I've a couple of posts in draft that I will get up soon - an update / reflection on Dry January and some thoughts on the scheduling benefits of short workouts if your life is busy. Before that though, I am pointing to something else. However, I wanted to highlight something that is coming this weekend that I've been involved in. Amber Rogers (Gokaleo and author of Taking Up Space ) has been pulling together a bundle of books from various authors with a common theme, one that I've been pushing here recently. Keep it simple, avoid the hype, be patient, be consistent and flee the gurus. I've talked before about how we get obsessed with pushing for more and more, when enough is OK. I've given my view that so much of the health and fitness internet world is more like a gnostic religion than something that will benefit your life. There are other voices out there saying similar things and I'll be pointing to a bundle of books later this week ...
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I've changed to a standing desk at work for the past few months and spend most of my time standing on one leg, swapping from one to the other.
Enjoyed the interview Chris with my coffee this morning. I always find it refreshing to have things brought back to reality. The academics (myself included) can debate which approach might be 'best' but ultimately unless it is something that can be maintained (i.e. simple, time efficient, does not require specialised equipment/location/supervision. avoids injury etc.) then it isn't going to work.
I've been reading Clarence Bass newest book the past few days and again find myself feeling quite refreshed in his approach to things along this vein.
I try to do this without wobbling like a jelly - nor putting a foot down, until I am shod.
It takes strength and balance to hold your leg high enough and also works your abs.
It's a great book. I just think the cardio benefits of WTF deserved a bit more space. On the other side I understand why Clarence prefers HIIT for conditioning, but the negatives - high injury risk without proper equipment, overtraining risk/compromised lifting intensity, rather small fat burning effect...I read Max Muscle Plan and Schoenfeld prefers low intensity cardio to complement training, or nothing. That said, his training is probably on that line of overtraining already, three to six times a week, that's why he's cautious.
Funny you mention that. I'm led to believe he was going to include discussion on our paper but was to far into the process once it was available. Having said that he did invite me to sit on a panel later in the year at a symposium around the chapters covered in his book. Unfortunately I don't think I;ll be able to make it out there. Already presenting at two international conferences this year so can't really afford it.
Ondřej suggested it as a suitable acronym when I published my BJSM article saying 'intensity' is not being used appropriately. HIT (High Intensity Training) doesn't mean much really and is quite ambiguous. He suggested WTF which I thought was funny. Me and James Fisher have discussed how funny it would be to start using the acronym in our work and try to get a change in the peer reviewed literature from using HIT to WTF.