By: Matt Weik
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I really like your website and I find it very useful, I want to add that I use the swiss bal for clients and myself for warmups and sophisticated complex movements to loosen problems from car accidents or surgery where the body is confused or needs its own body weight to organize itself on its own terms, ie self balancing one’s own weight in full range motions of twists and turns. This is more like dance training or gymnastic or contact improve, pilates, style training. This is of course not high end bodybuilding. Instabilty training is more for recruiting groups of muscle as warm ups or warm downs or for people who find yoga too static. Like comparing yoga to bodybuilding, not right or wrong, but very useful for very specific goals. You are very right that instability ball training or balance boards, do not focus force for heavy weight lifting into the peak contraction. I would just the opposite happens, the instability recruits thousands of tiny muscles of the spine, occiput, and rib cage and coordinates them with the standard core muscle groups in sports training. When i have clients with back pain, if they first warm up slowly with short situps and then increase to full range situps over the whole ball , then normal crunches and bodybuilding exercise can happen without back pain.
I believe it’s from 2008 when the results of a study on 3 diets had just been published.
The diets were:
Low CarbLow FatMediterraneanThe clip is from Good Morning America (I think).
I’m not offering this clip as proof of anything (I didn’t think the study was that great). It’s simply something interesting to watch. I’ve covered the effectiveness and safety of low-carb nutrition already on this blog and plan on doing more in the future. Stay tuned!
Of note is the girl’s quote at 27-30 seconds. Watch it first and I’ll tell you why I thought it was interesting.
So the quote I was talking about above was “Low-fat, ‘cuz you need carbs“. The girl was asked which of the 3 diets she would do.
The truth is that protein is ESSENTIAL. There are of course ESSENTIAL fatty acids. And carbs…….they’re not ESSENTIAL. Carbohydrate is the one macronutrient in the human diet you could knock out and still live a perfectly healthy life.
I say this of course to emphasize a point, NOT to recommend a ZERO carb diet. I don’t.
I do recommend either cycling your carb intake or taking a glycemic-controlled approach like GLAD. A permanently high carb diet means chronically elevated insulin and running the risk not only fat-gain, but heart disease and type 2 diabetes in the long term.
Stay Healthy!
Mark
P.S. If anyone out there has any more footage of Dr. Atkins on TV, I’d like to see it. There was an appearance on Larry King that I’ve never seen and doesn’t seem to be on YouTube. If you have any links etc. let me know.
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You must drill this into your mind once and for all: muscle growth is a DEFENSE MECHANISM. The training you perform must be seen as a THREAT by the body so that it not just compensates for what you did, but OVERcompensates and puts more muscle back than was there before the workout.
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