Some of the trending exercise/diet things - ( from Crossfit, Richard Simmons Dance your pants off, HR monitors, supplements, gluten-free diets for people without celiac ...or whatever) - people can get benefit-especially if it motivates them or gives placebo boost. It's just that nothing applies across the board for all people - and whether the trendy thing is sustainable.
Also, the latest sciency-exercisy-diety stuff that regular people tend to latch onto - much of that "research" is refined for high
level athletes. And people at that level know that much of it is highly subjective in application.
Who the hell is participating in the Tour De France? My Step-daughter pissed some money away on supplements. It's putting the cart before the horse when you blow money on supplements or try to dial-in on some other factor, when most people aren't doing basic fitness.
I have this great habit of getting injuries doing not strenuous things. One time I tore a muscle in my shoulder bowling and I had to miss the sectional track meet of which I would have easily won the discus competition because the winner threw about 20ft less than I average.
Anyway, I do yoga with my gf and I was doing some stretching dog thing and something popped in my knee. Now my knee is swollen and it hurts like hell to walk. I hurt myself doing yoga.
My kid is about 2 weeks in to getting in shape (not that she was in bad shape) Obsessed with going to the gym at night, and is watching what she eats -avoiding the junk. She started this to get better at soccer, and for appearance. ("I'm going to be ripped"). So far, she seems really smart & observant about things. Her main observation : she feels better and has more energy. Which I think will sustain her in keeping this up.
A couple nice benefits for me and my wife: She betches that the snack, lunch packed for school, or smoothie we make aren't healthy enough ..and she just makes it herself now.
Also, we'll get in better shape as a result. she can't get to the gym and isn't supposed to be there unsupervised until 14. So one or both of us goes along and does similar workout. And if you ever worked out with kids in a sports realm you'll notice they knock you out of the comfort zone at times. I showed her how to do box jumps - now she is a box-jumping fool. Last week, I had run during the day, and had to take her to the gym that evening. It kind of kicked my butt - so that my legs were zapped for a couple days.
Some of the trending exercise/diet things - ( from Crossfit, Richard Simmons Dance your pants off, HR monitors, supplements, gluten-free diets for people without celiac ...or whatever) - people can get benefit-especially if it motivates them or gives placebo boost. It's just that nothing applies across the board for all people - and whether the trendy thing is sustainable.
Also, the latest sciency-exercisy-diety stuff that regular people tend to latch onto - much of that "research" is refined for high
level athletes. And people at that level know that much of it is highly subjective in application.
Who the hell is participating in the Tour De France? My Step-daughter pissed some money away on supplements. It's putting the cart before the horse when you blow money on supplements or try to dial-in on some other factor, when most people aren't doing basic fitness.
I'm kind of old school. My heart rate monitor is two fingers at my carotid artery. My powerbar is called a Snickers, I drink beer every day. When I lift that stuff in my cup? It's coffee. With sugar. Because it wakes me up and gives me a quick jolt. My workout clothes are 5+ year cut up St. Louis Cardinal t-shirts that are barely staying together. And, I'm almost 53, and did sets of 235 on bench this morning.
Hilarious to see these young guys with the Under Armour and their drinks and heart rate monitor and they are in terrible shape.
I don't nkow what the new food pyramid is, but it was pretty apparent for a long time the old one was bunk. The methodology they used to form the old one had to be some voodoo doctor [expletive].
I know nothing about fitness science but I know that article uses the same type of conjecture and language that the same people that deny climate change use. They say the earth is warming but it snowed this year!
I have been getting back to the gym pretty regularly but I have the worst time getting myself into a routine. At this point I just do a lot of mixed random stuff to make sure I'm not missing anything. I figure if I stick with it long enough maybe I'll get on some sort of schedule and routine that makes sense. I'd kind of like to add swimming since it seems like a good thing to do three or four days a week before work. Not sure if I'll ever get to that point though
