Category Archives: crossfit

You can not “diet down” to six pack abs

…..ignoring your muscle along the way, abs are muscles. If you look at any of “ab” ads you see in Google or Facebook people now definitely understand that diet is a major component, and it is.  The real question is … Continue reading

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Getting Lean and Staying Lean

One of the reasons why I love getting regular BodPods is that it gives me direct feedback on the various experiments I try.  I needed a 30 day Paleo Challenge like I needed a hole in my head but I … Continue reading

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What would I have done differently?

It has been close to a week since I started posting pictures of my one year journey that I called Fat to Fit.  In the last week I decided to lose the scale, eat until I was full and focus … Continue reading

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Nutrition On Ramp – The Lean You Challenge

At a lot of gyms there are programs called “On Ramp”, these programs gradually expose people just joining the gym to elements of their future training, that is what this nutrition program is meant to do.  So the basic idea … Continue reading

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From Fat to Fit in One year

When I was 30 (I am 43 now) My cholesterol was tested at 250, which is not out of control but not great, my Triglycerides were 205 though which meant that I was holding a lot of body fat, I … Continue reading

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Questions I get asked a lot

I have been getting a lot of questions lately so I figured I would address them in a blog rather than having the same 5 conversations over and over again. Do you still play poker? Not really, at least not … Continue reading

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Intermittent Fasting Protocol for Crossfit

This is my most recent WODTalk blog and more accurately reflects what I do these days Lots of Crossfitters are interested in Intermittent Fasting not because they necessarily want to just be more lean but also because if done correctly … Continue reading

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Eating for Athletic Performance

This morning at my gym we had an interesting workout because when I saw it I was not sure I could finish it.  Basically in 20 minutes we had to do 2 wall climbs (lay on floor, feet against the … Continue reading

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How I lost 10 pounds in 10 days

This might be a slight better read if you read Part One and Part Two first. There are few things that seasoned dieters would know right off the bat when it comes to my clean eating challenge, which lasted 10 … Continue reading

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Clean Eating Experiment, Part one

Today is the end of my latest experiment basically I wanted to test a few ideas and I felt it was a good time to do so.  Let me start with the parameters of the experiment so we can get … Continue reading

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