A few months back, I received a question about how fasting affects climbing. I promised to write an article on the topic, but unfortunately it’s taken awhile to get to! Now that I’ve finished an entire series on weight loss, though, it seems like an ideal time. When we’re talking about diets, “fasting” usually means […]
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An Interesting Question—But Probably Without Merit
I read an article in Slate last week called “Are Diets Just Placebos?“, and though it’s taken me a week to get around to it, I wanted to write a quick post about it with my thoughts. If you haven’t read the article, it’s fairly quick. The author of the article (Erik Vance) hypothesizes that diets could conceivably […]
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Don’t Spray Diet Beta
You’ve heard that you shouldn’t spray beta, right? The basic idea is that you shouldn’t presume to know whether someone wants your advice, so don’t just shout it out even if you see an obvious problem. Instead, you should do the polite thing and ask them if they’d like some beta first—that way you don’t just insert yourself […]
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