@trishankkarthik @GuruAnaerobic @MikeofMaine_SSC @GrantSSC Look man...anything that makes you healthier improves your physiology. If you sleep, eat healthier, your cardiovascular system will benefit; if your stress levels decrease and hormonal homeostasis improves, it helps too. Everything is interconnected.
@trishankkarthik @GuruAnaerobic @MikeofMaine_SSC @GrantSSC Specifically, any departure from regular breathing (at rest) improves your cardiovascular system. Walking faster, climbing, jumping, lifting/carrying, swimming, anything. Just get your heart and lungs and arteries going, more frequently then with more intensity and diversity.
@trishankkarthik @GuruAnaerobic @MikeofMaine_SSC @GrantSSC Diversity is very important. You can run slow and long or do short sprints and anything in between. The principle is to leave no rock unturned. Which leads to a specific exemple, I know a 17 years old here who runs 5k in 17 minutes. His max breathhold when I tested it was 48 sec
@trishankkarthik @GuruAnaerobic @MikeofMaine_SSC @GrantSSC That’s VERY low OK? After tipping him and having him drill a few things he improved to 1’12” which is STILL poor especially in a very young and very athletic guy. OK so his CO2 tolerance is supposed to be quite high yet it’s actually very low, why?
@trishankkarthik @GuruAnaerobic @MikeofMaine_SSC @GrantSSC Because of the SAID principle again. I can’t run as fast as he can but my max breathhold is close to 6 minutes because I train intermittent hypoxia and CO2 tolerance in different ways than he does using diverse drills.
@trishankkarthik @GuruAnaerobic @MikeofMaine_SSC @GrantSSC Would a high CO2 tolerance threshold help me better cope if I had the Covid? I don’t know but it might since it’s an acute respiratory illness. What else would help? Overall high levels of physiological health and vitality. This, my friend, is the outcome of many years of...
@trishankkarthik @GuruAnaerobic @MikeofMaine_SSC @GrantSSC ...of a healthy lifestyle at every level. But you’re still weighing which kind of effort is best because a particular concern, so you’re thinking hey maybe one single type of change will be my strategy: this is NOT how health works. Not through compartmentalizion.
@trishankkarthik @GuruAnaerobic @MikeofMaine_SSC @GrantSSC Last, you’re trying to weight the advantage of such or such approach with your mind; brother, your mind CAN’T understand any of that shit you know why? Because thinking is NOT doing, not having the feedback of sensations, not having an experience.
@trishankkarthik @GuruAnaerobic @MikeofMaine_SSC @GrantSSC Do the drills, do the moves, have the experience, experiment on sensations and results (as in improved performance and sensations): does your breathing improve? Recovery? Perception of difficulty of effort? physiological sensations? etc...
@trishankkarthik @GuruAnaerobic @MikeofMaine_SSC @GrantSSC you want an edge to fight off that illness? Train and live to be healthy overall. You want better bio mechanical ventilation? Get out of breath and train respiratory exercises to open up your rib cage and increase lung volume and respiratory muscles and physiology.
@trishankkarthik @GuruAnaerobic @MikeofMaine_SSC @GrantSSC You want better cellular respiration? Train aerobic, high intensity and intermittent hypoxia (breathhold) through CO2 and O2 tables, as well as walking breathholds etc...and train your immune system too, as it is trainable as well, even at a mental/emotional level.
