Adding Muscle While Losing Fat – Q&A
I’m willing to argue that if there is a single question (or related set of questions) that comes up perenially in the field of training and nutrition, it’s something akin to the above. The idea of ‘gaining muscle while losing fat’ in general or, better yet ‘replacing every pound of muscle lost with fat’ is sort of the holy grail of training and nutrition and a great deal of approaches that are supposed to generate that very thing have been thrown out over the years.
Static Stretching and Refined Grain Intake by Paleo Man – Research Review
A combined research review looking at the issue of static stretching and high-intensity exercise performance along with data suggesting that ancient man was refining and consuming grains far earlier than originally assumed.
How to Be Your Own Coach
Many months ago, I attended part of Dan John’s excellent A Philosophy of Strength Training seminar held her in Salt Lake City as part of Dave Draper Days (if you’re interested, there’s a 4-part DVD Set with the entire thing captured including some comments by yours truly). In any case, during the seminar, one question that came up from one of the attendees was “How does someone coach themselves?” Dan gave a usually thorough, but I fear somewhat undirected, answer (a problem Dan has is that his brain has so much great knowledge that he often gets side-tracked by it).
Macronutrient Intake for Mass Gains – Q&A
However, those articles were meant only as a starting point and there is actually a fairly wide variability in what might or might not be optimal for a given individual. Part of the problem in answering this is that folks have made a lot of different approaches work to greater or lesser degrees and, just as with fat loss dieting, you can usually find someone who’s succeeded with just about anything.
Growth Hormone (GH) Release and Fat Loss – Q&A
There’s no doubt that growth hormone (GH) is involved in lipolysis although, compared to hormones such as insulin and the catecholamines (epinephrine/norepinephrine aka adrenaline/noradrenaline) it plays a distinctly secondary role. There are other hormones of course, testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, Interleukin-6 and a new player called atrial-natriurietic peptide (ANP) all play a role as well. Here I’m only going to talk about GH.
The Importance of Context
So why is it in the field of nutrition and training that the majority seem to think in absolutes where the context of the situation is never taken into consideration? Because as often as not, it isn’t. Rather, individuals will state in absolute terms, regardless of context that such and such is good, or bad, or best, or worst. Squats are good, squats are bed,carbs are good, carbs are bad. Saturated fats are good, saturated fats are bad.
Methods of Endurance Training: Putting it Together
I generally don’t like writing out specific workouts, there are exceptions mind you but I find that when you give people programs, even if you’re clear that it’s only meant as a sample or example, they take it as holy writ. Oh the questions I’ve gotten from time to time. However, I do find that [...]
Casein Hydrolysate and Anabolic Hormones and Growth – Research Review
Today I want to look at two different recent studies which are:
1. Hydrolyzed dietary casein as compared with the intact protein reduces postprandial peripheral, but not whole-body, uptake of nitrogen in humans.
2. Elevations in ostensibly anabolic hormones with resistance exercise enhance neither training-induced muscle hypertrophy nor strength of the elbow flexors.
Methods of Endurance Training: Summing Up Part 2
Ok, as is so often the case, what was meant to be a two-part article has now gotten utterly out of hand. But today’s article will finish up. In Methods of Endurance Training: Summing up Part 1 I summarized loading parameters for all of the methods I’ve discussed and looked at some of the reasons (read: misconceptions) that ‘training slow’ can actually have an end result of making you fast. Which leads me into one last digression before I make some practical recommendations for different groups.
Methods of Endurance Training: Summing Up Part 1
I’ll also make some general comments about how and why developing aerobic metabolism from the lower intensity end of things works. I’ll truly finish up on Friday by talking about the time issue and actually making some specific recommendations for both pure endurance and other athletes as well as general trainees. I’ll also give some suggested resources for different endurance sports for anybody who wants to pursue this topic in more detail.
