Back in the 1970s, I ate a high-protein diet to get bigger and stronger. As a senior at Utah State, I weighed 218 pounds with eight percent body fat, and threw the discus over 190 feet. Then I got some advice from the people at the Olympic Training Center. I needed carbs, they advised, and lots of them. They pointed to studies done on the American distance runners. Being an idiot, I took the advice to eat like emaciated, over-trained sub-performers. It took years of high carbohydrate grazing to learn the evils of this advice.

Come, enter into my imagination and see me as I truly am.

Their highs are too low and their lows are too high.

The best tonic for soreness is to do the movement that got you sore in the first place.

Look at your goals. Look at your behavior. Does your behavior match your goals?

As we're bombarded daily with new ads for pills, diets and ab-doers, we have to protect our wallets and our time.

I said it was simple. Not easy.