With some things, Japan does not fuck about.

Surrealism 101. Or, "How to deal with dumbness on the internets..."

Training.

8/3 - calisthenics, dynamic tension, band work, isometrics
8/2 - G.U.T.S. circuit - pushups/situps/hindu squats/situps/pushups/MILO - Kettlebell swings [2H, alternating, 1H], halos, Turkish get-ups.
8/1 - 21m jog + windsprints x5 - Bas Rutten MMA Workout/Shadowboxing/Boxing 2m rounds x5 - Elastic Steel Grapplers Routine/Beginner

Archevore - Archevore Blog:

"A typical 'paleo' meal, consisting of either a fat or lean steak, a green salad and a sweet potato, is not only healthy but is indeed closer to ancestral diets... Not because of what it contains, but because of what it does not contain...  Processed white flour, a concentrated source of gluten and wheat germ agglutinin, sugar in the form of sucrose or high fructose corn syrup, and especially, industrial vegetable oils heavy in n-6 linoleic acid - such as corn, soy, canola, peanut, etc..."

Faster internet connection means lot of motivation/opportunity/inspiration.  The tumblr Ripped & Fit is pic intensive but awesome. 

I'm old now. Dilbert says so.

Yeah, I've actually noticed this too.

Summer Vacation 2011, Phase I - NC/OBX.

Fine southern dining, heading home from the airport, after a 12 hour flight. My wife, she has the priorities, clearly. Four of the five southern food groups are present - meat, cheese, fried and gravy. Rest assured, the fifth food group, sugar, was covered by sweet tea [not pictured.] Type II Diabetes? What's that?

OBX road trippin'.

Bed and Breakfast'ing. That's right. We're fancy.

You know, we can blame the Adachi-gene on Sandy's side for her affinity for dress up. There's really no excuse for me.

We are... what's the word? Oh, yes. Ridiculous. [At the Wright Brothers' first flight monument...]

The relaxation. I has it.

Chocolate. Beer. That is all.

I love the beach. Could float, swim, bake and read for damn near forever without getting tired of it.

@Hatteras Lighthouse, one of three Outer Banks lighthouses we visited.

For more pics, you can hit up this link. 

Wife tends to find the most accurate greeting cards.

Almost as spot-on as this one.

Salt is good for you.

So is cholesterol.  So is fat.  Nobody listens, nobody cares...  just keep watching Dr. Oz, America.

Further info on how we arrived at all this bad nutritional advice [hint: politics] at the link.  Fat Head » Another A-Salt on Science:

"This week a meta-analysis of seven studies involving a total of 6,250 subjects in the American Journal of Hypertension found no strong evidence that cutting salt intake reduces the risk for heart attacks, strokes or death in people with normal or high blood pressure. In May European researchers publishing in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that the less sodium that study subjects excreted in their urine—an excellent measure of prior consumption—the greater their risk was of dying from heart disease. These findings call into question the common wisdom that excess salt is bad for you, but the evidence linking salt to heart disease has always been tenuous.

I’d say labeling the evidence linking salt to heart disease as tenuous is being generous. Non-existent would be the more accurate term, unless you engage in some major cherry-picking. In real science, no consistency means no validity, and the associations between salt and heart disease or mortality aren’t even close to being consistent. If anything, the associations are all over the place...

For every study that suggests that salt is unhealthy, another does not.

Bingo. No consistency, no scientific validity. Given an honest analysis of the science, we’d have to conclude that restricting salt is pointless from a public-health standpoint, except as advice given to the few people who are hyper-sensitive to salt...

Pic via.

Michael J. Lopez of Nederland, Texas - I salute you.

This would be awesome. If slightly dickish.

Stephen Fry, Hero.

"Only troubled people seek peace." - Charlie Crews

Dani Reese: So everyone going to that Zen center was just completely screwed up. Right?

Charlie Crews: People go there seeking peace. People seek what they don't have. Only troubled people seek peace.

"The more things you can do, the more choices you have..." - Robert B. Parker

"...The more choices you have, the less life kicks you around.  It's better to be strong than weak.  And it's better to be quick than slow.  

Better to know than to not know."

"Religion. It's like history class..."

Heh.

Wifi War.

So. Much. This. - "For introverts like myself, it takes energy to engage with other people. Doing so requires thoughtfulness. It's tiring. Expending energy, for us, isn't energizing..."

Via 4 ways technology can enable your inner introvert – Boing Boing:

"For introverts like myself, it takes energy to engage with other people. Doing so requires thoughtfulness. It's tiring. Expending energy, for us, isn't energizing. Please note: we're not talking about shyness, some character flaw. The problem isn't with the introvert -- it's with the demands you make on the introvert. An introvert can't force an extrovert to sit quietly in a room and read a book, but extroverts (and the stigmas they've inadvertently created) can impose social demands with ease."

Full article here.

“Is your desire to help people so great as to actually help them, or only so great as to attempt to force others to do so?” – Anonymous, USENET, circa 1995

Training.

7/31 - Bas Rutten MMA Workout - Shadowboxing - Boxing 7x3m rounds - mobility hip thrusts
7/30 - 20m jog - windsprints x5
7/29 - 20m isometrics
7/28 - pushups, situps, squats, pullaparts, pulldowns, chestpulls, disclocates, xtensions, rows, curls, shoulder press, lateral raise
7/27 - GUTS - pushups, situps, hindu squats, situps, pushups, MILO
7/26 - Bas Rutten MMA Workout - Shadowboxing - Boxing 3x2m rounds - 5 circuits hindu pushups/hindu squats/bridge
7/25 - 22m jog

I laughed. Though still not entirely sure why...

The perfect summation of the JET Programme - David Namisato's "Life After the B.O.E." Finale.

Some days, when I sit and think, I miss Japan a whole helluva lot.  Via.

Training.

7/24 - Bas Rutten MMA Workout - [light] shadowboxing - 2m rounds x10 [boxing] + x5 [thai boxing]
7/23 - Bas Rutten MMA Workout - shadowboxing - 10x2m rounds thai boxing - lower body stretching - 30m treadmill
7/22 - Bas Rutten MMA Workout - shadowboxing - 7x3m rounds boxing - mobility work [dislocates, chest pulls, face pulls] - 20m treadmill
7/21 - DB Swings x100 - mobility work [dislocates, chest pulls, face pulls, hip thrusts, amosov squats] - Bas Rutten MMA Workout - shadowboxing - 7x3m rounds - back/biceps [dl, row, pulldowns, db row, ez curl, alt db curl, hammer curl, hyperx]
7/20 - Bas Rutten MMA Workout - shadowboxing - 10x2m rounds thai boxing, 3x3m rounds boxing - mobility [dislocates, face pulls, chest pulls, hip thrusts, grok squat] - Elastic Steel beginner's grapplers routine
7/19 - hindu pushups/squats/bridge circuit x3