Stuff to Read While You’re Pretending to Work: Autoregulation, Busting Through Plateaus, and Probiotics
Unfortunately I have to keep this one pretty short today. Lisa’s dad and step-mother flew into town yesterday from the Dallas/Ft. Worth area and after taking them out to a nice dinner, we all walked back to our apartment where Amanda (Lisa’s step-mother), busted out her iPad so that we could all play Ellen DeGeneres’ game Heads Up.
For those unfamiliar (which was the case with me less than twelve hours ago), it’s simply a word guessing game where your friends try to get you to say the word on the screen by giving you hints. Only with Heads Up, you hold the phone or iPad above your head and it records video of your friend giving hints. You have sixty seconds to guess as many words as you can.
It’s basically Blind Man’s Bluff meets charades, but with video.
And let me just say it’s sooooooooooo addicting. Lets just put in this way: there may or may not exist video of me imitating Forrest Gump, a Canadian, and Elmo.
Not to brag or anything, but my Forrest Gump is pretty spot on. And, surprisingly, my Elmo wasn’t too shabby either. At one point I had Lisa crying in laughter.
So basically this was just a long-winded way of saying that we slept in this AM, and here’s some stuff you should check out:
How You Feel is NOT a Lie – David Dellanave
Outside of having one of the most epic mustaches in human history (^^^), David is also the owner of Movement Minneapolis, as well as someone who’s long championed the sentiment of auto-regulation.
We’ve all been there. Some days we feel like rock stars heading into the gym. while on others we feel like we’ve gotten run over by a mack truck.
With respects to the latter, is it best to suck it up and train anyways?
Sometimes, yes. Sometimes, no. But according to David…….usually no. But that doesn’t mean curling up on the couch and catching up on episodes of Teen Mom.
It may just mean nixing your planned workout and going with Plan B or C instead.
Coincidentally Plan C almost always entails some form of bicep curls. Just sayin……
5 Strength Training Techniques For Busting Through Strength, Fat Loss, and Muscle Building Plateaus – Nia Shanks
I <3 Nia.
That is all.
The Scary Truth About Probiotics – TC Luoma
In this well written and well researched editorial piece, TC dives into some of the research behind the efficacy of probiotics. We’re literally just scraping the tip of the iceberg as far as understanding the role that bacteria play in our gut, but you’d be hard pressed to get that notion from all the hippie naturopaths out there claiming to know otherwise.
