Disobedience, Ego, and Cholesterol
Today's topics include junk science, the impact of slow breathing, traumatic brain injury, and holistic health care.
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training
Strength, conditioning, process reflections, systems principles, technical analysis, it's all here for fighting sports (specifically grappling) and a few rock climbing oldies and general concepts and principles that translate across all physical endeavors. Of course, there's a few posts on recovery and performance development as well!
Sleep, Performance, and Cognition
I was catching up on the Learner Lab Podcast and it brought up the importance of sleep in cognition and motion (i.e. athletic) performance…
Carnivore Diet 90 Day Review, Part 4
Statistical correlations of performance and recovery on a nose-to-tail carnivore diet.
Easy Strength Review
Easy Strength, a.ka. Even Easier Strength, a.k.a. The 40 Day Workout, a.k.a. the program so effective you won't finish it.
Do Athletes Need Carbs?
How accurate is the narrative that athletes need to fuel their training with carbohydrates?
Wanting it to Work
Nothing worthwhile ever happened by accepting the status quo.
Returning to BJJ
BJJ is what I've spent the most recreational time investing in and thereby paying returns to myself. Climbing might be a close second, but a lifetime ago and one could argue that you can take the fighter out of the cage, but never the cage out of the fighter.
Making Climbing Special Again
Exercising soul sports and try-hard.
Deadlifts for Climbing
Climbers want to get strong right? Actually, we probably want to climb "harder" and "get better at climbing" and believe that "getting stronger" will get us there, right? Deadlifting has been pretty in vogue in climbing training circles for a while now, so I'm offering a bit of salt to
Climbing Training: Maximum Finger Strength
Getting your digits as strong as possible!