Conditioning Research

mc pointed these out: To get a flavour of Sapolsky's amazing work, there are at least two audiobook lectures at iTunes U on the work from Zebras on stress. The first is Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers ; the second is Stress and Coping: What Baboons can Teach Us . These are both free, and part of Stanford's Healthy Living Series at iTunes U. The take aways from Baboons are perhaps no surprise, but that they are so well underlined with both observation and physiology is well worth exploring. Very definitely worth listening to. mc's posts are always worth reading and reflecting on. ( interview with her here )

I referred to this study a few days ago ( also here ). Here is an interview with the professor. From Nature: Harvard professor Daniel Lieberman has ditched his trainers and started running barefoot. His research shows that barefoot runners, who tend to land on their forefoot, generate less impact shock than runners in sports shoes who land heel first. This makes barefoot running comfortable and could minimize running-related injuries. Read more here ... and find the original research here .

It is worth reading his blog about this

Remember last year I interviewed Frank Forencich ? Here he expands on his philosophy - primal, practical and playful . How do we cope with living in what is an alien environment, where we don't move enough, where our food is wrong and where we no longer have a tribe. From the Exuberant Animal blog

An interesting study here for you to peruse - the full pdf is available currently. It is not so much the study itself, more the idea that some of are - by nature / genetics - able to digest milk and some aren't. Dairy is a bit controversial on a paleo diet - see Kurt Harris or Mark Sisson A worldwide correlation of lactase persistence phenotype and genotypes

Jeff Erno pointed to this as did Richard Video Courtesy of KSL.com Interesting finally to see Art with his shirt off. The full story is here.

A couple of days ago I reviewed one of the Tactical Edge DVDs - Countering the 5 most common street attacks Here is a new video of Mark going through the basic takedowns: Demonstrated at Combat Ready Basic Takedowns filmed at our 'Tactical Edge Core Combatives' workshop for 'Combat Ready' in Edinburgh. In this clip we're working on three basic takedowns as a 'Dry Fire Drill', so we're doing them without supporting strikes, & we're not working against an attack; we're using our training partner as a 'crash test dummy' to perfect the technique.