New animated pushup demo at Okolo.org

Okolo has decided to have his own set of animated exercises on his website (much like I have done), and he has begun with how to do pushups. He has an animation of himself doing a pushup, along with instructions of how to do them. He also explains how to do handstand...

Is “bonking” actually good for you?

Dr. Bente Klarlund Pederse of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, believes that we should spend some of our time training in a glycogen-depleted state in order to maximize our training benefits to increase production of the immune system agent Interleukin-6. In...

Why can only fat people buy belts?

I do not buy belts very often. Tonight, I threw out a belt that I have had for at least 8 years. Three or four days ago the end of the belt finally fell away from the rest of the belt past the notch that I use, which had been hanging on by less and less over the last...

Do not go to sleep hungry

Most people will not eat before going to sleep. Two common reasons for this is because the person may not sleep as well, or because they are trying to lose weight and do not want to eat something and not have an opportunity to burn off some calories before going to...