Don’t Exercise To Lose Fat.

Dr. Eades had a nice post today on his blog about the Gina Kolata article I blogged on last week.  What was Dr. Eades’ summary statement?
Exercise because it’s good for you: it builds muscle mass, it makes you stronger, it improves bone density, etc. But eat fewer carbs to lose weight.
Does this sound familiar?  Like perhaps you’ve [...]

Ab Work? Lift and Lift Heavy.

(Image Credit: Julielohre.com)
It’s been a longstanding tradition (well, longstanding from a bodybuilder’s perspective, anyway) that each individual muscle group has to be blitzed, bombed, and blasted in order to get the most out of it. In other words, there’s no way for you to really work a given muscle group unless you devote an [...]

Merry Xmas Everyone.

To all, I wish you a happy holiday, whatever that holiday may be.
You can either take this day to rest, feed, and be merry with your loved ones, or take a cue from Santa and get a few reps in before tucking into that Figgy Pudding (I know which one I’ll be doing.  Dinner table, [...]

Calories Don’t Count. Not in Exerciseland.

Today’s New York Times:
Putting Very Little Weight in Calorie Counting Methods.
Gina Kolata goes on to describe how the so-called science of assessing your caloric expenditure (or more precisely, how the hamster wheels at your local New York Sports Club calculate calories burned) is far from scientific.
From my days as an undergrad in the Exercise Science [...]

Better Living Through Chemistry?

From today’s NY Times:
Another Study Finds Heart Risks in a Diabetes Drug.
Too bad “Just eat less sugar” isn’t easily patentable or easily commodified and sold.
In the interest of fair and balanced reporting, it is true that meta-analyses suck pretty badly as far as quality goes (when speaking of scientific studies).  The main problem with meta-analyses [...]