In one of those neat bits of synchronicity, I was just reading Phillip J Eby's blog (Dirtsimple.org) archive and he was talking about a book called "Combat Conditioning". (Hmm, and now I look back at it, that entry is also talking about the same topic as Steve's podcast of today. Spooky.) Quote:
"Combat Conditioning" [...] is a really fascinating treatise on the benefits of non-isolationist bodyweight-based exercises.
In effect, Furey argues that bodybuilding with weights creates "false" muscles, by exercising only the body's larger, more-showy muscles, leaving the ancillary postural muscles to atrophy. By contrast, bodyweight exercises work a larger set of muscles, including the ones that help with things like sitting up straight -- and preventing carpal tunnel syndrome.
| There's a review of some of the techniques at Bodybuilding.com - Mike Mahler - Combat Conditioning: Five Months Without Weights!
P.S. If you want to get in shape, it really helps to know what shape you want to be. Bruce Lee, Arnold Schwarzenegger and an olympic marathon runner are all very fit, 'in shape' individuals but they are very different shapes and train in very different ways...
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When people see things as beautiful, ugliness is created.
When people see things as good, evil is created.
When the way is forgotten, 'morality' and 'piety' need to be taught.
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Last edited by Keith; 01-09-2007 at 08:20 AM.
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