Metabolic Uncle (@MetabolicUncle)

TWO PATHS TO BETTER CONDITIONING: CHOOSING YOUR INTERVAL STRATEGY This article addresses competitive athletes who need to optimize their weak points. If you train for health and fitness without competition goals, a simpler approach works better: accumulate Zone 1-2 aerobic work and add repeated spr...

The Ice Bath That Might Stop Your Heart Your body doesn't like receiving contradictory orders. When you drop into water below 15°C / 59°F, that's exactly what happens. Two ancient survival systems activate simultaneously. One screams "emergency, speed everything up." The other whispers "slow down...

NO HIIT FOR ME ANYMORE I'm not doing high-intensity interval training anymore. Not the four-minute Norwegian method, not the classic HIIT protocols everyone talks about. I switched a while ago to repeated sprint training, and I'm not going back. Here's why. When you do traditional HIIT, you're un...