Tom Furman's been posting some great stuff lately over at Physical Strategies. Among the recent posts you'll find the following:All great food for thought.
Mark Reifkind takes us back to a time in Westside Barbell training before DE and ME days, when the routines were a little simpler and powerfully effective. If your current routine is looking anything like mine (it seems to have grown a little wild over the past few months), perhaps another look at the origins of this great system will inspire a few changes. They certainly did for me.
Mike Robertson makes a reappearance on Episode 28 [.mp3, 15.4mb] of The Fitcast. As always, it's a great listen.
Just came across the great online home of Swedish writer, nutritionist and strength coach Joachim Bartoll. His blog also contains some very interesting stuff.
The December Robertson Training Systems newsletter contains a brief interview with Turbulence Training's Craig Ballantyne. He's an interesting guy.
Blaine wraps up this month's series on injuries with a comprehensive look at common running injuries. A very good read.
A very interesting study by a team of Scottish and Canadian researchers looks at the ideal seating position - at least as far as stress on the back is concerned. For those of us who spend an high percentage of each day seated, this is definite cause for consideration; the best angle to be seated at is apparently around 125 degrees (leaning back slightly).
Via Tom Furman : a great moment from 1970s bodybuilding champion Ehrling Wahlgren. A 780 lb reverse deadlift.
On Scott Sonnon's shiny new myspace blog (well, new anyway) there's an interesting article on '7 Keys to reactive agility'. Like Jason Ferrugia, Sonnon suggests just a few changes to training routines for combat athletes.
Julia Ladewski's current newsletter contains an interesting snippet by Dr John Berardi - Increasing water intake. This can help in several areas (including fat loss), and can be achieved in part through the following :
- Drink cold water - cold water is more palatable, improving 'mouth feel' and ingestion
- Add lemon - lemon increases urge to drink and also kills bacteria
- Chuggables - always carry some sort of jug of water around to ensure you're drinking. Rubbermaid makes a nice blue top container (Chuggables) that we recommend to our clients.
