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What Are You Going To Stop Doing in 2014?

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Re: What Are You Going To Stop Doing in 2014?

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Post by glomph »

antirez wrote: post #16

I actually stopped doing it for some time already, but will continue in 2014: I stopped to train to failure. If you are into strength training I strongly suggest to give this a try in 2014, I read a few books about it but I'm not able to give you a short TLDR that is accurate, but if you wanna try: - Make about half the reps you could do with a given weight, but make sure you still do a great total volume. - Train ev…

I was taught a similar thing when practicing juggling. It was quite a revelation to me.

In juggling especially, if you practice until you fail each time you waste a lot of time picking things back up.

Whereas if you practice an amount you are more than capable of you spend more time practicing properly and also spend time learning how to finish properly.

Re: What Are You Going To Stop Doing in 2014?

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Post by zakarum009 »

I'm going to stop cutting into my sleep schedule, especially my REM sleep, for pointless matters. By increasing my sleep from 4 to 7 hours, my mood's gone up, my depression has near disappeared, my energy has risen, and my confidence is finally back to where I want it to be.

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Post by rfnslyr »

antirez wrote: post #16

I actually stopped doing it for some time already, but will continue in 2014: I stopped to train to failure. If you are into strength training I strongly suggest to give this a try in 2014, I read a few books about it but I'm not able to give you a short TLDR that is accurate, but if you wanna try: - Make about half the reps you could do with a given weight, but make sure you still do a great total volume. - Train ev…

I'm a body builder and competitive powerlifter. Why did you decide to stop training to failure?

Don't give us a loose tl;dr of the books you read, give us the books!

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Post by twobits »

3pt14159 wrote: post #18
mildtrepidation wrote: post #5

I wish people would give up New Year's resolutions... and not as a New Year's resolution. They're little more than an excuse to fail: People who are going to do something do it. People who aren't are still going to talk about it. There's a morbid example here that I don't need to explicitly state. If you're doing something you consider bad, or aren't doing something you want to do, then start (or stop) NOW. Don't wai…

I disagree. I quit smoking easily last year on January 1st. I decided to quit a month prior to Christmas, but I was afraid of the jolliness of the season making me slip. I assume it is the same for exercise, portion control, and alcohol consumption moderation. Sometimes it is nice to have a clean break in a month where nobody bothers you and where you haven't had a routine for a couple of weeks. Although I really wis…

Care to give pointers/mindset/whatever helped, for quitting smoking?

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Post by seiji »

antirez wrote: post #16

I actually stopped doing it for some time already, but will continue in 2014: I stopped to train to failure. If you are into strength training I strongly suggest to give this a try in 2014, I read a few books about it but I'm not able to give you a short TLDR that is accurate, but if you wanna try: - Make about half the reps you could do with a given weight, but make sure you still do a great total volume. - Train ev…

Training to failure increases sarcoplasmic hypertrophy (makes muscles bigger by storing more sarcoplasm, but doesn't increase strength since sarcoplasm is a liquid that doesn't contract (read: impart strength)).

If you're at the low end of your BMI range, training to failure helps you get gains to look less like a labor camp inmate.

Training not-to-failure increases myofibrillar hypertrophy which is more strength related (increases muscle fibers, which actually contract and control strength).

Now, training to-failure isn't 100% sarcoplasmic. You will get stronger training to failure, just not as fast as training not-to-failure. But, training not-to-failure won't fill out the arm holes of your t-shirts.

A good starter plan to look solid: two months of to-failure, then back off and do two months of almost-to-failure (within 2-3 reps of failure, but never failing), then finish up with two months of never more than half way to failure.

Training to-failure gives your muscles a more "puffy" look (because they are filled with the liquid sarcoplasm—the key ingredient in sarcasm). Training not-to-failure makes muscles more dense giving you the appearance of being more cut.

More at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_hypertrophy

Or you can say to hell with weight training and just become a gymnast.

Re: What Are You Going To Stop Doing in 2014?

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Post by seiji »

whyenot wrote: post #17

I'm going to (actually already have) severely cut back on the amount of time I spend at HN, Reddit and other social sites. It's just not a productive use of my time, and life is too short to fritter away the hours doing nothing.

I've been Reddit-free for over two years. You can do it!

How? Just stop. You can't peek. You can't view it for "just a minute." You can't "just browse." The only solution is to not visit at all.

Give it a few days and it'll fall out of your daily routine altogether.

Also: edit your history to remove all reddit history so your browser navbar doesn't auto-complete when you reflexively open a new tab and start typing "re...".

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