Month: March 2013

What Will Happen To My Biceps By Doing Curls This Way?

As you may or may not know I like to do experiments on myself. My newest experiment will be a bicep curl experiment. My goal is to see what, if any are the effects of doing bicep curls with a light weight frequently.

My classification of a light weight is one that I can easily do 20 reps or more. This is what I will be doing…

1. I will do 20 bicep curls every day using a 15# dumbbell
2. I will do no more than 10 reps at a time
3. I will not do all 20 reps at once
4. I will split up the reps throughout the day so that the total for the day is 20.
5. I will do this everyday for 30 days
6. I will not do any specific triceps work (triceps ext, skull crushers)
7. I will continue doing other exercises like pull-ups, deadlifts and dips

Beginning on march 25, 2013 I will begin this program. I am curious to see what this will accomplish. Will my biceps get bigger? Will they get smaller?  Or will it just be a waste of time. I’ll post the breakdown along with my wod weekly log.

Day 1 arm measurement: 14.75 inches

Day 30 results are in: Read about it here–https://fsefitness.com/2013/04/an-end-to-the-30-day-biceps-curl-experiment/

The 1 Minute Review: The Warrior Diet

I read the warrior diet and I even tried it for a few days. Why only a few days? Because I always found myself insatiable. The concept is to under eat during the day. Not fast. This means you are supposed to eat fruits, vegetables, salads; basically “good for you” foods. Then in the evening, have an eating window where you over feed and eat most of your calories for the day.

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Will I lose muscle if I stop working out?

I say, yup. My body, just like yours, has muscles on it. The purpose of those muscles is to move my skeleton. My body has just the right amount of muscle it needs to perform my daily activities.

I always like to refer back to my time in the Navy at sea. My first watch station required me to go up and down sixteen very steep flights of steps. I had to do that once every hour for five hours. After about two weeks my thighs had ballooned up.

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Another Study On The Effects Of Tabata

Another study was done on the effects of tabata on females. The study was performed using a group of females around 20 yrs old. There was of course a control group along with second group that performed 30 minutes on the treadmill and a third group that performed a tabata style workout.

It was found that both the 30 minute and 4 minute group gained aerobic capacity, but the 4 minute tabata group also had good gains in muscular endurance. I believe these findings once again show that quick, low volume high intensity work can give better results than long boring cardio workouts.

If you like research reports, check out the findings at:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22994393?report=abstract

 

Eating Meals Out Of A Bowl

bowl of fried rice

bowl of fried rice

Today i was thinking. If our stomach is supposedly only as big as our fist, then why are our meal sizes so dang large. Yes, the stomach can stretch to accommodate more food, expanding to ten times its original size (some research even lists it at 50 times), but why would we force it to do that?

Did anybody ever think that maybe, just maybe, the brain sees a stretched stomach as a sign that food is abundant in this meal? Therefore, the body should store some as fat just in case we don’t come across an abundant meal again.

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