For decades, we’ve been fed a single, unchallenged "truth" about exercise: to perform, you must "carb-load." This rule is so ingrained that the modern athlete's greatest fear is "hitting the wall," or "bonking"—that catastrophic, all-systems-failure moment where the body's fuel tank runs empty. We’ve all seen marathon runners staggering, their bodies and minds shutting down at the 20-mile mark. This fear is why people look at my lifestyle with such confusion. They ask, "How do you do 15 km of cardio both Saturday and Sunday, 16 hours into a fast? How do you do calisthenics every day with no 'fuel' in the tank?" The answer is simple: The "carb-loader" and I are using two completely different engines, and one of them is built on a falsehood. The "bonk" is not a mandatory part of exercise; it is a symptom of a deeply flawed and metabolically inflexible fueling system. Part 1: The "Bonk" — The...
Nearly twenty years ago, I started a blog called The Path is Too Deep, a geeky reference to a rare computer error message. A great deal of life has happened since then, a life I would like to share. So, here again, are some random bits of unfiltered Chris.