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07
Aug
Snippet #030: Cold Water After Lifting Can Quietly Undercut Long-Term Muscle Gains

Snippet #030: Cold Water After Lifting Can Quietly Undercut Long-Term Muscle Gains

Cold water immersion after resistance training is associated with blunted satellite cell activity and reduced phosphorylation of p70S6 kinase, a
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03
Aug
Entry #032: Sleep and Endurance: The Recovery Window You Cannot Train Around

Entry #032: Sleep and Endurance: The Recovery Window You Cannot Train Around

You finish a hard week. The legs are heavy, the long ride or run sits in the log, and the
14 min read
31
Jul
Snippet #029: How the Heart Resets After Hard Effort

Snippet #029: How the Heart Resets After Hard Effort

When exercise ends, the parasympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system, suppressed during hard efforts, gradually reactivates. This reactivation rate
2 min read
15
Jul
Dr. Sebastian Sitko — OpenLab on allostatic load

OpenLab #008: Allostatic Load: The Hidden Stress Budget in Endurance Training

Guest OpenLab with Dr. Sebastian Sitko: why the stress you do not train, work, sleep loss, travel, life, lands in your legs, and how to read your full allostatic budget.
19 min read