Archive for 'Theory to Practice'
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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Mistaking a Single Piece for the Entire Puzzle
Posted on 06. Feb, 2012 by theorytopractice.
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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Old School, New School — That’s How I Roll…
Posted on 23. Jan, 2012 by theorytopractice.
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, [...]
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The Mystery of Expertise
Posted on 16. Jan, 2012 by theorytopractice.
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 [...]
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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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Affecting Change for the Better
Posted on 02. Jan, 2012 by theorytopractice.
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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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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Theory to Practice
Posted on 15. Dec, 2011 by theorytopractice.
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 [...]
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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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