There is always room for improvement! šŸ’ŖšŸ¼

Richard338 said:
OK, I don't know WTF, but that Flexbar works for me. By the time I followed a YouTube video a couple times to figure out how to do it, the pain/stiffness was 80% gone. Crazy.

Now do my knee...
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BTW, every time Iā€™ve posted this advice on another forum, someoneā€™s inevitably posted the Mark Rippetoe video. I find it amusing when I say, ā€œYouā€™ll usually feel IMMEDIATE results the first time you do the Tyler Twist/Reverse Tyler Twist exercises. By Day 3 of doing them twice daily, youā€™ll usually feel a HUGE reduction in pain and stiffness. Most people are able to go back to lifting weights by about Day 5, and the pain is often 100% gone by Day 7-10ā€, and people still post the video and say, ā€œDo THIS. Itā€™ll suck for a couple weeks, but my tennis elbow felt much better after 3-4 weeksā€ (even after numerous people have said, ā€œYeah, I followed this advice with the Flexbar, and sure enough, back to lifting weights within 5 days, after suffering for 2-3 monthsā€). šŸ¤Ø
 
Woohoo! 26 squats with the 140lb vest. #26 felt about as hard as #22 did, two weeks ago. Iā€™ll take it!

P.S. suck it, Garmin! šŸ˜…
(I use both the Garmin watch, and a Frontier X2 heart rate monitor to monitor my workouts. As Iā€™ve been stepping up my workouts, especially pushing the cardio, the Garmin has been showing a post-workout recovery estimate between 70-80+ hours every day for the last week and a half šŸ˜‚)
 
bluemax_1 said:
Woohoo! 26 squats with the 140lb vest. #26 felt about as hard as #22 did, two weeks ago. Iā€™ll take it!

P.S. suck it, Garmin! šŸ˜…
(I use both the Garmin watch, and a Frontier X2 heart rate monitor to monitor my workouts. As Iā€™ve been stepping up my workouts, especially pushing the cardio, the Garmin has been showing a post-workout recovery estimate between 70-80+ hours every day for the last week and a half šŸ˜‚)
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Youā€™re kicking a$$ bro šŸ‘šŸ˜Ž
 
Speaking of whom, I thought Iā€™d share this with you in this thread instead of the food thread since it fits better here.

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I had a rough time sleeping last night and tried to do it several times but unfortunately my nasal cycle was hard right last night.
 
Have you all seen this study about isometric wallsits? The meta study indicates that 3-5 one minute wallsits 3-5 times per week can lower blood pressure long term by 8 mmHg, as much as medication. Please consider adding this simple exercise to your routine after clearing it with your doctor your pharmacist and your psychiatrist.

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Static isometric exercise, such as wall sits, best for lowering blood pressure - BMJ Group

But squats, press-ups, high intensity interval training (HIIT), and ā€˜cardioā€™ also effective Review of current exercise guidelines for controlling blood pressure may now be warranted Static isometric exercisesā€”the sort that involve engaging muscles without movement, such as wall sits and...
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David Mary said:
Speaking of whom, I thought Iā€™d share this with you in this thread instead of the food thread since it fits better here.

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I had a rough time sleeping last night and tried to do it several times but unfortunately my nasal cycle was hard right last night.
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All my years of scuba diving have taught me how to control my breathing and heart rate. I can easily drop my EKG and H/B before it even begins (the test). Weird but true.
 
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Felt kinda sick most of last week, which led to a drastic reduction of exercise activity. And as I mentioned, I had a rough time trying to sleep Sunday night. Couldn't find a comfortable position to lay in, and whether I was on my left side, right side, or on my back, my muscles, especially around the upper back, hips and hammies were just too sore to let me rest, and when I tried to plug my right nostril, my nasal cycle was such that my left side was too plugged to breath sufficiently.

But after my post last night, it occurred to me to look into manipulating not only the intake nostril by plugging the opposite one, but actually manipulating the nasal cycle itself. Long story short, and a very loose paraphrasing of my I discovered, is it's not technically possible to hard reset it, but it does have a soft reset that works temporarily, or at least did last night for me.

Twenty moderate paced Hindu Squats
Long cycle clean and jerk reverse pyramid with my small (not tiny) kettlebell alternating arms, from one to seven reps, without rest.
Fourteen reps each exercise of the three steel club movements, one arms at a time, no rest.
Very conservative makiwara session.

(Glutamine and BCAAs)

Then a few hours later, after the research alluded to above, I slept on my right side, as apparently (and my experience last night corroborates this) the lower nostril tends to be more plugged in this position, while airflow is less restricted in the higher one. Combine that with the medicinal movements I had performed a few hours earlier, and my "rest and digest" system was easily activated, and my muscles were relaxed and comfortable.

I slept like approximately 21 babies last night, and woke up feeling better than I have in a couple weeks.
 
When I was younger, I went to the chiropractor for about a year. Not out of perceived necessity, but it seemed like a good idea and didn't know I had scoliosis until I saw the X-ray from my first consultation. One of the things he would do for me is provide neck traction on a fancy table that I could control with a handheld interface. I liked what traction did for me.

I almost bought this:

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to hang from a tree branch neck to my pull up handles. Until I read the one star reviews. Then I realize why not ask someone I think might have a clue.

I wonder if traction may be a missing component to help me recover as fully as possible from my tweak back in the fall of 2023. Because my low back has never been the same since. B bluemax_1 (or anyone else) love to hear your thoughts, and if you know of an affordable neck traction solution.

Or other ideas to overcome the residual effects of a back tweak from an overzealous heavy (to me) one handed clean.
 
I went to the chiropractor in my early 20s.

I pulled my back in September 2023.

A week of pain.

Six months of weakness.

And now intermittent pain or discomfort or weakness.

I felt good after the reverse pyramid two nights ago but yesterday after a long day in the shop my low back was hurting. Couldnā€™t round it with any load without sharp sensation.

Asian squat was uncomfortable but tolerable.
 
Some days itā€™s fine and I can clean my bodyweight without discomfort. And last night I was gonna deadlift 135 and my back was screaming ā€œNoooo!ā€
 
Basically I feel like it's now too easy to do this:


And like I really need to do that:

 
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