Best book on Lifting

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by nitro, Jun 2, 2010.

  1. i think your stupidity kinda stands on its own merit.

    :D
     
    #441     Aug 19, 2010
  2. My stupidity, your stupidity. Wow, well done. And here I was wondering when the "Your Mom" jokes were going to come flying. :p
     
    #442     Aug 19, 2010
  3. uh lets see your mom wears the army boots because she had the bigger balls?

    not too bad huh

    just off top o'my head :D
     
    #443     Aug 19, 2010
  4. What is this? Again? You plagiarize again after I specifically told you I do not find it charming? heh

    I am done. I will just stick to observing.

    Of course, you'll have to reply to this, otherwise you will not seem childish, ha! Here is my reply to your reply in hieroglyphics... :eek: :mad: :p :)
     
    #444     Aug 19, 2010
  5. just don't forget to put a dollar in so window goes back up :D

    now, back to proper training, lifestyle and diet
     
    #445     Aug 19, 2010
  6. lescor

    lescor

    Kind of on topic, but how do you guys define "Fitness"? What does it mean to you to "be fit", what about "health" and "wellness"?

    How would you say one guy is fitter than another when comparing? What sports or activities produce the fittest persons?
     
    #446     Aug 19, 2010
  7. Psychological or physical? I'll assume physical as you're asking on ET. VO2max/Fick Equation is the most widely used measure of cardiovascular fitness. Road cycling and XC skiing produce the "fittest" athletes in the World.
     
    #447     Aug 19, 2010
  8. nitro

    nitro

    Right. Key in everything is to get your definitions correct. I suspect that we have very wide ideas as to what "fit" means. To a professional athlete whose very living depends on reducing risk of injury and has to be able to play in 120 degree tennis courts, or -20 weather, or has to have cross training, or has to be able to withstand the rigors of a navy seal, these all require different fitness and training.

    Obviously some of you guys are very hard core. To me fit means being able to concentrate at a high level for long periods of time, reducing my need to sleep to six to no more than eight hours a day, to be able to play a game of basketball with buddies at the gym and not poop out, and to "look the part".

    Even when I considered myself very fit, one day a brother of a friend that was a competitive cyclist invited me to race him around a track. We went around this track very fast, I lost by a wide margin, but I looked like I was totally unfit. I was using muscles that I simply hadn't used, maybe ever. I then challenged this guy to a 1/4 mile foot race, crushed him, and he didn't even look like an athlete running. I think some of us are gazelles, some are cheetahs, some are gorillas, some are dolphins, etc. We are adapted for some sort of exertion imprinted on our genes from long ago, when your athleticism meant you ate, or didn't eat.
     
    #448     Aug 19, 2010
  9. nitro, how about trying intermittent fasting and reporting back to ET with the results?

    "Intermittent fasting
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Intermittent fasting (IF) is a pattern of eating that alternates between periods of fasting (usually meaning consumption of water only) and non-fasting. A specific form of IF is alternate day fasting (ADF), which is a 48-hour routine typically composed of a 24-hour fast followed by a 24-hour non-fasting period. (ADF is also sometimes referred to as every other day (EOD) fasting, or sometimes every other day feeding (EODF).)

    There is some evidence that intermittent fasting may have beneficial effects on the health and longevity of animals—including humans—that are similar to the effects of caloric restriction (CR). There is currently no consensus as to the degree to which this is simply due to an (often) concomitant overall decrease in calories. (IF and CR are forms of Dietary Restriction (DR), which is sometimes referred to as Dietary Energy Restriction (DER).)

    Scientific study of intermittent fasting in rats (and anecdotally in humans) was carried out at least as early as 1943.[1]"
     
    #449     Aug 19, 2010