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Early Intervention at Every Age:The Perils and Promises of Praise. Fitness - Are small workouts worth the time? - Fitness and Nutrition - Stack Exchange. Let's start at this point: Some exercise > no exercise In short, if you are doing something, anything, you will make positive steps toward fitness. The problem with stopping there, is that usually the something people choose, doesn't maintain their interest. This can be a result of not perceiving any benefit, or shear boredom.

Your goals are stated in this way: I'm not looking to get bigger (anti-goal, a limiter of things you are willing to do)I just want general fitness So the 5 million dollar question is: what is general fitness? Strength, the stronger you are, the better your quality of life as you can pick up heavy things, and resist injury better.Conditioning, the more conditioned you are, the better you can keep blood flowing through your body and you can have the energy you need to do what you want.Mobility, the more mobility you have, the more range of motion you have without pain.

The question isn't so much what you don't want to do, but what you are willing to do. Workout A. Responses | 2012 Annual Question | Edge. The Epidemic of Obesity, Diabetes and "Metabolic Syndrome:" Cell Energy Adaptations in a Toxic World? "Metabolic syndrome" (MetSyn) has been termed the "Epidemic of the 21st century. " MetSyn is an accretion of symptoms, including high body mass index (weight-for-height), high blood sugar, high blood pressure (BP), high blood triglycerides, high waist circumference (central/visceral fat deposition), and/or reduced HDL-cholesterol, the so-called "good" cholesterol.

Epidemics of Obesity and diabetes are intertwined with, and accompany, the meteoric rise in MetSyn. The prevalent view is that MetSyn is due to a glut of food calories ("energy") consumed, and a dearth of exercise energy expended, spurring weight gain—an "energy surfeit"—with the other features arising in consequence. After all, we have more access to calories, and are more often sedentary, than in times gone by. In turn, MetSyn factors are each linked, in otherwise-healthy young populations, to higher mortality. L’effet McGurk, vous connaissez? Vous serez mystifiés! Correlation vs. Causation (A Mathographic) As part of our quest to understand the Algorithm, we do a lot of correlation analysis here at SEOmoz. We tend to dive right into the deep end, so I thought it might be a good time to take a step back and talk about the absolute basics of correlation, including some warnings about causation.

We’ll often say (and hear) the fallback phrase – “correlation does not imply causation”, but people rarely dig into what that means. To make this experience as pleasant as possible for the math-phobic, I drew you a picture. I’d like to introduce the world’s first Mathographic. Ok, it’s probably not the world’s first, and it’s really just an infographic, but give a guy credit for trying to keep you entertained.

View Full-sized Infographic (796 x 2200) Embed this image: <div style="width:604px;"><div><a target="_blank" href=" ><img width="600" height="1658" alt="Correlation vs. Yikes, looks like something went wrong. Quel programme de MUSCULATION faire avec seulement 2 haltères ? « Bonjour, je débute la musculation chez moi à la maison et je ne dispose que de deux haltères réglables de 10 kilos. Quel programme de musculation me conseillez vous ? » Le programme qui va vous être donné est très basique.

En effet, avec deux haltères, vous allez être assez restreint dans le choix des exercices et par la suite être vite limité dans votre progression. L'idéal serait de rajouter à votre matériel une barre droite avec quelques rondelles de fonte pour pouvoir diversifier votre entrainement. Le site de musculation vous propose un programme full-body, idéal pour les débutants.

Le programme full-body ci-dessous peut être réalisé 2 à 3 fois par semaine. Ce programme a été testé par de nombreuses personnes du forum, et les retours sont très positifs ! Séance N°1 Pectoraux : Dips, 4 séries au poids du corps avec le maximum de répétitions possible. Séance N°2 Pectoraux : Pompes, 4 séries de 15 répétitions avec les pieds surélevés (haut des pectoraux). Séance N°3 Nos conseils ! How to Choose GTD Software. How to Practice Pull-ups without Equipment - Fitness and Nutrition - Stack Exchange. Current community your communities Sign up or log in to customize your list. more stack exchange communities Stack Exchange sign up log in tour help Physical Fitness beta Ask Question Take the 2-minute tour × Physical Fitness Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for physical fitness professionals, athletes, trainers, and those providing health-related needs. How to Practice Pull-ups without Equipment 2 Answers active oldest votes Your Answer Sign up or log in Sign up using Google Sign up using Facebook Sign up using Stack Exchange Post as a guest discard By posting your answer, you agree to the privacy policy and terms of service.

Not the answer you're looking for? Get the weekly newsletter! Top questions and answers Important announcements Unanswered questions see an example newsletter By subscribing, you agree to the privacy policy and terms of service. Related How Can I Stop Swinging On Pull-Ups? How to improve pull-up rep count How to train up to 50 pull-ups? How can I increase my pull-ups reps? Cool Running | Intermediate 10K Program. Posted Monday, 8 September, 1997 First things first: bookmark this page so that you can check on your progress. You can also add daily run reminders to the Cool Running homepage as you roll through the weeks of this training program (to do this, edit your start page preferences). This program contains some speed workouts. (For more information on the types of speed workouts, we lay it all out in "The Runner's Building Blocks").

A few quick notes on how speedwork is described here: The distance in parentheses below fartlek runs includes a mile each of warmup and warmdown, in addition to your fartlek sessions. All other workouts (including the long runs) should be run at an easy training pace -- emphasis on "easy. " Finally, the pre-training schedule. The schedule The schedule peaks at about 35 miles per week. Workout - How to Get Bigger And Stronger with no gym or weights - Fitness and Nutrition - Stack Exchange. The basic building blocks of all successful exercise regimens will require a decent understanding of Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome.

The initial theory has been expanded to include a two-factor conceptual model of adaptation syndrome: You need stress sufficient to disrupt homeostasis (the current level of adaptation)You need rest sufficient to allow the body to hyper-compensate (i.e. adapt to handle more than the stress you last gave it). Initially you will see good gains no matter what you do.

However, the trick is to increase the stress enough to require adaptation. Weight lifters and body builders do that by increasing the weight on the bar, and manipulating the sets and reps that they use. If you are restricting yourself to strictly body weight exercise, then you have to adjust other variables: Leverage: more inefficient leverage will cause more stress on some muscles.Volume: when you multiply the sets times the reps, you get the volume of exercise. Strength - What are some short 30-minute body-weight lift routines for travel. - Fitness and Nutrition - Stack Exchange. I've been practicing You Are Your Own Gym (YAYOG) by Mark Lauren for 3 weeks. I've never been fitter. Your problem was similar to mine. It took me for more than 10 years to get this solution. I joined a fitness club long time ago but I hardly could practice at my club because I traveled a lot.

I became sedentary for a long time (my obese weight record was 110kg meanwhile my height is 175cm). This certified Military Physical Training Specialist, Special Operations Combat Controller, triathlete, and champion Thai boxer offered me simple program that builds more muscle than weightlifting, burns more fat than aerobics, and is safer than both. I still remember I couldn't even lift my body for only 1 push up a year ago, now I can do more than 50 push ups. Although it's my 3rd week on YAYOG but I insist myself to practice Muscular Endurance to really get used to it, not to mention because I rest too long, because I've been fighting my High Blood Pressure and Vertigo. Hope this helps. Pushups for muscle building. Remember when you were in gym class and the coach made you drop and give him twenty pushups? He was probably a sadistic, power-hungry tyrant, and you swore that you'd never do another pushup once you were out of his jurisdiction.

But think again. Pushups are about the most convenient way there is to build up your chest, not to mention your shoulders, arms and upper back. Here are five pushup variations that you can do anywhere, anytime. Besides, you may run into your old gym teacher one of these days. Your goal: 10-15 repetitions of each. Standard Pushups: Lie face down on the floor with your palms at shoulder level, fingers pointing forward. Want to look great in less time? Transform Your Body! Movie Guide | Anime Movie Guide. Movie Count: 63 Do you have feedback, questions, movie suggestions or review copy offers? You can contact us at contact@animemovieguide.com *protected email* I’ve spent more time than I care to think about watching anime movies in my life thus far.

I’ve seen both astoundingly spectacular and horrifically terrible anime movies. I’m giving you the full benefit of my anime experiences in the form of this list of mini-reviews. To ease the navigation of this guide, here are some anchor links to take you straight to the individual studios: Studio Ghibli | Studio Madhouse | Katsuhiro Otomo | Production I.G. | Makoto Shinkai Shinji Aramaki | Fumihiko Sori | Keiichi Hara | A-1 | Tin House | Studio 4°C | Bones | Brain’s Base Gainax | Shaft | AIT | Square Enix | Gonzo Pre-Ghibli Studio Ghibli was officially formed in 1985. Hayao Miyazaki Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro (1979) Rupan Sansei: Kariosutoro no Shiro (ルパン三世 カリオストロの城) Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984) Kaze no tani no Naushika (風の谷のナウシカ) Weightlifting 101 « Stack Exchange Fitness Blog. Weightlifting is one of the most popular tags on Fitness and Nutrition Stack Exchange.

We all know that weight training involves moving chunks of metal around, but beyond that it can get confusing. One reason for this is that information about training can be based in science or based in anecdotal evidence (personal experience). In this article, I will summarize basic, scientifically-established weight-training advice. That said, I’m not saying you shouldn’t try other things: sometimes athletes get ahead by taking a chance on an anecdotal technique, and it ends up giving them an edge. This usually piques interest in the scientific community, leading to studies which may provide more legitimate support for the technique. The information in this article is based on the American College of Sports Medicine’s position statement on resistance training for healthy adults, unless otherwise stated. As your muscle function improves you need to increase stress on it.