At 38 years old, I started looking ahead and decided I wanted to be “in the best shape of my life” by my 40th birthday. Birthdays are such an arbitrary day in time, but they keep trainers in business - especially big ones. No stranger to training, I spent an entire decade running marathons, including
I was recently in Costa Rica again at Flo helping with and being in the acute study where we blasted meatheads with lots of volume over 4 days in a row. The gang at Flo in Costa Rica for the 4 day acute training study An interesting thing happened during this study related
Collagen / gelatin before training can help with soft tissue remodeling. The main study(Shaw et al.) had 3 groups 1) placebo, 2) 5 grams and 3) 15 grams. I looked up the amino acid content of gelatin vs collagen and both will work as they are virtually identical. Here is the quote from the study:
One of the questions I get a fair amount now that sleep is trendy is: “What happens if I get only one night of very low sleep?" Bella the corgi is ready for bed with PJs on. It turns out that my buddy (and one of the experts featured in the Flex Diet
Is keto still all the rage now? What are the pros and cons of it? Is metabolic flexibility “better” than keto? Do I really disagree with the guys from Keto Gains or is that just whacky internet rumorZ? Check out the Keto Panel video from AHS this past year below featuring your nerdy, Luis Villaseñor,
On October 12, 2019 a massive world record did not just get beat but got crushed! Eliud Kipchoge is now the first athlete to run a marathon in under two hours. Eliud Kipchoge (photo: wiki) He actually did it in 20 seconds under the 2-hour mark. He ran in a time of 1:59:40 in the
Imagine an eight-lane freeway in Los Angeles that’s bumper-to-bumper with Teslas and SUVs. Everyone’s in a hurry, but nobody can get anywhere until everybody gets somewhere. The ones who try to beat the odds with frantic, occasionally dangerous lane changes are greeted with middle fingers and four-letter words. In that context, telling people to
Studies like this should peak your interest (1). Insulin is not “good” or “bad.” In fact, simple ole insulin is much more complex than we currently appreciate. I get nervous when I hear a simple story + simple descriptor. Stories like . . .. CarbZ are bad. Protein is good. High intensity interval training is
Hola from Minnesota . . . where I am back upright after getting hit with a nasty cold. Ugh. I was down for the count this past Friday and Saturday. While getting a cold sucks, I will heal and have a better resistance to those little critters. Travel can be a massive pain in the
I was up at 4 am the other day as I am back home from another epic trip with the wonderful wifey. At the end of the trip, we were in San Clemente the other day, we got to see one of our favorite humans – none other than Markus from www.gymbreakthroug.com! He took us
