Art DeVany’s “The New Evolution Diet”

In general, I think the online Paleo community is too hard on The New Evolution Diet. I experienced bafflement at a few things, and they are all on this list at Melissa McEwen’s site. In particular, throwing out egg yolks is, I think, ludicrous. Choline is a critical nutrient, and it’s all [...]

The Bear Complex

I have to say that “The Bear Complex” sounds like something a gay male friend would say he has. Come on, I know at least one of you thought that when you saw the title!

It is actually a sequence of five lifts [video link of a woman doing a demo]:

Power Clean
Front Squat
Push Press or [...]

Pull-Ups

For more about burpees, read what Cosmopolitan Primal Girl has to say.

Long story short, they suck, they are hard[warning: music at that link], but I did do ‘em yesterday in a WOD. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. I guess.

Paleo Diets and Their Value

I don’t believe I’ve said much about this here, and I’m a bit behind everyone else because my copy of Robb Wolf’s The Paleo Solution was to be shipped when Amazon ran out of copies. I attended Robb’s seminar in July at Potomac CrossFit.

This is not the most awesome picture, but it’s the one [...]

CrossFit. Is it dangerous?

I made this prediction on Free The Animal today, and I’d like to go on record here: It’s only a matter of time before that conventional wisdom-spouting harpie, Tara Parker-Pope does a piece in the NY Times Well Blog about how dangerous this CrossFit “fad” is. I think it could happen any time [...]

A Bit of a Confession

I’ve been doing CrossFit for a while now. In fact, I completed a Level 1 Certification Seminar this weekend. The only reason I don’t know if I passed the exam is because they had a large (and frankly inexcusable) IT failure, and we have to wait for our results from HQ. Yes, [...]