Enter Through the Barbarian’s Gate
You’ve heard that regular exercising helps make you look younger and may even extend your lifespan and improve the physical quality of your life. But how? What are the variables you can control or at least heavily influence in the healthiest direction?
Last night was a CNS-tapping, high volume workout that was made harder by my actions of the previous day.
A few years ago, Val and I were looking into a technique of running called POSE, which advocates running on the balls of your feet and keeping your knees bent instead of the locked-out knees and heel striking that virtually all but truly elite runners use.
When I finish a high volume or high intensity workout, the next thing I think about is what kind of salad I am going to have for dinner. Yeah, right. Could I get some extra endive please? Ok, so remove the sarcasm and you know I am not a vegan or a vegetarian, but I do enjoy eating the types of things they eat, just make sure there is some meat or fish on my plate. What do you expect from me? Can a barbarian also be a vegetarian? I can’t imagine it! How about you? Carnivore, herbivore or omnivore?
You can go online, searching for information on a topic, like fitness and strength and it is much like drinking water from a fire hydrant. (While drinking from that hydrant, I already have forgotten where I read the analogy)!
“Forty-, 50-, 60-year-old athletes can do single training sessions, but they can’t do it day after day after day,” Foster said. “When you’re 18, you can recover from anything.”-Carl Foster, Director of the Human Performance Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
Your training is going well. You are making gains. Lifts are going up and times are coming down. And you’re injury-free. Can it get any better? Of course it can. Here are some ideas.
Each year, many of us spend hundreds of dollars on vitamin supplements in the quest for better health, an athletic advantage or as a silver bullet to “scare off” disease and hold aging at bay. Could it be possible we are wasting our money and doing more harm than good in the process?
I am please to present a guest posting from my friend, Ori Hofmekler.
The Skinny On Meal Frequency Studies-by Ori Hofmekler
Forced feeding, fixed calories, false indications
Recent studies on the impact of meal frequency on middle aged men and women
raise serious questions to their relevant real life conditions. The studies
were conducted by Dr. Mark Mattson, a pioneer researcher in the area of human
feeding, is known for his ground breaking studies on intermittent fasting. Dr.
Mark Mattson and myself have been corresponding regarding the benefits of the
one main meal per day approach, and about a year ago he shared with me over the
phone some information regarding the studies of which results we’ve published
recently. To avoid falsely driven conclusions, let’s examine the facts behind
these studies and clarify some key points:
Sore muscles, beat-up joints, tennis elbow, low back pain happen to just about everyone and it is a fact of life for people who train hard with or without weights. The remedy of choice for many, including myself has been ibuprofen in the form of Advil and Motrin. They work and work well for most of the aches and pains but there is a non-pharmaceutical alternative that is available in Europe.
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