Give me your best esoteric fitness advice
I'll start
>properly stretching and messaging the muscle for at least 5 minutes prior to the exercise increases lifts 10% or even more
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Esoteric fitness advice
>ice bath or cold shower first thing after waking up dramatically increases T
>ice bath or cold shower
>icing balls
which is better
I think it counts more how much time the cold is applied
Can I ice my nut sack and get the same benefits of cold showers? I tried cold showers for a while and they worked for me except I kept getting cold-like symptoms(sore throat, pericarditis, etc). I'd prefer to take room temp showers and ice my nut sack instead
>I'd prefer to take room temp showers and ice my nut sack instead
this might work for testosterone, but the cold shower benefits of putting the brown fat to wok might not be activated
NTA but ball ice simply raise T from have more blood floor to the balls.
cold showers Helps improve metabolism, Improves circulation, Increases endorphins and Helps fight off common illnesses.
Ice baths helps Eases sore and aching muscles, strength your vagus nerve, Decreases the effect of heat and humidity, Limits the inflammatory response and Helps your central nervous system.
hope that helps there are more benefits to each but i already listed a lot.
>ice bath raises T
>ice baths raises cortisol which lowers T
>hot bath/shower lowers T
>hot bath/shower makes you relaxed, which raises T
This. I've never understood how routinely doing cold showers is good for you when you're pushing your body to max stress levels day after day. How does this not just age you and lower your overall health.
Don't athletes just use that to forces stressed muscles to relax or something like football players?
I can be corrected here but my understanding was that the primary reason is that your body is already stressed right after a workout, athletes are sore and possibly prone to injury, so an ice dip right after practice helps speed up muscle recovery and heal joints.
I think this is different than the average lifter putting themselves through a cortisol shower every morning. I think the 'clarity' and 'calm' everyone feels is just their body reverting back to the baseline they were at before they jumped in.
It is esoteric for a reason
How to ice bath regularly without having to buy ice? I'm not buying bags of ice to sit in. I'm too poor
Make ice in the freezer every 12 hours, then put it in a bag. After a few days, you will have enough ice.
Aight I have a pretty small freezer so it might take a few extra days lmfao but I'll give it a shot and just dump it in the tub
Dramatically increases cortisol which is horrid for you when it isn't necessary. It's literally the same thing as having a 130 heart rate while sitting still at your computer vs when working out, one is bad, one is not.
Also:
>Never take advice from someone on gear
>never take advice from someone who chews with their mouth open
>wear something silly to the gym and disregard social norms. act like a sperg
Praying in between sets increases your 1RM for a short period of time
>icing balls
>long walks at night
>fighting wild animals
shouldn't you sleep at night and walk in the morning
I will show you something different from either your shadow at morning striding behind you or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
Cool remark but street lights make the whole dust thing not true anymore. Imagine what it was like to live when there were no electric lights.
look into Muscle Control by Maxick it show pretty old and esoteric knowledge
grappling is the best from of combat to train in daily
balls
very based and true
>Muscle Control by Maxick
This, read this book
talking to hot girls will enlarge your weiner but only while you keep talking
Saying
>Bybon son of Phola lend me your strength
before any set invokes the ancient spirit of fit.
>Praying to a bunch of gypsy morons
How bout no?
Am I meant to pray to a israelite instead?
obviously bro, selling your soul to jehova is not the same as selling your soul to the devil, hes totally the good guy!
The son of God for you, mister fedora tipper.
Shut the frick up israelite boy
Asking one the old know strong men to help your lifts
Based
Smoking is good if it's just tobacco.
How much sun damages your skin depends on the type of fat you consume and those skin cells were produced by.
60% of nutrition pathways are turned off by being sad.
Being near water/trees/mountains prepares your digestion for certain foods and you can mess yourself up by giving your body mismatched nutrition.
Fasting and refeeding with large game mimickes killing a large animal after days of hunting, big test boosts.
Chewing is as important as sleep.
Certain numbers are evil and should never be stopped on when repping weights. 6 for example is extremely evil.
Journaling what improvements you will hit will make your body grow to accommodate the expectation.
>Certain numbers are evil and should never be stopped on when repping weights. 6 for example is extremely evil.
7,8 or 12 are the best numbers
>7 reps
ngmi
>Being near water/trees/mountains prepares your digestion for certain foods and you can mess yourself up by giving your body mismatched nutrition.
kek
4 and 6 should never be done. 3, 5 and 7 are beautiful numbers.
>Certain numbers are evil and should never be stopped on when repping weights. 6 for example is extremely evil.
this agrees with prior research indicating that 6 reps provide no gains
moron it was 7 reps
6 is also 0 according to
>Fasting and refeeding with large game mimickes killing a large animal after days of hunting, big test boosts.
>Journaling what improvements you will hit will make your body grow to accommodate the expectation.
Those two make a lot of sense
I unironically can see the sense in most of this and have just embraced the schitzodom
drinking/smoking mogs pre-workouts if calories are not your concern
You know how when you think about a muscle or part of your body and you can feel it? Do that before exercising to get the muscle in the right mindset then during the actual exercise switch and think about another muscle this will make the muscle you are training jealous and will try to take your attention back by pumping more blood to it.
For a month just train with natural stone lifts, calisthenics, martial arts and breath control.
I do this ever 6 months, and I keep it in mind when I go back to gyms and barbells.
this sound very based
might do it
Do it anon
>Give me your best esoteric fitness advice
1 set to failure
every day
if you're frauding, then yeah this is solid.
Yeah, if you're not on gear this will never get you to 30 ffmi.
so if you're not frauding should you do less or more
>leucine pulsing
>push press and power shrugs with slow eccentric
>band assisted suspension flys
>digestive enzymes to eat more food
>throwing heavy shit outside
I could probably think of stranger shit I've tried but this is all stuff that I would rate 10/10.
>leaving on a high note
>T-Bone/Coco
what is leucine pulsing?
>get 3-5 g of leucine a meal (from food, use cron-o-meter)
>eat each meal 3-5 hours apart
>eat +500kcal past maintenance
This plus sleeping 8-9 hours a night built more muscle than all my previous years downing whey protein.
flexing the Temporalis muscle to get rid of headaches
German fencers are b***hes but they have cool training stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPwPMQh3SS8
now this is a really cool esoteric exercise
might transfer well into other sports as well
Its pretty sweet though the sources dont have perfect info so theres probably alot of room for improvement in form or whatever Ill share some of my other shit hold on.
https://blackbeltwiki.com/hojo-undo Considering how similar it can be to modern training equipment I assumed this stuff had some good info as well even though its marred in some of the bs in martial arts
The wrist roller especially seems interesting if anyone knows about an equivalent id love to hear it
this reminds me of those Bloodsport/Kickboxer movies with Jean-Claude van Dame where the master threw coconuts from a tree on his stomach and where he trained down a well full of water
That sounds sweet I always loved that dudes tv appearances. https://blackbeltwiki.com/mei-hua-zhuang Here's another one that's a bit stupider but just looks like fun.
Going do some of these
Great thread
This isnt real esoteric but the amount of people who don't know it is crazy.
Shadow wrestling is amazing for gains.
Meditation on fighting a imagined opponent.
this homie shadowboxes by the db rack
I shadow wrestling in a feld at night
a man with no purpose simply dies
>Slapping your muscles before you use them and shouting at the same time makes you faster and more explosive
t. sprinter
True
It’s difficult to maintain good form for more than 10 reps per workout. Therefore, to build maximum strength, you should only do 10 reps per workout per exercise, with easy weight.
Example: 3x3 @ 80%.
Grip neck and abs are 3 things you can train daily with no problems
False. I had issues when I trained grip daily. Giving yourself enough time to rest is still important, even with smaller muscle groups. Doing it 3 days a week works much better than every day.
were you just doing crushing? if you mix pinch and resisted opening as well you should have no problem
this, hand/wrist/finger EXTENSION is rarely trained compared to flexion, its basically free grip gains and helps keep carpal tunnel at bay
i use a bucket of sand or dry rice and open/ close my hand using the sand as resistance
If you cut a resistance band in to two you can use it for occlusion training/blood-flow restriction training.
This i can personally vouch for
Why not just buy a tourniquet? I thought the blood flow restriction stuff needed to be pretty specific to avoid injury or some shit
1) a tourniquet is to tight and they are cheap
2) Just wrap at the top of a limb and dont go past 80% 1RM 20%-30% is were you should working
be smart and you wont have problems
organ meats are hyper esoteric and amazing for macros plus they are very cheap
I never stretch, and barely warm up. I do plate jumps if I'm handling over 2 plates for a couple reps as warm up and it's only to get my 30 year old boomer joints ready. Never been injured by anything except failing a 4pl8 squat amrap with no safeties. I am not a smart man but I have balls I guess.
Reps and sets should always be Fibonacci numbers.
It's inconvenient, but the best way to grow muscle after your noob phase is doing like 1-2 sets per exercise but doing like 4 exercises per body part. Basically like a pro bodybuilder who throws the kitchen sink at a muscle group except that you're just doing one or maybe two sets per movement. Like doing hack squat, pendulum squat, leg extensions & belt squat for quads, 1-2 sets per exercise though
Meditation or posture focused yoga can de-stress and make the muscles heal faster after exercise. Just focus on 3 postures a day and that's it.
surprised no one menitioned deep core muscles like training the TVA with stomach vacuums, combined with kegels invigorates the abdominal viscera and massages the organs, leading to better digestion and overall health/blood flow of the organs
also lymph massage is unbelievably based for recovery but its hard to do on yourself properly, deep breathing, walking, and inversions (being upside down) also promote lymph drainage
Oh yeah I forgot how crazy stomach vacuums benefits and kegels.
Training stomach vacuum can literally srink your wast and help show your abs
And if you train kegels you can cum twice without going soft