Food Shouldn't be Dead

The Food Program this week explored fermented food, the techniques of fermentation and its connection to gut flora,

• Since ancient times humans have harnessed the power of microbes to preserve food and enhance its flavours. Rich and complex food cultures have developed that use this power in a process called fermentation - making pickles, breads, wines and much, much more.
  
  Sheila Dillon joins Sandor Katz - author and 'fermentation revivalist' - to find out more about the wonders of fermentation as well as our very relationship with these microbes.

Gymnastic Week 4 W/O1

A great spring morning.  Going to try to add volume in places.

Warm Up (5 minutes)
Main (30 minutes).
1. Stairgators (1)
2. Barefoot Sprinting (1x10s, 1x10s, 1x10s, 1x10s, 1x10s)
3. Planche Variations (25s, 25s, 25s)
4ai. Rope Climb (3)
4aii. MU to Ring Routine (3, 3, 3).
5. Scissor Splits (3x '2L, 2R, 2C')
6. Barefoot Kill Carry (1)
7. 321 (8L, 8L, 8L, 4/8L)

Leotards And Vests

Last night on BBC4 a program called 'Leotards and Vests:  The Great British Workout' was aired,

• Bench presses, barbells, rowing machines and electric shock mittens - just some of the tortures revealed by Mark Benton in this funny look at the British way of keeping fit

 If you can get past some of the commentary there is some absolute quality footage to be seen.  There were a whole host of fitness gizmos and workout programs.  You get the idea that there is nothing new under the sun.  Available for  another nine days from today.  A  short clip can be seen here.

Top 50

A brilliant idea has just been announced.  The National Trust is aiming to get the UK's ‘cotton wool kids’ outdoors. Here is their list of the 50 things to do before you are 11 ¾.

This list bears an uncanny resemblance to my ''Ducks Already in a Row" page! 

Gymnastic Week 3 W/O3

Picking up where I left off last week.  I've had a break of a week and oddly feel more tired.  Must be the Easter chocolate.  As stated earlier, emphasis will be on volume (5-8 reps) with rests of around the minute mark.

Warm Up (5 minutes)
Main (30 minutes).
1. Handstand work and walking lunges to side/front (10 mins)
2. Chin Variations (Two Arm + 35kg x 7, Two Arm + 35kg x 3/7, 10xBW 2 Arm)
3. Headstand RLLs (7)
4. Deadlift - form work (3x5x60kg)
5. Manna Progression (three rounds for time)
6. Wall Walk (3)
7. Backbridge (15s, 15s)
8. Two-Way DB Rotator Cuff (12 x external and internal shoulder rotations)
9. Reverse Dumbell Curls (12)
10.  321 (8L, 8L, 8M)/Bouldering

Meat Fix

I started this blog as a training blog and a place to air some thoughts.  It progressed in to a vehicle which allows me to try and give people some idea of what kind of path I am following, to accompany me along my paleo journey.

That all sounds a bit wanky, but you get the drift.  It also allows me to rant.  I thought I was good at ranting, but never thought you'd be able to base a book on a rant - not least a paleo-rant!

Behold John Nicholson and The Meat Fix.  Put aside Nicholson's occasionally irritating Yorkshire vernacular and his LC tendencies and this is a great little read.  Full of ranting and invective.  He documents a path that most of us have followed; the fear of fat, the fear of red meat, the adoption of veg*n eating in the belief that it is better for our health and for the planet - only to realise years later that the conventional dietary advice is severely flawed.

Smell, The Glove

In Sex, Bombs and Burgers, Peter Novak takes us through the major technological advances of the past sixty years and argues that the rate of progress is a direct consequence of our obsession for war, fast food and pornography.

Anyone who has tried ripping off a film from YouPorn only to have their Twitter account harvested by those damned pornsters (all in the name of research naturally), will be aware that the top IT developers are working in the skin trade.