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Since the doctor's recommendation. Kale seems to have slightly more nutrients, but, IMO, at to great a cost too taste.
Ah that makes sense. Still, I stand by my shock. Going to kale before spinach is just nuts (barring pressure from a doctor who doesn't care about your culinary experiences).
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You tried kale before spinach? WTF? What's the story behind that?
Since the doctor's recommendation. Kale seems to have slightly more nutrients, but, IMO, at to great a cost too taste.
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Particularly damning is that the research participants were all female. Anyone who's set foot in a gym knows that women do cardio disproportionately, and that the cardio they do increases thigh musculature...
I have to disagree. Sure women do more cardio, but the cardio increasing thigh musculature? Not a chance. Squatting increases thigh musculature. Doing the elliptical for an hour a day does not. Running slowly or at a medium speed does not. Nor do either lead to any gain in strength anywhere.
Interesting, however i'd lean towards muscle mass in general having this effect rather than thighs in particular. Although being at the lower end of the body might be important in maintaining goid circulation.
Here's the thing, you don't/can't "isolate" development of a muscle, especially a big one Working out has systemic (anabolic) effects
This is not true at all. You may be confusing it with the assertion that you can't isolate individual heads of a particular muscle.
Yes, training has some systemic effect through hormonal activity, but muscle anabolism is very highly specific to local stimulus. Otherwise we'd all be just doing curls and watch our legs grow.
For a comically extreme example of localized functional muscle hypertrophy, search for the armwrestler Matthias "Hellboy" Schlitte :)
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You run out of the ability to be able to do practical mental work long before you run out of the ability to do physical exercise, so I think you're making a false zero-sum comparison of the two.
True, but for me I have other constraints on free time, where I have choice between one or the other; so I am doing other, low-mentally-and-low-physically-taxing tasks in between free-time.
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You tried kale before spinach? WTF? What's the story behind that?
Since the doctor's recommendation. Kale seems to have slightly more nutrients, but, IMO, at to great a cost too taste.
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Fresh spinach?
Depends. I buy groceries every two weeks and get two bags of fresh spinach. I freeze one and leave the other in the vegetable crisper. So the first week it's all fresh, the second week it's frozen.
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I've found that a high intensity workout is more effective than a low one - even comparing a jog to a run. A few weeks ago, I could feel the depression setting in, and several runs that started with 8 minute miles didn't seem to stop it. So I resolved to go faster (read: got pissed and sprinted), ran a 6:21 mile (my fastest since I started measuring last year) and it was like spring cleaning for my brain.
As a fellow sufferer of depression, I can relate and agree that the more intense the effort the greater the release of hormones/feelings which appear to suppress the depressive symptoms. That being said however, I have found long walks of a low intensity have been especially useful. Particularly on trails or hiking, the constant mindfulness of each step over rocks and roots helps put me in a meditative trance. Solvit…
I go to therapy to manage my depression. I don't have a severe case, but it's bad enough that it affects my productivity at times. Once a year or so I'll have a bout where I am almost completely unable to function. The tools I use to manage depression are (wait for it) diet, exercise and prayer (or meditation, if you want to keep it secular). Exercise is particularly useful. Depression affects the mind, so it's diffi…
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Or weightlifting, squatting and deadlifting heavy on a regular basis will give you substantially stronger legs than any runner.
Any runner? Sprinting is as good as anything for developing explosive leg strength. Of course, the best sprinters work lifting into their training as well.
Considering that "leg strength" is conventionally measured via seated leg press for a maximal, single repetition, I would be extremely surprised if an Olympic sprinter could achieve the same sort of leg strength that an Olympic weightlifter (of similar weight) could attain.