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Intermittent Fasting, AI & Chinese Whispers
Today's question is on diet from a lad named Tanner: "Hi Dave, my question today is...can a combat athlete train and fight with interval fasting? Or should he eat 3 meals instead? What should these meals look like, 4 hours apart or 5 hours? Are there any good sites on YouTube where you can watch this? By interval fasting I mean everything, so 16/8, 22/2, 20/4 etc.. Best wishes Tanner" First of all, I dislike talking about nutrition, it is not my field of expertise. If it was,

Dave Hedges
Feb 115 min read
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A Forgotten Element of Good Conditioning Training
In recent times there has been a huge emphasis in the fitness and conditioning worlds for Zone 2 cardio And while this is great, it's not the whole picture. I believe, that like most things, the reason Zone 2 swung in so hard was as a rebound to all the hate "long slow boring cardio" was getting back in the late naughties and the realisation that for body composition and a lot of sports performance, high intensity intervals yielded greater results in less time. And as always,

Dave Hedges
Feb 43 min read
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Posture, Pimblett & Mental Gymnastics
I use posture as an assessment tool. Just as I use your gait as an assessment tool . And when I do, people commonly ask me, "is there anything wrong with my posture" or "am I walking wrong" It makes me smile when they do, it's a perfectly natural question. But, it's not the reason I look at these things. I'm not looking for what’s "wrong" I don't believe we can "fix" a persons posture What I look for are what is and isn't happening And I see those things as solutions the body

Dave Hedges
Jan 283 min read
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