It’s often said that living a healthy lifestyle means staying active. Well, with springtime comes flights of fancy, rebirth, and (of course) spring sports, like golf and tennis. Along with spring sports comes their corresponding injuries and over the next few weeks I’d like to offer up some strategies to prevent these from becoming chronic [...]
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It is on rare occasions that I execute judo throws properly; rarer still for me to actually hit one during live sparring in Brazilian Jiujitsu class. Nonetheless, yesterday I successfully chucked a guy with a tai otoshi, and how sweet it was. Above: What made it even better was that (unlike this clip) my tai [...]
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Thanks to Mike Hogan for this one. What does redundancy have to do with strength training? Plenty. The issue here is retracing your steps when you don’t have to; i.e., multiple sets and exercises for the same muscle groups. (Note: I’m assuming here that your main goal in going to the gym is looking and [...]
Filed under: Muscle and Strength Gain, Research (Studies, Reports, etc.), Strength Training | 3 Comments »
An interesting news blurb I came across today. Let me provide you with a quickie science lesson: In humans, fat is mainly distributed in two different ways – subcutaneously and viscerally. Subcutaneous fat refers to the fat we all normally think of; belly fat, arm flab, etc. Simply, it’s fat that’s stored immediately underneath the [...]
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It may be good for telling you which car is safest, or what high-end stereo gives you the best fidelity, but for diet advice, Consumer Reports gets a blank bubble (average score). Recently, Consumer Reports ranked 8 clinically tested diet plans, with Barbara Rolls’ Volumetrics coming out on top. And as you may have guessed, [...]
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