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Lactic Acid Is Not Muscles' Foe, It's Fuel
- jimfl 17y agoWow. This goes against everything I've ever been taught about how to manage your muscles during endurance activities (In my case hiking, cycling, and Nordic skiing), yet, jibes with my experience. And here I thought there was something seriously wrong with me.
- DougBTX 17y agoEh, he does say at the end that despite not knowing the mechanism, coaches still managed to get the best performance just by looking at outcomes. There are no new exercise tips in the article.
- mhb 17y agoWhat will you do differently after reading this?
- jimfl 17y agoSpend more time outside the aerobic zone without worrying that I'm damaging muscle tissue.
- stse 17y agoIt's strange that you hasn't done this before. Ever done interval training? Maybe your training is recreational in which case the risk of getting injured probably overshadows(?) the gains of intense interval training.
- michaelneale 17y agoI mostly do interval training (when not just doing weights) - I wonder if it is a bad thing - but I just find it so fun and non-boring...
- scotch_drinker 17y agoAfter doing crossfit for a year, I think I knew this semi-consciously but it's interesting to read about it being backed by science. Short, highly intense training sessions lead to very large gains in fitness because most of your training is anaerobic.
- stse 17y agoI don't see how this is backed by science in this article.
- fatdog789 17y agoThe article briefly mentions interval training as one possible way of increasing mitochondrial mass.
- mr_luc 17y agoAnother crossfit hacker? Wow. (The first place I saw that article linked was from crossfit.com, around the time it first came out. ) I got good results with crossfit (dropped 40 pounds, now I'm "athletic" -- I'd never have imagined I could do 20 pullups before), but I'd do it even if it was only average, because it doesn't bore me. Running? Unpleasant and boring. Weight lifting? Boring disciplinarian bullcrap ... Crossfit? I check the website, burst out laughing, grit my teeth, and then do something that seems almost impossible yet takes 30 minutes or less. Awesome.
- scotch_drinker 17y agoIt's good to hear from other CrossFiters outside the community. I spent the weekend at a level I cert and loved every minute of it. The highly intense workouts are both always interesting (and always painful) and highly results oriented.
- jedc 17y agoOf course, that depends on how you measure fitness. Highly anaerobic activities will not prepare you well for a marathon, for instance. But they will make you more fit in weight-lifting and anaerobic sports. Look at the training regimes for Olympic-class athletes in any given sport... they're a pretty good guide, considering the incentives involved.
- wheels 17y agoThis is pretty old -- 2006 -- and has been discussed here in the past: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=586114 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=586114
- pradocchia 17y agoOne comment does not a discussion make...
- gruseom 17y agoIts origins lie in a study by a Nobel laureate, Otto Meyerhof, who in the early years of the 20th century cut a frog in half and put its bottom half in a jar. R.D. Laing once said (paraphrased): "I would hope that if someone wanted to get to know me, they would not cut me in half and put me in a jar."
- sho 17y agoAn excellent demonstration of how, sometimes, erroneous but entrenched beliefs take decades, generations, to overturn. Next up in the list of stubborn myths people grew up with and find hard to set down: obesity is caused by excessive caloric intake.
- tumult 17y agoSo I can eat all the cheeseburgers I want now? Totally ready to start, just give me the thumbs up.
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- sho 17y agoSure you can. But you can't have the buns, fries, or non-diet drink ..
- tumult 17y agoOr the ketchup :)
- jasonkester 17y agoAtkins? Seriously? 5 years later? In theory, sure, we're with you. But in practice, Atkins is a diet for fat people. If you're 250 pounds and you want to get down to 230 and stay there, Atkins is your huckleberry. We all know plenty of fat people who are noticeably less fat thanks to low-carb diets, but I can't think of anybody I know who used to be fat and is now thin because of one. If you're 250 pounds and you want to get down to 170 and stay there, it seems that "eat less and exercise" is still your best bet.
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