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Acute aerobic exercise to recover from mental exhaustion

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Re: Acute aerobic exercise to recover from mental exhaustion

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Post by ck2 »

all2 wrote: post #71
User23 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Weight lifting is not aerobic, it is anaerobic. Heavy low repetition lifting is anaerobic, but around 15-20+ repetitions with lighter weights it becomes aerobic.

Super sets of 80+ reps is definitely cardio, especially on legs day.

What's your heart rate after the first 20 or so?

If it's beyond 70% max heart rate, you are likely going anaerobic, muscles and heart start switch from fat to glycogen to ATP as the demand increases.

It's like a runner doing "speed work" on a track. First 800 relatively "easy". By the eight repeat, not so much.

Re: Acute aerobic exercise to recover from mental exhaustion

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Post by gbjw »

carabiner wrote: post #92
justsocrateasin wrote: post #44

Entirely anecdotal, but a lot of professional endurance sports athletes / ultra distance athletes are also high performing PhD candidates/professors/academics. It's kind of weird - if you watch the documentary about the Barkley Marathons, the winners are usually some kind of math/engineering PhD candidate. Another anecdote - As a kid I was "hyperactive" and struggled a lot in school until my freshman year. Coincident…

Not just anecdotal, see "Why Do Rich People Love Endurance Sports?" discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19016362 > I was just now diagnosed with ADHD as an adult in my mid twenties. My diagnosis probably took so long because I've been "self medicating" with exercise for the last ~10-15 years. Also, Jesus. It's as if ADHD is a manufactured diagnosis to pathologize a healthy response to living conditions…

Amen. Another documentary comes to mind: The Alpinist (on Amazon). It follows a Canadian climber who ‘solved’ his ADHD by becoming one of the world’s best mountain climbers. Funnily enough, his climbing style was smooth, controlled and relaxed. At a desk, he couldn’t sit still.

Re: Acute aerobic exercise to recover from mental exhaustion

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Post by ok123456 »

I work out every day after work. I've noticed there's no relationship between 'metal exhaustion' and being too physically exhausted to workout. It doesn't matter how "tough" your day was. It has no real impact on your physical ability there, and you will not feel as "tired" when you leave.

Re: Acute aerobic exercise to recover from mental exhaustion

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Post by jordanbeiber »

amelius wrote: post #93
udbhavs wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

John Carmack is also heavily into Judo and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

Let's not exaggerate. Everybody has hobbies.

Having practiced submission wrestling and bjj for years - it is incredible strenous and requires conditioning to handle at all.

Judo, with it’s focus on grappling standing up is ridiculously hard on the body, and is not something you just pick up late in life and chill with. You’d break in all sorts of ways.

Carmack seems to have a serious interest, starting with wrestling in highschool.

> My wife for Christmas once got me a year of privates with Carlos Machado which put me up several levels. There was a period there where I’d have Judo with one of my coaches one day, then privates with Carlos the other day.”

https://bjjtribes.com/john-carmack-details-his-bjj-and-judo-...

Re: Acute aerobic exercise to recover from mental exhaustion

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Post by spaetzleesser »

bgroat wrote: post #28
spaetzleesser wrote: post #6

I often think the the imbalance between mental effort and physical effort in modern office jobs causes a lot of problems. Some of my happiest days were when I trained boxing and weights 2 hours six times a week. It's hard to be depressed or anxious when you are physically exhausted and the feeling of physical strength just makes you feel better. Working out to the point of exhaustion feels like a "reset" for body and…

Military special forces or playing a team sport at a high-level? Those folks are SMART

Probably not viable choices for us skinny nerds :)

Re: Acute aerobic exercise to recover from mental exhaustion

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Post by [deleted] »

jordanbeiber wrote: post #104
amelius wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's not exaggerate. Everybody has hobbies.

Having practiced submission wrestling and bjj for years - it is incredible strenous and requires conditioning to handle at all. Judo, with it’s focus on grappling standing up is ridiculously hard on the body, and is not something you just pick up late in life and chill with. You’d break in all sorts of ways. Carmack seems to have a serious interest, starting with wrestling in highschool. > My wife for Christmas once…

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Re: Acute aerobic exercise to recover from mental exhaustion

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Post by spaetzleesser »

germinalphrase wrote: post #34
spaetzleesser wrote: post #6

I often think the the imbalance between mental effort and physical effort in modern office jobs causes a lot of problems. Some of my happiest days were when I trained boxing and weights 2 hours six times a week. It's hard to be depressed or anxious when you are physically exhausted and the feeling of physical strength just makes you feel better. Working out to the point of exhaustion feels like a "reset" for body and…

My experience working on movies was lots of time on the road (cumulatively, months of the year) and lots of standing around. This might be different if you were working exclusively in a studio; some roles are certainly more physical than others, of course.

Even the standing around seems way healthier than staring at a computer screen the whole day.

Re: Acute aerobic exercise to recover from mental exhaustion

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Post by spaetzleesser »

fjfaase wrote: post #33

If I understand the paper correctly, I have been doing the right thing with biking to the office every day :-). My bike ride takes about 24 minutes one way. I have always looked for jobs at a biking distance from my home.

I had this situation when I lived in Munich. 20 minutes biking through mostly forest. I have never felt that connected to nature since then. After a while you feel humidity, temperature, learn weather patterns,know what animals do. It was really good for the soul.

Re: Acute aerobic exercise to recover from mental exhaustion

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Post by quantified »

justsocrateasin wrote: post #44

Entirely anecdotal, but a lot of professional endurance sports athletes / ultra distance athletes are also high performing PhD candidates/professors/academics. It's kind of weird - if you watch the documentary about the Barkley Marathons, the winners are usually some kind of math/engineering PhD candidate. Another anecdote - As a kid I was "hyperactive" and struggled a lot in school until my freshman year. Coincident…

The “hyper” in hyperactive seems to suffer from a bias as to where to set the threshold. Given the kinetic energy of school-aged boys, I’m not surprised that a lot of them are diagnosed as such. Granted that a great many deserve the diagnosis, and I have direct experience with this. High/energy “recess” multiple times a day would seem to a good approach to help deal with it.
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