Robin Ashe

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Jun 28	comment	Increasing Carrying Capacity The Texas Method proposed in Starting Strength is similar to Stronglifts 5x5, they suggest 3x/week. That can work quite well for the first two weeks, but you might find quite soon after the first two weeks that having just 1-2 rest days between workouts is insufficient and you'll have to switch to 2-3 rest days and eventually 3-4 rest days. This will depend on how your body adapts and how well suited your environment is to recovering. As long as you're increasing the weight at a steady pace, you're not taking things too easily. By far the greatest risk is overtraining.
Jun 27	comment	What other changes should I make to my weightraining plan and diet to continue losing belly fat? I suppose you could look at it that way.
Jun 27	comment	What other changes should I make to my weightraining plan and diet to continue losing belly fat? You should really split this up into multiple questions. One specific issue at a time.
Jun 27	comment	What are good books on muscle building heavily based on science? Finally, try finding any scientific study that lasts more than 8 weeks, let alone 12. 8 certainly isn't long enough to draw any good conclusions, and 12 really isn't either.
Jun 27	comment	What are good books on muscle building heavily based on science? Also, the nature of scientific research precludes being able to research things in a manner that's representative of real world usage. Did Arnold Schwarzenegger become a powerlifting champion turned bodybuilding champion by only following rigourously tested scientific research? Did Arthur Jones only follow rigourously tested scientific research in training Casey Viator and Sergio Oliva? No and no. The best results come from those who followed intuition, trial and error and scientific research.
Jun 27	comment	What are good books on muscle building heavily based on science? I'm saying scientific research says nothing more than what it says, while people try to infer a lot more out of it. Any scientific research only really makes observations on the people that were studied, and how it applies to you really depends on how closely you match up with the people who were studied. Anecdotes are equivalent to a scientific study where N=1, and depending on how closely you match up with the persong giving the anecdote, it's more valuable to you than the scientific research where N=20.
Jun 27	comment	What should I look for in a (beginner) rock climbing shoe? Yes it does, look for shoes that don't have symmetrical lacing.
Jun 27	comment	Is it safe to do jogging on asphalt? That's the propper way to walk, I'm not suggesting it for running. Any walk that doesn't involve heel-outside-ball is incorrect. Talk to a chiropractor or other such health professional if you won't believe me. There's nothing wrong with supination and pronation as long as you do both in a single step, they're both natural parts of walking.
Jun 27	comment	I have extremely bad posture, what can I do? I'm addressing problems with your answer. Claiming that knee injuries from squats is BS is disingenuous. Sure, if done properly /most/ people can do them safely, but that's not the same thing as all. Taking into account the outliers by not pre-emptively dismissing them is characteristic of a good answer.
Jun 27	comment	I have extremely bad posture, what can I do? And that diagram shows exactly what the problem is - the knees are that much farther forward, with heavy weights that's not going to be kind to them. Why force yourself to do an exercise that you'll never be very good at, and have a higher risk of injury, when you could do something else and get better results with less risk of injury?
Jun 27	comment	Is there an age limit for high-intensity sports like Brazilian Jiu Jitsu? I know about Helio, and he's a perfect example of being able to do BJJ in your nineties, and that it isn't so intense that only young guys can do it. Think about it though, did you ever hear about Helio in his old age rolling with someone with a huge chip on his shoulder, like Wallid Ismail? If you're rolling with Wallid, yeah, it's going to be intense all the time, but he also has a huge attitude problem too.
Jun 27	comment	I have extremely bad posture, what can I do? @Sancho, as I said, someone with a femur longer than their torso, and a shorter tibia would not be able to squat with what anyone would describe as proper form. That's definitely an outlier in terms of physical proportion, but that's why Doctors will say squats are bad for your knees - they get the outliers coming in with knee injuries from squats. They don't see anyone with ideal body geometry for squats coming in because for those people squats aren't a problem, and people with ideal body geometry assume someone who gets injured does so because of poor technique.
Jun 27	comment	I have extremely bad posture, what can I do? Quite frankly for some people, squats of any kind can be dangerous, depending on pre-existing injuries and unideal biomechanics - someone with a long femur and short torso is going to have a much harder time doing squats than someone who's proportional.
Jun 27	comment	What are good books on muscle building heavily based on science? You ask that question as if you think scientific research is somehow more true, which also suggests a lack of understanding of the scientific method.
Jun 27	comment	Is there an age limit for high-intensity sports like Brazilian Jiu Jitsu? I know what BJJ is. It doesn't have to be intense, if your technique is good, endurance isn't much of a factor because you don't use much energy. Same goes for strength, particularly when you're wearing a gi.
Jun 27	comment	Best stretches before weight training Running and weightlifting are quite different. Decreased strength doesn't pose much of a risk for jogging. It poses a huge risk for lifting heavy weights. There's plenty of other sources as well - look at any current 1st or 2nd year HKIN textbook and it'll tell you the exact same thing, and explain why.
Jun 27	comment	Best stretches before weight training Sure, there's plenty out there if you search, but here's one to start. chiroaccess.com/Articles/… “Overall, the evidence suggests that increasing range of motion beyond function through stretching is not beneficial and can actually cause injury and decrease performance. These findings should be used to challenge common warm-up practices in athletics.”
Jun 26	comment	What are exercises for better posture and flexibility? This is probably a good example that if you're completely sedentary, doing any sort of even moderately physically demanding exercise will improve your posture. As long as what you're doing puts enough load on your muscles to stimulate strength gains, your posture will improve.
Jun 26	comment	Are calories the only important aspect of a diet? You're wrong, it's that simple. This is from an MD, and he could find nothing wrong with either case. It's not about calories, it's about macronutrients. Calories were a hypothesis, and the hypotheis is unsupported. 800 calories a day and gaining weight means calories are bunk. You can't even rationalise that away with a fast metabolism for high caloric intake and weight loss. The calorie hypothesis is quite possibly the worst thing to happen to fitness, nutrition and health. It sends people on a wild goose chase instead of focusing on the stuff that actually matters.
Jun 26	comment	Are calories the only important aspect of a diet? I would actually agree that there's no connection to weight control and callories. If they did have a connection, you wouldn't have some people steadily gaining weight while eating 800 calories per day, or steadily losing weight while eating 8000 calories per day and not doing any exercise. While in some cases you might be able to find a correlation between weight gain and loss and calories, they're still completely unreliable as a predictor of weight or controller of weight.