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Spartan Benchmark
After the Spartan race it felt appropriate to repeat Gym Jones’ great benchmark workout, the ’300′ and enjoy the massive improvement in completion time… Packing for a client trip to Toronto then off to...
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A Vegan, a Paleo and an Atkins go into a bar…
Like a bad joke. I ran into a guy complaining that he was on the Atkins diet and couldn’t eat anything here in Europe. Having been both a vegan and now on paleo I always had the same impression too....
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The Promise of a Paleo Island
I can’t imagine a better setting for Paleo living than the almost unlimited seafood, fruit, veggies and nuts as these are a given in the Bahamas. Yet astonishingly 80% of the food is imported, mostly...
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Again Fast-er Fall Edition
It is that time of the year again. After the spring pre-race season fast, we’re back to intermittent fasting with LeanGains. It did wonders to my stamina and WOD performance in February and it will be...
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Paleo, Zone, Fasting and Performance
The recent waves of videos by Matt Chan in the CrossFit Journal brought the focus back to a key part of the CF prescription – proper nutrition. Matt’s videos cover Zone fueling techniques for...
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From Wheat Addiction to Paleo
Some friends have commented that they really wanted to make a full CrossFit lifestyle change but the food choices were, well, too radical. What this typically refers to is the discrimination against...
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Stopping Paleo Relativism
Even those of us who have are eating paleo most of the time have some foodstuff that we let sneak into the daily diet. These are some common “exceptions” for some: - coffee - I hate to yield this one -...
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First we cut the food additives
Barring emergency situations, we do not need sodium nitrates, soy lecithin, corn starch, maltodextrin, corn syrup and the hundreds of other frankenstein corn, wheat and soy derivatives in our foods. At...
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Eating Real Food
As part of any Paleo challenge we eventually turn to cutting out all processed foods. This is much harder than it sounds. In America 90% of the grocery store items, most restaurant foods contain...
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Plank to the Burpee Cage
Traveling in Asia on a Paleo diet gave me many insights. The most important is that Asians (in China and Korea especially) eat practically no sugar and no corn or wheat. While rice staples do provide...
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