Sorry. Didn’t mean to ghost out on the conversation.
I will look into that.
My take on cardio conditioning and general physical contitioning is ridiculously simple though. It’s essentially this- Take a given task and do it until you can like you would for a living.
Fortunately with cardio, if you can do X rate of work for an hour, you can do it for infinity. Harder stuff like working a jackhammer, swinging a sledge fitting steel, or cutting trees is pretty similar, just harder and you have to eat more when you’re done.
Hmm, I’m trying to think what mine is. I guess…do what you do to improve your quality of life, whatever that means. When I become too compulsive, my QOL suffers because missing or half-assing a workout = a bad day, and when I’m not compulsive enough I don’t feel or look the way I prefer to feel and look.
I joke, but tangent time: I’ve never really liked the idea of “making a comeback”. An old buddy of mine once relapsed after about 10-12 years sober. In that time he did some really good things. Finished his degree and became a teacher, started coaching, started a family, etc. Now all of these things were slipping away, and quickly. All he ever talked about was “making a comeback”. I finally blurted out “You ain’t coming back to anything, and you’re going die if you don’t move forward.”. Not gonna say it worked, but something did. Very likely many things did. He ended up doing a lot better from there on.
So I need to take my own advice, and put that guy in the picture to rest. Good dude, got me a long way and through a lot of life stuff but lately he’s been messing with me.
You’re awesome, so don’t take this the wrong way. The guy in that picture isn’t fit to tie your current day shoes. You’ve grown up and gotten a lot better as a human since then. Present-day you would slap the shit out of back-then you for being an asshole (and smoking lol).
It’s natural to be frustrated by your limitations, but don’t let a little thing like a heart attack make you abandon all hope of physique improvement. John Meadows had his colon explode. The kid below had an artificial heart in a bag. You won’t win the Olympia, but you can bring sexy back.
Yeah, I think I can. I just have to keep my perspective as one of moving forward, not looking back.
I always look at others and think “Damn, that’s screwed. How do you live through that?” and never quite realize that some of mine have been about as entirely screwed as anything can be.
That heart thing though. Man, that! Thats something. Needs wi-fi to take his pulse!
Reverse hypers on a milk crate (and pillow)- also 5 sets of 10.
Just to see how it would go:
In cardiac rehab the airdyne part of my program was 15 min. @ 48 rpm. max. I’d usually hit that plus maybe 2-4, so 50-52. That made for a nice challenging cruise wherein one of the therapists would tell me to dial it back a little. We had a lot of fun with that. The really cute one would smack me sometimes, I’d tell her that people pay good money for that and a good time was had by all.
So tonight I hit 50 rpm right out of the gate and steadily ramped up to 60 over the course of 15 minutes, completing 4.1 miles and an avg. rate of 16.4 mph. , and it felt great. I just wanted to compare the relative feeling of exertion per the rate of work to measure progress. Not bad since my last day of rehab, October 28th, when my rate was avg. of 12-12.5 mph.
Nothing to do with weightlifting, so not sure it would be your cuppa tea, but here it is. The title is misleading; basically he’s a researcher who was in on the HIIT revolution and gives the science and research of every single thing to do with it, particularly as compared to people doing moderate steady-state exercise. I heard him interviewed and took advantage of a free book for new Audible listeners to listen on my way to and from work last year. When it came up here in response to down days for Skyz, I started it all over again, and am in love with it all over again. It’s a great way to manage shitty down days for me - “I’ll just do a couple of sprints, it’s better than nothing,” which most often resets me and allows for a good workout. He talks at length about people with Type II diabetes and recovering from cardiac events and such.
I also have to say that listening to this guy is a joy. I don’t know how long he’s been a researching this stuff, but he’s incredibly enthusiastic; probably the best reader of nonfiction I’ve come across. When he talks about an astonishing study outcome, it sounds like he’s astonished all over again, like “can you believe it?” in this delighted voice. So a fun listen, too. Not sure it would be fun to read it on paper, but maybe!
Thank you. Mostly my interest was in redefining goals as I’m very aware I’m still emotionally chasing goals that are more suited to a single 18 year old then justifying them with “more mature” 33 year old reasoning. But long term health is always something I’m interested in. As is spending less time doing cardio.
and a good time was had by all.
