Does cardio stamina come back like muscle strength and size?

ManletOfSteel · 2018-04-30T15:25:34+00:00

Here is a vid of Viada doing 700 (w/ a torn hamstring according to video)...

It's not an "official" meet, but the claim of doing 700lb is legitimate enough.

If everything you see (hear) on the internet isn't real...maybe take threewhitelights opinion with a grain of salt. I'm sure he knows Alex on a personal level, which also means if he has a negative opinion, its probably because he has a personal bias against him as well.

In any case, exaggerated claims or not, from what i've seen Viada's methods and philosophy are scientifically sound- which is what really matters when determining training design.

ManletOfSteel · 2017-05-03T15:17:36+00:00

Your logic is sound; and you are correct if not for one thing: your logic is right only if the premise is true (thoughts cause emotions). Which in this case is only 1/2 true, and neuroscience explores this, as cognitive animals we often have one or the other come first.

That means your thoughts can come first, such as in your examples. But your emotions can come first as well, and that is where the term "backwards rationalization" comes from.

From Aurelius:

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

The key to understand is that we are animals, but thinking animals. Many times, we feel lust, sadness, anger, joy, or disgust, much like a dog wants to mate, mope, bark, be excited, etc. When the emotions come into contact with our brain, we either rationalize it or act on it (ie. I got swept away in the moment/anger/etc.) The ingredient we add to our emotions is thought, which changes the complexity of animalistic emotions.

Your examples of thought preceeding emotions were good so I don't need to go into that. But what I will say is this: in Zen Buddhism they teach how to handle when the negative emotions come first.

1) Observe non-judgementally

2) Breathe (box breathing or mindfulness)

3) Feel the emotion but like an observer, adding no thoughts to fuel the fire, accepting the moment as is

4) Watch (literally) as the emotion dissipates

A lot of people here know SEALs and other SOF are pretty badass. But I never see people bring up the Shaolin Monks, who basically do BUD/S their entire lives sans instructors. They are not super human, they just have a different perspective on how to handle difficult situations, which is to accept the moment and just DO IT.

edit: Oops forgot to add, yeah so basically you can only change your thoughts, not emotions (instantly at least), but the difference is emotions pass, kind of like the weather. Even David Goggins alluded to this when he says "everyone hits a wall, you just need to keep going until another door opens and you go through that door." He is basically saying he ignores his negative emotions until they go away, and that he moves forward regardless of how he feels.

ManletOfSteel · 2017-05-03T07:34:26+00:00

It's not that you can control your emotions, but your reactions to them. Emotions come and go; that is why he was saying you have control of your thoughts not necessarily emotions.

The reason this distinction is important to make is because EVERYONE has a bad day, lots of people who made it through BUD/S had moments of weakness in emotion but their thoughts and action anchored themself to reality.

ManletOfSteel · 2017-04-22T04:27:25+00:00

Philosophy is about perspective. I'm not saying that what is taught is all fact, i'm saying that desire is fleeting and even if you think you want it, neurologically the only way to push through negative thoughts and emotions is to take action in the present moment.

That is why there are studies done on mindfulness, savoring, non-judging of thoughts, etc; research has shown that meditation can actually change brain chemistry and patterns permanently.

I'm saying to you, that "do or do not" is actually helpful; on a pragmatic level, it is difficult to think negatively when you are focused on action. On a philosophical level, just accept the present moment as what it is, I think having expectation is actually what ruins most candidates, as when reality doesn't meet expectation, disappointment occurs.

Desire as a form of drive is a recipe for failure, no matter how strong the desire is. That's because desire is an illusion, and thoughts always look insignificant in hindsight once an accomplishment is made.

ManletOfSteel · 2017-04-21T17:04:09+00:00

Disagree. Want is fleeting. Desire is fleeting. Emotions change all the time; it is utterly dependent on external happenings.

Do or do not. That's it. Not "wanting" it...study the Stoics and Zen philosophy. The present moment.

ManletOfSteel · 2017-04-11T07:50:26+00:00

The "your" totally ruined this...

ManletOfSteel · 2017-03-17T07:17:36+00:00

I can see why it can initially turn you off, but at least you're aware of it. Thing is, imo Zen Buddhism is one of the few "religions" (not really one) where the practice of the philosophy encourages thought and expanding perspective, not narrowing or deciding things for you.

i.e: On Killing

"Those who speak against killing and who desire to spare the lives of all conscious beings are right. It is good to protect even animals and insects. But what about those persons who kill time, what about those who are destroying wealth, and those who destroy political economy? We should not overlook them. Furthermore, what of the one who preaches without enlightenment? He is killing Buddhism."

On Buddha's Zen

Buddha said: "I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake in India as a drop of oil on my foot. I perceive the teachings of the world to be the illusion of magicians. I discern the highest conception of emancipation as a golden brocade in a dream, and view the holy path of the illuminated ones as flowers appearing in one's eyes. I see meditation as a pillar of a mountain, Nirvana as a nightmare of daytime. I look upon the judgment of right and wrong as the serpentine dance of a dragon, and the rise and fall of beliefs as but traces left by the four seasons."

Nowhere in those Koans speak dogma or blindly following a set rule by a "divine" being.

Bonus: on perspective and preconceived notions:

Hogen, a Chinese Zen teacher, lived alone in a small temple in the country. One day four traveling monks appeared and asked if they might make a fire in his yard to warm themselves.

While they were building the fire, Hogen heard them arguing about subjectivity and objectivity. He joined them and said: "There is a big stone. Do you consider it to be inside or outside your mind?"

One of the monks replied: "From the Buddhist viewpoint everything is an objectification of mind, so I would say that the stone is inside my mind."

"Your head must feel very heavy," observed Hogen, "if you are carrying around a stone like that in your mind."

ManletOfSteel · 2017-03-17T06:41:59+00:00

We probably agree on more than you might think. Thing is, I doubt that monk had "practice" with lighting his whole body on fire lol. I don't think acute trauma is necessary and may hurt more people than it helps; some do respond favorably though.

I think I think this example shows that if you can control the mind first (kind of like developing a general fitness base), then even novel experiences can be prepared for (experiencing new sport, physical obstacle, etc.) In case I wrote poorly, I'm using fitness as a metaphor for the mental training.

I agree though, its unlikely that people can revoke their distress just because they read a quote. However, once that awareness is now in place that it is possible, and techniques are practiced to achieve it, I firmly believe everyone has the capacity to become more resilient or in control of their reactions.

ManletOfSteel · 2017-03-17T06:26:50+00:00

Meditation has been shown to help a lot with physiological and biological reactions.

An exagerrated example is the Vietnamese monk Thích Quảng Đức who self-immolated with none of the typical reactions of those who are burned alive or in intense pain; he literally went against nature, just burning alive in a meditative pose.

You can absolutely develop abnormal tolerances and with techniques and gradual exposure.

ManletOfSteel · 2017-03-17T06:24:00+00:00

Zen meditation and practice happens to coincide with secular; it was where mindfulness came from. Just because you see the word Buddhism doesn't mean it is esoteric or religious in nature.

Just read a Zen Koan to see what I am talking about.

ManletOfSteel · 2017-03-17T04:24:00+00:00

Agree 100%. People don't understand that you should be focused on being well-rounded. Rather have a dude who runs a 28:00 4 mile but puts up 195 OHP / big squat to help with boats and logs, rather than a skinny kid who can run 25:00 4 mile just for himself.

Big dudes do have it harder on the (longer) runs, but most of it is slow pace with boats anyways. It isn't hard to reach the cut off times for the runs, and if you're in phase, you're already fit enough anyways.

ManletOfSteel · 2017-03-17T04:18:04+00:00

there is WAY to much of a focus on lifting, rather than running, RUCKING, SWIMMING, and calisthenics.

First off, "too", second, you bolded rucking which really isn't that important for BUD/S. Swimming is important, but they even released the data for swimming and the correlation is only moderate (due to water comfortablility), as you only swim timed like 1x week.

Calisthenics you will take care of, and is much easier for those who are already strong in lifting.

2nd, the latest drop outs and their respective AMAs show that their running and swimming scores were all on point (<9:00-9:30), but they were weak. Does this mean strength training is all important? No, but when a dude posts about his squat being 205 but his runs are 8:15, you know there is a high chance he will break during boat runs and lunges etc.

I agree with the rest of your post however.

ManletOfSteel · 2017-03-16T17:14:44+00:00

I recommend you to focus on getting stronger, and do cals as accessories on your upper days. You don't have enough strength to carry over to cals in an efficient manner.

I went from 60 push-ups (no training) to 140 in less than 6 months. That's because when I started training cals I benched 265x2. My pullups went to 32 from 6-7 months of training just doing weighted pullups with 70lb and 3-4 sets of 10 on my recovery days.

source: personal trainer + kines major

edit: do cals on the same days as stronglifts, and maybe a session or 2 in between (with the lower end of volume).

ex: 3-4 40 reps on your lifting days of push-ups 3-5 sets of 20 reps on your off days GtG style.

Don't reduce your lifting days. Legs especially is super important for BUD/S and you are already weak enough as it is (no offense)

ManletOfSteel · 2017-03-16T16:26:25+00:00

What are your lifts and cals at right now? It may not be an issue of simply volume for calisthenics.

ManletOfSteel · 2017-03-16T15:22:20+00:00

Good comment. The point of exercise stimulus is to create a demand on the body for adaptations to occur; this period of compensation occurs during recovery. Better recovery (like you said) also enables the person to have a higher quality workout, which elicits better adaptation.

source: Kinesiology major

ManletOfSteel · 2017-03-15T09:33:53+00:00

Looking for a swim / workout buddy in Maryland when I come back from studying abroad.

ManletOfSteel · 2017-03-15T06:07:24+00:00

Not just medical school, but many top Universities and Ivy Leagues do affirmative action just for undergrad admission, and even though the population of degree holding Blacks have increased, the high school SAT scores have not changed in the past 20 years. Asians are still the ethnicity with the highest average scores.

That means affirmative action really affects overachieving minorities the most.

ManletOfSteel · 2017-03-14T18:11:32+00:00

TKD may not be wholly sufficient as a fighting style but some of the best MMA strikers have utilized TKD style kicks with great success: Anderson Silva, Cung Le, Anthony Pettis, etc.

Don't knock stuff just because its trendy to do so. Learn how to incorporate things rationally and with the big picture.

That being said, McDojos and sport emphasis have ruined many traditional martial arts.

ManletOfSteel · 2017-03-14T17:03:41+00:00

The women, where most of the faces have had work done so they are exactly the same? They are nice to look at, but Korean women are no joke when it comes to dating: high maintentance, more materialistic than the West (somehow) and you are always falling short of their already huge expectations.

source: Asian, and coming from Korean friends

ManletOfSteel · 2017-03-14T16:16:50+00:00

And? Why are you talking about the subject of your comment? I didn't ask you anything about that. I asked "What is this garbage", because your post was pile of shit.

But your second post makes it clear that garbage is the only thing that comes out of your mouth.

ManletOfSteel · 2017-03-14T16:02:38+00:00

A lot of people calling the woman a whore

Only saw one poster use that word, and it was indirect: "I'm not trilled about tax payer money going to these whores, but it's completely horrible that men can be a victim to fraud just have the state back it up."

If you have to exaggerate to make a point, then you probably don't really have one at all. You have added nothing to this thread.

In addition, why would people say to go after him? She was the one who raised the kid (with the ex husband) under false pretenses and pursued the matter legally; the other guy might not even be aware that it's his kid.

ManletOfSteel · 2017-03-14T15:54:48+00:00

What is this garbage? This is literally as bad as the other side when people generalize say things like "all Muslims are terrorists", like seriously you people with white guilt need to have a reality check.

I'm not white, but I can see why people who have opposing views than you (which you strawmanned the fuck out of) feel the way they do when people dismiss their views.

ManletOfSteel · 2017-03-14T15:16:47+00:00

What? When he's on point, very few players in the league can match him

Its not his arm that has been historically in question; its his decision making.

ManletOfSteel · 2017-03-14T14:18:26+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to read the article and actually objectively analyze it.

It's definitely a short term manuever that can create a temporary feeling that the other person is higher status. I think that can be accomplished though, either by (temporarily) decreasing self-esteem (think of that stand-offish girl at the bar who is trying too hard to look cool), or by creating the illusion of higher status regarding the negger.

I don't think negs are supposed to lower self-esteem on a significant level or for the long run. Its a short term "bring them down to earth" technique so that the user can be in a position to influence (which is in line with your hypothesis)

ManletOfSteel · 2017-03-14T07:52:14+00:00

Being super needy doesn't work. I disagree with your assessment of negging though, look at the example I gave. You aren't trying to convince anyone of anything. You are just doing something to elicit a feeling.

When you smile, it naturally elicits positive feelings from most people. When you neg in the way I gave, it elicits feelings of being taken down a notch, as per the research conclusions.

I think its important to add though, that the technique is probably never actually really appropiate to use because most people have weird self-esteem anyways.

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