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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 [...]

Art DeVany

I’m currently reading Art DeVany’s new book (The New Evolution Diet) – only the Kindle version is out at the moment.

His basic rules for eating are much more tight with the fat than what I know a lot of Primal/Paleo types eat. I have to say that, to be honest, I cannot free-eat Paleo [...]

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 [...]

Out Playing in the Woods

I’ve been out playing in the woods for the last week or so. What’s more “primal play” than this? I did a lot more rock climbing than usual, and I enjoyed every minute of that.

Instead of going to Vermont and doing new mileage up there, I decided to clean up some [...]

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, [...]

Primal Play

After spending the afternoon at the St. Louis City Museum, I’m starting to think fun exercise is something I need fit in every week.

The grind that occurs at the gym is a big reason why I don’t go to one.

I don’t really do any exercise I don’t enjoy. If I don’t like it, I [...]

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