Loren Cordain warns Abe James

Can't get enough Paleo Drama? Loren Cordain sent Abe James of "Fat-burning Man" an email and told him not to use "The Paleo Diet" any more because it is his Trademark. Read the story and the responses here:

The Paleo Diet is Trademarked by Loren Cordain

Current Paleo topic

I think the most interesting topic in Paleo right now is still carbs and calories. If you haven't been following Robb Wolf's blog I think you should. Jamie Scott posted a rant in response to Robb Wolf's blog, it is interesting too. The second most interesting, but also about carbs is the potato diet. Here's the links:

Robb's First post
Robb's Second post

Jamie's First post
Jamie's Second post

Richard's potato post

The short version: carbs are paleo, calories do matter, and potatoes might be a good hack to reset your metabolism. But, you should really read the blogs. Also, you are a unique snowflake, but we all are unique snowflake, yet we are all still snow.

New Years Update

I pasted my NASM certification back in December. So I'm now a NASM Certified Personal Trainer.

Christmas was great, I'm glad its over though.

Happy New Year!!!

I'll be going to PaleoFX in March, I'm excited about it. I hope to see you all there.

Happy Thanksgiving

We started Thanksgiving off right with a family run. We participated in the 2012 Hog Jog in Owasso this morning. Somehow I got 1st place in the Clydesdale division. I'll take it.

                                                       Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

New Training Toys

I bought some training rings and other tools for personal training. I mounted the rings today and starting exercising.

Functional Health

     I went to interview today with Gary Young. I signed up to take a Personal Training course with him. While I was there a woman came in to sign up for his weigh loss challenge course. She was probably 80 lbs overweight, she said she was comfortable with her body. But she was worried about her ability to function, especially her ability to play with her grand children. 
She said her doctor told her she was a healthy overweight patient.

 So my thought is.
You can be healthy and weight appropriate or healthy and overweight. You can also be unhealthy and weight appropriate or unhealthy and overweight. But the big goal is to be functionally healthy. Can you play like you want to play? Can you work like you want to work? Can you exercise like you want to exercise? Can you do all the physical activities that you want to do? If not, you are not functionally healthy. It is my contention that it is far easier to be functionally healthy if you are weight appropriate for your height

2012 Dirty 30 Zombie Edition

The crew and I ran in the Dirty 30 Race - Zombie Edition today. It was in Hinton, OK. The run was a lot of fun. It was a little cold, but we all had a great time.