The words “intermittent fasting” sure scare a lot of people. The word “intermittent” doesn’t register for most, and their thoughts skip right ahead to images of starvation and despair. This is why I prefer to refer to it by the less technical term “Not eating all the damn time”.
Category Archives: Eating
Posts discussing food, nutrition, hydration, and fuelling up in general.
What’s the deal with meatless meat?
Since I started taking more interest in nutrition and eating clean food, a number of well meaning people asked me why I didn’t go all the way and go for a fully vegetarian diet. Many suggested various meat substitute products “which really taste like meat”.
After all vegetables are healthy, so these products must be healthier than actual meat, right? Continue reading What’s the deal with meatless meat?
Bottoms up!
Let’s talk hydration. Whatever you are doing, keeping your body well supplied with enough water is critical to your health. It is a necessary ingredient in most of your body’s processes from regulating temperature to digesting food, and most of your body is made of it. Continue reading Bottoms up!
No School like the Old School – Lessons from the Old Time Strongmen
Today we’re going to take a look back at the way some people used to train around a century ago. You may wonder what we have to learn from such a long time ago – surely the science of fitness has advanced leaps and bounds since then, and some of the records of these turn of the century strongmen have been broken over. So why should we look to them for lessons? Continue reading No School like the Old School – Lessons from the Old Time Strongmen
Don’t starve yourself
Nutrition is a bit of a minefield. Beyond the basics – we’re talking along the lines of “food will keep you alive” here – there’s little agreement on the details, and everyone seems to have his or her pet diet or strategy.
Mix in allergies or conditions (both the legitimate and the hyped up) and you’d be excused for wondering just what the hell you can eat that won’t kill you, let alone make you healthier. Continue reading Don’t starve yourself