Health
A truly gigantic study entitled “Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016” has determined that no amount of alcohol should be recommended for ingestion. Via The Lancet: Alcohol use is a leading risk factor for
Cycling
In a new study from Stanford University and the Swedish School of Sport and Health Services comparing the accuracy of seven different fitness trackers, the Apple Watch was found to have the lowest margin of error when measuring heart rate, besting the Basis Peak, Fitbit Surge, Microsoft Band, Mio Alpha
Exercise
When it comes to strength training and bodybuilding the desired traits of training usually include raw strength, power, speed and putting on muscle mass. Mobility, how well your joints move, is often left by the wayside or confused with flexibility. Mobility, however, is key to developing strength and size efficiently
Exercise
A few months back I hurt my shoulder performing bench press. I put on a little too much weight and let my form go and ended up with a sharp pain in my shoulder and the inability to sleep on my side or bench more than about 95 pounds without
Cycling
Those of you who frequent the site know I spend some time over on Reddit. I was checking out some stuff on r/Fitness recently and I came across this Chest 101: An Anatomical Guide to Training post and I just sighed to myself and moved on. But later on
Diet
Should you or should you not be eating the yolk along with the whites of your egg? The debate has been going on for ages. There’s a lot to like about egg yolks. Compared to egg whites, the yolk contains most of an egg’s good stuff, including the
Book
In 2007 I decided to get serious about weight lifting. I scoured the internet for a place to start and nearly every source pointed in one direction, Mark Rippetoe’s Starting Strength (SS). So what is Starting Strength, who does it work for, what are the programs’ pros and cons?
