Foot Mobility Progressions II

Another great look at working on your feet by Kelly Starrett.

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Weight Loss Through Hydration

Weight loss is never easy and the more and more one searches about the factors that can help the bigger the list grows as to all the things that should help you lose weight.  Lets return to the basics.

Want to make a small change that you probably already utilize? It's simple, HYDRATION.  Water has been shown to have wonderous benefits on your body but one area of untapped potential is the ability it has to help you lose weight.  Let's break it down for a minute:

A calorie is the amount of heat that is required to raise one liter of water one degree celsius.  If you were to drink 3 liters of ice cold water (starting at around 0 degrees celsius) and use all your body's energy to raise that water up to body temperature, 37 degrees celsius, you would burn between 100-125 extra calories a day just by drinking water.  Think of the added effect that could have over the weeks and months.

Your body does whatever it can in order to keep a constant temperature of 37 degrees celsius (98.6 degrees fahrenheit).  This is another added effect of drinking cold water.  When ingested the cold water will actually decrease your body temperature and force your body to produce more heat in the form of burning calories.  As an added bonus the added hydration will allow your body to feel better and make your cells work more efficiently.

You can further use water in your quest to lose weight.  Using cold therapy stimulate decreased in body temperature will also cause the body to burn more calories in the form of heat.  There  are several ways  to utilize cold therapy, lets start with the least painful.

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Are Athletes really Getting Faster, Stronger, Better?

By: Joel Luedke

Updated: 2/19/18

On my most recent trip to India I had the honor to speak at Symbiosis International School and the topic was on Sports Science and Technology.  The talk was a broad overview of what you might be able to do if you dove into the world of sports science.  The list is long and distinguished but it was great fun and challenge to really dive into what was out there and tested my own knowledge.  Long story short and we got to the question and answer part and someone asked me "are athletes really getting more 'athletic' or is technology making it appear that way?"  My first thought was to refer them to this specific talk but they stole my thunder and referred to the talk.  Now I was on the spot but as I thought about it, this is what I came up with.

Elite athleticism is to me elite athleticism.  Irregardless of the time period.  That helps explain how Jesse Owens could potentially compete for a gold medal against Usain Bolt if he were to run today and factor technology into it.  To me those are two "once in a lifetime " athletes that almost no matter what are going to do something incredible.  But where does that leave the rest of us.

While technology can make a huge difference I think we talk about "non-elite" athletes, the ones that may not be as genetically gifted that is where the training and technology can make a huge difference.  In the past we may not have been able to maximize these athletes potential because we didn't know how to train them differently from someone that might be more gifted.  I think that is where we are now and we can now get them to the highest levels of their ability which might have been just a dream before.  This could give the athlete that never formerly had a shot, the best chance to make it big.

This is still a great video and well worth checking out but don't throw everything out to the side just because it doesn't fit every case.

A very interesting talk on weather athletes are truly getting better and more fit/athletic and also what role technology in sports has done to help produce better athletes.  My personal favorite is the discussion on where Jesse Owens would have finished if he compared to Usain Bolt when he ran 9.77s in the 100m if Jesse Owens was allowed the same spike, block and track technology that Bolt had.  It was somewhat surprising to me that he would have been within one stride of the fastest man ever.  Quite the interesting thought.