How I dropped to 5.6% body fat and gained muscle, part 1
As I approach my 76-th birthday this August, I have made some changes in how I eat and exercise. I weigh about 203.6 +- 2 pounds and my body fat reading several days in a row is from 5.3 to 5.6%. That...
View ArticleAmusing
Yesterday I was at the Tropicana for a meeting and the waitresses thought I looked liked Michael Douglas. I told them I was his father, Kirk, who is 10 or more years older than I and a wonderful...
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Effective Exercise to Slow Muscle Loss With Aging -- Concepts
Take a look at the long protein that stretches through the entire sarcomere that is called the giant protein TITIN. It is a sensor of stretch and contraction and passes through the M-band and the...
View ArticleIs Endurance Exercise Really Beneficial?
This is brief and somewhat speculative. I question that endurance exercise is really beneficial. The problem is a bit definitional. What is endurance exercise? It seems that in almost all discussions,...
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Statins and Exercise
Pathways for muscle damage and rhabdo. Statins block an enzyme that occurs early in the long chain of events leading to the production of cholesterol. Many other fats and enzymes originate on that...
View ArticleMy latest work out
This might be interesting because I am departing from a few old practices in light of my age and a knee and hip replacement. I am not lifting heavy weights, or not what I consider to be heavy weights....
View ArticleSecret Stuff: Wonder Work out for delts
I love this and no one knows about it. No need to talk of the theory, though I love to do that. It is a micro work out in the totality of a workout, which is always a mixture of the hard and easy.You...
View ArticleThe Rest of the Delt Story
There is a bit more to the delt work out I described in my last post.When I have finished the mini-work out I head for the lateral raise machine (a Cybex in this gym) and do 8 reps at a starting weight...
View ArticleStem cells and aging
I have begun investigating the activities of those so-important stem cells. They are cell precursors that can differentiate to become almost any sort of cell. They are crucial to making and repairing...
View ArticleFat and Paleo
I wonder often how Paleo Diets evolved towards a high-fat diet. This is not the Paleo diet as our ancestors knew it and there are many problems with a high-fat diet. It MAY be slightly superior to a...
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