Category Archives: Fitness and Health
Imagination and Knowledge
You can always imagine and create what you haven’t been taught, or what might be. If school doesn’t enable you to think outside the confines of the previous body of knowledge, then are you any different to a programmed robot?
As Bruce Lee said: “Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, and add what is uniquely your own.”
Thoughts from Ross Kemp on Gangs
Watching Ross Kemp on Gangs and some very eloquent, hardcore South African gangsters. The most successful ones appear as crafty and strategically innovative as anyone would be in achieving success in any other line of work.
It was also interesting to see how boxing is used to keep children away from gang life. Martial arts to me is spiritual, a way to channel our natural aggression in a positive manner into disciplined and focused activity. It facilitates both mental focus and physical mastery.
We can become great at anything we put our time and dedication into… especially if we start early in life. The earlier we start, the more experience and progression we can achieve.
THE BASICS: DEALING WITH MUSCLE TIGHTNESS – RECIPROCAL INHIBITION AT WORK.
I normally have a tight pec minor and bicep on one side (“Deep Front Arm Line” in myofascial train theory). I did some simple tricep activation on that side (it’s usually switched off), and the tension was reduced significantly.
Hence the lesson is: we need a combination of appropriate neurological activation as well as myofascial techniques in order to create balanced muscular activation and optimal functional movement throughout the body.
Myofascial tension is a consequence of both mechanical/structural effects as well as neurological factors.
STATINS – CHOLESTEROL LOWERING DRUGS AND A PARADIGM SHIFT
Wow, even those doctors are starting to wake up to a generation of misinformation from the “healthcare” and pharmaceutical industries. It appears that cholesterol is not the enemy, nor saturated fat. This brings into question the wisdom of the widespread propagation of statin use.
“Just lowering cholesterol with drugs without sorting out the dietary and lifestyle factors that actually cause heart disease is nonsensical. Besides, there are plenty of other, more reliable indicators of heart-disease risk.”
“Many experts now believe that sugar is emerging as a true villain in the heart-disease story; while after decades of demonisation, saturated fat has been acquitted of causing heart disease by a recent “meta” analysis of 70 studies by Cambridge University.”
“For men, high cholesterol was associated with heart disease and death from other causes. But so, too, was low cholesterol — below 5mmol/l. Again, this is only an association, not a causal link. A range of between 5mmol/l and 7mmol/l was the optimum level. Guess what? This is already the national average. In addition, numerous studies have linked high cholesterol levels with increased longevity in the elderly.”
Caveat emptor!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/10717431/Why-Ive-ditched-statins-for-good.html
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