Topic

Health

A collection of 38 issues

Location, Location, Location

There's two types of fat storage in the body. Subcutaneous fat stored under the skin, and visceral fat that's stored around the organs in the abdominal cavity. The fat stored in the skin is pretty much harmless - it's the fat around the organs that's the problem, causing or contributing

Super Setting Hardware

You can speed up your time in the gym by utilising "super sets". The idea is that if you've 2 or more movements that are antagonistic to each other (push vs pull), then they can be performed one after the other with a shared rest period.Movement A and movement

Weight Training The Heart Muscle

Positive heart-health promoting exercises generally fall under the banner of cardio, which can be broken into 2 main forms; HIIT (high intensity interval training) and LISS (low intensity steady state). Both have their place, and arguably neither is superior to the other. Resistance training, can be overlooked in this regard,

New Year, New Diet?

Lifestyle vs DietI'm not a fan of the term "diet" due to the temporal nature of the word. If you're in a position where you require weight loss, then a lifestyle change that's more permanent than a diet is likely more appropriate, to avoid the inevitable weight regain that happens

Training End of Year Review

Final training session of the year now logged. Not so much a resolution, but hope to break the 1M kg mark next year. Improvements on the main lifts this year: Lift Old PR New PR Increase Squat 140kg 160kg +20kg/14% Bench Press 92.5kg 102.5kg +10kg/11% Deadlift

Mental Strength

Squats are regularly referred to as the "King of Exercises" as pretty much every muscle in the body is involved in some manner - including facial muscles as you grimace! What's sometimes missed in this description, is not only do they induce physical strengthening, but can also improve mental resilience

Low Fatigue Training

Current Low Fatigue training program has been eye-opening this last month. Normally, Squats and Deadlifts would be at opposite days of the week to try and minimize their interference on each other, but now performing them side-by-side within 24hrs, twice a week. Being able to have a Squat session, and

Autoregulation

Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE) is a scale that's used to grade exercise intensity. I avoided using it for a few years, with the aim of keeping my training "simple". My ethos at the time was "training to failure", and although that may work for high rep hypertrophy focused training,

Variations FTW!

When you first start weight training the progression is pretty straightforward as you're adding weight to the bar almost every session. This honeymoon period can last several months, but eventually other strategies have to be employed to keep progressing. The answer is normally found in increasing the volume. The more

Oh, shiny!

Got myself an incline bench as I change things up following a setback in my covid recovery. Even though I thought I was taking it easy, I must have pushed it a bit much and my immune system was still in a weakened state that lead to an infection -