RaydiantDetail- Ah, thanks for explaining. Sounds like the intermittent fasting suits you just fine. Heh heh, I hear you on not trying to do some things after a meal, I *must* do my cardio on an empty stomach or it`d be, uhm....bad.
IMO the whole "heavy" thing is soooo subjective that the numbers don`t mean much to me, just so many variables. If it`s heavy for *you* then it`s heavy; if you get good results, it`s heavy enough. So it`s not like I ever scoff/etc. at the poundages somebody uses..hey, I do some cable-pulley movements with *zero* weight, just the unloaded plate carriage is plenty!
A friend`s son once asked why I had my wife`s Heavy Hands out in the weight room...I showed him what I was using those light things for and he couldn`t do *one* rep without really cheating and using momentum.
Huh, a 5 pound increase is more than I use for most "normal progressions". I have little 1/25 plates (and PlateMates, love those things) that I use to increase it just enough..I tell myself that the increase is so minor that it can`t possibly be too challenging and am often able to psyche myself that way (whether it really is all psychological or not I don`t really know).
That 45 seconds must indeed be challenging! The longest work intervals I use are 40 seconds on the StairMaster and I`m only doing five of them. NO WAY could I go all-out for that long on the AirDyne, not if my life depended on it
And yeah, the BJJ oughta be good in all sorts of ways! And zero surprise that many practitioners also do yoga. Heh heh, as an aside, my dentist somehow trashed a hamstring doing Yoga! Like, really messed himself up..I suspect there were, uhm..."form issues"..that he wasn`t taking seriously.
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