High Intensity Training Techniques
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From Andrew over at MPF-
What’s a complex? Two or more exercises, back to back (choose bang-for-your-buckers, no filler isolation moves!), done back to back for a set number of reps, sometimes timed, with the same resistance–bodyweight, barbell, dumbbell, kettlebell, your dog. Then you have a timed rest period; then you repeat ad vomitissumus. If you’re using a barbell, you never put it down. If you’re using a dumbbell, you never put it down. If you’re using a kettlebell, that’s right, you never put it down. At this moment, I’m still holding the barbell, dumbbell, and kettlebell I was using this morning. Very tough.
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This is just a form of super-sets but very effective. We do a similar workout for legs that includes-
Leg Press- 315lbs x 20 reps
Hack Squat machine- 225lbs x 20 reps
Regular Barbell Squats- 135lbs x 10 reps
One leg Bench Squats- 10 reps per leg
If you do these back to back with no rest in between for 3 supersets (or whatever you want to call them) you will walk out of the gym (maybe) with your legs shaking and your stomach ready to throw up. Just try it.
Effects of Even Brief Overeating Hard to Overcome
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This is a very interesting study- It basically shows that overeating and lack of exercise have long term effects even after people clean up their diet and resume exercising. Psychologically, it becomes easier to see why many people seem to struggle with permanent weight loss. In the US where practically everyone overeats significantly, you can see what a problem this creates. I suspect that once people get used to overeating, it is very hard for them to ever return to a diet that actually allows them to lose all the weight they have gained.
The article doesn’t say what kind of exercise the people engaged in but my experience is that high intensity resistance weight training does exactly the opposite of what this experiment showed and physiologically changes a persons metabolism.
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The effects of a sedentary, gluttonous lifestyle are hard to shake, even after the person has become an upstanding, healthy individual, a new Swedish study suggests.
Researchers found that even a short period of overeating and a lack of exercise can have lasting effects on a person’s physiology and make it harder to lose weight and keep it off.
Eighteen healthy people of normal weight were given the arduous task of limiting their physical activity (to no more than 5,000 steps a day) and increasing their food intake for four weeks. The participants in this so-called intervention group ate 70 percent more food, for a total of about 5,753 calories a day, over the study period.
However, one year after the study period, those individuals still had more body fat than they did at the study’s start.
5 Salads that are worse than a Whopper
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Good Salad
Salad sounds so healthy… but really, it all depends on what is on the salad. If it is lettuce, bacon and ranch dressing, you might as well get the Whopper. Pretty much any creamy dressing is going to be extremely high in fat and sodium- and BTW, no one uses one serving of dressing on a salad. Most people use 3 or 4 servings. The general rule of thumb is that if it is creamy, it is because it is made from fat. This just shows how important it is to check the nutritional info on the restaurants website because their marketing dept has been working overtime to convince people that their offerings are healthy. So, with that in mind, here is the worst salad you can buy at a chain restaurant in America-
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T.G.I. Friday’s Santa Fe Chopped Salad
1,800 calories
Calorie equivalent: Burger King Double Whopper, Medium Fries and Small Chocolate Shake (1,800 calories)
This is the worst salad in America. T.G.I. Friday’s doesn’t reveal full nutritional information, so we don’t know how much salt or fat this monstrous dish packs. Here’s a hint: Never, ever order a Mexican-themed salad, no matter where you’re eating. As in this case, they’re usually huge dishes of heavy burrito toppings on a bed of lettuce leaves. The only salad you’re safe to order at Friday’s is the Cobb.
Check out the other “bad salads” here-
Would you like Lipitor with your burger?
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Giant Burger...
Here is a crazy concept… hand out free anti-cholesterol statin drugs with high fat fast foods. I guess the idea is that since you won’t get people to quit eating unhealthy food, you might as well give them the magic pill to partially counteract the effects. At that point, why don’t they just mix it into the hamburgers. The idea of encouraging people to eat unhealthy foods by lowering the risk with drugs just seems crazy to me. If you have to take a drug to keep something you eat from killing you, it seems like common sense would tell you not to eat it. But as the saying goes- “common sense is not all that common”. From MSNBC-
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Fast food outlets should hand out free cholesterol-lowering statin drugs to their customers to “neutralize” the heart risks of eating fatty foods like burgers and fries, British scientists suggested on Thursday.
But a few experts say you might want to ask your server to hold the statin at this point.
In a study published in the American Journal of Cardiology, scientists from the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London calculated that the reduction in heart disease risk offered by a statin could offset the increase in risk from eating a cheeseburger and a milkshake.
“Statins don’t cut out all of the unhealthy effects of a burger and fries. It’s better to avoid fatty food altogether. But we’ve worked out that in terms of your likelihood of having a heart attack, taking a statin can reduce your risk to more or less the same degree as a fast food meal increases it,” said Dr. Darrel Francis, who led the research team.
…”Although no substitute for systematic lifestyle improvements, including healthy diet, regular exercise, weight loss, and smoking cessation, complimentary statin packets would add, at little cost, one positive choice to a panoply of negative ones,” the scientists write in their paper.
