Fat is Where It's At

A follow up to my post below, How Low Can You Go? regarding carb restriction.

Friend and PhD Mike Deskevich posted this picture over on Facebook with his status update: "Mmm, 1700 calories, 200g of fat, and only 6g of carbs. Best tasting source of fuel all day."

What is it?

A latte made with heavy whipping cream. Essentially heavy whipping cream is pre-churned, liquid butter. Pure fat. Mike's post made me brave enough to up my fat intake instead of upping the protein or carbs to shake my ketogenic fatigue. Even after all the reading and conversations, it's tough to shake the twenty plus years of "low fat" indoctrination.

Although I still haven't gone whole hog to the 1700Kc latte, I have switched over from half and half (half and half, I have come to believe, is for pussies) to adding a few Tbsp of heavy cream to each of my cups of coffee. Even more in my ice coffee. I can say the cream has done the trick. I find myself wanting to eat at lunchtime, but it's more out of habit than hunger. And my carbs are still near 0 a day. Whatever I get out of green veggies.

Mike's wife Amy Santamaria, also a scientist and PhD did a controlled study of the Paleo diet at their Crossfit Affiliate. It's really fascinating how simple and effective this way of eating is.

Olympic Weightlifting, Kettlebells and Sports Performance

It's summer and everyone is outside climbing, running, cycling and triathaloning. As it should be. Everyone should be outside enjoying their sports, but you should also be engaging in some sort of strength training to address the imbalances in strength, flexibility and mobility that focused sports practice can create.

Cyclists lose lean muscle mass and even bone mass over the course of a season for example because cycling is a non-weight bearing sport. Runners notoriously have tight backs and hamstrings.

But did you know that with as little as 20 minutes twice a week of concentrated kettlebell training you can improve your sports performance, make your body more durable and resilient and address those sports specific imbalances?

Make the commitment to up the quality of your sports participation. Strength training won't bulk you up or make you slower. In fact, it will make you faster and more efficient. A stronger runner, or climber or cyclist moves the body with greater ease than weaker athletes. Every top athlete weight trains, even in season.

For the next few months, I will be offering a discount on our monthly membership. $50 buck a month. That's 20 classes a month to choose from from. If you are new to kettlebells and olympic barbell training you will need to take two private lessons to get up to speed, but I'm offering deep discounts on this also.

Monday thru Friday 2 - 4 PM.