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Two things that will improve mental clarity and sleep. Not drinking alcohol and strength training.
I think if I had issues with either mental clarity or sleep I'd cut back more, I do practice dry January and have been surprised and how I don't really feel all that different. Maybe 30 days isn't long enough
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I've had a lot of fights about this with my girlfriend. We both work in academia and regularly go to the gym, but she insists to have a drink every now and then, which she says helps her take an edge off work stress. She also scolds me some times when I want to go to bed before 10pm, saying this is too restrictive and less fun. We ended up breaking up last week - not exclusively because of this, but these incompatibi…
Her approach might not be the literal peak healthiest, but that doesn't mean its wrong. If she's only having a drink every once in a while and is getting 7+ hours of sleep most nights then the negative effects are probably negligible anyway. To a certain extent, most people need to sacrifice some amount of health and performance to live the fullest life they can. If you don't feel that you benefit from that, though,…
I agree 100%. I did not post to complain about her, but more to note about incompatibilities in things like sleep schedule. I do believe though she should drink a bit less, but as long as it makes her enjoy life, why not.
Two things that will improve mental clarity and sleep. Not drinking alcohol and strength training.
I haven't had a drink, or smoked for two months and my sleeping has improved so much it is crazy, absolutely crazy... I do need to get back to the gym, it is just so hard to muscle the strength to go when I'm not feeling particularly good about myself, which is dumb, since that is the reason I want to get back into it...
Rogue is actually doing a 5-items ship for $5 promo for the month, kettlebells included.
Ok, I'm almost convinced to start lifting weights... if they release a study showing hair growing I'll be 100% in.
Ok, I'm almost convinced to start lifting weights... if they release a study showing hair growing I'll be 100% in.
if you can, start right away. i've always been known among my friends as the most sedentary, lazy, and effort-averse person in the world. but five months ago, that changed, and I regret not starting sooner. it seems like you develop a self-challenge component that you'll only understand once you start
I've done varying amount of exercise throughout life, but really dedicating myself to whole body weight-training/yoga/core-and-balance over a period of about a year has fundamentally changed my life in countless ways.
I wouldn't even say you understand it once you start. I think understanding requires going for a while without injury, passing your noob gains phase, hitting a plateau and seeing results again.
Especially for someone like me into "depth" in strategy games... you realize that the only limits are genetic & mental and the "skill curve" is infinite. Putting effort into training, eating or resting has largely supplanted my desire to play video games.
NB: I had previously done a Starting Strength program a decade ago with a not-so-great coach. Coach was a dickhead and didn't discourage me from some really bad training habits that led me to get injured. Injury led to depression, weight gain and not getting back to training for a decade. Maybe that's on me but it's a serious regret and the approach I took to training this time around made all of the difference.
Two things that will improve mental clarity and sleep. Not drinking alcohol and strength training.
Two things that will improve mental clarity and sleep. Not drinking alcohol and strength training.
I haven't had a drink, or smoked for two months and my sleeping has improved so much it is crazy, absolutely crazy... I do need to get back to the gym, it is just so hard to muscle the strength to go when I'm not feeling particularly good about myself, which is dumb, since that is the reason I want to get back into it...
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There is no negative effect to doing so, why would you not?
There's all kinds of potential negative effects. 1. It generally comes at non-zero financial expense. 2. I might not know what I'm doing. 3. I might get hurt. 4. I might cause someone else to get hurt. Or, perhaps most-tortuously: 5. They're all going to laugh at me.
I keep getting hurt via various forms of exercise. My last injury was a herniated disc which has cost me so much time and money for surgery and PT and missed work time and such.
So a big #1 and #3 for me...
Maybe they were because of #2, but I tried to learn as best as I could.
I couldn't care less about #5.
A lot of time, money, and effort and I still have pretty much nothing to show for it. I am still quite thin and weak. I wont give up, but it's definitely not as simple as some people make it seem.
Two things that will improve mental clarity and sleep. Not drinking alcohol and strength training.
I agree with this, however, the best sleep of my life was when I was doing Ashtanga yoga regular. It's very physical, but I think it also takes care of a lot of muscle tension - notably in the shoulders, hips, and hamstrings - that are an often unnoticed cause of sleep issues. Not only did I sleep better while doing Ashtanga, I felt better with less sleep. It was amazing. It's something I've struggled incorporating i…
Ok, I'm almost convinced to start lifting weights... if they release a study showing hair growing I'll be 100% in.
Can relate to the hair growth thing, I've started to enter my "balding" era and I've been having a nervous breakdown. I never really cared about my looks before but the balding thing is really getting to me. Finasteride makes me depressed and minoxidil is so annoying, makes me feel less alone when I read a comment like yours, ha.
If that doesn’t work for whatever reason, then cutting it very short (a few mm) is the second best alternative.
Trying to hide it is the worst.
Stressing about it is a waste.
I started shaving my head when I was about 25. I wish I had done it sooner. No haircuts, no hairstyling, no “bed hair”. I just shave my head when I shave my face, usually in the shower.