Train With Jordan

29/01/2020

The Digestion of the Shrew. Interesting reading if you're considering bone meal as a source of calcium and other minerals.

Scientists set out to measure how well we digest bone by swallowing a whole shrew, but was that really necessary?

28/10/2019

I've been talking about this for a while, and this is why the breathing drills I give clients are essential for body composition.

Getting rid of fat can be exhausting, but it’s as natural as breathing.

11/04/2019

Beware of becoming a great speaker but a poor communicator.

10/04/2019

A good article on some basics of how breathing helps brain function. One other hidden benefit: It keeps you alive.

The brain science of breathing is revealing much about how controlled breathing influences our emotions, regulates stress and anxiety levels, and affects other factors central to mental and physical health.

08/04/2019

This is seriously the best thing I've ever seen. It's a faux landing page for the smartphone from a company called Light phone. They're producing a minimalist phone that only handles calls, texts and directions.

Introducing the Smartphone™ by

08/04/2019

The Pokemon Go trend may have faded but the problem still remains.

It will be another 5-15 years before we truly understand the damage we are doing with our device addictions, and by then it will be too late. The physical and psychological toll will be irreversible.

Have a nice day.

07/04/2019

"You train like a professional, but you recover like an amateur." -Dr. Eric Cobb

This was me, and if you're reading this there's a good chance it's you (or has been) as well. Even those I work with who proclaim to do a lot of recovery (in my opinion) don't do nearly enough. Particularly if you're wired to be an athlete you're probably going to find it challenging to calm your mind and step into the recovery zone. The greatest danger is in thinking that when you're young you don't have to do as much recovery work. The reality is you're just perpetually taking money out of the bank that you will eventually have to pay back, and the age when that bill comes due seems to be in the late 30's or 40's.

I commonly hear the refrain that when you get older you have to modify your training. Yes, this is true, but how much of that required modification is because your recovery work is so poor, and you never built that habit? Habit change takes time, and you aren't going to just suddenly be perfect at it. You need a plan and to be okay that this is a skill you must develop like any other.

Food, mobility, meditation, sleep and joy. Do you have an actual goal or do you just like working out? If it's the former, the path is not as myopic as most seem to think. Don't be like Sisyphus, endlessly pushing the rock in hopes of a different result.

It also helps to have a tiny friend.

04/04/2019

More and more people are talking about the importance of brain health, and the discovery of lymphatic channels in the brain is a crucial part of that. When it comes to reducing neural "threat" the results we get from mobilizing the cranium are almost certainly linked to this. And do your dry brushing.

Researchers discovered that our brains may drain waste out through lymphatic vessels, the body’s sewer system. They could be a pipeline between the brain and the immune system.

04/04/2019

This lady is pretty smart. And hot too.

“Pain is weakness leaving the body”
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“Pain is normal”
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“You just have to learn to live with it”
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“No pain, no gain”
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“You’re just getting older. That’s the way it is”
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Have you been told one or more of these in your lifetime?
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Pain is your body’s check engine light. It’s your brain’s way of saying, “Hey, pay attention! Something needs to change.”
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Workouts should not produce pain. Everyday living, walking and moving should not produce pain. If you’re living in a state of chronic pain ask yourself what your body may be trying to tell you, then address it.
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If you need guidance or support to reduce your pain, ask for it. Discover how good your body was designed to feel.
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03/04/2019

Degeneration as we get older is spoken of as if it is a fate accompli. As I head for my 44th year I do not accept this. Do your muscles atrophy because of time, or because you don't train them? Does your vision degrade because of the passage of another season or because you have never trained it? Does your bone density decrease naturally over time or because you don't do enough load bearing exercise and the vestibular nuclei in your brain stem aren't sending out the right signals to increase bone mass? Research is now demonstrating a link between poor balance (poor vestibular function) and osteoporosis. Yes, there will be a natural degeneration of systems as we get older, but it most likely does not happen as soon as or to the degree that most people think.

The inner ear vestibular system has numerous projections on central brain centers that regulate sympathetic outflow, and skeletal sympathetic projections affect bone remodeling by inhibiting bone formation by osteoblasts and promoting bone resorption ...

02/04/2019

Remember that it is the practitioner, not the system that matters most. A perfect system implemented incorrectly will most likely fail. An imperfect system implemented by a trainer or therapist who approaches his or her craft with attention to detail and patience will nearly always succeed.