So things like having a tight sheet above your feet causes calves strain but for me i have a funny addiction of laying on my stomach/chest and sides when sleeping
This becomes unfunny when i get up or just leave the bed and my chest feels flat. I think this may be a cause to why my chest is still flat despite hard work on chest in the gym. Any ideas? Also while we’re at it does heavy bench low rep cause chest mass or moderate weight moderate reps cause chest mass. I know low weight and high reps for anything makes definiton and tone
The only way to avoid this issue is to hang from the rafters, like a bat. Think about it, the weight of a sheet flattens your chest but your back is taking your entire weight! That’s a gain killer right there.
I have trouble with the bat approach, freaks my kids out so I am struck rotating positions. Like rotating wheels. I also go to the chiro for an alignment… again, like a wheel alignment.
I also put in extra volume into the muscles under sleep load to make up for the flattening effect.
Hope that helps, it takes a bit of training not to turn around in your sleep but you can do it. I try wedging myself between two shoes. This is also a great way to check your bodyfat each morning.
It does contribute, yeah. The constriction effect stops the metabolites like IGF-1 attaching to receptor sites. Ever noticed how fat guys who sit all the time have saggy glutes? It’s the same deal.
What you need to do is eat beetroot. I know it sounds weird, but beetroot has a dilation effect on your blood vessels which’ll counteract the constrictive pressure on your chest.
Only problem is you need to eat a lot, and I mean a lot of beetroot. Works a charm though. Since I started eating beetroot with every meal (and snacking on beetroot between meals - it’s easy to do if you buy precooked stuff) I’ve added 2 inches to my chest in only a couple of months.
@strongmangoals surely your kids would suffer more long term psychological effects about kids in the play ground making fun of your flat chest than they would seeing you hanging upside down, they will get used to it.
@Yogi1 that’s bro science. Do you have any studies? Super high dose beta alanine has been shown to produce dangerous side effects in rats. Plus you will have red poo.
If that were truly the case I wouldn’t be walking around sporting DDD titties that are still round and bouncy. They’d be hella flat C-D cups by now since I’ve slept on my face and chest for the last something odd years of my life.
A decent training plan implementing both high, moderate, and low rep/set ranges would be ideal, tailored to what you’re training for.
Dawg, your chest is flat because you only bench like 140, not because you sleep on it.
But in all seriousness, I feel lower back pain if I sleep on my stomach (head propped up on pillow causes me to arch), and my arms fall asleep if I sleep on my sides. So I tend to sleep on my back.
I sleep on my back, I snore, girlfriend hits me for snoring. sleep on stomach, wake up with flat chest/dick, girlfriend makes fun of my flat chest/dick. No win, only lose.
I slept on a floor a couple nights this weekend. Haven’t done that in a while. Upper back feels great. Lower back seems fatigued for some reason, perhaps travel related. Most concerning is the fluid that’s built up in my knees. I knew I should’ve slept in the arm chair.
