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Category: fitness

  • Damien Walters

  • A Brief History of Disease, Science and Medicine by Michael Kennedy

    A Brief History of Disease, Science and Medicine: From the ice age to the genome project By Michael Kennedy MD FACS “‘Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as…

  • My Workout Adjustments

    More Rest Days As follows every 1-2 week near-full vacation from working out, I feel better, healthier and stronger, and look better than ever while I torture myself. I am going to attempt to keep myself away from the gym and out of my running shoes for 2-3 days per week. More Warm Up and…

  • Turf Toe

    I recently sprained my big toe from barefoot Ultimate Frisbee. I should not have assumed that an ability to barefoot run for 40 minutes corresponded to being able to perform the side-to-side, twisting, and rapid acceleration and deceleration involved in Ultimate Frisbee for a full hour. Luckily, while I had to stay in Saturday night…

  • How to Train for 100 Consecutive Push Ups

    I started Phase 2 of this plan 45 days ago, doing sets of 20 push ups. Now, I can do sets of 44 push ups. I expect to be able to do 100 consecutive push ups in 45 more days. From 20 to 100 consecutive push ups in 90 days sounds good to me. Workouts…

  • Active Fascial Contractility

    Fascial tissue may the ability to contract and adjust stiffness, potentially to the benefit of athletes under prolonged periods of mechanical stress. Endurance training may include an element of fascial tissue training which would work in conjunction with muscular endurance to further develop our bio-mechanical endurance. What is fascia? “Dense irregular connective tissue sheets in…