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Basics => Beast Mode

Last year, my friend Kate started a training program I designed for her. She had been eating pretty well and training…

A Calorie is Just a Calorie, Except When It Isn’t

Thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don’t understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two small points. The third time you go through it, you know…

Eating For The Rest Of Your Life

The 80/20 Rule For Eating

Eat your vegetables.

 — Mom

Eat more vegetables is the 80/20 rule of nutrition. Want 80% of the benefits for 20% of the work? Eat more vegetables. Live longer…

How Much Stuff Do You Need?

“Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.”
 — Epicurus

Which of the things that you own do you use every day?

Once a week?

Once a month?

The Right Amount

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
 — Seneca

There’s probably a lot in your life.

A lot of things:

• clothes
• electronics

Yoga’s For Weak People, Right?

“The deadlift serves as a way to train the mind to do things that are hard.”
 — Mark Rippetoe

When I was in college, I was into deadlifting. Really into deadlifting. Being long-limbed, I am built for it (long limbs are good leverage for pulling), and…