{"id":6291,"date":"2013-11-02T12:18:38","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T19:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6291"},"modified":"2013-11-02T12:18:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T19:18:57","slug":"antifragile-gettingstronger-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/antifragile-gettingstronger-org\/","title":{"rendered":"Antifragile\u00a0\/\u00a0 GettingStronger.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>How does the barbell strategy apply to health?\u00a0 A great example is combining occasional, high intensity weight lifting or interval training, alternating with long stretches of rest, recovery and\u00a0 \u201ddoing nothing\u201d.\u00a0 The intermittent stress of lifting an extreme weight pushes the body to overcompensate and prepare for an even greater future challenge, but the interlude of rest and recovery is restorative and avoids the downside of chronic overuse.\u00a0\u00a0 We can extend this idea of a bimodal \u201cbarbell\u201d strategy to practices such as intermittent fasting or cold showers.\u00a0 The barbell strategy is the exact opposite of the conventional wisdom to engage in moderate\u00a0 aerobic exercise on the treadmill every day, or to eat regular small meals throughout the day.\u00a0\u00a0 Periodic intense stressors build antifragile resilience \u2014 but chronic stress without rest and recovery only wears us down.\u00a0 By alternating between \u201cextremes\u201d\u00a0 of intensity and rest, feast and fast, luxury and poverty \u2014\u00a0 we become more resilient because we increase our range of responsiveness to environmental variability.In my 2011 post on <a href=\"http:\/\/gettingstronger.org\/2011\/08\/get-stronger-using-stress-oscillation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stress Oscillation<\/a>, I developed a similar concept how to use intermittent exposure to stressors to enhance allostasis.\u00a0 What I like especially about Taleb\u2019s barbell strategy is its guidance on how to implement this in a way that maximizes upside and minimizes downside risk.\u00a0 He insists that one \u201cleg\u201d of the barbell is quite safe, while the \u201cstressor\u201d leg adds to the upside.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gettingstronger.org\/2013\/07\/antifragile\/\">Antifragile\u00a0\/\u00a0 Getting Stronger<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does the barbell strategy apply to health?\u00a0 A great example is combining occasional, high intensity weight lifting or interval training, alternating with long stretches of rest, recovery and\u00a0 \u201ddoing nothing\u201d.\u00a0 The intermittent stress of lifting an extreme weight pushes the body to overcompensate and prepare for an even greater future challenge, but the interlude [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[484],"tags":[563,442],"class_list":["post-6291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antifragile","tag-antifragile-review","tag-hormesis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6293,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6291\/revisions\/6293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}