I want to give my comrades advice and help the swoletariat grow. This isn’t just about muscle gain, but cardiovascular health, diet, nutrition, and whatever weird shit your body may be doing.
If I don’t know it maybe I can help you figure it out.
I worked out last night and was super tired yet I couldn’t sleep because to energetic why? Also when is the best time to do heavy exercise?
Magnesium comrade. Exercise depletes magnesium, which is necessary for sleep and relaxing muscles. Sunflower seeds or cashews are good sources of magnesium, but be sure to account for their caloric value. You can also get Magnesium Glycinate for relatively cheap.
The best time of day to work out is whenever you have time. Don’t stress too much about when you work out. Personally, I workout in the evenings or at night.
Anything book length you can reccomend?
If you’re morbidly obese (130 kgs) and want to loose weight, what is the best way of doing it realistically?
The human body evolved to store energy to survive periods of scarcity and it will fight you if you try to loose that storage deliberately. Is there a way to trick your body into letting go of all the fat?
Yes and no. I’m sure you’ve heard the calories-in-calories-out thing, and its a little more complex than that. Before I continue, any large weight-loss is best done with a doctor’s guidance.
I want to start by saying most people have tried dieting/exercising and found they lost a few pounds, stopped losing weight, then regained it and got discouraged. This happens a lot. Let’s look over a few details: When one starts dieting, they’ll quickly see a lower number on the scale simply because less mass is in their digestive tract. Exercise (depending on the activity) can see a gain in muscle mass or blood volume. People usually underestimate their caloric intake and over estimate their expenditure.
This cycle is really common. In some cases the regimen was working and they got discouraged by a scale. In other cases, the regimen simply put them and their normal maintenance calories because they were over-budget before starting.
The solution to this conundrum is simple: stick with it. If your progress halts, cut some more calories from your diet and proceed. Don’t worry too much about the scale, focus more on how you feel. Monitor that your activity level doesn’t decrease and calorie intake doesn’t increase.
Something really very helpful is to write down each caloric value before you eat. Every single thing, even the 5 calories of oil in a cup of black coffee. Add it up and keep track each day.
Weird shit my body may be doing: why does my hand hurt right where my thumb joins my palm and index finger?
I meant to start doing some pushups and pull ups this week but this injury appeared and I can’t really support my weight on this hand/wrist right now (I’ll probably just do situps instead). Its not like a broken bone pain where it’s constant, its only when I apply pressure with it (holding something tightly or lifting something), stretch it, or put weight on it. I’m a bit confused because it might just be from doing some work last week (after being a neet for the whole pandemic) but my other hand isnt hurting like that despite being my dominant hand and the one I was more likely to be lifting and sanding and carrying things with.
I have this almost exact issue with my left hand. Happens when I grip something like a bar with my thumb around it. It I don’t wrap my thumb around and only grip with my fingers it doesn’t hurt. It’s always been like this. I never had it checked out but I think the muscles and nerves formed a little weird so pressure on that spot compresses the nerve more and thus causes the pain. If it’s a sharp pain when you have it then it is very likely nerve compression. If I go a week or so without working it too much it kind of “resets” and I can use it again. Biggest thing I did to help it was get a pair of workout gloves that have thicker padding in the area. They help a lot. Still can get bad if I overdo it. I have noticed, as I have gone up in weight, that the pain does not trigger on the lower weight I used to do. So there seems to be a link to muscle growth.
