So I wasn’t ill this week. In fact, I did a whole week of work in the office and I managed to follow my new “evening relaxing and rolling” protocol. I’m determined to stay chilled, eat well and keep the sick bugs away from me for as long as possible.
A mixed bunch of links this week though, sadly, nearly all serious and interesting with limited comedy. To make up for it, I’ve included a slightly comedic video at the end instead.
- I absolutely loved this testimonial sent to Robb Wolf by someone who decided to try training for, and completing, an ultra-endurance event using the paleo diet principles without having previously done an event like this. I’ve been thinking about trying an IronMan event in a few years time (despite not being a runner) and this has definitely made the idea stick a little harder.
- Eric Cressey is getting married this year. I really liked his idea of having a wedding list of gym equipment. Why not?
- It appears that scientists have come up with a new formula to calculate the max heart rate for female athletes and it is different to the one used to calculate the max rate for men. It doesn’t give hugely different results, but different enough to potentially make a difference to those crucial training ranges for women who train at sports like running and cycling where a mix of different intensity work is done based on keeping your heart rate in certain percentage brackets.
- Grip strength is something we should make sure we don’t neglect. Jason Ferruggia did a great article about why we should make sure we work on our grip strength.
- I recently got promoted at work. As a celebration present to myself I thought about finally getting pairs of Vibram Five-Fingers for both me and Chris since I’ve been longing to do our local 5 mile walk barefoot but don’t fancy the gravel and wood sections without anything on the soles of my feet. It was therefore really interesting to read two articles by Richard Nikoley who has other “non-shoe” preferences and hasn’t entirely got on with Vibrams. This is the first set of comments I’ve seen that have dared to suggest that Vibrams aren’t “amazing” and I’ll be looking into Soft Star RunAmocs as a possible alternative. Richard has also done a video about them. Have you come across Soft Star RunAmocs? Do you have views either way?
- I absolutely loved reading an article which suggests that women in their late thirties and early forties have higher sex drives than younger women. So there’s nothing to fear about your thirties. Or forties.
- Do you suffer from poor eyesight. Research suggests that poor eyesight can be improved with good nutrition (or at least, reduced sugar in the diet). This isn’t entirely surprising, but it’s nice to see it written down somewhere. However, I think that Chris on Zen Fitness has focussed too much on the nutrition aspect in his article. My eyesight was dreadful when I lived in London and I found that it improved by a dioptre in each eye within months of leaving my London lifestyle. I was eating the same things but my stress had dropped through the floor compared to before. My optician explained that stress can severely impact on eyesight, so perhaps it’s the combination of increased stress that we put young people under and their poor diets that are resulting in the vision problems we find in today’s society.
- The issue of airbrushing models has featured on my blog today so I wanted to flag up the news that they are doing something about it, making magazines and newspapers include a disclaimer warning readers that the image has been airbrushed where this has happened. Only in Australia though. Let’s hope other countries follow their lead.
- Tony Gentilcore previously interviewed Bret Contreras. Now Bret has interviewed Tony. Well, actually it was a few weeks ago but this interview includes some fantastic insight into Tony as well as an awesome clip of him achieving a massive PR deadlift a few months ago. Good going Tony!
- Finally, for all the heart-broken out there, it seems that we can be addicted to romantic rejection and that returning time and again to the person who dumped us is potentially hard-wired into our psyche. Oh dear!
I’ve heard of rock climbers who do mid-difficulty routes (harder than I choose to do on a standard day in the climbing centre at the moment) with no hands, relying purely on balance, leg strength and some judicious use of shoulders and elbows on flat surfaces to stabilise them on the most complex moves, but a 275kg squat with no hands?
I promised you a non-serious video and here it is. A Star Wars toy that thinks it’s a dog:
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