Yesterday’s (4-29-09) workout, stamina/work capacity

Today I feel surprisingly good.
I’m really enjoying climbing, and have been makbut I do miss the time pushing things in the gym more.

Today’s miracle pill is: Growth Hormone!

I fully admit that I still have a lot to learn about training and physiology, by any real standard I’m a beginner in this field. That said, I really wish people would learn to check their sources, and verify things before sprouting off conjecture as fact.

Somewhere, people made the leap from “that idea makes logical sense” to “it’s true!” without testing it. I knew something was up when I went to the gym at 7am and the meat heads were doing an hour of slow, plodding cardio (in the fat burning zone of course!) before breakfast.

Gluten is bad kids, mmmkay!

I’m apparently one of the lucky people who is intolerant to gluten. Now, I normally eat loosely paleo (I eat some dairy and a fair amount of tubers, and wine) and feel pretty damn good. On climbing trips (most weekends) I’ll indulge and pizza and beer, and don’t normally feel any worse for wear for it.

Back next week.

This week has seen my trying to finish my end of semester project for a grad class I’m taking (Phis. Basis of Performance and Sport Conditioning – absolutely fascinating class) while still attempting to get something resembling my job done at work.
Rayna and I are off to the New River Gorge to climb [...]

Thoughts on being part of a fitness and nutrition counterculture.

Imagine that tomorrow everything our community says it wants happened. Does this make you happy? Or disappointed because you’re not part of a counterculture you perceive as elite anymore?