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Fitness and Strength: Safety Assessment
The safety assessment for the Fitness and Strength experiment involves making sure that you are safe to exercise primarily from a...
Eric Pifer
Feb 13
The Fitness and Strength Experiment: Primary and Secondary Outcomes
The individual experiments in the Lifestyle Experiment (Sugar, Fitness, Sleep and Food) will all have shorter term, more responsive...
Eric Pifer
Feb 10
Statement of Achievement: Fitness and Strength
Once you have completed 3 months of the Fitness and Strength Experiment, you can reassess your metrics from your hypothesis statement or...
Eric Pifer
Feb 5
The Fitness and Strength Hypothesis Statements
The Fitness and Strength experiment is about making measurable improvements in fitness level, strength and muscle mass and then measuring...
Eric Pifer
Feb 4
Fitness (Aerobic) vs. Strength (Anaerobic)Training: Which is more important?
Patients often ask us which type of training is most important in combatting the insulin resistance that has made things so difficult for...
Eric Pifer
Jan 21
Measuring Strength: 1-Rep Maximum Strength
When lifting heavy weights, you should be very careful. You can injure yourself doing this and we generally recommend that you get a...
Eric Pifer
Jan 20
The Fitness and Strength Experiment: Measuring Muscle Mass
There are 2 readily available ways to measure muscle mass and numerous ways to estimate it. To measure muscle mass directly, the 2...
Eric Pifer
Jan 20
The Fitness and Strength Experiment: The Basic Resistance Training Program
Weight lifting is a process whereby you are deliberately creating a stress on your muscles in order to try and get the adaptive benefits...
Eric Pifer
Jan 17
Steps to the Stage: How to perform the Fitness and Strength Experiment
Begin by repeating your measurements of body composition including muscle mass, body fat percentage, weight and waist circumference. If...
Eric Pifer
Jan 17
Amping up your Fitness Program
Cardiorespiratory Fitness Program The idea of the aerobic fitness program is to progressively increase your fitness level regardless of...
Eric Pifer
Jan 12
Cardiovascular Exercise Prescription
Cardiovascular Fitness Prescription As you can see from the schematic above, we are mainly interested in adopting a program that can get...
Eric Pifer
Jan 12
Measuring Strength with Grip Strength and Chair-Stand Test
Grip Strength Grip strength is well correlated with overall strength and muscle mass. It has been studied on numerous occasions and good...
Eric Pifer
Jan 12
V02 Max
As we age, we can expect to see about a 10% decline in cardiorespiratory fitness levels every decade after 40. But to maintain metabolic...
Eric Pifer
Jan 12
Estimating Cardiovascular Fitness (V02 Max) with METS
When you do aerobic exercise, the first thing that happens is that you start to breath more heavily. As you breath more heavily and more...
Eric Pifer
Jan 12
The Fitness and Strength Experiment: Overview
The Fitness and Strength experiment will be one of the most important and challenging experiments in your entire journey. Important,...
Eric Pifer
Jan 12
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