“Intense resistance training without adequate aerobic endurance exercise may not be good for your cardiovascular health” FitGreyStrong 2019 The aorta (the largest artery in the body and that which sits at the top of the left ventricle, the heart’s muscular pumping chamber) can be assessed for arterial stiffness (the stiffer it is, the worst the prognosis)…
Published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers Dr Thomas Longland and co. showed that during marked energy deficit a diet higher in protein was more effective in promoting increases in lean body mass (muscle) and losses of fat mass when combined with a high volume of resistance training (weights) and anaerobic exercise (sprints)….
Last October l presented at the Ancestral Health Society of New Zealand (AHSNZ) International symposium with the title of my talk: “Why the “strengthification” of Gen X’ers & Baby Boomers is the greatest health challenge of the 21st century”. In this session I discussed a number of things in relation to ageing and the dynapenic/sarcopenic…
This is not going to be a long in-depth blog. In fact, it will simply provide a very condensed review of the paper recently published by Churchward-Venne et al (2016) in the Sports Medicine journal where they discuss: “the current state of evidence regarding the dose-dependent relationship between dietary protein ingestion and changes in skeletal…