Showing posts with label Fitness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fitness. Show all posts

Monday, December 06, 2010

Squatting ad nauseum

a) Performing squats after a big breakfast nauseates me

b) Performing squats after a big breakfast makes me nauseous.

If squatting after breakfast makes you sick, then a) seems technically correct, but b) is frequently used in common parlance.  

Unfortunately, b) means that squatting after breakfast makes you sickening (to others), which might be true depending on what you ate.  Either way, avoid a heavy stomach on squat day, for your own sake and others.

Unless you're as crazy as these guys. Legend has it that Arnold used to venture out into the woods of Austria with booze, tobacco, and a 250 pound barbell.  He and his buddies would perform 100 squat repetitions per set, and who knows how many total sets.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Assessing the limits of human performance

Ross Tucker and Jonathan Duger have written a very thorough article, entitled "Swifter, higher, stronger...up to a point? Or beyond? The limit of human performance." 

A tidbit in case you aren't sure if you should click:
"I don't believe there are fundamental physiological principles that have not yet been discovered.  Performance is limited by the physiological regulators, and things like VO2max, running economy, threshhold running pace and thermoregulation are known to be regulators.  So we're either wrong, or we're still waiting for that one-of-a-kind human being who possesses physiological stats never seen before.  That wasn't the case in the 1950s - they were good athletes with exceptional but expected physiology, and it was lack of professionalism and training/diet, along with "vision" of what might be possible that limited them."