Jib
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I don't know what Peat recommends, but I feel best with bodyweight exercises.
I also agree with @mrchibbs that being completely sedentary is very damaging. I've been extremely sedentary, and my health sucks. After getting back on milk, and a lot of it, my energy has come back enough to where I can tolerate some bodyweight exercise.
I highly, highly recommend gymnastics rings if you can find or make a space to hang them up.
My personal favorite are "Happy Fat Rings." They're extra wide and are much easier on the hands, while providing greater muscle stimulation. You can work out every single part of your upper body with rings. There are countless variations and greater difficulty than most people could ever imagine.
If you have a floor and a wall, you can do pushups, bodyweight squats and pistol squats, and handstands/handstand pushups.
My nervous system is pretty sensitive. I cannot handle deadlifts and squats with a bar, even with light weight. It just fries me too much. Some people feel great with heavy loaded exercises, but I think each individual has to take their physiological responses to various stimuli into consideration.
For me, bodyweight strength training is well-tolerated. I respond best when I actually feel like exercising. I'm not so sure that forcing yourself to work out when you feel tired is a good idea. Better to get plenty of good nutrition first, and build up your spontaneous desire to exercise. For me, that's been taking close to a half gallon of milk per day, in addition to plenty of fruit, and some meat, to start getting to that level.
Pullups are an intense compound exercise, but I don't find them anywhere near as draining/fatiguing as weighted squats/deadlifts. If you poke around online, you can read about "Kin Shi Hai Do," or "weightlifting without weights." You can mimic deadlifting by just doing the motion, and imagining that you're lifting a very heavy weight, without actually lifting a heavy weight. You can do this with any exercise.
It's fiercely contracting your muscles, with no risk of injury from a mishandled weight, or the intense fatigue that comes with it. I'm not arguing that you're gonna put on mass like you would with weights, or build as much strength. But it's stimulating and invigorating, and I think much, much less prone to frying the nervous system. It's fun to experiment with.
I also agree with @mrchibbs that being completely sedentary is very damaging. I've been extremely sedentary, and my health sucks. After getting back on milk, and a lot of it, my energy has come back enough to where I can tolerate some bodyweight exercise.
I highly, highly recommend gymnastics rings if you can find or make a space to hang them up.
My personal favorite are "Happy Fat Rings." They're extra wide and are much easier on the hands, while providing greater muscle stimulation. You can work out every single part of your upper body with rings. There are countless variations and greater difficulty than most people could ever imagine.
If you have a floor and a wall, you can do pushups, bodyweight squats and pistol squats, and handstands/handstand pushups.
My nervous system is pretty sensitive. I cannot handle deadlifts and squats with a bar, even with light weight. It just fries me too much. Some people feel great with heavy loaded exercises, but I think each individual has to take their physiological responses to various stimuli into consideration.
For me, bodyweight strength training is well-tolerated. I respond best when I actually feel like exercising. I'm not so sure that forcing yourself to work out when you feel tired is a good idea. Better to get plenty of good nutrition first, and build up your spontaneous desire to exercise. For me, that's been taking close to a half gallon of milk per day, in addition to plenty of fruit, and some meat, to start getting to that level.
Pullups are an intense compound exercise, but I don't find them anywhere near as draining/fatiguing as weighted squats/deadlifts. If you poke around online, you can read about "Kin Shi Hai Do," or "weightlifting without weights." You can mimic deadlifting by just doing the motion, and imagining that you're lifting a very heavy weight, without actually lifting a heavy weight. You can do this with any exercise.
It's fiercely contracting your muscles, with no risk of injury from a mishandled weight, or the intense fatigue that comes with it. I'm not arguing that you're gonna put on mass like you would with weights, or build as much strength. But it's stimulating and invigorating, and I think much, much less prone to frying the nervous system. It's fun to experiment with.