All my fitness stuff has a purpose to it that goes beyond getting people jacked and healthy. It’s about going after narratives and various entities used to keep us on this mental plantation. And I wish to be your Harriet Tubman…
Nice piece. The science around how our mitochondria use CO2 signalling for adapting to environment, much as klimer mentioned, is starating to come to light at the public level, ironically also destroying the BS narrative of Carbon emissions bad etc, as you pointed out😉
Btw, Yogis have been practicing "fire breath", "alternate nostril", and other breathwork for health and mental clarity, for thousands of years, basically an much older version of both Buteyeko, Maxalding and Win Hoff's concepts. Everything old is new again.
A title you would probably enjoy reading is Undoing Lyme Disease by Arkadi F. Propokov. He has a deep background in sports training, but his passion is using hypoxia to cure Lyme disease and to increase longevity.
He advocates for alternating hypoxia and hyperoxia, and says the key is five sets of 3-5 minutes max for the hypoxia. I believe he achieves the hyperoxia by using an altitude simulation device.
Anyway, he explains his method is based upon evolutionary biology. He calls it Controlled Intermittent Oxygenation and it mimics the process where the body directs development of the embryo.
The hypoxia basically causes imperfect mitochondria to commit suicide, and your body replaces them with new, healthy mitos.
So, hypoxia by itself is good. But it's the pattern of five that maximizes the potential benefit. It's a lot like high intensity interval training: a period of recovery, then an increased pace, then 10-15 of all out effort (typically repeated only four times). The all out effort is where the hypoxia is created. Not fun, but it totally changed my body when I did it years ago. I keep meaning to go back and look at the training program that I was using, to recall how often I had to do that. I wouldn't want to do it any more often than every few weeks. But I'd be willing to do it more frequently for a month to see what kind of changes take place.
Excellent. you might scoop up more readers by finding & discussing parallels and differences between this and (for lack of better moniker) the Wim Hof method (breathing thing, not the chilly thing.)
I prefer what you describe here. Faster and harder to cheat.
Nice piece. The science around how our mitochondria use CO2 signalling for adapting to environment, much as klimer mentioned, is starating to come to light at the public level, ironically also destroying the BS narrative of Carbon emissions bad etc, as you pointed out😉
Btw, Yogis have been practicing "fire breath", "alternate nostril", and other breathwork for health and mental clarity, for thousands of years, basically an much older version of both Buteyeko, Maxalding and Win Hoff's concepts. Everything old is new again.
😉
Thank you Barefoot Healer.
Yep lol. Nothing new under the sun.
A title you would probably enjoy reading is Undoing Lyme Disease by Arkadi F. Propokov. He has a deep background in sports training, but his passion is using hypoxia to cure Lyme disease and to increase longevity.
He advocates for alternating hypoxia and hyperoxia, and says the key is five sets of 3-5 minutes max for the hypoxia. I believe he achieves the hyperoxia by using an altitude simulation device.
Anyway, he explains his method is based upon evolutionary biology. He calls it Controlled Intermittent Oxygenation and it mimics the process where the body directs development of the embryo.
The hypoxia basically causes imperfect mitochondria to commit suicide, and your body replaces them with new, healthy mitos.
So, hypoxia by itself is good. But it's the pattern of five that maximizes the potential benefit. It's a lot like high intensity interval training: a period of recovery, then an increased pace, then 10-15 of all out effort (typically repeated only four times). The all out effort is where the hypoxia is created. Not fun, but it totally changed my body when I did it years ago. I keep meaning to go back and look at the training program that I was using, to recall how often I had to do that. I wouldn't want to do it any more often than every few weeks. But I'd be willing to do it more frequently for a month to see what kind of changes take place.
Thank you for the book recommendation, Sir!!!!!
Cool. I can see how something like that for the lungs can be beneficial. HIIT is very effective.
Excellent. you might scoop up more readers by finding & discussing parallels and differences between this and (for lack of better moniker) the Wim Hof method (breathing thing, not the chilly thing.)
I prefer what you describe here. Faster and harder to cheat.
Thanks, RDM I'll keep that in mind.
Fascinating! I'll have to try more of these.
Id been concentrating a lot on breathing for the Maxalding stuff, but I'm doing more abdominal isolations now (about 6 central and 6 each leaflet).
When I started them I was almost fainting after 1 or 2 attempts, now I don't notice it any more.
Will have to try holding my breath for other exercises too (maybe some Sandow light dumbbells).
Same here, those vacuums were tough at first.
Nice, that's a perfect system to incorporate this stuff.