http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com If so much doubt may be cast on laboratory experiments, does this mean that they should be ignored? Certainly not, because meticulously designed experiments can be of enormous benefit to the furtherance of knowledge. It is just vital that one carefully ... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/facts-and-fallacies-of-fitness-fat-loss-and-spot-reduction-part-2-1446534.html 15th March 2010 The issue of exercise of one body region to promote fat reduction locally in that area would appear to have been settled by research: local reduction of excess fat is not possible. Studies have examined the effects of electrical stimulation or low resist... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/facts-and-fallacies-of-fitness-fat-loss-and-spot-reduction-part-1-1446533.html 15th March 2010 Some very active coach sent me this letter and requested to remain anonymous for the mean time because he does not wish the discussion to be tainted by focus on who he is and who he trains, rather than what the problem is. For a start, please sea... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/dr-mel-siff-talks-core-training-mythology-resources-1443229.html 11th March 2010 Now that more and more scientific evidence is emerging to show that deliberate attempts to activate transversus abdominis, to "suck in the abs" or to use various related tricks to enhance "core stability", balance and strength, it is i... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/core-training-cognitive-dissonance-by-mel-siff-1443225.html 11th March 2010 Static flexibility is generally not associated with dynamic production of strength and constitutes only the one aspect of functionality. Unfortunately, most articles and books stress the safety of static stretching, thereby deterring instructors and coac... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/stretching-facts-and-fallacies-of-fitness-part-2-1427293.html 03rd March 2010 Research and experience have established beyond a shadow of doubt that flexibility is an essential component of all sporting fitness. Most training programmes begin with a warmup and stretching phase before progressing to the main training exercises. St... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/stretching-facts-and-fallacies-of-fitness-part-1-1427292.html 03rd March 2010 The great strides made in sport during the past few decades are a major tribute to the practical application of exercise science and systematic training. In keeping with the Olympic motto, the human being today is definitely stronger and faster. Plateau... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/supertraining-strength-training-for-sporting-excellence-1426746.html 03rd March 2010 Here is more information on the background of the book Supertraining; Without a doubt the greatest recent success in challenging these limits of performance was enjoyed by the former Soviet Union, whose extremely efficient system of sports development ... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/supertraining-is-based-on-an-integrated-model-of-sports-development-1423078.html 01st March 2010 It is the objective of the book Supertraining to explore the phenomenon of strength and to apply to physical conditioning the discoveries arising from this quest, with a particular emphasis on the devel­opment of special fitness and preparedness for spor... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/supertraining-s-objective-and-target-audience-1423077.html 01st March 2010 Toe-touching is dangerous. Squats damage your knees. Never hold your breath during exercise. Aerobic training is essential for cardiac health. Ballistic stretches are harmful. Straight knee situps damage your lower back. Weight lifting slows you do... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/facts-and-fallacies-of-fitness-by-mel-siff--intro-1421468.html 01st March 2010 It is one of the objectives of the book Supertraining is to show how a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of strength can enable one to consistently and safely develop all types of specific strength with­out resorting to drugs. Although its tit... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/supertraining-by-dr-mel-siff-objectives-and-audience-1417510.html 25th February 2010 Plyometrics or the 'shock method' means precisely that - a method of applying mechanical shock to force the muscle to produce as much tension as possible. Depth jumps involving an explosive rebound after a relaxed drop from a height onto the ground are t... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/facts-and-fallacies-of-fitness-what-are-plyometrics-part-2-1414155.html 24th February 2010 The discussion on weightlifting pulling styles that I have been enjoying with Istvan Javorek on IWF list continues: Istvan Javorek: In addition, I would like to share some of my ideas from my upcoming book: The Step-by-step phases of the classica... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/dr-mel-siff-with-more-on-weightlifting-pulling-technique-1412917.html 23rd February 2010 This is an exchange between Dr Mel Siff and a member of the Supertraining Yahoogroup. A member wrote: Dr Siff, the information on the kettlebell training was informative. Many of the studies and techniques can be found in Pavel Tsatsouline's ‘The Rus... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/dr-mel-siff-discusses-kettlebells-1412915.html 23rd February 2010 Amazon describes the latest Gordon ramsay cookbook as follows; What do you fancy for dinner tonight? Italian? Chinese? French? With so many varieties of cuisine on offer in our globally-growing lives, Gordon Ramsay has put together an amazing book fea... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/gordon-ramsays-world-kitchen-recipes-from-the-f-word-for-a-tenner-1234883.html 16th November 2009 The great chef, Gordon Ramsay's latest book is entitle World Kitchen and was published by Quadrille in the United Kingdom in November 2009 (£20) but is on sale for a limited time for £10. This amazing cookbook, based on recipes from the Channel 4 televi... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/latest-gordon-ramsay-cookbook-50-percent-off-for-a-limited-time-1234879.html 16th November 2009 With a catch cry of "Shak's too small, House's too big" - one of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares' favourite characters is back with Momma Cherri's Speakeasy (did anyone actually think that she wouldn't keep fighting for her dream?? She was one of the only peo... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/momma-cherri-recovers-from-her-latest-kitchen-nightmare-1204767.html 28th October 2009 In Jan 2010, co-inciding with a new television special to air on Channel 4 UK (shot in June/July of this year) is a new cookbook, entitiled (like the tv special) Great Escape. It will be published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd and will initially be avai... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/gordon-ramsays-great-escape-100-of-my-favourite-indian-recipes-cookbook-review-1204765.html 28th October 2009 Here is all of the reviews for the recent cookbook by Jason Atherton called Maze - which seems to have been released in the US and also accredited to Gordon Ramsay - called Gordon Ramsay's Maze?? This cookbook by seriously talented chef Jason Atherton ... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/reviews-of-maze-by-gordon-ramsay-or-jason-atherton-1177989.html 16th October 2009 Strangley a new cookbook will be released this month in the United States entitled Gordon Ramsay's Maze. Maze is the name for a number of Gordon's restaurants worldwide (including one coming soon to Australia). The strange bit is, that the same book was r... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/new-gordon-ramsay-cookbook-sort-of-maze-1177988.html 16th October 2009 I have a bunch of wordpress blogs on the internet on a variety of topics from exercise science and nutrition, polar bears as well as Gordon Ramsay. I have all of these blogs run by Wordpress and have a FREE Plugin management tool by internet marketing gur... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/the-best-free-wordpress-plugins-part-i-1084449.html 15th September 2009 I'm no internet expert, but I do own a whole load of blogs all run by Wordpress. They are on a wide variety of topics from Gordon Ramsay and Polar Bears, right through to internet tricks and tips as well as Exercise science and nutrition. Here's Part two ... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/the-best-free-wordpress-plugins-part-ii-1084447.html 15th September 2009 It is quite common nowadays for some folk to militate against the use of belts, wraps, wrist straps and other lifting aids on the basis that they interfere with the body's natural capabilities, distort motor patterns or form some type of insuperable re... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/dr-mel-siff-asks-if-we-should-burn-all-weights-belts-1067417.html 05th September 2009 Here is a study which concludes that it does not matter whether one carries out strength or endurance exercises before or after one another, in direct contrast with findings by many Russian and US exercise scientists and athletes. In other words, any a... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/dr-mel-siff-asks-if-exercise-order-is-important-1067416.html 05th September 2009 Bompa, in his book, "Periodization of Strength", states that one should develop joint flexibility before muscle strength, yet Russian research by Iashvili (1982) and Tumanyan & Dzhanyan (1980) indicate that the most effective way of training is to do b... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/dr-mel-siff-asks-flexibility-before-strength-1067415.html 05th September 2009 For many years, some coaches have been pointing out the importance of so-called "functional training" in the sense that all training methods and exercises in sports should be aimed at the final goal of enhancing the functioning or performance of the at... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/dr-mel-siff-questions-functional-training-1067414.html 05th September 2009 In a follow up to Dr Mel Siff Questions Functional Training, a reader at the Yahoo Supertraining Mailing List asked the following question Who can say that walking, swimming, bicep curls, stair climbing, karate, fencing and so forth are entirely non-f... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/follow-up-to-dr-mel-siff-questions-functional-training-1067387.html 05th September 2009 Gordon Ramsay's 12th cookbook is entitiled Healthy Appetite. It was release in 2008 and is published Key Porter Books in the USA and Quadrille Publishing Ltd in the UK. This 256 page book has a different cover in both regions, so don't be like me and orde... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/gordon-ramsay-cookbook-review-gordon-ramsays-healthy-appetite-1052223.html 27th August 2009 Heres a list of reviews from amazon.com on Gordon Rsamsay's 2008 Healthy Appetite Book. This was my first celebrity cookbook, so I was skeptical. Contrary to my fears of finding expensive ingredients that can't be found, Ramsay's recipes struck me as ... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/gordon-ramsays-healthy-appetite-us-reviews-1052222.html 27th August 2009 He is what other reviewers from the Coca-Cola of bookstores, Amazon, (the version from the UK!) have to say about this Gordon Ramsay Classic. This is a great book, with some lovely ideas. I particularly enjoyed making the desserts. Kids food is good, a... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/more-reviews-of-gordon-ramsays-healthy-appetite-1052218.html 27th August 2009 Here is what reviewers from both the US and UK Amazon sites had to say about Gordon Ramsay's Healthy Appetite. This 2008 book has received overwhlemingly positive reviews, with most scoring it a four of five out of a possible five in both the United State... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/reviews-of-gordon-ramsays-healthy-appetite-cookbook-1052215.html 27th August 2009 Extract from the Supertraining book, courtesy of health.groups.yahoo.com/group/supertraining and a summary sights of Dr Mel SIff's best work at drmelsiff.com * Sometimes the impression is created that there is only one model of periodisation which emp... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/supertraining-excerpt-on-hit-and-high-volume-training-1027828.html 10th August 2009 An extract from Dr Mel Siff's landmark textbook - Supertraining as retreived from health.groups.yahoo.com/group/supertraining - the best of which can be found at drmelsiff.com This well-known test may be applied in several different ways. Invariably i... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/supertraining-extract-on-vertical-jump-testing-1027826.html 10th August 2009 In varous articles and in Ch 6 of "Supertraining", I have stressed the value of using objective and subjective feedback (in a scheme called Cybernetic Periodisation) to control and guide the training process and optimise performance. Here are two metho... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/supertraining-control-and-tempo-of-training-loads-1027825.html 10th August 2009 A post from Mel Siff and his Yahoo Group at health.groups.yahoo.com/group/supertraining , the best of which can be found at melsiff.com Here is an extract from my book which defines "complex training" as it was formally conceived as a training approac... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/complex-and-functional-training-extract-from-supertraining-1026548.html 10th August 2009 Mel Siff talks hypertrophy in this extract from his textbook Supertraining, as taken from health.groups.yahoo.com/group/supertraining - of which the best posts are listed at melsiff.com HYPERTROPHY & STRENGTH OPTIMUM, NOT MAXIMUM, HYPERTROPHY In... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/optimal-hypertrophy-for-sports-supertraining-extract-1026546.html 10th August 2009 Dr Mel Siff discusses some resistance training fundementals, as taken from his yahoo group at health.groups.yahoo.com/group/supertraining, the best of which can be also seen at drmelsiff.com. This is an extract from his landmark textbook - Supertraining. ... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/repetitions-and-resistance-training-extract-from-supertraining-1026540.html 10th August 2009 Gordon Ramsay Makes it Easy is the title of the great chef's latest cookbook and a great description of the 269 page masterpiece! TV's most popular chef, Gordon Ramsay, bridges the gap between his famous chef's table (situated in the white heat of his ... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/gordon-ramsay-cooking-for-friends-editorial-review-1020609.html 07th August 2009 Cooking for Friends is for me one of Gordon ramsay's best cookbooks. A wide variety of recipes to suit every palate and cooking ability, it really is a great investment. The book is also beautifully put together with amazing photos that will make your mou... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/summary-of-gordon-ramsay-cooking-for-friends-cookbook-1020608.html 07th August 2009 While in Australia, this book received a lot less press to launch than his last cookbook, Gordon Ramsay Makes it Easy (maybe because it wasn't Xmas?), it certainly should have. Anyone who is partial to some of the food cooked on the UK incarnation of Rams... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/summary-of-gordon-ramsays-great-british-pub-food-cookbook-1020607.html 07th August 2009 Dr Mel Siff critiques an endurance training article who are allegedly quoting Russian research to support their views - go Mel! zdorovye.com/zdorovye/slavyanskiy.html This is an extract from that site: ... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/endurance-training-secrets-1015728.html 03rd August 2009 Dr Siff responding to a question from his Supertraining group on mental training and entering the zone! The question was as follows - Just wondering if anyone knew anything about this, using EEG to measure brain activity and help a person, enter ‘the zo... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/mind-training-and-entering-the-zone-1015726.html 03rd August 2009 Barefoot training is currenlty popular, here is Dr Mel Siff's take on the topic of should we train with shoes? In view of all the comments on the use of shoes in sport, here are some extracts from our "Supertraining" book (Siff & Verkhoshansky 1999 Ch... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/the-need-for-shoes-in-sport-1015725.html 03rd August 2009 This question from a subscriber broufht some great insight from Dr Siff on prpearation for physical activity; Another way to warm up without expending so much energy is to move each major joint (shoulder, hip,knee, ankle, wrist, elbow) through its associ... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/warming-up-and-the-preparation-phase-for-sport-1015724.html 03rd August 2009 Dr Mel Siff in his usual style, addresses a number of myths about stretching in this great post from the Supertrainig Mailing List - here is the question that brought his response In keeping with this discussion I recently found an excellent literature... http://melsiff.articlealley.com/busting-stretching-myths-1015723.html 03rd August 2009