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Focus on Writing - Writing

It's been a little over a decade since I first began publishing content online. Gradually it's moved from static sites to blogs, ebooks and posts on various forums.

Of the blogs, by far the most successful has been Straight to the Bar. This strength-training site now has a larger readership than all of my other sites combined; and accordingly, this is at the top of my daily blog-posting list.

The other key aspect of my writing relates to the article-writing, editing and consultation work I do on an ad-hoc basis. I love doing this work, and in order to move from ad-hoc to regular I intend to repurpose this site as a portfolio; rather than a blog.

With this change comes the relocation of a number of articles which have appeared here over the years. As there have been several thousand pieces, I'll only be keeping the best of them. These will appear gradually - slightly updated - on my corner of EzineArticles.

In the meantime, here are a few of my favourites on other sites. Enjoy.

Environmental
Saving Water (part I, II, III, IV, V ,VI)

Diet and Nutrition

Fitness and Health

Speed Bounds - SttB Articles


Via Conditioning Research : try some of these in your sprint work - Speed Bounds. Good fun.

Zercher Slosh Walk
Zercher Slosh Walk. Great exercise.

As The Angry Runner has discovered, the Slosh Pipe is great for stuff like this : the Zercher Slosh Walk. Good fun.

Miura Does It Again - SttB Articles

Via The Adventure Blog : think 76 is too old to tackle Everest? Think again.
Scott Styles posts several videos from the Chicago Grip Association's latest gathering. Good stuff.
UPDATE 04/05/15 : The video below was available when this post was written, but has since been removed by the user.

Apologies for that.

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cheers,

Scott



Flags getting a little easy? Try them with ankle weights.



Via SCAQ : what are your swimming starts like? Here's a look at how Ian Thorpe leaves the block.

Running
Great day for a run. Photo by luiginter.
Via Conditioning Research : another study looks at the benefits of strength training for endurance athletes. Maximal Strength Training Improves Running Economy in Distance Runners.

Where's Karl? - SttB Articles

Via The Adventure Blog : ultra-runner Karl Meltzer, that is. His mission? To run the entire 2,174-mile Appalachian Trail in less than 47 days (that's more than 46 miles per day). Insane.
Ori Hofmekler
Creator of The Warrior Diet, Ori Hofmekler.
I recently began reading a blog called the IF life (Intermittent Fasting). The blog brought me back to the days when I was doing the warrior diet religiously. I've written about this before on my own blog. I went back and re-read the blog post. I'd like to re-quote some of my own stuff and give further comments now that I am eating 4-5 times a day, with an increased protein intake.
Every time I went on the diet, I lost weight instantly and had tremendous energy during the day. But maintaining the diet was very tough. Hunger pangs are not fun, and most people can't eat 2000 calories at one meal like Mr. Ori can.

Ori Hofmekler must be one tough cat. Anyone who follows the Warrior Diet is tough. Maybe I'm just not as tough. But then again, it's hard to eat 6 times a day. I've basically come to the conclusion that it really doesn't matter how many times a day you eat, but instead what you eat. The funny thing is that both the Warrior Diet and the 6-times a day eating philosophy revolve around one thing: increasing your metabolism. The Warrior Diet claims that under-eating will detoxify your body, making your body run more efficiently; then when you do eat your evening meal, your body will be able to use those nutrients more effectively. Makes sense. But what's the use if you can't stick to it? I think eating 2000 calories throughout the day is a much better idea than eating 2000 calories in one sitting.

But Under eating, from what I've discovered, doesn't mean that you starve yourself. It means that you eat less than you normally do to prevent a tremendous increase in insulin. Ori goes on to talk about the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and the parasympathetic nervous system (PSNS) and how the SNS is what wakes us up and the PSNS is what puts us to sleep.

Those insulin spikes are the real enemy, in my view. What I discovered through following the Warrior Diet was that I was extremely carb-sensitive. It was the carbs that were making me fat. I decided it was better to control my carbs rather than not eat anything through out the day and then eat what I crave (carbs) at night. I was probably only eating 1000 calories a day on the diet, but the percentage of carbs were huge. Further more, it did not solve the fact that I needed to eat more protein in my diet. Before the warrior diet, I was eating approximately 80 grams of protein a day. Yes, I know, not optimal, but on the Warrior Diet, that number would often drop down to 50 grams.

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