I often get questions about diet and nutrition from grapplers and martial artists. People want to eat correctly because they think it will make them more effective in BJJ class, allow them to recover faster after training, and provide them with better health overall. Well, it's true. What you eat can have a HUGE effect on your performance. Nutrition is a super-important piece of the … [Read more...]
Diet
Podcast: How My Diet Experiment Could Have Gone Terribly, Horribly Wrong…
I recently gave the full-on ketogenic diet a try (which I discussed in episode 173 of my podcast - Self Experimentation and Limiting the Downside of Experiments Gone Wrong). For a month I consumed very few carbohydrates and hugely increased the amount of saturated fat I was eating. A typical 'breakfast' was a shake made of whipping cream, coconut milk, spinach and blueberries with about … [Read more...]
Podcast Episode 173 – Self Experimentation and Limiting the Downside of Experiments Gone Wrong
In this episode of The Strenuous Life Podcast I talk about the importance of self experimentation and how your results may be different from most other people's. I share some dietary experiments I've been fooling around with and exactly what I've been doing to limit the potential downsides. And somehow I drag the conversation down into musing about limiting the downside when dating crazy … [Read more...]
Getting Big And Strong On A Vegan Diet
by Mike Mahler, RKC I thought that this article was a nice counterpoint to the usual nutrition-for-bodybuilding articles one reads in magazines and on the internet. While I am not a vegetarian myself it IS something that I respect and aspire towards. … [Read more...]