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Part II – The Maffetone Method

Time to jump right in to the continuing series on the case for low-intensity exercise. As those who are familiar with me know, my stance on exercise has moved continually in the direction of higher intensity exercise after looking at everything from the vantage point of metabolic rate. And, more and more research continues to pour in that shows that vigorous exercise will give you a lot more in...

Sarcopenia

By Matt Stone I’ve been thinking a lot about aging lately. My grandfather, age 87 and my last living grandparent, ain’t doin? so hot. And yes, he’s old. He’s falling to pieces. He’s going to eventually die. I’m not fighting that, and tend to look at whether it happens now or several months or even years from now as pretty inconsequential in the grand scheme of...

Eccentric Training

Getting back to our conversation on High-Intensity Training (HIT) and Body By Science, today is a little primer on one of the basic fundamental principles of this form of exercise… The idea behind the exercise is to present the muscle with a new, and greater challenge each time you perform each exercise. When the muscle gets fully exhausted, and is presented with a challenge that it cannot...

Mercola Interview with Doug McGuff

Joe Mercola’s exercise journey has been one of the most captivating things to happen over the last couple of years in the internet health underground. Well, I think so at least. I like it because it has taken some of the focus off of the neurotic obsession with nutritional minutiae, and put the focus on something far more basic and simple. Like myself, one of?Mercola’s first...

Body By Science

Ah, the long-awaited post on Doug McGuff and John Little’s exercise opus – Body By Science. Let me purge a few of the sour tastes out my mouth first, so we can get into the good stuff -?because I’do think that Body By Science offers your metabolic rehab “patient” the best?of all exercise solutions. My most major complaint is the tremendous overreliance on scientific...