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Just a quick post to illustrate what a good breakfast can look like: What you see above is eight egg whites scrambled with some pepper and other herbs, some leftover dirty rice from last night’s dinner and a few blackberries. Lots of protein, some good carbs and some micronutrients from the berries to top things …
After over four decades in the fitness biz, I’ve come to believe that the reason someone will or won’t exercise is a little more subtle than just “willpower”. People who would never even think about exercise will suddenly warp their lives around it if the proper incentive is there. A high school reunion, becoming single …
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Some things are good for preventing tendon issues, and some things are good for fixing them. Nutrition is one area that’s good for both, so eating for tendon health is really essential. I consider breakfast the most important meal of the day. And when I coach people for personal training and fitness, the first step …
Exercise form matters, especially if you’re in the gym a lot. Plenty of people do triceps extensions to help build up their arms, but probably over ninety percent of them are doing it “wrong” in terms of helping to avoid elbow tendon pain. The short explanation is: keep your upper arms slightly off the vertical …
People who spend a lot of time in gyms know about the importance of post-workout nutrition. But they usually only think about how it affects their muscles (and sometimes their bodyfat). However, that insulin spike your get shunts nutrients into all sorts of areas that need it…including your tendons. Sports nutrition researchers know this (see …
So this is me at sixty. I’ve just gotten done with a workout and I thought I’d take a pic with my new iPhone. It’s funny, I can immediately understand how to use any piece of equipment in the gym—even ones I’ve never seen before—but trying to figure out my iPhone is like learning a …
I want to talk a little bit about how you need to eat if you have a tendon issue. Eating to repair tendons isn’t that difficult, but you do need to focus on a couple of important points. First and foremost, tendons are composed of protein, so you need to make sure that you’re getting …
Ask anyone whose time in the gym is measured in decades, and they’ll tell you that it’s not the muscles that go first, it’s the soft tissue: the joints and tendons, the spongy discs between your vertebrae, the ligaments holding all your tiny foot bones in their proper place, the cartilage between your ribs… I’ve …
I’ve written about topical (applied to the skin) capsaicin before, and my take is that creams and so on that contain capsaicin are pretty much worthless for relieving tendon pain. But there may be some merit to injecting capsaicin into your body in order to provide some temporary relief from pain. In a 2015 study, …
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Happy New Year, everyone! Let’s hope that 2022 finally puts an end to 2020, lol. This year I want to start uploading more video content. It’ll allow me to give more information in a shorter amount of time, and (hopefully) give more specific advice on topics like foam rolling, stretching and so on. Text is …