Conditioning Research

This is just a mind blow

how long is it since that Tabata study?  The BBC finally discover intervals I commented on this over at the Body By Science site Just watched the BBC Horizon programme and the key bit was about what they called HIT but was really HIIT - interval training on an exercise bike. This benefitted the subject who improved his insulin sensitivity but - due they said to his genetics - did not improve his VO2 Max. They explained how this intense exercise had an impact on his glucose metabolism, emptying his muscles of glycogen so that they were able to absorb more glucose form the blood. This was good in that we are inching along towards an understanding of the benefits of intense exercise, but disappointing in that we never seem to go the whole way from interval training to intense resistance training. If you really want to empty your glycogen stores and have some intense exercise, then go for BBS style HIT! The other thing was that I found it disconcerting that the scientist wh...

Z Health have a thing about the impact of the visual system on strength - basically if you look up it facilitates extension, while looking down facilitates flexion.  I wrote about it in a post a ways back - The eyes have it...   This idea that eye position corrolates with muscle action: flexion is enhanced by looking down; extension by looking up came to mind when I saw this report /  study: We make our eye movements earlier or later in order to coordinate with movements of our arms, New York University neuroscientists have found.

There is more to me than what I eat or what I believe about what I eat. The whole debate about carbs is worrying me.   People are not getting it as Dr Kurt Harris says we need to be macro agnostic.  Remove the bad stuff - primarily gluten grains and vegetable oils - then you have a lot of leeway.  But people become so identified with their diets that change becomes a challenge at an ontological level

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