I learned of the Potato Hack in my health coach course. Apparently it’s been around for a long time: 1849 to be exact! Read more about its origins and its simple nature at Potatohack.com. I also bought the book, The Potato Hack: Weight Loss Simplified by Tim Steele, which helped explain a lot of things.[…]
I just encountered an interesting fact about visceral fat, which is that stress is a cause in the formation of visceral fat. How interesting this is, on a variety of levels. What is visceral fat? It’s the fat surrounding your organs, not under your skin. Even if you are skinny, you could have a lot[…]
Last year, I spent the bulk of it working on my Precision Nutrition Level 2 certification and graduated in November. It was an awesome course, very well run and organized. I got a lot out of it and it was worth every penny and the time I put into it. I highly recommend it and[…]
In the Original Strength forums, a user asked for my prescription of training for crawling and avoiding aching wrists. When I see symptoms like aching wrists, it is likely the result of insufficient generation of intra-abdominal pressure during crawling. The wrists (and other body parts) will start to compensate for poor stabilization, causing inevitable aches[…]
About a year ago, I tried intermittent fasting (IF). I was disappointed that I didn’t get any results, with no change in body composition after 2 weeks. I noted some things that could have improved the results – it seems that IF is pretty sensitive to a lot of things in order to really get[…]
One of the biggest issues I see first with my swimming clients is their posture. When they cannot get their spine aligned properly, nearly everything about swimming is very difficult. We start with balance in the water, but if you cannot get truly horizontal in the water, then balance is hard to achieve. Most of[…]
This post was sparked by some discussion in the forums on finding the perfect spearing angle. Here’s my take on all aspects of the spearing angle during Freestyle. There are two spearing angles: depth and horizontal. Most people think of spearing angle as mostly depth. Actually, you can also spear at a horizontal angle. Using[…]
Graston Technique and Gua Sha generally bring up images of someone taking a blunt metal tool and painfully bruising the heck out of your muscles, but with amazingly positive results. But recently, I have been experimenting with scraping with a lot less force with also positive results. Watching Gray Cook on his Secrets of the[…]
Yesterday I took an Advanced Total Immersion Seminar in SF with Dave Cameron, a coach who teaches at Minnesota Tri Masters and is known as Distance Dave and has swam the English Channel among other things. This is a relatively new seminar as most of the ones I’ve seen prior, including the one I took[…]
Based on my coach’s suggestion, on the next workout I decided to swim at a higher tempo settings. After warming up, I set my tempo trainer at 1.6 seconds, swam 4×25, then lowered my tempo by .1 seconds, swam another 4×25, until I got to 1.2 seconds tempo where I determined my comfort breakpoint usually[…]