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August 24, 2005 02:01 PM

Just to get things back on track I am putting up the link to the PBS TV show I participated in on life extension. This is reprised, but with a new issue in mind, and there are many new readers who may not have seen it. You can watch it on this link. Life Extension.

The show is edited. One thing you can't see is how much moving around and fidgeting I do relative to the other guests. How do these guys sit so still? Fidgeters do spend a lot of energy.

You may be interested in my discussion of the statistics of aging and the difficulty of forecasting life expectancy based on maximum ages.

Also of note is that I am (correctly) called a fitness theorist. I am not an experimenter, I am a theorist and that does seem to confuse some people. Both have their role, but I see the lack of theory as the biggest limitation on health and fitness research. I have been a theorist all my career and I have used those tools and skills to try to forge a new model of health and fitness. Any good theory integrates knowledge and is disciplined by experiment and factual data.

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Posted by: Flower Online [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 27, 2006 8:32 AM

Art,

From your link, it does not appear that video is available, only the transcript.

Posted by: matt m [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 24, 2005 7:27 PM

Art,

I hope you can expand your theories on fitness to include injury prevention when training fast twitch muscles. While I note the usual advice of "warm up-stretch" and "do not play in pain", I hope you can look into why and how this type of injury occurs for everyone no matter how careful.

Just as you have personally experienced, almost everyone who is active in sports and exercise will eventually experience a painful injury that may set them back from exercise from weeks to years.

Unlike repetitive-type injuries that come from slower workouts which have a more graduated and repeated feedback signal - high intensity workouts
injury happen quickly and often without any signs to easy off during workout. These include strains, tears, pulls even heavy cramping.

This "sudden injury" nature of high intensity workouts may even be THE limiting factor and darwinian filter - allowing someone like yourself to fully express your genes while "ordinary" folks exercising in the general same way would have long ago suffered enough injury to modify their workout to a lower intensity.

My own anedotal experience is that high school atheletes performing at state level are often not fit for combat vocations in my country's conscript army because of a muscle-skeleton injury received during sports. The funny thing is that they continue to compete at the state level despite their injury.

Posted by: FONG [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 24, 2005 6:25 PM

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