Product Review: Tibia Dorsi Machine

It is often stated in strength training: get good at the big movements and you won't have to worry so much about the small movements. This is due to the indirect effect of strength training: doing a barbell squat takes strong abs, arms, back, stomach...oh, and strong legs too! This is also why you might … Continue reading Product Review: Tibia Dorsi Machine →

Motor Learning and Exercise Physiology

So this semester I'm taking 2 courses to fulfill my leveling requirements for entrance into my M.S. program. While I find motor learning and exercise physiology terribly fascinating, I'm even more fascinated by the the fact that so few trainers and fitness enthusiasts have anything beyond a mere clue when it comes to these subjects. … Continue reading Motor Learning and Exercise Physiology →

Review: Outer Limits Loops

So I recently was bit by my dog. Understand that she wasn't trying to bite me but rather kill my other dog. The bite ruptured my tendon sheath and made extension of any sort mind-numbingly painful, never mind the medial epicondylitis that appeared in response to constantly having a certain degree of flexion at the … Continue reading Review: Outer Limits Loops →

Locomotive Breath

First, give a listen: Now, this doesn't have to do with rock or flutes or being a ham for the camera. Rather this is about a device I recently picked up: the Expand-a-Lung. What this (rather simple) device allows me to do is increase the resistance against which I breath. Over time I increase the … Continue reading Locomotive Breath →

There Are No Shortcuts

I hate traffic. Not that I think anyone in the world actually *likes* being traffic (which is the case, as opposed to being stuck "in" traffic), but I think some people handle it better than others. Traffic used to irritate me to the point of intense rage. I would quickly find myself in a very … Continue reading There Are No Shortcuts →

Ancestral Health Symposium 2011

There are approximately a gajillion posts about this event (hell, just crank through the twitter hashtag #ahs2011) but I thought I should throw my 2 cents in. First, I'd like to show you the greatest thing I've ever seen: Right in the fat of the UCLA campus no less. Keith and I presented with what … Continue reading Ancestral Health Symposium 2011 →

Hypothermia: The Best Way to Activate Brown Adipose Tissue

So among the many adventures in bizarre fitness/health rituals I have embarked upon in my time is the idea of dousing. That is to say: get in your trunks first thing in the morning, take nearly freezing water and dump it on your head. You have to (HAVE TO, so say the gurus) be standing … Continue reading Hypothermia: The Best Way to Activate Brown Adipose Tissue →

My Achin’ Wrist

So on June 3rd my dogs decided it was a good idea to try and kill one another. In the process of showing them how this is a bad idea, I caught a Beagle canine right in the back of my hand (the middle, proximal metacarpals if we're specific). After 2 weeks of triple antibiotics, … Continue reading My Achin’ Wrist →

You have limits…what will you do when you reach them?

Steve Prefontaine was an obscure distance runner made famous by Jared Leto... Actually "Pre" was a record-setting distance runner that is cemented is mythology by tragically dying in a car crash. "Pre" believed that there was no such thing as talent: it was a myth and he was merely willing to suffer more than anybody … Continue reading You have limits…what will you do when you reach them? →

In Support of Technological Advancement in Exercise

I've been knee-deep in school work since the semester is only 1 month long but I've been thinking about tech, specifically how mainstream health and fitness are effectively neo-luddites. I think this has to do, in part, with the relative youth of exercise science. While the teaching of physical education at the University level "officially" … Continue reading In Support of Technological Advancement in Exercise →