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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 jschwartzi »

itchyouch wrote: post #76
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…

More specifically to weight lifting, compound lifts: squats, deadlifts, bench press, and overhead press. (also rows) As far as exercise related pain goes, the general rule is that sharp pains are bad (e.g. go see a doctor and get an xray/mri/scan) and dull throbbing pains are okay. Weight lifting can bring out dormant injuries as inactive muscles become activated and the body recomposes itself. These usually are trea…

I may have a different skin type, but I've found that switching from sodium-laureth-sulfate-based detergent soaps to castile soaps significantly reduced the dryness I used to get on the skin on my hands. A good castile soap does not have any residual lye in it because the lye is fully consumed in the reaction that produces the soap.

Re: Exercise Releases Brain-Healthy Protein

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Post by Declanomous »

searine wrote: post #144
mehwoot wrote: post #136

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The person you are replying to didn't say "expend more energy", they said "exercise more", and the link you gave comfirms that: As expected, physical activity level, PAL, was greater among Hadza foragers than among Westerners.

>As expected, physical activity level, PAL, was greater among Hadza foragers than among Westerners. Within a standard deviation. Higher on average, but not much, and not significantly. No where near enough to exert selection pressure.

Selection pressure doesn't care about standard deviations, believe it or not. Even a small difference can exert evolutionary pressure over a long period of time.

Minute changes are actually a huge part of evolution. Evolution is much more about minute changes than it is about huge (standard-deviation-level) changes.

Re: Exercise Releases Brain-Healthy Protein

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Post by 0xcde4c3db »

uptownfunk wrote: post #44

If this is true, why are jocks commonly viewed as unintelligent?

The social categorization of an activity as "intelligent" or "unintelligent" is based primarily on bullshit stereotypes (including classist, sexist, and racist ones). The actual level of intellectual engagement involved in the activity has hardly anything to do with it.

Re: Exercise Releases Brain-Healthy Protein

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Post by saiya-jin »

bitL wrote: post #67
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…

Wait a minute, the part about injury/death is a bit ridiculous. With this logic, stay sedentary, no risk of injury/death from training ever, that's for sure. And never ever go to the mountains or dive!

I do HIIT, with running uphill on treadmill (1 min sprint, 2 mins slow pace, increase inclination, repeat), but it's only one type of running I do (others are slowly increasing speed and inclination every 5 mins, and just circles in hilly park nearby). It's very effective, 'different' type than others (heart rate takes very long to come down for example).

Definitely I feel my knees more after usual running on concrete in proper shoes rather than these treadmill sprints.

If you don't challenge your body and put some pressure on muscles/joints/ligaments/cardiovascular system etc. it will never reach its potential. Would I do this if 60 years old? No. But I don't consider such blank statements true. If you don't want to do HIIT for whatever reason, that's your choice

Re: Exercise Releases Brain-Healthy Protein

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Post by saiya-jin »

thehashrocket wrote: post #93

Does it have to be a treadmill? I mostly do the elliptical (ski whatever it's called) since i'm not much of a runner. Just curious if I need to take it up a notch or not.

not it can be also spinning, swimming (probably best since it's full body workout without joint stress) and so on. elliptical is actually pretty good full body exercise from what i heard, if you are happy with it keep doing it

Re: Exercise Releases Brain-Healthy Protein

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Post by pc86 »

trentmb wrote: post #73
TeMPOraL wrote: post #61

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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…

www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness

Include the protocol to make links clickable.

Re: Exercise Releases Brain-Healthy Protein

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Post by ethanbond »

ObeyTheGuts wrote: post #156
copperx wrote: post #133

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Similarly, one of the 'dumb jocks' from my high school just graduated with a PhD from Harvard, which means humans are awful at estimating the intelligence of others.

Anyone who wasted precious time to get Phd is a retard in real world brosky.

Anyone who wasted precious keystrokes to type a word like "retard," never mind "brosky," is in no position to speak down to PhDs.

Re: Exercise Releases Brain-Healthy Protein

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Post by alvah »

evm9 wrote: post #102
chipsy wrote: post #88

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This correlates with my personal experience. Lifting is a good idea, but my optimum for it is perhaps once a week, else I fall into overtraining. The rest of the time when I want to exercise mild cardio seems more beneficial.

Maybe that works for you, but you'll never be strong/look strong weight training weekly. If you're "overtraining" from one weight training session per week, there's something very wrong. The average human only takes 48-72 hours to fully recover for most muscle groups in the body. It's also been proven that HIIT is much more beneficial for your system than LISS. It might "seem" more beneficial to you, but likely is no…

Long time lurker, finally registered to answer this. What's your definition of "strong"? I've been weight training once a week since March, following Doug McGuff's "Body By Science" method, and I have doubled my weights in 4 of the "big 5" in the last 3 months. While I'm led to believe McGuff's methods will never make anyone look absolutely massive, I disagree with your premise that you have to train more than once a week to be strong or look strong. Incidentally, McGuff mentions in his book that the optimal gap between workouts is 8 days.

Re: Exercise Releases Brain-Healthy Protein

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Post by jpt4 »

ams6110 wrote: post #25
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.

Why do we care? Why cannot we just accept that some people have no desire/interest in exercise, and let them live the way they want to live. Anyone who likes exercise is already doing it. The constant drumbeat of "living healthy" that pervades the media and now the workplace is getting monotonous and annoying.

A low power:weight ratio disqualifies one from useful service in the citizen's militia.
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