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A popular proverb says "Have and do what you love, or at least love what you do and have". Although a fair supporter of the idea of pursuing one's dreams, there is something just as necessary, fulfilling, and yet easier to achieve: it's the "love what you have" part. Because we grew up in the 20th century, we just take for granted what surrounds us nowadays. Same goes for our ...

If you're around South-East Asia, you like nature, gorgeous sunrises and sunsets, challenge, and you're in good physical condition, then I do recommend that you go for climbing the 4000+ meters of Mt Kinabalu. Here is some very valuable advice from someone who's done it in the worst possible conditions and learned from it for next time. The ascent is done in 2 steps. You register the first morning ...

The main worry of most athletes and trainers, whether they perform resistance training or aerobics, is how fast they can progress. A question that should be addressed with a lot more attention is: If I stop training, how much of what I gained am I going to lose? The numbers are quite striking and much likely to make you think twice before you keep off the track or ...

Ok, if you workout  by doing the same stuff you find on all websites: forget about all that, it's bullshit. I mean it may work but it's obsolete and inefficient. You need to train smartly basing your action on science and research rather than recommendations of popular gorillas. When you look like him you are on the right path: Apart from the 1-set to failure workout method, heavily described ...

In a previous article (Two-set prediction of 1 Rep Max), I presented Matt Brizky's two-set method for 1RM prediction. It is indeed a much better metric for physical performance assessment than all those calculators based on averages. I would like to explore to what extent muscle composition can be extracted from the KG vs. REPs plot. People with a high proportion of Slow Twitch (ST) muscle fibers tend to ...

Neither fundamentally innovating nor world-changing, this business idea doesn't go however without getting my support. It's about offering not products or services, but experiences, the meaningful kind. French Entrepreneur Nicolas Ronco started in Manhattan a napping salon. Now you have an alternative to maintain a flexible lifestyle if your job application for Google was rejected. For 12 USD, you get to take a nap in a very comfortable long chair, ...

This is a mode of advertising that I fancy very much. No more general "Because you are worth it", faking to make you special while it's in fact targeting mass public. In Rotterdam, Fitness First, an international chain of fitness rooms, has designed this really cool bus shelter a few meters away from their fitness room. Although I value the originality of this design, I wonder to what extent the ...

Scientific journals, even the most popular peer-reviewed ones, remain human organizations and therefore cannot avoid the human imperfection in rationality. The process of peer-reviewing consists of having other contributors of a research journal read and criticise on your proposed article prior to publication. Usually several researchers are solicited and hold the responsibility of making sure content and writing style meet the expectations of scientific research : proposing a form of ...

Sometimes, in fitness exercises, the exercising individual would have to raise a part of their body (body submass) as an exercise. Eventually the body submass raised can be associated with an extra free weight to add intensity to the exercise. A typical problem is to log this type of exercises properly.

When facing what seems to be a problem, we nearly always cure/fix the symptoms and not the core issue itself. Distinguishing symptoms from the problem itself is however quite simple. Symptoms, a necessary alarm There is nothing more natural for a person than wait for symptoms to come up so as to identify a given problem. For example, many dentists and doctors will agree that most patients are brought to ...