Fitness Thread?

[ToddStarnes]

Fitness thread.

Anybody else like intermittent fasting and derive significant benefits from it? I also recently started trying to get more sleep which seems beneficial for recovery and performance. As I age I find recovery and injury prevention is as or more important than the actual workouts.

I also sometimes use ice baths after long runs or when my legs are sore but I'm wondering more and more about efficacy. I have cysts and meniscal damage in both knees though so I dont think it can hurt necessarily despite some data that in limiting inflammation it precludes the body fully adapting to the new strains (i.e. getting swole af cuz).

[The Comrade]

Fitness this dick in ur mouth

[Spider]

After I’ve had too much whiskey, I cook myself a large flank steak, pan-fried in salted butter. I eat that, put on a pair of wet socks and go to sleep. I imagine this is a cure-all, Dylan. Like Windex.

[exploited]

I try to do 50 situps, pushups and pull-ups a day, not that it matters to my skinny alien body. Plus walking alot of course.

[exploited]

[Philly]

I do bouldering. Not outside of course. I’m too much of a kitty for that. I go to the climbing gym. I’m bad at it and too stupid to get better because it’s a technique thing and no amount of conditioning will make me better until I fix that. It’s fun though and a good workout I think. I also run sometimes but I’ve been lazy about that lately.

[ToddStarnes]

Bouldering seems fun

[fstarcstar]

[ToddStarnes]

I cycle a decent amount. Ever do a longer fast like 2-3 days?

[Spider]

Years ago I tried to keep a fast going as long as I could, out of curiosity. People talk about feelings of higher energy and euphoria after the initial hump. I tapped out at day 12. After a few days the hunger stops...but then a different sort of hunger comes into play around day 10. The week after breaking the fast where you bring the food intake up gradually for safety's sake is much worse than the actual fast.

Do not recommend, whatever the hippies say. No euphoria, no clear headedness, no focus, no energy. All bullshit.