When Nick Sloane got the call to refloat the Costa Concordia in 2012, he was in New Zealand wrapping up another job and dreaming about playing golf back home in South Africa. When he said "yes" to the job he couldn't know that it would take 30 months, 500 team members, 26 nationalities and 130 divers a day in the water to get the big cruise ship off the ground and towed to Genoa, where she would ultimately be dismantled for scrap.
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Paleo is becoming more widely known and gaining popularity and peeking the interest of more and more people. Let's take a look at how the Paleo diet affects your heart health.
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If you've paid attention to anything beyond the pages of paleo desserts on this website you won't be surprised that we've brought on another dog trainer to the Paleo Treats Podcast. The folks who are good, really good, at communicating with dogs HAVE to be in pursuit of excellence; they've developed skills the rest of us don't even know we have!
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It wasn't long ago that if you said you were Paleo, people had no idea what you were talking about. Back then when you explained that you ate like a caveman, people would be perplexed and ask if you killed your own food with a club. Thankfully, Paleo is starting to become more mainstream as celebrities are talking about it, and people are seeing the amazing health benefits from it. Because of this, we wanted to take some time to recognize the Pioneers of Paleo.
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Mike Friton has been
working as an innovator for over 30 years. Known for his shoe designs and his extensive work with Nike, he's also helped smaller companies like
Soft Star Shoes design minimalist shoes that support a healthy foot.
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"You must believe nothing." So says Tim Noakes, one of the most well respected exercise scientists in the running world. Author of Lore of Running and Waterlogged, Tim has radically changed his beliefs throughout the course of his 30+ year career, always in response to his own questions and the answers (or lack thereof) found in scientific literature. From discussing why studies of 7 people aren't that useful to talking about his next big interest (infant nutrition), Tim is a wealth of information and well worth listening to on your next long drive.
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Barry Murray is a sports nutritionist and coach for elite endurance athletes. His main focus is on adapting athletes to burn fat instead of carbs, and his work with Tour de France cyclists along with his own performances (several wins in ultra marathons) lend credence to his ideas. In this podcast we discuss how long it takes to fat adapt, how fat adaptation is not the only part of athletic performance, and why you shouldn't go out and run 50k on no breakfast starting tomorrow morning.
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Phil Maffetone is back on the Paleo Treats Podcast, though this time we swing well away from athletic performance and into the realm of Purpose and Music. Phil has had 2 major epiphanies in his life, the first took him down the path of becoming a world class coach and doctor. The second drew him into the world of music and songwriting.
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When celebrities start doing something, whether it is wearing a new style of shoe, raising money for a new charity, or following a new diet, all of the sudden it becomes a trend. Check out these 6 big names to see who's proud to be gettin' back to their evolutionary roots!
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Our guest on this podcast is Dr. Phil Maffetone, coach of legendary athletes Mark Allen, Stu Mittelman, and Mario Andretti. Phil has worked with more than just sporting greats, he's been an adviser to the military on how to make B2 bomber pilots more effective, has worked with NASA and has even helped race horses improve their performance via heart rate training.
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Ok, so you lift weights as part of your training routine. How do you measure that? Up until now, you could only measure what you did (the weight) and how many times (the sets and reps.) Matt Kuzdub comes on the podcast today to talk about the PUSH armband which tracks how fast you did it; it's called velocity based training, and it opens up a new dimension in how you can train.
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“I have a bad back!” is a common excuse I often hear from friends as a cop-out to why they can no longer do certain physical activities such as surfing, basketball, golf, indoor soccer, and lifting. Many people I know under the age of 30 have resigned themselves to simply not being able to enjoy physical activity because of a “bad” back. After experiencing my own hip injury, I became fanatical about fixing my injury without surgery, which led me to the KEY to solving low back and hip pain...
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“I have a bad back!” is a common excuse I often hear from friends as a cop-out to why they can no longer do certain physical activities such as surfing, basketball, golf, indoor soccer, and lifting. Many people I know under the age of 30 have resigned themselves to simply not being able to enjoy physical activity because of a “bad” back. After experiencing my own hip injury, I became fanatical about fixing my injury without surgery, which led me to the KEY to solving low back and hip pain...
