Another week has come and gone. It’s been really successful. I’ve eaten well and worked out hard all week. I feel great, but I’m pretty sore. Yesterday I tweeted (are you following me yet?) about how I just ran the hardest “6 easy miles” of my life because my lower body is so sore from Wednesday’s workout. As I write this, I’m still incredibly sore, but I feel great. I wanted to point out a couple of interesting articles that I’ve found while surfing the web recently.
First up, Greg from livefitblog provides some interesting information about how to eat after exercise.
Next, Scott from Simple Weight gives us some advice on how to make exercise a habit.
And finally, here’s an interesting article from The New York Times that discusses ideal body weight and exercise. It seems there’s a fine line between being too heavy and being too light in terms of performing optimally.
I hope you all have a great weekend. Geaux Saints!
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That NY Times article is quite fascinating.
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The ending of the article is very good.
I love weighing myself daily, but I also learned not to worry about the daily fluctuations and worry about the longer term trends. It’s along the same lines as your recent “blip in the scale” post.
Just as some bloggers, managers, brokers get obsessive about their analytics, I’ve seen many people become obsessive about their weight fluctuations to the point of weighing themselves three or four times a day. I think the mental game of short-term fluctuations vs. long-term trends is one of the reasons why weight watchers and many other programs only recommend weighing in weekly even though many different scientific studies have demonstrated daily weigh-ins help slow weight gain and improve weight loss.
I hadn’t seen that NY Times article. Thanks for sharing and linking.
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I check that section of the NYT almost religiously and couldn’t believe I completely passed this one up! Thanks for the link. It was very useful!