The Full Diet Break
Whenever I bring up this topic, I tend to get sort of confused looks from people; what do you mean I’m supposed to take a break from my diet? As I opined on the podcast, I have no idea if this is just an idea endemic to America (where we suffer from a long-history of a Puritan work ethic) or is just common to dieters but most people who are trying to lose weight or fat seem to feel that the key to success is to be as miserable as possible for as long as possible. While this certainly isn’t the only reason diets fail, I don’t think it helps.
Becoming an Expert – Deliberate Practice Part 2
And that’s because any old practice doesn’t seem to be sufficient. The second part of Ericsson’s model and the part I want to focus on today is what type of practice seems to be related to the eventual development of expertise in a given domain. I’ll finish up by looking at some criticisms of some of Ericsson’s ideas to answer the question “Can everyone become an expert?” and then try to reach some kind of actual point.
Becoming an Expert – Deliberate Practice Part 1
And while he was discussing this quote in a slightly different context, it gave me the idea for today’s article which is about learning skills and becoming ‘expert’ at something. Of course, I’ll be focusing on training applications in this article but, as it turns out, the ideas are general enough to apply to a lot of different areas.
What’s My Genetic Muscular Potential?
Which is a long way of introducing the topic of today’s article, what is the maximum amount of muscle that someone can gain over a career of proper lifting and nutrition. I’m going to look at it from a few different perspectives but I think you’ll find that, on average, they all end up with pretty similar results.
Carbohydrate Intake and Depression – Q&A
Dieting in general tends to lower serotonin in the brain and this can cause depression in susceptible people. Interestingly, this effect seems to be more likely to occur in women than men (women being more susceptible to depression in general). In my experience, low carbohydrate/higher proteins diets tend to be even worse in this regards for reasons I’ll explain now.
Why Do People Change Body Composition?
However, something I haven’t looked at may be a much more fundamental question which is this: why do people want to change their body composition? That is, what reasons (good or bad) might people have for wanting to change their body composition in the first place. That’s the topic of this piece.
Weight Training for Fat Loss Part 2
Which is what I’m going to look at today. First I want to look at how not to combine both types of training followed by a look at loading parameters for both heavy and metabolic weight training while dieting. Finally I’ll look at sequencing issues, how to put together the two types of training in a given week.
Weight Training for Fat Loss Part 1
A few days ago, I answered a Q&A on Around Workout Nutrition While Dieting and, mentioned in an offhand way that I would talk about the issue of weight training for fat loss at some later date. Well, apparently today is that later date. Or, more accurately today and Friday since, as this is going to be long, I’m going to divide it into two parts.
