Read this. Then Read it Again, and Again...and Again

"No one does anything they don't want to do, EVER." -My Dad

It sounds crazy but it makes sense eventually. Even the most selfless person on earth behaves that way because they WANT good for others more than for themselves.

This article was brought to my attention today. It was written by Charles Poliquin, one of the most original and successful strength and conditioning coaches in the world.

Read it

then re-read it daily, until you can recite it word for word.
I've never found a better or simpler paradigm for living a healthy, vibrant and active life.


The Myth of Self Discipline

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Too Much or Too Little, Never in the Middle.

"The only constant in Nature is change."
We, as part of nature, are well adapted to cycles and variation. Yet we rigorously apply linear constants to ourselves and our lives. We work 8 hours everyday, 40 hours every week. We eat and exercise in carefully organized routines, repeated over and over. We chase calories in calories out. We become obsessed. We become neurotic.  

Could that neurosis be a result of forcing regularity onto a natural system designed around cycles and variation? 

Art DeVany Speaks

For those of you unfamiliar with him, a quick bio from his website arthurdevany.com

"Called "Superman's slightly fitter grandad" by the London Times and a "patriarch of the Paleo Movement" in the New York Times, 73 year old Arthur De Vany is a scientist/athlete and the creator of Evolutionary Fitness, the first integrated model of Paleo diet, intermittent fasting, and exercise. A former professional athlete and life-long student of exercise and metabolism, he is a living example of what he teaches: at the age of 72 he is 6'1", 205 pounds and has less than 8% body fat. He has lived as a Paleo/Athlete for more than 25 years." (emphasis mine)

I Found and very much enjoyed this clip of his  lecture on ZURICH.MINDS. Its science-y but really cool.

Check it out.

http://zurichminds.com/videos/adv_unic_2010.html

 

Bug Out!

It is a socially awkward, but biologically interesting fact that we as humans tend to lose our ability to produce the enzymes that digest dairy, but retain to this day the ability to consume and breakdown insects, shell and all.