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Keith Norris | Health vs Performance + Auto-Regulation | Full Video Presentation

by on 06. Dec, 2011 in Exercise, The 21 Convention

 
This is Keith Norris’s full presentation at T21C 2011 on Health vs. Performance, Auto-Regulation, and Establishing Your Basecamp. At face value I think a lot of people would assume I personally disagree with much of Keith’s basic premises, but in fact, I do not.

There are things I disagree with of course, or in some cases, am ultra cautious about. One example is any form of an explosive movement. Another would be a barbell squat, for any purpose other than competitive lifting, where it is a required movement that you have to repeatedly practice to improve upon.

Come to think of it, and thanks to the work of Bill DeSimone and his Congruent Exercise, I am pretty convinced there is no worse exercise conceivable, that is commonly practiced, than the barbell squat. Out of what is accepted as exercise today, you literally can’t get anymore bio-mechanically antithetical to the human body — despite the “tradition” and popularity of this movement.

On the flip side, I actually find Keith’s discussions (in this presentation…

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Video Blog | Congruent Exercise is Here!

by on 05. Dec, 2011 in Exercise

 

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If Thomas Jefferson Were Alive…

by on 02. Dec, 2011 in Independent Thinking, Miscellaneous

 
He would be calling for the trial and public execution of Barrack Obama — for murder — and he would do the job himself.

The same goes for the majority of men who fought in the first American civil war, the American Revolution.

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Video | An Introduction to Self Defense + First Time Firearm Selection

Video | An Introduction to Self Defense + First Time Firearm Selection

by on 02. Dec, 2011 in Lifestyle Design

 
So far as I am aware, this is the single, best, comprehensive, video introduction to self defense and first time firearm selection on the internet. Everyone can learn something from it. Only more so if you live in the US or Switzerland and have the ability to privately own a firearm.

Here’s a picture of my new gun by the way. Similar to my old carry gun, but significantly thinner (I believe one of if not the thinnest 9mm handgun in the world), lighter, and to put it bluntly, a hell of a lot better build. If my old handgun was made out of plastic this one is made out of granite.

Florida made to! =)

BTW, here is the flashlight Bravo used in the video and that I now own and carry as consistently as my handgun itself.

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Reductionist Errors in Nutrition, Psychology, and Exercise

Reductionist Errors in Nutrition, Psychology, and Exercise

by on 01. Dec, 2011 in Exercise, Independent Thinking, Nutrition

It occurred to me last night that major errors in conventional (as well as some unconventional camps) of important subjects, consist of errors of the same caliber, and are produced by the same fault in thinking.

Reductionism.

For the purposes of this post, reductionism shall be defined as a mode of thinking that reduces complex concepts and practices, spanning multiple sciences, down to a lesser number of sciences, not for any reason other than such person or group believes that eliminated sciences do not apply to Y topic, concept, or practice — when they in fact do.

The resulting conclusions being at best wrong, and at worst, dangerous.

Nutrition

The first science we will explore is nutrition. Human nutrition specifically. And more specifically, the broad criticism of any diet or individual who states that fat loss is primarily a hormonal and biological event, secondarily a matter of calorie intake reduction (by any number of means), and thirdly, if even considered relevant, calorie expenditure.

The criticism being that this hierarchy violates…

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End of Month 21 Convention Ticket Sale + New Sampler Ticket Now Available

End of Month 21 Convention Ticket Sale + New Sampler Ticket Now Available

by on 29. Nov, 2011 in The 21 Convention

 
End of the month sale on all 21 Convention tickets to London and Austin 2012 live events. (Australia back online late December).

Tickets options now include,

  • (1) Single Day sampler pass
  • (2) Full event ticket
  • (3) Silver — bring a friend free — full ticket
  • (4) All access world pass for you + a friend + free dinner with the speakers!

Tickets available at

Brand new questions answered on (both) ticket pages,

  1. Who is The 21 Convention for?
  2. Who is it NOT for?
  3. I have a girlfriend, should I still attend?
  4. I’m not quite “21″, is this event still for me?
  5. What’s the #1 reason to attend any 21 Convention live event?

Learn the answers to these questions on either ticket page (same questions, different event locations).

 
ALSO, special notice, this is the last special ticket sale where full event tickets get you into ALL OTHER 2012 EVENTS FOR FREE. You may or may not have interest in attending international events outside of your country/continent, but you might later in the year, and if you…

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In Full Agreement with Drew Baye: An End to “High Intensity” Exercise

In Full Agreement with Drew Baye: An End to “High Intensity” Exercise

by on 27. Nov, 2011 in Exercise

Drew Baye recently published a post titled “Why NOT High Intensity Training?“. The timing could not be more perfect. Not more perfect because I had been wanting to make a similar case here on TDL for a few weeks now. The case that by labeling real and proper exercise, “high intensity”, we are in fact perpetuating the insanity that is status-quo exercise lore, myth, and superstition.

In fact, even labeling exercise as “proper” or “real”, or any such thing, only reveals how young the subject matter is, and how utterly ignorant the majority of those who claim to know something about it are. For example, children are not taught “real” addition, subtraction, and multiplication — or “intense” division.

Nor is anyone learning “the secrets of the alphabet” in grade school. Such ideas are nonsensical and ridiculous to us.

And the same attitude must be applied to exercise if the science is to ever drown out the voodoo-shamans of our day like Tony Horton, Jillian Michaels, P90Shit, Insanity Home Stupidity, and thousands of other witch doctors claiming to know anything…

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A Primal Thanksgiving Dinner

A Primal Thanksgiving Dinner

by on 25. Nov, 2011 in Nutrition

The dinner consisted of,

  • roast duck
  • roast turkey
  • pumpkin cheesecake (extra thick crust)
  • pumpkin pie
  • stuffing /w bacon + sausage
  • green bean casserole
  • small dish of cranberry/blueberry sauce
  •  large bowl of cranberry/apple sauce
  • sweet potato slices
  • mashed potatoes /w cheese
  • turkey gravy
  • duck gravy

But wait, is it primal? In a large sense, yes, because all of the food was gluten free, and all of the fat used was animal based, including the crusts for the pies, which were made with 100% grass fed KerryGold butter. The cheese was unfortunately not grass fed, but could have been without much extra trouble.

In addition, not only was the food absent of gluten and gluten grains, but was also absent all the other nasty shit you find in most foods today — home made or store bought. Pumpkin pie and cheesecake bought at stores today for example typically come with loads of hydrogenated oil, high fructose corn syrup, and generally speaking, mild poisons that in a long enough time span, lead to a slow and painful death.

Sounds far fetched for that yummy, warm pumpkin pie — but yeah, it’s killer in…

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Training Expectations Over a Lifetime

by on 23. Nov, 2011 in Exercise

Click the picture to watch now, 100% free. Read below for the bio.

Skyler Tanner, the youngest Superslow™ certified instructor in history, has been a personal trainer for over a decade. Currently a general manager at Efficient Exercise (Austin Texas), Skyler is working toward a graduate degree in  Exercise Science with the intent of obtaining a Registered Clinical Exercise Physiologist certification from the American College of Sports Medicine.

Having effectively experimented with a wide range of training modalities, Skyler is a strong proponent of safe, effective, efficient, and intense exercise as espoused by trainers and authors such as Doug McGuff M.D., Drew Baye, and Bill DeSimone.

In this presentation Skyler shares his thoughts on training expectations over a life time, advocates long range thinking in your training efforts, and encourages the audience to view training as something that (can and should) positively affect the entirety of your life.

P.S. On a personal note, this is a really good speech, in large part, a video version of

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Chronic Lower Back Pain | Discussion & Treatment

by on 21. Nov, 2011 in Exercise

 

James Steele (or James Steele II as he is known online and through his blog) is a 23 year old Lecturer and PhD Research Student at Southampton Solent University in the UK. James is an exercise scientist by profession having gained a first class honours degree in Applied Sport Science and during his time of study working with a wide range of elite athletic populations including; international Ironman triathlete’s, Paralympic wheelchair basketball and rugby, semi professional muay thai fighters and professional football (soccer). In addition he has worked with non-athletic populations including the elderly, diseased and a population that he is currently conducting research with; sufferers of chronic low back pain.

James is active as an academic pursuing his PhD research into chronic low back pain, its multifactorial symptoms and the effects of isolated resistance exercise for the lumbar extensors in treating it. He has also recently had a paper published with his colleagues, on which he was second author, presenting the scientific literature of resistance training and suggesting recommendations for…

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