Cool Stuff

I admit I have too many interests, but I'm passionate about them all and find it hard to give any up. Over the years, I've collected a few sweet sites on the internet dedicated to these various interests. Here we go.

DIY, mayhem, and knowledge sharing
One of my favorite websites is Instructables
People post awesome tutorials on how to make or do pretty awesome, useful, creative and helpful stuff. Just about anything you can imagine, there is an instructable for.

Rock Climbing
Rock Climbing.com
A place for climbers to discuss climbing, find people to climb with, read gear reviews and get directions to climbing spots all over the USA and the world.
Warrior's Way
The Warrior's Way is a website devoted to the teachings of Arno Ilgner, author of The Rock Warrior's Way. The Rock Warrior's Way is one of my all time favorite books and one any rock climber, adrenaline junkie or elite athlete should read. Warrior's Way.com features an interesting and insightful blog written by Ilgner.

The Primal / Paleo Lifestyle
The Primal Lifestyle is term to encompass a way of eating, moving and thinking.
Eat: our bodies evolved to thrive during a time when carbs and sugar were rare, when meat and fat were the main sources of fuel. The Paleo diet consists of eating lots of veggies, meats and fats and no grains, processed foods, unnatural sugars or, for some, dairy.
My favorite place on the web for paleo-ers is Paleo Hacks. Paleo hacks is a community run question and answer site for all things paleo/crossfit/primal. People ask all sorts of questions from nutrition to fitness to sex. Its very helpful finding answers to questions that Google can't answer. It is also great finding other like minded people to discuss these topics with.
Move: What does "fitness" really mean? Fitness, from Darwin's point of view, meant the most able to adapt to one's environment. Let's make a bunch of athletes do random tasks. Who does every task effectively and efficiently? Who do you think fares the best between a marathon runner, a body builder and a decathlete? Doing varied tasks at intense levels makes you constantly adapt. Advantages to always doing different things: muscle confusion, coordination, you never get bored. Move quickly. Run, jump, sprint, swim, lift heavy things.
Crossfit
For my point of view on fitness and nutrition, I have solely Crossfit to thank. Crossfit is "constantly varied, high-intensity, functional movement." If you don't know what Crossfit is, go here and here.
MovNat
When my friend Alex and I used to use jungle gyms and trees for workouts, we got some pretty strange looks. Hopefully those stares will lessen thanks to Erwan Le Corre and his MovNat program. Le Corre supports all things primal and his thinking aligns well with mine. Eat like cavemen, lift heavy things, go outside, move quickly, barefoot. Variety, intensity, outdoors. His MovNat program takes people outside and asks them to do survival/hunting style movements like climbing trees, crossing rivers, carrying each other, sprinting, lifting logs and other caveman like activities.