Low Carb Learning

I’m Fat Again, But At Least the Achilles is Healed

Mark — Wed, 22 May 2013 02:11:38 +0000

I’ve been dreading writing this post. But after a 45 minute walk at my local track, where my usual “I’ve got life by the balls!” feeling was trumped by a pity party, it’s time I step up and admit it. I’ve let junk food kick my ass. I went from feeling lean and muscular to [...]

PaleoFX, Matt LaLonde, and Other Thoughts

Mark — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 14:32:30 +0000

Some random thoughts this morning - PaleoFX Man, I wish I had attended PaleoFX. Why would someone who doesn’t define his eating style as ‘Paleo’ want to go? Because, all things considered, the Paleo folks still have the best overall approach to nutrition and performance going. If you’re not familiar with PaleoFX, you should be. [...]

What I’m Up To (and Insertional Achilles Tendinosis)

Mark — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:19:11 +0000

Been a while since I posted. I’ve got good news and bad news to report. The Bad News Back in the Fall I received a curious email from a post on Sportsvite. Sportsvite is a place where you can find sport teams to join, and teams can look for players. Most of the teams are [...]

Starting Strength Update – Week 4

Mark — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:53:18 +0000

So this is week 4 of my attempt at the Starting Strength program, and I can report one big positive and one big negative. The Good The good news first: I’ve increased my strength dramatically, pretty quickly. Yesterday I easily deadlifted 225. Easily. Probably could have thrown another 25lbs on there but some anorexic looking [...]

Starting Strength: Week One

Mark — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:57:53 +0000

I haven’t done a CrossFit WOD in almost two weeks now. I thought for sure last week, even as I wrote what appears to be a pretty scathing list of reasons why I hate CrossFit (it wasn’t meant to be), that it wouldn’t be long before I pined for ‘testing myself’ with a WOD. But, [...]