Mad Hatter Posted June 30, 2021 Report Share Posted June 30, 2021 5 hours ago, PaulG said: I've been experimenting with a technique I picked up from the Huberman Lab podcast on performance: spending my rest breaks with my feet and hands submerged in cool (75-80 degree) water, the idea being to lower my core temperature faster so I can perform more work. I see you're still sold on the podcast, excellent! I did this experiment too when my flat overheated. But that was less about improving performance and more about not dying. 😄Not that it gets anywhere near as hot, those temps are incomprehensible. 😮 14 minutes ago, WhiteGhost said: How do you get the water to your workout place and still keep it cool with the heat? Training at home, thermos, cooler. Giant block of ice in a wheelbarrow? Or you know, tap water. 😉 Quote Link to comment
PaulG Posted June 30, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2021 10 hours ago, WhiteGhost said: How do you get the water to your workout place and still keep it cool with the heat? I’ve been working out almost entirely at home — even more so since my dumbbells finally came! — so I just put a couple inches of water in the tub and in my largest mixing bowl, and I hang out with my feet in the tub and my hands in the bowl on my rest breaks. As long as the water is cool to the touch (not freezing cold, as you don’t want your vasculature to constrict) it’s theoretically still giving benefit. If the water goes up more than a couple degrees, I just add some more cold water to bring it down. 10 hours ago, Mad Hatter said: I see you're still sold on the podcast, excellent! I did this experiment too when my flat overheated. But that was less about improving performance and more about not dying. 😄Not that it gets anywhere near as hot, those temps are incomprehensible. 😮 Yeah, before this heat wave it was all about eking out a little more performance. And it did seem to help to some degree! A few of my exercises took big steps forward. Yesterday I just wanted to be able to do SOME work but not die. I’m still sold on it, sort of. I’m listening to it every week. I’m also taking a look at some of the resources Huberman draws from in his episodes. All the recommendations Huberman makes seem to be based on something, but I’m finding some of it is “one new study showed this might be a cool thing,” not necessarily “this has been replicated in ten studies and we know this is an effect people should be paying attention to.” I am most inclined to trust him when he’s talking about his areas of expertise, but it turns out some of the things he said in his episodes on exercise and nutrition weren’t as well-founded as his comments seemed to suggest. Even though it’s not exactly a final word though, he is definitely listening to and referencing some really great people I had never heard of before, like Dr. Andy Galpin. 1 Quote Cowardly Assassin Training Log | Challenges: Current, 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st Link to comment
sarakingdom Posted July 8, 2021 Report Share Posted July 8, 2021 Quote I felt like I could run forever, like I could smell the wind and feel the grass under my feet, and just run forever. Current Challenge: #24 - Mrs. Cosmopolite Challenge Past: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11a & #11b, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23 Link to comment
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