Jeff Garlin’s new book (my footprint) is the best & worst diet book I have ever read.
The worst because…. it’s not really a diet book.
There’s none of the eat this and don’t eat this that all diet books are supposed to have.
There are no promises of rapid and permanent weight loss.
There are no recipes.
The cover doesn’t feature an image of a person with taut muscles and a rippling six pack.
It features Jeff…and his still too big belly…walking on a treadmill….in the middle of a forest.
Not exactly the prototypical diet industry role model.
But that’s okay.
It’s okay because Jeff has written a book that should be read by:

People who find themselves unable to stop themselves from eating
People who identify themselves as food addicts
People who have to eat when they feel angry, sad, anxious, happy, etc..
People who eat when they are already full
People who eat to the point of nausea
People who eat past [...]

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Remember Blair Morrison? He’s the dude who got Primal in the Netherlands for his entry into the PB Fitness Video Contest, and also placed 7th at the 2009 CrossFit Games. Blair wrote to me with his latest workout video – which will close this post – and a reminder: don’t forget about urban Groks!
I live in Malibu, just outside of LA proper, and it’s not exactly an urban environment. LA itself isn’t a classic urban landscape; it’s more urban sprawl than anything else. We’ve got hundreds of miles of wilderness – mountains, beaches, trails, canyons – to climb, run, crawl, or hike, but very little skyscraper to scale or subway turnstile to hurdle. We give a ton of attention to the great outdoors, partly because of my affinity for it and partly because it fits the Primal theme really well. For today, though, I want to address the urban warriors [...]

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You’ve probably heard this logic before:
Low-fat diets failed because eating low-fat doesn’t work for weight loss.
I’ve always wondered about this logic, as it seemed to go against the common sense that eating more calories then we need to is what makes us fat, not the source of these calories.
So I decided to look into EXACTLY what happened with the whole Low-Fat trend.
The Low-fat foods trend really started picking up popularity in the early to mid 1980’s, and by the mid 1990 Low-Fat was all the rage.
EVERYTHING was low fat…even cookies…and ice-cream.
During this time, the population of the USA also got fatter.
A LOT fatter.
So what gives?
Was not eating enough fat to blame?
Was it replacing fat with sugar that was the mistake?
Nope.
As it turns out, it’s still highly correlated to Calorie Control.
According to the USDA food availability data charts, there was an average of  3,200 Calories per person available in the USA [...]

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Like many people, I am a big-time movie fan. I appreciate great acting and Leonardo DiCaprio is quite possibly my favorite actor. My two favorite movies of his are "The Beach" and "Catch Me If You Can" (I own both of those movies). "Blood Diamond" is also right up there. Anyway, Leonardo DiCaprio's personal trainer for "The Beach" tracked me down and asked if I wanted to do a Q&A session. What is cool about his story is that he was flown to Thailand and only had a little over 2 weeks to whip everyone into to top shape. Leo needed to drop 17 pounds in roughly two weeks. Cornel explains how he accomplished this feat, along with other cool things about his experience, in this interview.

[I like it when actors like DiCaprio do volunteer work for causes they believe in. One of his causes is to save polar bears [...]

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Let me be your tour guide through this little piece of marketing.
Firstly, “Studies Show“…You see so much “Studies Show”, “Science Says” and “Experts Think” that it is now an ambiguous term that really has no meaning…at least to me…in marketing.
Next, the word “MORE”…in big capital letters…actually it’s “MORE WHOLE GRAIN”
There is no confusing what the word MORE means. And, whole grain is obviously referring to a characteristic of the product in the box.
Then the soft words…in small “can help”….these are the words that make everything…vague. Kind of like when a friend asks you if you will help him move on the weekend and you reply “Possibly”.
Then the BIG FONT “manage weight”..not capitals…but bigger then any other letters on the entire front of the box..except for the product name.
“Manage” is an interesting term. It doesn’t mean lower, it could mean increase, more than likely it means ’stay the same’
When you manage [...]

Original post by Brad Pilon

Despite growing insight into neuroscience and the physical limitations of our consciousness, we have the tendency to ascribe a limitlessness to our minds. We readily accept the existence of certain boundaries in the material world, like fences, social stations, rules, laws (of physics and of states), or physical characteristics (”You must be this tall to ride the roller-coaster”), but when it comes to the inner world – the mind, our memories, our imagination, our cognition, and our social skills – we have trouble conceiving of real mechanical limits. When a word eludes us, playing about the periphery of our cognition (“tip of the tongue”), do we complain about faulty hardware? When we forget that cute girl’s name we just met at the party, do we blame the lack of available short-term memory data “chunks”? It’s only through neurological research that we’re even “aware” of the bioelectric interplay that is our [...]

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Sometimes the path of Primal transformation includes a series of upendings. It’s in part a process of uprooting daily habits that don’t serve your well-being. Maybe it’s a re-envisioning of your identity from an unhealthy, tired, or otherwise plagued person to that of a strong, fit, confident individual. More than likely, it’s about overturning oft-taught if not long held conventional thinking about healthy living. When we embark on our Primal path, we likely anticipate at least some of these changes, but what about the conflict prompted by other people’s grappling with the Primal Blueprint as we reflect it? What is it about our Primal process that upsets other people’s apple carts and provokes sometimes exaggerated resistance? See what reader Evan has to say.
Dear Mark,
I’ve been following the PB for a year and a half now and am proud to consider myself a diehard. I’m stronger, fitter, leaner, and for [...]

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Just some random stuff I’ve either discussed or thought about in the last few days.
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1. The deadlift is poorly suited to a high training frequency. I’ve never derived any benefit from training the lift more than once per week; and even that is pushing it in terms of recovery if I’m squatting heavy within that same week. Generally speaking, I’ve had my best deadlift-sessions while training the no more than once every 8-12th day.
2. When increasing the weight for a movement, you need to pay attention to the percentage increase in load. This may seem like common sense, but people are prone to ignore it and only think of the increase in terms of poundage. Guys are sometimes stumped about why they lose a lot of reps when switching to a heavier set of dumbells. They go from 50 lbs x 8 for seated dumbbell presses to 55 lbs x [...]

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