Lactic Acid Is Not Muscles' Foe, It's Fuel
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Lactic Acid Is Not Muscles' Foe, It's Fuel
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Re: Lactic Acid Is Not Muscles' Foe, It's Fuel
#2Wow. 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.
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#3After 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.
Re: Lactic Acid Is Not Muscles' Foe, It's Fuel
#4This is pretty old -- 2006 -- and has been discussed here in the past: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=586114
Re: Lactic Acid Is Not Muscles' Foe, It's Fuel
#5This is pretty old -- 2006 -- and has been discussed here in the past: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=586114
One comment does not a discussion make...
Re: Lactic Acid Is Not Muscles' Foe, It's Fuel
#6Its 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."
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#7An 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.
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#8An 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.
So I can eat all the cheeseburgers I want now? Totally ready to start, just give me the thumbs up.
Re: Lactic Acid Is Not Muscles' Foe, It's Fuel
#9An 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.
So I can eat all the cheeseburgers I want now? Totally ready to start, just give me the thumbs up.
Sure you can. But you can't have the buns, fries, or non-diet drink ..