I have been meaning to do this for some time now and as we get to the end of the year 2018 is giving me the perfect opportunity. When The Hive was was way smaller I used to take part in threads and share some of the science-backed and evidence-backed information on fitness, strength-training, fatigue and so on. Those posts are still in The Hive and those who have subscribed to my posting have seen them. But for newer members finding them is not always easy. The Hive is one massive community now and there is so much activity going on that it is hard to find something very quickly at times. Hence this thread.
I shall be tackling some myths regarding fitness and also looking at adding some evidence-backed ideas regarding difficult fitness concepts such as "fatigue", "strength" and "hypertrophy" (to mention but just three candidates). I will most probably be tackling this weekly (more frequently if time allows and the coffee's strength holds).
Your own comments, discussion and observations and questions are more than welcome. For newbies I have a scientific background (Chemical Engineering MSc) and a competitive martial arts experience (Tae Kwon Do, Wado Ryu Karate, Kickboxing, Wing Chun Kung Fu) that goes back to 1978 (I am actively trying to forget that bit). I've trained with Bill Wallace and Henk Meyer and I am a 2nd degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do (ITF), 1st degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do (WTF), 1st degree Black Belt in Wado Ryu. I have always been athletic so I was, for a while a decent tennis player and baseball player (Queensland School State finals), run track and field (100m sprint and 5km cross-country) and have done boxing and gymnastics. In Tae Kwon Do I held the British champion title in my weight division (lightweight) for five years.
Over the years I have been exposed to a variety of training methods from traditional martial arts and "hard" training techniques designed to weed out anyone who can't take it (believe me you had to live in the 20th century to experience the level of idiocy that ran through athletics and martial arts training beliefs of the time) to more enlightened, cross-disciplinary training of today which combines a variety of training techniques from ballet, dance, gymnastics, track & field and martial arts to help the body become stronger, better, faster. None of this makes my word (or view) perfect. As a matter of fact the reason for this column is that as we get better scientific tools that allow us to more closely study the body we realize just how little we know about anything that has to do with how the body actually works.
I will be posting here about fitness-related topics that I find interesting. Bookmark it so you can get back to this thread easily. Feel free to share it with other members of The Hive as the opportunity may arise. I will start putting in content a little later today but do feel free to add your own opinions, questions, ideas and suggestions. Needless to say, I think you guys rock. I feel, sometimes, I was born too soon. I would so love to be competing today with all the new stuff we know about the body and the mind and how the two intersect.
I shall be tackling some myths regarding fitness and also looking at adding some evidence-backed ideas regarding difficult fitness concepts such as "fatigue", "strength" and "hypertrophy" (to mention but just three candidates). I will most probably be tackling this weekly (more frequently if time allows and the coffee's strength holds).

Over the years I have been exposed to a variety of training methods from traditional martial arts and "hard" training techniques designed to weed out anyone who can't take it (believe me you had to live in the 20th century to experience the level of idiocy that ran through athletics and martial arts training beliefs of the time) to more enlightened, cross-disciplinary training of today which combines a variety of training techniques from ballet, dance, gymnastics, track & field and martial arts to help the body become stronger, better, faster. None of this makes my word (or view) perfect. As a matter of fact the reason for this column is that as we get better scientific tools that allow us to more closely study the body we realize just how little we know about anything that has to do with how the body actually works.
I will be posting here about fitness-related topics that I find interesting. Bookmark it so you can get back to this thread easily. Feel free to share it with other members of The Hive as the opportunity may arise. I will start putting in content a little later today but do feel free to add your own opinions, questions, ideas and suggestions. Needless to say, I think you guys rock. I feel, sometimes, I was born too soon. I would so love to be competing today with all the new stuff we know about the body and the mind and how the two intersect.
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