Our Coach stood at the front of the room at the whiteboard at our introductory class, checkmarking and printing and unleashing a whirling blur of information: power, output, full-body movements, paleo diet.  I'd been listening earnestly till then but then my mind stalled out and refused to absorb: Diet, I thought,  A fad diet and I'm not so sure about the whole Caveman premise. I thought: I'll work out here, I like the premise of full-out, strong, short workouts and this seems right up our adrenaline-fuelled, mildly masochistic sensibilities  -- but I'll keep eating what I'm eating.  I've been seeing good results ... [More]

I am in the process of writing part 2 of Corey's story, but it's suprisingly hard.  Usually I sit down at the keyboard and stuff just tumbles out of my brain and on to the page but it's different with this because I want to do his words justice.  I want to relay things precisely, in a way that adequately captures the roller coaster of a journey he's been on, and how that all fits into where he is today.  It's an amazing story and I'm freezing a bit, worried I won't do him justice.  So thank you for bearing with me. Anyway, we've had a few emails from readers interested in learning more about what we're eating. So in the i... [More]

  When I first met Corey, he had carrots in his fridge.  I remember opening the fridge door, blearily,  late at night looking for water and literally seeing a solitary, sad little bag of carrots.  It fascinated and terrified me and I thought it might be a bit of an anomoly but then he made me "stir fry" for dinner.  That word is in quotes for a reason. Stir fry in my world was hearty noodles in some kind of sauce, preferably something salty and sweet, teriyaki maybe?  Those noodles would be covered with tendercrisp veggies, more sauce, and perhaps some shrimp.  A healthy meal, right? But stir fry in his w... [More]

I sat with my vegan boss and her friend at a popular vegetarian restauarant.  It smelled faintly like lavendar and marijuana and slightly rained-out wood and I scanned through the menu of tofu and miso gravy and all kinds of animal-free sauces. Then I closed it and looked at her and asked her a question I imagined she'd been asked a thousand times before: "So - what provoked you to give up animal products?" She explained, intelligently and without any shrapnel of judgment and I listened intently and thought about delicious steak. I was a pretty unapologetic carnivore, back then: giant prime rib, rare as possible,  bbq chicken, ba... [More]

Corey and Stefan Kuhn(twitter: @StefanKuhn) have been friends "forever." They attended the same childhood birthday parties in their small town home of Canmore Alberta, and sucked back sliced oranges together during half time at soccer. Stefan is one of the most adept athletes Corey's ever met: immediately able to kick ass at everything from street sign snowball hucking to rock skipping. Stefan is a year younger than Corey but Corey remembers him beating the kids in higher grades at at time when a year makes all the difference in terms of skill, ability and bragging rates. I've yet to meet Stefan but I can't wait to meet him - he sounds ... [More]