CST Free Weight Exercises By Scott Sonnon

Normally, my newsletters are “hidden” pages available only to our subscribers, but with the content today, I thought I’d open it up to the rest of the world.  After all, it’s not like you can just get a rock star like Dr. John Berardi to do an interview for your site.  JB has been a [...]
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I have been avoiding post workout shakes for quite a few years now. In fact, I typically wait 1-2 hours after working out before I eat any type of calories. This flies in the face of the standard science-based idea of post workout nutrition. Why do I wait so long, when others are rushing to the locker room to chug down protein shakes? It is actually pretty simple.

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An interesting story. ?Association or causation?

AUGUSTA, Ga. – People with schizophrenia are at increased risk for type 2 diabetes, Medical College of Georgia researchers have found.

In a study of 50 people newly-diagnosed with schizophrenia or a related psychotic disorder with no other known risk factors, 16 percent had either diabetes or an abnormal rate of glucose metabolism, says Dr. Brian Kirkpatrick, vice chair of the MCG Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior. In a similar size control group of people without schizophrenia, none had signs of or had developed the disease.

People with diabetes cannot produce or properly use insulin, a hormone that converts glucose, starches and other food into energy.

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Have you ever wondered what the quickest way to lose weight is? I know I get this question a lot from subscribers, through email, etc… so I figured I’d address it here because this question is not an easy one to answer.
Why Do You Want To “Lose Weight”?
Barring the obvious example of an athlete who [...]

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But I feel an overwhelming sense of dread coupled with duty to discuss [...]
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Jumping from foam is much harder than jumping from a hard surface because your force is absorbed into the foam (which obviously has much more “give” to it than a hard gym floor).

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I’m not known for sitting still. I beat all my competitors whether on the mat or in the boardroom, but training and working while they slept cozy in their beds, by pounding the books and studying every science possible from neuroscience to biotensegrity, and by traveling [...]
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If you have a pitcher athlete with good shoulder ROM (normal GIRD and symmetrical total motion), sufficient thoracic spine mobility, good scapular stability, and adequate tissue quality who has rehabbed and long-tossed pain-free, but has shoulder/elbow pain when he gets back on the mound, CHECK THE HIPS!
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U.S. researchers have found a gene responsible for turning a plate of pasta into fat, offering new clues about how the body metabolizes carbohydrates and how they contribute to obesity. Reuters….

The actual abstract is here - although I don’t think you would immediately get the pasta makes you fat message from that! Anyway, what is interesting to me is the way the news story presents some things:

• there is a process in the liver that turns carbs into fat;
• the researchers seem to know that bread, pasta and rice make people fat:

“We hope that this research will one day help people eat bread, pasta and rice and not worry about getting fat,” Roger Wong, a graduate student who worked on the study, said in a statement.

• there is this potential genetic method of stopping carbs making you fat…

“The DNA-PK disabled mice were leaner and had 40 percent less body fat compared with a control group of normal mice because of their deficiency in turning carbs into fat,” Wong said.

He said the mice who lacked this gene did not get fat when they ate high-carb food and they had lower levels of blood cholesterol, which can reduce the risk of heart disease.

Since humans have the same gene, the team thinks it may serve as a potential target for drugs to prevent obesity.

Why not just stop eating the bread, pasta and rice? Genetic engineering made simple.

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