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Post by stuke on Jul 25, 2022 12:37:45 GMT
So I lost my bet. I've gained 1/4 of an inch on my calves but still fell short of winning the bet. I will be away for a little while due to giving up the internet for the next six weeks, happy training guys. Just seen this now. Never mind, quarter of an inch is still a gain. My calf focus many yeqrs ago was very difficult, intense, painful and so on. I think I was about the same, quarter of an inch. So what next for you? How have you trained calves since?
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Post by lardy on Jul 27, 2022 11:10:55 GMT
So I lost my bet. I've gained 1/4 of an inch on my calves but still fell short of winning the bet. I will be away for a little while due to giving up the internet for the next six weeks, happy training guys. Just seen this now. Never mind, quarter of an inch is still a gain. My calf focus many yeqrs ago was very difficult, intense, painful and so on. I think I was about the same, quarter of an inch. So what next for you? How have you trained calves since? Hey mate, I haven't been doing a lot for calves since if i'm honest I probably average about 25 calf raises daily on the bottom step of my stairs. My training has been lacking lately due to flat out work and the hot weather taking it out of me, I've been doing some stuff everyday but no where near enough, I have been playing around with some Dynaflex stuff but unsure if it's for me, I go on holiday tomorrow for 5 days and plan on upping the tempo a bit when I get back. I really want to improve my endurance for everyday activities such as moving stuff, heavy garden work etc because I find myself taking too many breaks so I will look to a programme that fits that requirement and log it for another 3 months or so and measure how I've improved. I honestly think the best thing for training calves is hill walks, leaning forward with some sort of resistance, a tyre connected to rope around your waist, a wheelbarrow or even a push chair with bags of shopping and a child is good , I live in a hilly area and anyone who takes their dogs up the hills every morning/afternoon seems to have solid calves.
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Post by stuke on Jul 28, 2022 12:48:53 GMT
Lardy, "I honestly think the best thing for training calves is hill walks, leaning forward with some sort of resistance, a tyre connected to rope around your waist, a wheelbarrow or even a push chair with bags of shopping and a child is good , I live in a hilly area and anyone who takes their dogs up the hills every morning/afternoon seems to have solid calves." I wonder why this is. Presumably it is largly down to the stretch due to the incline, but having said that, there are some who recommend incorporating calf raises from the floor, in an effort to reduce the elastic effect in the achilles tendon. We see some dancers and cyclists with great calves when neither sport woukd seem to stretch further than equivalent of the floor.
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Post by BigBruvOfEnglandUK on Jul 28, 2022 23:40:43 GMT
Maybe people with great calves are good at dancing and cycling?
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Post by lardy on Aug 9, 2022 10:37:58 GMT
I'm currently eating a pretty restrictive diet, I've been eating nothing but potatoes, peas, carrots, sweetcorn, leeks and using few additives like salt, pepper, garlic.
I've been really struggling with acid reflux the last 3 months and I refuse to go on any tablets for it, eating the above foods seems to heal my stomach issues and I have zero symptoms. I have been eating this way for 3 weeks and when I tried to add some chicken I had acid reflux, so I guess I'll stick to this for a while until it resolves.
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Post by stuke on Aug 9, 2022 12:55:42 GMT
Maybe people with great calves are good at dancing and cycling? Well there is always that, and you may be right, but people make the same comments about gymnasts and biceps, mechanics and forearms etc. Of course, clearly there are many in all those profeasions who don't have particularly great development, I have seen many high level gymnasts who are very slender with not particularly developed muscles. So what can we take from this? Nothing much really, but people are always going to look to those with great developmemt and wonder if it is not just genetics, but something in their practice that is the key.
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Post by stuke on Aug 9, 2022 12:56:27 GMT
I'm currently eating a pretty restrictive diet, I've been eating nothing but potatoes, peas, carrots, sweetcorn, leeks and using few additives like salt, pepper, garlic. I've been really struggling with acid reflux the last 3 months and I refuse to go on any tablets for it, eating the above foods seems to heal my stomach issues and I have zero symptoms. I have been eating this way for 3 weeks and when I tried to add some chicken I had acid reflux, so I guess I'll stick to this for a while until it resolves. Good luck, hope it clears up.
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Post by mr potatohead on Aug 9, 2022 13:10:39 GMT
GERD is caused by a LACK of stomach acid (HCL) which is made by the body using real salt. Using real salt will achieve a 'saltier' taste with less, so be aware and salt food just to taste good, but no need to overdo it. Your body knows by taste how much is the right amount for it at the time. If your salt is referred to as "manufactured" ("we make salt that ....") or "iodized", it's not salt for human ingestion. Salt "manufacturers" and "refiners" add to the salt things like powdered glass/silica to cut prices. These contaminants damage walls of veins and arteries, causing micro cuts and leading to possible heart attacks. (This is how they have vilified cholesterol which is the body's healing function for damaged tissue, BTW. We cut up the insides of our body with crap and the body sends cholesterol to make repairs and then gets blamed for doing its job. Aren't we smart? It's like blaming fires on the firemen who show up to put it out or blaming rain on umbrellas. After all, these appear every time it happens so they must be the cause, right? Aha, ha!) Real salt for human ingestion is collected or gathered from non-contaminated sources, it is NOT manufactured. If you need iodine, eat seaweeds/kelp/etc or supplement with a nascent/liquid iodine.
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Post by lardy on Aug 9, 2022 13:49:32 GMT
GERD is caused by a LACK of stomach acid (HCL) which is made by the body using real salt. Using real salt will achieve a 'saltier' taste with less, so be aware and salt food just to taste good, but no need to overdo it. Your body knows by taste how much is the right amount for it at the time. If your salt is referred to as "manufactured" ("we make salt that ....") or "iodized", it's not salt for human ingestion. Salt "manufacturers" and "refiners" add to the salt things like powdered glass/silica to cut prices. These contaminants damage walls of veins and arteries, causing micro cuts and leading to possible heart attacks. (This is how they have vilified cholesterol which is the body's healing function for damaged tissue, BTW. We cut up the insides of our body with crap and the body sends cholesterol to make repairs and then gets blamed for doing its job. Aren't we smart? It's like blaming fires on the firemen who show up to put it out or blaming rain on umbrellas. After all, these appear every time it happens so they must be the cause, right? Aha, ha!) Real salt for human ingestion is collected or gathered from non-contaminated sources, it is NOT manufactured. If you need iodine, eat seaweeds/kelp/etc or supplement with a nascent/liquid iodine. Hi m8, We've had this conversation on salt before and since we had that, I have been using sea salt. I honestly know nothing about iodine, best get reading I suppose
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Post by mr potatohead on Aug 9, 2022 16:50:10 GMT
Ah, OK, sorry about that.
Another thing you might try is eliminating corn, if it is commercial. The only corn I can eat now, without irritation, is an heirloom corn that I buy in dried form from my organic gardener friend.
Since it hasn't been commercially raised, it isn't GMO'd and hasn't been chemically treated, therefore, will be some bug damage to cull when they harvest. That's a good thing though, IMO. The way I see it, if even bugs won't eat my food, why would I?
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Post by BigBruvOfEnglandUK on Aug 10, 2022 7:37:17 GMT
I was getting reflux after my dinner every evening. It was caused by the fruit that I was eating after my dinner, fermenting because it was trapped on top of the meat. Fruit digests faster than meat and if it isn't able to leave the stomach quickly it can ferment and cause reflux. The solution was simple, eat the fruit before my dinner.
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Post by mr potatohead on Aug 10, 2022 12:06:53 GMT
Good suggestion. I'd forgotten about this possibility. Since I formed the habit of eating the most watery foods first if a meal has multiple dishes, I just don't think about why anymore, m8.
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Post by lardy on Mar 15, 2023 8:17:04 GMT
Did a killer workout yesterday, was installing a large picket fence at the top of a hill on a friends farm and had to walk up and down the hill with two 25 Litre (5 and half gallon) containers to get water for the concrete it was ok coming down but a killer going up, my forearms are sore today, spent about 8 hours doing the job and refilled every hour or so along with various work on the fence.
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Post by mr potatohead on Mar 15, 2023 15:08:14 GMT
Kudos to you, m8! If I did that yesterday, I'd be dead today. My wife used to call me a "weekend warrior" when I did hard physical labor that was far beyond my normal daily activity. IMO, it's a killer. That's why I don't try to shovel all of the heavy snow at once in the winter. My drive is about 300 ft long, so if it takes me all week, I don't care. There are people who collapse and die every year from "perceived necessary" acute, intense physical stress.
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Post by lardy on Mar 15, 2023 19:09:51 GMT
Kudos to you, m8! If I did that yesterday, I'd be dead today. My wife used to call me a "weekend warrior" when I did hard physical labor that was far beyond my normal daily activity. IMO, it's a killer. That's why I don't try to shovel all of the heavy snow at once in the winter. My drive is about 300 ft long, so if it takes me all week, I don't care. There are people who collapse and die every year from "perceived necessary" acute, intense physical stress. I'd usually take a job like this at a slower pace but it had to be done for some inspection, I got like 100 eggs, a few beers and 2 cooked meals, so happy days.
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