Conditioning Research

This blog has been quiet.  I am finding that I am running out of things to say.  Rarely am I coming across a news story or piece of information that I think deserves to be shared here. My work is busy again which is draining my time and energy, so that when I get home I am not enthusiastically trawling the interweb for titbits of information.  I am resting or relaxing in other ways. But I am also changing in my outlook - less convinced of the alternative approaches and more open to the mainstream.  The internet is full of misinformation, crazy theories, cults and covens - not just in the worlds of politics and religion, but health and fitness.  I've watched amazingly nasty arguments arise among people intensely committed to certain diets or training protocols.  First world problems indeed!  Cherry picked studies, abstract fuelled bloggers conspiracy theorists. As such I don't want to add to the misinformation. I am still training, s...

This is not the normal fodder for this blog, but I like this guy and his attitude.  Read more from him here.

For a big guy he does some impressive muscle ups: natty?

This is why I don't do many of the style of posts that I used to get up here - finding an "interesting" abstract, posting it and carrying on.  I have realised that without reading the paper you can be very misled.....  There is more than the abstract. Bryan Chung's Evidence Based Fitness blog from where I got that piece is a good resource by the way.

I've read Nicholas Carr's book The Shallows.  It is superb and a little frightening in its implications.

via Save yourself .  This is vital stuff, well expressed. I could quibble over some of it in terms of form or whatever, but the message here is superb.

This looks like an interesting study: Thinking hard makes you hungry.....so you eat more.  Yet thinking hard doesn't burn calories.  So if you are going to think hard then eat, well you better do something to burn the calories that you are going to add. Exercise and negative energy balance in males who perform mental work. Abstract WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ABOUT THIS SUBJECT: Achievement of a stressful mental task leads to increased energy intake over a short period of time. Given that mental work does not increase energy expenditure, a positive energy balance is observed. WHAT THIS STUDY ADDS: The single fact of waiting and relaxing after mental work does not reduce energy intake. Thirty minutes of physical activity performed at moderate/high intensity between mental work and a meal is enough to create a energy deficit compare to a situation where the meal directly follows mental work. BACKGROUND: Although energy expenditure during menta...