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Wellness Wednesday for December 18, 2024

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

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  • Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).

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When I don't have stimulants in my body, my RHR is around 39 at night. With stimulants, it's on average 44. I chalk it up to a large volume of cardio done at just below my lactate threshold.

Either get a lactate test or find the general range of your lactate threshold (whatever your cardio exercise of choice, do it for 60 minutes, drop the first 10 minutes, then use the average effort/HR as baseline), then do as much at that effort as you can fit in your day with preference to longer pieces. If you're struggling to recover afterwards, you're going too hard. You should start seeing results after a few weeks if you respond anything like I did.