This is a simple message about a potentially complex topic…changing versus maintaining. Essentially, what it takes to change a condition isn’t necessarily the same thing as that which is required to maintain the status once achieved. I believe there is a disconnect in popular thinking regarding this relationship. These differentiations exist in potentially many areas but training, dietary manipulation for…
What should you eat and how should you train when you’re trying to lose weight? Sometimes, as a Lifetime Athlete, you may be wishing to tune up your body composition a bit. Immediately, there are two critical considerations we must observe. In these types of pursuits, every Lifetime Athlete needs to lose the fat and keep the muscle. Too many…
In the spirit of the New Year, we’re kicking things off with the Lean4LIFE 30-day Challenge! It’s popular to jumpstart the year with a month-long challenge and that’s especially true in the realm of health, fitness, and body composition. Strategically using diet, exercise, and lifestyle to reset the metabolism…and “stuff” like that. The Challenge starts January 6th it’s exclusively available…
Happy March 1st! This month our community is diving into The Earth-Based Diet 30-day Challenge. It’s the Earth-Based 30 (EB30)! Improving health, fitness, performance, and body composition is the focus. EB30 is using the science-based, common sense approach to human nutrition that is one of the foundational components of lifelong health at The Lifetime Athlete. It’s also the key ingredient (pun…
This document provides a relatively succinct overview of how we do things at TLA. Historically, I’ve made this available to anyone in our community as a downloadable PDF (that will continue). However, since this guide has been recently revised, I wanted to post it here on the Blog as well is in the App so it’s easy for any team…
I hesitated to say “the latest…and GREATEST” in the title because that’s not quite where my head is at. This missive is really being prompted by some outstanding discussions I’ve recently had with a number of clients. There are a lot of diets out there. To name just a few there has been High Protein, High Carbohydrate, Low Carbohydrate, Low…
Anterior Truncal Obesity. Abdominal Fat. Now here’s a popular topic and it’s worth examining. In an ideal world these terms never apply to Lifetime Athletes. But the world isn’t always ideal, even for us health and performance oriented folks. First, let’s set the tone for this brief discussion and make sure it is super clear that this is not a…
Nutrition. Food. Diet. Sustenance. Nourishment. Dining. Meal Planning. Health. Longevity. Performance. All are interesting topics which occupy the popular mindset in no small manner. And for good reason. What we consume can certainly have profound impacts on our beings…and their well-being. This is much more a reflection and opinion than any summation of research. I’m going to list out a…
Happy New Year! Regardless of whether you believe in making resolutions, it’s great to have visions and goals and to build your plans and programs around them. I’ve got a couple quick tips for you, and I’m going to present them in an interesting manner. At least I think so. I’ll tell you first how to fail at your resolution…
By popular demand, from multiple community requests – as well as my own passion project – I bring you Christmas Elk Chorizo! Yep, it’s that time of year again when I make sausage and jerky, and it varies from year to year what products get produced. All that depends on which animals got harvested, and what I’m feeling like creating.…
Spring is upon us and I’m filled with newfound energy and reflections on the process of renewal. In reality, late March really feels like the “first of the year” to me more than does January 1. Sometimes our societal constructs and the natural world don’t always coincide perfectly. PK & I recently had a discussion on the Podcast about kickstarting…
Yesterday was WhipperSnapper Wednesday. That was the theme of the daily email (The T2 eBlast!) that goes out to our Training Tribe members. The message was Get. Younger. Today. That was no joke and the tips and motivation the members received related to the training we are doing this month. The month of March may not have come in like…
Here at The Lifetime Athlete, we are in the middle of a t-shirt giveaway! I’m also starting up a crowdsourcing project for a new book and I’d like to ask a favor. This brief post will tell you what I’m up to and how you can get a great shirt. First I’ll fill you in on this new project. I’m…
Every lifetime athlete benefits from an annual reset of the metabolism. A month is usually enough for most of us. This allows us to restore optimal metabolic health and to “clean up the system” a bit. However, some folks will benefit from a longer reset period, as in several months, particularly if they have “slipped” a little from optimal metabolic…
Reset. Resolution. Cleanse. Eliminate. Program. Discipline. Dedication. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah! This is the time of year when the focus on such things intensifies. Here a few simple suggestions. Take them or leave them…either way you are still awesome! But if you really do want to kick more ass, get in shape, restore your health, get…
Howdy Peeps! I hope you are crushing workouts and coming up with creative comps during this very unique summer season. How we train and compete during the pandemic continues to evolve, and it is the innovative, versatile, and durable beast that adapts most effectively. All that stated…it is indeed summer, and with warmer (or hotter) temperatures, humidity, and increased time…
Originally I didn’t intend to include a third part to this series…but the peeps asked — and so they shall receive. A number of folks had some specific questions and thus I feel compelled to address these insightful queries from the Lifetime Athlete fam. One more time, what is metabolic flexibility and why is it important? This is basically the…
March is Metabolic Flexibility Month. Honestly, I totally made that up and I have absolutely no idea if such a designation exists. We could also say that during the month of March we are trying to reset the metabolism to restore its efficiency in powering our athletic endeavors. In Part 1 of this series I explained that our goal as…
Human metabolism is an amazing orchestration of complex signaling and function. The ways in which the metabolism utilizes digested food and nutrients is manyfold. Of particular interest to the Lifetime Athlete is how the body uses the different macronutrients (fat, protein, carbohydrate) to support lifelong health and peak performance. For discussion purposes, we can oversimplify the roles of the 3…
I recently reflected on some major lessons in health and fitness. These are big rocks in training, nutrition, and weight loss that I have written about in my Science Project series books. These principles have been reaffirmed by current research as well as my experience in working with clients. I talked about these items in this week’s podcast if you’d…
This is Part 2 of the dietary experiment discussion. As you’ll recall from Part 1, my intention was to raise the question of individual dietary optimization, to report on some of my personal culinary explorations, and to encourage you to consider your own diet’s impact on your health and performance. That last edition has some stories of my eating evolution,…
It’s fun to experiment. And it can be very interesting and informative when you experiment on yourself. One of the easiest and perhaps most productive areas in which to conduct personal investigations is in the realm of dietary intake. Through trial and error, and a little good science, you can learn what foods really work (or don’t) for you. Done…
Weight loss isn’t complicated. And it doesn’t have to be difficult. In fact, it really can be EFFORTLESS! We have a genuine need for body weight reduction in much of our population. There is no denying that. We’re currently faced with an obesity epidemic and all the associated disease and diminished quality of life it brings. And there are also…
It’s kinda like “Car Talk” if you ask me. Does meat consumption make you aggressive, lower your IQ, and identify your political orientation? Or does eating rice crackers and lettuce make you irritable and give you the right to be critical of others? Dietary choice is indeed a potentially meaty subject. Debate has gone on for decades, if not centuries…
Happy New Year! I hope your 2018 was utterly amazing and your 2019 has kicked off in an incredibly spectacular fashion. An FAQ that I often hear is “What are your top 10 or 20 foods?” Obviously, such a list can take many forms based on any number of criteria. It can vary from season to season, and certainly be…
It was Pink Floyd, in “Another Brick in the Wall”, who posed this question (x2): “If you don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pudding…how can you have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat?!” Let’s get into that. The subjects of meat consumption in the human diet; the science surrounding meat, nutrition, ethics, and the environment; and…
Here’s an early wish of “Happy Thanksgiving” to you! Many of my clients often ask for strategies they can utilize to successfully navigate holiday meals without jeopardizing their health goals. Here’s a few… Just don’t worry about it. Simply have a big feast and don’t overthink it. Humans are designed around the cyclic use of many “f” words (feasting,…
What on earth is that term…”re-wilding,” and what does it have to do with health, fitness, nutrition, performance, and longevity? Perhaps more than you can imagine… Over the last 2.5 million years or so, we humans have spent the majority of our eating careers focused in the consumption of wild food. Only in the last 10,000 to 12,000 years have…
I recently had the utterly fabulous opportunity to engage with a dude who has many valuable insights into the world of health and fitness, as well as LIFE. That’s Elliot Canfield, and he’s a guy who shared with me many of his views and approaches to wellness…including how he used Project JACKED to lose 50 pounds and keep it off!…
Or you could call it “Fasting, Feeding, and Fitness.” Or a “Festival of Exercise and Feasting.” Or not. Let’s get right into this perspective on how what and when we eat (or don’t) can impact our workout performance, recovery, and conditioning gains. In this week’s podcast, PK and I discussed several factors surrounding the topic of strategic dining, and…
Learn about the different types of exercise and how you can cook them into your own training menu.
Losing weight at the right pace so that you don’t lose muscle mass is very important for the health enthusiast.
Today is the 17th of January, and I’m glad to say we are coming out of that phase of darkness which lasts for about 6 weeks. While we still have lots of winter left, the days are indeed getting longer and our natural ‘hunker down and hibernate” instincts are letting up a bit. That mentioned, nothing seems to be…
