Gardening is a hot topic this week on MDA. Two days ago, Mark gave you the whys – gardening can be therapeutic, it can improve health markers, it can be a great way for people to move frequently at a slow pace, and the list goes on. It’s also a great way to save money on organic produce, to maintain a constant (and self-replicating) supply of edible green things, and to get out into the sun. Let’s just say that gardening is good for you on multiple levels, and if you’ve got the space and the time, you should probably give it a shot.
You might recall that in that same post, Mark mentioned his relative lack of horticultural mastery. This is true for me, too, and a lot of you guys out there as well. You might say that this Worker Bee doesn’t fly far from the hive. Still, I […]

Original post by Worker Bee

Unless the afterlife has wifi, I can presume that you’re alive and reasonably well if you’re reading this post, so I’m going to assume you’ve been successfully breathing for some time. You get enough oxygen into your blood to support your physiological requirements and power your limbs, organs, and muscles. You know how to inhale, and exhaling is a breeze. You even know how to breathe through your nostrils like a champ. In other words, you can breathe well enough to live. What could you possibly be missing?
There’s a pretty good chance you aren’t breathing correctly. At rest, when sleeping, while running – you can probably breathe different and breathe better. Okay, you’re willing to accept that, as a whole, we’ve missed the mark on a host of supposedly mundane activities – eating, exercising, sitting, sleeping, standing, washing, heck, even pooping – but breathing? You’ve gone too far this time, […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

We’ve all heard the urban myth that humans only use 10% of their brains.
Obviously this myth has long been debunked (we know the main functions of every nook and cranny of our 8 pound of head fat), but I tell you this – I think there is something else we only use 10% of.
After spending a weekend in Vegas and seeing both ‘Le Rev’ and Cirque du Soleil ‘Ka’ I’m pretty sure most of use use less than 10% of our bodies abilities.
It is truly phenomenal what a powerful and coordinated body can do.
So as another argument for the use of bodyweight training*, I present Cirque du Soleil.

*Again, not as a replacement for weight training but as a compliment to weight training.
BP

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lt;pgt;The basis of Tabata Training is 4 minutes of intense interval training/circuit training. What you are doing is taking an exercise we#39;ll use sprints as an example here.lt;/pgt;
lt;pgt;Sprint as hard as you can for lt;stronggt;20 secondslt;/stronggt;lt;/pgt;
lt;pgt;Walk for lt;stronggt;10 secondslt;/stronggt;lt;/pgt;
lt;pgt;Repeat 7 more times for a total of lt;stronggt;8 setslt;/stronggt;.lt;/pgt;
lt;pgt;So what you have is a total of lt;stronggt;4 minutes of workout timelt;/stronggt;.lt;/pgt;
lt;pgt;Tabata Training can be done with a number of different exercises the idea is to use an exercise that gets the whole body involved or at least the major muscle groups.Tabata Training can be done with Barbells, Dumbells, Kettlebells or just Bodyweight exercises. I#39;ll give you some other exercises and routines to try in a minute but first let me give you some background and how Tabatas work.lt;/pgt;
lt;pgt;Tabata Training was developed by Izumi Tabata (imagine that) at the National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Tokyo, Japan. They did a study […]

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<p>The basis of Tabata Training is 4 minutes of intense interval training/circuit training. What you are doing is taking an exercise we'll use sprints as an example here.</p>
<p>Sprint as hard as you can for <strong>20 seconds</strong></p>
<p>Walk for <strong>10 seconds</strong></p>
<p>Repeat 7 more times for a total of <strong>8 sets</strong>.</p>
<p>So what you have is a total of <strong>4 minutes of workout time</strong>.</p>
<p>Tabata Training can be done with a number of different exercises the idea is to use an exercise that gets the whole body involved or at least the major muscle groups.Tabata Training can be done with Barbells, Dumbells, Kettlebells or just Bodyweight exercises. I'll give you some other exercises and routines to try in a minute but first let me give you some background and how Tabatas work.</p>
<p>Tabata Training was developed by Izumi Tabata (imagine that) at the National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Tokyo, Japan. They did a study […]

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It’s been a great weekend here of sun, fun, and PrimalCon of course. In returning to reality yesterday, I was checking the news and seeing some of you out there are bracing for yet another round of winter’s jest. My condolences – seriously. I’ll admit I was happy to forgo the six month long Maine winters for California years ago. Nonetheless, there are still aspects of Northern life I miss and admire. I remember, for example, the almost manic excitement with which people awaited spring. Their fervor for planning the year’s garden seemed wholly inverse to the short and still relatively cool growing season. I don’t know how many of you are gardeners, but I’m all for using the term loosely. Whatever gets us down in the dirt, digging in the midst of all those fine microbes, is work worth doing (without the toxic chemicals of course). An older neighbor […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

Whew. PrimalCon is over. It was everything I’d hoped and everything I’d feared: incredibly uplifting, inspiring, and affirming, but also over way, way too quickly. I guess that’s how good things go. The coolest part was seeing actual full-sized three dimensional Homo sapien sapiens in the flesh, moving, interacting, eating, getting sunburnt, eating some more, diving for Frisbees, laughing, and learning, instead of tiny stamp-sized avatars exchanging digital text on a computer screen. Despite that digital divide, when people met and put screen name to face, there was none of the initial awkwardness you might expect. It was a seamless transition – a testament to our remarkable ability to adapt to any situation.
And boy were there a lot of situations. Imagine this:

An endless shirtless, screaming, barefooted cavalcade streaming toward a 55 degree Fahrenheit ocean just before sundown. Many a bewildered look was shared between gawking onlookers. I also saw a […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

Complete for time, Basic or Advanced (respectively):
10 or 30 Pushups
20 or 50 Meter Bunnyhops
20 or 50 Meter Walking Lunges
15 or 40 Spidermans (Spidermen?)
10 or 25 Meter Sprint
10 or 25 Meter Grok Crawl
10 or 25 Meter Sprint
10 or 25 Meter Grok Crawl
10 or 30 Pushups
20 or 50 Squats
10 or 20 Overhead Presses
20 or 50 Meter Sprint

How-to:
Warmup: 30 second Grok Squat, lateral, forward, and backward leg swings (10 each leg).
If you weren’t able to make it to this year’s PrimalCon, don’t worry: I’ve come up with a quick and dirty way for you to enjoy the experience remotely, without ever setting foot on a plane, train, or in a car.
Okay, let me establish some caveats. It’s not exactly the same. You may not get expert, personal tutelage from some of the world’s foremost experts on posture, barefoot running, sprinting, kettlebelling, cooking, and movement, and you won’t actually bite into tender, medium-rare wagyu […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

It’s the third and, sadly, final day of this year’s PrimalCon. Relive day one and day two here and here. And stay tuned for text, photo and video updates.
Related posts:

Live Blogging from PrimalCon 2011 – Day 1
Live Blogging from PrimalCon 2011 – Day 2
Live Blogging from PrimalCon 2010 – Day 3

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Original post by Aaron

Hey everyone! There’s been a lot going on around the club lately, and we wanted to make sure everyone is in the loop. We had a marathon, an upcoming tournament, a fitness champ and more! KnuckleUp members are known for their competitive drive, and this week, it’s coming in spades.
Can You Believe Shes a Mom?
First up, is Amy Eaton. Amy just won a National Bodybuilding and Fitness Championship. She’s 39 years old and a mother of two, and she beat out a bunch of 20 year olds. That’s Amy in the picture, and there’s not much doubt why she won. Congratulations Amy!
Runners!
Last weekend was the Flying Pirate Half Marathon and Matt Costa and several of his masochi- er,…bootcampers were in the race. Once I get everyone’s times, I’ll post them. But I was looking through the results, and I saw several people from the club in the top 100, including Super-Trainer Matt, […]

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