Nathan joins Jon to discuss the differences in coaching women’s sports. As this is a controversial topic in our world today. Learn why girl’s sports are different. How we raise girls can lead to interesting outcomes when they try sports. Nathan is a Teacher, Athletic Director, and Texas State Championship coach. To learn more about Nathan, check out his blog.
Carbs: low (LCHF) vs. lower (keto)
Effects of calorie restricted low carbohydrate high fat ketogenic vs. non-ketogenic diet on strength, body composition, hormonal and lipid profile in trained middle-aged men (Vidic et al., 2021)
Carbs: Low vs. Lower. In the original Sears study, they compared 33 grams of carbohydrate to 157. Six weeks, all food provided. The low carb group lost more fat mass than the keto group and everyone got mad. Blamed Barry Sears for basically testing his Zone diet vs. a ketogenic diet, so of course his diet was gonna win. Lol.
What about the water weight?
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20-Minute Keto Shrimp Scampi Recipe
This easy Keto Shrimp Scampi recipe is ready in just 20 minutes! Serve it up with cauliflower rice or low-carb pasta for one delicious dinner.
This Keto Shrimp Scampi is the .com. It’s packed with garlic, lemon, olive oil, and Parmesan. This one-pan recipe will quickly become a go-to in your weeknight dinner rotation. You thought 30-minute dinner recipes were great, wait until you try 20
Some shrimp scampi recipes tend to use chicken broth when that luscious sauce should only be made from 4 things:
- butter
- olive oil
- lemon juice
- white wine
Adding broth to the scampi is a no-go unless you’re wanting to make this recipe alcohol-free. Then it’s a great swap.
Ingredients in Keto Shrimp Scampi
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter (see notes below on how to make it dairy-free)
- 1/2 medium onion, diced (we like yellow onions here)
- 4 cloves minced garlic (always fresh, never pre-minced)
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper (we’re in love with this Diaspora Co. Aranya Pepper)
- 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes (optional)
- Juice and zest of 1 lemon
- 1 cup dry white wine (such as a pinot grigio)
- 1 lb shrimp, deveined and peeled (we like to leave the tails intact)
- Fresh parsley, for garnish
- Shaved Parmesan cheese, for garnish (see notes below for dairy-free options)
How to make Keto Shrimp Scampi
- Place the olive oil and butter in a 10″ or larger cast-iron skillet over medium heat. Once hot, add in the onion and cook until soft and translucent, about 3-5 minutes.
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The Steve McQueen Workout
When I was a kid, an old guy told me only the strong survive. That’s somethin’ you gotta believe, man. —Steve McQueen
Part of what made Steve McQueen so compelling, both as a private individual and as a movie star, was his kinetic, almost feral quality. He both developed and discharged this animalistic, coiled-up, ready-for-action energy by regularly working out.
As biographer Marshall Terrill notes in Steve McQueen: In His Own Words, the King of Cool religiously exercised for two hours every day for almost his entire adult life.
Just as it’s interesting to take a peek at the books famous men kept in their personal libraries, it’s interesting to take a look at the personal workout routines of famous men as well. Not so much to garner specific suggestions for one’s own exercise regimen, but for the sake of general inspiration and the desire to learn more about a particular individual’s life.
So I recently called Marshall up to see if in writing his numerous biographies of Steve McQueen, he had come across details about what the actor did for his workouts. Here’s what Marshall shared with me.
Why Steve McQueen Exercised So Religiously
Based on his decades-long exploration of McQueen’s life, Marshall thinks McQueen likely started exercising regularly in the 1950s, when he was a young actor in New York City. McQueen understood his body was a tool for his profession — that he wasn’t just selling his ability to act, but also an image. He recognized that an audience wanted to see a fit, good-looking guy when they took in a flick. As he mused, “If they see John Milquetoast up there on the screen, John Public says, ‘goodbye.’”
As Marshall noted: “That interpretation basically means if you have a flabby body or if you…
The End of the Gentleman
The New Criterion has an article up by John Kekes on the ideal of the gentlemen that is a window into misguided conservative thinking on the topic of how men should act. He writes:
Being a gentleman is not a matter of inheritance, wealth, or refinement. It needs to be earned by having a character with a sense of honor at its core. Character sets limits a gentleman will not cross and acknowledges responsibilities he will not shirk. It involves a commitment to a way of life that in some small or large way, by example or by action, contributes to making some lives better or protecting them from getting worse. Since this is not the best of all possible worlds, it is often difficult to be a gentleman and live honorably within self- imposed limits, meeting responsibilities both to oneself and to others.
He explores this through stories of three people, a French aristocrat who sacrifices himself for the king during the Revolution, a woman (???) who declines an offer of marriage from a British aristocrat, and a Japanese officer during World War II.
What’s notable in this take is that the concept of the gentlemen it promotes is almost entirely one of self sacrifice.
If honor is the central principle of gentlemanliness, then it would have to follow that the traditional defense of one’s honor would be included. A gentleman would fight a duel or otherwise avenge insults to his honor, but that seems missing here.
Rather than a traditional take, this is a modern, highly edited version.
The rules of gentlemanly behavior have been historically defined by the upper class. Indeed, to be a gentleman was to have a certain social status in society. Even once the gentleman appellation was more generally extended, the standards…
Insulin: route of administration | The poor, misunderstood calorie
The basic biology of endogenous insulin secretion makes sense, physiologically/geographically.
It slams the liver first, which sees more concentrated insulin than any other tissue. By the time insulin reaches the periphery, a lot has already been cleared and it’s been considerably diluted by peripheral blood.
This makes sense because liver does a lot of the heavy lifting wrt blood glucose control. The first phase insulin secretion and all that jazz.
Skeletal muscle (SkM) and adipose tissue (AT) see just enough to enhance glucose clearance and slow down lipolysis.
Enter: new insulin analogs.
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Sticky Sesame Cauliflower [Keto & Gluten-Free]
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This Sticky Sesame Cauliflower is a great plant-based Asian-inspired recipe that’s perfect for low-carb and keto diets since it’s sugar-free!
If you love sesame chicken you’re going to swoon over this Sticky Sesame Cauliflower recipe! It has the most perfect sticky sesame sauce that’s completely sugar-free. Even if you’re usually not a fan of cauliflower, we can guarantee you’re going to love this recipe.
This sesame sauce base is one we work off of all the time, we have to say that we think we’ve pretty much perfected it at this point after 10 years of recipe development experience. It reminds us so much of the sesame sauce you’d get at your local Chinese restaurant. It’s comforting, delicious, and best of all – works with a variety of dietary preferences and needs.
We’ve made sure that all of the ingredients provide that classic flavor so you won’t find ingredients like maple syrup in our sesame sauce (obvi since this is a keto recipe website but also because that’s not how you make sesame anything ).
Looking for a Keto Sesame Chicken recipe? Check out our cookbook or swap in chicken for the cauliflower in this recipe! Chicken thighs are best by breasts work too.
- 1 large head cauliflower (about 10 ounces) – you can save a bit of time and mess by using pre-cut florets
- 1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch – you can also use arrowroot or tapioca starch
- ¼ teaspoon white pepper – this is key, don’t skip it
- ¼ cup avocado oil – or another high-heat safe oil for frying the cauliflower
SAUCE:
- ⅓ cup tamari – or regular soy sauce if not gluten-free, you can also use coconut…
Podcast #415: Forging Mental Strength Through Physical Strength
Editor’s Note: This is a re-broadcast. This episode originally aired in June 2018.
When you start a fitness program, you tend to spend most of your time thinking about the physical part — what movements you’re going to do, how much weight you’re going to lift, or how far you’re going to run. But my guest today argues we ignore the mental aspect of our training at our peril. His name is Bobby Maximus. He’s a world-renowned trainer known for his brutal circuit workouts and the author of the new book Maximus Body.
Today on the show Bobby and I dig into the psychology of fitness. We begin by discussing what holds people back from getting started or going further with their goals and how sticking little green dots all over your house can help you surmount those barriers. He then shares why it’s important to manage expectations when beginning a training program and why there are no shortcuts to any goal. We then shift gears and get into Bobby’s training philosophy. He shares how to train to be “ready for everything,” why you need to do strength training before your endurance work, and why recovery is so important in reaching your fitness goals.
We end our conversation with some examples of the “Sunday Sermons” Bobby shares on his website and a discussion of why perspective is important whenever you’re going through a hard time in life.
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Show Highlights
- How Bobby went from being bullied to the upper echelon of kickboxing and ultimate fighting
- The biggest mindset shifts that people need to make to prioritize fitness
- Why we tend to set the bar…
Audio of Masculinist 52 – Build Men Up, Don’t Tear Women Down
Henry Kissinger quipped, “No one will ever win the battle of the sexes. There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.” This encapsulates the broader truth about the relationship between the sexes. We are in this boat together. When men struggle, it affects men’s relational prospects. But that’s also true the other way around. We should want to see women flourish. So in working to build up men, we should not look to tear down women.
Also, in this issue, I provide an extended excerpt from my major retrospective on the old White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (#WASP) establishment and the implications of its collapse. As a product of Catholic peasant stock on both sides of my family, this was an interesting one to research. It is also a critical topic to understand the dynamics of our contemporary world.
Ketogenic diet in alcohol withdrawal
Ketogenic diet reduces alcohol withdrawal symptoms in humans and alcohol intake in rodents (Wiers et al., 2021)
First, the bad news: it appears they totally botched the rat study. Fed half of ’em a standard diet and the other half a ketogenic diet for a couple months, then exposed half in each group to alcohol (in the air) for a few weeks to induce dependence, then…
Hold up. Rats on this ketogenic diet failed to thrive. Big confounder. Every college kid knows why…
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