Cardio & Conditioning

Basketball involves repeated accelerations, changes of direction, jumps, skills and recovery between efforts. Calling all longer running futile overlooks the role of aerobic capacity; prescribing only long runs overlooks the game's other demands.

You can include endurance and resistance training in one programme. The question is how to organise them around your priorities and capacity, rather than assuming that cardio automatically destroys muscle gain.

Training a body area and reliably choosing where fat will be lost are different goals. A core exercise can be useful without being sold as a predictable way to remove abdominal fat.

A slowing weight trend does not automatically mean a metabolism is damaged. Body size, activity, intake, measurement and physiological adaptation can all affect what happens during a diet.

Exercising before eating can change the fuel used during a session. That does not automatically show a greater reduction in body fat over weeks or months.

Rich Roll's Finding Ultra is a memoir of personal transformation and endurance sport. Its value as a story should be distinguished from the evidence needed to prescribe someone else's training or diet.

Examine is a resource for summaries of nutrition and supplement research. It can help you find studies and understand a question, but it should not be treated as a substitute for individual clinical advice or as proof that every proposed supplement is useful.

CrossFit is not uniquely defined by poor supervision, and a session in another training style is not automatically safe. The useful questions concern the task, the person, the load and the quality of the coaching.

One hard session does not diagnose overtraining syndrome. Feeling mentally tired also does not prove that your central nervous system is exhausted. Useful fatigue management begins with the pattern across training and everyday life.

Delayed-onset muscle soreness often follows unfamiliar or demanding exercise. It does not reliably measure how much muscle you will gain, and the absence of soreness does not show that a session failed.