Grill-a-Palooza 2011–It Begins…

May 30, 2011

The weather’s warm. The days are long. The unmistakable smell of backyard grilling greets you everywhere you go. Men clad in ridiculous aprons gather around the Weber and trade stories over bottles of ice-cold beer from the cooler. Summer is finally here. With Memorial Day weekend now upon us, guys everywhere are doing what they […]

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The Hero’s Journey–Return

March 29, 2011

To become strong, healthy, and attractive, you shouldn’t expect it to be a simple step from point A to point B, but rather a mythical hero’s journey that takes you from your normal day-to-day and tests you severely before finally giving you what you originally wanted. This post wraps up what started in the previous […]

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The Hero’s Journey–Initiation

March 22, 2011

Everyone’s path towards health and fitness plays out like the hero’s journey, a template found in the religions and myths of most cultures. But rather than simply being the stuff of stories, this blueprint mirrors the path that we all must take in our lives if we are to become truly self-actualized. In particular, the […]

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The Hero’s Journey–Departure

March 18, 2011

What do Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, and Rocky all have in common? Apart from being kickass movies, they were all influenced by Joseph Campbell’s 1949 book The Hero With a Thousand Faces. Campbell spent his life studying the myths and religions of many cultures worldwide and found that they all followed a […]

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Adventures in Competitive Eating–The Ultimate Pigout

March 15, 2011

One thing I often get called out on is my support of whole foods and condemnation of ultra-processed ones. Our prevailing “calorie-centric” paradigm champions that all that matters is the calorie content of your food: eat more and you’ll just end up getting fatter. It should be just as easy to overeat on real food […]

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How to Cheat (and Get Away With It)

March 11, 2011

It’s time to talk about something that all you guys are interested in: how to get away with cheating. Whoa, buddy. Hold up, there. You can take your philandering ways over to another site if that’s what you’re thinking. I’m talking about how to occasionally eat your favorite junk food without worrying about getting out […]

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The Perils of Nutritionism

March 8, 2011

“Nutrition science is sorta where surgery was in the year 1650. Interesting, fascinating to watch, but do you really want them operating on you yet?” -Michael Pollan Low fat diets, low carbohydrate diets, protein shakes, multivitamins… Who else thinks it’s weird that the more we try and micromanage what we eat, the more out of […]

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