Applied & Practical
The practical side of the body — an area where the evidence is clearer than the internet suggests.
8 fields · 79 topics · 93 curated works
Resistance training, from first principles.
Foundations & Overviews · Progressive Overload · Compound Lifts · Programming & Periodisation · Hypertrophy Training
Cardiovascular capacity and how to build it.
Foundations & Overviews · Aerobic Base Building · VO2 Max Training · Interval Training · Running
Staying able to train.
Foundations & Overviews · Mobility & Flexibility · Stretching Evidence · Warm-Up & Cool-Down · Injury Prevention (Practical)
Eating for health and performance, without the noise.
Foundations & Overviews · Energy Balance in Practice · Protein Requirements · Carbohydrate & Fat Intake · Meal Timing
The highest-leverage health intervention most people ignore.
Foundations & Overviews · Sleep Hygiene · Circadian Alignment · Sleep Debt · Napping
Practical psychological maintenance.
Foundations & Overviews · Stress Management · Meditation Practice · Mindfulness · Breathwork
Playing the long game with the body.
Foundations & Overviews · Healthspan vs Lifespan · Cardiovascular Risk Reduction · Metabolic Health · Strength & Ageing
Getting better at physical skills.
Foundations & Overviews · Motor Learning · Practice Design · Coaching Principles · Sport-Specific Training
No prior grounding assumed.
What a Coach Can Teach a Teacher, 1975-2004: Reflections and Reanalysis of John Wooden's Teaching Practices
Ronald Gallimore & Roland Tharp · 2004
Codes thousands of hours of legendary coach John Wooden's practice behaviour and finds it dominated by brief, specific instructional cues rather than…
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Assumes you know the vocabulary.
A System of Physical Education: Theoretical and Practical
Archibald Maclaren · 1869
Argues that physical training should be prescribed from measurement of the individual and progressed in graded stages, rather than drilled uniformly…
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Primary sources and full treatments.
Motor Skill Acquisition
Karl M. Newell · 1991
Argues motor skill acquisition is better explained as the self-organisation of a perception-action system exploring its constraints than as the…
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12 of 93 works
Ronald Gallimore & Roland Tharp
Codes thousands of hours of legendary coach John Wooden's practice behaviour and finds it dominated by brief, specific instructional cues rather than praise or criticism, against how coaching is usually described.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Catherine E. Milner & Kimberly A. Cote
Reviews the nap research and concludes short naps improve alertness and performance reliably, while longer naps add memory benefits at the cost of grogginess on waking.
Jikkemien Vertonghen & Marc Theeboom
Reviews studies of youth martial arts training and finds the psychological benefits claimed for it depend heavily on teaching style, with traditional, discipline-focused instruction outperforming sport-focused approaches.
link checked 17 Sept 2026National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
Sets out a stepped-care model for anxiety disorders in which low-intensity self-help and guided practical techniques come first, and full psychological or drug treatment is reserved for when those fail.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Phil Page
Surveys the physiology and typology of stretching and argues that different goals — acute range of motion, chronic flexibility gain, injury risk — call for different stretching methods rather than one universal routine.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Christopher Drake, Timothy Roehrs, John Shambroom & Thomas Roth
Shows a standard dose of caffeine taken six hours before bedtime still measurably disrupts sleep, even when the person does not report feeling less sleepy.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Krista Casazza et al.
Grades common weight-management beliefs — that small sustained changes produce large long-term weight loss, that breakfast prevents obesity, that setting unrealistic goals is counterproductive — against the trial evidence, and finds most unsupported or contradicted.
link checked 17 Sept 2026World Health Organization
Reframes healthy ageing around sustained functional ability rather than the absence of disease, and argues preventive health systems should be built to extend capacity across a lengthening old age rather than just treat its illnesses.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Michael F. Bergeron et al.
Argues broad, varied physical development with deliberate rest outperforms early single-sport specialisation for both long-term athletic success and injury prevention in young athletes, and sets load and recovery guidelines by developmental stage rather than age alone.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Wendy Suzuki (TED)
Argues that a single session of exercise measurably shifts mood, attention and reaction time, and that sustained training protects the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex against age-related decline.
link checked 17 Sept 2026U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Sets government evidence-based minimums for aerobic and muscle-strengthening activity by age group and states that meeting them measurably lowers the risk of a dozen chronic diseases.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Rafael de Cabo & Mark P. Mattson
Reviews the animal and human trial evidence for intermittent fasting and argues that the metabolic switch from glucose to ketone burning during a fast, not simple calorie reduction, drives most of the measured benefit.