I first ran across Michelle James on Strong is the New Skinny on Facebook. Michelle has a great story and is a great inspiration no matter what your sport or goals. She pretty much says it all here, so I’ll just get right to Michelle and let her do the talking… -Adam Here’s Michelle James [...]
The SINS Angel post for today is a slightly different spin on the series. It’s still about a strong woman, but with a twist – this strong woman is also professional photographer who has a cool project in the works. Nikki Rinaldi is not only passionate about being strong, she’s passionate about photographing strong women. [...]
Today is a big day for the SINS Angels Series. This is the VERY FIRST ONE! The plan is to feature a female blogger who is living the SINS ideal, blogging regularly and helping to spread the word that Strong is the New Skinny (SINS). It’s all about leading by example! So, the first SINS [...]
Once every week or so, Practical Paleolithic is going to feature ONE OF YOU! I’m calling the new series “SINS Angels” and the goal is to feature a female blogger who embodies the SINS ideal. This isn’t CrossFit specific or Paleo specific or anything-else-specific. It’s open to ALL women who can inspire others, have a [...]
In my last video blog on Westside and CrossFit, I mentioned the 300/400/500 Bench Press/Squat/Deadlift numbers Stuart McRobert advocates as a guideline for male athletes. At the time, I wasn’t sure what the numbers were for WOMEN. So, I did a little digging and came up with some answers. (Oh, BTW, by “Squat” I mean [...]
My friend Joan Jennings wrote this great article about the Strong is the New Skinny movement for her Journalism class. A really well done article and worth a read! There should be an online version soon as well! The article deals with women’s stereotypes and changes brought about by CrossFit-style training, Paleo diet ideas and, [...]
Here’s the current list of blogs I have for the SINS Body Transformation Challenge. If you’re not here, leave a comment below and I’ll add you to my list! Here are the details of the SINS Body Transformation Challenge. Get involved. Get motivated. Make the best progress of your life! http://yourbodyinmotion.webs.com/ http://outerstrength.wordpress.com/ http://krazykat9876.wordpress.com/ http://paleoandoverload.blogspot.com/ http://www.crossfitmommeghanphilpot.blogspot.com/ [...]
OK, everyone! It’s early Sunday morning and some cool stuff is already happening on the SINS Facebook Page! Today we hammered out the start of something that has the potential to be seriously awesome. We’ve put together the SINS Body Transformation Blog Challenge (and, no, we didn’t spend a lot of time working on the [...]
When I wrote the original “Strong is the New Skinny” post this past summer, I was talking about challenging womens’ stereotypes. In particular, I was suggesting that women who want to model and define THEIR OWN ideal body use the internet, Facebook and social media to take their look and their portfolio straight out into [...]
NONE of this would be here without YOU! Here are the TOP posts and pages of 2010 on Practical Paleolithic. It’s incredibly humbling for me to look at the stats for my pages and posts and realize that EACH “visit” to a page or post represents a living, breathing person who took time out of [...]
Download a FREE Paleo guide and a FREE PREVIEW of my NEW BOOK!
