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<blockquote data-quote="Ed" data-source="post: 499778" data-attributes="member: 548"><p>Body weight exercises (Calisthenics) are something that I've been interested in for a long time. All the martial arts emphasise them, and boxers don't have the physiques and stamina they do from doing lots of weights. Using your body weight against itself also means you are hitting a load of different muscle groups at once, rather than isolating individual ones which has been all the rage with gyms with machines in. You also have to breathe harder as well, so you are getting a respiratory/cardio workout. There's a guy in the US called Matt Furey (combat conditioning) that has been doing this stuff for ages, and it really works. Check out his website, he's got verbal diarrhoea, but a lot of what he says is really interesting.</p><p></p><p>He's also really interested in using the breath to lose weight, deep breathing exercises. I've got back into the gym and been doing some of the breath work for about the last month. The weight is dropping off really quickly, and naturally, I'm still eating the same. The breath stuff is really interesting, it links in with yoga/tai chi/qi gong. Essentially (from my limited understanding) human existance can be diluted to breathing in, breathing out, and the space in between where you are doing nothing. That's it, the meaning of life. All meditations are based on this. The exercises Furey teaches essentially get you breathing in a way that brings 'whole' development i.e. physical, mental and spiritual. By spiritual I mean 'understanding of the self in relation to the universe'. I used to get these moments when I was doing Karate really seriously 4/5 times a week. Suddenly you feel something 'drop' within you, and you get insights not only into the exercise you were doing, but into yourself, your own mind. Western exercise can achieve this, but the East seems to have connected it the the whole self. That's really interesting don't you think?</p><p></p><p>I totally agree with Lozzie that there's something about thrashing yourself to your physical limits. It gives you a high and a sense of well being like nothing else, makes you feel invincible after a while.</p><p></p><p>Gone off on a bit of a tangent there, but hopefully some of you find it interesting!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ed, post: 499778, member: 548"] Body weight exercises (Calisthenics) are something that I've been interested in for a long time. All the martial arts emphasise them, and boxers don't have the physiques and stamina they do from doing lots of weights. Using your body weight against itself also means you are hitting a load of different muscle groups at once, rather than isolating individual ones which has been all the rage with gyms with machines in. You also have to breathe harder as well, so you are getting a respiratory/cardio workout. There's a guy in the US called Matt Furey (combat conditioning) that has been doing this stuff for ages, and it really works. Check out his website, he's got verbal diarrhoea, but a lot of what he says is really interesting. He's also really interested in using the breath to lose weight, deep breathing exercises. I've got back into the gym and been doing some of the breath work for about the last month. The weight is dropping off really quickly, and naturally, I'm still eating the same. The breath stuff is really interesting, it links in with yoga/tai chi/qi gong. Essentially (from my limited understanding) human existance can be diluted to breathing in, breathing out, and the space in between where you are doing nothing. That's it, the meaning of life. All meditations are based on this. The exercises Furey teaches essentially get you breathing in a way that brings 'whole' development i.e. physical, mental and spiritual. By spiritual I mean 'understanding of the self in relation to the universe'. I used to get these moments when I was doing Karate really seriously 4/5 times a week. Suddenly you feel something 'drop' within you, and you get insights not only into the exercise you were doing, but into yourself, your own mind. Western exercise can achieve this, but the East seems to have connected it the the whole self. That's really interesting don't you think? I totally agree with Lozzie that there's something about thrashing yourself to your physical limits. It gives you a high and a sense of well being like nothing else, makes you feel invincible after a while. Gone off on a bit of a tangent there, but hopefully some of you find it interesting! [/QUOTE]
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