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Workout Thread IV (pg. 604)
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| ziptnf |
| Lol I was just teasing. Yeah, the routine in that video seems ridiculously simple. I wonder what their actual basketball practices are like, and what they work on there. If they do wind sprints or plyometric exercises to improve their explosiveness. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | RECENTLY I WORKED as an internist-intensivist at the Canadian Combat Surgical Hospital in Kandahar. Most of our casualties were Afghans: National Army soldiers, National Police and civilians caught in crossfire. They were diminutive men, almost always less than a hundred and forty pounds. I cannot comment on the body masses of the Taliban—they were never brought to us. But they are not likely larger than those of the soldiers and the police. And because, in war, soldiers are fed first—prospering right up to the moment they are pierced—the civilians were even thinner.
For someone used to the life and the pathologies of the rich and settled, much about practicing medicine in Afghanistan felt unfamiliar. One of the striking differences was the way gunshot victims’ abdomens looked in CT scans. Back home, I was used to seeing organs stand out with some prominence from the abdominal fat. In fact, in Canadians, the state of the kidneys can be partly assessed by the degree of inflammation in the perinephric fat that envelops them. It’s the same with the pancreas, and the liver often looks like it belonged to a French goose fattened for foie gras. Indeed, the idea of “normal” in a Canadian body proceeds from the assumption that it might be normal to spend one’s days tied to a grain spout, beak pried open, being filled with cracked corn.
Not the Afghans. The surgeons, in fact, often commented on how the abdominal contents spilled out once the abdominal wall was opened; every loop of bowel immediately visible, unobscured by mesenteric fat, which, in Canadians, would cling to every organ like yellow oily cake. Excessive fattiness is precisely why, when caring for the critically ill in North America, glucose levels are tightly controlled with insulin—a procedure necessary even for those not thought to be diabetic. Stressed by the infection, or the operation that has brought us to the intensive care unit, our sugar levels rise, paralyzing our white blood cells and nourishing the bacteria chewing upon them. But it was never necessary to give the Afghans insulin, no matter how shattered they were.
Among North American adults, 40 percent of us maintain normal glucose levels only by secreting larger than normal quantities of insulin from our pancreas. So we wander in and out of our family doctors’ offices and, if some blood work is done, we are reassured that our glucose levels are normal, that we don’t have diabetes. Mostly, they are and mostly, we don’t. But our bodies are not normal. The Afghans’ bodies are normal. We are so commonly ill we take it to be normal.
Here is our normal: 40 percent of North American adults have metabolic syndrome. The syndrome is caused by being fat, even at levels North Americans would not recognize as abnormal. Obesity prompts the receptors that insulin acts upon to become numb to its effects. As we grow fatter, and insulin resistance proceeds, higher and higher levels of insulin are necessary to get the sugar out of the blood. Eventually, overt diabetes may supervene, as it has for 8 percent of North American adults, a tenfold increase since the turn of the last century. But even prior to the development of diabetes, metabolic syndrome insidiously eats away at the bodies of those it affects.
Metabolic syndrome’s elevated insulin level is why we order a second Whopper; getting fatter, cruelly, stimulates our appetite. It is also why high blood pressure is more common among Westerners, too, and why our cholesterol panels are more alarming. Ultimately and especially, it is why heart attacks are almost unknown among traditional peoples like the Pashtun, while half of us will spend our last minutes with the impression that a large kitchen appliance is sitting on our chests. |
http://maisonneuve.org/pressroom/ar...ases-affluence/ |
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| Fledz |
| Westerners are fat, lazy bastards. Maybe in the next article they can tell us even more stuff we already know. |
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| ziptnf |
| First time doing yoga without watching the video today. Its so much better. I was still working hard and got all sweaty but got to listen to a sunsurge Windmill Session mix instead of hearing Tony teaching and whatnot. That's definitely the way to go, I feel awesome. |
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| Domesticated |
| quote: | Originally posted by ziptnf
First time doing yoga without watching the video today. Its so much better. I was still working hard and got all sweaty but got to listen to a sunsurge Windmill Session mix instead of hearing Tony teaching and whatnot. That's definitely the way to go, I feel awesome. |
I've been doing Bikram yoga of late. My first impression was that it was just another bull Hollywood fad, but the benefits are immense.
Working an office job makes you incredibly tense, and I used to shell out for massages every couple of months to reverse a bit of that. With Bikram, my body feels unbelievably limber. When I leave the studio I can actually feel the change in my posture, and that I'm walking more efficiently. I have no back or shoulder pain anymore.
Plus, I sleep better, and my skin looks amazingly clear and healthy. I put both those things down to increased blood flow, and unblockage of the lymph system. When I retire I'm going to try and do it three days a week, I swear it's the key to maintaining one's body. Running, swimming, cycling, weights and all that are great, but they can't compete with the no-impact, full-body, stretch-tastic workout that is Bikram.
I also tried normal yoga and didn't like that as much. I think the heat and sweat factor is vital. |
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| ziptnf |
| Yoga definitely isn't a silly fad, in my opinion, it's a lifelong activity that helps maintain youth and health. It increases durability, flexibility, and overall fitness. Regardless of whether or not you're doing yoga at room temperature, or in satan's , it's incredibly good for your body. I like my normal yoga, I don't think I'm about to crank up the thermostat and murder the poor animals living with me :p |
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| Domesticated |
| quote: | Originally posted by ziptnf
Yoga definitely isn't a silly fad, in my opinion, it's a lifelong activity that helps maintain youth and health. It increases durability, flexibility, and overall fitness. Regardless of whether or not you're doing yoga at room temperature, or in satan's , it's incredibly good for your body. I like my normal yoga, I don't think I'm about to crank up the thermostat and murder the poor animals living with me :p |
Of course. Nevertheless, Bikram's poses are different to that of normal yoga, and the extreme heat means that your muscles can stretch much further than usual. I don't believe in 'toxins', but I also feel like the huge amount of sweat you expel cleans your body (or at least your skin) in some way. At first it smells, but by the end the sweat is clean and doesn't have much of an odour at all. |
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| ziptnf |
Actually, they don't seem that much different. There are a couple poses that are a bit different, but the yoga that I do is quite difficult in some spots and I see many parallels with the standard Bikram.
http://www.yoga-108.net/bikram_postures.htm
The yoga I do is pretty hard, really. Here's the list of poses and stretches I did this morning:
mountain pose (wide leg)
split leg hamstring stretch
quad stretch
Moving Asanas
3 sun salutations
runners pose
crescent pose
warrior one
warrior two
reverse warrior
triangle pose
twisting triangle pose
chair pose
twisting chair pose
right angle pose (extended + grab)
prayer twist
side arm balance
warrior three
half moon
twisting half moon
Balance Poses
tree pose
royal dancer
standing leg extensions
crane
Yoga Belly
touch the sky
boat
half boat
open scissors
torso twist
deep torso twist
3 part touch the sky
Stretches
upward dog
side twist & glute stretch
back stretch
shoulder stand/plough
bow
cat
frog
cobbler pose
single & double hamstring
neck/head rolls
chest expansion
topas
forearm
shoulder tricep
kenpo quad stretch
childs pose
lotus pose |
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| Domesticated |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fledz
One of the worst things you can do when you have a cold is exercise. Especially cardio. |
Not true. Exercise boosts the immune system and can reduce inflammation. However, my personal experience says that this is only true for people who are at the top of their game. My father was an avid and talented runner. When he felt colds coming on, he would go out and ing punish himself. He'd always wake up well the next day.
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Not exactly a workout, but while I was at home visiting my parents I dug a pond out in the garden for my mother. Turns out after you get about a foot down the earth just turns into thick clay embedded with limestone. It was absolutely exhausting, and I've woken up today with aching in muscles I wasn't sure existed. |
yeah. I did a landscaping job once. The hardest bit is how slow the progress is. I remember I had to level an area maybe 5 x 5 metres, and take only about 5 or 10 cm off the top. It took half the ing day. |
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| Vivid Boy |
| I'm officially a in monster. i cant wait to have my knee back. almost there boys...almost there...another 6 months or so and ill be back |
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| Boomer187 |
I request 360 dunk. |
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| JEO |
Just did Kenpo and Ab Ripper a few hours ago, skipped them yesterday :p I really like the Ab Ripper workout, it's really intense compared to any other ab workouts I've ever done. I hope I just don't get bored of it.
Also, why the heck have I put on 2 kg's since I started (~ 10 days)?
I think there's nothing wrong with my diet, since it's really high in protein, really low in fat, and I've really cut down on carbs (my carbs mostly consist of the bowl of oatmeal I have in the morning and the odd piece of bread during the day) = about 1900-2200 kcal / day, of which I'd say 60-65 % is protein. I'm not swollen or anything, just wondering where this 2 kg's I've gained is..
I have solely been concentrating on doing the P90X classic, do you think I should add some cardio to my routine? The problem is I don't really have the time to jog / walk / run, and that's the main reason I chose P90X.
| quote: | Originally posted by Vivid Boy
I'm officially a in monster. i cant wait to have my knee back. almost there boys...almost there...another 6 months or so and ill be back |
What's wrong with your knee? |
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