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What's one track/song/piece/album/artist/band you truly enjoy working out to most?

Please indicate if you use it for cardio (e.g., stationary cycling, treadmill running) or strength training and whether you find ti best for low intensity workouts, high-intensity intervals, or PR lifting sets.

Please feel free to leave multiple comments (the more the merrier!), but only include one song in each, so others can upvote.

What's one track/song/piece/album/artist/band you truly enjoy working out to most? (jazz or not)

Please indicate if you use it for cardio (e.g., stationary cycling, treadmill running) or strength training and whether you find ti best for low intensity workouts, high-intensity intervals, or PR lifting sets.

Please feel free to leave multiple comments (the more the merrier!), but only include one song in each, so others can upvote.

What's one track/song/piece you'd describe this way?

What would be worth listening to with eyes closed using the most powerful audio system to get completely carried away by the music?

Greatest awe-inspiring, chill-inducing, truly soul-touching and (metaphorically speaking) ego-transcending songs/compositions/music pieces of all time that transcend what's possible with music and elevate, uplift, and inspire.

Please feel free to leave multiple comments (the more the merrier!), but only include one song in each, so others can upvote.

Typo: "chills-inducing" (not a native speaker).

What's one track/song/piece you'd describe this way? (jazz or not)

What would be worth listening to with eyes closed using the most powerful audio system to get completely carried away by the music?

Greatest awe-inspiring, chill-inducing, truly soul-touching and (metaphorically speaking) ego-transcending songs/compositions/music pieces of all time that transcend what's possible with music and elevate, uplift, and inspire.

Please feel free to leave multiple comments (the more the merrier!), but only include one song in each, so others can upvote.

Typo: "chills-inducing" (not a native speaker).

Favorite non-distracting "lock in" music for doing Anki reviews? Obscure recommendations?

Favorite playlists, artists, or albums?

The more specific, the better. Obscure and unusual suggestions are especially welcome!

I enjoy: brown rain, deep techno (Yagya, Deepchord, etc), space ambient (Solar Fields, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Brian Eno, etc), instrumental guitar (think Khruangbin, Arc De Soleil, Tommy G., etc), piano, and other electronic music (Tycho, etc). Occasionally, intelligent drum and bass.

What's your preferred training mode on most weeks?

A. Pyramidal~ish.

For example, 1 HIIT (Z4/Z5) sessions and 1 sweet spot or threshold session. The rest easy (Z1/Z2)

B. Polarized-ish.

For example, 2 HIIT (Z4/Z5) sessions. The rest easy (Z1/Z2).

Optionally, please indicate your experience level and/or training volume.

What's your preferred training mode on most weeks?

A. Pyramidal~ish.

For example, 1 HIIT (Z4/Z5) sessions and 1 sweet spot or threshold session. The rest easy (Z1/Z2)

B. Polarized-ish.

For example, 2 HIIT (Z4/Z5) sessions. The rest easy (Z1/Z2).

Optionally, please indicate your experience level and/or training volume.

What's your preferred training mode on most weeks?

A. Pyramidal~ish.

For example, 1 HIIT (Z4/Z5) sessions and 1 sweet spot or threshold session. The rest easy (Z1/Z2)

B. Polarized-ish.

For example, 2 HIIT (Z4/Z5) sessions. The rest easy (Z1/Z2).

Optionally, please indicate your experience level and/or training volume.

If your primary issue is/was bloating, can you please respond with a trigger (e.g., fructans or sorbitol) or a specific food (e.g., garlic or Granny Smith apples) that you determined to be the worst or one of the worst offenders for you personally?

In other words, eliminating which ones yielded the biggest improvement?

If there are multiple major triggers, please post separate comments, so others can upvote individual items, and it's easy to see the overall "ranking."

If you do resonant breathing (for example, breathing in for 4 seconds and breathing out for 6 seconds) and use a heart rate monitor to track the impact on HRV in the short-term and another tracker to track the long-term impact (for example, overnight HRV measured with a Garmin/Fitbit):

1. How much improvement do you see during the session and the night after?
2. How much improvement have you seen long-term?
3. What is your breathing cadence and the exact technique (especially if it is nonstandard)?

What are the best sources of information on breathwork, in your opinion? Please share books, articles, specific creators, researchers, YouTube channels, or videos.

What non-medical approaches (not CPAP or mandibular advancement devices) have helped with your UARS the most, especially surprising and uncommon ones?

For example, using an inclined bed, doing specific myofunctional exercises or inspiratory muscle training, chin straps, mouth taping, or making dietary changes?

Related:

https://www.reddit.com/r/snoring/comments/1uxphvn/the_best_nonmedical_methods/

What non-medical approaches (not CPAP or mandibular advancement devices) have helped with your snoring the most, especially surprising and uncommon ones?

For example, using an inclined bed, doing specific myofunctional exercises or inspiratory muscle training, chin straps, mouth taping, or making dietary changes?

Related:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UARS/comments/1uxpi09/the_best_nonmedical_methods/

Cut / Maintain / Bulk Cycle Lengths That Worked Best

What cycle lengths work best for you personally? Do you include maintenance phases after cutting and bulking? If so, for how long?

For example:

* Bulk: 16 weeks

* Maintain: 2 weeks

* Cut: 8 weeks

* Maintain: 4 weeks

What cycle lengths work best for you personally? Do you include maintenance phases after cutting and bulking? If so, for how long?

For example:

• Bulk: 16 weeks
• Maintain: 2 weeks
• Cut: 8 weeks
• Maintain: 4 weeks

Besides meditation, what practices, ideas, or experiences have helped you most? What brought you the most joy, ease, peace, harmony, resilience, or anything else you deem desirable??

For example: specific therapy types (CBT, etc), favorite musicians, unusual hobbies, physical activities, life philosophies, relationships, books, podcasts, or videos—really anything?

Besides meditation, what practices, ideas, or experiences have helped you most? What brought you the most joy, ease, peace, harmony, resilience, or anything else you deem desirable??

For example: specific therapy types (CBT, etc), favorite musicians, unusual hobbies, physical activities, life philosophies, relationships, books, podcasts, or videos—really anything?

Besides the obvious "fiber, protein, and fat," what specific foods, drinks, herbs, or supplements materially improved your spikes or consistently lowered the post-spike baseline—especially surprising ones?

Personally, I suspected that these might be helping at various times, but unfortunately, I did not see consistent results with them: psyllium husk, allulose, glycine, mushrooms (especially shiitake), okra, ginger, chestnuts, feta, and cheddar.

Cross-posted here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ContinuousGlucoseCGM/comments/1ufmnpw/surprising_foods_that_mitigate_spikes/