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Eating in All Directions 6 Comments Thursday, August 22nd, 2013 Written by: Stephanie McCormackMaybe you’re a hard-charging athlete with dreams of standing atop a CrossFit podium or being tops in a local race. Maybe you’re a weekend warrior pounding the pavement between hours at your day job, hoping for some sort of athletic advantage or boost in your training. Perhaps you’re after an aesthetic goal like leaning out or getting jacked with performance being secondary.If you’re looking for an edge, there’s no doubt that nutrition is bound to be paramount in your mind. After all, there’s little debate at this point that you can out-train a suboptimal diet forever. No matter your group – performance- or aesthetics-driven – it’s easy to fall prey to the rookie (and sometimes not-so-rookie) mistake of piling several nutrition protocols on top of one another in the hopes that more equals better.If you congregate with athletes, it won’t be long before you hear talk of fueling

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Robb Wolf – Eating In All Directions

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There has been a lot of commotion lately about Tabata training. Everyone in the fitness industry is using it. It’s based on the research of Izumi Tabata and his colleagues at the National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Japan. The protocol they used, which was based on the training that Japanese speed skaters were doing on the ice, included 7 to 8 x 20-second sprints on a stationary bicycle (about 170% of VO2max) with just 10 seconds recovery 5 days per week for 6 weeks. That’s a tough 6 weeks

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Tabata Training | Run-Fit.com

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