Howdy folks! I can not thank you enough for the interest in both the book and the Crossfit Nutrition cert. I’m trying to stay on top of all this with what is an ever shrinking time frame to write, answer questions, run our gym and have a bowel movement or two in peace. Here are a few things I have in the works for the blog:
1-FAQ. I’m a lazy bastard and have not gotten around to building one of these. I get MANY of the same or similar questions that a little digging could answer.
2-Resources. This will be an extension of the FAQ and support both the book and the nutrition certs. I receive a lot of questions about: how many blocks folks need, what do I do if I barf when eating kashi cereal, , why is my stool smelly when I eat paleo I thought paleo fixes EVERYTHING?
The resource page will grow and evolve with time and should be a solid “go to” location for all things paleo, zone, crossfit, intermittent fasting etc.
3-Comments verification thingy. I ok’dabout 25 comments this morning and had to sift through…600 spams to get to them…I have no doubt I missed a few as I spent 2 hrs sifting through ads for Viagra (everyone knows Greg Everett has a lifetime supply of that stuff) and “sex with animals”. I feel a little giddy from the whole process. A wild Scottsman has offered to help me update the blog so I’m hoping he can help me extricate my head from my ass and get this thing more user friendly, easy to leave comments etc. I’m shitty on follow-through but I’m REALLY trying to make this whole site kick ass…please be patient!
4-Consulting. I’ve had numerous requests for phone consults. I do those for $150/hr for the initial consult, $75/hr for contacts thereafter (same as my personal training rates). I DO NOT CONSTRUCT MEAL PLANS. NOT FOR ANY PRICE…I’D RATHER KILL MYSELF. Ok, sorry…just had to be clear on that. If you want meal plans we have a RDA who is a former student of Loren Cordain’s. She’s great at that stuff. I’m good at answering questions and optimizing food and training so that’s what I’ll do.
Below is the “rough” outline of the book. I don’t think I’ve even spell checked it yet but it should give an idea of where that project is going. It’s a whole enchilada book…the closest thing I could liken it to is Protein Power:Lifeplan (absolutely amazing book if you do not already have it).
I’ve had some interest from “big” book publishers, I may self publish…not sure on either of those yet. Title is still pending. I’m writing it in my “own” voice and trying to have fun with it. I wrote 4 chapters for the book last year in a clinical dry format that made me want to retch when I re-read the drivel. I think this approach is better but it will have evolutionary biology on one line, fart jokes and lurid ramblings on the next…It may have a VERY select audience but I just need to get the damn thing done so I can yammer about another project and not start it for five years.
If y’all have suggestions about what you’d like on the blog, resources etc let me know. I hope to have an improved comments section soon so that can go a bit on auto pilot. If I’m going to get this book done I’m not going to be able to respond as frequently as I have in the past, at least for a while. Here is that outline. What in God’s name HAVE I done…
Chris Highcock says
Outline looks great.
Gittit Shwartz says
Hey Robb! Can’t wait for the book! And the blog since it’s one of the few I didn’t kick out of my RSS reader 🙂
Gittit
Ha! well if I updated this thing more frequently you might consider it spam and kick it out then! Tell Ido I said howdy.
Chris says
The outline looks amazing, What I would do to get my hands on that book right now. It looks like you are going to lay down all the information in a very accessible way for a wide variety of readers which is vital.
Hopefully we will se more posts from you on the blog with some possible excerpts 🙂
Thanks Robb
Hey Chris-
One reader has suggested a “beta book” in which I release things a chapter at a time, receive feedback along the way and then release the whole book at the end. Folks would pay the “cover price” for the hardback and get all the iterations along the way. This is NOT the same situation as what Art Devany was suggesting in which you bought each chapter individually and end up paying like $120 for a damn book! Still trying to figure all that out.
Chris says
Robb- Thanks for the prompt reply, sounds like a great idea and I would definitely be interested in paying to have access to a beta version and would be willing to give feedback. Hopefully the cost would be reasonable.
Chris-
My understanding is you charge say $29.95 or whatever you are going to charge for the finished project. Folks get ALL of the beta releases AND the finished product. Still investigating that but it seems like a win-win for everyone.
Gittit Shwartz says
Oooh, the “beta book” sounds an awesome idea.
G
Eric says
Looks great Robb, quit spending all you time building a new gym & kickin our ass, write your book so we can get fat & lazy reading it.
That’s what I’m talking about!
John Velandra says
Robb,
How about we PREPAY for the whole book and then get the beta chapters as they come out. We MUST pay up-front for the book to get the chapters.
Looking forward to it and seeing you again soon
John-
That might be the way it goes…still looking into that.
Anton Emery says
Looks like great stuff Robb. Can’t wait to read it.
Anton
Adam K says
Hey Robb,
Just wanted to throw my hands in – I’m a webdesigner (WordPress is my domain), so if you need a hand with the spam situation, email me. I’d be happy to help.
Not to cut in front of the “wild Scottsman” (being part-Highlander myself), but just letting you know that help is available.
Thanks for all you do.
Adam-
Thank you for the offer! You may regret it! I’m an idiot with this stuff. Will contact you ASAP.
Quentin says
who is the “If you want meal plans we have a RDA who is a former student of Loren Cordain’s” and how can I contact her for meal plan design?
great stuff as always bro!
Hey Quintin!
That is Kelly Cawthorn:
http://www.norcalsc.com/index.php/site/coaches/#
You can find her rates and availability here:
http://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ws.asp?studioid=2989&stype=41
peter says
Outline looks great.
I cracked up when I saw “Satan’s Lottery”. Maybe you should approach Milton Bradley about doing a board game. It could sorta be like Life, but nobody wins.
Ohhh…I like that!
Brian PCF says
Robb – re: #3, Akismet is a WordPress plug-in that I use, very easy to install and does a great job of filtering and deleting comments. Just go to your plug-ins page of your dashboard and look for it, you should be able to just click “install” and you’ll be fine.
Brian-
YOU ROCK! Thank you Amigo!
Jake says
Robb, been awhile still trying to be more Zone efficient with job, wife, kids, training etc.
Wondering if you have any good info on Fish oil and blood thining qualities. I have a Physical Therapy pt. that was in a 30 foot fall, fractured several bones, no head injury luckily, but is now taking a large amount of prophylactic
ASA. Discussed with his physician taking the fish oil, she was interested but without a good resource regardless of how much I can regurgitate she is not convinced. To add to that the pt. came in today and c/o Achey joints? wonder why falling from 30 feet maybe?
anyways any good info would be greatly appreciated.
Thank again for all you do for the CF faithful.
Jake-
This is what I found with a quick search:
http://www.circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/94/9/2337
at the bottom it discusses the decreased platelet aggregating properties of fish oil…some of THOSE references might lead you to some concrete numbers. That paper is from ’96 I think so there may be more up-to-date stuff. Any type of anti \-clotting protocol SHOULD involve a coag panel to track…platelet aggregation! There is NO reason why the doc can not use this as an opportunity to do a case study and either set base lines and or corroborate clinical reports from other docs. The would however require both time and thinking which is tough to do when you have 15 minute with a patient….so glad I pulled the rip cord on medicine!
Let me know if that helps
gaucoin says
Looking forward to the book. You should do a seminar up here in Calgary!!
I think I may be in Calgary for a level 1 cert in Sept…may try to do double duty while up there!
Anthony Bainbridge - CrossFit Fredericton says
I’ve always enjoyed the fart jokes mixed into the dry science stuff … in other words, the book sounds awesome. Can’t wait to get my hands on it!
Maybe I’ll get a custom embroidered whoopy-cushion for the first 1000 books. It’s afart-load of fun in every one!