If you dont want your article on anyone’s blog, just letme know and ill try to push them to your blog to read it.

Just wanted to let you know, it was a very interesting article.

(Also, have you ever tried to change the permalink structure to your blog? you will get alot more traffic, if your post titles were actual urls too., just an idea)

Hey Mike!
Please use the info anyway you like, the link-back is fine. I am a complete idiot with all this stuff…I will try to modify things as you suggested…I may email you for some help!
Robb

Scott Kustes just pointed me to the blog of Robb Wolf – a strength coach and former research biochemist. His latest post – Performance Nutrition In 683 Easy Steps. Part I – is a great place to start…….

My maternal grandmother still does her daily tai chi in the park with all the other elderly Taiwanese. My paternal grandmother watches what she eats, still takes daily walks and both have their wits about them.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-10/ucl-alh102207.php

It struck me that it might have relevance to both IF / CR and low carb approaches to longevity.

Also I understand that you are sympathetic to the arguments in “Lights Out”. A new study reminded me and made me think about the arguments in that book. My rambling thoughts are here:

http://conditioningresearch.blogspot.com/2007/10/sleep-darkness-fitness-health.html

Chris-
I think there is HUGE relevance with that research. Gary Taubes discusses some material along that line in Good Calories, Bad Calories. His message is very similar tot hat found in Lights Out in that Ketosis/low carb is quite analogous to the fasting state. The IRS-1&2 pathways play into a number of disease states.

We may actually see some kind of biotechnology that emulates this insulin knock-out action…I’d be a little surprised if it works but the research on mice is promising. In the mean time a low-is carb diet, intermittent fasting and smart training seem to be pretty good bets.

Allen-
Me too Amigo! Make sure we are close to a buffet or some kind of 24hr market…Greg eats the equivalent of the GNP of Venezuela on most days.

Robb

You are one mistake away from painful (or perhaps) injury when exercising with high intensity and a load (any exercise with done with high intensity can be injurious), and connective tissue is a long time coming back, if at all.

I just ran into this myself, suffering a lower back strain while pulling some deadlifts last week. I’ve pulled hundreds or thousands of deadlifts over 20 odd years of lifting, and the signs were there that it would be a better day to do some sort of metcon or maybe some OLs instead of a slow, heavy lift, but I ignored them.

So, is satisfying a taste for glory worth it? I knew a guy who was a competitive, Olympic runner, and his efforts were supported by the US Army. Now he’s a bitter old man who cannot get around without the help of a cane. His years of sporting glory were NOT worth it to him. “I’d give it all up to walk now” he’d say, and often.

Examining “triple points” can be an exercise in chasing down continuously moving targets. My wife’s grandmothers are both in their mid-80s (her grandfathers both passed away, one early 2007, one in 2003). Both drive, though both are wore down with age. Neither ate paleo, or avoided smoke and drink, nor exercised other than for work or pleasure, never for health.

Where’s the triple point for exercise? Sport? Nutrition?

Are the three parameters above even the correct parameters? Health, longevity, and performance. Some might well swap out one of those for pleasure, or happiness, or competitiveness.

Rambling on…

Take care

Steve

Good Stuff Shaf!
I think this is a good place for a bit of Zen and Economics. There are constant trade-offs with these scenarios and I guess it is entirely up to the individual as to where the emphasis goes. Look at Dan Gable’s career…what a dominant athlete! What a tough road into old age. Sometimes the fear of injury is the very thing that makes the activity worth doing…wacky stuff. No path holds a guarantee of anything but it’s interesting to think about ways of squeezing a little more juice out of a specific area, be it performance or longevity.

Take care of that back! I hammered mine about three years ago when my abs were blown from Jim Baker sit-ups…never been the same since. A little competition has gone a long way!

Cheers
Scott Kustes
Modern Forager

Hey Scott!
I wrote about this several times in the PM and I am still mulling it around. I think your experience and how you manage your training is a perfect illustration of this concept. I wonder about the systemic inflammation from constant soreness…there might be some blood markers to look at for that. The orthopedic/joint integrity issue is perhaps one of the most important in this whole story. I have a client who is 78, orthopedically sound and pretty damn fit. Right after his session I have another client, a big strong guy, who has terrible knee and shoulder issues due to pushing things too far in several sports. The 2nd guy is 46 and from a crossfit/quality of life perspective he has about 1/2 the functionality of the man twice his age. It is really a stunning contrast, especially since their sessions are back to back.
Robb