Life extension theraphies and more

[scott]

Which style of martial art did Bruce Lee practice ? was it a shaolin style ? I think he didnt speak mandarin and never went in China. Are there shaolin temples in Hong Kong and in Taiwan ?

It's my understanding he studied many, choosing aspects that suited him, and formed his own style. Bruce (and or others) called it Jeet Kune Do.

I remember reading Bruce and Chuck Norris consulted. Chuck was of the opinion kicks above the waist and spinning kicks put you in a precarious position. Bruce agreed, but was of the opinion you should practice them, because you should be able to do them. Chuck relented.

[Triplethought]

For triplethought, a good meta analysis, they found a relation between grip strength and cardiovascular diseases

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6778477/

""They determined that grip strength was a more powerful predictor of cardiovascular mortality (hazard ratio 1.17) than systolic blood pressure. They also found grip strength to be associated with all-cause mortality (hazard ratio 1.16), myocardial infarction (hazard ratio 1.07), and stroke (hazard ratio 1.09).""

Personnaly, I find it cool to have a good grip strength. For the grip, there is not better than a good training with persian meels.

That really is cool. It also explains why my doctor is now including grip strength in my executive physicals every quarter. So far she says I nearly break her plastic gizmo on the right hand but she also said it isn't as much the overall grip force but the imbalance from left to right side. My left side is weaker. I thought about trying to increase my grip strength but II'd guess (I don't think) it's cause and effect so much as measuring other effects. What I mean is I find it hard to believe that just exercising your grip would improve heart health. She also now watches my gait as I walk down the hall and measures how quickly I move. Either way it's interesting science

[stefk]

For triplethought, a good meta analysis, they found a relation between grip strength and cardiovascular diseases

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6778477/

""They determined that grip strength was a more powerful predictor of cardiovascular mortality (hazard ratio 1.17) than systolic blood pressure. They also found grip strength to be associated with all-cause mortality (hazard ratio 1.16), myocardial infarction (hazard ratio 1.07), and stroke (hazard ratio 1.09).""

Personnaly, I find it cool to have a good grip strength. For the grip, there is not better than a good training with persian meels.

That really is cool. It also explains why my doctor is now including grip strength in my executive physicals every quarter. So far she says I nearly break her plastic gizmo on the right hand but she also said it isn't as much the overall grip force but the imbalance from left to right side. My left side is weaker. I thought about trying to increase my grip strength but II'd guess (I don't think) it's cause and effect so much as measuring other effects. What I mean is I find it hard to believe that just exercising your grip would improve heart health. She also now watches my gait as I walk down the hall and measures how quickly I move. Either way it's interesting science

Wel, this study only proves that the grip is a powerful indicator of overall health. How to use this important info, for us, the community of tactical investors. I understand wel good that all people here can not become a badass doing 100 pushups in a row !!!! or doing a session with indian clubbels or persian meels, or doing a session of wrestlers bridges. But for everybody, there is only one exercice that everybody can do, one exercice that gives you the most bang for your buck. This exercice is the farmers walk, you lift in each hand a weight and you walk. No more simple, and no more healthhy, it trains the heart, the lungs, the legs, the back, the grip.......Do it, and you wil live longer and healthier, and you wil have a good grip

https://www.titan.fitness/strongman/car ... 30033.html

[AstuteShift]

For triplethought, a good meta analysis, they found a relation between grip strength and cardiovascular diseases

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6778477/

""They determined that grip strength was a more powerful predictor of cardiovascular mortality (hazard ratio 1.17) than systolic blood pressure. They also found grip strength to be associated with all-cause mortality (hazard ratio 1.16), myocardial infarction (hazard ratio 1.07), and stroke (hazard ratio 1.09).""

Personnaly, I find it cool to have a good grip strength. For the grip, there is not better than a good training with persian meels.

That really is cool. It also explains why my doctor is now including grip strength in my executive physicals every quarter. So far she says I nearly break her plastic gizmo on the right hand but she also said it isn't as much the overall grip force but the imbalance from left to right side. My left side is weaker. I thought about trying to increase my grip strength but II'd guess (I don't think) it's cause and effect so much as measuring other effects. What I mean is I find it hard to believe that just exercising your grip would improve heart health. She also now watches my gait as I walk down the hall and measures how quickly I move. Either way it's interesting science

Wel, this study only proves that the grip is a powerful indicator of overall health. How to use this important info, for us, the community of tactical investors. I understand wel good that all people here can not become a badass doing 100 pushups in a row !!!! or doing a session with indian clubbels or persian meels, or doing a session of wrestlers bridges. But for everybody, there is only one exercice that everybody can do, one exercice that gives you the most bang for your buck. This exercice is the farmers walk, you lift in each hand a weight and you walk. No more simple, and no more healthhy, it trains the heart, the lungs, the legs, the back, the grip.......Do it, and you wil live longer and healthier, and you wil have a good grip

https://www.titan.fitness/strongman/car ... 30033.html

Farmer walks and to those lifting fanatics, deadlifts. High risk but high reward exercise, like options/futures of exercise lol

[Yodean]

But for everybody, there is only one exercice that everybody can do, one exercice that gives you the most bang for your buck. This exercice is the farmers walk, you lift in each hand a weight and you walk. No more simple, and no more healthhy, it trains the heart, the lungs, the legs, the back, the grip.......Do it, and you wil live longer and healthier, and you wil have a good grip

https://www.titan.fitness/strongman/car ... 30033.html

Yes, farmer's walk or loaded carries are excellent for long-term health. But some people have knee arthritis or hip arthrititis, so even those exercises are tough. However, just walking for hours a day, is very beneficial for overall health. Most people can walk.

@stefk: this 4-minute clip is just for you:

https://youtu.be/xTL5vkPPln4

Yogi Supreme Master Sadhguru explains the secret behind Bruce Lee's 3-inch punch using Yogic terms.

[stefk]

Thanks

[Triplethought]

@stefk: this 4-minute clip is just for you:

https://youtu.be/xTL5vkPPln4

Yogi Supreme Master Sadhguru explains the secret behind Bruce Lee's 3-inch punch using Yogic terms.

That was some comical horse manure

[AstuteShift]

Not a fan of these “gurus”

Bruce Lee was ahead of his time. The old saying goes, the good die young

[Yodean]

Not a fan of these “gurus”

Agreed. Sadhguru, despite his name, isn't half-bad. If you listen to some of his stuff, he's actually pretty reasonable. Not too "woo woo." Doesn't want any money from you. Good sense of humour.

Like you, he advises taking showers before going to sleep:

https://youtu.be/iiygw1TKXH0

I've been doing this (making sure I take a shower before going to sleep at night) for a few months now, and it does seem to help with my sleep quality.

[Yodean]

New research, published in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity, investigates the benefits of 20-minute exercise sessions on the body’s immune system.

Researchers from the University of California-San Diego School of Medicine – led by Suzi Hong, Ph.D., from the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health – hypothesized that exercise would improve the body’s anti-inflammatory response by activating the sympathetic nervous system.

The sympathetic nervous system helps to increase heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing rate. Physical exercise activates this system to help the body keep up.

During this time, the body releases hormones such as epinephrine and norepinephrine into the bloodstream, which activate the adrenergic receptors of immune cells.

More specifically, the researchers tested the hypothesis that a single 20-minute session of exercise would be enough to trigger sympathoadrenergic activation, which, in turn, would suppress the production of monocytic cytokines.

Monocytes are a type of white blood cell, or immune cell, that help to fight off bacteria and infections. Cytokines are a type of protein that help other cells to become so-called effector cells, which, in turn, kill off cancerous or infected cells.

TNF is one of these cytokines. TNF can induce cell differentiation and proliferation, but also cell death, including cancerous ones. TNF also has pro-inflammatory properties, which help the body to bring its inflammatory cells to the site of the injury, creating an immunological response.

Inflammation is a necessary part of the body’s immune response, but too much inflammation can lead to disease. Chronic inflammation may contribute to diabetes, obesity, celiac disease, arthritis, fibromyalgia, or bowel diseases such as Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis.

The results revealed that a 20-minute session of moderate exercise can have anti-inflammatory effects.

The study confirmed the researchers’ hypothesis. Exercise did seem to produce an anti-inflammatory cellular response, which could be seen in the reduction of the cytokine TNF.

“Knowing what sets regulatory mechanisms of inflammatory proteins in motion may contribute to developing new therapies for the overwhelming number of individuals with chronic inflammatory conditions, including nearly 25 million Americans who suffer from autoimmune diseases,” Hong adds.

The lead author also highlights the importance of this study for people with reduced strength or mobility who are under the impression that physical exercise needs to be extremely intense in order to be effective.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articl ... flammation

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Cold exposure training (i.e. cold showers/baths, ice baths) have some similar benefits (but a lot of others that exercise doesn't): you get initial sympathomimetic/adrenergic activation ("fight - flight - freeze") response, but followed by downregulation of cytokines (like TNF and other chronic inflammatory parameters). So done in the right way, potentially very beneficial. Intermittent fasting, as well.

Also goes to show that the immune system is extremely nuanced and complicated. In a sense, you may give yourself an acute stress stimulus that actually downgrades the chronic stress response and the chronic inflammatory response! However, too much and the acute stress stimuli may worsen chronic inflammation/stress.

The devil's in the dose.

[SOL]

I use a system that I called Peak fitness that the Russians invented (if I am not mistaken). From start to finish it totals 1080 seconds, or 18 minutes and most people will not be able to handle it. It really is the best way compared to what I used to do many moons ago, where I would bench press up 250 pounds and my biceps were about 16 inches and I would work out a minimum of 90 minutes in the gym. Now I have more stamina than before.

Also out of the 1080 seconds you only work out for 270 seconds, the rest is taking small breaks between each set. There are 9 sets

[stefk]

Is it not HIIT, high intensity interval training? a system tested and experimented in a japanese university.

5 min warming up, (4 min intense exercice followed by 1 min rest) X 4, and 5 min cooldown.

The best protocol indeed

[stefk]

We all have stereotypes, a clever guy or intllectual is never strong, it comes from the movies, the dumb guy is big and muscular and the brainy guy, well he has a big head and a little weak body. In reality, we can be a badass and intellectual at the same time.

I take an exemple with Leonardo Da Vinci, I think that nobody here can imagine this guy was a real badass, he could bend a horseshoe with his hands, he was at his time the strongest man of Florence. He was physically so strong, he always challenged the visitors in his atelier to lift heavy stones, and of course he always won.

CORPORALITA is one of his seven life principles. “Corporalita” which means “ The cultivation of grace, ambidexterity, fitness and poise” Da Vinci believed that in order for one to be creative we must pay attention to our body.

[Centeron631]

Weight exercises of any kind according to this should be staggered (not every day) and if not danger of syndrome according to this article: https://healthyliving.azcentral.com/can ... 14684.html (there is also another article in the margin to link.

For me with cfs (chronic fatigue syndome) probably cold shower would not be wise. However a Naturopath at one of my health groups for people with peripheral neuropathy stated: to stimulate the immune system(lymphatic blood moving) one can start with near hot shower for about 3 minutes and then do slightly cool (not cold) shower 30 seconds and repeat back and forth total of 3 times but start on the limbs; the relative change in temp gets the flow going and cleans out lumping or stagnation in the bigger blood system in the body ie lymphatic

As to Yodeans article indicating even mild exercise helps this may explain why chigong is so effective for lots. Also reading articles like this string gets the mind into this which is inspiring. Now that my tears and tendinitis in my right elbow and shoulder r back to reasonable levels that stopped my chigong i will get started again tonight to interupt my tv couch potato as i was doing before the injuries.

[SOL]

Is it not HIIT, high intensity interval training? a system tested and experimented in a japanese university.

5 min warming up, (4 min intense exercice followed by 1 min rest) X 4, and 5 min cooldown.

The best protocol indeed

It sounds similar but it differs in this aspect. You do a very light warmup. Then you choose an exercise that you are pretty good at or not bad at. Now for 30 seconds, you do as many as you can and as fast as you can. Then you relax for 90 seconds and repeat. You have to do 9 sets. The most you can rest is 90 seconds between a set. That is what helped me do so many pushups in one shot. Another variation is to take the maximum weight you can lift and then divide that by 50%. Now you take that dumbbell or barbell and you do as many sets as you can for 30 seconds, Rest 90 seconds and move to the next set until you complete 9