The study found that the time spent sedentary, as opposed to the vigor of physical activity, was significantly and negatively correlated with a number of metabolic risk factors.
Pregnant women should avoid taking vitamin D supplements. Substitution appears to raise the risk of children developing a food allergy after birth. This was the conclusion drawn from a new survey carried out by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research and the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg in Germany which was published in the February issue of the medical journal Allergy.
...the pressure of heavy loads carried on the back have the potential to damage the soft tissues of the shoulder, causing microstructural damage to the nerves.
The result could be anything from simple irritation to diminished nerve capacity, ultimately limiting the muscles' ability to respond to the brain's signals, inhibiting movement of the hand and the dexterity of the fingers. In practice, this could impact functionality, reducing a worker's ability to operate machinery, compromise a soldiers' shooting response time, or limiting a child's writing or drawing capacity.The context of the study was soldiers carrying heavy backpacks (I am trying to find the actual study - might be this)
ConclusionThe results of this study suggest that there is an association between longer periods of time spent sitting down and diabetes and overall chronic disease in middle-aged Australian males.
Previous research has also found that the amount of time spent sitting down (‘sedentary behaviour’) is a risk factor for health, and that this risk factor is independent of the amount of time spent performing physical activity. This large study, which took into account several potential confounding variables, adds to this body of evidence. However, this study has limitations:
- Due to the cross-sectional study design, we cannot tell whether increased sitting time occurs before or after the development of chronic diseases.
- All of the data was self-reported by the men in the study. This means that it could have been affected by recall bias, or by under- or over-reporting.
- Not all people who were invited to complete the questionnaire did so. This means that there could have been a ‘selection bias’ in the recruitment of participants. This could have skewed the results either way – healthy people may have been more likely to respond or, alternatively, men more worried about their health may have been more likely to respond.
Despite these limitations, this study offers further support for the current physical activity recommendations for adults and the fact that physical inactivity can be bad for you.
- It should also be remembered that this study was performed in middle-aged Australian men, and it is unclear whether the results can be generalised to other populations.
My advice - Stop trying to get a PhD in endocrinology by studying blog posts and articles about hormones and hormone interactions and stick with this simple plan:
- Consistency of Effort in the gym + eating a little less than you want to.
- Get a good nights sleep, don't get injured and stop trying to figure out 'what's wrong with you'
The implication is that one great way to increase performance is to reduce perceived threat, because threat might make our movement weak, slow, stiff, uncoordinated and painful. Sounds like everything we try to get rid of when we go to the gym! But of course many people will create excess threat during their workout, which will tend to be counterproductive.
You read about some exotic exercise or exercise system; some 'wonder' vitamin, mineral or protein supplement; secret attitude etc...etc...Though all of these factors may play a role in successful bodybuilding, they are so secondary that they become almost trivial compared with the essence of bodybuilding.
Bodybuilding fact is that if you would ensure that your training is progressive then you will gain muscle without hardly giving a thought to diet, attitude, specialist equipment etc. People are continually looking for new easy ways in bodybuilding by considering those factors outside hard heavy training. The cause of this misdirected attention probably lies with those individuals who have commercial interests in bodybuilding The essence of successul bodybuilding is so plain and simple that it cannot allow many people to make gain from it. What these profit mongers do is to try to make bodybuilding much more complicated and involved than it really is so that they can find something 'new' to write about, some secret to make training finally work, miracle supplements etc etc. They have developed a bodybuilding fiction so as to be able to exploit the bodybuilding public.
Stop being confused, misled and exploited.
Stop worrying about your training and fretting over your diet. Train hard and briefly using progressively heavier and heavier weights, get as much rest as you need between workouts and eat a healthy well varied diet. Base your diet on natural foods as nature intended rather than on refined and processed foods....
Those people who expound the absolute need for dietary supplements, exotic training courses and specialist equipment nearly always have vested commercial interests in the perpetuation of these myths. Please learn from mine and many other people's mistakes and stop being misled by bodybuilding fiction.
