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Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Older Bolder Links, Reads, Recipes, and More 8 July 2020

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Fitness and Healthy Lifestyle Roundup for the Week

Interesting read on escaping the NFL’s 5,000 calorie lunch routine.

How to train for your fastest mile.

If you’re resistance training, 1.6 gm/Kg of protein might reshape your protein intake goals.

Kids who roughhouse with their fathers have better emotional control.

The health miracle in Ft. Worth.

US population growth has been driven primarily by minorities.

A Couple of Interesting Reads on Lipids and Health

Ironically, and interestingly, this study shows that low LDL is not associated with lower CV mortality, but it is associated with higher all cause mortality.

PCSK9 inhibitors appear to be bad news: The opinion. The study it’s based on.

The Obligatory COVID-19 Coverage: Stuff You Might Not Have Seen

There’s more and more discussion about pre-existing T-cell immunity, this for example. Wonder why this isn’t getting more coverage?…

COVID-19 was in Brazil in November. I’ve just chatted with a researcher this week who is soon to publish data about a North Texas outbreak in November (perhaps even late October) as well.

Nudists in the era of COVID.

Food, Glorious Food

Our family “original recipe” grilled chicken.

In praise of pandemic gardening.

My Newest Travel Workout: The Three Card Flip (or Deal Me Three) Workout

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About a month ago a friend, who happens to travel what seems like endlessly for his work, shared with me a workout hack his wife had stumbled across at her gym – the Three Card Flip Workout, though my buddy and his wife called it the Deal Me 3 Workout.

That said, low and behold the same concept surfaced last week in GQ’s Level Up email newsletter (worth a subscribe if you don’t read it already); from the newsletter –

…I’ve been thinking about that idea in a different context recently: exercise. Specifically in reference to my favorite workout hack, something I’ve (very creatively) coined the Three-Card Flip. Pull three playing cards from a deck—the first is the number of push-ups that you’ll do; the second card is the number of bodyweight squats (or lunges, for variety); the third is the number of leg lifts. (Jack, queen, king = 11, 12, 13; Ace = 1…or 14, if you’re a hardo.) Do it all the way through the deck—17 times, in total—and about 20 minutes later you’ll have done 360-plus push-ups, bodyweight squats/lunges, and leg lifts in total. The Three-Card Flip is my go-to on days when I don’t have time to do a longer workout—and it usually leaves me with a similar post-exercise high. (Highly recommend if you’re traveling and you don’t know what your schedule might look like, or if you’ll have access to a gym.)…

I’ve used this a few times now on the road, and even on a day when I need a shorter, intense, HIIT additional workout to meet my targets during a lighter day when weather or schedule intervened.

I’ve been incorporating simple body weight movements for each of the three, typically some combination of pushups, pull-ups, squats, lunges, toe raises, or squat-toe raise combo moves and trying to get through the “deck of exercise” in something close to 20-minutes or less.

Customize to suit your fitness level and capacity, and keep on dealing…