tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31316532838283785282012-01-28T12:22:17.725ZFeed Your Mind, Grow Your Soul, Work Your BodyAsclepiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14604117979253596512noreply@blogger.comBlogger7841100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131653283828378528.post-79737965649394702152012-01-27T20:47:00.001Z2012-01-27T20:55:40.738Z

"The only reason anyone is 'moderate' in matters of faith these days is that he has assimilated some of the fruits of the last two thousand years of human thought (democratic politics, scientific advancement on every front, concern for human rights, an end to cultural and geographic isolation, etc.).  The doors leading out of scriptural literalism do not open from the inside.  The moderation we

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I see a renewed push for the CICO and ELDM approach.  Forget it.  CICO just restates the problem.  ELDM is vague and simplistic.  What is of importance is 'calories your body allows you to expend' versus 'the calories your body forces you to seek'. The solution is endogenous, not exogenous. Give your body appropriate nutrients, and respite from poison.  Allow your body's mechanisms that have

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100% this does not pass the PGZ test: "Mironov is certain tissue-engineered meat will eventually be developed: "Of course there are people who think this is Frankenstein food. They see it as unnatural, but there is nothing unnatural here. We use animal cells and grow them in a cultured media. The only difference is that we don't kill any animals." The first-generation products are most likely to

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The rehabilitation of fat and the fry-up continues after decades of vilification!  A new study has just emerged titled 'Consumption of fried foods and risk of coronary heart disease: Spanish cohort of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study': Conclusion In Spain, a Mediterranean country where olive or sunflower oil is used for frying, the consumption of fried foods

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Again with the gymnastic emphasis and prehabilitation. Warm Up (5 minutes) Main (25 minutes). 1. Pistols (17.5/28kg assistance 68.5/56kg working weight: 8, 8, 8) 2a. Handstands (over 5-10 minutes) 2b L-Sit/Manna Variation (for time) 3a. OAC (4x56kg, 5x51kg) 3b. Backlever (5s, 5s, 5s) 4. Golfers Elbow Drumstick Rotation (12) 5. Two-Way DB Rotator Cuff (10 x external and internal shoulder

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I've trimmed down my ring routine to focus primarily on a MU, STC, back lever (which I am lame at), and front lever.  (The primary gymanstic skill I am working on overall through the week is the planche.) Warm Up (5 minutes) Main (30 minutes). 1. Stairgators (1) 2. Barefoot Sprinting (1x10s, 1x10s, 1x10s, 1x10s, 1x10s) 3. Planche Variations (25s, 25s, 25s) 4ai. Rope Climb (3) 4aii. MU to Ring

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It seems books on strength are like buses.  Nothing for ages then several come along at once!  Chris Highcock's Hill Fit gives a solid program for fundamental strength gains aimed primarily at the hill walker and mountaineer but with wider application.  'Overcoming Gravity: A Systematic Approach to Gymnastics and Bodyweight Strength' by Steven Low targets a much more specialised audience: In

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Deloaded to about 90%.  I am thinking of dropping the Deadlifts for some other bodyweight/gymnastic move - perhaps upping the planching and lever work instead to push progress on these moves.  I also want to develop my handstand. Warm Up (5 minutes) Main (30 minutes). 1. Handstand work (10 mins) 2a. OACs (4x49kg, 5x44, 2-arm 10xBW in L-Sit) 2b. Headstand RLLs (5, 5, 5) 2c. Manna (three rounds

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I recently received a copy of Chris Highcock's Hill Fit.  For those that don't know, Chris Highcock runs the Conditioning Research blog - a hugely respected and popular fitness site pertaining to health, performance and fitness in general. Chris has identified an obvious but much neglected niche in the armoury of the dedicated hillwalker and rambler; strength.  While most outdoor enthusiasts

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Excellent application here!

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I am focusing on handstands in a bid to improve my HSPU. Warm Up (5 minutes) Main (20 minutes). 1. Pistols (35kg assistance: 8, 8, 8) 2a. Handstands (over 5-10 minutes) 2b L-Sit/Manna Variation (for time) 3. Golfers Elbow Drumstick Rotation (12) 4. 5-Way DB Rotator Cuff (10) 5. Reverse DB Wrist Curls (12) With the mannas I don't need to do as much shoulder prehab!  The 5-Way DB Rotator Cuff

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Jeez - I've awoken to a very sharp frost.  Not looking forwards to barefooting... Warm Up (5 minutes) Main (30 minutes). 1. Stairgators (1) 2. Barefoot Sprinting (1x10s, 1x10s, 1x10s, 1x15s) 3ai. Rope Climb (2) 3aii. MU to Ring Routine (2, 2). 4a. Scissor Splits (3x '2L, 2R, 2C') 4b. Planche Variations (20s, 20s, 20s) 5. Barefoot Kill Carry (1) 6. 321 (All 4 down the rung sizes) Not too bad on

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Heavy day!  Deloaded. Warm Up (5 minutes) Main (30 minutes). 1a. Deadlift (4x122, 5x110) 1b. OACs (4x40kg, 5x36, 2-arm 10xBW) 2. Back Bridge (15s, 15s) 3. Manna 4. 321 (Optional) Chinning was easy!  The deadlifts felt laboured.

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“The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.” —J. Bronowski, Science and Human Values

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Can't say I've ever been taken with the notion of speed-climbing....until now!

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Behold - L-sits and manna vaiations are back on the menu! Warm Up (5 minutes) Main (20 minutes). 1. Pistols (BW: 3, 3, 3) 2a. HSPU/Handstand(1, 1, 1) 2b L-Sit/Manna Variation 3. Golfers Elbow Drumstick Rotation (10) 4. 5-Way DB Rotator Cuff (10) 5. Wrist Press Ups (10) Rediscovering my love of BW!

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I am sure most people in the paleoshere are aware of the concept of neuroplasticity; the ability of your brain to change and adapt (both structurally and functionally) to various input in your environment.  In the UK a commonly cited example of this is in the brains of London cab-drivers who develop an evolved hippocampus as their knowledge of The Knowledge grows.  Other common examples are

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I've picked up a cold in the last day or two so I have to take it easy tonight. As usual I am going to have a week or two deloaded, and then ramp it up for a six week period or so...chucking in some 'instinctive adjustment' and all. I also seem to have sustained wrist injury that hurts when I'm in a press-up position. I am not sure what I am doing that is aggravating it. It could be planching so

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I'm doing this workout mainly for the rehab side of things. My right wrist has developed a twinge (no laughing at the back). Might be from planching. Training 'proper' will commence next week. Warm Up (5 minutes) Main (20 minutes). 1. Pistols (20kg assistance/64kg working weight: 8, 8, 8) 2. HSPU (as many as I can over three sets) 3. Golfers Elbow Drumstick Rotation (12) 4. 5-Way DB Rotator Cuff

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New for 2012, Fat Fate And Disease by Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson. 'Why are we losing the war against obesity and chronic disease?' This is the simple question Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson ask, exploring the dominant myth that the exploding epidemic of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes can be tackled by focusing on adult life styles. Addressing the flawed approach of the weight-loss

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I am not really a petrolhead.  I like gravity sports and games; those that rely on propulsion from the human engine and/or gravity, with the addition of a few simple tools (bike, canopy, rock boots etc...).  But I do make the odd exception. Behold Levi LaVelle and Robbie Maddison in a truly FM moment: brightcove.createExperiences(); And here is the same jump from the outrigged cameras.

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At this time of year we get the usual 'eat less, do more' message.  This may work short-term.  Whether it leads to sustainable weight loss is another question.  At best it seems to be simplistic and at worst it is the very thing we'd recommend to compel ourselves to eat more. New Scientist has a nice little article on weight loss (Eight lazy ways to lose weight), which highlights several ways in

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Just easing myself in to 2012! Warm Up (15 minutes) Main (25 minutes). 1. Sprints (5 x sprint, 1 min rest btw) 2a. Snatch Grip Deadlift off a Deficit (5x5xBW) 2b. Chins (10, 5, 5, 5, 5) The SGDLs and Chins were interleaved with one min rest between each exercise.  Man this one was tough - even though I was trying to go light.  I simply stopped as soon as it got awkward. Gotta say that my

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I've just finished Christopher Hitchens excellent memoir, Hitch 22.  He seems to divide people in equal measure, but whatever you think of his political persuasion, Christopher had a certain gravitas that is rare amongst public speakers and almost absent among politicians.  His command of the English language coupled with a sharp wit, logical mind, broad knowledge of literature, and experience

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Once you have animated each playing card with a person and action according to the DOMINIC system (part one), you then need to think of a familiar journey.  You should identify 52 specific places along that journey where you will place each card/character each time you perform this trick. Personally I use my journey to work.  I do it daily and I can rehearse the journey physically every day. 

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The DOMINIC system was devised by Dominic O'Brien.  It is not particularly unique but is an excellent system nonetheless.  First of all we need to encode the digits 0-9 with a letter (we will start off with the first ten cards of each suit and then move on to picture cards at the end): 1=A 2=B 3=C 4=D 5=E 6=S 7=G 8=H 9=N 0=O As you can see the numbers broadly coincide with the first ten letters

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I use Supradyn's 'Morning Energy Alarm Clock'.  It is a 'light' alarm clock, imitating sunrise.  You can set the sun to begin rising prior to your wake-up time, whereupon your phone gets increasingly brighter at reveille.  You can also set an audible alarm of birdsong. I am a big fan of sounds from nature and sometimes listen to an MP3 of waves crashing on a beach (with seagulls circling

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In the great debate about whether man is primarily a meat eater or vegetarian we often lose sight of the subtler utility of animals.  I blogged previously about this in Waste Not, Want Not.  Forage for a plant and you have food.  Kill a bison and you have food, leather and hide for clothing, tendons for bow strings (and musical instruments), bones for handles and tools, and so forth. In The Red

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My earliest posts saw me romanticising about HGs navigating over wild terrain.  I'd learned to memorise a shuffled pack of cards (still an awesome trick, but one I've not practised for a while), using the 'Journey' method courtesy of Dominic O'Brien where each card position, 1-52, is assigned a position along a familiar route.  The two seemed to be related. What got me was how easy this trick is

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I've come across a few interesting articles and papers on the compromise between testosterone and the immune system.  High T comes at a price.  A graphic example of this in the animal kingdom can be found in Matt Ridley's The Red Queen.  The comb of a cockerel can be used to judge health by both a potential mate and by farmers.  The comb itself is an adornment, evolved through sexual selection,

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I'd taken this photo back in November and an item on BBC news this morning reminded me of it which reported on the marketing 'food' to children online.  I say food, but I am not sure Krave meets the definition of anything but neo-poverty food. I'm looking forward to marketing my own cereal called "Addykt" based upon a similar recipe.  Meantime: crave (krv) v. craved, crav·ing, craves 1. To

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Warm Up (15 minutes) Main (25 minutes). 1. Sprints (5 x sidewinders to straight sprint, 1 min rest btw) 2a. Snatch Grip Deadlift off a Deficit (5x5xBW) 2b. Chins (10, 10, 6, 6, 5) The SGDLs and Chins were interleaved with one min rest between each exercise.

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"With every 72 virgins they get in paradise, they get 72 mother-in-laws!"

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“The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex and picnics.”

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Another study backing what ADV has mentioned some time ago, high concentrations of blood glucose make people look older according to New Scientist! A SWEET tooth does more than pack on the pounds. It causes your skin to age prematurely, making you look older than you really are. But how much older? A team led by Diana van Heemst at Leiden University in the Netherlands divided 569 healthy

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We spent this evening at a carol service in aid of a local farm trust.  The farm is a true working farm and offers residential and day visits to kids from inner-city infant schools (aged around 4-6). The kids are bussed out to the farm and spend a day or more working on the farm collecting eggs, watching the lambing/calving, or if it is snowy, simply sledging down the hills.  It gives them an

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We like wild stuff on NM.  In this video Drew Bezanson follows the 'go big or go home' mantra and lays down some 'unbelievable tekkers' particularly at the 3:06 mark. Drew Bezanson from Justen Soule on Vimeo.

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Hmm!  Not sure how this ties in with the hormonal effect of exercise and food reward: People prone to frequent, waistline-expanding snacking on chocolate while at work can halve the amount they eat by getting out of the office and walking for just 15 minutes, according to new research. The study showed that, even in stressful situations, workers eat only half as much chocolate as they normally

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Here is the rundown of this week's episode of TFH: This week The Food Hospital welcomes patients with conditions from the common to the bizarre. Anne is a menopausal woman with hot flushes that are affecting both her daily life and her self confidence. Teenager Taigh seems to be a healthy fitness instructor but is terrified of eating vegetables. A photographer, Kate, also comes to The Food

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Entomophagists rejoice.  Further to the topic of bug-consumption I talked about here, I offer this little gem, "Why Not Eat Insects?" by Vincent Holt and dated 1885!  "Beginning with the earliest rimes, one can produce examples of insect-eating at every period down to our own age. Speaking to the people of Israel, at Lev. xi. 22, Moses directly encourages them to eat clean-feeding insects: "

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The last formal workout of 2011. I will engage in a few periodic workouts over December, but it pretty much ends here until January 2012. I need to look back on my numbers for the year.  I don't want to come over all 'Quantified Self' - but it is important to review en route to your goals.  All the measurement will end once an OAC is achieved (off both arms), but for now I need to map the

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I have just watched this weeks' Food Hospital: In the fifth week of The Food Hospital GP Gio Miletto, Dietitian Lucy Jones and Gastric Consultant Shaw Somers meet Ellie who suffers from a rare and chronic odour disorder. A teenager, Toby, comes to The Food Hospital hoping to find a solution for his extreme eczema which sparks teasing at school. Michelle is a mother in excruciating pain due to

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Heavy legs and some pressing vertically. Warm Up (5 minutes) Main (20 minutes). 1. Pistols (20kg assistance/64kg working weight: 8, 8, 8) 2i. (Slow Lower) Dumbell Press (17.5kg x 2 x 8) 2ii. HSPU (lowers) 3. Golfers Elbow Drumstick Rotation (12) 4. 5-Way DB Rotator Cuff (10) 5. Reverse DB Wrist Curls (12) Once again the HSPU was a no show.  I couldn't MBT either as it was blowing a gale outside

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A big storm blew through here last night.  This morning we have blue skies and a fresh breeze - just what you need for workout! Week six see me trying to push it, but this will be my last week on this particular cycle.  I know that training will be a bit disjointed during December, so things might get a but haphazard.  I will certainly take some time to simply rest up over the next month. Warm

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Courtesy of KhanAcademy:

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Continuing with the DGSS idea, here are my alternatives: Warm Up (15 minutes) Main (25 minutes). 1a. Snatch Grip Deadlift off a Deficit (5x5xBW) 1b. Weighted Chins (3x6xBW+25kg - 1 min rest btw) 2. Backbridge, Wall Walk (15s, 2) 3. Headstand Reverse Leg Lift (5, 5, 5) 4. 321 (x/8L, x/8L, x/8M) I forgot how fruity Snatch Grip DLs off a Deficit are. They really make you blow. Quite enjoyable but

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From New Scientist: Neuron transplant in damaged brain fixes obesity (in mice), Jeffrey Macklis at Harvard University and his colleagues took healthy neurons from mouse embryos that had been labelled with a green fluorescent protein. They used them to repair a brain circuit involved in the regulation of food intake and body weight in response to a hormone called leptin in mutant mice born with

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Some more alternatives exercises for week five: Warm Up (5 minutes) Main (20 minutes). 1. Seated Leg Press  (240 x 8, 8, 8) 2. Handwalking (1, 1, 1) 3. Golfers Elbow Drumstick Rotation (12) 4. 5-Way DB Rotator Cuff (10) 5. Wrist Push Ups (12) It was wet outside and so personal health and safety concerns meant I replaced the pillar jumps with the Seated Leg Press.  I hit 240 for sets of 8, but

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Different gear, still speeding! I am still trying to go max but am selecting some alternative exercises which tax same/similar muscles (although I am not really sure what my maxes will be for some of these new moves): Warm Up (5 minutes) Main (30 minutes). 1. Stairgators (1) 2. Weighted Barefoot Sprinting (1x10s, 1x10s, 1x10s, 1x10s) 3. Rope Climb (3, 3, 3) 4a. Scissor Splits (3x '2L, 2R, 2C')

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Aubrey de Grey has been on the scene for a while.  I first came across him in an article in The Guardian several years ago.  He has very thought provoking ideas.  On this TED Talk he discusses some of these ideas: Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease -- and a curable one at that. Humans age in seven basic ways, he says, all of which can be averted.

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Knowledge is power.  Maths is the one universal language, yet perhaps the one we fear most.  Get yourself to Khanacademy for some excellent mathematics tutorials. With a library of over 2,700 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 240 practice exercises, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace. Salman Khan at

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When it comes to training I am not feeling 'top dollar' today. I feel this is part of the cycle of human behaviour - sometimes I am up, sometimes down - nothing to worry about.  Of course motivation waxes and wanes.  We'll see how it pans out in the workout below. Next week I am going to change up all exercises for a week (week 5), and then plan to revert to my regular workout for week six. 

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Why make a horse pull a cart when you can stick it at the back and make it push?  This is the metaphorical equivalent of what is happening on The Food Hospital.  After rant one and rant two, here is rant three. Unhappy with entertaining the idea that some consumer items masquerading as food can lead to malady, they assume that pretty much everything sold to us as food IS food, and that people

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Another day of heavy legs and some pressing vertically... Warm Up (5 minutes) Main (20 minutes). 1. Pistols (20kg assistance/64kg working weight: 5, 6, 7) 2i. Alternate Arm MBTs(5kg 8) 2ii. (Slow Lower) Dumbell Press (17kg x 8) 2iii. HSPU (unassisted 0/1) 3. Golfers Elbow Drumstick Rotation (12) 4. 5-Way DB Rotator Cuff (10) 5. Reverse DB Wrist Curls (12) I can do much more on the pistols! I

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It is dull, grey, damp and misty outside. Not the most inviting conditions for a workout...! Warm Up (5 minutes) Main (30 minutes). 1. Stairgators (1) 2. Barefoot Sprinting (1x10s, 1x10s, 1x10s, 1x10s, 1x10s) 3. MU to Ring Routine (4, 4, 4) 4a. Scissor Splits (3x '2L, 2R, 2C') 4b. Planche Variations (20s, 20s, 20s) 5. Barefoot Kill Carry (1) 6. 321 (8/8L, 5/8L, 0/8M) Actually not a bad

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After today I will see if I want to cut back next week or keep pushing.  I am wary of injury - particularly when things are going well.  If I do push on for another week or two, I have come across a means of increasing serum testosterone - which in some cases has led to an increase 147% above baseline over the course of a week. Full cookies (pun intended)! Warm Up (15 minutes) Main (25 minutes)

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So how do you confuse people in the area of diet and nutrition?  Try this; Come up with a blanket recommendation such as Reduce your salt intake - and get your government/NGOs on board: "The government has set a target of reducing the average salt consumption of adults to 6g per day by 2010. This is a challenging but achievable goal, which will bring measurable improvements in health. A study

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Following on from last week's (ranting) review of The Food Hospital, allow me to present a ranting review of episode two. The program itself is a great concept - exploring as it does, the relationship between a wide variety of illness and disease, and food.  But as usual in these cases, they get it 'arse about face'.  As I said last week, it is not that food is medicine, it is more the case that

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Again I'm going to keep the variety in the shoulder work (MBTs and HSPU variations). Warm Up (5 minutes) Main (20 minutes). 1. Pistols (28kg assistance/56kg working weight: 8, 8, 8) 2i. MBTs(5kg 8) 2ii. HSPU (assisted 10) 2iii. HSPU (unassisted 1) 3. Golfers Elbow Drumstick Rotation (12) 4. 5-Way DB Rotator Cuff (10) 5. Reverse DB Wrist Curls (12) Straight out the bag I have to tell you that

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Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains, Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert starts from a surprising premise: the brain evolved, not to think or feel, but to control movement. In this entertaining, data-rich talk he gives us a glimpse into how the brain creates the grace and agility of human motion. Why do we and other animals have brains, what is the brain for? To perceive the world or to think

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Off the leash! Warm Up (5 minutes) Main (30 minutes). 1. Stairgators (1) 2. Barefoot Sprinting (1x10s, 1x10s, 1x10s, 1x10s, 1x10s) 3. MU to Ring Routine (4, 4, 4) 4a. Scissor Splits (3x '2L, 2R, 2C') 4b. Planche Variations (20s, 20s, 20s) 5. Barefoot Kill Carry (1) 6. 321 (8/8L, 8/8L, 8/8M) Nothing announces a hard session quite like sprinting. This is the metabolic equivalent of De

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Deloaded to about 90%. Warm Up (5 minutes) Main (25 minutes). 1a. Deadlift (4x130, 5x120) 1b. OACs (4x49kg, 5x44, 2-arm 10xBW) 2. Wall Walk (2, 2) 3. 321 (8/8L, 8/8L, 5/8M) I could have gone a lot heavier on the DLs and given I should have been working at 90%, I should have! Oh well. The OACs went well and a slight ache in me left elbow after the first set disappeared during and after the

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They just need to add in the concept of fasted training and 'eating close to the ground' and then they'll get there!  Less is more when learning 'The Once and Future Way to Run': "...humans had thrived as running animals for two million years without corrective shoes, and asphalt was no harder than the traditional hunting terrains of the African savanna."

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Well the Food Hospital did fulfill my expectations.  It really was rubbish - not because the 'remedies' failed, they worked, and in some cases fantastically, but because the whole premise that food is medicine is wrong. We are NOT born sick.  We have not evolved to be in some way faulty. We did not evolve in a permanent state of hunger.  Yet these are the subtexts of The Food Hospital; that food

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We did a lot of air squatting and kick work at Lau Gar last night (including jumping kicks), so my legs are a bit torched today. Auto adjust. I'm going to keep the variety in the shoulder work (MBTs and HSPU variations). Warm Up (5 minutes) Main (20 minutes). 1. Pistols (35kg assistance: 8, 8, 8) 2i. MBTs(5kg 8) 2ii. HSPU (assisted 10) 2iii. HSPU (unassisted 1) 3. Golfers Elbow Drumstick

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Another deloaded week, but at around 90%. Still having to be mindful of recent aches and injuries/tweaks. Nothing too bad and all healing well, but a reminder that it is easy to go too hard, to fast and for too long. I've been toying with the idea of just doing 4-5 weeks cycles rather than 6-8 week cycles. I'll see closer to the time. Warm Up (5 minutes) Main (30 minutes). 1. Stairgators (1) 2.

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A heads-up for those in the UK.  Channel 4 are launching The Food Hospital next Tuesday.  Food as medicine?  More likely it is that food can be a poison - or that processed food can simply lead to malady.  I wouldn't bet against there being a load of 'eat 5-6 small meals a day', 'eat more fruit and veg', 'ensure you get enough wholegrain, complex carbohydrate in your diet' kind of advice.  You

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Heavy day!  Deloaded. Warm Up (5 minutes) Main (30 minutes). 1a. Deadlift (4x122, 5x110) 1b. OACs (4x40kg, 5x36, 2-arm 10xBW) 2. Wall Walk (2, 2) 3. 321 (Optional) I lifted, I chinned, I left.  Short and sharp.  Liking it!

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More great output from the BBC.  The 'Origin of Us' is available on iPlayer (until 7:59PM Mon, 7 Nov 2011): In this second episode Dr Alice Roberts charts how our ancestors’ hunt for food has driven the way we look and behave today – from the shape of our face, to the way we see and even the way we attract the opposite sex. Clues to our ancestor’s diet can be found in some surprising places.

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It has long been obvious in the paleosphere that it leaness is all to do with hormones.  If you exercise more, there is a hormonal consequence.  If you fast, there is a hormonal consequence. We all know people who are obese and who go through the following steps: They're overweight - say 20 stone, but their weight is quite stable at this level, They then diet and exercise down to 12 stone,

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Hat tip to Latest in Paleo.

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Not many sporting occasions start with a dance. , but the Haka is one hell of a dance.  There are severeal versions of the Haka, usually we get 'Ka Mate', but recently the All Blacks have been running with 'Kapo o Pango'. As a master of ceremonies the imperious Piri Weepu (the guy prowling around like a caged lion in the video above), provides menace and drama in equal fashion. The French

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Leg work focus today with some shoulder and arm rehab/prevention. Warm Up (5 minutes) Main (20 minutes). 1. Pistols (40kg assistance: 8, 8, 8) 2i. MBTs(4kg 8) 2ii. HSPU (assisted 8) 2iii. HSPU (unassisted 1) 3. Golfers Elbow Drumstick Rotation (10) 4. 5-Way DB Rotator Cuff (10) 5. Reverse DB Wrist Curls (10) A very short, sharp, session.  Calves are aching a bit from skipping drills at last

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The BBC's Frozen Planet is shaping up to be fascinating.  Hot on the heels of this epic wolf hunt, check out this hunt by orca.  Stunning.

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Seriously good 'Food Program' on Radio 4 today.  They still seem to sit a bit behind the paleo-curve but just to hear some of these ideas aired on prime time radio is damn significant: Sheila Dillon asks if the calorie is an outdated way of controlling diet and reducing obesity. Of particular interest is the discussion of the history of the calorie, much of which you can read about on the History

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The beginning of another 6-8 week phase is nigh! I have split stuff up this time around to create a three day work week as I think I lose intensity once training-time gets to 40 minutes. Shoulder rehab/prevention and pistols are duly subbed out to there own day! As usual I am going to have a week or two deloaded, and then ramp it up for four weeks or so...chucking in some 'instinctive adjustment

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You've got to love the BBC.  Public service broadcasting at its best.  Check out this extraordinary footage of wolves hunting bison.

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I attended a wedding this weekend in London where a bus had been arranged to take all guests from the registry office to the reception.  It wasn't just any old bus but, but a classic 50's, red, London bus, adorned with wedding livery and flowers.  It was packed full with bride & groom, friends and family.  Did I mention the champagne?  Lots of. Spirits were high and everyone was becoming rather

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I have read a few works of fanstasy and science fiction in my time, but since my mid twenties, this genre has lost my attention.  There are only so many times you can riff on the theme of Blark the orphaned child teaming up with a wizard/dwarf/elf/orc/thief (one of whom will be a sexy archeress/sorceress), and a half-human, half-giant side-kick called Thraxon, whom together, steel some magical

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Let's get this sorted right now.  If you are a headhunter looking to crack the skye, go here.  If you are looking for some interesting anthropology, read on (courtesy of Nature): "About 13,800 years ago, a mastodon in North America met a somewhat ironic end. It died at the hands of humans wielding a bone projectile made from the skeleton of another mastodon. A study of the remains of this

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I heartily recommend Stephen Johnson's The Ghost Map, not least for the sense of deja vu.  The book covers a terrifying epidemic of cholera which gripped Victorian London: At 6am on 28 August 1854, the city of London struggled to sleep at the end of an oppressively hot summer. But at 40 Broad Street, Soho, Sarah Lewis was awake tending to her feverish baby girl. As she threw a used bucket of

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Want to be bigger, faster and stronger? Then head over to Bigger, Faster, Stronger!  There are loads of programs targetting strength, speed, agility and so forth.  I've only just found the site so I'll do some more digging, but basically it looks pretty interesting on first glance. Second find is SuppVersity.  yes, yes I know it is a crap name, but it looks to be the real deal.  It covers topics

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Ever wondered How to Win an Argument With a Meat-Eater? Me neither.  VegSource lists the following arguments: •The Hunger Argument •The Environmental Argument •The Cancer Argument •The Cholesterol Argument •The Natural Resources Argument •The Antibiotic Argument •The Pesticide Argument •The Ethical Argument •The Survival Argument Which begs the question, where is the evolutionary

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Jamie Oliver has waded in to the argument about the governments current program for action on obesity, which resolves to: "Reducing the number of calories we consume is essential. It can happen if we continue action to reduce calories in everyday foods and drinks, and if all of us who are overweight take simple steps to reduce our calorie intake." Oliver called this approach "worthless,

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Check out Stefanie Seneff's website.  She is a Senior Research Scientist in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT and has recently turned her attention to the relationship between nutrition and health and has authored two publications in 2011 in medical journals, relating to excess carbohydrate consumption with adverse health outcome. In addition she has penned a few

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There is nothing like flogging a dead horse.  You can flog the horse harder, kick the horse, change the whip and even get off the horse and give it a push, but if the horse is dead.... "'Eat less, exercise more', says government on obesity**": People need to be more honest about how much they eat and drink if obesity levels are to be reduced, ministers say. The government's obesity strategy said

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Check out this subway map of the human body from CoolInfographics (created by the talented Sam Loman): Full sized image can be seen here.

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Graham Harvey's We Want Real Food, whilst perhaps not as technical nor as comprehensive as Colin Tudge's So Shall We Reap, will quickly bring you up to speed on 'broken agriculture'.  (Ultimately Tudge proposes we move to what he calls 'enlightened agriculture' whilst Harvey wishes us to pursue something more traditional as prescribed in G Henderson's 'The Farming Ladder'.)  WWRF ticks the

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One for those currently confused by the whole reward/insulin axis of paleo evil!  Disagreement is a good thing: When scientists wish to speak with one voice, they typically do so in a most unscientific way: the consensus report. The idea is to condense the knowledge of many experts into a single point of view that can settle disputes and aid policy-making. But the process of achieving such a

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Warm Up (5 minutes) Main (40 minutes). 1a. Deadlift (3x140kg, 4x130kg) 1b. OACs (3x50kg, 4x45kg, 2-arm 10xBW) 2. HSPU (assisted 10, 10, 10, short rests) 3. Wall Walk (2, 2) 4. 5-Way DB Rotator Cuff (10) 5. Reverse DB Wrist Curls (10) DLs were solid.  Could have pushed the first set I reckon, and certainly the second set was steady.  The OACs revealed a slight tension deep in me left shoulder. 

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We've just had a bit of an Indian summer here in the UK.  Family Asclepius headed off to the local river for a swim.  It is crazy to think that wild swimming in October should be as hot as wild swimming in April - both of which were hotter than any UK-based wild swimming I did over summer! The photo above of Captain Kid and I, and the one in the link, were taken at the same venue from pretty

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If a picture can paint a thousand lies then this Getty image above certainly fuels the fabrication, pushing as it does, the common misconception that saturated fat is bad for us. Armed with ignorance, Denmark has moved to tax saturated fat, as reported by ABC, "Denmark has introduced what’s believed to be the world’s first fat food tax, applying a surcharge to foods with more than 2.3 percent

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Sir Robert McCarrison's Cantor Lecture 'Nutrition & National Health' makes fine reading. "Man is made up of what he eats. The constituents of his food are those of which his body is composed. His foodstuffs, derived from the vegetable and the animal kingdoms, consist, for the most part, of matter that is living, that was formerly living or that is derived from matter that was formerly living. Man

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"Food & Health in the Scottish Highlands" - another great installment from W. W. Yellowlees: "The cooking oils, shortening, or margarine manufactured from the oil of maize, cotton seeds, soya beans or sunflower seeds cannot qualify as natural foods. Their mass production requires the use of techniques for repeated heating at high temperatures and of solvents, catalysts and various other chemical

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W.W Yellowlees 1978 lecture 'Ill Fares the Land' was pioneering, profound, perceptive but only 'politely applauded' by a cynical audience who thought that saturated fat was the scourge of modern life and who also thought that by 1990, everyone would have one of these to do housework, and one of these to get to work.  Probably.  But Yellowlees was obviously on to something. Yellowlees came from a

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Time to add a rep to the second set of DLs. Same with the chins!  The UK is experiencing unseasonally fine and sunny weather (28 degrees), so what I really intend to push is the D3. Warm Up (5 minutes) Main (40 minutes). 1a. Deadlift (4/5x137, 6/7x124) 1b. OACs (4/5x48kg, 5/6x43kg, 2-arm 10xBW) 2. HSPU (assisted 10, 10, 10, short rests) 3. Backbridge (15s, 15s) 4. 5-Way DB Rotator Cuff (10) 5.

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It is hard to comprehend how precarious our existence is at times.  On November 8th 2011 a 1300-foot-wide  (400 metres) asteroid will pass within 0.85 lunar distances of earth.  There is no cause for alarm - well not for another 100 years anyway (click on the graphic above). You might also considering freeing up your diary beyond 2028 when another asteroid (153814) 2001 WN5 will pass to within

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