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Posted by Lamdage22 on July 24, 2016, at 10:56:51
While working out, i dont experience depression.
I am doing 25-30 reps with low weights to give my body time to adapt to the activity. Also i am stretching.
Who is going to the gym here?
Posted by baseball55 on July 24, 2016, at 19:43:53
In reply to Who is working out currently?, posted by Lamdage22 on July 24, 2016, at 10:56:51
> While working out, i dont experience depression.
>
> I am doing 25-30 reps with low weights to give my body time to adapt to the activity. Also i am stretching.
>
> Who is going to the gym here?I just started doing weights again after having a hip replacement two months ago. I always did lower reps with heavier weights to failure, but I read that high reps with less weight has the same effect on building muscle - in the health section of the NYTimes last week. Right now, I'm starting slow. I don't want to wake up and be unable to move because of sore muscles.
I also swim and started again a few weeks ago. I had to stay out of the pool for six weeks until the incision was sufficiently healed.
I find I feel better when I exercise regularly, but truly, when I am in a deep depression, exercise only helps while I'm doing it. I have always taken long walks (can't yet, hip still not healed completely) and I read things all the time about walking as a natural anti-depressant, but I would go for walks and break down crying while I walked.
Posted by rjlockhart37 on July 24, 2016, at 20:26:34
In reply to Re: Who is working out currently?, posted by baseball55 on July 24, 2016, at 19:43:53
exercise releases endorphin's in the body, that's what causes the relief from the depression, also it does release some neurotransmitters due to the active state
i've noticed that too.....but still when i exercise it's strainful because im out of shape, i have to deal with the strain on the body if i run for long periods of time.....painful but it's for the best
Posted by alexandra_k on July 24, 2016, at 22:33:51
In reply to Re: Who is working out currently?, posted by rjlockhart37 on July 24, 2016, at 20:26:34
I've just gotten back into things again after really needing to cut back last semester. It really does feel good to be getting back into it. A little sad to see how I really need to start over with the light weights - but seeming to be recovering strength / recruitment patterns really rather quickly.
:)
Posted by Lamdage22 on July 25, 2016, at 1:05:29
In reply to Re: Who is working out currently?, posted by alexandra_k on July 24, 2016, at 22:33:51
Yes i know the low weights when you start again but i have accepted it.
Posted by alexandra_k on July 28, 2016, at 19:54:17
In reply to Re: Who is working out currently?, posted by Lamdage22 on July 25, 2016, at 1:05:29
I think about how the bodybuilders do their posing (really pumping and flexing different muscles) without any weights at all.
To have muscular control like that...
One way of thinking of weights is that they are a crutch. Easier to learn to contract against an external force than to contract without one (or with generating appropriate counter-tension in opposing muscle groups).
Not sure.
Posted by Lamdage22 on July 31, 2016, at 12:59:24
In reply to Re: Who is working out currently?, posted by alexandra_k on July 28, 2016, at 19:54:17
They practice it. From what i can tell its not that hard. Getting the muscle is much harder than showing it off.
Posted by alexandra_k on August 1, 2016, at 5:48:21
In reply to Re: Who is working out currently?, posted by Lamdage22 on July 31, 2016, at 12:59:24
Oh yes, they practice it. I thought... It was very hard. Much harder than developing the muscle (with weights / external crutch).
But then developing it ain't necessarily any fun, either...
Same thing, really.
Work is work...
Maybe... Just as hard?
I always wondered that...
With Olympic Weightlifting (as in the movements for the Olympic Sport: The snatch, the clean, the jerk). There was this whole thing about doing the movements with a broomstick (aka next to no weight) and then 'mastering them' and then adding weight vs attempting the movements with weight and more successively mastering the movement...
Seemed to me that the best way of developing perfect form with no weight was to... Be able to do the movement with a certain amount of weight... Guys, in particular, seemed to need a certain amount of weight (with respect to their bodyweight) in order to help them learn to stretch themselves into positions... Girls seemed to need (rather less weight - with respect to their body weight) in order to learn to contract their muscles around the weight in the postions (rather than relaxing their muscles and slamming their joints)...
But weight vs no weight... with technique... Muscle contraction protects the joints...
I found this swedish gymnastics book from the late 1800's in the library the other day... I'ts just beautiful. PHysiological reccommendations, even. Eating more nitrogen for building muscle. Laying off the carboniferous...
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