The Layman’s Guide to Lower Back Pain

May 15, 2011

This is a simple guide for the layperson to avoid lower back pain. If you’re an experienced trainee, or are looking to build a high-performance back, then this post isn’t relevant to you. But if you’re tired of the aches and pains in the lower back, then this post serves as a simple guide to [...]

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Should I Get A Standing Desk?

April 3, 2011

Table of Contents The Setup The Benefits Necessary Precautions What Can I Do Short of Getting a Standing Desk? Summary and Final Words === Introduction Thinking of switching over to a standing desk? It’s probably not the simplest things to do, but with a simple plan, and some necessary precautions, I’m confident that anyone can [...]

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Pizza Mastery: Part 1

March 6, 2011

Intermittent fasting (IF) has numerous benefits, but one of my favourite is the flexibility to down large meals. Today, I show you the wonderful world of IF Leangains style, with the help of Pizza. Flexibility When I say flexibility, I mean psychology flexibility. I can basically satisfy whatever cravings I have whenever I please. Having [...]

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Medicine through the Years

February 23, 2011

*Note: This was a post initially intended for scrivle.com, and can be found here. Click through the link if you want to download the PDF version of the above sketch. — We’ve come a long way in the field medicine since the good old days of praying for survival. Today, we can cure many of [...]

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Your Body Can Patch the Cracks, Not Mend the Foundation

February 14, 2011

The body is a wonderful thing – a complex piece of machinery with a set of instructions that even allow it to fix itself. Underlying this machinery is a system that works within its operating conditions. Unfortunately, the ways in which we stress our body today pushes us past those operating conditions far too often. [...]

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Playing With Your Food

January 23, 2011

As some may have noticed, I haven’t been posting here recently. Life gets in the way, and priorities change – I haven’t been reading all too much about health and fitness related research and hence have had not much to say. For most people, it’s times like this when all hell breaks loose on the [...]

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Børge Fagerli’s Advanced Concept Diet v2.0

November 21, 2010

I have found many of Børge Fagerli’s (owner of MyRevolution.no) articles and tips to be really useful. One of which is his Advanced Concept Diet v2.0. It was a really great read, chock full of great advice based on both practical and scientific knowledge. It was so good that I decided to do a translation [...]

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Pain and Exercise – Knowing when to suck it up

November 14, 2010

Pain is an evolutionary response that evolved to get you out of physical harm. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work all too well. Sometimes it starts screaming at us when there’s no real physical harm. Other times, it slacks off and doesn’t tell us about physical harm until some massive damage has been done. That’s why you [...]

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Myo-Reps in Plain English

October 11, 2010

60 second pitch: Sick of overtraining? Hate the restrictiveness of cookie-cutter programs? Enter myo-reps, a method of training that allows one to instinctively regulate training volume while making huge gains. Being a method, it can be used with any exercise that can be performed safely close to or at one’s fatigue threshold. With Myo-reps, you [...]

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How I Herniated A Disk and What I Did to Recover

October 3, 2010

This post is about how I suffered a herniation at L3-L4, and subsequently, what I’ve done in the one year following that to get back to lifting. Let’s cut to the chase. Go back to September 2009, and I was finishing up a training cycle with the Texas method. It ended with me bringing up [...]

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