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Hello,

I wonder if someone can little help me and share how often do you train and how many repetition or sets you do. I honestly thought that I will just be doing it, but turned out that it is actually difficult and after a few of attempts I am done or rather tired and become with wrong leg placement.

On other hand, I do not think that I should do only 2-3 in row, that is probably not good for brain learning and correction and dopamine spikes or whatever brain need to get as a feedback.

So what is your sweet spot.

Pop-up type - directly from one knee, without putting second leg on the board first. Another sub-question, seems that my knee leg is touching floor which is unwanted support - not sure if there is any trick to get rid of it, I though maybe put bord little up from the ground.

Thank you.

HI,

first I wonder who does CO2/O2 and if can share settings, and how often. etc. or any other training. I would really appreciate some share.

And then the main question, I find very hard to do any CO2 tables, cause my body is always in heat (yes not proper English word for this, but this is what is it when body recovering from some exercise loaded with protein or taking out wetsuit in winter and taking warm shower..) There is almost every day that body is recovering from something - from swimming, dumbbells etc or it is just loaded with food and caffeine. Which basically means, that that optimal calm body state never comes to me. I still train, but it comes with a lot of frustration cause times are all over the place.

I hope body still adapts even if I can hold lets say half of what I can do in calm env, as it still challenges me.

Any suggestions - I have started to doing it before workout as this supposed to be the time when I am recovered the most, but then you do upper body but legs still have soreness and I can feel it is not optimal neither.

So,

I hope it is temporarily, but past month some strange things started to happening to my sleeping. Basically you have dreams and depends in which phase you wake up you may or may not remember it. Dreams are sometimes wild - running naked on Mars, swimming in Sahara, or just walking, playing on guitar and giving girl a flower (yes, that obviously means 3 arms)..

Last month or so, I am often waking up, cause my (maybe not so fully slept brain, not sure because it is not begging of the dream often) starting to detect these inconsistences and go like "really? 3 arms! That does not make any sense, it has to be a dream! we are dreaming lets wake up!".

And this easily happens 10 times during night, which you can imagine is pretty bad.

Anyone with similar issue and preferably with solution or idea.

Thank you

So, I maybe saw it on this forum or maybe recently on yt, but I have noticed something I have never noticed before and it actually looks reasonable and I am willing to try it tomorrow in water, but will ask here first.

The person on video was breathing properly on the side, no high, properly rotated, not lifting head at tall, took breath but then forced the head down, like really deep. Which caused his body doing somewhat wave and a lift of the lower body which I guess was the aim to limit drag.

Interesting to me, cause everyone knows to do not lift head while taking breath and sinking legs, but push it actually down after breath, never seen it before - at least to this extend.

Any note, suggestion, swimmer doing it I can re-check it?

Hi,

I am very interested into story of people and of course how they do train when they focus only one one part or muscle. My father actually has one arm bigger cause he is a dentist and pulling 20 teeth per day over half century makes somewhat difference in forearm, apparently.

The crooked man - the guy who only train one trap. I am pretty curious about it, I never seen any shared video when he explain his workout, but every time I see some pictures he holds like - I do not know, 22kg dumbbell? Surprisingly nothing big. The trap is massive, if rest of body would be the same he would be like Colman. Maybe this is why I am very interested into this topic - looks like body managed to full focus on one part and pull full power that would be otherwise distributed amongst other trained muscles.

formarmando - the guy who trains only calves, massive one. The same as previous, looks like body compensated and max grew only this muscles. And the same like the crooked man - based on FB posts he claim like training 1 year or so. Also I think he does calves raises with like 2x22kg. But same no idea about sets and timing and frequency.

Matthias Schlitte - I am not sure about this one, I think it is with training+health condition combo, but probably the most known example with good resources.

Robert Förstemann - Bike sprinter with legs like trucks ..

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I am looking for some others, experience or maybe if you know how they train or some other examples of these I would be very interested.

Looks like if you want one or two muscles in very extreme, that it is quite possible and quite quick but they are no studies on this obviously. Not many materials.

Long story short,

I go from time to time to gym and do normally benchpress, but quite often I really cannot go - which would be an excuse if I would not be willing to exercise at home, simply time optimization.

I am like a newbie so I do on bench press sets with 90ish kg.

So I do meanwhile at least floor press with dumbbells at home - how should I get it rolling?

When I was doing it with lets say 27kg or so, it was no easy but manageable - you just help your left arm with the second arm and put one dumbbell locked on elbow on the floor - but second arm was always hard - I needed to lift it from the floor to lock it via elbow on the floor as well. But since the first arm is already occupied only way is to take it up is over biceps when being on the floor - which worked for me up to like 27kg before biceps start refusing to lift it this way, but that is not enough for the floor press to challenge me.

Today I tried 32kg and I literally needed to put it on my waist (my male part is not happy to have that heavy object around, honestly) and then help to lift it over biceps with help of second arm - which worked but grinded my elbow on the floor. Worked but looks like pretty extra work that limited me in actual set.

So, any tricks, tips or ideas how to start this exercise. I see people in gym when doing similar exercise they just kicked it by knees - but it does not work with being on the floor - nor I can take it into my arms and then lie down (my non existing ABS would be probably ripped)

Thank you

So, basically everyone knows these typical splits, full body workout etc. and has some pattern how to workout, how often etc.

Nice, but now back to real life - they are some (in my life many) times when the schedule goes off or has to go off, cause rest of the life, priority etc.

In most of the cases it is not unpredictable it is rather planed - vacation, traveling, parents visit, job related, gym closed for matenice. Or being on the place where is no gym or possible to swim or whatever.

Let say I exercise every 3 days and today I know that I will not be able to exercise let say next week or even more.

Now what. Do you do the same workout as you would do normally -- or -- you say, okey I do not need my body to be fresh and can be under soreness for longer time and have time to recover - and go completely postal, and triple the load?

They are not unfortunately any studies or info about it, I just wondering what is the approach among others.

Long story short, I have been trying pumpfoil for some time - which if you start from knee seems to be very similar to what you surfers do when it comes to pop up. I just cannot get it right and recently I have put board in the middle of apartment to try pop up on dry land and watching some surfing yt vidoes.

There seems to be two possible versions , one is to put one leg on the back board and try to use it like a support. That does not works for me - as I am literally getting "belly blocked" unable to probably place feet, the leg simple hit the belly before the placement is right. Hard stop movement limit.

The second option, is do not use a leg like a support, but arm-kick itself do the position directly, that somehow works - that uses the same muscles seems like push up or benchpress if I am not mistaken - which I can do hopefully do okeysih relative to BW (Let say 1.3BW bench)

I would like to ask - is there any trick for chunky person to pup-up - anyone else is also belly blocked?

The described movement seems to really relevant to the muscles strength - is that correct, do you guys train these muscles and if so what is your 1RM vs your body weight?

p.s.- yeah de-chunk is in the progress, just taking time..

Thank you

I love to swim, not master but good enough to be happy. When it comes to breaststroke I can swim at any point of time ... I actually do not know.. I got bored before tired lets say 10km+.

I have learnt or rather re-learnt freestyle quite late in my life. The problem I am facing is that after every winter (quite long... Sweden here..) I jump into water and try to swim and I am done after like 7 minutes. On end of the summer - I am back to swimming maybe like 3km+ or so.

The problem is, this is every f* year. Literally staring over and over again.

I love swimming, but I am not a pool person neither I like to swim with wet-suit. However, I do other water sports during winter and I am in sea every time I can go. (however swimming only when I fall from the board or so). This year I was even riding row machine at home like crazy, gym and cardio all done - but still my favorite 7 minutes season start.

I breath every 3 and swim only with gloves and normal shorts to be little more challenging.

Any suggestion, or idea what is going on? It is definitively not happening to me with breaststroke. Is that like a normal thing?