Old School Fast Twitch Muscle The Entry · You have an approximate 50/50 mix of slow-twitch and fast-twitch muscle fibers comprising your skeletal muscles. · Different muscles [muscle-groups] have different fiber type compositions, meaning the ratio is not a strict 50/50 across the body. · For example, your calves and postural muscles tend to have more slow-twitch fibers— Note this fact . · The higher ratio of slow-twitch vs. fast-twitch in the calves and postural muscles is one reason we see higher incidence of falls as we age. Why? · Think of anytime you’ve stumbled [or actually fell] that quick involuntary sudden shift of balance and position to get a foot out to prevent the fall, that split-second alteration of the torso/postural musc...
The Old Man’s Premise : We are always wiser to take our self-help advice from Men & Women of action. People who have lived much, who burn the wick to the end. Be they athletes, explorers, adventurers, frontiersmen, survivors, or “average” men and women in tough spots, their words, their insights should be weighted far heavier than anything offered from a chair, “brain-cycled” from an app, “discovered” reclining on a sofa, or hoped for with an affirmation. That in a nutshell is the entire premise of our just released book, The Frontier Stoic: Life Lessons from Those Who Live a Life. We must never forget, advice offered that was not lived is false, it is untested. Much advisory eloquence is simply well-turned prose that was never lived. Edifying in the way of a fine poem but just as ephemeral. Words from the trenches, acts that provided solace in real trying circumstances, well, that My Friends, that is something worthy of mulling and putting into practice. Which ...