Body by Science lecture slides

1. BODY BY SCIENCE
A George Jetson Workout for a Fred Flintsone
Metabolism

2. Not reducible to a
soundbite
I have to teach you a semester of medical school
biochemistry (drinking from a fire hose).

3. The “Miracle”
The metabolic turn on a dime

4. This metabolic shift occurs on-site in the
muscle
glycogen breakdown amplification cascade

5. Therefore...
To occur optimally, the muscle(s) in question
must be directly in the line of fire.
This targeted work must be intense and
unrelenting....a “well-matched opponent”.

6. The event must be “extremal” and “far from
equilibrium”.
A well-matched opponent who doesn’t give up
Results in inroad (momentary weakening of
muscle) and inability to move
Movement as a highly preserved biologic
function

7. The “Extremal”
Component
Benefits from a deliberate, focused effort
that places the muscle in the cross hairs of
a continuous load

8. Triggering the response
by accident=truly Paleo
Attacked by a predator (run or fight for your
life)
Battling a well-matched opponent
Throw rocks/drag a log/push a sled/Crossfit
(Paleo Re-enactment)

9. Characteristics of Paleo
Re-enactment
Systemic effect >>> Local
Discontinous loading
High force with high risk for injury
“Offroading”-lots of work thrown off without
producing in-line stimulus
Harder=more dangerous. Risk of injury
increases with fatigue.

10. Crossfit Forum: Injuries
www.board.crossfit.com/
forumdisplay.php?f=12

11. Characteristics of BBS
Systemic=local, because the local creates the
systemic.
Continuous loading. No momentum. A well-
matched, unrelenting opponent.
Low force with low risk of injury (F=MA)
“Inroading”-rapid, deep, paralytic fatigue
Risk of injury decreases with fatigue

12. Paleo skills-vs-Paleo
conditioning
In the past: Now:
inseperable/ seperate and
dangerous safe
conditioning conditioning
coincidental to the deliberate
skill
general
very specific

13. NOW you can have the
protective effect of the
conditioning BEFORE you
take on the learning of
a new skill.

14. NOW you can truly focus
on the skill without
bundling conditioning with
it or having fatigue
compromise it.

15. Body by Science
Deliberate placement of the stressor “in line”
Extremal-a well matched/relentless opponent
Local produces the systemic
Inroad not Offroad
Gets safer as you fatigue
Condition before learning a skill