Loretta Update: Loretta is Ready for Adoption
So we’re getting close to the end of the road. A while back, in Volunteering at the Austin Humane Shelter Part 5 I asked readers to help by donating money for the medical fees of a dog named Loretta. They’d found her sitting on two couches; with massive hair loss and problems with her eyes, she needed medical treatment. I asked for help and people came out of the woodwork.
The Inside Books Project: Helping Inmates
The second project she was involved in, which interested me more on a personal level, and the one I want to talk about today in some detail is the Inside Books Project. I mentioned it previously before but want to talk about it in more detail. And yes, there will be a request to help out from readers at the end. Forewarned is forearmed.
Methods of Endurance Training: Winter 2010/2011 Part 6
In Methods of Endurance Training: Winter 2010/2011 Part 5 I did a quick review of the first 8 weeks of my winter training and how they played out along with looking at three major factors that went into my re-evaluating/adjusting my training right as I finished that piece.
Methods of Endurance Training: Winter 2010/2011 Part 5
About a month ago in Methods of Endurance Training: Winter 2010/2011 Part 4 by looking at how I set up my winter training in terms of both structure, intensity and progressions, along with showing you the exact workouts during my two transition weeks and my first 8 weeks of training in unreadable detail. I won’t even attempt to summarize it; go read it.
Pre- vs. Post-Workout Nutrition – Q&A
As usual this is going to be one of those longish ‘it depends’ kinds of answers and I’m probably going to go way off track in trying to answer it. As I discussed in The Protein Book, some recent research certainly suggested that pre-workout nutrients (carbs and protein, and I’ll assume the combination from here on out) were superior to post-workout nutrients in terms of promoting protein synthesis.
Correcting a Strength Imbalance – Q&A
Imbalances across the body (e.g. left vs. right leg or right vs. left arm or what have you) are fairly common and can be caused by a number of things. You mention one, many jobs involve moving in a repetitive fashion in one direction only. For example, grocery store checkers typically rotate one direction (from the register to the belt) repeatedly with no shift. Many labor jobs are similar with the same asymmetrical pattern being repeated for hours, days, weeks, months or years on end.
Back-Cycling Weights – Q&A
I was just wondering, why does this work? How much should you back cycle weights? Should you back-cycle everything at the same time or only lifts that are stalled? Can you do this indefinitely (back-cycle and build back up and just keep repeating, passing your maxes with each cycle)? Also it’d be nice to hear some of your random thoughts
about this concept, and plateauing in general. Thanks!
Weighing for Body Recomposition – Q&A
Basically, his method was to weigh himself everyday. If he was under his target weight, he’d eat two meals. If over, he’d just skip his last meal. He takes a protein shake w/ 100g whey and makes sure he hits at least 1g/lb of lbm everyday. Will this work for recomposition.
