EUGENIZATION.

Look at your workouts using a Cost:Benefit ratio:
Is what you’re doing helping you achieve your goals, or impairing your ability to ever get there?
Let’s say you walked up to me and told me, “Eugene, I want to run the marathon and be the fittest, healthiest 35 year old on the planet.”
I would argue you need [...]

Ummm….pardon me, Juan Carlos Santana, but you wouldn’t be trying to take credit for all of Mark Twight’s hard work, are you? After all, he’s the one who trained the “300″ actors into Spartan shape, not you.
The Institute of Human Performance offers “Spartan Training?”
*tsk tsk* Capitalizing on a fad is one thing; taking credit [...]

I’m not all that cutting edge, so I figure that by the time I’ve heard about something, I’ve missed the exciting “early-adopters” phase and am getting in roughly 10 seconds before everyone jumps onto the bandwagon. It happened with Jon Mayer, and I believe it’s happened again with David Belle.
About 2 years ago I [...]

My friend and one-time training partner Gary Valencia used to talk derisively about the concept of the “Weekend Warrior” - the 5 day a week Nine to Fiver who, come the weekend, engages in strenuous physical activity all weekend (as if he were a top-notch athlete in prime competitive condition). Of course, being a [...]

After reading part 1 of my post on food journaling, Sairalyn so sweetly reminded me of the one big pitfall of food journaling:
False Reporting.
(cue ominous music)
It’s very true that underreporting on food journals is rampant. It has killed many a decently designed nutrition study, as well as sabotaged the progress of countless [...]