Mental and Physical health hacks, resources and advice

Jules72

Been meaning to start this post for a while…. Think there must be a few who would appreciate sharing health info, whether mental or physical….

I’ll start with this… a few years ago during my divorce I was having a shocker… pretty much near breakdown…5 hours a night sleep for a whole year. I figured that I better do as much as possible to help myself. This podcast was invaluable to me - Matt Roberts (a famous PT apparently) provides loads of pointers on diet, exercise and loads of other aspects of male life. The end aim is to boost testosterone, but if you follow the programme you will be benefiting in all sorts of ways, including mental health… he wrote a book that is worth buying if you’re interested in investing time in his programme… personally think it’s well worth it. Although I read the book 3 years ago, I still practise some of the good habits I picked up….

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p077b4mj

Mad_Cyril

Jules72
Good shout.

But can’t believe you’ve mentioned the T-word.

Edwand along shortly with his repetabantzzz…

hugopal

Matt Roberts was David Cameron’s personal trainer apparently - Smallman approved!

alistair

hugopal No thanks. Now if it was Sam Cams..

hugopal

alistair you too could look like this!!

What an endorsement:

IndustryStandard

Will take a listen. As Roger Waters once said, you are nurtured through your early life to get an education/get a job/get married but \you get no real guidance once you hit a certain age and things get a bit tough. The world doesn’t really prime you for middle age.

Dan

hugopal Is that Sasha?

alistair

Word of advice. Get back on that dancefloor. Best and most enjoyable form of exercise

hugopal

alistair Word of advice. Get back on that dancefloor. Best and most enjoyable form of exercise

BUT You !*$mighT C@tCh c00vii!!DDD! （。々°）

C_J

alistair second most enjoyable.

Behind wanking.

jonattonyeah

Dan

It’s not Digweed.

hugopal

C_J you find wanking more enjoyable than shagging?

Millsy

Ed absolutely fewmin he can’t post his T bantz.

I swear by intermittent fasting. Keeps me lean like nothing else and I still knock back the bad stuff all the time. Why? I’ve earned it motherfuckers!

303abuser

intermittent fasting is a great tool as well, especially once you get used to it and can exercise at the end of the fasting period.

Millsy

303abuser indeed. That’s the most effective bit, exercising whole fasting, but you need to work up to ghat bit.

303abuser

yeah it took me about 3 months of keto and IF to get to the point where i could run or do insanity at the same intensity i was used to. now i find it easier to exercise fasted.

Jules72

Think it’s well known IF doesn’t lead to weight loss… I tried it for about 3 months… my weight ended where it started. Exercising at the end of the fast was a massive buzz but that faded after a while…. So personally not too sure about fasting

Millsy

Jules72 yeah not sure it necessarily results in weight loss but I have gained more muscle and my waistline has dropped several inches so it works for me in that regard. It’s also helped with joint pain.

303abuser

Jules72 it’s less for weight loss, although it works for some, and more about energy (mitochondrial efficiency). it works better with high fat/low carb diets as well.

BlainSA

Jules72 Unfortunately, a lot of the things I’ve seen about IF is that you can pretty much eat how much you want when not fasting, when the main benefit should
be controlling your calorie intake - if you’re fasting you’re skipping meals. That should mean minus calories IF you’re eating normally. If you’re in a calorie deficit, you’ll lose weight. If you eat to make up for the time you’re fasting, you won’t.

Along_the_Wire

Millsy I train fasted all the time. Keeps the weight down for definite and really helps longer endurance stuff as you’ve already adapted to using fat as an energy source

Amps

Are you lot doing three four day fasts or just skipping one or two meals a day? I find that missing meals helps me not put weight on, but combine it with exercise and the keto and I’m getting the weight loss?

Millsy

I never eat breakfast and skip lunch occasionally too. I exercise a lot. Gym and basketball mainly. Walk everywhere I can etc