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	<title>Fitness Fail &#187; Critiques and Rants</title>
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		<title>A question for my readers.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fitnessfail.com/?p=706</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ The big traffic is and always has been in telling people what they want to hear.  I'm not going to start posting magical formulas to "get the body you've always" wanted anytime soon.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Paleo is a sledgehammer</title>
		<link>http://www.fitnessfail.com/paleo-is-a-sledgehammer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fitnessfail.com/paleo-is-a-sledgehammer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fitnessfail.com/?p=695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our understanding of nutrition and how it effects the body is really in its infancy.  The good nutritionists (even the registered dietitian types that this community so likes to vilify) will admit this freely.   This is why I prefer to think of the strict Paleo approach as something of a sledgehammer.  To my knowledge there are no peer reviewed, double blind, large-scale, long-term studies in humans indicating that the consumption of unfermented legumes has  statistically significant adverse health effects.   Now how about fermenting them as some traditional cultures did?  Call me when you get the funding to run one of these.  I can do this all day. 
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		<title>Quick Book Suggestion/Review (Spark)</title>
		<link>http://www.fitnessfail.com/quick-book-suggestionreview-spark/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fitnessfail.com/quick-book-suggestionreview-spark/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fitnessfail.com/?p=669</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On a broader scale, it’s an endorsement of a lot of the activity we do, and alludes to evolutionary fitness concepts a few times.  I found a lot of the science backing one of the primary messages of the paleo/primal community.... I found it extremely refreshing to see a book aimed at mainstream audiences using good science to reach many of the same conclusions.
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		<title>Today&#8217;s miracle pill is: Growth Hormone!</title>
		<link>http://www.fitnessfail.com/todays-miracle-pill-is-growth-hormone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fitnessfail.com/todays-miracle-pill-is-growth-hormone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Critiques and Rants]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fat loss.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hGH]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psuedoscience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recovery]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fitnessfail.com/?p=648</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Gluten is bad kids, mmmkay!</title>
		<link>http://www.fitnessfail.com/gluten-is-bad-kids-mmmkay/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fitnessfail.com/gluten-is-bad-kids-mmmkay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Critiques and Rants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nutrition and Recipes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fitnessfail.com/?p=638</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on being part of a fitness and nutrition counterculture.</title>
		<link>http://www.fitnessfail.com/thoughts-on-being-part-of-a-fitness-and-nutrition-counterculture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fitnessfail.com/thoughts-on-being-part-of-a-fitness-and-nutrition-counterculture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[counterculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crossfit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paleo]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fitnessfail.com/?p=616</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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?]]></description>
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		<title>Forming a race of Kettlebell supermen!</title>
		<link>http://www.fitnessfail.com/forming-a-race-of-kettlebell-supermen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fitnessfail.com/forming-a-race-of-kettlebell-supermen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[trends]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fitnessfail.com/?p=550</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I had to go to a standard supermarket, and there in the impulse buy stand, the cover of a certain well known women’s magazine had an article about using kettlebells to turn yourself into a bikini model without sweat, discipline or effort!]]></description>
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		<title>Paleo is a good approach, don&#8217;t outsmart it.</title>
		<link>http://www.fitnessfail.com/paleo-is-a-good-approach-dont-outsmart-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fitnessfail.com/paleo-is-a-good-approach-dont-outsmart-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[overthinking]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fitnessfail.com/?p=528</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems to be human nature that when people find something that works, they tend to run with it.  They tend to go overboard and try to improve on it too.  I believe the expression is “There is none so zealous as the recently converted”.  But, it seems a lot of people find something that works, and the they just turn the blinders on and forget to examine any further claims critically if they come from whatever ideological camp they identify with.]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not a conspiracy, take off the foil hat.</title>
		<link>http://www.fitnessfail.com/its-not-a-conspiracy-take-off-the-foil-hat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fitnessfail.com/its-not-a-conspiracy-take-off-the-foil-hat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Critiques and Rants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nutrition and Recipes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conspiracy theories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tinfoil hats]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fitnessfail.com/?p=378</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Let's assume for a second that the wild eyed ones are correct though.  In my opinion, unless there is GOOD proof, claims of conspiracies make it too easy to dismiss you as a card carrying member of the tin foil hat brigade.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Glycogen depletion issues (aka I&#8217;m a moron)</title>
		<link>http://www.fitnessfail.com/glycogen-depletion-issues-aka-im-a-moron/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fitnessfail.com/glycogen-depletion-issues-aka-im-a-moron/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fitnessfail.com/?p=335</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I finished one set of the thruster, dip,back extension triplet and sat down confused, nauseated and too weak to stand up.  I took a few pictures of Rayna as she finished her workout and thought I was going to boot every time I stood up. I didn't even do a proper cool down.  I was too thrashed to do anything.

It was a bonk.  A true, "muscle glycogen is gone, blood sugar is too low to function normally" bonk.  I could barley move.]]></description>
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