Quick Book Suggestion/Review (Spark)
On a broader scale, it’s an endorsement of a lot of the activity we do, and alludes to evolutionary fitness concepts a few times. I found a lot of the science backing one of the primary messages of the paleo/primal community…. I found it extremely refreshing to see a book aimed at mainstream audiences using good science to reach many of the same conclusions.
Today’s miracle pill is: Growth Hormone!
I fully admit that I still have a lot to learn about training and physiology, by any real standard I’m a beginner in this field. That said, I really wish people would learn to check their sources, and verify things before sprouting off conjecture as fact.
Somewhere, people made the leap from “that idea makes logical sense” to “it’s true!” without testing it. I knew something was up when I went to the gym at 7am and the meat heads were doing an hour of slow, plodding cardio (in the fat burning zone of course!) before breakfast.
Gluten is bad kids, mmmkay!
I’m apparently one of the lucky people who is intolerant to gluten. Now, I normally eat loosely paleo (I eat some dairy and a fair amount of tubers, and wine) and feel pretty damn good. On climbing trips (most weekends) I’ll indulge and pizza and beer, and don’t normally feel any worse for wear for it.
Thoughts on being part of a fitness and nutrition counterculture.
Imagine that tomorrow everything our community says it wants happened. Does this make you happy? Or disappointed because you’re not part of a counterculture you perceive as elite anymore?
Forming a race of Kettlebell supermen!
Yesterday I had to go to a standard supermarket, and there in the impulse buy stand, the cover of a certain well known women’s magazine had an article about using kettlebells to turn yourself into a bikini model without sweat, discipline or effort!
Paleo is a good approach, don’t outsmart it.
It seems to be human nature that when people find something that works, they tend to run with it. They tend to go overboard and try to improve on it too. I believe the expression is “There is none so zealous as the recently converted”. But, it seems a lot of people find something that works, and the they just turn the blinders on and forget to examine any further claims critically if they come from whatever ideological camp they identify with.
It’s not a conspiracy, take off the foil hat.
Let’s assume for a second that the wild eyed ones are correct though. In my opinion, unless there is GOOD proof, claims of conspiracies make it too easy to dismiss you as a card carrying member of the tin foil hat brigade.
Glycogen depletion issues (aka I’m a moron)
I finished one set of the thruster, dip,back extension triplet and sat down confused, nauseated and too weak to stand up. I took a few pictures of Rayna as she finished her workout and thought I was going to boot every time I stood up. I didn’t even do a proper cool down. I was too thrashed to do anything.
It was a bonk. A true, “muscle glycogen is gone, blood sugar is too low to function normally” bonk. I could barley move.
Core Training is a waste of time.
Stop wasting your time doing foo-foo ab isolation exercises. If you’re concerned with aesthetics, focus on your diet. If you’re concerned with performance, focus on your diet, then do some heavy lifting that forces the core to do its job and stabilize your body. Think front squat, deadlifts, overhead squats, get ups, etc..
Don’t make people look in the mirror.
I realize that saying people should take responsibility for their actions is nothing new, or terribly original on my part. But I’m still shocked at just how far it goes. So here is my question to all of you. At what point do social welfare and personal responsibility intersect?
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