Getting Your First Pull Up Q. Pat, How Do I Get My First Pull Up? (Alex, Female, 36) A. Examine Anna, one of my clients. Coming to me, she couldn’t do one, as is the typical case. But as well, she recently gave birth, too, which accommodates a little more difficulty. It took about three […]
The "Cardio" Workout That Builds Muscle
Clutter is the disease of fitness. We are strangled in unnecessary supplements, superfluous workouts, pompous hyperbole. Who, really, can understand what is being said anymore, or what to believe? There is, on one end, the affected, bombastic advertisement writer, and, on the other, the garrulous academic; one is arrogant, […]
How to Feel Awesome on a Low-Carb Diet
Editors Note: What follows is correspondence between myself and an Inner Circle member. Q. I feel like ‘shit-balls’ when I go low carb. How can I fix that? A. Did you learn to talk out of a book, and if so can I borrow it anywhere? Shit-balls is an ambiguous term, and open to […]
How To Suck
Recently a piece on training variety flittered across my desk, and I caught just the tail end of it. In brief, a person should constantly vary their exercise regimen to avoid plateau, is what this author said. Then again, at Paleo (Fx), I heard another fellow preaching the same gospel. […]
Paleo (Fx) and How Pat Flynn Joined Girls Gone Strong
There was only one heckler at Paleo(fx), when I came down to give my talk on fitness minimalism. And he suffered from only one singular defect: that is, for him, the apparatus which a person uses to think had gone missing. But he had neither detected its absence any […]