Conditioning Research

You are better off dwelling in the real rather than wasting time searching for the ideal.  The actual quote is the mature lifter is better off dwelling in the real rather than wasting time searching for the ideal, taken from this post at Dave Draper's forum .     I read that the other day and it has stuck in my mind. Dwelling in the real So much of the health and fitness world is about fleeing from who we are.  Sometimes this is hidden or reframed as achieving a goal, changing our appearance.  Often though it is a case of a deep unhappiness with who we are. There comes a time when we need to stop that and simply dwell in the real, to adopt some reality about who we are, what we can aim for.   There is nothing wrong with seeking improvement but we need to be realistic.  At 45 I will never play professional football no matter how hard I train.   With my bone structure and metabolism I will never be a competitive bodybuilder or powerlifte...

I am no particular fan of Michael Moore's films or politics, but this piece on walking that I came across the other day is very good. Michael Moore on Walking I like his approach that walking is about the experience, the liberty to walk.  It is about the act, not the result.  Process, not outcome.  Yes, there will be changes, but they are not the focus.

Those box jumps that I post on here are not always successful.....

Someone tweeted me this study and I thought I'd share it here. The point that they are promoting is that good sprinters are born that way.  Those who are elite do not achieve that through working hard and hitting the 10,000 hours of practice that seems to have been accepted as the key to achieving elite status.  Sure practice helps, but in reality the true elite are perhaps elite before they really start to practice? I don't think this totally invalidates the idea of developing exceptional ability through practice, at least where that is based on skill.  However perhaps it emphasises that it is worth pickin your field of endeavour to focus on one for which you are ....... gifted. You Can't Teach Speed: Sprinters Falsify the Deliberate Practice Model of Expertise Abstract:       Most scientists agree that expertise requires both innate talent and proper training. Nevertheless, the highly influential deliberate practice model (D...