A Century of Meat. Interesting to see chicken’s rise.

I’m reluctant to share this. Ego gets the better of most folks in gyms (and in all things surrounding fitness). It should be emphasized that being strong is not a marker of real health. I promise I’ll share my A1c when I get health insurance. The point is I’d like to focus the attention elsewhere:

I am sharing this as a simple n=1 validation of four things: the remarkable power of sleep, the value of stress management, the ease of an 80-20 approach to the paleo diet, and the simple effectiveness of Mark Rippetoe’s Starting Strength. 

I can babble endlessly about this stuff but sometimes just seeing a 440 pound deadlift by a wholly typical 172 pound 41 year old speaks more eloquently than random ruminations or ridiculous rants. 

NOTE: I know it’s not pretty. Cut me some slack. It’s the most I’ve ever lifted and this isn’t meant to be instructional.

BONUS: I love the Sarah McLachlan soundtrack provided by the gym’s fabulous music programmers). :-)

Today’s variation on Pepsico’s PR bull.

Want to get considerably more knowledgeable about being strong and disease-free in 1.6 hours of quiet and sincere clarity? Want to have insights into our crap food, fitness-fad culture? Want to see extremely complicated biochemistry made understandable? Watch this. 

Disclaimers: This was a talk given to an exclusively male audience as part of some sort of masculine issues conference. I have not read his book and I haven’t played in the gym as Dr. McGuff suggests but I do keep my training very comfortably under 12 minutes of active, “under-the-bar” work a week.

Unrelated: This is my first experience with inline/interrupting ads on YouTube.

That’s a hopeful graph from Google Trends.