy Friday afternoon – (A1) clean and press: worked-up from 135 x 5, to 225 x singles. How many singles? I have no clue; let’s just call call it “a hellovalot”. For me, [...]
The unfed mind devours itself – Gore Vidal I’ve written many times on the difficulty (absurdity?) of attempting to distill artistic expertise into programs, templates, or step-by-step directives. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve been asked by a client, following a workout, why I chose a certain movement, technique or modality at [...]
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Paul Jaminet, in his recent post My Theory of Obesity I: “The Fat Trap”, inches ever closer to uncovering the scientific whys behind what Physical Culturalists have long known as truth — that lean tissue acquisition/optimization via smartly programmed resistance training is absolutely essential for optimum and [...]
Twitterworld & Facebook were all abuzz Tuesday, November 15th as the roll out for the inaugural event for Paleo f(x): Ancestral Momentum – Theory to Practice Symposium hit social media via one of the event’s key note speakers, none other than Robb Wolf. Keith and I are thrilled to be 2 of the founding members [...]
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 know you’ve all heard the saying that bacon makes everything taste better…well, it’s true. I know so many people have an aversion to Brussels sprouts, those cute little cabbages have gotten a bad rap for so many years because they were likely not cooked properly and they can be bitter if not cooked right. [...]
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 [...]
