>If you check past articles at t-nation.com, you'll find a
>2 part series by John Berardi and John Williamson entitle
>Built Like A Neanderthal. Williamson specializes in physical
>anthropology including ancient diets.
If he really was a specialist, I don't think he would use this title. Neanderthals were not ancestors of Homo sapiens. It would be just as logical to title an article "Built like a gorilla"
>Since there is not full and complete general agreement
>regarding Paleo, it seems best to treat it as a genre rather
>than a fixed system.
Agree. And I am sure DeVany would too. Just remember DeVany was there first.
>Devany is certainly admirable;
Check the recent photo of him at 72 here:
http://www.arthurdevany.com/
To quote from his site: "... he is a living example of what he teaches at the age of 72 he is 6'1", 205 pounds, and has less than 8% body fat"
http://www.arthurdevany.com/
I give more credence to "living examples" than to internet gurus.
>however, his insistence on 'his way' with
>respect to his version of HIT stands as little more than
>yet another theory - and one were, like Jones,
>he's out of his depth.
Not so. Sure, he has 'his way', but you misrepresent it if you
regard it as Jones/HIT-centred.
>I've yet to see a Paleo orientation to sports nutrition
Not surprising, as there were no organized sports in the Palaeolithic. Most sports are inherently non-palaeo.
> ... averaging about 200 gms of protein intake.
DeVany takes the more palaeo position of advocating intermittent fasting and deliberately avoiding averages and counting inputs (he prefers a 'power law' approach with occasional extremes).
>For those with metabolic symptom and past 50, the
>HIT type approach is utterly ridiculous.
As I read it, Art DeVany advocates maintaining well-being. I do not recall him ever advocating HIT for those with metabolic syndrome past 50. In fact, I have not even seen him direct his attention to people who are ill. He understands epigenetics very well and so does not assume that ANY palaeo practices can restore any individual's health to it's original potential, once gene expression has been altered by non-palaeo ways. He is 72 and so is his own guinea pig for maintaining palaeo well-being into old age, and I'm sure he's taking notes.
>Dr Ron Laura's Matrix principle training using light
>resistance in patterns of full, partial reps with static holds ....
Perhaps. But I note you are not claiming Laura's protocols are palaeo.
>Most daunting is Paul Burke's recently published Neo Dieter's Handbook,
>a fabulous application of Paleo to health, fitness, and strength training.
Thanks for the recommendation. I have ordered a copy. But the photo on the cover of a macho Tom Sellick-like white male is childish - a turn-off. There is too much association of palaeo health with early 40s macho, masculinity and a certain political persuasion. There should be far more about women and about children and about groups - and, in my view, about a palaeo environment. There will be more about the elderly as Art and I write it based on our own experience over the next decade or two.
Keith
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