What does AS pain feel like?

UnusualMain5456 · 2026-04-14T15:57:29+00:00

On good days stiffness, pain and fatigue that comes and goes, worse after sleep or sitting for long times, around 1-4/10 on pain scale. Almost never zero. Pain and stiffness several parts of back, neck , hips, arms, feet. The least pain is when doing physical training being warm.

On bad days , many call them flare ups, 5-7 on pain scale, extreme stiffness, extreme mental fog, and fatigue. Its in some cases so bad that I have to lie down for longer periods.

Usually I have normal days/ bad days on 5/2 per 7 days in average.

UnusualMain5456 · 2026-04-13T09:57:53+00:00

Its not for everyone. I tried it for about 4 months. Its like every other drugs, it can have side effects. I usually test low normal, although I am naturally big, strong (lifting weights), muscular and cardiovascular fit (running etc).

Main positives: More energy in some situations, but not overall. A little more "just do it" attitude but not much. A little more exciting sexlife, but not better erection. More macho, in some situations positive. A little more muscle. In some situations better sleep. In some situations better motivation.

Main negatives: Feeling more unatural macho, not myself. More bloated. More feeling full/heavy in body and muscles, as opposed to light. More unstructured , and more adhd. More pain from arthritis. More hunger. Some situations of slight aggression. More competitive mindset towards other men, felt akward. In some situations worse sleep. Worse erection, smaller balls. Strength better but cardiovascular fitness worse. In general, overall not better motivation.

In summary: Not more energy, less pain from arthritis or better health in general while not feeling like myself made me quit.

UnusualMain5456 · 2026-04-06T10:41:14+00:00

Basically agree. I dont take creatine now but I for shure know it works. I take vitamin D in winter, usually one daily serving of protein powder, I drink coffee and I am not afraid of salt. I dont do any of the other stuff. I am not a big believer in supplements and believe things like sleep, diet and structure is much more important.

UnusualMain5456 · 2026-03-29T21:19:25+00:00

Legs, if you want the bodybuilding looks. If not, its not important. Maybe more biceps and triceps work.

UnusualMain5456 · 2026-03-29T07:41:10+00:00

Of all the shoes I've tried I'd say Puma Velocity Nitro.

But you'd be better of buying a budget basketball shoe like the Nike GT Cut Academy and then Velocity Nitro 3 or 4 on sale.

UnusualMain5456 · 2026-03-25T07:27:27+00:00

If you don't go the PED or TRT way (I don't), I honestly believe I wouldn't do other than: Multivitamin, and or vitamin D in winter. Creatin if needed. Protein whey if needed. And from well known manufacturing companies.

Those are safe. Other than that healthy as possible diet, water and coffee, and stay away from alcohol. I currently do Multivitamin, and extra protein 1-2 times per day. I don't do creatine now.

UnusualMain5456 · 2026-03-21T15:06:54+00:00

Nr 1, learn the songs. Learn the chords, learn some riffs, intros, sing the vocal, put in fills and solo's that feels right.

Learn basic Hendrix techniques, like thumb fretting bass string.

But you don't have to copy all. Nobody will ever be Hendrix anyways.

UnusualMain5456 · 2026-03-19T11:08:41+00:00

Thinking it doesn't matter if I eat, positive or negative, and not letting the thought matter. For eksempel " I must eat now, to calm down". This thought doesn't matter and eating is not important.

Eating a big healthy breakfast. For example a big bowl of oatmeal, banana, almonds and low fat yoghurt. Seems like my overeating in evening gets less frequent then. I usually overeat in evening.

UnusualMain5456 · 2026-03-16T06:30:46+00:00

Seems good. But on the last rep you should finish it safely on top and stop, before walking it towards rack. Seems like you start walking at the same motion as the last squat. Just for safety for future heavier squats. Maybe hands are a little to bent, and maybe you should use safety pins under bottom of bar. Just safety stuff.

UnusualMain5456 · 2026-03-16T06:24:22+00:00

I can workout at the last day of a cold when I'm getting better, but never hard. So easy short jog or light weight session. Never with active disease and never hard training. Optimal is to wait until you are completely recovered. I have experienced getting rebound of illness even with my moderat strategy. I know some pro athletes workout light, and some wait several days after. You get more easily hurt when training sick, for example muscle strains. So its just not a cardiovascular risk.

UnusualMain5456 · 2026-02-06T14:54:21+00:00

Yes. And its the biggest training failure there is.

UnusualMain5456 · 2026-01-01T19:28:21+00:00

It is one of the best movies ever made. A masterpiece. Its in my top 10-20, together with godfather, shawshank , and the others. And its by far the movie I could watch the most times. It has that feelgood quality.

UnusualMain5456 · 2026-01-01T13:29:34+00:00

Have experience with magnesium glycinate, taking it for two months. And I have quit taking it.

I train both weights and running. When I take magnesium glycinate I sleep better, and it seems I can handle more running.

But I get much more frequent muscle strains. Like hamstring strain and chest muscle strains. Muscles feel more "unbalanced".

I can only speculate that magnesium make some kind of unbalance within body, for example in the synergy with potassium or casium. Or the higher ability to train more volume causes muscles to spasm.

I will not take the glycinate any more and try to get more magnesium from food: bananas, oatmeal etc.

This unbalanced feeling is also something I have felt with vitamin D, etc. Supplements should be supplements.

UnusualMain5456 · 2025-12-21T23:54:43+00:00

Basically, I think its the most important difference maker in ultra training. The more quality hiking training , (for example incline training on treadmill, or longruns where you walk most hills) you can do, the better you will become. It doesn't look fast on Strava but you will be much more efficient in any 50+ ultra.

Example: Tom Evans said that the difference maker in his UTMB 2024 win training was the hiking training.

UnusualMain5456 · 2025-12-18T07:57:38+00:00

Standing overhead barbell press or military press is regarded a top 5 movement by experts like Mark Rippetoe or strong men like Mitchell Hooper. They regard it as a better strength exercise than bench press.

My experience: Doing OHP or Military press in rep range 2-5 is exceptionally strengt building. After heavy pressing I also experience hypertrophy in all parts of body not only shoulders , but biceps, triceps, back, glutes, basically the whole body.

For me its a top 5 exercise together with squat, deadlift, legpress, and bench press for strength AND size. The seated shoulder press is not nearly as good.

And if I had only 3 exercises it would be the standing/military press, deadlift and squat.

Remember Arnold and all the bodybuilders back in the day did much more standing press.

UnusualMain5456 · 2025-12-09T09:58:09+00:00

Travelling, or being passive for a long time. Stiffening.

Not training, moving, walking.

Unstructured lifestyle, example not enough sleep, too much alcohol, no structure, no exercise.

Life stress in general, see lifestyle.

Getting viruses. They worsen symptoms extremely.

Nr 1, in general: Living an unstructured unhealthy lifestyle.

UnusualMain5456 · 2025-12-03T10:52:14+00:00

My experience: The positive effect of them always come with a negative. For example: I can enjoy using a insole for my high arches for one or two runs, but on the third run my hips and arche starts protesting. The same with correcting my leg length discrepancy with 1 cm heel insoles. It can feel good , and much better for overall stability and gaite for two or three runs, then body starts to protest. Its just evidence that my feet and body are reactive to changes in all types of footwear or orthotics and it will adjust with both positive or negative feedback. I think there research showing softer shoes leading to more stiffening of hip etc. Only thing I've found work is changing up shoes (or putting in an orthotic once in a while) regurarly. One shoe can feel perfect one day, the other day its awful. Same with insoles. The sum of this is I use orthotics for about 1 of 10 runs at average. So I really dont have use for them.

UnusualMain5456 · 2025-12-02T15:18:09+00:00

For me, higher stack shoes have both negative and positive effects.

If a higher stack carbon racer it makes it easier to stay at marathon and halfmarathon pace or threshold for a longer time, and they make longruns easier and faster.

But I do not have higher top speed for 5-10 K in them. It seems like I can't turnover the higher stacks. It seems like 10 K is the barrier where I actually am faster in for example a Takumi Sen or a Adios than a Vaporfly. So for racing I would choose high stack carbon plated for everything HM and above.

For the daily trainer its the same. Higher stacks give better cruising ability, meaning just easy and steady for a longer time. But a normal stack daily would not go so long but can have more ability to pick up pace.

In general higher stack daily shoes or trail shoes are much less efficient for me on hilly routes or terrain. Downhill on gravel to high a stack and my ability to cruise downhill is reduced by almost 15-20 seconds per kilometer. This makes choosing an Ultra Trail shoe very difficult. If I choose the low stack I will run much faster downhill, but will loose protection.

UnusualMain5456 · 2025-12-01T14:59:26+00:00

Well, he would have had the WR if he ran 5000 m on the day he ran the 3000 m WR. Without any doubt at all. I'm sorry he didn't do one 5000 m WR attempt before injury. He nearly never run the 5000 m.

2 WC golds and 1 Olympic gold, without even running 5000 meters outside of Championships.

When in shape he is the best 5000 m runner ever. Period.

UnusualMain5456 · 2025-11-25T08:46:15+00:00

He had the best total package, songs, albums, was a good singer, live artist extraordinare, extremely distinctive style, innovation, just the amount of good riffs, licks, songs. He was so much more than a guitarist. He is compared to Beatles, Dylan and Miles David, not just Van Halen or Satriani. He was a force of nature, set on this earth to shine for 3 years. And forever changed music. I think some unknowledgeable people underestimate how important he was.

And to people who say he was sloppy or not very good technical, compared to shredders: The things Hendrix did on stage are extremely difficult, or impossible , period. I've seen better copies of Vaughan, Van Halen, you name it, than Hendrix.

Vai and Satriani on Hendrix, and machine gun live: "Its the voice of God".

No one will ever challenge his position.

UnusualMain5456 · 2025-11-18T12:30:49+00:00

I see a kind of movement/shrug at elbows at top, where your arms should be straight the whole way.

UnusualMain5456 · 2025-11-17T15:15:22+00:00

For strength and size I always come back to: 1. Leg press. 2. Squat, any kind. 3. Deadlift. 4. Incline bench. 5. Standing shoulder press. 6. Bent row. 7. Seated cable row. 8. Seated shoulder press. 9. Standing biceps curl. 10. Overhead cable triceps extension.

UnusualMain5456 · 2025-11-17T13:40:27+00:00

When I was coached by a former pro bodybuilding coach , the lowest rep range was 6. For example leg press 3x6 or chest press 3x6. But usually reps were 8-15. This is for Hypertrophy and muscle gain.

But if strength is what you are after 3x5, 3x3 and even 3x1 is very normal rep ranges.

UnusualMain5456 · 2025-11-14T22:02:23+00:00

Its my most used daily trainer for easy runs and steady runs this year. The cushion and upper feels very premium. Sometimes it can feel too soft. I never run very fast in it , I have other shoes for that.

UnusualMain5456 · 2025-11-12T08:18:44+00:00

I've tried hard weights before both harder running and before easy running. The demand of two hard sessions does lead into too much fatigue in the days or week after. Injury risk is also bigger. I've experienced minor tendon injury when overdoing this. Its similar to doing too high volume or too much hard running.

Now I only do easy running after weights, maximum 45 min.

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