I meant to give at least a couple of these more individualized attention, but I moved this week, and that is always a nightmare (I think it's the top of my "Suckiest Non-Tragic Things" list). Anyway...
- The Great Fitness Experiment: Sugar Busted. I met (online) Charlotte recently when Mark's Daily Apple linked us both up in the same post. She runs a great (and funny!) blog, and her sugar post hits home given my current abstinence experiment. Sounds like we have pretty much the same sugar bug, and she even links me up! Very cool.
- I've written a bunch on Tabata Intervals, but Matt Fitzgerald really sums them up nicely (can't remember who pointed me to this one). Like Charlotte's, Matt's blog just found a prominent home in my aggregator.
- The World's Healthiest 75-Year-Old Man. Three THOUSAND reps?!
Art De Vany, Proof of Concept:
I want to show that the conventional wisdom that aging causes a decline in muscle mass, increased obesity, a fall in testosterone, and an unfavorable alteration of blood lipids is not true. So, what are the relevant facts?
Great to read following on the heels of the Sisson post on aging I mentioned recently.
Excellent post my Mark Sisson on anti-aging drugs. The specific bit I liked:
While I support antioxidant therapy, I'm also in disagreement about the article's assertion - and the common belief - that diseases such as diabetes and cancer are due to aging and not simple lifestyle factors. These aren't diseases of aging, they're diseases of bullsh*t. We have this deeply ingrained belief, it seems, that aging inherently comes with disease and we're all just, well, screwed. Watch drug commercials and it would seem that once we hit 55, all that's left to do is retire, bicker about leftovers with the old ball and chain, and apparently settle in for a few decades of drugs, walkers, pee bags and pain prescriptions. But aging doesn't have to mean - and shouldn't mean - wrinkles, broken hips, weakness, and disease. Far from it. There's no reason you can't be as lean, strong, and energetic at 50, 60, 70, and even 80 as you were at 25. The key is not a drug, but a healthy, preventive lifestyle.
Make sure you click through on his link. I want to age that well. Just gotta get off the crack sugar.
UPDATE: Very related, see this post by Art De Vany, Proof of Concept.
Fight Age With Muscle:
...sarcopenia ["the loss of muscle mass that occurs naturally -- and inevitably -- with age"] creeps by in imperceptible increments, stealing a fifth of a pound of muscle a year, from ages 25 [!] to 50, and then it picks up a dreadful, yet still mostly silent, velocity.
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