Time flies, even during hard times. 8 years ago, almost to the day, I did my PhD Defense . . . . . . and passed. To say that I was sweating bullets about it is an under statement. The overall PhD process from when I started through class work, teaching, lab assistant, completing
The other day I talked about the intrinsic process of homeostasis - the ability of your body to hold a specific parameter of physiology within a tight range - despite being exposed to a wide variety of stimulus. The example I used was core body temperature staying very close to 98.6F even when subjected to
Want to reach your fitness goals? (Heard any of the statements before???) Just work harder. Not doing HIIT? Start doing Tabatas 3 times a day? you lazy pile of poo. =) Only lifting Mon, Wed, Fri? Start lifting every day. We all know that volume is the key driver since 7 PhDs and 4 meta-analysis
It is your fav nerd writing to you from sunny and amazing Nosara, Costa Rica. We wrapped up meetings for the Special Forces Experience the other day and are on our last full day here before some go back home. Jodie and I are hanging in Liberia with fancy internet for 1.5 days of work then off
Hola! from Costa Rica post 48-hour digital detox here. It was great to spend time relaxing and watching time just go by. I found it interesting that time seemed to slow to a crawl. One of the ongoing improvements I am working on (and have been for several years) is the feeling of “there is
Happy 2021! Wahoo, you made it through 2020. Today I was thinking back to my time in Costa Rica exactly one year ago. I was there helping to run an acute study to see what happens when you pound meatheads with lots and lots of volume Each day for 4 days in a row, our
New Episode of Iron Radio Post Christmas edition where we check in on our past predictions for this year. Tune in to see if we were accurate or totally missed the mark. >> Ep 606 of Iron Radio << Listen in After covering some health science news on curcumin supplements for muscle strength and for anti-catabolic and
It appears a few people on el internet were upset as they thought I was dissing on carb cycling chaos via my article on metabolic confusion. Nope. I do like carb cycling for advanced clients. The benefits from it are not from “metabolic confusion” though. In the Flex Diet Cert for the Carbohydrate Intervention, I discuss the
Yes, that is the name of the latest nutrition fad ( metabolic confusion just in case you missed it) as it appears. Did someone raise Joe Weider from the dead and asked him to profess the next nutritional craze! Here’s how one article describes it: “Creating metabolic confusion through carb cycling is the best way
Normally when the term “recovery” comes up, you think about sleep, proper nutrition, maybe even some light movement to get the old blood moving. Those are all great and essential but what else can you do to further promote recovery? There are two ways: 1) Acute recovery – all the great things you do mentioned above. The basics work well,
