I should post more. Maybe I will. I don't have much to add to the Internet, but I'm big in Japan.

How To Get Grassfed Meat and Fat

A common question on "paleo" diet blogs is how to get grass fed beef with enough fat.

A good source of fatty ground beef is US Wellness Meats. You can get 75-25 ground beef in bulk, 25lbs, and you get a small discount. It's the tastiest meat I have found. And since it comes frozen neatly in nice little packages, it lasts a long time and is very convenient. They also have tallow and lard and butter. I cook my meat (I like it raw too) in tallow and then if some of the fat is still left over in the plate or bowl I just go ahead and drink it down. It seems gross at first but you get used to it and will come to like it. Frozen tallow chips are good, too.

It is also possible, but less easy, to find raw fat. Ranchers often won't sell it to you but look around and you might find a nice rancher to sell you the fat. And since they usually freeze their meats, you can might get a good amount of fat, frozen, and so it will last a long time.

Calories Don't Count

Cells do not convert heat into mechanical energy. Skeletal muscle cells contract and release via a kind of electro-chemical process. I can't imagine how there would be a relationship between that and how much heat is released in a bomb calorimeter. Can you?

http://health.howstuffworks.com/muscle2.htm

H.I.T. Training Session 3: Sunday Update

Today was my third H.I.T. training session. Some notes:

• I am not pushing to failure enough. In Body By Science, the authors say that pushing to failure can be difficult because instinctively we don't want to do this so it can be hard to overcome and push through. I need to work on that.
• Halloween was the previous evening so I partied a little and stayed out late. While I didn't eat any candy that probably would have laid me out, I had 2 glasses of wine. I don't often drink, but drinking alcohol seems to have a bad effect on me, similar to sugar, the next day. I was a fatigued this session and struggled with it. My instincts were telling me just go home but I knew I'd feel better after a good hard workout and I kept reminding myself that it wouldn't take long.
• I did squats and leg press just to experiment and compare. The two exercises feel pretty different. The leg press is a little easier to do. I will switch to one or the other instead of doing both, eventually, but I haven't decided which, yet.

Body fat 28%

Workout:

H.I.T. Training: Sunday Morning Update

I am going to track my progress by body fat % according to my Tanita scale. Usually this scale is about 3% higher than the body fat doohikey they have at the gym so it might be a little high but it will be a good way to track changes even if the absolute value is off.

Note: I do the entire workout in Vibes. Squats and leg press are especially different this way. I highly recommended taking off your shoes to do leg exercises.

Sunday October 25th:

Body fat %: 29

Week 2 Workout (Sunday October 25th).

I'm kinda experimenting with different exercises just to feel them. I will eventually settle on a routine. I just got the Body by Science book and am almost done reading it. The information is very useful. So I will probably tweak these workouts somewhat in the coming weeks.

Squat (Lifefitness machine thingy): 80 lbs.

Shoulder Press: 10lbs.

Chest Press: 20lbs.

Assisted Pullup: 120lbs

Assisted Dip: 120lbs

Seated Row: 45lbs

Hip Abductor: 70lbs

Hip Adductor: 70 lbs

Warm-up: 5 minutes random running intervals (wearing Vibes). 12 min/mile slow and 10 min/mile fast. Yes I am a slow runner.

H.I.T: Once a Week Workout

I want to have more muscles and be stronger but I am lazy as all hell and hate going to the gym. I love to run around and play sport and hike but doing some kind of routine weight training thing gives me the blues. So I decided that a Mike Mentzer style training was the thing for me. So I came up with my own plan. Basically I will do a fully body weight lifting routine once a week. I will do one set of each exercise to failure and then move on the the next exercise with little to no rest. There is only a handful of exercises that I will do:

weighted squats

shoulder press

pull downs

pull ups

dips

bench press

rows

Notice there is no abs in this. I believe that the other exercises work the abs more than enough. It is low body fat % which gives the six pack.

I will also do a very short warm-up to get the central nervous system activated:

1-3 minutes very fast running

a few pushups

a few pullups

So starting next weekend, Oct. 24-25 I am going to document my progress with photos and a training log as a kind of experiment to see if this works.

Recently, I added two exercises that I forgot! Oops gotta do those dip and pullups. They are essential to upper body strength.

Satellite GPS and Atomic Clock Confirm Relatvity?

Do satellites really confirm Relativity? This "fact" is usually touted as the big thing that pretty much proves the gravity hypothesis of the universe. Not so fast. Here is a good analysis:

http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ptti/1996/Vol%2028_16.pdf

GPS AND RELATIVITY: AN ENGINEERING OVERVIEW

Henry F. Fliegel and Raymond S. DiEsposti

GPS Joint Program Office

The Aerospace Corporation

El Segundo, California 09245, USA

Conclusion (from the paper):

Except for the leading [gamma] factor, it is the same as the formula derived in classical physics for the signal travel time from the GPS satellite to the ground station. As we have shown, introducing the [gamma] factor makes a change of only 2 or 3 millimeters to the classical result. In short, there are no "missing relativity terms." They cancel out.

An alternative hypothesis to why atomic clock rates change and additional analysis of relativity and GPS:

http://www.ldolphin.org/vanFlandern/

Rethinking Relativity

Tom Blethel