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Movement training gets popular

I've long been a champion of training movement as part of a fitness programme. It's something almost everyone can, should and needs to do. With our ever increasingly sedentary lifestyles this is proving harder and our quality of movement is going down.

Here's an interesting article on how simple movement can prove more effective than medication in managing pain.

Well worth a read and some thought about how pain could actually be prevented with some remedial movement training

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020346230457713679073590452...

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Interesting article on Intermittent Fasting

Now I'm the last person to see about diet and nutrition. I go for simple advice - cut the doughnuts, booze and snacks. Come on, you all know what they are!

So I love well written, interesting articles from the big guns in the dietary world.

Dr John Berardi is definitely one of the big guns and here's a great article detailing his experiments with intermittent fasting.

http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/most_recent/john_berardis_gr...

Even better if you have time to read his eBook - http://www.precisionnutrition.com/intermittent-fasting

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Knee Switch Hip Mobility

The Knee Switch is a fantastic lower body mobility drill. It teaches you to open up your hips and ankles with more advanced variants training movement from the ground to standing - an essential for martial arts and even more important for people advancing in years

The key points of the drill are:

Keep the upper body neutral and upright.
Initiate the movement from the waist
Don't hold your breath; allow your breathing tempo to be governed by your movement

Have fun with this - will demo advanced variants after I've burnt off the mince pies!

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Kettlebell Sport Training

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Here's a quick blog post introducing kettlebell sport training.

Basically timed sets (usually 10 minutes but can be longer) of continual reps in either the snatch or clean and jerk with no putting the kettlebell down.

It's a lot tougher than it sounds :)

Whilst snatching the rest position is with the kettlebell overhead. Once you try this, you'll soon realise that rest is a relative term. For the jerk, the rest position is in the rack.

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A fascinating and powerful TED talk on cancer treatments of the future

If you haven't seen this, take the twelve minutes or so to learn how medicine is changing and evolving to battle cancer, not with patents and secrecy, but with open source research and collaboration to take on this disease.

Really powerful concept that should reignite faith in humanity and the shared spirit of caring, the ability to help and further improve society.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jay_bradner_open_source_cancer_research.html

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