Nope. What DOES maximize fat loss is caloric balance when viewed on a 24-hour basis, not an hour-by-hour basis. The idea behind cardiovascular training on an empty stomach is that your body will tap into its fat stores to fuel the exercise, thus burning more fat. Well, this is true if you only look at [...]
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Here is my previous post on swings. If you haven’t read it you should. This post will build upon that one. Here’s the basic summary on how to do swings (for those who don’t want to read it): -Push you butt back (hip hinge) -Crack a walnut (snap your hips through by squeezing your glutes) [...]
READ MORE »I’ve got to keep this brief… my mind feels like mush from 6-days of very little sleep. You don’t even want to know how many spelling and grammatical errors I’ll encounter while typing this… So, great. I trained through a pregnancy. I met my goals of a very short labor and proved to myself (for [...]
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What’s a good way to get in a fairly decent volume without killing your form (and thus failing to benefit from your workout)? Ladders!! Ladders are multi-set workouts where one variable (reps, weight or rest periods) progressively get harder. It starts off fairly easy (if it doesn’t, you need to make adjustments), increases in difficulty [...]
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Ryan and I heard lots of interesting and “powerful” guesses to what we would name the new baby boy. Names like Zeus, Stone, Titus, and the like. Here’s what we settled on: Duke Fredrick Walls Duke was born at 12:45pm on May 23 – 7lbs. 9oz – 21″ long. The funniest thing about the whole [...]
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Can you out-snatch a doughnut? This was a question and challenge presented to us at the RKC this past weekend. There was a study done by Dr. John Porcari and Chad Schnettler at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse (you can also google it and find the PDF explaining the study). Using measurements like oxygen [...]
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It is believed that there is only ONE female strength coach working with a Division 1 men’s basketball program. Who is this mystery woman? Her name is Andrea Hudy and she is the strength coach for the Kansas men’s basketball team. She’s also someone you should get to know. This link will direct you to [...]
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“Being weak is stupid.” – Max Shanks Senior RKC Instructor This is one of my favorite quotes from this weekend’s RKC certification. The other was from Pavel Tsatsouline, the Russian himself, “Eet warms my heart to see leetle veenmen svinging beeg bells.” Today’s post is my personal review of the RKC certification that I attended [...]
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I’m about to have SO MANY knowledge bombs dropped on me this weekend at the RKC certification that my brain just might explode from Kettlebell Overload (not an actual disorder… but I will be very surprised if I don’t come down with the first ever documented case). I’m very excited and hope to pass but, [...]
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I hate to say it, but I don’t have much for you today! I’m fairly preoccupied by trying NOT to go into labor so I can get some critical SAPT things squared-away. I’ve made up my mind that I WILL make it to the scheduled induction next Wednesday… we’ll see who inevitably wins this war: [...]
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