Diets 101 part 2: Learning the basics
Think of a good diet as simply assembling blocks of Lego. These blocks are macronutrients, portion size, overall caloric intake, and meal frequency.
Dieting 101: Introduction and spotting the scams
Lowcarb diets, no-carb diets, low-fat diets, Atkins, Protein Power, cabbage soup diets, grapefruit diets, Paleolithic diets… can’t a girl just get some plain old eating any more? How to separate the sheep from the goats and the wheat from the fat.
Progress tracker worksheet
Here’s a handy little progress tracker worksheet that goes beyond the usual “pounds lost” or “pounds lifted” — it looks at some of the more intangible aspects of what constitutes real, meaningful, lasting progress.
Boy butches up girl
Even though this is ostensibly a site about women, a lot of male readers email me. Some are trying to encourage the recalcitrant females in their lives to hit the weights and are looking for evidence of why weight training is a good thing. Some would like assistance in training their wives, girlfriends, friends, moms, daughters, and female clients. Some just like the training advice, most of which is gender neutral.
Abdominal training
How to really get abs of steel: throw some weight on those crunches, and include Table Push-Aways and Fork Put-Downs in your routine.
Basic nutrition
“Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.”
—Hippocrates
The basics of how to eat nutritiously. Meet your friends, the macronutrients!
Rant 47: June 2008 On the good ship Karmapop
Wow. Just wow. I cannot come up with a better word to describe what’s happened since I took my job and shoved it. My karma ship came in like a luxury cruise liner full of buffet tables and inebriated hotties stumbling upon a desert island castaway.
Rant 46 April 2008: Shoveling to nowhere, or, let’s quitz again, like we did last summer
It’s been a hard winter in Toronto. It started earlier than normal with a snowstorm that was like Satan had mated with a canister of liquid nitrogen, and kinda just went from there. It’s now April 6 as I write this, and there are still piles of snow outside, hanging on by their icy little fingernails. So you can’t blame people for getting a little kooky.
Rant 45 February 2008: Let’s get this party started
This story begins, as all good stories do, with having margaritas with grappling legend Eddie Bravo in a snowstorm.
Rant 43 October 2007: Stumptuous versus Stumptuous!
Last summer, I signed up for a few Brazilian jiu-jitsu lessons. I shrimped a little, I triangled a little, I choked out the occasional unsuspecting newbie with my only, poorly executed move, and then work got crazy so I let it drop. This summer, I got crazy and dropped work instead. In July I returned to my peeps at Kimonogirl, an all-female BJJ group. They welcomed me with locked arms. Thus began my Summer O’ Beatdowns.
