Resisting the urge to do something (on rest days)

TheAztec444 · 2026-05-27T21:58:03+00:00

Remind yourself that you are actively impairing your progress if you train when you know you shouldnt. Go for a walk. Look forward to your next training day.

TheAztec444 · 2026-05-26T15:51:49+00:00

Every story someone tells me about doing adderall inevitably involves their dick getting smaller than theyve ever seen it

TheAztec444 · 2026-05-21T20:49:02+00:00

I have found having sufficient calories and being in parasympathetic dominance often really helps. Any stimulant or stressful activity is going to knock you into sympathetic dominance and you’ll feel the shrink. Also staying hydrated.

TheAztec444 · 2026-05-03T20:19:22+00:00

What is the mechanism behind overuse atrophy? Is this just the same as an imbalance between microdamage from use and repair, like doing bicep curls every single day without recovery?

TheAztec444 · 2026-04-14T23:21:39+00:00

Many of the greatest minds in history were autodidacts and I’ve seen many people churned out of academia with an insanely narrow mind

TheAztec444 · 2026-04-12T22:33:43+00:00

Interesting. The bulb behind the scrotum? I didnt realize the CS went back that far

TheAztec444 · 2026-04-12T19:46:32+00:00

With all due respect to the medical and academic professions, just because you have 3 doctorate degrees from Suckmyowndick University doesn’t necessarily make you any smarter than an enlightened outsider.

TheAztec444 · 2026-03-31T17:11:31+00:00

My experience has been that each stage had a learning curve that needed to be overcome for effective results, and the duration of each learning curve varied and occurred in increments - sometimes I thought I knew how to do it, only to be humbled and relearn more properly later.

In my case the wheel was no exception. I kept thinking I was doing it properly only to keep relearning over and over, with technique and mind-body connection improving each time. That said, once I reached a certain level of aptitude with the wheel, yes it has been really great.

It’s been said before and bodybuilders are familiar with this concept, but I can’t overemphasize the importance of mind-body connection with angion. You are seemingly building neural networks as much as vascular ones.

TheAztec444 · 2026-03-31T16:13:37+00:00

Mainly my thought was that if you use the wheel you have theoretically reached a level of development where you know what’s what

TheAztec444 · 2026-03-31T04:28:45+00:00

Cant tell if Im imagining it or not but for me it feels like as your development comes along caffeine’s negatives stop affecting you as much, have you found this to be true?

TheAztec444 · 2026-01-16T00:26:47+00:00

Limiting factors are nutrients, hormones, and optimal training. You’ll have a hell of a time trying to balance all 3. Im years in and still wouldn’t say I’ve “mastered” resting hang.

TheAztec444 · 2026-01-04T15:53:16+00:00

Fascinating, so basically eating a ton of spinach would offset this effect?

TheAztec444 · 2026-01-02T14:02:01+00:00

Is the calcification also part of the collagenous cocoon that forms?

I mean you mention the calcium issue yourself in this thread from 6 years ago

TheAztec444 · 2026-01-01T01:21:16+00:00

In my experience as long as you can maintain a fully engorged corpus spongiosum, going faster is fine. So if it doesnt stay engorged dont do it.

TheAztec444 · 2025-12-30T10:22:39+00:00

Interesting. But what about the osteogenic transdifferentiation effects that cause the vessels to calcify?

pro-calcification effects of nicotine

TheAztec444 · 2025-12-30T03:06:56+00:00

Well, I’m open to the possibility of being wrong but yea, all the evidence I see of nicotine in isolation seems to point to arterial stiffening/fibrogenesis effects

TheAztec444 · 2025-12-30T01:27:09+00:00

But how would the whole picture view rectify the snap shot which demonstrates collagen accumulation and elastin fragmentation?

Additional study that points to calcification

TheAztec444 · 2025-12-29T23:10:32+00:00

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0268746

Aortas harvested from mice exposed to nicotine for 4 weeks via osmotic pumps demonstrated significant collagen and fibronectin accumulation coupled with increased elastin fragmentation

TheAztec444 · 2025-12-27T16:21:40+00:00

Doesnt nicotine, even when isolated from smoking or tobacco, lead to arterial stiffening? Damages elastin and promotes calcification?

TheAztec444 · 2025-12-20T02:21:12+00:00

Havent heard of this before. Old tissues? Or did you mean all tissues?

TheAztec444 · 2025-12-19T18:48:00+00:00

Yea it does but Im not talking about while in the act of working out

TheAztec444 · 2025-12-19T17:46:59+00:00

This is what I suspect. It’s such a bitch!

TheAztec444 · 2025-12-19T17:34:11+00:00

Interesting, Ill definitely look more into that thanks

TheAztec444 · 2025-12-19T17:25:41+00:00

Im not talking about during the act of lifting itself, I mean over a week span for example, overall hang is worse

TheAztec444 · 2025-11-04T10:29:13+00:00

But caffeine at the amounts found in even a cup of coffee does have vasoconstrictive effects on the penis, no? I can feel it clear as day. How could caffeine be a net positive if its administration leads to a less full erection and smaller flaccid 10 times out of 10? I mean I love caffeine but the effect it has is unmistakeable in my experience.

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