By Jamie Hale
This is my second interview with the Fatloss Troubleshooter. And I might add way overdue.
What's the status of FLZINE.com? Is the site going to be eliminated?
I like to consider FLzine.com to be on a hiatus for the time being. Elimination is absolutely not in its future. There are already plans and things in place to bring it back to life. That being said, it can't happen alone and it can't happen without money.
Flzine was a case of biting off more than I can chew. I had a high level
of quality control for the site, and unlike most sites that operate off
of watered down fitness advice or keyword mania, I wanted it to be
different than that.
The only way that FLzine could go back up again right now is if I
stopped training full time. Since that isn't an option or a desire right
now, it will be put on hold.
I look forward to what it will become in the future though. I am hoping
that future business investments will allow the funds for bringing it to
the level of a real zine site, not just a "blog."
What are your current research interests?
I find a lot of my research interests are guided by what the people I am
training or around me have to deal with. At moment inflammation is
a very interesting and fascinating area of research. We know so much
and at the same time virtually nothing about it. I propose we know a lot
more than we think, but as a constant problem seems to be that we are
paying the wrong people to look in the wrong areas.
I think the thing that bugs me about research in general is the lack of
understanding where we have been. The nutrition performance world is a
great example of research for no reason than other to prove a reason to
sale a supplement. God forbid that we actually try to run a trial that
isn't chalk full of holes and multiplying distractions.
It boggles my mind that there is funding to research macronutrients
without guiding the importance of caloric intake. It frustrates me to no
end that piles of data have already been collected to disprove a certain
angle yet time and time again we throw out the same tired questions with
the same answers to come.
Are you planning any seminars in the near future?
Until around October I am going to be pretty hold up in North Carolina
working on various projects. There are a few interview and training
talks I am doing locally. Other than that though I am really trying
to take some personal time and time to finish up on Body By Eats.
This is a real examination time right now for me. I am hoping by the end
of the year to have a better position of opening up my own facility.
That facility is going to hopefully change the face of everything I do,
allow for some more control, and really open me up to do some fun things.
In short I hope my next big speaking gig will be to the opening of that,
but we will see.
What is your favorite exercise?
I like simple training. I will break it down into categories.
Weightlifting: Deadlift. I love the deadlift, it is such a simple but
challenging exercise. It makes sense to life activity and is the
essence of functional training.
Bodyweight: Give me a push up and you make me a happy person. Give me a
handstand push up and you make me an ecstatic person.
Aerobic Conditioning: Sled Pulls and Medicine Ball Slams are tied.
Give me all those exercises and really, I am a happy camper. Beyond that
I like to incorporate dance training, but as for more labeled and strict
movements, there they are.
What is your favorite food?
This is such a BS question Jamie and completely unfair. I only get one?
I simply have to go against the rules here.
Top 5 in no particular order
Pizza in all varieties and flavors
Egg Rolls with Honey Dijon
Chili
Choc Cake with Hot Fudge and Ice Cream
NC Style Bar-be-cue with Fries
I could eat all of that for life and be a happy happy person. I would
like to note for any foodphobes that may be reading that you can 100%
make those things free range, local market, green organic happy and
healthy if so desire.
It's a good lesson to know that you don't have to be a trainer and lists
microgreens and pomegranate. Not that there is anything wrong with that,
but my list in this industry is likely taboo.
What do you love the fitness industry what do you hate about the industry?
Do you have a month?
What I love? I love the massive amount of resources. As each day passes
we have so much at our reach from our ipods to membership sites, study
resources and more. Information is becoming more and more open source or
at least more affordable and reachable.
That is an amazing and glorious thing.
I think some of the best in the field surpass their technical labels and
enter into a whole other level of dedication, intelligences, and nobility.
What do I hate? That the mass majority of people in the fitness industry
has no idea what they are doing and worst off, don't care.
I don't claim perfection, but I do claim effort and quality control. The
lack of that in this field or any real organization is why I spend more
time correctly wrong information rather than focusing on maximizing the
delivery of good information.
At the end of the day there are too many cooks in the kitchen and these
cooks love to over complicate everything.
Most of this information is a perfectly cooked steak with just a little
salt and pepper cooked to perfection. Instead you got guys butchering it
with glazes, reductions, and killing the natural and simplicity of it.
I would like to see the day when your twitter follow wasn't your gauge
for importance in the field. I mean I use it, it is what it is, but at
the end of the day it just makes things worse I think.
Social proof is a powerful thing. In the hands of forgers, the
possibilities for them are endless and scary.
Any new projects you are working on?
Other than my blog I am putting all my efforts into the launch of Body
By Eats and likely on that for a very very long time. I will be always
doing updates on the Fat Loss Troubleshoot and giving my customers all I
can, but basically this is it for me for a while.
Making those two things perfection I fill will solve the majority of
people’s problems in body composition and the lifestyle of fitness and
health.
Thanks for letting me do this interview Jamie. You are truly a great man
in the field and look forward to seeing what YOU have coming up in the
future.
Visit Leigh Peele’s site at http://www.leighpeele.com/
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