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Interesting article on Intermittent Fasting

Submitted by kenwen on

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.

Knee Switch Hip Mobility

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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!

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.

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

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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.

Open Source Cancer Research

Kettlebells AKA weight training that women love!

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I've been training with kettlebells since 2002 - way before Ginger Spice got her dainty little mitts on them and I originally used them to improve my strength and conditioning for martial arts.

The first seminar I attended had a mix of gentlemen, well let's just say that if you saw them out in public you'd be worried about what prison day release schemes were for, involved in combat sports, rugby and general hard nuts. Nice bunch though!

Vibram FiveFingers Review

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OR what have I been doing to my feet for thirty odd years!?
Until recently, I've never been that interested in feet. They're quite far away from my face and I've always liked it that way. What's changed is my interest in how physical dysfunction can be eliminated with movement pattern training and corrective exercise strategies.

As a society we're plagued by a heap of physical problems. Lower back stiffness, knackered knees, bum shoulders, a catalogue of issues that keeps us in pain which could easily be resolved by progressive and regular exercise.

TRX Suspension Trainer Review

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Even more suspension training, courtesy of Fitness Anywhere's TRX system. Designed by ex navy SEALS, which ticks a few boxes on the macho bloke side of things, the TRX claims that it will make your body your machine. Really? We'll find out in this post and the follow up where we pit the TRX against the LifeLine Jungle Gym in a supension training system smackdown!

PowerClub Basics - Choosing the right size clubs for you

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I've been using the PowerClubs for a while now and regularly get asked how best to choose the right size to train with.

Guys especially, refuse to believe that a "light" club will ever provide enough resistance to gain any appreciable results with, that is until they try the PowerClubs out!

The reasons why PowerClubs are so effective stem from the extreme leverage disadvantage a weighted club presents. Couple this with explosive lifting and swinging and you have a recipe for a monster workout with not much resistance.

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