New Exercise Invented

[integral]

I want to know if this new exercise routine that I invented, if it’s potentially dangerous?

I have a timer on my computer that every hour will tell me to exercise, so I’ll get up and do five pistol squats, each leg full body weight and then I’ll go back to doing work for an hour until the next notification and then I’ll do again very heavy  pistol squats  five each leg.

I’ve never heard of anyone talk about doing heavy weight right after an hour of being sedentary all day.

So I’ll do this for maybe 10 hours straight.

Thats about 100 pistol squats a day.

The benefits I found is that whenever I do the activity, my blood pumps and I get a shot of metal clarity and mood boost over and over again.

I just don’t know if this kind of routine is potentially dangerous? 

Edited March 17 by integral

[Yimpa]

33 minutes ago, integral said:

The benefits I found is that whenever I do the activity, my blood pumps and I get a shot of metal clarity and mood boost over and over again.

This may lead you to go crazy over time buddy.

[Michael569]

Sounds interesting, I can definitely imagine adding these sorts of microworkorkouts being great for circulation and cognition. 

On the other hand, It might not be sustainable for most people. Taking 10 pistol squats in an office environment every hour will give you more than a few curious looks, maybe even an invitation to a meeting with HR or your office manager. Fine for home workers

Also you wanna make sure you diversify those exercises as pistol squats in particular are really heavy on the entire musculoskeletal apparatus around the knee and pelvic joints especially if the form is anything less than perfect. 

So do allow time for recovery for individual muscle groups to reduce risk of injury and overtrain. You don't want to tear a knee ligament and be off exercise for 8-16 months. 

Either way, give it a go for a week @integral then report back to us

 

 

Edited March 17 by Michael569
reworded, adjusted structure, grammar

[aurum]

7 hours ago, Michael569 said:

Sounds interesting, I can definitely imagine adding these sorts of microworkorkouts being great for circulation and cognition. 

On the other hand, It might not be sustainable for most people. Taking 10 pistol squats in an office environment every hour will give you more than a few curious looks, maybe even an invitation to a meeting with HR or your office manager. Fine for home workers

Also you wanna make sure you diversify those exercises as pistol squats in particular are really heavy on the entire musculoskeletal apparatus around the knee and pelvic joints especially if the form is anything less than perfect. 

So do allow time for recovery for individual muscle groups to reduce risk of injury and overtrain. You don't want to tear a knee ligament and be off exercise for 8-16 months. 

Either way, give it a go for a week @integral then report back to us

Did you retire from modship?

[Yimpa]

3 minutes ago, aurum said:

Did you retire from modship?

Yes

 

[Michael569]

2 hours ago, Yimpa said:

Yes

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[PsychedelicEagle]

On 3/17/2025 at 5:31 AM, integral said:

I just don’t know if this kind of routine is potentially dangerous?

I think it's more likely to be healthy rather than dangerous, when compared to just sitting.

"Exercise snacks" has gained increased attention in scientific research, recently:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666337624000283

[The Renaissance Man]

@integral It's not dangerous, don't worry. It can be healthy if you're untrained, because you'll put on some muscle (it will eventually get easy, unless you add weight to the pistols).

It's not dangerous because you can only overload pistol squats so much, between them being one-legged and unbalanced. So it's hard to get hurt (if your knees hurt stop though). You can do 5 pull ups or 10 push ups if pistol squats give you problems, I guess. Until they don't, you're good though. And they may never give you problems, even if you were to do this for 30 years.

[Jannes]

Pistol squats arent easy. If you cant do like 20 in a row then doing 5 every waking hour on every day seems like overtraining.

Whats your goal with it? I get like an afterglow the whole day when I exercised in the morning, I dont have to do it all day.

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

Pistol squats are easy it's just technique and balance that's difficult about them, once you got those down they are easy. But due to technique and balance factors it also makes them fairly ineffective, you could train the same muscles with couple of much simpler exercises, what are you training to be an athlete or to flex calisthenic tricks in front of your friends LOL

If you gonna exercise you should exercise effectively. Not just do random stuff

[integral]

So I've been doing it for about 5 days and bought my legs have gotten a lot stronger but also larger or I can't really bend down as easily it's like there more pumped up so there's less flexibility.

I also feel no lactic acid buildup, just a sort of fatigue building up. And I'm getting progressively more tired from that perceived inner fatigue.

No joint pain so far.

I guess I'll do this for a month. lol

Edited March 22 by integral

[PsychedelicEagle]

11 hours ago, Jannes said:

Whats your goal with it? I get like an afterglow the whole day when I exercised in the morning, I dont have to do it all day.

I think the idea is to prevent prolonged sitting, reduced circulation, etc.

 

PS: @integral, the quadfather Tom Platz salutes your endeavor.

 

[The Renaissance Man]

13 hours ago, integral said:

I also feel no lactic acid buildup

You're doing 5 reps, it's normal. Lactic acid starts at 1+ minutes or continued effort or something.

13 hours ago, integral said:

So I've been doing it for about 5 days and bought my legs have gotten a lot stronger but also larger

It's just initial muscle damage from training because you're not used to it. Your legs don't get larger in 5 days, they're just a bit swollen.