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MOVIES & ENTERTAINMENT & SHeeT! / Re: star wars: the force awakens
« on: December 18, 2015, 08:10:13 am »
I never seen Star Wars, not even the original one. lol
I don't get the fetish about it. Is it worth it?
I don't get the fetish about it. Is it worth it?
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Chris' training journal
« on: December 17, 2015, 04:49:51 pm »
lol yeah 500 lbs on a barbell or on a leg press or something?
In my case, I just get tired after ~15 reps no matter the weight.
In my case, I just get tired after ~15 reps no matter the weight.
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Peer Reviewed Studies Discussion / Re: massage
« on: December 17, 2015, 05:55:24 am »https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate_control_theory
TENs machines, deep heat creams etc work via this too. It's why when you bash your knee you instinctively rub it to make it hurt less riight?
Oh and raptor, sapolsky is awesome! 'why zebras dont get ulcers' was one of the best non-scientific science books I ever read! I need to read more of his stuff.
Definitely. Already watched 3 of his courses (each of about 12 hours). Then there's a big series on youtube from his lectures at Stanford. It can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D
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Peer Reviewed Studies Discussion / Re: massage
« on: December 16, 2015, 03:56:49 pm »
Tried to upload the video, and after I did, it was immediately removed for copyright issues, even being unlisted, wtf!
Anyway, attached a picture with what's going on:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By8lzXoJJdmqSXlRT0tiZ1JWVnM/view?usp=sharing
To translate what's going on there, it's like this:
Sharp pain = neuron X stimulated, then after a short time neuron Y is fired and it inhibits neuron X, pain disappears
Chronic pain = neuron X stimulated, neuron Y is inhibited, neuron X keeps firing => chronic pain that doesn't stop
When you generate some acute pain ("rough" massage) you fire the acute pain pathway, neuron X gets stimulated through that pathway (it was already stimulated through the chronic pathway) but then neuron Y gets stimulated as well, and Y inhibits X. So you can force neuron Y to fire through this acute pain that you're inflicting, in turn making X to be turned off (hopefully).
Anyway, attached a picture with what's going on:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By8lzXoJJdmqSXlRT0tiZ1JWVnM/view?usp=sharing
To translate what's going on there, it's like this:
Sharp pain = neuron X stimulated, then after a short time neuron Y is fired and it inhibits neuron X, pain disappears
Chronic pain = neuron X stimulated, neuron Y is inhibited, neuron X keeps firing => chronic pain that doesn't stop
When you generate some acute pain ("rough" massage) you fire the acute pain pathway, neuron X gets stimulated through that pathway (it was already stimulated through the chronic pathway) but then neuron Y gets stimulated as well, and Y inhibits X. So you can force neuron Y to fire through this acute pain that you're inflicting, in turn making X to be turned off (hopefully).
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Peer Reviewed Studies Discussion / Re: massage
« on: December 16, 2015, 03:22:02 pm »
It will be extremely difficult to find it, I've went through too many ones to remember where it is but... I'll try.
EDIT: OK, believe it or not, I found it. I'm uploading it right now. I won't bother to cut it, I'll tell you where you can find the relevant part but I recommend watching it entirely (you'll agree with me after you watch it).
I'm uploading it as an unlisted video due to copyright.
EDIT: OK, believe it or not, I found it. I'm uploading it right now. I won't bother to cut it, I'll tell you where you can find the relevant part but I recommend watching it entirely (you'll agree with me after you watch it).
I'm uploading it as an unlisted video due to copyright.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: THE DREAM JOURNAL
« on: December 16, 2015, 03:05:03 pm »
OK so I had a bunch of horrid dreams lately due to my mental state... I've had a few nights in which I was awake pretty much all night/morning, with just a few short episodes of "sleep".
First dream:
I was in a supermarket, and then suddenly something happens and everybody is running like crazy. I'm like "why is everybody running" and I was starting to get scared, I knew something was happening. Then the walls started to close and iron walls started coming out of the ground like in a bunker, and I ran to jump over them and get out but couldn't. So the walls closed and there was a sound like "bam", like when you start very bright lights, then automatic machine-guns and a huge minigun came from the floor, upwards, with red laser pointers. They were programmed to kill anything that moves in the supermarket, instantly. They didn't move at all, just the lasers were moving, searching for stuff that moves.
So I was caught like in a 1/8 squat position with the knees slightly bent and my back against a wall, like in a sissy squat position. And for some reason, I "knew" that I'll have to wait 13 hours in that position and I was like "that's it, I'm dead, no way I can maintain this position for that long without moving".
And a second dream:
I was at my grandma's house and every clock in her house was moving ~3 times slower. So I was like "oh, so this is why she's been living for so long, there's a higher gravity field here so her age is an effect of General Relativity, now it makes sense".
First dream:
I was in a supermarket, and then suddenly something happens and everybody is running like crazy. I'm like "why is everybody running" and I was starting to get scared, I knew something was happening. Then the walls started to close and iron walls started coming out of the ground like in a bunker, and I ran to jump over them and get out but couldn't. So the walls closed and there was a sound like "bam", like when you start very bright lights, then automatic machine-guns and a huge minigun came from the floor, upwards, with red laser pointers. They were programmed to kill anything that moves in the supermarket, instantly. They didn't move at all, just the lasers were moving, searching for stuff that moves.
So I was caught like in a 1/8 squat position with the knees slightly bent and my back against a wall, like in a sissy squat position. And for some reason, I "knew" that I'll have to wait 13 hours in that position and I was like "that's it, I'm dead, no way I can maintain this position for that long without moving".
And a second dream:
I was at my grandma's house and every clock in her house was moving ~3 times slower. So I was like "oh, so this is why she's been living for so long, there's a higher gravity field here so her age is an effect of General Relativity, now it makes sense".
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Peer Reviewed Studies Discussion / Re: massage
« on: December 16, 2015, 06:58:26 am »
Actually, massage works in a different way - there are two pathways for pain - acute and chronic. There's a feedback loop in chronic pain that is interrupted by the neurons that fire during acute pain. There's a possibility that when you generate the acute pain (massage) that is stronger than the lingering chronic pain, you can interrupt the firing loop of the chronic pain neurons.
I can search for the video describing this by Robert Sapolsky.
I can search for the video describing this by Robert Sapolsky.
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Basketball / Re: A WHOLE BUNCH OF DUNKS AND SHIT.
« on: December 13, 2015, 05:58:06 pm »747
Nature, Wilderness, Hiking, Travel, and Misc Outdoorsy stuff / Re: Random landscape of the day
« on: December 10, 2015, 06:52:28 pm »
I've always been fascinated with it. When I was little there was a sentence in Romanian, when you wanted to say something is really far, you'd say "it's in Patagonia".
So I started to think "where is that" and I had an Earth globe and my dad showed me where it is, and then I was fantasizing about how is it over there... and I've always had that thing ever since then. It fascinates me to this day.
So I started to think "where is that" and I had an Earth globe and my dad showed me where it is, and then I was fantasizing about how is it over there... and I've always had that thing ever since then. It fascinates me to this day.
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Nature, Wilderness, Hiking, Travel, and Misc Outdoorsy stuff / Re: Random landscape of the day
« on: December 09, 2015, 03:58:27 pm »
Patagonia:
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Nature, Wilderness, Hiking, Travel, and Misc Outdoorsy stuff / Re: Random landscape of the day
« on: December 09, 2015, 10:28:10 am »
Merging galaxies from Hubble:
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Age vs Vertical
« on: December 09, 2015, 07:46:28 am »
I wonder what your soreness be after that 15 reps set of RDLs.