CityWide SuperSlow Blog

Why do people always make such a big deal about putting weight on during the holidays? Those of us who "eat right" don't seem to have the problem. How come? At CityWide, we follow some of the below guidelines during the holiday season to keep the extra pounds off:

Every Monday night my wife, Denise, works late at Citywide. Each one of those evenings I enjoy preparing a surprise paleo dinner for her. She comes home; there is always a glass of wine waiting and some kind of concoction I've found and prepared. This is what I made last night:

"If I had more time, I'd work out more"
"Some is good, more must be better"
"You should do something every day"

These are some of the common statements from the conventional world of health and fitness. Obviously, we believe the opposite. Better statements might be:

"Exercise should be brief and intense"
"We should take days to recover"
"Exercise is different from recreation"

Cardio advocates always believe “some is good; more is better”.  “If I had more time I’d do more cardio”.  The great irony of this is that these people want to look great.  The problem is that cardio is catabolic; meaning it destroys muscle.  Why oh why would someone want to destroy rather than build and preserve their muscle??

Conversely we, at Citywide, believe that exercise should be the opposite of what these people advocate.  We believe that exercise must me brief, intense, infrequent, and safe.  No form of cardio adheres to these principals.

With the gigantic earthquake in Japan, the Richter Scale is in the news.  This is how the magnitude of an earthquake is measured.  The one in Japan came in at 9.1.

The Richter Scale uses a logarithmic approach.  This means that one full point higher isn't linear in it's increase.  It's 10 times.  For example, an earthquake with a magnitude 6 on the scale is 10 times more powerful than a magnitude of 5.

So how does this compare to kind the of exercise we advocate?