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Workouts or “Events”?

Posted on 01. May, 2012 by .

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No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. – Edmund Burke Not a bad way to spend a Friday afternoon… So this bad-boy is the so-called “three bars of death” — a three-ring-circus of bodyweight bench presses, .75 bodyweight power cleans, and 1.5 bodyweight [...]

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Cold Thermogenesis…or Core Cooling?

Posted on 16. Apr, 2012 by .

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The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. – Horace Walpole Wow, has Dr. Jack Kruse ever kicked-up a firestorm with his Cold Thermogenesis hypothesis, and the associated claims.  Even to the point that I’m beginning to field questions about it from clients who are well outside of the Paleo “inside”, [...]

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Is Constant Variation a Good Thing?

Posted on 09. Apr, 2012 by .

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‎”The quality if your being expresses the correctness of your understanding.”  - Thomas Campbell A question from reader Eli Bailey: I was wondering if you may be able to clarify and expand on your listing on the website that says ” the individual components of the workout – as well as the workout itself, when [...]

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Is Obesity Unpatriotic?

Posted on 26. Mar, 2012 by .

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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet – Margaret Mead …or, I’d add, to change his fitness habits…or lack thereof. Here’s an interesting and timely ad that I ran across, from AmmoLane: The message is simple and to-the-point.  But by “guts”, though, I’m pretty sure they weren’t meaning this [...]

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Rendering the Minutia Inconsequential

Posted on 19. Mar, 2012 by .

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“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 .

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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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Surfing the Force-Velocity Curve

Posted on 27. Feb, 2012 by .

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May all your waves be righteous, and all your rides bring you Peace.  - ceholli The break — Cape Hatteras Lighthouse; Buxton, North Carolina.  I’m a Texas native through-and-through, and love the ATX for sure.  But sometimes, though, I really do miss this place… I’ll continue with the surfing metaphor in a bit, but first [...]

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Sean Croxton’s Paleo Summit, and More on Health vs Performance

Posted on 20. Feb, 2012 by .

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  An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly [...]

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Questions? Answers! Bloodwork Panels

Posted on 13. Feb, 2012 by .

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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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Mistaking a Single Piece for the Entire Puzzle

Posted on 06. Feb, 2012 by .

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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 [...]

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