Health, fitness, gains and wellbeing

[OriginalContentGuy]

Originally Posted by Reiwa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Is food becoming less nutritious that we need supplemental protein?

The news said something about this earlier but I was killing gnolls.

That's a really interesting question and the article you linked is too. Yes companies react to customer demand. However as this article's author describes there is a confict of interest in the industrial food industry, which is that it is lucrative for them (when you can just ignore externalities) to keep consumers ignorant about nutrition.

And when you consider the interlocking directorates involved and sheer budgets I'm not surprised. There is this infographic from mid 2010s (lacking citations) floating around the internet that I believe shows the budgets of animal rights organizations versus the meat industry

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We can debate and discuss best recommendations but I still don't know if that's why you're here Reiwa.

[Reiwa]

Originally Posted by OriginalContentGuy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That's a really interesting question and the article you linked is too. Yes companies react to customer demand. However as this article's author describes there is a confict of interest in the industrial food industry, which is that it is lucrative for them (when you can just ignore externalities) to keep consumers ignorant about nutrition.

And when you consider the interlocking directorates involved and sheer budgets I'm not surprised. There is this infographic from mid 2010s (lacking citations) floating around the internet that I believe shows the budgets of animal rights organizations versus the meat industry

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We can debate and discuss best recommendations but I still don't know if that's why you're here Reiwa.

I'm here because we aren't allowed to discuss what's best.

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Although it would be pretty weird if we had come up with an excuse to pay tropical belt countries for our continued nutritional survival.

[kjs86z2]

1 more week til 2 week ski vacay

cant do enough lunges / squats / runs

[OriginalContentGuy]

Nice man. Closest to downhill skiing I've done is some tobaggan-level stuff but we have hills enough for runs. Or are you doing cross-country?

Originally Posted by Reiwa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm here because we aren't allowed to discuss what's best.

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Although it would be pretty weird if we had come up with an excuse to pay tropical belt countries for our continued nutritional survival.

I don't understand and while I'd appreciate if you dumb down your point so I could it's not necessary

[kjs86z2]

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Nice man. Closest to downhill skiing I've done is some tobaggan-level stuff but we have hills enough for runs. Or are you doing cross-country?

nah all downhill

[OriginalContentGuy]

Extra style points if you wear a skin tight red ski suit 🙂

[OriginalContentGuy]

Anton Fomenko (ninja), Devon Larratt (armwrestler), Magnus Mitbø (climber) and Jujimufu (Juji) walk into a bouldering gym.

[OriginalContentGuy]

Exercise of the now: Zercher Calf Extensions standing on a scrap of lumber

Use a rack or stands and load a barbell. Zercher the bar and take your position on the lumber with your heels on the floor and with the lumber underneath your toes.

Do the eccentric part of a zercher squat and go down until the bar makes contact with your quad. Squeeze your legs with your pecs and elbows for stability in the bottom position and do calf raises while maintaining the squat position. Focus on driving your big toes into the lumber as you do the raises. 10 rep sets or more.

If you are doing it correctly you are basically doing a seated calf raise but instead of a pencilneck machine you are horsecocking and stabilizing the weights.

Enjoy your lifting.

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[OriginalContentGuy]

I have not seen this yet published anywhere in the literature.

Laser levels. If you already have one for home use, then you're ahead of the curve, I think, because they're immensely useful for home leveling tasks. More to the point of training, they are immensely useful for direct visual feedback of anthropometric and positional asymmetries.

I'm in a strength block. It's not my first, but earlier in my training career, I put together that a laser level is useful for measuring asymmetry. Not just standing, but in different positions for your body.

Essentially all movement begins with the hips. So use a laser level to measure yourself standing straight in front of a mirror with the laser pointed at the top of your hips and observe if one side is higher than the other.

Most people will have an imbalance of a few millimeters. Correcting this through orthotic means (e.g. wearing a precisely measured shim to balance your pelvis in one shoe) I am reasonably sure spares the joints in your knee and hip and prevents muscle and postural weirdness from imbalanced forces during compound lifts.

I bought a laser level on sale for $30 and they are available used a lot. How much are knee replacements?

Enjoy your lifting!