The way I see it there are three kinds of paleo… I’ll call them Literal, Interpretive and Scientific. Literal paleo is by the book: no grains, legumes or dairy, nothing processed and nothing that our ancestors couldn’t have found and eaten in the wild. Interpretive paleo is...

Paleo, primal, caveman, zone. Whatever works for you is what works – we won’t get into the details of what is or isn’t paleo, that’s for another time (or Mark Sisson). I find that a paleo/primal diet works best for me because it makes it easy to avoid excess calories...

The word integrity usually brings to mind goodness – whether someone adheres to ethics and morals. But really, integrity stems from the root of integration – having integrated all parts to be sound, upstanding, consistent. The first definition comes to make sense when you clarify...

We are gifted with brains so powerful that we process information from sensory inputs too fast and small to even have cognitive awareness of them. We feel it when someone is looking at us, we can sense when something is going to fall, we can calculate the trajectory to catch a flying object...

As a female in our society, doing anything that affects your body brings up questions that don’t even occur to men. Some of these are cultural, others are a matter of biology. With this series of posts I’ll do my best here to curate answers to some of the most common and most...

When we eat it on the box (for me this is literally every time we use boxes) or have to dump a bar, it is relatively easy to pick ourselves up and keep going. With adrenaline and sheer determination we finish that workout. Banged up and bruised, our battle scars are for feeling later. But...

So, you’re taking care of your body, eating right and hitting the box. You’ve got fitness figured out – it’s sensible to use our bodies the way evolution designed them. Paleo and CrossFit are the 21st century solutions to losing the environment our ancestors spent tens...

In my first post I encouraged you (ok, maybe harangued) to lose the motor recruitment patterns holding you back and sabotaging your well deserved health. This time I am going to prod you to do the same with your thoughts. Sometimes we have a hard time seeing ourselves, the good and the bad....

A few weeks ago my mom finally asked me to help her sign up for fundies (Hi Mom!). She is the quintessential yogi-dancer type – exercise for her has always been peaceful or recreational. She can’t stand the obnoxious TV-and-mirror-filled environment of a gym, and though she was...

Economists see behavior as a result of a series of incentives. While it may seem a little cold, if you can understand the motivations at play, you can predict results with amazing accuracy. Great for placing bets, but even better for changing your life. If you structure and manipulate your...