The Straight Dope
Friday, October 29, 2010

Return of Gadfly: The Inside Dope at Beachbody

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We used to have a gossip column in our newsletters, written under the pseudonym of Gadfly. While I can’t promise to be bringing him (or her...
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Saturday, October 23, 2010

One Finger, One Arm Pull-up at 43

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Lifetime Goal Achieved: 1-finger 1-arm pullup from Phil Requist on Vimeo . Pretty simple psyche vid this week. My friend Phil just did a ...
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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Final Thoughts On The Workout From Hell

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I guess it’s time to wrap up The Workout From Hell . I keep amending it and now it’s just a climbing training program, so I see no further ...
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

The Shake Zag Diet

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At the Beachbody Leadership conference this past weekend I got a lot of questions about the Shakeology cleanse as well as a lot of “how can ...
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Friday, October 15, 2010

6 Minutes

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“It ain’t the six minutes. It’s what happens in that six minutes.” This week’s psyche is a continuation of the Vision Quest videos posted fr...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Bad Medicine

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Here's an excerpt from a beautiful eulogy Romney wrote for Beata. I think our old dog, Tuco, might miss her more than anyone. He’s REALL...
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Monday, October 11, 2010

Beata Romney Edwards (2001-2010)

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Our youngest child, Beata, passed away tonight. She was the epitome of her namesake, angel; a perfectly well-mannered dog with a lovely dis...
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Friday, October 08, 2010

Ueli Steck: The Swiss Machine

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This week’s psyche was an easy choice once I saw that this video was posted. I saw the full version last week at the Reel Rock Tour and ca...
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Thursday, October 07, 2010

Doper!

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I’m a doper. A cheat. An un-American scallywag who has obviously put winning ahead of the principles of our greatest athletes. You know, fol...
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Tuesday, October 05, 2010

The American Foodsaw Massacre

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What if the scariest horror movie you’ve ever seen was taking place in your local market with everyday shoppers as hapless victims? Well I’...
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Monday, October 04, 2010

50 To 50 To 50

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Last night Romney reminded me that today began the 50 day countdown to my 50th birthday, which is going to encompass my entire 50th year. I ...
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Friday, October 01, 2010

October

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“…October is the best month for climbing. Who knows how many I have left? If I want to do something, I’d better do it now.” - Chris Sharma J...
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Size Matters

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I recall a conversation while watching an old training video of Ben Moon and Jerry Moffat that went something like this. PERSON ONE Makes me...
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Monday, September 27, 2010

WFH: Back On The Board

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Moving into the final phases of the Workout From Hell consists of, finally, doing a lot of climbing. No matter how you train for climbing it...
Friday, September 24, 2010

The Truth

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This week’s psyche is a no brainer: it’s Jack LaLanne’s 96th birthday. Yeah, yeah, the guy from the juicer commercials, as all you pop-cult...
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Thursday, September 23, 2010

Mr. Daikeler Goes To Washington

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Actually, it’s Mr. Congdon and Mr. Daikeler go to Philadelphia but riffing on It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia just doesn’t carry the same...
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

The Gluten Hoax

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For some reason we love to find scapegoats for our problems. Instead of admitting that we need to re-focus on total image we prefer to all...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Feelin’ Springy

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Here’s the workout I put our test group through on Friday. It’s a combo for the upper and lower body, similar to what I’ll be doing when I...
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Friday, September 17, 2010

I Hate It! But I Love It!

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Friday’s psyche post is teaser for P90X: next. I just put our in-house MC2 (that’s Muscle Confusion 2) test group through their first PAP ...
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Postactivation Potentiation For Climbing

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File this post under purely experimental but, for those of you looking for an edge and willing to take some risk, here ya go. This is what I...
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I'm a human lab rat and head of fitness and nutrition development at Beachbody. If our products don't work you can blame me. When I'm not testing training and nutritional theories on myself I'm studying, writing, climbing, riding, running, racing, exploring, or playing with my wife and the dogs.
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