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Children are very unique individuals and some of their requests may seem to be out of place. As apparent you may tend to think that the child is joking or is just saying something for the sake of it. Sometimes the child is quite serious and as a parent you will have the task of making a decision that will either grant the request or deny it to the child. Suppose the child is nagging you about permission to get started on bodybuilding and it is clear that he or she is very intent on doing so, what would the best course of action be? The sound advice that can be offered to a parent in this predicament is to allow the child to start on this activity. The only thing that needs attention here is how the training will ...Posted in: Training | | Comments (0)
Pain threshold is tricky. On one hand, no one can tell you that you aren't "feeling the burn" at the tail end of a godawful set. But on the other, why can you somedays power through it and other days not? That is the part that is mental. But there are physiological aspects of pain threshold that are important to cover first.
Everyone knows about lactic acid, and how whether running or squatting, muscles will get a build up of lactic acid and force you to stop what you're doing at a certain point. That is a threshold of one kind. The other is a the one after, the pain threshold that we're discussing now. That point in between is what should most interest you in being able to crack. Sure, you don't want to push yourself past the point of pain into injury, ...Posted in: Misc. Articles | | Comments (0)

