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Running: Mechanical Stress vs. Feel-Good Hormones
After taking AP Chemistry in High School, I opted for taking a regents Physics course. I was scared of calculus, and thought I’d still learn a ton of physics without all of the horrifying math. I was wrong; 11th grade Harold, you are a shitty planner. Despite this, I always focused on a relating what…
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Monday Morning Movement Mustn’t Be Miserable
Monday Morning Movement Mustn’t Be Miserable. Say that three times fast. I’m at the gym, waiting for a client… and he just cancelled. In a quick few minutes of people watching, I noticed something. The gym is packed, but nobody is smiling. In fact, the only thing that could be less exciting is this: If…
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High Reps or Low Reps? Yes to Both
If there’s one thing that I like more than using the squat to seduce strangers on the merits of strength training, it’s helping those who I know personally get strong inside and outside of the gym. Earlier this week I received and e-mail from a fine fellow I marched with in the University of Delaware…
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DYEL: Do You Even Liberty?
Before we begin, let me thank my friend and Brother, John Feick, for the beautiful title. Let me also apologize to my international readers who have to deal with the absurd volume of American “pride” for the next 24 hours. I assure you, if they identified with your country, they’d celebrate your National Day as…
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You Run Sprints? I Don’t Think You’re REALLY Sprinting
E’rybody in the club gettin’ sprinty. Or so it seems. It seems that when the exercise physiology community found out that interval based training is a more efficient way to boost oxygen consumption and the poorly named “Lactate Threshold”, everyone and their mothers, and especially their trainers, began doing interval training. Or high-intensity interval training. …
Harold Gibbons | MovementGPS 