Archive | November, 2011

In Full Agreement with Drew Baye: An End to “High Intensity” Exercise

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Exercise

Drew Baye recently published a post titled “Why NOT High Intensity Training?“. The timing could not be more perfect. Not more perfect because I had been wanting to make a similar case here on TDL for a few weeks now. The case that by labeling real and proper exercise, “high intensity”, we are in fact perpetuating the insanity that is status-quo exercise lore, myth, and superstition.

In fact, even labeling exercise as “proper” or “real”, or any such thing, only reveals how young the subject matter is, and how utterly ignorant the majority of those who claim to know something about it are. For example, children are not taught “real” addition, subtraction, and multiplication — or “intense” division.

Nor is anyone learning “the secrets of the alphabet” in grade school. Such ideas are nonsensical and ridiculous to us.

And the same attitude must be applied to exercise if the science is to ever drown out the voodoo-shamans of our day like Tony Horton, Jillian Michaels, P90Shit, Insanity Home Stupidity, and thousands of other witch doctors claiming to know anything…

A Primal Thanksgiving Dinner

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Nutrition

The dinner consisted of,

  • roast duck
  • roast turkey
  • pumpkin cheesecake (extra thick crust)
  • pumpkin pie
  • stuffing /w bacon + sausage
  • green bean casserole
  • small dish of cranberry/blueberry sauce
  •  large bowl of cranberry/apple sauce
  • sweet potato slices
  • mashed potatoes /w cheese
  • turkey gravy
  • duck gravy

But wait, is it primal? In a large sense, yes, because all of the food was gluten free, and all of the fat used was animal based, including the crusts for the pies, which were made with 100% grass fed KerryGold butter. The cheese was unfortunately not grass fed, but could have been without much extra trouble.

In addition, not only was the food absent of gluten and gluten grains, but was also absent all the other nasty shit you find in most foods today — home made or store bought. Pumpkin pie and cheesecake bought at stores today for example typically come with loads of hydrogenated oil, high fructose corn syrup, and generally speaking, mild poisons that in a long enough time span, lead to a slow and painful death.

Sounds far fetched for that yummy, warm pumpkin pie — but yeah, it’s killer in…

Training Expectations Over a Lifetime

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Exercise

Click the picture to watch now, 100% free. Read below for the bio.

Skyler Tanner, the youngest Superslow™ certified instructor in history, has been a personal trainer for over a decade. Currently a general manager at Efficient Exercise (Austin Texas), Skyler is working toward a graduate degree in  Exercise Science with the intent of obtaining a Registered Clinical Exercise Physiologist certification from the American College of Sports Medicine.

Having effectively experimented with a wide range of training modalities, Skyler is a strong proponent of safe, effective, efficient, and intense exercise as espoused by trainers and authors such as Doug McGuff M.D., Drew Baye, and Bill DeSimone.

In this presentation Skyler shares his thoughts on training expectations over a life time, advocates long range thinking in your training efforts, and encourages the audience to view training as something that (can and should) positively affect the entirety of your life.

P.S. On a personal note, this is a really good speech, in large part, a video version of

Chronic Lower Back Pain | Discussion & Treatment

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Exercise

 

James Steele (or James Steele II as he is known online and through his blog) is a 23 year old Lecturer and PhD Research Student at Southampton Solent University in the UK. James is an exercise scientist by profession having gained a first class honours degree in Applied Sport Science and during his time of study working with a wide range of elite athletic populations including; international Ironman triathlete’s, Paralympic wheelchair basketball and rugby, semi professional muay thai fighters and professional football (soccer). In addition he has worked with non-athletic populations including the elderly, diseased and a population that he is currently conducting research with; sufferers of chronic low back pain.

James is active as an academic pursuing his PhD research into chronic low back pain, its multifactorial symptoms and the effects of isolated resistance exercise for the lumbar extensors in treating it. He has also recently had a paper published with his colleagues, on which he was second author, presenting the scientific literature of resistance training and suggesting recommendations for…

Video Blog | Atlas Shrugged Video Review

By Anthony Dream Johnson in Reviews