This is from a friend's upcoming DVD. Mike Casto is a fellow Shen Chuan person as well as Sikal guy. If you have a chance to train with him, Jump on it!
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Kids need fitness too!
Study finds preschoolers not active enough
By Shari Roan Tribune Newspapers
February 8, 2009
Preschool-age children seem to be always on the go. Or maybe not. A study of 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds in preschool has found that these children are anything but physically active, even during playtime outdoors.The research should unsettle parents and health professionals. An estimated 60 percent of the nation's 3- to 5-year-olds who are not in kindergarten are enrolled in center-based preschools, and previous studies show more than one-quarter of children age 3 to 5 are already at risk of becoming overweight. Climbing ladders, steering toy cars and riding tricycles would seem to be perfect preschool activity. But the study, of 539 children in 24 preschools, found that 89 percent of the children's day was characterized as sedentary. Even when the children played outside, 56 percent of the activity was sedentary, 27 percent was light physical activity and only 17 percent was moderate-to-vigorous physical activity.The teachers rarely encouraged the children to be more active, said the lead author of the study, Russell Pate of the University of South Carolina. In another paper by Pate that is awaiting publication, he found that moderate-to-vigorous physical activity was observed in the children during only 3 percent of the day — not including nap time.
Preschool-age children should get 120 minutes per day of physical activity, according to the National Association for Sport and Physical Education.
By Shari Roan Tribune Newspapers
February 8, 2009
Preschool-age children seem to be always on the go. Or maybe not. A study of 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds in preschool has found that these children are anything but physically active, even during playtime outdoors.The research should unsettle parents and health professionals. An estimated 60 percent of the nation's 3- to 5-year-olds who are not in kindergarten are enrolled in center-based preschools, and previous studies show more than one-quarter of children age 3 to 5 are already at risk of becoming overweight. Climbing ladders, steering toy cars and riding tricycles would seem to be perfect preschool activity. But the study, of 539 children in 24 preschools, found that 89 percent of the children's day was characterized as sedentary. Even when the children played outside, 56 percent of the activity was sedentary, 27 percent was light physical activity and only 17 percent was moderate-to-vigorous physical activity.The teachers rarely encouraged the children to be more active, said the lead author of the study, Russell Pate of the University of South Carolina. In another paper by Pate that is awaiting publication, he found that moderate-to-vigorous physical activity was observed in the children during only 3 percent of the day — not including nap time.
Preschool-age children should get 120 minutes per day of physical activity, according to the National Association for Sport and Physical Education.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Better Late Then Never
The group workout went really well this last Saturday. It was the first workout in two weeks due to me not feeling well the weekend before. I ended up taking a week off to recover and started back last week myself. The group workout was 1 minute work, 1 minute rest.
Swing
Squat
Tactical Lunge
Military press alternating sides
Swings
Slingshot
Swings
Squats
Military press
We finished off with 2 minutes of snatches just for fun!
My workouts were OK last week. I decided to hit VO2 Max again using the 24kg. I am on a 6 rep pace for now. Last week was 20 sets. I hit strength with light press, double squat and pullups and medium weight on my next strength day only doing 3 sets of 3 reps.
Tonight I hit 30 sets of 6 reps and will hit my heavy strength day with the 40kg's.
Swing
Squat
Tactical Lunge
Military press alternating sides
Swings
Slingshot
Swings
Squats
Military press
We finished off with 2 minutes of snatches just for fun!
My workouts were OK last week. I decided to hit VO2 Max again using the 24kg. I am on a 6 rep pace for now. Last week was 20 sets. I hit strength with light press, double squat and pullups and medium weight on my next strength day only doing 3 sets of 3 reps.
Tonight I hit 30 sets of 6 reps and will hit my heavy strength day with the 40kg's.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Corn, Corn and More Corn
Fast Food: Just Another Name for Corn
By Brandon Keim November 10, 2008 7:17:01 PMCategories: Food and Drink
From WIRED Science
That the $100-billion fast food industry rests on a foundation of corn has been known more through inference and observation than hard scientific fact — until now.
Chemical analysis from restaurants across the United States shows that nearly every cow or chicken used in fast food is raised on a diet of corn, prompting fresh criticism of the government's role in subsidizing poor eating habits.
"People had talked about what they observed or found out about, as individual journalists or individual consumers," said University of Hawaii geobiologist and study co-author A. Hope Jahren. But anecdotes do not add up to scientific proof, she said. "We got national data on how this food is being produced. It's very objective."
Corn is central to agriculture in the United States, where it is grown in greater volumes and receives more government subsidies than any other crop. Between 1995 and 2006 corn growers received $56 billion in federal subsidies, and the annual figure may soon hit $10 billion.
But in recent years, environmentalists have branded corn as an icon of unsustainable agriculture. It requires large amounts of fertilizer and pesticides, both of which require large amounts of fossil fuel to manufacture.
Most of the resulting corn is fed to livestock who didn't evolve to subsist entirely on corn. In cattle, eating corn increases flatulence emissions of methane — a potent greenhouse gas — and creates an intestinal environment rich in e. coli, a common cause of food poisoning. That necessitates mixing cow feed with antibiotics, in turn producing antibiotic-resistant disease strains.
Many of those livestock end up in high-calorie, low-nutrition franchised fast foods, which have been repeatedly linked to obesity, diabetes and heart disease. Fast food's biggest selling point is its low price — and that, say industry critics, is largely possible because of corn's ubiquitous cheapness.
"We're seeing that corn is the number-one reason that fast food is so cheap and available," said Meredith Niles, a food policy analyst at the Center for Food Safety who was not involved in the study. "U.S. programs are subsidizing obesity in this country."
Jahren's team analyzed hamburgers, chicken sandwiches and french fries from multiple McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's restaurants in six U.S. cities. In both types of meat at every location, a telltale configuration of nitrogen and carbon traces showed that the animals had eaten corn-heavy diets; in the case of beef, 150 out of 162 samples came from animals that ate nothing but corn. Fries were prepared in corn-based oil.
The results weren't surprising, said New York University food studies expert Marion Nestle, but underscored the fact that "most people aren't aware of the extent to which corn ingredients permeate the food supply."
Nutrition aside, Jahren urged consumers to consider the implications of what they eat. "When you give a nickel to fast food, invariably it goes right back to the corn industry," she said.
For Niles, the results are a political challenge.
"We have a new President taking his place in the White House. It's a great opportunity to rearrange agricultural policy and to think about obesity," she said. "This study shows that it comes down in a lot of ways to one product."
By Brandon Keim November 10, 2008 7:17:01 PMCategories: Food and Drink
From WIRED Science
That the $100-billion fast food industry rests on a foundation of corn has been known more through inference and observation than hard scientific fact — until now.
Chemical analysis from restaurants across the United States shows that nearly every cow or chicken used in fast food is raised on a diet of corn, prompting fresh criticism of the government's role in subsidizing poor eating habits.
"People had talked about what they observed or found out about, as individual journalists or individual consumers," said University of Hawaii geobiologist and study co-author A. Hope Jahren. But anecdotes do not add up to scientific proof, she said. "We got national data on how this food is being produced. It's very objective."
Corn is central to agriculture in the United States, where it is grown in greater volumes and receives more government subsidies than any other crop. Between 1995 and 2006 corn growers received $56 billion in federal subsidies, and the annual figure may soon hit $10 billion.
But in recent years, environmentalists have branded corn as an icon of unsustainable agriculture. It requires large amounts of fertilizer and pesticides, both of which require large amounts of fossil fuel to manufacture.
Most of the resulting corn is fed to livestock who didn't evolve to subsist entirely on corn. In cattle, eating corn increases flatulence emissions of methane — a potent greenhouse gas — and creates an intestinal environment rich in e. coli, a common cause of food poisoning. That necessitates mixing cow feed with antibiotics, in turn producing antibiotic-resistant disease strains.
Many of those livestock end up in high-calorie, low-nutrition franchised fast foods, which have been repeatedly linked to obesity, diabetes and heart disease. Fast food's biggest selling point is its low price — and that, say industry critics, is largely possible because of corn's ubiquitous cheapness.
"We're seeing that corn is the number-one reason that fast food is so cheap and available," said Meredith Niles, a food policy analyst at the Center for Food Safety who was not involved in the study. "U.S. programs are subsidizing obesity in this country."
Jahren's team analyzed hamburgers, chicken sandwiches and french fries from multiple McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's restaurants in six U.S. cities. In both types of meat at every location, a telltale configuration of nitrogen and carbon traces showed that the animals had eaten corn-heavy diets; in the case of beef, 150 out of 162 samples came from animals that ate nothing but corn. Fries were prepared in corn-based oil.
The results weren't surprising, said New York University food studies expert Marion Nestle, but underscored the fact that "most people aren't aware of the extent to which corn ingredients permeate the food supply."
Nutrition aside, Jahren urged consumers to consider the implications of what they eat. "When you give a nickel to fast food, invariably it goes right back to the corn industry," she said.
For Niles, the results are a political challenge.
"We have a new President taking his place in the White House. It's a great opportunity to rearrange agricultural policy and to think about obesity," she said. "This study shows that it comes down in a lot of ways to one product."
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Great Workout
Here is the workout of the week. Follow this and you will be in the best shape of your life!
Monday, February 2, 2009
Fake stuff revealed
If you look at each attempt, the boards are sinking because of weight. It was just a matter of time to full break through based on that.
Mind Break Is A Fake - Watch more free videos
Mind Break Is A Fake - Watch more free videos
Sunday, February 1, 2009
General musings
I have been finding how how much kettlebells and martial arts, Hard Style and RKC in general are truly a "peanut butter and jelly and a baseball bat" mixing. In our training we are constantly referring to a corresponding kb movement. Take downs are often referenced as the hip snap from swings, throws are the hip movement from the windmill. I often show traps and locks as they fit with cleans. I think rather than write it, we will put some of our video up next week.
We had a pretty good group workout this week. We started out with Joint Mobility and then started the fun. I decided to teach one legged deadlift after two sets of swings for warmup. We worked very low reps as this was practice, not the workout. It was then time for the workout. We hit 20/10 for 8 rounds. It was pretty intense for the majority of the class. Once we were done with that it was cool down/practice. We worked on refining those skills we have learned in the pass. The only new variation that was added was the explosive clean from the ground. The kettlebell is placed behind you on the ground and you have to really generate some power to move it. Overall it was a pretty productive training session.
I saved my training for late night. I am old and don't seem to have a need to be out late on a Saturday night. I have been working a 5 x 5 style program, but hit a light, moderate, heavy plan. Last night's workout was:
Swing
squat
windmill
row
clean and press
I used the 88's last night and feel it today. Overall I felt pretty strong and will follow this workout for the next 2 weeks or so.
Just when I start feeling froggy... Adam is damn strong! He posted this after I was done for the day.
We had a pretty good group workout this week. We started out with Joint Mobility and then started the fun. I decided to teach one legged deadlift after two sets of swings for warmup. We worked very low reps as this was practice, not the workout. It was then time for the workout. We hit 20/10 for 8 rounds. It was pretty intense for the majority of the class. Once we were done with that it was cool down/practice. We worked on refining those skills we have learned in the pass. The only new variation that was added was the explosive clean from the ground. The kettlebell is placed behind you on the ground and you have to really generate some power to move it. Overall it was a pretty productive training session.
I saved my training for late night. I am old and don't seem to have a need to be out late on a Saturday night. I have been working a 5 x 5 style program, but hit a light, moderate, heavy plan. Last night's workout was:
Swing
squat
windmill
row
clean and press
I used the 88's last night and feel it today. Overall I felt pretty strong and will follow this workout for the next 2 weeks or so.
Just when I start feeling froggy... Adam is damn strong! He posted this after I was done for the day.
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