Archive for 'Diet'
Rendering the Minutia Inconsequential
Posted on 19. Mar, 2012 by theorytopractice.
“Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure.” – Jane Brody Photo credit – Christopher Lozano photography — a high school friend whose heart is genuine, and whose talent is beyond description. Pictured, left-to-right: Mark Alexander (President, Efficient Exercise, ARXFit), Skyler Tanner, Robb Wolf, Michelle “child bride” Norris, your’s truly, Mark Sisson. Why [...]
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Where to Start?
Posted on 05. Mar, 2012 by theorytopractice.
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. John Steinbeck Photo credit My good friend Andrew Badenoch, of 77Zero.org can certainly attest to this notion. To be prepared is one thing; to think that you have ultimate control? Heh, this makes the Gods of chance and [...]
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Questions? Answers! Bloodwork Panels
Posted on 13. Feb, 2012 by theorytopractice.
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. – John Muir Bloodwork, Revisited – The following is a question sent in from Blair Wilson, of MedX Precision Fitness, in Toronto, ON. I’ve asked my good friend and bloodwork maestro, Holly L’Itallien, of Austin’s Merritt [...]
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Lean Mass Signalling Important to Weight-Loss Efforts? *Now* We’re Gettin’ Somewhere
Posted on 09. Jan, 2012 by theorytopractice.
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 [...]
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35 Years Worth of Power Cleans, Sprints, Dips and Chins
Posted on 19. Dec, 2011 by theorytopractice.
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 [...]
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The Diet Component
Posted on 15. Dec, 2011 by theorytopractice.
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 [...]
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And Now Let’s Hack Keith’s DEXA Scan…
Posted on 12. Dec, 2011 by theorytopractice.
“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 [...]
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Takin’ a Peek Under the Hood; Hackin’ My Bloodwork
Posted on 05. Dec, 2011 by theorytopractice.
“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 [...]
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Nutrient Timing
Posted on 10. Oct, 2011 by theorytopractice.
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 [...]
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The Ancestral Health Symposium, 2011
Posted on 15. Aug, 2011 by theorytopractice.
“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.” – Benjamin Franklin Excellent! Always a man ahead of his time; cool Ben, the original proponent of intermittent fasting The Ancestral Health Symposium, 2011 In a word, just a fabulous, fabulous, 2-day event. I won’t go into a complete re-tread of of AHS 2011 events here; soon enough, [...]
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