By dane | January 23, 2010
Congrats to Amanda Hottenstein! Amanda has qualified for the Pennsylvania Indoor State Championship in the women’s shot put. Over the past few weeks, Amanda has gradually improved her best mark and this past weekend she threw 38′10. Amanda’s best throws are yet to come and I look forward to seeing her continue to improve throughout [...]
By dane | January 13, 2010
The New York Times has done a brief bit on the Paleo Diet and what it is like to eat a Paleo Diet in New York City. The article is decent and relatively interesting. I tend to prescribe a Paleo-like diet. I will throw in more fermented vegetables and raw dairy products than the Paleo’s [...]
By dane | January 6, 2010
A client has passed on a good nutrition round table with Gary Taubes and a few other nutrition “experts.” This is video 1 of a 5 part series.
Nutrition Discussion
One issue I tend to have with Taubes is that he never points out any difference between grass fed animals raised on pasture and factory farmed animals. [...]
By dane | December 23, 2009
It has been quite a while since I blogged. I have been transitioning into the full time Garage Strength employee. The past 2 weeks has been intense but very fulfilling. I have been setting up my “office,” rearranging my books, programs, paper work, etc to keep things more orderly for my Garage Strength maintenance. I [...]
By dane | December 11, 2009
A frequent reader of my blog sent me an article yesterday. I could not believe my eyes when I read it. The title of the article is: “What pain relievers are safe with alcohol?” I guess it makes sense to run an article like this during the holidays because people like to sit down and [...]
By dane | December 10, 2009
I have put up a new image of a Garage Strength client who has lost nearly 100 pounds. This client (Lu) in particular has trained hard and followed my dietary recommendations to a T!!! I am very happy for him and certain he will continue progressing, even after he reaches his initial target weight/health.
The important [...]
By dane | December 8, 2009
I apologize for having nothing worthwhile on my blog. This week is my final week at my day job. Needless to say, I am busy doing a few things that I need to take care of before I wonder into the world of 24/7 Garage Strength!!! Anyway, I am ecstatic to be 100% committed to [...]
By dane | December 4, 2009
Over the past month I have decided to try a different cod liver oil. Dr. Stephan Guyenet recommended I try the fermented Radiant Life Cod Liver oil. I bought the cinnamon flavored oil and now I am hooked!!! The cinnamon flavor is very robust and the oil is tremendous. The cost [...]
By dane | December 1, 2009
Recently, a group investigated the levels of health contained in factory farmed chickens. Out of the 382 chickens tested, 2/3’s of those chickens were contaminated with salmonella or campylobacter. This is not overly surprising. These chickens live horrible lives, are fed terrible food rations, never see the light of day and are butchered in highly [...]
By dane | November 20, 2009
While I was doing research investigating “The China Study,” I came across a great Jared Diamond article from the late 1980’s. I highly recommend reading any of his books, specifically “Guns, Germs and Steel.” Diamond is a professor at UCLA and has ton extensive research into the paleo era of human existence. The article I [...]
By dane | November 18, 2009
T. Colin Campbell’s book, “The China Study” has caught my attention recently. Campbell has popped up in a few places recently and last evening, a client of mine brought his book in for me to analyze. I decided to give it a look and to do so with an open mind. “The China Study” is [...]
By dane | November 16, 2009
The seminar went well this past weekend. All the speakers did a great job and Mark spoke so well with his raw milk presentation, he convinced my Dad to start drinking raw milk! These are the results that I love. I want to continue providing seminars/inspiration that can change the way people think. If anyone [...]
By dane | November 12, 2009
I recently came across a unique quote from FDR, commenting about soils. It seems that in 1937, he recognized that the more we destroy our soils, the more problems we will have and the weaker we will be as a nation. I am not sure if FDR actually followed his own words as many of [...]
By dane | November 10, 2009
This past weekend I spent 20 hours in the Poliquin Institute of Strength. It was a very informative time and enjoyable. I was quite pleased to find that many of my theories and methods are sound and upon that, I was given numerous ideas and tools to build a greater system of training. It was [...]
By dane | November 4, 2009
Here is a very interesting article I came across when reading up on ketone bodies. It is very interesting and should be considered with modern day medicine when dealing with degenerative diseases. Here are a few key quotes from the article:
“Ketones are a high-energy fuel that nourish the brain,” VanItallie said, professor emeritus at the [...]