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I passed the Russian Kettlebell Certification (RKC) with Dan John August 17-18, 2019 Torrance, CA
This post is a bit late, having now been nearly 4 weeks after I passed the RKC but it’s one that needs to be done! About 4 months prior, I saw that an RKC was announced on the West Coast in Southern California, and with Dan John. For those of you who might not know…
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Potato Hack: Diet that Involves Eating Only White Potatoes
I learned of the Potato Hack in my health coach course. Apparently it’s been around for a long time: 1849 to be exact! Read more about its origins and its simple nature at Potatohack.com. I also bought the book, The Potato Hack: Weight Loss Simplified by Tim Steele, which helped explain a lot of things.…
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Visceral Fat and Stress
I just encountered an interesting fact about visceral fat, which is that stress is a cause in the formation of visceral fat. How interesting this is, on a variety of levels. What is visceral fat? It’s the fat surrounding your organs, not under your skin. Even if you are skinny, you could have a lot…
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Chris Kresser’s Health Coach Course Practicum!
Last year, I spent the bulk of it working on my Precision Nutrition Level 2 certification and graduated in November. It was an awesome course, very well run and organized. I got a lot out of it and it was worth every penny and the time I put into it. I highly recommend it and…
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Intra-Abdominal Pressure Development for Crawling
In the Original Strength forums, a user asked for my prescription of training for crawling and avoiding aching wrists. When I see symptoms like aching wrists, it is likely the result of insufficient generation of intra-abdominal pressure during crawling. The wrists (and other body parts) will start to compensate for poor stabilization, causing inevitable aches…
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Intermittent Fasting + Carbo Back Loading = Success
About a year ago, I tried intermittent fasting (IF). I was disappointed that I didn’t get any results, with no change in body composition after 2 weeks. I noted some things that could have improved the results – it seems that IF is pretty sensitive to a lot of things in order to really get…
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Postural Considerations for Swimming
One of the biggest issues I see first with my swimming clients is their posture. When they cannot get their spine aligned properly, nearly everything about swimming is very difficult. We start with balance in the water, but if you cannot get truly horizontal in the water, then balance is hard to achieve. Most of…
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Truths about Spearing Angle in Freestyle
This post was sparked by some discussion in the forums on finding the perfect spearing angle. Here’s my take on all aspects of the spearing angle during Freestyle. There are two spearing angles: depth and horizontal. Most people think of spearing angle as mostly depth. Actually, you can also spear at a horizontal angle. Using…
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The Gentler Side of Muscle Scraping
Graston Technique and Gua Sha generally bring up images of someone taking a blunt metal tool and painfully bruising the heck out of your muscles, but with amazingly positive results. But recently, I have been experimenting with scraping with a lot less force with also positive results. Watching Gray Cook on his Secrets of the…
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Advanced Total Immersion Seminar in SF with Dave Cameron
Yesterday I took an Advanced Total Immersion Seminar in SF with Dave Cameron, a coach who teaches at Minnesota Tri Masters and is known as Distance Dave and has swam the English Channel among other things. This is a relatively new seminar as most of the ones I’ve seen prior, including the one I took…
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Tempo Training and SPL at Faster Tempos
Based on my coach’s suggestion, on the next workout I decided to swim at a higher tempo settings. After warming up, I set my tempo trainer at 1.6 seconds, swam 4×25, then lowered my tempo by .1 seconds, swam another 4×25, until I got to 1.2 seconds tempo where I determined my comfort breakpoint usually…
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IM CDA: Recovery +11 Days
It’s been 11 days after IM CDA. Recovery seems to be coming along. +7 days: Biked for the first time on computrainer, fast one leg spinning. Spinning fast was tough at first and then loosened up. Definitely a bit more effort required than normal to maintain speed. +8 days: First swim, only 1000 yards. Swam…
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IM CDA: Still Watching the Weather
Last night it was rainy pretty hard for a while. That really sucks because we’ll have to hand in our bikes tonite and they’ll be left outside, potentially to be rained on overnight before the race tomorrow morning. Today there is some sunshine but still a lot of clouds. Yahoo! Weather for Coeur d’Alene says:…
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Specialized Rib Cage Pro Road: Water Bottle Cage to Hold Gatorade Bottles
At Ironman Florida, Gatorade was the sponsor. During the bike, they handed out those Gatorade bottles that resemble water bottles. They have this twist close top which you can suck fluid from. However, annoyingly, they have a smaller diameter than traditional re-fillable water bottles and normal water bottle cages don’t hold them securely. Upon a…
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Lacrosse Ball is the Ultimate Massage Tool
My physical therapist turned me on to using a lacrosse ball to work through the knots in my muscles. Previously I had a TP MassageBall and both their rollers. I still love my rollers, but I was feeling that the ball was a bit too soft. When I really put pressure on it, it would…
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