The TL;DR on Salidino is this - the early 70s/80s era athletes/bodybuilding community was absolutely right about animal proteins and meat being the healthiest food on the planet and what should be the foundation of your diet, but they went too extreme with the keto/zero carb recommendations because, as it turns out, athletes/humans really do run best on carbohydrates, but we need to get them from better sources, i.e. fruit.
You've definitely got my interest piqued. Looks like he specialized in psychiatry and functional medicine & I would be initially cautious about that, but on the other hand it's not like I think governmental oversight agencies are saintly. I'll take the dive and see!
My memory is too poor to remember it all offhand, but I am often alarmed to learn what is permitted to be done to foods here that is much more strictly regulated or considered bad enough to be illegal in many European countries.
I mean even just a half day typing can get you, so I can't imagine how it must feel to spend that many hours with the hands in those postures moving that quickly over and over competitively. Yikes.
I see a lot of right hand index and middle finger injuries from repetitive motion trauma, mostly from excessive mousing all day long (right and left clicking and dragging). I've been seeing this most of my career so much that 10 years ago, I decided to start mousing left handed. Just shoved the mouse and pad over to the left side, forced myself and now that's the only way I do it.
Pistol squats are horrible lmao. I wouldn't know the percentages of an average person being able to do it, but I sincerely doubt it's more than.. let's say 5 percent? Even lower ? The lack of frontal plane/sagittal plane stability really shows for me when doing it. I can "normal" squat with meh weight, ass to grass, but a deep pistol squat is impossible. I can't barely bend my knee to 90 degrees. Deadlifting is way more easy for me somehow
If I ever get into a role with less spreadsheet work, I'm gonna try that. My right wrist is all messed up from doing stupid things on a bmx bike as a kid. Changing up the repetitive motions at work sounds promising.
This is a serious commitment. If left is your nondominant hand otherwise this makes a lot of sense!
I'm having trouble finding hard data but fitness people seem to be guessing in the <5% range. And definitely wouldn't mean to say "everyone needs to pistol squat to improve at DG" - deep pistols are an extreme move and you still get some stabilizing benefits if you can't do the full RoM. On the other hand you can do various other moves that get you the stabilizing and strength separately, which is more common.
Sorry to hear about these struggles. The part of the quadriceps head just above the knees is part of what is heavily recruited in a full pistol squat, but also in the lowest portion of a traditional weighted or unweighted squat. Some people do bottom half traditional or sumo squats to get at that - most people can benefit doing them unweighted (assuming you don't have a limitations/consult Dr. etc).
I too have been surprised to sometimes encounter just one change in my physical routine that helps immensely. Glad you found this.
If you mean true average player, based on a casual eye test of courses I've played, I'd say "somewhat but not much better than the average of the US population." They probably are more active overall just by the observation that they're also getting out to DG, but the US takes a lower number of daily steps than many other industrialized nations and falls well short of most guidelines (less than 25% of US adults meet them).
Slow & steady bruvva. I'm enjoying my new plyos but I also don't need to be blowing out an Achilles any time soon. One step at a time.
I never thought that much about it until right now, but I tend not to shortcut often because I am either typing sentences or writing code then executing it. I also tend to automatically do some shortcuts two-handed which is slower but probably less inflaming. I bet if I used them more often one-handed I'd get inflamed at some point. There's a little inflammation at shortcut distance in my dominant hand I didn't notice til you brought this up. Hand stress injuries are weird.
Entirely believable. I was frankly astounded how often there was no sidewalk or crossing to get from a hotel to a restaurant only 100 yards away. The only safe way is to get in your car. Incredible.
In contrast, in the handful of European cities I've spent time in, it felt downright inviting to walk or bike everywhere...
I think the important part is being able to squat on a single leg, the pistol part of the pistol squat is not necessary for discgolf because you dont need to stabilise your other leg in that plane while throwing. To work up to one legged squats you can also put the foot of your other leg on some object like a coffe table at first and later on just bend it to get it out of the way.
I showed an american discgolfer around here and got us some shitty rental bikes to ride along some of the shittiest bike lanes in the area and his mind was completely blown. We also have a discgolf course here everyone visits by train as it is just across the street from a train station and the club house actually is the building for the train station.
Good approach! In terms of knee protection, learning better technique here and getting my legs out of a physical deficit range were #1 and #2. My physical therapist focused a lot on one legged squats at first, but not past 90 degrees fwiw. He started me working just out of a chair with the non-supporting leg hanging a bit loose alongside the pushing leg.
Love this!
Yeah that's awesome. Our train systems are famously limited so we don't get much of that action lol
It's easy to forget the foot has a lot of muscles that need some love too for sure. Barefoot shoes seem awesome for that. I also go barefoot on a rubberized surface for some moves now.
