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Exercise Releases Brain-Healthy Protein

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Re: Exercise Releases Brain-Healthy Protein

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Post by TeMPOraL »

pc86 wrote: post #34
TeMPOraL wrote: post #23

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Or piss them off. Exercise is tiring and painful and time-consuming (especially if you count in after-exercise showers). Also, I don't like the whole culture around exercising and fitness. Gimme a damn pill or something. More seriously though, I really find no pleasure in exercise and would like to approach it in the most cost-effective way (i.e. maximum benefit for minimum time used). Any hints on exercise regime op…

If you really want minimum time but still some benefit, taking a walk around the block 2-3 times a day is probably your best bet. But that's "fitness" in the same way the 15 year old with a pirated copy of Photoshop is "a graphic designer." I don't think anyone who has done weightlifting would say you can do it quickly or that it takes minimal time or effort.

I don't want to minimize time, I want to maximize the benefit/time ratio, where time includes maintenance expenses (like showering, getting to the gym) as well. I.e. if jogging every day for an hour provides X "fitness points", but you can also get those X "fitness points" by doing e.g. weightlifting 3 times a week, I prefer to go for the second option. It can be painful - I won't like it, but when I work out I don't do it for pleasure (which I generally never got from exercises); its means to an end. End being losing weight, keeping cognitive power at full capacity, living longer.

Re: Exercise Releases Brain-Healthy Protein

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Post by googletron »

This is exactly the message we are trying to get across at Gyroscope.

https://gyrosco.pe/myusuf3/2016/6/27/

As you can see, me there playing sports that evening, super exciting and really keeps me focused. Granted hard to take me seriously, but we have some users like Tatiana have done some amazing stuff

https://blog.gyrosco.pe/tatiana-b68f863333f9#.s6ugu6g65

Re: Exercise Releases Brain-Healthy Protein

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Post by ItsDeathball »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #23
laxatives wrote: post #16

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Because an enormous chunk of the population still refuses to exercise and/or diet and articles like this help motivate some of that subset.

Or piss them off. Exercise is tiring and painful and time-consuming (especially if you count in after-exercise showers). Also, I don't like the whole culture around exercising and fitness. Gimme a damn pill or something. More seriously though, I really find no pleasure in exercise and would like to approach it in the most cost-effective way (i.e. maximum benefit for minimum time used). Any hints on exercise regime op…

Tim Ferris's book "The 4-Hour Body" is written with time min-maxing in mind. There's some weird stuff in there ("I supplement with garlic because a random homeless guy told me it's good for weight loss") but the core workout/diet regimen is effective and easy to stick to.

Re: Exercise Releases Brain-Healthy Protein

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Post by TeMPOraL »

damienkatz wrote: post #56
TeMPOraL wrote: post #23

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Or piss them off. Exercise is tiring and painful and time-consuming (especially if you count in after-exercise showers). Also, I don't like the whole culture around exercising and fitness. Gimme a damn pill or something. More seriously though, I really find no pleasure in exercise and would like to approach it in the most cost-effective way (i.e. maximum benefit for minimum time used). Any hints on exercise regime op…

Wondering if you might have an undiagnosed medical condition. I've been very a active exerciser my whole adult life. It's part of my identity. Last year I started suffering from chronic fatigue. Exercise began to hurt. It hurt when I did it. It hurt afterward. I was tired all the time. I was gaining weight. I stopped exercising. It brought me no relief. Only resting did. I knew something was wrong. Went to Doctor. Tr…

Might be. I'm planning to do thyroid tests soon, because some of the things in my life could be explained by problems there, and my sister recently found out she has some thyroid problems. I understand the experience - for me, day-and-night difference was getting on SSRIs.

But it could also just be that I never started to like exercising in the first place. I have myopia since early childhood - so from the first years in school, glasses gave me logistical problems on PE lessons. It was especially problematic during team games - when I took the glass off, I was the worst player in class. When I left them on, I could play somewhat well, but I was risking breaking them when hit by a ball (it actually happened). So I ended up avoiding team sports as much as I could, and there a negative feedback loop starts (not playing made me only suck more and be less willing to play).

Anyway, thanks for the advice :).

Re: Exercise Releases Brain-Healthy Protein

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Post by TeMPOraL »

ItsDeathball wrote: post #63
TeMPOraL wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or piss them off. Exercise is tiring and painful and time-consuming (especially if you count in after-exercise showers). Also, I don't like the whole culture around exercising and fitness. Gimme a damn pill or something. More seriously though, I really find no pleasure in exercise and would like to approach it in the most cost-effective way (i.e. maximum benefit for minimum time used). Any hints on exercise regime op…

Tim Ferris's book "The 4-Hour Body" is written with time min-maxing in mind. There's some weird stuff in there ("I supplement with garlic because a random homeless guy told me it's good for weight loss") but the core workout/diet regimen is effective and easy to stick to.

Thanks, adding to "to-read" list!

Re: Exercise Releases Brain-Healthy Protein

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Post by bitL »

StanislavPetrov wrote: post #55
rhondapatrick wrote: post #6

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Interestingly, exercise itself actually helps get an energetically favorable type of energy to the brain in the first place: lactate.[1] Moreover, lactate in the brain triggers the release of BDNF, which causes neurogenesis.[2] I recorded a video conversation with the pioneer of the lactate shuttle theory behind this mechanism which may interest you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lThFQM503EU [1] https://en.wikipedi…

Exercise also causes the release of endorphins in the brain that leads to a condition commonly known as "runners high". http://www.runnersworld.com/running-tips/how-to-achieve-a-ru...

Real runner's high means you started damaging your muscles and brain flushes endorphins to your blood stream in order to keep you being able to continue without experiencing debilitating pain in case you are running from a disaster/predator/death in the last attempt before you cease to be able to move. Not something you'd want to achieve repeatedly.

Re: Exercise Releases Brain-Healthy Protein

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Post by bitL »

th0ma5 wrote: post #45

I had heard that even a brief bit of HIIT has all of the benefits of longer exercise times... Does this refute that or give evidence in support of that?

It probably helps with some markers deemed important in competitive sports like VO2 max and won't help with others that aren't measured. With HIIT you significantly increase the risk of injury and/or death comparing to moderate longer exercise. You should only do it when your body doesn't gain much benefit from moderate ones. Try the popular Tabata sprints just once to understand the stress you are putting your body through (20 seconds all out effort sprint followed by 10 seconds pause, repeat 8 times).

Re: Exercise Releases Brain-Healthy Protein

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Post by StanislavPetrov »

bitL wrote: post #66
StanislavPetrov wrote: post #55

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Exercise also causes the release of endorphins in the brain that leads to a condition commonly known as "runners high". http://www.runnersworld.com/running-tips/how-to-achieve-a-ru...

Real runner's high means you started damaging your muscles and brain flushes endorphins to your blood stream in order to keep you being able to continue without experiencing debilitating pain in case you are running from a disaster/predator/death in the last attempt before you cease to be able to move. Not something you'd want to achieve repeatedly.

Any exercise can lead to the release of endorphins. Endorphin release doesn't occur only to mask the damage you are doing to yourself in the face of an extreme life threatening situation (which is also accompanied by the release of adrenaline and other hormones).

>The endogenous opioids seem likely to be assigned a significant role in the integrated hormonal and metabolic response to exercise. This article reviews the present evidence on exercise and the endogenous opioids, and examines their involvement in a number of widely disparate physiological processes

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6091217

Re: Exercise Releases Brain-Healthy Protein

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Post by nothis »

bitL wrote: post #66
StanislavPetrov wrote: post #55

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Exercise also causes the release of endorphins in the brain that leads to a condition commonly known as "runners high". http://www.runnersworld.com/running-tips/how-to-achieve-a-ru...

Real runner's high means you started damaging your muscles and brain flushes endorphins to your blood stream in order to keep you being able to continue without experiencing debilitating pain in case you are running from a disaster/predator/death in the last attempt before you cease to be able to move. Not something you'd want to achieve repeatedly.

I heard that "runner's high" only sets in when you train hard and for a long time. To make that clear, you're saying it's actually a sign of you having gone too far?

Re: Exercise Releases Brain-Healthy Protein

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Post by bitL »

nothis wrote: post #69
bitL wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Real runner's high means you started damaging your muscles and brain flushes endorphins to your blood stream in order to keep you being able to continue without experiencing debilitating pain in case you are running from a disaster/predator/death in the last attempt before you cease to be able to move. Not something you'd want to achieve repeatedly.

I heard that "runner's high" only sets in when you train hard and for a long time. To make that clear, you're saying it's actually a sign of you having gone too far?

http://www.sortyourbrainout.com/#!The-Runner%E2%80%99s-High/...
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