Normally when the term "recovery" comes up, you think about sleep, proper nutrition, maybe even some light movement to get the ole blood moving. Those are all great and essential for sure, but what else can you do to further promote recovery? There are two ways: 1) Acute recovery - all the great things you
Recently, I have been yammering away about how to increase your ability to recover and be a more robust, bad ass human. I don’t need to point out the massive stress everyone is under right now. While there is only so much that can be done about it, you can control how you train your
Speaking of temp regulation being one of the systems to target for better recovery and to be a more robust human. . . Cold is one way to do it. You don’t have to get bat-sheeet crazy like your fav nerd here, and convert a perfectly good / new freezer into your own private
Yesterday, I went off on a nerdy diatribe about how to build your own BSRD aka BS Recovery Detector to shift through all the crap in the fitness world that is promoted to help you recover faster and be more robust. One key point was to watch out for the quoting of only animal data
I am back again yammering about how to employ a flexible approach to be a more robust human that can train harder, recover faster, and do it while enhancing your health. The key linchpin concept for the next level is based on the idea of "adaptive homeostasis." Whoa! there, Dr Nerd. Those are some uber
It snowed in Minnesota the day right after the wonderful wifey arrived in S Padre TX, where it was a sunny 88F today. Since there was some wind, I opted yesterday to go kiteboarding in the afternoon. Unfortunately, it did not go as planned. I got my big 17M kite pumped up, launched, and started
Huge thanks to my friend, Chris Kelly, who asked me to be a guest on the Nourish Balance Thrive podcast. It's an honor to be asked back to chat about nerdy science. >>NBT podcast: A Science-Based Guide to Met Flex<< Listen in! And nerdy science it is . . . Here is what we discussed: [00:05:10]
I am not a psych professional, but as a coach/trainer for more than 16 years now, I’ve had to pick up a bunch of it along the way due to all the mistakes I’ve made. When I first started training I thought it was all just exercise physiology and nutrition. Bah- this will be easy.
One of the comments I got from the BEER-HIIT study article I referenced about beer consumption around training was: nonsense since “everybody knows” that anyone who is serious about their fitness knows beer and gainz do not mix. It turns out this is false. Now, if you want to not drink, that is totally fine
Check out The Ready State Podcast I did with Dr. Kelly Starrett and his wonderful wife Juliet all about the Flex Diet! >> The Ready State Podcast w Dr. Mike T Nelson << Listen in. We covered everything from . . . Metabolism My MS thesis on a project that was so classified that I wasn’t even
