Conditioning Research

I've mentioned this book before . Highly recommended. Here is the author explaining more. Hat tip to Recover your stride

I like vertical jumps this is an interesting variation. Jumping out of a pool...... update someone just pointed me to this one!

A few days ago on a blog I saw an old book mentioned that looked interesting. As I tend to do, I had a look on Amazon and ordered it and it has been a fascinating read that I am mulling over to see how I can test out or apply some of its ideas. The focus of the book is about planning your training and rest so that you don't end up burnt out, ill or injured. Rather your training builds you up not tears you down. You need to rest and recover. So far so good, but the template that the book develops are pretty interesting, particularly if you think about some of the premises of DeVany's Evolutionary Fitness. DeVany in his essay talks about Power Laws as the pattern of human movement: 9. An evolutionary activity pattern is mixed and varied. It contains brief, in- termittent episodes of highly intense physical action mixed with languid pe- riods and play. Healthy activities mimic the patterns of wild animals and contain elements of chaos and order. Power laws that are typical of ...

So it seems that a low carb diet beats a low fat diet when it comes to healthy blood vessels. .... Effects of dietary carbohydrate restriction vs low-fat diet on flow-mediated dilation. We previously reported that a carbohydrate-restricted diet (CRD) ameliorated many of the traditional markers associated with metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular risk compared with a low-fat diet (LFD). There remains concern how CRD affects vascular function because acute meals high in fat have been shown to impair endothelial function. Here, we extend our work and address these concerns by measuring fasting and postprandial vascular function in 40 overweight men and women with moderate hypertriacylglycerolemia who were randomly assigned to consume hypocaloric diets ( approximately 1500 kcal) restricted in carbohydrate (percentage of carbohydrate-fat-protein = 12:59:28) or LFD (56:24:20). Flow-mediated dilation of the brachial artery was assessed before and after ingestion of a high-fat meal (908 kcal,...

I saw this study today which - if I am reading it right - seems to indicate that - if you want to avoid a fat belly - you should eat: red meat ; vegetables; fruit; butter; and high-fat dairy products and avoid snack foods; poultry; potatoes; and processed meat BACKGROUND: Previous studies on the association between macronutrient intake and the development of abdominal obesity, which carries an increased health risk, have not shown a consistent pattern, possibly due to mixed effects of other aspects of the food intake. OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the association between intake from 21 food and beverage groups and the subsequent 5-year difference in waist circumference. METHODS: The study population consisted of 22,570 women and 20,126 men, aged 50 to 64 years at baseline, with complete data on baseline and follow-up waist circumference, baseline diet (192 items food frequency questionnaire), body mass index, and selected potential confounders (eg, smoking status, sport activiti...

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