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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? 

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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.


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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 :)

 

 

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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 :)

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3 minutes ago, aurum said:

Did you retire from modship?

Yes

 


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2 hours ago, Yimpa said:

Yes

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@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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

 

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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.

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Definitely you should stretch afterwards or at least several times during the day! Otherwise you may get problems in the long run..


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Sounds healthy. A lot of people get too much steady state cardio. Really not a lot of volume is needed, but higher intensity with less volume is healthier in the long run.  People tend to overthink exercise... we are brainwashed by the current exercise regimens and machines that we have by the fitness industry today... just lift heavy shit with good form and control the weight when you do it. Not rocket science. Bodyweight shit can be good enough for most people. A pull up bar can take care of quite a bit on it's own.

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Honestly I would not do it this way. 

One perspective that might be helpful, I'm assuming your living a mostly sedantery life? Before doing full body weight squats, start with dynamic stretching, get your body loose for about 10 minutes at least, doing jumping jacks, light stretches, lunges, ect. Then transition into longer stretches, breathing and focusing on exhalation into deep stretches for about a few more minutes.

Then when your body is primed and ready for workouts, then you can implement more intensive workouts. Let me know what you think about this. My approach is to warm your body up, get loose and build to the intensity rather than jumping in cold turkey because that's how you injure yourself and pull something.

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5 hours ago, eos_nyxia said:

So it's been a month; how did this experiment go?

After about two weeks, I stop sleeping from being overstimulated and I had to cut back. I think the problem is that I’m spiking my endorphins 10 times a day every hour and then I’m sitting back down and doing nothing.

Sex drive went up like crazy, physical strength went up, and I noticed my body recovered faster With sustained mental clarity all day

It could be the problem was under eating because I didn’t really adjust my intake so that could’ve affected my sleep and stress levels

I’m going to continue experimenting

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4 hours ago, ExploringReality said:

Before doing full body weight squats, start with dynamic stretching, get your body loose for about 10 minutes at least, doing jumping jacks, light stretches, lunges, ect. Then transition into longer stretches, breathing and focusing on exhalation into deep stretches for about a few more minutes.

I do see the benefit of this, but my body works pretty well athletically, I could do a handstand straight out of bed in the morning lol

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11 hours ago, integral said:

After about two weeks, I stop sleeping from being overstimulated and I had to cut back. I think the problem is that I’m spiking my endorphins 10 times a day every hour and then I’m sitting back down and doing nothing.

Sex drive went up like crazy, physical strength went up, and I noticed my body recovered faster With sustained mental clarity all day

It could be the problem was under eating because I didn’t really adjust my intake so that could’ve affected my sleep and stress levels

I’m going to continue experimenting

Interesting, thanks for sharing! Are you generally sensitive with sleep or was this routine unusually overstimulating? Also, how close to sleep do you finish your last set?

I've been curious about this sort of routine for the last 10ish years, but I didn't have the time, energy levels, or persistence for it back then.

I have actually heard of people doing this type of thing for pistol squats or other callisthenics, but also sometimes for kettlebell and other weight lifting exercises, though it's usually more like 3-6 sets spread out throughout the day. I've heard that it's a good way to build strength very quickly because you rarely get fatigued enough to have to take whole days off for muscle recovery and DOMs, though I imagine long-term fatigue must build up anyway, just at a slower rate.

 

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