Well, I posed this question to him and he explained to me that recipes don’t teach you to cook any more than having sheet music teaches you to play piano, which you learned if you watched part 1 of this video series.
Certainly, the step-by-step instructions of the best cookbook recipes can be reassuring to many home cooks. It’s much easier to follow someone else’s opinion of how something should be cooked than to create your own recipe.
But the sacrifice you make in following a food TV network recipe is that you’re trying to duplicate what was originally created by some food TV show.
Your stove is different than the “test kitchen”.
Theirs is gas, yours is electric.
Your pans are made of a different metal than theirs were.
Over the next 6 days here at BenGreenfieldFitness.com, in a series of free cooking videos, I want to introduce you to a friend of mine: the talented and highly entertaining Chef Todd Mohr from WebCookingClasses.com, a revolutionary, healthy cooking instructor who I met last week while I was in New York. And at the bottom of this post, I have a special question for you.
Well, his philosophy on healthy cooking without recipes is totally unique. He has truly changed the way I view cooking and I know it will have the same impact on you.
You see, Chef Todd Mohr believes that most of us don’t really know how to cook!
Sure we can follow a recipe – sometimes, especially if we’ve made it before and figured out its “quirks.” But we don’t really know the techniques we used and, worse yet – we don’t understand the cooking methods that recipes call upon.
Why is this important?
Well…
As Chef Todd explained to me, and talks about in the video above, your cooking methods are EVERYTHING in Cooking!
Have you ever experienced that frustrating problem of how to count laps while you swim? Whether you’re preparing for a triathlon, training for swim team, or just swimming laps for fitness, it can be confusing when you’re halfway through a swim set and you lose track of how many laps you’ve completed.
Let’s face it – not everybody has a swim lap counter standing at the edge of the pool telling you how many lengths you’ve finished. Not only does not being able to count laps throw off your calculation of how fast you’re swimming, but it also affects your ability to focus and to gauge swim pace and intensity.
So here’s a good way to count laps while you’re swimming: a new company called “Swimovate” has developed a special kind of wrist-watch style computer called a “The Pool-Mate”. This watch is a completely automatic lap and stroke counter for swimmers that works in any size of pool, allowing the swimmer to concentrate on just…swimming!
Every day, Ben Greenfield helps people from all around the world to lose weight, get ripped, become better athletes, and have more energy. In his fitness and nutrition protocol, fat loss programs for his clients, his own personal workouts workouts, and triathlon racing and multi-sport for athletes of all abilities, Ben handpicks, tests and recommends specific fitness recovery and nutrition tools for you to utilize in a successful lifestyle program! Be sure to bookmark this page so you have instant access to everything Ben recommends for exercise and diet success.
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Workout tools and gear that Ben recommends for enhancing your fitness….
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Ever wished that you could put all the recipe tips from me up on your refrigerator or in your kitchen for easy access?
What if you could easily grab one of my cutting-edge workouts and take it with you to the gym?
What if I sent you a special piece of exclusive body transformation mail to your mailbox, every week – jam packed with tips, tricks and fat loss secrets?
As a member of Ben’s Body Transformation Club, you’ll actually get workouts and recipes delivered straight to your mailbox, every week! Each week, the new private video content and recipe/workout notes will be added to a secret website with exclusive content designed to enhance the personal postcards that I send you from my secret collection of body transforming workouts and recipes.
That’s right…no more hunching over your computer as you read about how to prepare to make a healthy meal…and no more hurriedly jotting down workout notes from a blog post before you hit the gym!
Alright folks, this is officially it. I’ve had multiple requests for a quintessential holiday shopping list for the health nut, fitness enthusiast, multi-sport junkie or fat-loss devotee. Consider this the ultimate answer to your head-scratching hunt for the perfect gift. You’ve stumbled upon the final solution.
I’ve tracked down the best deals, the highest-quality products, and the most unique, health-conscious gifts your significant gift-recipient isn’t going to get anywhere else – and provided you with a range of options from inexpensive, custom-designed energy bars to gold-standard laboratory performance testing packages. You’ll find everything for the person who just wants to shed a few pounds of fat, to the coveted tools of a top triathlete.
So consider the following items the gold-standard for giving the gift of both creativity and health. You can click on any of the items in the list, and they will open in a new window, so you’ll always be able to access this list later. Finally, if you have items you’d like to see added, just leave a comment – and be sure to experiment with the “Bookmark & Share” button at the bottom of this post, where you can easily e-mail friends and family members with the list!
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