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Thursday, March 5. 2020

When Should You Let Your Kids Start Lifting?

10,000 steps: Not quite magical when it comes to weight

Of course not. Still, better to move around a lot than to sit

Female Guardian Writer: My Lack of Attraction to My Dress-Wearing Boyfriend Made Me Doubt My Liberation from the Patriarchy's Mind Control

Court Considers Whether Men-Only Draft Is Constitutional

The University of California-Santa Cruz has fired 54 graduate workers after they refused to turn in fall semester grades in an ongoing dispute over pay.

Time to grow up, kids

NY Times Knows What The Best Treatment For Coronavirus Is

Sen. Mike Lee: It's time for Congress to bring accountability to intelligence community's surveillance poweR

I thought they did that decades ago

Former Obama-Era Cuban Prisoner Says Sanders Told Him, 'I Don't Know What's So Wrong' With Cuba

NYM on politicians:

They are doing it for the money and their livings depend on it. They are not theorists or philosophers. They are pros, and they’re not fooling around.

Schumer Threatens Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, “You Will Pay the Price! You Won’t Know What Hit You!”

Biden: “If I Win,” Beto O’Rourke, Who Wants Mandatory Gun Confiscation, Will “Change The Face” Of Gun Control

Trump's Super Tuesday results: Broad appeal beyond a united GOP

Israel picks its 2020 Eurovision entry, sung in four languages (with the music vid)

UN agency: Iran nearly triples stockpile of enriched uranium. The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog says Iran has nearly tripled its stockpile of enriched uranium since November in violation of its deal with world powers

Duh. They are permitted to lie to kaffirs

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The 10K steps a day was a major part of my ability to lose 50 pounds in 3 years.

Walking seemed to act as an appetite suppressant.

When I was walking, I wasn't eating or drinking. 10K steps used to take me 2 1/2 or 3 hours so that killed 2 snacks and a soda or a beer.

If you've managed to do the 10K steps, you don't want to lose the effort by stuffing your face.

Sure, it's just a start, but it's a good start. It's simple, definite, easy to measure and record and physically quite easy even for fatties like me. Fitbit, and others, do all the measuring and counting for you, so it's a no-brainer too.

#1 Fred Z on 2020-03-05 08:51 (Reply)

if nothing else, you're a mile away from your fridge for an hour.

#1.1 Another guy named Dan on 2020-03-05 10:58 (Reply)

Two other factors that can make walking so effective:

1. Living in the country.

2. Having a dog.

#1.2 JJM on 2020-03-05 12:15 (Reply)

I would add to the list. Go hike in national parks and wilderness areas. Very satisfying.

#1.2.1 Anon on 2020-03-05 14:21 (Reply)

That walking study was a waste of ink unless you qualify it by saying it only applies to college students. I can't see any application in the real world, the students were young, mostly fit and being paid to walk. They walk then come back, calculate they burned 400 calories and go eat a piece of pie. In contrast, I'm old, overweight and walk only because I want to lose weight and get fit. I look at those 400 calories and dont eat the pie.

#2 FRP on 2020-03-05 09:56 (Reply)

Kids lifting weights - I had heard talk about the growth plate issue for decades, but what changed my mind was reading that Brock Lesnar started lifting when he was 9 years old!

The suggestion of sets with 10-20 reps is NONSENSE. You should never be going above 12 reps. It isn't resistance training anymore.

And if it's a boy doing a sport that requires power (football, basketball, rugby, wrestling) then I'd get them going on real strength training (heavy weights, 4-6 reps per set) around age 11. It's critical to build fast twitch muscles for these sports. Slow twitch strength is almost a liability.

#3 DrTorch on 2020-03-05 10:02 (Reply)

If somebody can do 10-20 reps/set with powerlifts, they are lifting way too light. 10 max, preferably 5-8.

#3.1 BD on 2020-03-05 10:52 (Reply)

You're beyond being a du mb as s. You're a dangerous, dogmatic d um ba ss.

#3.2 mike m on 2020-03-05 19:07 (Reply)

I don't think there's any harm in introducing young kids to barbells and strength training, as long as the weight is light, strict attention is paid to correct form and sessions are unforced, unstructured and fun. Kids can't 'train' in any sense of the word until they reach Tanner Stage 4 in their physical development.

#3.2.1 RJP on 2020-03-05 21:58 (Reply)

I agree.

However, his point was that kids doing sports that require strength should be doing "heavy weights." Until puberty hits and there is a surge of testosterone, the neural components are much more important for sports. Kids should be developing motor skills, technique, etc. The vast majority of this - especially for sports like wrestling - is developed by practicing the sport itself.

Can kids get strong at an early age by lifting weights? Sure! And I've seen many of these kids dominate their sports....until puberty hits and their strength advantage disappears and their technical deficit becomes evident.

Unless someone is a competitive lifter, weight training is an adjunct to the sport itself and the most bang for the buck comes from being technically proficient at the movements of the sport and that comes from many, many properly performed repetitions of the athletic movement itself under conditions that would be encountered during the sport itself. The mission of training for a sport is to win on game day and the mission of the trainer is to keep the mission the mission.

#3.2.1.1 mike m on 2020-03-06 08:41 (Reply)

If Joe were rational, I would think that his Beto comments would be pandering to the far left to get some of those gun grabber votes.

But the real effect of his comments will be to bring more moderates out for Trump in November.

No matter how much the coastal elites at MSNBC scream that "assault rifles" are murdering innocents, everyone can see that pistols are the bigger threat. And people who aren't morons can see that the VAST majority of gun crimes happen in gang-related shootings. So taking away a law-abiding citizen's "assault rifle" won't make ANYONE safer.

#4 Dangerous Dean on 2020-03-05 10:07 (Reply)

RE: the NY Times. The problem with simply giving people paid leave to stay home to prevent the spread of the disease is that people won't stay home. There is ample evidence to this even people who were known to have contact with sick corona virus victims don't self-quarantine. They go out, they shop, they attend gatherings of people and they go to restaurants.

#5 Anon on 2020-03-05 10:31 (Reply)

No. The problem is that everybody would suddenly be "sick."

#5.1 mike m on 2020-03-05 19:10 (Reply)

Sen. Mike Lee: It's time for Congress to bring accountability to intelligence community's surveillance poweR

I thought they did that decades ago

The Church Committee tried in the late '70's, but by then the Intel community had so many compromising photos of Congress critters "playing with under-age kids of both sexes, that real oversight became a joke!

Then there was the fact that our fine POTUS GHW Bush, was CIA himself; which allowed further entrenchment, really pushed hard by W's immediate adoption of the Patriot Act, after 9/11. That Act was ready and just waiting for something like 9/11 as an excuse for adoption.

#6 Old Codger on 2020-03-05 10:33 (Reply)

Have you seen a picture of Ayanna Pressley lately? She shaved her head bald. So, serious question; Why? What is it about women who shave their head bald? Anyone know? I mean, it is obviously a 'statement' about something but I don't know what that might be.

#7 Anon on 2020-03-05 10:51 (Reply)

I have to admit I've been tempted. Sometimes hair is more trouble than it's worth. What stopped me, besides not wanting to make a spectacle of myself, was the idea of having to keep it shaved. As it is, I simply never cut it, and wear it tied back or in a bun all the time.

#7.1 Texan99 on 2020-03-05 12:23 (Reply)

She has had severe allopecia for years and was tired of wearing wigs. She did kind of a brave thing, wrote an article about it and then followed through. Her message was one of support for women and men with the same affliction. I don't like her politics but it's hard to think poorly of someone who does something to promote solidarity with other sufferers.

#7.2 Aggie on 2020-03-05 14:08 (Reply)

Well good! At least that explanation makes sense. Thanks for that.

#7.2.1 Anon on 2020-03-05 14:17 (Reply)

The article reads:

"States across the country are finally passing legislation to prevent employers from discriminating against black women who wear natural hairstyles."

The State doesn't have any right to limit a private company's choice of employees. Imagine telling a black-owned coffee shop in Harlem that they must hire white people. They would laugh at you. Hospitals avoid hiring male EKG techs, because the female patients get uncomfortable. Basketball teams usually hire tall people.

The government needs to get completely out of the ethnic business. We don't need the E.E.O.C. Every company can hire whomever it wants, because that's only part of the decision-making process which makes a company profitable. What the E.E.O.C. is really saying is that they don't care if companies are profitable. Soon, profit will no longer be an objective. Hiring the right political appointees will be the objective.

#7.3 Ron Liebermann on 2020-03-05 14:14 (Reply)

re Duh. They are permitted to lie to kaffirs

Kaffir
racial term
Kaffir is a racist slur used to refer to an individual of Nguni ancestry. In the form of cafri, it evolved during the pre-colonial period as an equivalent of "negro". In Southern Africa, the term was later used to refer to the Bantu peoples. This designation came to be considered a pejorative by the mid-20th century.Wikipedia

#8 feeblemind on 2020-03-05 11:07 (Reply)

While that is one highly regionalized definition of kaffir, the more common one these days is as a derogatory term used by Muslims for unbelievers i.e., non-Muslims.

#8.1 JJM on 2020-03-05 12:22 (Reply)

Striking grad students demanding higher pay just got the opposite: Fight The Power, yada, yada, yada.

Former Obama-Era Cuban Prisoner Says Sanders Told Him, 'I Don't Know What's So Wrong' With Cuba: Bernie knows what he knows, no matter how wrong he may be, which is PLENTY.

We Just Saw a Professional Political Organization in Action: Pros, they are.

Trump's Super Tuesday results: Broad appeal beyond a united GOP : The HORROR!! The horror... for the Dems. Heh. Heh. Heh.

#9 Sam L. on 2020-03-05 11:23 (Reply)

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