Monthly health plug! Snute Fighting!

"For the economy to be healthy, America has to remain unhealthy."
An interesting read about how lifestyle can be pre-determined Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed

Sweet article from nyt about Li Na! I'm a fan. Break the mold!

Don't take Ibu! or what we used to call candy / Vitimin I on our rugby team haha. I've heard it from the Romero's (Paul, Jordan), and here it is again! Adverse health effects include Anemia, hearing loss, hypertension, miscarriage, and more. Alternatives:

• Ginger capsules
• Chinese skullcap / baicalin
• omega-3 fatty acids
• panax ginseng
• holy basil

and more! they can be equivalent or better at reducing pain and inflammation.

Finally, Snute writes about Losing in Challenger as a full-time player forum link

my thoughts:

I can't help but thinking of that scene in She's the Man when Viola says to Duke, "I can relate!" in a super bro-y tone.

BKB

Continuing on the health train... (Boyles)KnowsBest this time!

+100 for Sprinting! 

Leg lowering, leg raises, firing up the glutes, dynamic lunges & skipping warmup... all that activation is what we did at Boyles! Bahh, so hard to do these in the office gym and not look silly going it alone though. Explosiveness is worth it.

This guy supports farmer's walks. ugh. so difficult. but would definitely spice up my workouts!

Toe touch progression and t-spine exercises! I can't stress enough, BKB! I'd forgotten about all the stuff we did outside of the main lifts. Shame on me. Looks like these things really are for the best, and are the reasons why I went 137->144 in a couple months.

Original BKB (Bydwell) still stands, of course.

Against the (American) Grain

2 Articles I read today that make me AMEN!

About Calories and Thermodynamics: http://www.allouteffort.com/2013/08/the-law-of-calories.html#more
My mom was right all along -- eating too quickly can make you fat! She's always right about these things... "don't drink Gatorade", "sleeping at regular times of night makes you taller" yeah, yeah :) It's all about the TYPE of energy you eat! And why I honestly have always thought that it's a bit silly for people to be so obsessed with counting calories, the pure numbers without regard to everything else!

On the American lifestyle: http://outofthewoodsfornow.tumblr.com/post/58690475122/aint-no-gyms-here
YUP. The dieting, running, and fitness class obsessed culture of our country is correlated with our huge rates of obesity right? In this sense, we need to find the Middle Way like other countries have. It allows them to be healthier and most importantly, happier! Like Ajahn David always said, "not too much, not too little". (I DO enjoy pushing myself to my limits in regards to rugby though, like how other countries enjoy running around playing futbol from grassroots to ultra-competitive environments. Just get out there and do it! Spontaneously! ...pickupquix app anyone?)