This weekend I had the good fortune to rendezvous with some very interesting movers and shakers of varied and diverse fields and much to my surprise and sitting at my table was world-renown life extension and life enhancement scientist and visionary, Durk Pearson. You may recall Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw and their seminal 1982 book, “Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach“, which dicussed the six causes of aging and how to slow down five of them.
In another guest post by Scott Brengel, C.S.C.S., Scott answers questions about injury rates in strongman training, Crossfit and strength training in general. I believe you will find Scott’s insights interesting and better, helpful to your own training, whatever that is.
Last Sunday, I had a very taxing 5 x 3 deadlift session in which I set a personal best and left all I had in the gym. I know the system most affected is the central nervous system (CNS) and that is a biggie.
Since it takes a while for me to recover from such a session, especially as I get older, here are my Top Ten symptoms telling me I may have trained too hard.
We are very excited to announce the 1st Annual So. California’s Strongest Man Competition in Huntington Beach, CA on March 7th 2009. My buddy Scott Brengel is hosting this exciting event.
Please click on the above EVENTS tab for all the details
Recently, in Recover and Get Stronger With ZMA, we went over the benefits of zinc magnesium aspartate (ZMA) as a nighttime aid to recovery after very strenuous workouts.
Two studies have just been posted on the ISSN forums refuting the claims of serum testosterone increase while using ZMA. The abstracts follow and you can decide for yourself if ZMA is something you want to use in your recovery arsenal. (Anecdotally, I sleep deeper when take it and wake up refreshed). I probably will continue to take it on my heaviest lifting days.
Not too long ago, MFBB happily wrote on the benefits of using chocolate milk as an optimal sports recovery drink and I have been enjoying mine since.
But it seems there has been controversy raging on internet forums, especially over at T-Nation as to what the ideal post-workout recovery drink is. Lyle McDonald has written about the benefits of milk as a recovery beverage in “Milk: The New Sports Drink? A Review”.
For a brief period last year, I had the opportunity and pleasure to train with Danny Henry of ATP (All Things Possible). Danny is a professional trainer at Gold’s Gym in Venice Beach, California. Danny has a philosophy of training the body as it functions in the real world.
I followed a recent thread over at Performance Menu about the idea of using strongman training as a type of GPP instead of Crossfit brand of GPP. The contention of the poster, quoting a Marine, was that some strongman training might be more suitable to what soldiers do regularly in the field.
I posed this question to pro strongman competitor, Scott Brengel who responded in this guest post.
