Can cold remove body fat? CoolSculpting does just that, chilling your skin to reduce body fat in the area treated. CoolSculpting appears effective, reducing surface fat by between 20% and 80% over the 3 months following treatment. However, it’s expensive, so I found a way that mimics the approach at home for free. http://fellrnr.com/wiki/CoolSculpting
I’ve updated my Go Juice entry http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Fellrnr%27s_Go_Juice and nutrition timing http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Nutrient_Timing as well as modifying my ‘training load’ graph at http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Overtraining
I created a wiki entry on the Central Governor Theory http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Central_Governor_Theory as part of my work on Overtraining and Motivation.
Should you run with a cold or other illness? How does running affect your immune system? Here’s what I found out from the scientific research http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Running_and_Illness
Major update to VDOT calculator. I’ve added generation of the long runs required for two of the Jack Daniel’s Marathon plans, Plan A and the Elite plan. These plans are quite tricky to work out by hand, especially the elite plan, so this should make life easier for anyone who wants to evaluate or use the Jack Daniel’s system. In addition I’ve added more support for metric units and added the 3200M pace for the FIRST system. Check it out and let me know what you think http://fellrnr.com/wiki/VDOT_Calculator
I’ve created a new section on my wiki for Overtraining and Overtraining syndrome. I believe that there is insight into effective training to be found from understanding Overtraining, as well as the obvious value in preventing Overtraining problems. Over the last few months of studying the research on Overtraining I’ve accumulated a lot of information, so I’ve added over a dozen new pages to make things easier to digest. A good starting point is either http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Overtraining or http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Overtraining_Syndrome and other major pages include:
http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Training_Monotony
http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Mood_State
http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Overuse
http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Too_Much_Too_Soon
http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Overload
http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Causes_of_Overtraining_Syndrome
http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Recovering_from_Overtraining_Syndrome
http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Overtraining_Syndrome_Subtypes
http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Mechanisms_of_Overtraining_Syndrome
A friend asked me recently about taping your feet before an ultramarathon (pre-taping), so I’ve updated my page on taping to give some more specific advice in this area. http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Taping
The server ran out of disk space yesterday and had to be restarted. I have my dropbox account on the server for backups and file sharing (it’s great for both purposes and I don’t know how I survived without it). However, the server had only been allocated 4 Gb of space and dropbox replicates 2Gb free, so I blew things up. Lesson learned! BTW, if you don’t use dropbox yet, please use this referral link http://db.tt/7mzrgCR when you sign up and we both get an extra 250Mb.
Monotony is considered a sign of an ineffective training program. Monotonous training has a similar level of stress each day. High levels of monotony tend to increase fatigue, have a higher risk of overtraining, and produce less benefit than low monotony routines. This new article is part of my work on Overtraining and introduces the concept of Monotony, how it can be calculated and provides a simple online form for evaluating training. I am building the Monotony calculator into my SportTrack plugin, which should be released soon (beta available on request). http://fellrnr.com/wiki/Training_Monotony
As part of my research into overtraining, I’ve been looking at ways of measuring the impact of training. I’ve created an article on TRIMP (‘TRaining IMPulse’) and the various ways it can be calculated. http://fellrnr.com/wiki/TRIMP