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Conference season ended with a bang.
After The Fitness Summit in May and Perform Better in early June, I wasn’t sure what to expect at the International Society of Sports Nutrition conference in Las Vegas last weekend. I knew I’d get to hang out with the smartest people I know — you can’t spit at ISSN without hitting a Ph.D, M.D., or doctoral candidate — but I wasn’t sure how much I’d get out of it. In previous years some of the presentations have been way over this bald head of mine.
Lucky for me that I got to eat some bugs.
Daniella Martin, host of a show called Girl Meets Bug, gave a presentation on the case for eating more insects. Some of them are seriously high in protein and calcium, and in some…
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In a recent post, I asked a simple question: “What do we know about nutrition, and how do we know it?” You provided a lot of inspired and thoughtful responses (20 so far). Now it’s time to put that question to someone whose living depends on him knowing the answer.
I first met Mike Roussell, Ph.D., back when he was merely Mike Roussell, doctoral candidate, at the 2007 Fitness Summit. We’ve been friends ever since. Mike, who’s a computer whiz as well as a nutrition expert, helps me understand the secret logic of social-media algorithms. In return … well, I’m not really sure what I do to help Mike.
But it works out for me, and really, what else matters?
I asked Mike to answer the following questions via email. To…
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Back in the late 19th century, some of the most educated and progressive people of the age believed in spiritualism. That is, they believed it was possible to communicate with the spirits of the dead, and regularly attended seances where transparently contrived bumps, breezes, and groans kept them on the edge of their chairs.
Mary Roach, in a book called Spook, explains why.
The rise of spiritualism coincided with the dawn of the electronic age. Their lives had been filled with one wonder after another: the telephone in 1876, the phonograph in 1877, and the first radio transmission of a human voice in 1900. That’s in addition to the mid-century rise in telegraph networks and continual improvements in photography.
If messages could travel thousands of miles on telegraph wires, and human voices could be…
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On my worst days, I fantasize about cleaning my house with a shovel. It’s cluttered with so much useless crap that it would be impossible to sort out piece by piece. Better to just shovel it all out and not worry about whether we’ll miss any of it later. As it is, we often can’t find the stuff we need because it’s buried under all the stuff we don’t.
Case in point: Today I found a stack of Kids Discover magazines from 2006. And when I say I “found” them, I mean they were sitting on our dining-room table. It’s the first thing a visitor would see. How they got there is a mystery I’m unlikely to solve.
As long as they’re there, I had to look at them, and one of the themed issues caught my…
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Take a quick look at that picture, and guess which one is me. Make a mental note of which one you guessed.
If you look closely, you’ll notice that two of the people in the picture, my sisters, are obviously female. Although it’s not completely obvious, the other five – my four brothers and me – are male. So that narrows it down.
The fashion historians in the audience will probably figure out from the long, center-parted hair and wide lapels that this was shot sometime in the mid to late ’70s. The math majors will note that a guy who was born in 1957 (says it right there on my Wikipedia page) would’ve been in his late teens or early twenties.
This information narrows your choices considerably.
When I…
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I’ve just started reading Michael Oher’s new book,
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I walked into the spelling bee just as my daughter was at the microphone for her first word of the day. She saw me coming in, and for a moment I panicked, thinking that I would distract her and she’d miss an easy one.
Fortunately, the word was “exclusive,” and I suspect Meredith could spell the word before she could pronounce it. As a seventh grader, it was no challenge whatsoever.
That’s the way it is in our family. Kimberly and I are journalists, and we’re all avid readers. Spelling comes as naturally to us as breathing. I wasn’t surprised to learn that spelling and reading proficiency have a very strong genetic component:
According to John Stein, Professor of Neuroscience at Oxford University Medical School, both reading and spelling require a phenomenal amount of brain power. Deciphering…
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You probably know by now that Jack LaLanne celebrated my 54th birthday on Sunday by dying at his home. He was 96.
I had one chance to meet LaLanne. It was late 2004, and I was wrapping up a photo shoot when an editor called and asked me to meet the fitness icon the next day in New York. I can’t remember why I couldn’t do it — I’m pretty sure it was a family obligation — but I’ve always regretted the lost opportunity.
I wrote about LaLanne several times in the past few years. Here’s a T-nation article from 2006, in which I put LaLanne at #5 on my list of the 10 most influential muscleheads of all time:
Here you have a guy who was there at the creation, but also not there. He opened a…
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You need a sense of humor to promote yourself. It especially comes in handy when you realize that you’re telling people to do the opposite of what you’re currently doing.
For three weeks, I’ve done everything I can to promote the new book, and I’ve done almost nothing else. I took the day off on Christmas, and I knocked off a little early on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. But that was it, until yesterday.
My normal schedule is simple and sustainable: I get up early in the morning, I knock off for an hour or two at midday to work out or run errands, and then I shut off the computer at 6 p.m.
My promote-a-new-book schedule is insane. I get up early, and spend the next 12 to 14 hours doing radio interviews, answering…
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The first thing I learned about book promotion: It helps to read your own book. Publishing is a long process, and it’s been months since my final pre-publication review of the pages. I stumbled over a couple of basic facts about NROL for Abs in my first few interviews.
The other thing I haven’t done in a while: the actual workouts. I finished the program in March, and since then I’ve been doing all kinds of workouts that included bits and pieces of Alwyn’s program. But I haven’t done the full Cosgrove in nine months.
Yesterday, after spending time over the weekend answering questions about the workouts on the NROL for Abs forum, I decided to go through the program again, starting with Phase 1, Workout A.
Let me tell you …
Well, if you’ve done Alwyn’s workouts, you know. This is the difference between…
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