We are not elite....

This blog has been getting a bit quieter of late.  My work has been taking a lot of my focus but also I've been reassessing what I post here and why.   I have been posting fewer of the scientific abstracts that I used to put up.  I have realised that I am not always familiar enough with the science to comment accurately on what I am reading.  There are others who do a great job - Adel at Suppversity or Chris Beardsley for example.  I may still put studies up here, but for the in depth analysis, you need to look elsewhere.

I suppose that one of the themes recently has been my own progress and experience.

Christmas and New Year saw me add about 7 lbs in weight - fat mostly - as I loosened up on my diet for a couple of weeks.   Back into a routine again, things are settling down and I am returning to where I was at the end of December.

My training stays the same:

• I walk for about 3 miles a day: either to or from work plus time at lunch;
• I train in the gym once a week - with weights and bodyweight exercises
• At the weekend I try to get a longer walk in, up in the hills.
• I try to play a little too - balance work, floor work, crawling, standing up in different ways, squatting etc - each day.

That is all.  

I am also increasingly aware that so much of the stuff that I read is focussed on elite athletes....yet so few of us are elite.  

What most of us need is something simple, straightforward, safe and achievable that fits in among the rest of life.  There are lots of competing priorities wanting our time....  First do no harm - try never to get injured....minimise the risk.

There is so much information out there now on the internet, so many different programmes, ideas and gurus.  So many rabbit holes to get sucked down.  For a while I was sucked deep into the Paleo thing....but I see some flaws in that now (Just Eat Real Food is one thing.... paleo takes it a little far in some respects).  At one point I was a committed low carber....no more.      Now I tend to be a bit more moderate in all things.  All of the interent gurus and cults are annoying me too.

I find myself coming back to training and eating how I used to 20 years ago....before I knew so much!

This is all a bit rambling and disconnected, but I wanted to get a few things out there.