Pranaman
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zhan zhuang proves to be my most physically intense workout. also, it proves to be my most mentally enhancing activity. I most learn to go through the intense heat and shaking, i can only last 30 seconds to a minute of shaking, my goal is ten minutes of pure tremoring and heat without easing up into a taller easier posture.
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Everywhere and everyone tends to say that you need rest days to build muscle mass. I am looking to gain muscle mass since I have pencil arms, but I don't want to have to go on rest periods at the expense of missing out on daily yiquan/kung-fu strength training. I'm really interested in the affect of kettlebell training too. How to get the best of both worlds? Any insights?
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I thought i'd say that i've only been doing frequent training for a week. Come yiquan class, and I feel slow and far more unable. I don't advocate this type of training for a person like me with my goals and body. Back to basics.
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I'm about to write out what my essential life purpose is, and a few of my beliefs. I'm going to do this to get a sense of grounding. Any of you suggest any good readings to gain insight into being a man of principle? I suggest "the Way of the Superior Man" by David Deida
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enter the dragon is good. legend of drunken master is good. haven't seen too many others.
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the reason for fast push-ups is to develop speed and I believe to recruit fast-twitch muscles(for the drop down is sometimes a relaxed freefall, then you and your reflex catch yourself on the pushup). For endurance and strength is why we do ten seconds down and ten seconds up. I didn't do the curl bench press today, I felt like my muscles needed a day off. In Defense of Frequent Training This is an article from dragondoor.com on frequent training and many people who have used it with success. Arthur Saxon is one of them.
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I should probably gain mass in all the muscles on my arms. but I also need to be gaining strength in my arms. I need to be doing pushups and pullups everyday if I want to keep up in my class. At the same time i'm trying to lose the extra fat I have. Sifu not only says to do these exercises everyday, but he also says that I need more muscle mass. I'll ask him what to clarify what I should be doing at home. Right now i'm practicing the fat loss theory at The IF Life, as well as doing 16 hour intermittent fasts daily, as well as HIIT jogging/sprinting 60sec/30sec. I start doing 50 light kettlebell swings. I'll switch every day doing 3 "10sec down 10sec up" push-ups along with maxing out on doing pushups as fast as I can. The other day i'll max out on explosive medicine ball pushups the max out on diamond(both hands on ball) medicine ball pushups. One minute plank everday. I'll do the 3 pullups I can everyday. Do 70% max only 5reps/5sets on bench press, than feeling out how many reps for 20lb dumbbell curl. everyday. Do as many more pull-ups or chin-ups I can. everyday. Then i'm done. This all was not including standing, which I think i'm going to start doing after kettlebell swings because it seems to bypass the muscular discomfort stage of standing, and go straight to relaxed tremoring. my memory was really scattered on this post so sorry for the very rigid read.
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there is no suppression, but a letting go. Suppression creates imbalance. Surrendering creates freedom.
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I was really serious about rooting/grounding. Eliza has been depossessing and undoing black magic for over thirty years now, and she always tells me to root/ground. a meditation to do this is very simple. Step 1: Put your attention in the soles of your feet and your perineum. your feet might start to heat up, if they do, you are fully grounded. If not, you are getting there. I prefer Zhan Zhuang for rooting though.
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Eliza Carroll This woman can help you, although a 75 dollar per hour session isn't cheap these days. I've been working with her in person over the last few months and she has help me dramatically improve myself. She'll be able to get rid of the particular curse you speak of in a single session(including any other lower astral junk), and she doesn't stop until it's gone even if it takes 12 hours to do so and you are already off the phone and asleep, she's a really cool lady too, she teaches the aura group i'm in, she likes good pizza too. She works through the higher self, and will replace the rips and tears in your aura, and the negative entities, magic or energy she worked on, she'll replace it all with your original self's soulprint. I always leave her place really high on energy. and if you Root or Ground, what can anything do to you?
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I don't know of the firedrills, just climbing into the corner and sanding the floor, but I can apply all of your other advice.
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Like many other men and probably fewer women, I have a naturally very yang and masculine core. Others and I have a difficult time letting our energy flow, merging with experience, and having congruent action. Social anxiety holds back my truth. This very bland and heavy energy inhabits my frontal torso, it keeps me from feeling the love and beauty in life that I have felt many times before. Any words that could lead me to something or that could help me express my inner yang, my truth, my masculinity, my self? I intuit that I must wait longer because zhan zhuang, yiquan, and taiji will support my intention to just simply be in the moment.
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thank you all good advice
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I got the book a few months ago. I've just been belly breathing since. Maybe sometime i'll do it as a warmup. What benefits or changes have you noticed using it? I'm particularly interested in it as a shortcut to power training for martial arts.
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I've tried the peyote one. Hardly noticeable, only slightly more visual than if I were to meditate on any other sound for a half hour. Nothing close to peyote. Other doses might be good though, or maybe I wasn't at a sensitive enough place, or attentive enough.
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Yesterday I started intermittent fasting for the health, longevity, and muscle/fat advantages. at Leangains, who I believe I credit to Vajrasattva for recommending, he speaks of increasing carb intake on workout days, and protein on off days. The thing is I train everyday, no weights. But I do bodyweight workouts and standing. You can see where my question is. I'm also curious if people have results, or opinions on martial training with IF. thank you all
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Here is another, well MY school does it differently. It seems like my Sifu and I believe in TCM and Western exercise equally. He has us do all sorts of western work. He has us do qigong equally as much, like zhan zhuang and other forms of qigong. If i am in half as good a shape as he is at 60 when i'm 25, I'll feel like a king. All i've heard him mention about this, is that you don't want big muscle, you want strong and dense(mass-wise) muscle. In terms of fighting, he says in physics 'Force = Mass X Acceleration', so you need the muscle mass but not volume/size which is gained at the expense of speed/acceleration. In relation to this, I would suggest getting the book,"Bruce Lee : The Art Of Expressing The Human Body". Mr.Lee was fast and strong, and worked out in slightly different ways. Mr. Lee and Jackie Chan both do their reps as fast as possible, and I don't think it was a hindrance on their existence. As far as the subtle body, i agree with 'judge by your feeling'. All bodies are so intertwined a healthy physical well most likely branch into a healthy subtle. all my opinion, maybe nothing more.
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I haven't found a staff, unfortunately I don't drive and the nearest martial arts supply store is some odd 30 miles away, plus a lack of money. I will certainly get one, and for now my bodyweight is enough of a challenge. I'm the guy reigning in at a massive 3 pull-ups! Anyway, i'm practicing everyday, only an hour to an hour and a half, strength will come. Also, my training time has gradually increased, synchronistic with my standing time....
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well put
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it's definitely not important, just interesting, and I feel it's worth studying, you never know, if you know how the body works, you might just be the next Wang Xiangzhai creating your own system(although Yichuan is not based on TCM).
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I would like to know how much protein, calories, carbohydrates, vitamins, calcium and minerals my body needs. Any particularly good websites for this type of thing?
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I have sciatic nerve pain at the moment, it inhibits me from running. I also would like to lessen the body fat that I have. i'm about 5' 10" and weigh 160 lbs. not much muscle. I exercise about an hour everyday, two to three hours mon/wed. I've noticed more muscle tone and size, my weight has generally stayed the same so I guess I got to be losing some fat. I would be running, but my nerve won't let me. Any other way for me to lose unneeded body fat? My stomach isn't big, but it does make a certain yiquan stance more difficult, it is an expression of my lack of optimal health, which is my goal.
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I am interested in kettlebell training. I wonder what type of muscle it builds, i'm looking for tone, raw strength, and as possibly small sized muscle as can be maintained while gaining the most strength from strength training. I want to be fast. I want to abide by the "Mass X Acceleration = Force" equation, and build mass, but not volume(as to not inhibit speed). My non-standing exercises include pull-ups, medicine ball push-ups and chest push-ups, planks, knuckle push-ups(ten seconds down ten up), then as many and as fast as possible, then hold the knuckle push-up posture static for a few minutes. I also do forearm work like moving the fingers and hands with extend arms, that's an intense burn. This other exercise where you are standing up, feet a little more than shoulders width apart, you stick the end of a staff in the corner of a room, and you shimmy down as far as you can go and back up. So I ask, with no weight training, is intermittent fasting for me?
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cause you might end up like this guy.... <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> Why would an enlightened master offer 5,000$ to show off his chi projection? Wouldn't he know he'd fail? What the hell is going on? Why did he make such a big deal out of getting hit in the face, does that seem like something a fighter would do? Why does he look so out of shape? I personally think Chi is to back up the muscle and bone, all three intertwined to pack a punch, not replace the punch. Intention is to make the punch serious and sharp. Please speak your mind.
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I'm in a relationship. I'd like our love to be true love, not of the ego, and unable to turn into negative emotions. Eckhart Tolle explains the love in enlightened relationships as the same love an enlightened person feels for everything and everyone, but to a greater degree for that one person. This is the type of love that will always be true love. Unfortunately, my girl would be crushed or hate the idea if she heard it. She has many ideas on what a special romantic relationship is supposed to be. I think they conflict with my ideas of unattachment, liberation, and what healthy love really is. I don't know what to do, because we experience glimpses of true love, but I can feel when we are dealing with egoic love. I feel it will take both of us trying to free ourselves from our egos to experience true unconditional love instead of just one. I come to all of you to hear your opinions.