If you missed last week’s Featured Content, you might want to check that out here.
You’ll notice that the content this week contains more research than usual. This wasn’t by any direct planning on my part–these are just what has come across my desk and is of sufficient quality that there are some takeaways for our collective understanding of health, fitness, and performance.
If you’ve published, read, or otherwise consumed fitness content that you think we should share, feel free to send it my way by visiting our contact page.
Featured Content
Aerobic performance among healthy (non-asthmatic) adults using beta2-agonists: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials Via British Journal of Sports Medicine
A Shoulder Workout for Professional Baseball Players—and Workers Hunched at Their Desks By Jen Murphy via Wall Street Journal
Can Deadlifts Cure Your Back Pain? By Zach Even-Esh
Contextual factors and aerobic fitness influence match running performance in elite soccer Via Sports Performance & Science Reports
Fat loss hacks!?!? 10 charts show why you don’t need them. By Brian St. Pierre via Precision Nutrition
Multivitamin, mineral supplement linked to less-severe, shorter-lasting illness symptoms Via Science Daily
Quote of the Week
Though I haven’t read any of his work or heard his lectures, Richard Feynman is a scientist highly respected by people that I highly respect. This quote of his came through the Ruthless Performance Twitter Feed and I knew that it needed to be featured as our quote of the week.
New on the Ruthless Performance Blog
This is the second installment of our Exercise of the Month series. In the first installment I demonstrated the Banded Rotational Kettlebell Swing. I’m already throwing curve balls at this series by using a complex rather than a single exercise for the August Installment.
I’m calling this complex the Build & Balance complex because of the wide-ranging benefits it provides including foot strength, which improves balance, as well as building muscle on the legs and glutes.
You can read more about the Build and Balance complex here.
