We are living in the age of “non-fat” as if fat is the big evil in our diets. While that may be true for the altered hydrogenated oils which are in just about everything we eat including some soft drinks, the right fats are essential to optimal health
Heavy metal blasting in the gym may get you amped up enough to lift heavy but the one place you wouldn’t expect to find it in is your protein shake.
Why do people become physically weaker as they age? And is there any way to slow, stop, or even reverse this process, breaking the link between increasing age and frailty?
Everything works…for a while as Dan John would say. If you are currently doing nothing, do something, anything. It will work since your body isn’t used to the new activity.
Have you seen “Ironman 2″ yet? To prepare for that movie, Robert Downey, Jr. had to put on 20 lb in 3 months. Usually, it seems, when an actor has to put on weight for a movie role, he has to eat his way to more mass
The Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports reports on the importance of vitamin D on skeletal muscles and the health problems associated with a deficiency. Others assert that vitamin D may actually be more beneficial than fish oils.
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.
The American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation has found that running shoes increase joint torque at the hip, knee and ankle. Folks, those are the prime joints used in running and you are destroying them!
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.
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