Thursday, July 3, 2008
Hunter meets Hippie (well, Vegan) for 30days
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Registered Dietician, trainer and vegan Ryan D Andrews pointed out this resource recently:
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Morgan Spurlock, the director of "Super Size Me" has a TV show on the FX network called "30 Days."
The new season just started. A recent episode featured an avid hunter from the South who spends 30 days with a PETA activist and her vegan family in Southern California to gain insight into the animal rights cause.
Sound good? It was.
Check out the episode by clicking on the link below:
http://www.hulu.com/30-days
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Caffeine, Context and Recovery
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Would you take a *big* hit of caffeine with some carbs if it increased your muscle glycogen uptake by 66%?
What if you learned that taking protein and carbs for post recovery gave you a 40% improved uptake, would you risk doing the caffeine and it's side effects for that extra 26%?
Over at iamgeekfit there's look at some new research, and some thoughts on same re:recovery. Tweet Follow @begin2dig
What if you learned that taking protein and carbs for post recovery gave you a 40% improved uptake, would you risk doing the caffeine and it's side effects for that extra 26%?
Over at iamgeekfit there's look at some new research, and some thoughts on same re:recovery. Tweet Follow @begin2dig
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Deadlift Digest: Resources
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Pavel Tsatsouline demo'ing the DL in PTTP
Beyond of course Pavel Tsatsouline's Power to the People aka PTTP, here are some of my fave finds for deadlift resources.
Online Refs:
For inspiration:
And this just in, recommended by RKC Fireman Tom:
If you have some fave deadlifting resources of information or inspiration, please shout.
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Pavel Tsatsouline demo'ing the DL in PTTP
Beyond of course Pavel Tsatsouline's Power to the People aka PTTP, here are some of my fave finds for deadlift resources.
Online Refs:
- Brett Jones article on deadlifting progressions, post PTTP
- Eric Cobb of ZHealth: Reflexive Lifting: How To Make Your Neural Reflexes Work With You And Not Against You!
- Eric Cressey's T-mag articles:
For inspiration:
- video of RKC Mike T. Nelson PR'ing in knee highs
- video of Ruth Kasirye DL'ing 5reps with 150kg
Mike Nelson's Deadlift - Case Study with Fawn Friday
- And just about anything by Mark Rif Reifkind and Jack Powerlifter54 Reape over at the DragonDoor training forum.
And this just in, recommended by RKC Fireman Tom:
If you have some fave deadlifting resources of information or inspiration, please shout.
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Feline Differences: Puma Super and Future Cats (and Free 7)
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Get flat shoes!
That's what everyone is told who starts with KB's - at least everyone who goes in through the RKC style training.
Get flat shoes!
is also what you hear in deadlifting a la powerlifting schools, or doing pistols, a la Naked Warrior
Get flat shoes!
is what you hear at the RKC certs.
In each case it's either that (flat shoes) or go bare foot. There probably were one or two brave souls who did the grad workout at the 08 cert in denmark on the sandy stuff barefoot, but most folks want some foot cover.
To this end when i started KB'ing, i took the advice of those in this space who recommended either the default converse chuck conors or the Puma 'cats.
This note is just to articulate why you might want to get the older model and perhaps less fetching super cats rather than the more stylish/slimmer and aptyl named Future cats.
It's all about sole
This is the bottom of the swanky future cat:
And this is the bottom of the speed cat
As you can see, the future cat narrows under the arch. If you look at the super cat, there's more surface area ander the arch. You can see just ahead of the heel towards the arch, in fact there's just a thin strip if material that's really on the ground there.
This narrowing was not an issue to me i thought - doing all my lift work and kb work with these shoes when i had to wear shoes. Indeed, it wasn't a perceived issue until i got to the rkc cert and in really focusing on form in new ways, noticed that my balance was being rocked. It's hard to describe but it did not feel like i had a stable platform under my feet.
I've since gone over to the tried and true speed cat. There is an *immediate* difference in feel. The sole is solid; the rubber is sticky. there's a great sense of GROUND in these shoes.
I mention this comparison at all because in the future cats i thought i was in fine shape and feeling the ground really well, good foot plant etc. It's only (a) in being in a place to feel the lack of full stability that forced me to (b) try something else, i could see the difference.
Take home lesson here:
not all flats are created equal/equally well for lifting/swinging.
I'm not sure why the chuck converse are still so favored by the lifting crowd vs these speedcats: there is even less padding in the speedcat it seems than in the chuck's; the rubber sole also seems thinner, more true ground?
Freedom's just another word for...
While we're at it, the nike free x-trainer seems to have come a long way to be a potential lifting candidate.
I know a lot of folks who swear by the nike 5 runner, while others still disparage it as a squishy shoe, but the trainer/free 7, seems to be very very close to a flat. Unlike the 5, the heel in the 7 is low - not a wedge - or very much reduced; it's not bouncy either.
I'd be keen to know of folks who use this as a lifting or kb'ing shoe - for when shoes are required.
Meanwhile, here's a reply from Pavel Tsatsouline:
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That's what everyone is told who starts with KB's - at least everyone who goes in through the RKC style training.
Get flat shoes!
is also what you hear in deadlifting a la powerlifting schools, or doing pistols, a la Naked Warrior
Get flat shoes!
is what you hear at the RKC certs.
In each case it's either that (flat shoes) or go bare foot. There probably were one or two brave souls who did the grad workout at the 08 cert in denmark on the sandy stuff barefoot, but most folks want some foot cover.
To this end when i started KB'ing, i took the advice of those in this space who recommended either the default converse chuck conors or the Puma 'cats.
This note is just to articulate why you might want to get the older model and perhaps less fetching super cats rather than the more stylish/slimmer and aptyl named Future cats.
It's all about sole
This is the bottom of the swanky future cat:
And this is the bottom of the speed cat
As you can see, the future cat narrows under the arch. If you look at the super cat, there's more surface area ander the arch. You can see just ahead of the heel towards the arch, in fact there's just a thin strip if material that's really on the ground there.
This narrowing was not an issue to me i thought - doing all my lift work and kb work with these shoes when i had to wear shoes. Indeed, it wasn't a perceived issue until i got to the rkc cert and in really focusing on form in new ways, noticed that my balance was being rocked. It's hard to describe but it did not feel like i had a stable platform under my feet.
I've since gone over to the tried and true speed cat. There is an *immediate* difference in feel. The sole is solid; the rubber is sticky. there's a great sense of GROUND in these shoes.
I mention this comparison at all because in the future cats i thought i was in fine shape and feeling the ground really well, good foot plant etc. It's only (a) in being in a place to feel the lack of full stability that forced me to (b) try something else, i could see the difference.
Take home lesson here:
not all flats are created equal/equally well for lifting/swinging.
I'm not sure why the chuck converse are still so favored by the lifting crowd vs these speedcats: there is even less padding in the speedcat it seems than in the chuck's; the rubber sole also seems thinner, more true ground?
Freedom's just another word for...
While we're at it, the nike free x-trainer seems to have come a long way to be a potential lifting candidate.
I know a lot of folks who swear by the nike 5 runner, while others still disparage it as a squishy shoe, but the trainer/free 7, seems to be very very close to a flat. Unlike the 5, the heel in the 7 is low - not a wedge - or very much reduced; it's not bouncy either.
I'd be keen to know of folks who use this as a lifting or kb'ing shoe - for when shoes are required.
Meanwhile, here's a reply from Pavel Tsatsouline:
Com. mc, I am sure all of the above are fine but training barefoot is best.And, July 12, 2008, this just in from Mark Reifkind sorta explaining Pavel's epigram:
there are mechanoreceptors( sensors) in your feet that relay critcal information about where your body is in space to your brain that get distrupted by soft cushy shoes.hard soled, flat shoes, or being barefoot allow these sensors to give the body the most accurate information possible.
barefeet also allow for much better "rooting" during your kb practice which is critical for full body efforts, allowing you to create strength and power from the ground up.
Also training barefoot or with thin soled shoes really help strengthen the feet,which are critcal for ankle knee, hip and ultimately, back strength and stability.
Not sure who the quote is from but it's apt:
" the smarter the shoe, the dumber the foot".
We evolved for millions of years barefoot, the design is good if we use it.
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- bare foot with sole: quick review of dopies
Monday, June 23, 2008
Kilts - An Awesome KB garb
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At the RKC Denmark Cert, Doup Nepodal demonstrated some KB manouvers while dressed in a kilt (shots by Mark Reifkind).
Very Fetching, oui?
I'm a long time fan of modern kilts for the freedom of the garment and the great pockets for all your STUFF.
If you're interested in walking in kilted footsteps, here's a story of sales experience with Seattle kilt maker Utilikilts (the type Doug is wearing) Edinburgh's own 21st Century Custom Made to Measure re-imagined kilt (shown left, denim pinstripe) by Howie Nicholsbie (his belts are pretty cool/fun, too). Tweet Follow @begin2dig
Very Fetching, oui?
I'm a long time fan of modern kilts for the freedom of the garment and the great pockets for all your STUFF.If you're interested in walking in kilted footsteps, here's a story of sales experience with Seattle kilt maker Utilikilts (the type Doug is wearing) Edinburgh's own 21st Century Custom Made to Measure re-imagined kilt (shown left, denim pinstripe) by Howie Nicholsbie (his belts are pretty cool/fun, too). Tweet Follow @begin2dig
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