Yes, stay more upright. What you are trying to achieve is shoulders back, upright, and hip rotated back to neutral. Anterior pelvic tilt is having too much arch in the back. Most people are so stuck in anterior pelvic tilt that rotating the hips back to neutral feels like a rounded lower back. If yo...

Not surprising. The author mentions a "lack of mechanistic explanation" which is not true. We know exactly why eggs do not raise cholesterol. There are a couple of reasons. #1 most of the cholesterol is esterified and your body cannot absorb cholesterol esters. #2 Your body tightly regulat...

Not sure if someone mentioned this yet, but overworking the hamstrings is often due to anterior pelvic tilt (poor posture) while running. The is a very common posture that Jay Dicharry (Google him) calls the toilet bowl posture. Because once you have that posture, everything goes down the toilet. Th...

Ha, yes, the post from the future! Dating a post in the future is one way to keep it at the top of your blog for a while. It is the only way I could figure out how to do it. With regards to Andrew Read, he has a great book out on strength training for runners, called Run Strong. Well worth reading i...

K2 supplementation is a "must do" when you take Vitamin D supplements. Make sure it is K2 and not vitamin K. There is a difference. Vitamin D affects calcium absorption and K2 makes sure that the calcium goes to the right places (i.e., bones) and not the wrong places (i.e., kidneys and cor...

49 years old here. Still able to get it done... Some of my thoughts below from my blog: I have been working out in gyms since 1983.  In that 30+ year period I have made a pretty consistent observation.  Young guys tend to heave heavy weights with questionable form but the worst offenders in terms of...

I spoke at length to a trainer for the San Diego Chargers. Seems that many NFL players use their own trainers. They tend to do much less group training like college sports. In fact, the college strength and conditioning programs are much more well developed and organized for that reason. I read an a...