Exercise and fitness coach with a penchant for telling the truth. 3rd Degree Brown Belt, Shotokan Karate.Strength coach, advisor, consultant, author, teacher, and student.
Great essay by Mike Riggs from Reason.com about why you should not believe nutrition studies, especially not anything trumpeted by the MSM as the latest greatest cure-all for whatever ails you. Most nutrition research is either pointless, biased, conflicted, or illogical. Riggs offers up a couple of very […]
Strength coach Mark Rippetoe is nothing if not boldly opinionated. That’s part of what makes him so interesting to read and listen to. In this piece, he outlines the crucial differences between the machine-based training common in popular fitness centers and the barbell-centric approach that he advocates. In […]
Most coaches are dedicated to principle of thumping their own chests. My StrongFirst colleagues and I just want people to get, well, stronger. Because a stronger you is a better you. A happier you. A more capable you. There is no such thing as too much strength. Read […]
Excellent article by Gretchen Reynolds of the NY Times (one of the very few credible and thoughtful writers on physical training) about the cellular benefits of hard exercise. Her focus — and the focus of the study she writes about — is the cellular benefit in particular for […]
Men’s Health isn’t exactly a font of wisdom, but in this case, they make a very useful and amusing case that Facebook is just about one of the worst places you can get nutrition advice. If you believe any of the following (or that milk is bad for […]
This article had promise…until I got to the segment highlighted below. Ms. Maldarelli, who is both a writer and an editor for Popular Science makes an error — twice in this short piece — that most kids stop making in eighth grade science. She writes that a pound […]
More data about the benefits of exercise for staving off serious chronic disease, in this case Parkinson’s, which affects about 1% of all adults over 60. Importantly, this was a randomized, controlled clinical trial and not a survey relying upon recall by either patient or a family member. […]
Business Insider has a piece smacks a very popular myth…that age-related weight gain is due to a “slowing” metabolism. Uh, not really. Most of the people who peddle this twaddle actually understand little or nothing about human physiology; they’re the same people who proclaim that after your lift […]
For the better part of the last 20 years, the fitness industry has engaged in multi-layered fraud that has insulted, lied to, misled, and confused countless Americans. Their malfeasance, like the most notorious pyramid marketing schemes, has many layers, each designed to influence a different audience, from consumers […]
In the most recent issue of USA Karate Magazine, my kettlebell mentor Zar Horton and I write about why kettlebells are the most economical, efficient, and effective tool for people training across the broad range of martial arts from MMA to judo to jeet kune do, karate, taekwondo, […]
