As an RN, this video hit at the right time. I train 6 days a week (PPL). And I am on my feet about 30 hours a week working with patients. I have scaled back my lifting, which has led to even better results, where I am only doing a few exercises per day with a focus on very high-quality work. Also, the existential dread isn't as bad. So....woo-hoo.
I used to train PPL 6 days a week but lately my schedule as an xray student and working part time isn’t the best so i switched to upper lower so i can go 4 days a week and still hit all the muscles twice a week, i can’t say definitively that it’s better than PpL but at the very least i have the same results but now I actually have 3 rest days instead if 1. Mentally i like PPL better but it works for now while i’m super busy
@@gusjeazer dude literally every aged care and nursing system around the world is fucked up. It's only natural they talk about it, when you work 60+ hours a week and are navigating your whole personal life around contact training and requirements. it's more invasive then veganism for sure.
The timing of this is incredible. In the middle of psychological burnout, I come back from an upper body workout and even my quads feel weak. That can't be right. I'm going home now and play some LOTRO. Thanks, Dr. Mike!
The point about low-arousal activities for relaxation time is very important, specially for gamers. Some videogames can be very taxing emotionally, specially competitive games like League of Legends or most shooters, also ultra hardcore single player games for hardcore gamersTM. In that case I'd think gamers also should avoid playing high-arousal games an hour or two before sleeping, and shift to something more relaxing like Animal Crossing or Stardew Valley, or even stop gaming altogether 2 hours before sleep.
@@RMFbucketglove yeah, martial arts has that problem too. The "hardcore" mentality. Even lifters with "no pain no gain" or climbers that don't know how or why to periodize climbing sessions, volume, intensity, etc.
as a Bulgarian I truly appreciate the fascination with our weightlifting program in the 80s. Coach Abadjiev aka "The Chemist" was way ahead of his time. Somehow his nickname was not The Natural Healer, can't explain why, but it has to do with the ability to train multiple times a day.
The Pope of Weightlifting's biggest heyday of coaching was when everyone was pretty openly using the same stuff. The real truth is that he just further optimized periodization system developed by the Soviets, combined with a culture of fitness and strength that the West mostly lacked. Additionally the West was REALLY slow to adopt periodization. Combined with the US and Western Europe basically taking their best athletes out of the picture and into professional sports. (Still partly issue today.)
@@StopTryingSoHardOr making your Olympic team max out multiple times every day while keeping them on a pharmaceutical regimen that has no regard for their wellbeing just selects the best supersoldier types.
I did a 4 year engineering degree while bodybuilding. Over the 4 years, nearly all of my muscle growth occured during the summer holidays and early in the terms when I was in lower stress environments. During exam season, I had to half my weekly training volume just to be able to recover - all food and sleep staying the same. Crazy the effect psychological stress can have
Absolutely. Body has 1 battery and all stress goes from there. Mental stress is as hard on the body as physical stress if not more. Very few burnout postman and millions of burnout managers
This is actually insane. I mean every video so much information, can't believe this is just for free to watch. Huge thanks to you and the whole crew behind the channel 😊
I actually wanna cry watching this. Extremely grateful. I have been feeling tired for the whole year. Because I wasn't taking a lot of what the Doctor said here. I am changing my life. Thank you
I realize this is probably useless as I'm guessing your audience is 90% male but I would love a video about training and the menstrual cycle. I feel like there's so little information about it! And thanks for the amazing content ❤️
This is why I only ever feel good about workouts right in the morning. I've tried going to the gym after work and I'm already tired and it's awful. If I do it first thing I feel great and energized for the day.
Yes I love working out early a.m. not too early but around like 9-10ish. Only thing is I can't do that except for Saturdays and Sundays but I try not work out on Saturday. So really only get a chance on Sunday mainly. After work I be tired but I still get that work.
Caffeine-induced hyperactivity during a good productive workout in the morning makes me super motivated to do stuff better the rest of the day! Shit, the only reason I don't sing the lyrics in my headphones really loud is because there's other people in the gym.
i'm so glad you made a video discussing this. i've been pondering the concept of stress being one big melting pot for a while now, and this really summed it up well. i'm interested to see if one day we'll come across a way to volumetrically calculate stress in relation to our psychological thresholds. throw that shit on a versa watch!
Great video. This is exactly how I got injured 6 years ago - work stress was at its max, and I was pushing the boundaries with training. There's only so much your body can handle before it breaks!
It is such a pleasure to listen to Dr. Mike Israetel. His manner of speaking and explaining is so understandable. This video in particular showed me the most important piece that I was omitting from my life. All my life I have been in psychological fatigue. Thank you for this extremely important video.
As always, a very helpful video. I personally have an issue with relaxing. My mind is always in overdrive. It has inhibited my progress many times. I get panic attacks and feel extremely tired after getting 8 hours of sleep or more. I need to work on relaxing. Even the idea of working on relaxing is stress inducing, but I need to relax for my own good. I need to not worry about everything and stop carrying other people's problems on my back like I think I'm a god. Thank you again for this video.
That's a strange problem i cannot understand i worry too little as i've found nothing really matters all that much everything always just works out and if it doesn't then i deal with it when the time comes thinking about it rarely achieves anything at all. Best of luck finding peace of mind
This explains a lot. The gym helps with my anxiety just to get that excessive nervous energy out but I’m often drained and exhausted mentally from work🙄
This is an awesome advice for life in general and not just to improve your workouts and one thing that should also be added, imo, is that once a week you should get away from anything electronic ( if possible ). It can be a pain in the ass at start, but once your mind gets used to it, it will put your relaxation mode into overdrive. Also, I was really waiting, during the mind arousal part, for him to use the analogy of a 1000 yard stare or blank mind or even meditate. Cause when you're rocking in a chair outside and people are passing by, you're not really looking at people as much as you're looking "through" them and just shutting off your brain.
This entire video is great and we used to apply all of these principles for basic training in the US Army and the US Marine Corps and the US Coast Guard until about 2008. Then things changed dramatically
Umm... I don't remember that hour of relaxation in USMC basic. Closest thing was like an hour to remediate, hygiene, and shit. I guess that was relaxed compared to the rest of the day, but not what I would consider truly relaxing.
@@elischrock5356I'm curious to know OP's experience pre-2008. Gotta be honest, Army BCT in 2014 was a relaxation-depriving injury factory. Almost all of my lingering injuries started back then because of the horrible way they trained recruits. And I was relatively lucky compared to other recruits' injuries in our battalion. I'm imagining the USMC was the same or worse lol.
Been doing this intuitively for over a year now, so not a new concept to me. Been in the army (not US) for over a decade now and also had a lot of stress with my husband. I just learned how to ignore fatigue in any way. Started to manage psychological fatigue by caring less about other peoples demands and say "no" - yeah, that was taken out of me by numerous factors. Now I detach from other people and stand up for myself again. I respect myself again. Journaling has helped me a lot there because it helped to consciously realize which patterns were running amok in my mind and didn't let me get the rest I so hard tried to get. In my case, I didn't even realize I was just doing what other people wanted, at work or in private, and I kept scolding myself for not ever being good enough. I was often left behind and whenever I uttered a need I had, a wish I had, I got ignored. But dare if I would do the same to others. Learning to not let other peoples anger get to me that took a while, but it worked. Through just writing down whatever came to mind, I brought this to the surface and then assessed these patterns and logically deconstruct them. Figure out what may emotions actually tried to signal me, what the reasoning was behind them. I mention this because maybe some people don't realize they aren't actually relaxing even when doing relaxing things. Just a note at the side, but as was largely covered by Kahnemann, emotions are a fast way for the brain to asses information and judge situations and then react accordingly. And a lot of that happens without one actively noticing. This is a part were a therapist, with a detached observation and feedback, may help, but sometimes learning to be more conscious by various methods - like journaling - may just do the trick. But overall, I still have to re-learn how physical fatigue feels again. For my mind to recognize that I was fatigued I needed a ton of physical stress, like climbing a mountain for an entire day with little to no food (Actually did this, wasn't good. With food, it was amazing. I felt physically burned out but mentally refreshed, lol.) "Regular" physical fatigue, like going to the gym, usually gets ignored by my mind and I just push on and on. Went to the gym 5 days a week plus one day for a running session for about an hour... Too much and I just didn't notice. I kept wondering why I wasn't getting any better, why I was plateauing constantly and I did more and more because I was taught that there wasn't such a thing as "too much". Took an entire week off, doing nothing much at all besides restructuring my exercise plan - as I had to change my gym this was a good time for that anyways. Now I do less trainings per week, but no split, just whole body, take two days for other things between (running and an extra session for mobility and flexibility at my home gym) and I think I make more progress than before. Focus on technique and mind-muscle connection and really teaching my mind how my body feels does wonders now. Curious where this will lead me :)
This has quickly become one of my favorite channels. Dr Mike is the best. My only concern is that I’m burning through all these videos and will soon have no more to binge.
I actually had to sacrifice sleep to start doing this, because I have small children and I work every day at 4:30 am, so I used to get them down to bed at 8 pm, and then just go to sleep, but I actually started just doing a relaxation routine for about 30 to 45 min and I've found it's worth the sleep sacrifice because I get better sleep and I wake up feeling more rested. I still don't feel well rested because my kids wake me up multiple times a night, but it is making a noticeable impact on my sleep quality.
I’m a parent of two young boys, one with a behavioral disorder, and a camp counselor of kids who spends days in the sun. Psychological fatigue is a VERY REAL THING that affects training, recovery, and training motivation. I’ve had to learn to focus myself on training despite all that nonsense, and it took a few years to really get it.
This is why I take 10 minutes to relax and sort of meditate and do box breathing right after training in the gym. Best thing you can do to make sure recovery starts right away.
A quite concentration is what I look for in my relaxation. I love painting minis, building Legos, or doing puzzles. I feel like the physicality helps me relax more than electronic mediums like video games and TV. Its good to see how important that is through sport science.
Two out of four of my workout days I time with my days off work , this means I can train early, then go home and eat, then l lie outside in the early sun ( I live in Queensland, suns out most days) and listen to NSDR or binaural beats ( don’t know if they actually work). It’s a great protocol I really enjoy and look forward to.
Excellent video Dr. Mike! I really appreciate the level of detail you get into and the science you back your positions with, especially in contrast to the “pop science” junk all over the internet. You video on the WHO classifying aspartame as a carcinogen was excellent; I was tearing my imaginary hair out explaining to people what the newsbite ACTUALLY meant. Back to this video, I’ve been taking this advice more recently and focusing on rest and recovery. The fatigue difference as well as energy levels during workouts are noticeable!
I've been watching for a few months now since I was a Jonni Shreve fan for a good while. Today, Mikes sense of humour clicked with me in this video and I love it haha
About to start working on my MBA in a couple of weeks, on top of working full time in a very demanding career, maintaining/fixing up my house, rehabbing a shoulder injury, rehabbing my core/back, and trying to fit in some training and family time. Feeling a bit overwhelmed, so this is very timely and helpful.
Garmin's Body Battery metric is freaking great at showing this and combining the two. Paying attention to this was a huge change in my recovery and pacing. And yup...a good session of tea (gong fu) and reading before bed takes about an hour, hydrates, and gets me down to relaxed for best sleep. Sometimes I can get it in the middle of the day too, but only if I avoid snacking successfully.
This makes sense and is relevant for me. I have PTSD and I am in trauma therapy getting treated with EMDR. After I see my therapist, I go to the gym. The gym is my bliss, I will be in there for two or three hours sometimes. After an EMDR session where we have to go over some real uncomfortable shit, I only last in the gym for about an hour…..the therapy sessions just leave me drained. It would seem mind and body are intertwined. Shameless plug was duly noted btw…..I am curious about this app he keeps prattling on about……dammit.
I dont even do bodybuilding or powerlifting style workouts, but all the videos this guy makes are a fucking goldmine of info. Understanding training fatigue has greatly improved my quality of life 😃
Good a time as ever to get a massage folks. Best thing you can do for yourself in this regard in my opinion. Not everyday mind you and nowhere near that, but taking into consideration the benefits discussed in this video and the benefits of massage therapy, I highly recommend having a treatment every once in a while.
Dr Mike helped me understand it much more than all the other zealots on the Internet. Thank you Dr Mike! Can I have "Thank you Dr Mike" T-Shirt is size XL (to fit in it eventually), please!
At first I wasn't sure about Mike's humor. That lasted a few minutes before I realized that he wasn't trying too hard, and that he has a very particular dry,, silly sense of it. One of the few people on earth that crack me up regularly. Yes, sometimes he forces a dick joke where it shouldn't be, but nobody's perfect. For the most part the humor is top notch! Thanks for making me laugh.
Oh! Most importantly Dr. Mike is based as fuck. It keeps me sane to see people that say what they want despite the fear peddled by the collectivist for correct speech.
Petition for Dr. Mike and Ryan Humiston podcast. Life changing insights. I am in debt to these 2 individuals that I will never be able to repay, but will pay it forward to guide others in whom I love in my community.
Thanks for this Dr. Mike. Im on a stressful moment right now and im trying to squeeze workout and sometimes even before starting i feel so tired that i find excuse to skip them.
I would love a paypal option for the RP hypertrophy app. And i was wondering if there also could be a buy for life option instead of a subscription. Love to hear from guys and keep up the good work 💪
Three awesome kids a wife a life and work. Without a schedule I could not workout. I’m not complaining I just don’t can’t fit in relaxing more than an hour sometimes two before bed. Ahhh love my life🎉! But I’m doing a lot and the burnout is coming!
Dr Mike suggesting i watch more arrested development for the gains! This is the best doc prescription since getting my medical Marijuana card (i have since given up the jazz cabbage but never lucile bluth).
Thats just amazing content Not just for training, but for work and life I feel I must be grinding all the time and that sucks It doesnt even equals to more production Thanks, doc
I've been in engineering school for 5 years, have 1 year left (I regret doing a thesis every day). I've been frustrated for years as to why I've been stagnant in my training for the last few years. I attributed it to stress and inconsistent of sleep. I'm glad to know there's research backing up my hunch that mental fatigue can contribute significantly to physical fatigue.
I love the dig at Huberman's staring at the sun thing lolol. Sure go ahead it may feel good or get you to sleep better but say hello to cataracts at a fairly young age.
Love your definition of work-life balance. Also: "Who the hell takes an hour at 3PM and then gets back to work at 4PM?" *Spaniards awake from their siesta*
I feel like I say a similar thing every time I comment on one of your videos but it still astounds me in your videos the amount I consecutively learn and laugh my ass off 😂
Lol I live in the country, my cabin, land and peace is awesome. I am retired at 40 although I obviously continue to work for fun. The fact that I do not have to work and I have all the time in the world, I sleep for a couple of hours in the afternoon and put all my focus on my workouts ( once every 3 to 4 days ). The other days I go do the household type stuff but, on workout days I do nothing but hit the program and chill.
I work 7-7 and take a 2.5 hour break from 11-1:30pm. I eat lunch, go to the pool and take a nap and then I’m energized to go back to work. If you have the means I highly suggest trying it out
I'm 46 and have been training for more than 30 years. It's been a long and hard realization since about 40 that I need to put more and more emphasis on relaxation and rehabilitation. I get a lot of injuries and my whole body is more exhausted if I work out more than 3 times a week. I don't do splits anymore but just do a whole body workout because I can focus on resting on the other 4 days in the week. DHEA has actually helped me quite a bit. I don't get huge muscles from it, but I get more relaxed and have noticed better recovery when I take it.
Great stuff Mike - I'm a new listening/subscriber. You're absolutely hilarious. I think I missed something - I'm not seeing any contradictions between Huberman's neuroscience and your sport physiology on how relaxation is significant for mental health, recuperation, cognitive performance, etc. I'd love to hear more on this. I also love listening to interviews Peter Attia has with other health-related scientists. Besides your books, are your podcasts coming to Audible?
Petition to get Mike on the Huberman podcast
Asap
Petition for Huberman to stay in his lane.
What for? The guy shares info here already
Huberman is sponsored heavily by supplement companies (also called as "big pharma" by gym bros). I wouldn't trust him too much
@@smirbelbirbel how so?
Thanks Dr. Mike, now I have scientific backup for "compassionate touching" myself for an hour daily. Cheers!
Do it in public and it's extra relaxing! - Dr. Mike
@@RenaissancePeriodizationDr. Mike „Savage“ Israetel
@@RenaissancePeriodizationSince you're a professional, can I cite you as a scientific source for this?
@@Свободадляроссииyes
"It's ok officer, a ripped doctor on the Internet told me it's alright!"
As an RN, this video hit at the right time. I train 6 days a week (PPL). And I am on my feet about 30 hours a week working with patients. I have scaled back my lifting, which has led to even better results, where I am only doing a few exercises per day with a focus on very high-quality work. Also, the existential dread isn't as bad. So....woo-hoo.
Woooo! Keep it up! - Dr. Mike
I used to train PPL 6 days a week but lately my schedule as an xray student and working part time isn’t the best so i switched to upper lower so i can go 4 days a week and still hit all the muscles twice a week, i can’t say definitively that it’s better than PpL but at the very least i have the same results but now I actually have 3 rest days instead if 1. Mentally i like PPL better but it works for now while i’m super busy
How do you know someone is a nurse?
They will always tell you lol
@@gusjeazer dude literally every aged care and nursing system around the world is fucked up. It's only natural they talk about it, when you work 60+ hours a week and are navigating your whole personal life around contact training and requirements. it's more invasive then veganism for sure.
Wadup real nigga
The timing of this is incredible. In the middle of psychological burnout, I come back from an upper body workout and even my quads feel weak. That can't be right. I'm going home now and play some LOTRO. Thanks, Dr. Mike!
LOTRO is so great for relaxing
@@xHaste been grinding Minecraft after workouts lol
I recommend a more relaxing game like League of Legends or Dota 2, ranked mode. Great for reducing psychological fatigue, almost like a meditation.
@@artemiygulyaev2280 perhaps rocket league if your desk can handle a slam or two
Lord of the rings... O?
The point about low-arousal activities for relaxation time is very important, specially for gamers. Some videogames can be very taxing emotionally, specially competitive games like League of Legends or most shooters, also ultra hardcore single player games for hardcore gamersTM. In that case I'd think gamers also should avoid playing high-arousal games an hour or two before sleeping, and shift to something more relaxing like Animal Crossing or Stardew Valley, or even stop gaming altogether 2 hours before sleep.
@@RMFbucketglove yeah, martial arts has that problem too. The "hardcore" mentality. Even lifters with "no pain no gain" or climbers that don't know how or why to periodize climbing sessions, volume, intensity, etc.
Well said. Exploration games or any game where you just do whatever you want to do and enjoy it are great.
Totally! A lot of folks will think that relaxing is the same thing as just doing something fun, and that's not always the case! - Dr. Mike
Yeah my brain is going at 20 million RPMs after a destiny raid
Just chillin in Skyrim, looking at the aurora and listening to the nighttime soundtrack
as a Bulgarian I truly appreciate the fascination with our weightlifting program in the 80s. Coach Abadjiev aka "The Chemist" was way ahead of his time. Somehow his nickname was not The Natural Healer, can't explain why, but it has to do with the ability to train multiple times a day.
Lots and lots of PEDs, food, and making training your full time job. The Bulgarian method has fallen out due to injuries, etc
The Pope of Weightlifting's biggest heyday of coaching was when everyone was pretty openly using the same stuff.
The real truth is that he just further optimized periodization system developed by the Soviets, combined with a culture of fitness and strength that the West mostly lacked. Additionally the West was REALLY slow to adopt periodization. Combined with the US and Western Europe basically taking their best athletes out of the picture and into professional sports. (Still partly issue today.)
He was good at breaking eggs till he could make an olympic omelet.
@@StopTryingSoHardOr making your Olympic team max out multiple times every day while keeping them on a pharmaceutical regimen that has no regard for their wellbeing just selects the best supersoldier types.
I did a 4 year engineering degree while bodybuilding. Over the 4 years, nearly all of my muscle growth occured during the summer holidays and early in the terms when I was in lower stress environments. During exam season, I had to half my weekly training volume just to be able to recover - all food and sleep staying the same. Crazy the effect psychological stress can have
Yet your still underpaid and have a shit physique...😅
Absolutely. Body has 1 battery and all stress goes from there. Mental stress is as hard on the body as physical stress if not more. Very few burnout postman and millions of burnout managers
Love how you phrased that 😂 "I did a 4 year engineering course (on the side) while (doing my primary thing) bodybuilding"
I'm nervous about this as I'm beginning college soon. I don't do well with knowing when to back off
@@justshanestuff plan ur off weeks and dont be afraid to take light or full off days. Slight undertraining js always better then overtraining
This is actually insane. I mean every video so much information, can't believe this is just for free to watch. Huge thanks to you and the whole crew behind the channel 😊
Thank you for watching! - Dr. Mike
I actually wanna cry watching this. Extremely grateful. I have been feeling tired for the whole year. Because I wasn't taking a lot of what the Doctor said here. I am changing my life. Thank you
I realize this is probably useless as I'm guessing your audience is 90% male but I would love a video about training and the menstrual cycle. I feel like there's so little information about it!
And thanks for the amazing content ❤️
Omg yes please! Literally can get so much stronger or weaker depending on what part of the cycle I am at. Wild.
This is why I only ever feel good about workouts right in the morning. I've tried going to the gym after work and I'm already tired and it's awful. If I do it first thing I feel great and energized for the day.
Complete opposite for me. I lose about 30% of strength and feel dizzy. In the afternoon, I feel like Superman.
@@GForceIntel interesting. I always feel the fatigue of the day, especially mentally
@@BrofUJu I guess it depends on the job
Yes I love working out early a.m. not too early but around like 9-10ish. Only thing is I can't do that except for Saturdays and Sundays but I try not work out on Saturday. So really only get a chance on Sunday mainly. After work I be tired but I still get that work.
Caffeine-induced hyperactivity during a good productive workout in the morning makes me super motivated to do stuff better the rest of the day!
Shit, the only reason I don't sing the lyrics in my headphones really loud is because there's other people in the gym.
I could listen to Dr. Mike speak for hours on end. Best teaching voice.
i'm so glad you made a video discussing this. i've been pondering the concept of stress being one big melting pot for a while now, and this really summed it up well. i'm interested to see if one day we'll come across a way to volumetrically calculate stress in relation to our psychological thresholds.
throw that shit on a versa watch!
That would be something! - Dr. Mike
Great video. This is exactly how I got injured 6 years ago - work stress was at its max, and I was pushing the boundaries with training. There's only so much your body can handle before it breaks!
Right on. I got myself overtrained to 10th degree. Dear lord it sucks
I hope you were able to recover and get back to lifting!
@@happycompy I was, thank you 🙌
It is such a pleasure to listen to Dr. Mike Israetel. His manner of speaking and explaining is so understandable. This video in particular showed me the most important piece that I was omitting from my life. All my life I have been in psychological fatigue. Thank you for this extremely important video.
And he is an incredible person too, he always crank funny jokes to begin the video and trough the whole thing, it's never boring.
You are seriously such a great dad! Great advice
As always, a very helpful video. I personally have an issue with relaxing. My mind is always in overdrive. It has inhibited my progress many times. I get panic attacks and feel extremely tired after getting 8 hours of sleep or more. I need to work on relaxing. Even the idea of working on relaxing is stress inducing, but I need to relax for my own good. I need to not worry about everything and stop carrying other people's problems on my back like I think I'm a god. Thank you again for this video.
That's a strange problem i cannot understand i worry too little as i've found nothing really matters all that much everything always just works out and if it doesn't then i deal with it when the time comes thinking about it rarely achieves anything at all. Best of luck finding peace of mind
Sounds like symptoms of adhd
Thank you for the time it takes to make these videos.
The banter is great. I always tell my boss, I work to live not live to work.
So, when will the RP 1-hour long pre-sleep relaxation video be coming out with Mike humming (in a manner that won't elicit arousal)?
😂😂😂😂
THIS IS THE WAY. ❤ this channel - not just the content, but the methodology. Top tier stuff, keep it comin’
This video highlights it very well how much of a wise person Mike is
This explains a lot. The gym helps with my anxiety just to get that excessive nervous energy out but I’m often drained and exhausted mentally from work🙄
This is an awesome advice for life in general and not just to improve your workouts and one thing that should also be added, imo, is that once a week you should get away from anything electronic ( if possible ). It can be a pain in the ass at start, but once your mind gets used to it, it will put your relaxation mode into overdrive.
Also, I was really waiting, during the mind arousal part, for him to use the analogy of a 1000 yard stare or blank mind or even meditate. Cause when you're rocking in a chair outside and people are passing by, you're not really looking at people as much as you're looking "through" them and just shutting off your brain.
I love this advice. It's all pretty actionable and bang on. Now i just need to get my toddler to agree to it...
This entire video is great and we used to apply all of these principles for basic training in the US Army and the US Marine Corps and the US Coast Guard until about 2008. Then things changed dramatically
Why?
And…….What happened?
The Fire Nation attacked?
Umm... I don't remember that hour of relaxation in USMC basic. Closest thing was like an hour to remediate, hygiene, and shit. I guess that was relaxed compared to the rest of the day, but not what I would consider truly relaxing.
@@elischrock5356I'm curious to know OP's experience pre-2008. Gotta be honest, Army BCT in 2014 was a relaxation-depriving injury factory. Almost all of my lingering injuries started back then because of the horrible way they trained recruits. And I was relatively lucky compared to other recruits' injuries in our battalion. I'm imagining the USMC was the same or worse lol.
Been doing this intuitively for over a year now, so not a new concept to me.
Been in the army (not US) for over a decade now and also had a lot of stress with my husband.
I just learned how to ignore fatigue in any way.
Started to manage psychological fatigue by caring less about other peoples demands and say "no" - yeah, that was taken out of me by numerous factors. Now I detach from other people and stand up for myself again. I respect myself again. Journaling has helped me a lot there because it helped to consciously realize which patterns were running amok in my mind and didn't let me get the rest I so hard tried to get. In my case, I didn't even realize I was just doing what other people wanted, at work or in private, and I kept scolding myself for not ever being good enough. I was often left behind and whenever I uttered a need I had, a wish I had, I got ignored. But dare if I would do the same to others. Learning to not let other peoples anger get to me that took a while, but it worked. Through just writing down whatever came to mind, I brought this to the surface and then assessed these patterns and logically deconstruct them. Figure out what may emotions actually tried to signal me, what the reasoning was behind them.
I mention this because maybe some people don't realize they aren't actually relaxing even when doing relaxing things. Just a note at the side, but as was largely covered by Kahnemann, emotions are a fast way for the brain to asses information and judge situations and then react accordingly. And a lot of that happens without one actively noticing. This is a part were a therapist, with a detached observation and feedback, may help, but sometimes learning to be more conscious by various methods - like journaling - may just do the trick.
But overall, I still have to re-learn how physical fatigue feels again. For my mind to recognize that I was fatigued I needed a ton of physical stress, like climbing a mountain for an entire day with little to no food (Actually did this, wasn't good. With food, it was amazing. I felt physically burned out but mentally refreshed, lol.)
"Regular" physical fatigue, like going to the gym, usually gets ignored by my mind and I just push on and on. Went to the gym 5 days a week plus one day for a running session for about an hour... Too much and I just didn't notice. I kept wondering why I wasn't getting any better, why I was plateauing constantly and I did more and more because I was taught that there wasn't such a thing as "too much".
Took an entire week off, doing nothing much at all besides restructuring my exercise plan - as I had to change my gym this was a good time for that anyways. Now I do less trainings per week, but no split, just whole body, take two days for other things between (running and an extra session for mobility and flexibility at my home gym) and I think I make more progress than before. Focus on technique and mind-muscle connection and really teaching my mind how my body feels does wonders now. Curious where this will lead me :)
Thank you, Dr. Mike. Sincerely.
Superb advice even for non gym goers/fitness types
Just signed up for 6 months on the RP Hypertrophy app today!
Watching this video is my leisure activity. Relax, listen and learn.
Thank you Dr Mike.
This has quickly become one of my favorite channels. Dr Mike is the best. My only concern is that I’m burning through all these videos and will soon have no more to binge.
I actually had to sacrifice sleep to start doing this, because I have small children and I work every day at 4:30 am, so I used to get them down to bed at 8 pm, and then just go to sleep, but I actually started just doing a relaxation routine for about 30 to 45 min and I've found it's worth the sleep sacrifice because I get better sleep and I wake up feeling more rested. I still don't feel well rested because my kids wake me up multiple times a night, but it is making a noticeable impact on my sleep quality.
Mike's sense of humour is fantastic!
I’m a parent of two young boys, one with a behavioral disorder, and a camp counselor of kids who spends days in the sun. Psychological fatigue is a VERY REAL THING that affects training, recovery, and training motivation. I’ve had to learn to focus myself on training despite all that nonsense, and it took a few years to really get it.
Dr Mike, u planing on forming a compassionate light and airy touch group. Much needed
This is why I take 10 minutes to relax and sort of meditate and do box breathing right after training in the gym. Best thing you can do to make sure recovery starts right away.
Watching your VIDs low monotonous voice actually soothes and relaxes my monkey mind...and your dad jokes helps a lot too !
Preaching the good word of health and fitness
The sheer density of facts and banter in Dr. Mike's videos has no match.
Dr Mike is wild today!! I laughed my ass off, thanks !!!
My relaxing activities include watching Dr. Mike recommend relaxing activities. Thanks Dr. Mike!
Thank you so much for saying this!! If there's no recovery/inadequate recovery, training is a complete waste of time!!!
Also YOU'RE HILARIOUS 😂😂😂
I really appreciated the productivity tips at the end. As you probably have met and trained a lot of high performance people this holds some weight.
A quite concentration is what I look for in my relaxation. I love painting minis, building Legos, or doing puzzles. I feel like the physicality helps me relax more than electronic mediums like video games and TV. Its good to see how important that is through sport science.
how is someone this funny and informative at the same time
Two out of four of my workout days I time with my days off work , this means I can train early, then go home and eat, then l lie outside in the early sun ( I live in Queensland, suns out most days) and listen to NSDR or binaural beats ( don’t know if they actually work). It’s a great protocol I really enjoy and look forward to.
I need Doc to scream at me, "Relax! Slow! That was shit relaxing!" Then I'll relax.
AS IF ANOTHER (hour of relaxing)
Another ex military who can only relax when he is told to? 😁
@@M1keDaly Afraid not, just type A!
Excellent video Dr. Mike! I really appreciate the level of detail you get into and the science you back your positions with, especially in contrast to the “pop science” junk all over the internet. You video on the WHO classifying aspartame as a carcinogen was excellent; I was tearing my imaginary hair out explaining to people what the newsbite ACTUALLY meant.
Back to this video, I’ve been taking this advice more recently and focusing on rest and recovery. The fatigue difference as well as energy levels during workouts are noticeable!
This was so insightful I forgot it's about training until he mentioned it again at the end of the video
I've been watching for a few months now since I was a Jonni Shreve fan for a good while. Today, Mikes sense of humour clicked with me in this video and I love it haha
About to start working on my MBA in a couple of weeks, on top of working full time in a very demanding career, maintaining/fixing up my house, rehabbing a shoulder injury, rehabbing my core/back, and trying to fit in some training and family time. Feeling a bit overwhelmed, so this is very timely and helpful.
this is a crucial video, so many people live their lives without being intentional about relaxing
Garmin's Body Battery metric is freaking great at showing this and combining the two. Paying attention to this was a huge change in my recovery and pacing. And yup...a good session of tea (gong fu) and reading before bed takes about an hour, hydrates, and gets me down to relaxed for best sleep.
Sometimes I can get it in the middle of the day too, but only if I avoid snacking successfully.
I absolutely enjoy and appreciate what you say in nearly every video you post! Thank you!
This makes sense and is relevant for me. I have PTSD and I am in trauma therapy getting treated with EMDR. After I see my therapist, I go to the gym. The gym is my bliss, I will be in there for two or three hours sometimes. After an EMDR session where we have to go over some real uncomfortable shit, I only last in the gym for about an hour…..the therapy sessions just leave me drained. It would seem mind and body are intertwined. Shameless plug was duly noted btw…..I am curious about this app he keeps prattling on about……dammit.
Can’t get enough of this guy, so funny.
I dont even do bodybuilding or powerlifting style workouts, but all the videos this guy makes are a fucking goldmine of info. Understanding training fatigue has greatly improved my quality of life 😃
Fell asleep listening to this. Thanks!!
Good a time as ever to get a massage folks. Best thing you can do for yourself in this regard in my opinion. Not everyday mind you and nowhere near that, but taking into consideration the benefits discussed in this video and the benefits of massage therapy, I highly recommend having a treatment every once in a while.
6:26 HAHAAA!! Love Dr. Mike for real!!❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
Right on time coach/doc 👌🏼
I fucking love you Dr.Isratel
You've got a great, listenable voice!
I love the way you talk sheet about everybody. It's funny because it's true.
Dr Mike helped me understand it much more than all the other zealots on the Internet. Thank you Dr Mike!
Can I have "Thank you Dr Mike" T-Shirt is size XL (to fit in it eventually), please!
This channel is so awesome
Another arousing video as usual Dr. Mike!
At first I wasn't sure about Mike's humor. That lasted a few minutes before I realized that he wasn't trying too hard, and that he has a very particular dry,, silly sense of it. One of the few people on earth that crack me up regularly. Yes, sometimes he forces a dick joke where it shouldn't be, but nobody's perfect. For the most part the humor is top notch! Thanks for making me laugh.
Oh! Most importantly Dr. Mike is based as fuck. It keeps me sane to see people that say what they want despite the fear peddled by the collectivist for correct speech.
Petition for Dr. Mike and Ryan Humiston podcast. Life changing insights. I am in debt to these 2 individuals that I will never be able to repay, but will pay it forward to guide others in whom I love in my community.
Mike in blue jumper is my favorite Mike. He looks so adorable 🥰🥰
Thanks for this Dr. Mike. Im on a stressful moment right now and im trying to squeeze workout and sometimes even before starting i feel so tired that i find excuse to skip them.
Great video Mike
I needed to hear this
I would love a paypal option for the RP hypertrophy app. And i was wondering if there also could be a buy for life option instead of a subscription. Love to hear from guys and keep up the good work 💪
Love your channel
Three awesome kids a wife a life and work. Without a schedule I could not workout. I’m not complaining I just don’t can’t fit in relaxing more than an hour sometimes two before bed. Ahhh love my life🎉! But I’m doing a lot and the burnout is coming!
Dr Mike suggesting i watch more arrested development for the gains! This is the best doc prescription since getting my medical Marijuana card (i have since given up the jazz cabbage but never lucile bluth).
This is just good advice in general. Everyone should be doing this even if you don’t workout .(assuming you have the luxury and privileges )
You're awesome brother, just subbed
Timing 👌
I need this.
Thats just amazing content
Not just for training, but for work and life
I feel I must be grinding all the time and that sucks
It doesnt even equals to more production
Thanks, doc
Some of the best information thank you
3:02 "Ya wife man, like God intended." 🤣 I love this channel.
Your humor is top tier! I wasnt expecting till laugh before the 3:30 mark
I've been in engineering school for 5 years, have 1 year left (I regret doing a thesis every day). I've been frustrated for years as to why I've been stagnant in my training for the last few years. I attributed it to stress and inconsistent of sleep. I'm glad to know there's research backing up my hunch that mental fatigue can contribute significantly to physical fatigue.
To quote Dr. Mike, "Sometimes an hour of reading a book can be far more taxing on the nervous system than lifting weights for an hour"
I love the dig at Huberman's staring at the sun thing lolol. Sure go ahead it may feel good or get you to sleep better but say hello to cataracts at a fairly young age.
Bloody digging the new setup and background looks great
Also great video
RP videos are relaxing
Love your definition of work-life balance. Also:
"Who the hell takes an hour at 3PM and then gets back to work at 4PM?" *Spaniards awake from their siesta*
I’m a lorry driver and the psychological fatigue from driving hours a day plus the inactivity defo affects recovery
I feel like I say a similar thing every time I comment on one of your videos but it still astounds me in your videos the amount I consecutively learn and laugh my ass off 😂
This is gold not only for sports but life in general ❤(no arousal indended)
Lol I live in the country, my cabin, land and peace is awesome. I am retired at 40 although I obviously continue to work for fun. The fact that I do not have to work and I have all the time in the world, I sleep for a couple of hours in the afternoon and put all my focus on my workouts ( once every 3 to 4 days ). The other days I go do the household type stuff but, on workout days I do nothing but hit the program and chill.
This video was amazing. I have since subscribed :) Awesome, informative and educational. Love it!
Very interesting video on psychology of all things. I didn't even click on this video, but I'm glad I found it
I work 7-7 and take a 2.5 hour break from 11-1:30pm. I eat lunch, go to the pool and take a nap and then I’m energized to go back to work.
If you have the means I highly suggest trying it out
I'm 46 and have been training for more than 30 years. It's been a long and hard realization since about 40 that I need to put more and more emphasis on relaxation and rehabilitation. I get a lot of injuries and my whole body is more exhausted if I work out more than 3 times a week. I don't do splits anymore but just do a whole body workout because I can focus on resting on the other 4 days in the week.
DHEA has actually helped me quite a bit. I don't get huge muscles from it, but I get more relaxed and have noticed better recovery when I take it.
Great stuff Mike - I'm a new listening/subscriber. You're absolutely hilarious. I think I missed something - I'm not seeing any contradictions between Huberman's neuroscience and your sport physiology on how relaxation is significant for mental health, recuperation, cognitive performance, etc. I'd love to hear more on this. I also love listening to interviews Peter Attia has with other health-related scientists. Besides your books, are your podcasts coming to Audible?
Love your work man, thank you for the content.
Thank you for the info