Re: warvader: fat intake

Logan5,

Ironically, the Testosterone Forum is where I first learned about the Warrior Diet. The twisted part is that if you read between the lines of most people who bash it, they don't understand the physiology behind it, and usually equate gaining mass as bodybuilding success. People who weigh 300 pounds and muscular but can't climb a flight of stairs without oxygen have no business telling you how to train. Most succeed in spite of themselves, but have disdain for the cardio. If you were to follow the routines and diet of a modern bodybuilder (and those supplements they push), I can guarantee you some loss of liver and kidney function and a child's heart in a man's body. Look into the retirements of some of the bodybuilders in recent years...bodybuilding is not about purity of body and mind anymore, and that is very unfortunate. Now it's time to get off my soapbox.
Having 2 black belts myself (Isshinru and Hapkido), Martial arts is about speed and the appropriate energy production. Training with intervals is still the best way to train, even if you do 3 min in duration and a short rest. You don't run 10 miles a day to train for basketball, which by the way is similar in energy production to what you would be doing in Martial arts. Cycling for 2 hours will give you a "base" to work off of but specificity will serve you better.
"Do you feel switching to intervals altogether is still congruent with my (endurance) goal?" The short answer to that is hell yes! It took me 20 years to learn my lesson, I can back it up with studies, and I see the results every day with the people I help train. Besides that, for the intensity you put into it, you get to recover faster and save time. The physiological sign of aging in most adults after the age of 21 is the loss of fast twitch fiber. Long distance anything provides a chemical response to training for the most part, while sprinting induces both chemical and physical changes. You have nothing to lose by trying it for 2 months...if you are not convinced, all you have to do is see how a cat, a dog, or wild animal plays or "trains".
To your question of bloodwork...I am part of a study that started for me when I was 8 years old, and continues to this day; they track my heart function, blood work, my activities...it's really quite interesting to see how they regard my training compared to the 54 other subjects. I know what it's like to be a lab rat.
Caffeine...hmmm...let's just say I like chocolate better (natural chocolate has very little caffeine), I don't get headaches from it, and quite frankly too much of anything is not good for you, especially if you develop a dependence on it. We don't know all the good and bad of caffeine yet, but I am opposed to having it on the grounds of anything that needs that much advertising is not in your best interest.

WarVader
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