Methods of Endurance Training Part 1
Today I want to mainly make some introductory comments, looking briefly at some of the major adaptations that occur in response to endurance training. Also, since it gives some important background to understanding why different methods of endurance training work, I’m going to have to bore people with a bit of molecular physiology regarding something called AMPk.
2 on 2 Off Training Frequency for Mass Gains
Perhaps the biggest thing that the above depends on is life. Like it or not, most people’s real-life schedules are constrained by a rather standard 7 day work week. We have Monday through Friday which are the typical work days followed by the weekend. And this tends to have massive implications for how training weeks can be set up. Note that ‘can’ and ‘should’ are not synonymous here.
A Primer on Nutrition Part 2
On Monday, in A Primer on Nutrition Part 1, I discussed essential vs. inessential (aka indispensable vs. dispensable) nutrients along with the basics of both protein and carbohydrates. Today I want to finish taking a look at the basics of nutrition by looking at fat/cholesterol and then wrapping up ‘everything else’ including alcohol, vitamins/minerals and fiber (somewhat separate from vegetables).
A Primer on Nutrition Part 1
In many articles on the site, I go into a rather great deal of detail on various aspects of human nutrition and the various nutrients that comprise it. However, I find that it’s often exceedingly useful to go back to basics and discuss the fundamentals (this applies to all topics, not just nutrition). Where appropriate, I’ll point readers to other articles on the site(or my books) which discuss a given topic in more detail than I want to cover here.
Dissecting the Energy Needs of the Body – Research Review
More specifically I want to look at some of the common claims that are often thrown around in the world of body composition such as “Adding muscle mass significantly raises metabolic rate.” and “Fat cells burn no calories, they are metabolically inert.” While this paper was examining the issue from a different perspective, it actually provides good data on both questions.
Adjusting the Diet
In various places on the site, I have made the comment that such things as caloric intake and activity will have to be adjusted based on real-world fat loss. For example, in the Q&A on How to Estimate Maintenance Caloric Intake, I pointed out that one of the reasons that I use the quick estimates for such things as maintenance calories and setting initial caloric intakes is that they always have to be adjusted anyhow.
