There seem to be lots of serious bits of information to share this week but I’ve tried to get some lighter stuff in here too.
- To kick us off, here’s a reminder from Michael Boyle that we should never stop learning if we want to progress.
- Ageing is associated with chronic low-grade systemic inflammation, so if we address inflammation do we also deal with the problem of ageing?
- Continuing a running theme, Claire Mysko writes about pregnancy fitness and letting your body dictate the pace.
- Are you on a calorie-counting diet? If so, be aware that the calorie count information provided by restaurants is almost certainly too low.
- This week’s interview with an inspirational woman is with Mina Leslie-Wujastyk. Who? I can’t explain it better than the interview itself: “Mina… is perhaps the most accomplished female boulderer in the UK.”
- A study by Pederson et al (2009) showed that recreational soccer could improve the reflex response to sudden trunk loading in women and concluded that this subsequently helps in protecting against injuries of the lower back. Recreational soccer is full of sudden moves, including sudden loading of the upper body (e.g. turns, stops, throw-ins, headers, and shoulder tackles), so it’s unsurprising that subjecting your body to these forces regularly will cause it to quickly learn to protect itself by reflex action. For me, the more important question, which they don’t seem to address, is whether that reflex action then carries across into daily life.
- Richard Nikoley’s rant about skeletal people advising on good diet and nutrition had me laughing. He does have a very worthwhile point though. I would never take health advice from someone who looks like they’d eaten all the pies either (or even, from people who do eat all the pies)…
- For some animal magic, take a look at goats doing amazing stunts on the rock face. I wish I could do some of those things!
- I really like Mike Nelson’s Extreme Human Performance site for the nuggets of information he imparts, so many thanks to Chris for putting together a top ten from Mike’s site.
- It seems that removing wheat products from your diet (being gluten-free and pretty much along the core lines of the Paleo diet) is beneficial for animals as well as humans.
- Finally, last weekend saw the closing ceremony of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. The winter Olympics brings together some of the most dangerous sports in existence (not all of them, just some) and the competitors have to have real guts to take some of the risks. In honour, NBCOlympics.com put together a slideshow early on in the Games of some of these inspirational men and women.
Have a truly wonderful weekend!
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