Endurance athletics and Paleo/Primal way of eating
Can endurance athletes live a paleo/primal lifestyle, eating whole foods and eliminating grains? They can steer in the general direction of a Paleo diet even though they need more carbohydrate than the average person. Here are two endurance athletes talking about what they eat and why. Longtime professional triathlete Jonas Colting says he eats “some carefully chosen processed carbs,” though not at the high loads recommended by mainstream nutritionists. And he steers “way...
Read MoreDeadlifting for fun
Colin and Molly, visiting from CrossFit Bishop in California, came in to test their 1RM deadlift. Their cute-as-a-bug daughter crawled from place to place and found the small weight plates surprisingly hard to pick up. I taught him to deadlift about 14 months ago – now he’s bending the bar!
Read MoreTop 10 worst nutrition mistakes
From Nora Gedgaudas’s site Primal Body Primal Mind. My pet peeve is number 8, using negotiation-speak such as “moderation” and “once in a while.” The one that I love the most for how it blows my mind is regarding gene expression, number 3 on Nora’s list. “Even by the most conservative geneticists’ standards, we have anywhere from 80% to 97% control over our own genetic expressions…. A gene will not express itself unless the internal environment...
Read MoreCrossFit on tour
Our friend Colin Broadwater, owner of CrossFit Bishop (California), is visiting Seattle with his family and came in to do “Diane” with me at noon. Here he is doing a 185-pound front squat beforehand, and sporting the “Dad” look with the black pants, black socks, brown shoes. “Diane”: 21-15-9 225-lb deadlifts and handstand push-ups. Colin did it as prescribed in 10:06. My version: 125-lb deadlift (body weight), negative handstand push-ups down to an AbMat...
Read MoreDeadlift breakthroughs all day long today!
We figured out that people were not taking the time to get set before deadlifting. We work on the start position a fair amount , but still, it’s too easy to rush the lift. Up to a certain point you can get away with it. Then you feel that, even with a good start position, somehow not everything is engaging, and you plateau. Today we spent time with each trainee not only getting the start position to look correct; we had them “take the slack out” of their body and the bar,...
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