Savage / Zen Newsletter No. 83

Premium content has officially launched! So, firstly, thank you to my reader’s who’ve contributed a significant uptick in pageviews this past month and to those who have already signed up for a premium membership. You can read more about what’s included and featured in this post.

I’m trying to stay ahead of schedule with content creation and get more than the promised deliverables on the premium section so that there’s plenty ready to read when you sign up. Currently there are 5 weeks of detailed training and 3 in-depth journal reviews. Free trials and previews are available for all content.

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Recent Articles:

Premium Content:

Journal Reviews:

• The influence of breathing on the central nervous system
• Detecting stress in college freshman from wearable sleep data
• Anabolic response to protein ingestion post-workout

Training Logs and Analysis:

• Week of 2023-12-18: Mobility and hypertrophy were the main themes this week. I was traveling for the holidays and cross training at the gym I began BJJ / MMA at. With that in mind, the goals was simply to play and learn with uncommon training partners. On the strength and conditioning side I explored some new and old movements and pushed into a painful territory of chest / shoulder development.
• Week of 2024-01-01: Starting the New Year off right! As has been tradition, for the past couple years, I focus my grappling on wrestling and takedowns at the top of the year. Additionally, Week 2 of NonProphet’s Escape Velocity program brings FYF (F*ck You Friday) back into the rotation, which, as the name implies, necessitates revisiting discussions on recovery.
• Week of 2024-01-08: What an amazing week! I was reintroduced to the grieving process associated with long slogging capacity-endurance efforts, approaching 700 calories / hour of work output and fulfilling that 1-hour obligation. Additionally, my family pack grew by +1.
• Week of 2024-01-15: This week featured some interplay between endurance and capacity work with the week ending in two high volume, lower-body focused sessions.

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