Recovery

The New York Times have cottoned on to the health benefits of sleeping, posting about a small study involving 5 athletes whose fitness was improved simply by increasing the amount of time they slept.
After increasing sleep, the athletes performed better on all the drills. Sprinting drill times dropped on average to 17.56 seconds from [...]

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: you don’t build muscle when you’re training. Training stimulates muscle growth, but it’s when you’re recovering – aka, sleeping – that the muscle begins to grow.
But the problem is, something like 40% of Americans or so (I’ve lost the exact figure) get 5 or less hours [...]

Being some weird semi-hippie means I like to think about how humanity survived without all the conveniences of the past few thousand years and then bring those benefits into the modern context.
The theory is that forgotten habits are beneficial because they were what nature intended. Yes, I realize that’s a fairly sweeping statement, and not [...]