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Paul Devine's avatar

I do love a sled push too but I’d have any sort of carry instead in my top ten. I don’t do interval training but do small game training instead- 5 aside football twice a week with friends is more fun than HIIT!

Ben Howard BSc, MSc's avatar

I nearly put carries in! Decided on the deadlifts instead, but great shout.

Team sports/SSGs are a great way to get some high intensity exercise in. Just because it's not called 'HIIT', doesn't mean it's not 'HIIT' 😁 and like you say, more social and more fun!

Overturn Wickard v Filburn's avatar

Brother, my health arc has improved. I don't integrate all of those little things you have in your articles, but I have incorporated a cold shower within minutes of awakening and a trip to the porch to watch the sunrise. The rest of them trickle in; my brain can only take so many process amendments at any one time.

That said, I have watched a friend suffer for over two years, diagnosed with the mumps, then rheumatoid arthritis, then maybe a microbial thing contracted at the Grand Canyon, then some mystery ailment requiring a 30 day hospital stay, then a lymphoma diagnosis, then add an esophageal issue diagnosed from an aside he mentioned to an ER doctor and for which they put him NPO for FOUR days. He has gone from a 6'2" 190 pounds to a 6'2" 95. He still trusts those corporate doctors. working in a corporate hospital that have made a million bucks with all the tests, meds, chemotherapies and tubes going into his body. For months, I have been helping with his in-home paracentesis (SP?) because he builds up a liter or two of juice in his gut every couple of days, making him even more miserable than he already was. By the by, they would not do the paracentesis during his last hospital stay, so as the attending walked in and watched me doing it, the doctor did not bat an eye at some old jarhead performing a medical procedure in his hospital.

I have told my wife, barring a bellweather change in medicine, please let me die at home from whatever is going to get me. May that not happen for a thousand years. My buddy is a cash cow to these people with all these billable procedures and stuff, and I will not be one.

Frontload the cold showers, exercise, dietary changes to correct the metabolic problems the standard American diet gives us all, and don't die by increment hooked up to a bunch of machines that go, "bing," and where your buddy gets to change your diaper for you because the nurse did not answer the button pushed 45 minutes ago.