Here’s a QOTD two-fer on exercise! First up, David Csonka on exercise excuses: Just be smart, and use your head, except when your head is trying to talk you out of exercising for no good reason. And here’s NYTimes’ columnist Gretchen Reynolds, author of the recently published “The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How [...]
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Posted in Exercise, QOTD on May 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Quote of the day
Posted in Exercise, Weight loss on April 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’m heading out so don’t have the time to give this the attention I’d like, but this from Prof. Dr. Andro over at SuppVersity is interestingly similar to last Sunday’s QOTD re the usefulness of exercise: It does rather appear that [exercise] helps to rebalance our natural ability to regulate energy intake – maybe partially [...]
Quote of the day
Posted in Exercise, QOTD on April 22, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Via David Despain comes this from Jim Hill, professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, on the concept of active regulation: Our biology works best at high levels of physical activity. Obesity is in the ‘unregulated zone.’ When physical activity increases, you enter ‘regulated zone’. Physical activity may help [...]
Sitting too much? The sequel
Posted in Exercise, Health & wellness on March 3, 2012 | 2 Comments »
This one isn’t for the hard-core fitness types, it’s for those like me who are concerned they are sitting too much. In the first post, I reported on a Lifehacker story that suggested you could avoid some of the negatives of too much sitting by: Getting regular breaks during sedentary activity Getting about 30 minutes [...]
HIIT: quality not quantity?
Posted in Exercise on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
An interesting post by Matt Metzgar on variations of Sprint 8, the high-intensity interval training program. It’s a short post, so go read the whole thing. But here’s Matt’s takeaway: [The researchers] are saying that traditional sprinting programs may be overkill in a way, and that you could deplete glycogen just as well by doing [...]
Sitting too much?
Posted in Exercise on January 29, 2012 | 4 Comments »
As someone who works on a computer most of the day (and spends a good deal of non-work time on one too), it’d be great news if this Lifehacker post is correct. You can help counteract too much sitting by: Getting regular breaks during sedentary activity Getting about 30 minutes of activity a day Re [...]
Water walking
Posted in Exercise on June 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I recently added water walking to my exercise routine because 1) I was hoping to give my weight loss a bit of a boost, and 2) I’m still recovering from a meniscus tear a while back, so have been finding it difficult to do the walking I’d like. What’s cool about water walking (or aqua [...]
Why BBS?
Posted in Exercise on June 10, 2011 | 16 Comments »
Diana Hsieh (of Paleo Rodeo fame) recently shared why she’s switching from CrossFit to SuperSlow. As she says, her reasons are her own, but now that I have three months of Body by Science under my belt, most of them resonate with me, particularly: short workouts, once a week low injury risk workouts you feel, [...]
A health paradox?
Posted in Exercise, Health & wellness on May 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
So, I’m back from a crazy busy three weeks, getting caught up on things. Tonight, I’m intrigued by this post from Keith Norris, Chasing Performance…at the Expense of Health: The gist of the idea is … that health and performance track quite nicely up to a certain point (point A), at which time further increases [...]
Doug McGuff: Exercise, insulin sensitivity & fructose
Posted in Exercise on March 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Not sure where I saw the pointer to this video, but just finished my first pass and plan to re-watch. In it, Doug McGuff (of Body by Science fame) is speaking to young men at The 21 Convention. His two main points: don’t overtrain eat like Mark Sisson (who was also a speaker at the [...]
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