I’d like to have lunch with Tim Lincecum, the San Francisco Giants’ (5’8″, 168 lbs) Cy Young winning pitcher.

Lincecum says his typical order at In-N-Out Burger is three double-doubles, two orders of fries and a chocolate-strawberry milkshake [...] The calorie count for the Full Lincecum is 3,100, about 600 more than the normal daily amount for the average male. And, Lincecum said, “That’s just one meal.”

I was watching an interview with Arnold Palmer the other day and the discussion turned to his efforts at losing some weight recently. The interviewer asked what he was doing to slim up and he responded as follows (I’m paraphrasing from my memory as best as possible).

Well, I just pour a little less Kettle One in the evenings.

Maybe I’ll start with meatless Tuesdays and Thursdays? Five meatless days a week seems a bit much to give up meat. I like this philosophy and strategy though. It seems like you’re either vegetarian or not, but there is a middle ground apparently.

In considering whether or not to be a vegetarian, he came up with the simple idea that people should consider “meatless weekdays” (that is be a vegetarian from Monday to Friday) and eat whatever you want on the weekends. For vegetarian diehards who are trying to educate the carnivore world on the merits of vegetarian diets, including better health, lower carbon footprints, and cruelty to animals, a more balanced and likely more effective campaign would be to get people to be a vegetarian 70 percent of the time.

My main man crush, Jamie Oliver, won the 2010 TED Prize. The video of his wish speech was put online and it’s well worth the 21 minutes of time it takes to watch. We’re hearing a lot about eating healthy, and he’s one of the better resources to look to – he’s providing solutions and actually doing something about it (trailer for his show about the Food Revolution in the USA).

“I wish for your help to create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.”

— Jamie Oliver

Let’s continue the theme of living like a caveman with this piece from the NYT. While I agree that there is some health benefit with the diet and exercise routines based off living like a caveman, you can’t deny the unintentional comedy in this piece. My favorite lines follow with my resulting commentary.

The one thing that Mr. Durant worries might spook a female guest is his most recent purchase: a three-foot-tall refrigerated meat locker that sits in a corner of his living room. That is where he keeps his organ meat and deer ribs.

Time for my own meat locker. Jesus this is amazing.

These urban cavemen also choose exercise routines focused on sprinting and jumping, to replicate how a prehistoric person might have fled from a mastodon.

A mastodon? Seriously, I just went to wikipedia to make sure they were talking about a dinosaur. They were. No longer will I be motivated to exercise so that I can keep myself trim. Nope, now I’m scared of these damn mastodons.

“He looks great,” Mr. Durant said. “You feel like he could, at a moment’s notice, charge at you and trample you.”

If this doesn’t make you want to consider this lifestyle, I’m not sure we can be friends. While most of my comments are in jest (please read the whole article; the author made it sort of a mockery), I do believe there to be some serious positive benefits out of this type of lifestyle. I’ve toyed around with the Vibram Five Finger shoes to get the physiological benefits of walking around barefoot and like what I’m finding out. The diet portion just makes sense. The Paleo Diet is based on eating only foods you can hunt or gather. It’s honest food, basically. The fasting period referenced in the article isn’t something I’ll support, FYI.

Anyway, I’m trying to move toward this style of life. Call me a caveman.

Is two a trend? If so, I’m spotting a trend that we should head back to our roots and start acting like cavemen/hunters again. The other day I saw we should be running like a hunter to remain injury free.

Back in the day, humans chased their food down by foot as opposed to fighting off soccer moms and dads at the local big box store. They ran over the river and through the woods, and they were less prone to injury.

For the full effect and some added fitness benefit to your runs, might I suggest some Vibram Five Finger shoes to stimulate the little muscles in your feet and legs.

Added to running like a hunter is eating like one. My friend Dean pointed out the Paleo Diet.

The Paleo Diet is a way of eating in the modern age that best mimics diets of our hunter-gatherer ancestors – combinations of lean meats, seafood, vegetables, fruits, and nuts.