This is a last minute reminder for two events I’m speaking at in Northern California. The more the merrier so bring your friends and let’s get Primal!
Here are the details for both events. RSVP now to guarantee your seat!

Sunday, December 6th
7:00pm-8:45pm
Catalyst Athletics
1257 Tasman Dr., Suite A, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089
Please RSVP at greg@cathletics.com or 408-400-0067

Monday, December 7th
7:00pm-8:45pm
Diablo CrossFit
2447 Estand Way, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
Please register for the event by clicking here.
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Original post by Mark Sisson

Try as we might, many of us find the temptation of pancakes too hard to resist. Maybe it’s the sweet, buttery aroma of the batter on the griddle or the soft doughy texture, or that eating something with the word “cake” in it for breakfast just feels so deliciously naughty. But it doesn’t have to be. There are decent Primal substitutes. Pancakes made with almond meal or coconut flour are a good option, but can be pretty heavy and, for some, overly filling. And then there’s this dish sent in by Jack Etherington for the Primal Cookbook Challenge. His Almond Banana Pancakes contain just three ingredients: banana, egg and almond butter. You can whip up a batch in five minutes flat and top the pancakes with a pat of butter, a scoop of nut butter, or fresh berries.

Almond Banana Pancakes are slightly delicate so you’ll want to keep the size […]

Original post by Worker Bee

I remember as a young fella going fishing with the boy scouts (ahh, I was Angelic looking as you can imagine) and on occasion catching a catfish. We’d always just throw them back in as we were told they were inedible, though the people in Texas would beg to differ! There are Catfish Parlours all over the map there. According to Wikipedia, the most commonly eaten catfish species in the States are the channel catfish and blue catfish, both of which are common in the wild and increasingly widely farmed. Farm-raised catfish became such a staple of the diet of the United States (I’m pretty sure Texas played a substantial role in it) that on June 25, 1987, President Ronald Reagan established National Catfish Day to recognize “the value of farm-raised catfish.” Catfish is eaten in a variety of ways; in Europe it is often cooked in similar ways to […]

Original post by thehealthyirishman

This just in:
Increased meal frequency does not promote greater weight loss in subjects who were prescribed an 8-week equi-energetic energy-restricted diet.
Well, nothing new here really, but it bears repeating: a high meal frequency does not speed up metabolism or fat loss. Another nail in the coffin for that tired old myth.
Since this is a fresh study, there’s always that tiny glimmer of hope that it might get picked up by mainstream media. Just the other day I had the great misfortune to come across “expert” fat loss advice in one of the news mags. Yup, there it was again, the importance of stoking the metabolic furnace with meals every second to third hour. How predictable.
Anyway, here’s some highlights from the fulltext version of that study;
“…The premise underlying the present study was that increasing meal frequency would lead to better short-term appetite regulation and increased dietary compliance; furthermore, it was […]

Original post by noreply@blogger.com (Martin Berkhan)

Mark Sisson, over at one of my favorite sites, recently wrote a post called Grok Tag. It is so well written because his description of recess is "spot on". I lived for recess back in Elementary School! It was a blast. I remember basically doing all activities full throttle and having fun no matter what we were doing. This article is not a tip or anything like that. I just wanted to back Mark's message from his recent post.

[I will never be too old to enjoy a great rope swing! I need to find a great one this summer…and a good place for cliff diving. This stuff never gets old!]

I Have a Love-Hate Relationship With Technology!

I like the Internet, the convenience of cell phones, On Demand TV and things like that…but it make me a little sad that kids are missing out on a lot of playing outside. When I […]

Original post by admin

Smokers rejoice. There is a new, healthier way to smoke, all thanks to the innovators at Altria (formerly know as Philip Morris). Marlboro has just released Smoke Rites, a new line of health conscious products for modern people with active lifestyles.
The concept was borne over two years of intense research at Marlboro laboratories. Head researcher Dr. Dylan Pantzenfahr explains, “Curing lung cancer is one of Marlboro’s top priorities. And while we can’t change the nature of [tobacco], we can change the way people smoke it.” Pantzenfahr is referring to serving size. To date there is no standard serving size for cigarette consumption. “It’s a tricky question,” says Pantzenfahr, “A man with massive lungs may consume a much larger serving of cigarettes than, say, a tiny person.” Nevertheless, in early 2007 Pantzenfahr and his team of specialists made it their one mission to answer the serving size question.

Early tests failed. The […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

The weekend is coming, and we can all use a laugh to help loosen up and get rid of that work week stress. Here are 3 funny fitness videos for the weekend (for the last article with funny videos, go here) :
Lee Evans – “I’m a Triathalete. As in…I try”

 
“It’s only 15 Kilometers, it’s easy.” – “Wow, that’s easy. I thought we’d have to run miles!”

 
Wii Fit Parody – Why Spend $3 on a Hoola Hoop…When You Can Spend $300 on a Wii Fit!

 
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Original post by rafael@thefitnessadviser.com (Rafi Bar-Lev)

I loved the entire process of researching and writing Eat Stop Eat.
Every single minute of it.
However, There is one thing I would change…
I would have never called it “fasting” in any way, shape or form.
I would have called it “Occasional Breaks from Eating”.
Obviously, fasting is the correct term, but personally, I think this is a much better description of Eat Stop Eat.
People still think that Eat Stop Eat has something to do with prolonged ’starving’ or fasting for weeks on end.
Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Occasional Breaks from Eating (or for some people, occasional breaks from feasting), combined with a little bit of self-awareness trying to figure out which habits and cues unconsciously drive you to eat..that’s what Eat Stop Eat is all about.
Freedom, Flexibility, eating less and a little bit of self-discovery.
We all need to take a break every once in a while, whether its work, working out […]

Original post by Brad Pilon

The basis of Tabata Training is 4 minutes of intense interval training/circuit training. What you are doing is taking an exercise we'll use sprints as an example here.
Sprint as hard as you can for 20 seconds
Walk for 10 seconds
Repeat 7 more times for a total of 8 sets.
So what you have is a total of 4 minutes workout time.
Tabata Training can be done with a number of different exercises the idea is to use an exercise that gets the whole body involved or at least the major muscle groups.Tabata Training can be done with Barbells, Dumbells, Kettlebells or just Bodyweight exercises. I'll give you some other exercises and routines to try in a minute but first let me give you some background and how Tabatas work.
Tabata Training was developed by Izumi Tabata (imagine that) at the National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Tokyo, Japan. They did a study on […]

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When Winston Churchill, in the 1932 essay “Fifty Years Hence,” mused that “we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium,” he may have been more prescient than credited. Alexis Carrel had already been keeping a cultured chunk of chicken heart “alive” in a Pyrex flask for the past twenty years by feeding it nutrients (though Carrel was only interested in whether cell death was inevitable, not whether meat could be grown in a lab for human consumption). Sci-fi author Frederik Pohl was one man who took the idea of in vitro meat seriously enough to write about it – in the novel The Space Merchants, where cultured meat is the primary source of protein. That was science fiction, sure, but most good sci-fi is borne of the author’s honest opinion of […]

Original post by Mark Sisson