Been catching up with some interesting info in interviews with the illustrious Dr. Mercola regarding short burst, high intensity exercise and Human Growth Hormone (HGH).
Dr. Mercola is extremely interested in this style of exercise, and in his interview with Phil Campbell, an expert in high twitch and low twitch muscle fibers, he mentions Sprint 8 and other exercises of short, intense duration which creates high secretion levels of HGH in the body (no matter what the age). It is stressed that fast intense movements, (and fast-twitch muscle fibers) of short duration are the ones that create high levels of HGH.
This is exactly the method of VRT I have been applying lately, flexing hard, but moving FAST and intense, the kind that gets me extremely out of breath, and I can visibly see the difference that HGH makes, versus the slow heavy methods of exercise, or long duration aerobics like distance running which do not create these levels of HGH but are nevertheless healthy from an exercise viewpoint.
You can listen to the video here:
http://visionfitness.mercola.com/?e_...127_FNL_ban_HL
Greg Mangan
VRT Man
Friday, February 3, 2012
Thursday, May 5, 2011
VRT & NLP
Neuro-Linguistic Programming, commonly labeled NLP, allows a person to put themselves into the proper "state" of the most successful outcome of an experience. A state of mind can spell failure or success. Imitation of the physiology of a successful state will also program the mind to be there. The physiology puts the mind into the right frame of thinking. As William James said, "thought follows action, and action follows thought."
For example, if someone had you line up to shoot a basketball into a hoop, they could say, "do ya remember the best shot you ever made? Can you put that thought into your mind?" You would answer, "Sure, I can do that." "Then put yourself into the state of mind of that shot. Really, stand the way you would stand during that shot. Breath the way you would breath during that shot. Lay your hands on the ball the way you would with that shot. Picture in your mind the things you would picture to obtain that perfect shot you took. Move your body they way you would move it to make that shot."
Thus, one is put into a perfect physiological "state of mind" for that successful shot. Whether it's a basketball shot, a perfect pitch on a baseball diamond, the perfect shot of an arrow from a bow, a winning wrestling match, a perfect score on a test, the perfect speech, the best day ever at the office, or what have you, matching physiology is the key to success.
--Greg Mangan
"VRT Man"
For example, if someone had you line up to shoot a basketball into a hoop, they could say, "do ya remember the best shot you ever made? Can you put that thought into your mind?" You would answer, "Sure, I can do that." "Then put yourself into the state of mind of that shot. Really, stand the way you would stand during that shot. Breath the way you would breath during that shot. Lay your hands on the ball the way you would with that shot. Picture in your mind the things you would picture to obtain that perfect shot you took. Move your body they way you would move it to make that shot."
Thus, one is put into a perfect physiological "state of mind" for that successful shot. Whether it's a basketball shot, a perfect pitch on a baseball diamond, the perfect shot of an arrow from a bow, a winning wrestling match, a perfect score on a test, the perfect speech, the best day ever at the office, or what have you, matching physiology is the key to success.
--Greg Mangan
"VRT Man"
Friday, February 18, 2011
Results Worth Sharing
**The Following Post is from "DO Trainee" on my Transformetrics Forum**
Greetings gang,
I wanted to share with you a new, though not surprising breakthrough in my VRT training. Since June of last year, I have been working on a training protocol that has been 98% VRT training (especially for my upper body. During this period of time, there have only been about 6 days of power cals. I will admit where my lower body is concerned, I have been doing TBSs to gain endurance with my legs.
Since taking on this protocol, I have done several types of experimentation with my VRT workouts: high intensity, high reps, Tiger Moves, super sets, etc. One move in particular I have been doing religiously is a VRT bench press, currently in reps of 40 with the highest intensity possible during those reps.
Last fall, around early September, I attempted a GUTS routine to see where my level of fitness was within the recommendations of John Peterson. Though I can't remember all the repetition numbers, I know that when I attempted military pushups my first set was only a set of 23 pushups. After completing the rest of the GUTS routine and it was time for the next set of pushups, I could only crank out about 11 before I was creeping and crawling my way up from muscle fatigue (I just didn't have the nervous force or the energy to generate any more repetitions, along with breathing as if I had run from hyenas).
Fast forward to two days ago when I made the decision to start adding power cals into my VRT routines. After countless lectures on the benefits of cardiovascular health (I'm a med student) I felt that it was something I needed to make a priority alongside my strength training. I decided to have another GUTS workout, and to my surprise I snapped off 30 pushups with absolutely no problem, followed by 21 pushups towards the end of the routine. My last, most tiring set was almost as many reps as when I started in September, and between then I had not done ANY PUSHUPS WHATSOEVER.
Once again, another testimony of the power you can achieve when you decide to build your muscles from the inside out without relying on outside forces (even the influence of gravity) to do your work for you.
For wisdom and truth,
DOtrainee
Greetings gang,
I wanted to share with you a new, though not surprising breakthrough in my VRT training. Since June of last year, I have been working on a training protocol that has been 98% VRT training (especially for my upper body. During this period of time, there have only been about 6 days of power cals. I will admit where my lower body is concerned, I have been doing TBSs to gain endurance with my legs.
Since taking on this protocol, I have done several types of experimentation with my VRT workouts: high intensity, high reps, Tiger Moves, super sets, etc. One move in particular I have been doing religiously is a VRT bench press, currently in reps of 40 with the highest intensity possible during those reps.
Last fall, around early September, I attempted a GUTS routine to see where my level of fitness was within the recommendations of John Peterson. Though I can't remember all the repetition numbers, I know that when I attempted military pushups my first set was only a set of 23 pushups. After completing the rest of the GUTS routine and it was time for the next set of pushups, I could only crank out about 11 before I was creeping and crawling my way up from muscle fatigue (I just didn't have the nervous force or the energy to generate any more repetitions, along with breathing as if I had run from hyenas).
Fast forward to two days ago when I made the decision to start adding power cals into my VRT routines. After countless lectures on the benefits of cardiovascular health (I'm a med student) I felt that it was something I needed to make a priority alongside my strength training. I decided to have another GUTS workout, and to my surprise I snapped off 30 pushups with absolutely no problem, followed by 21 pushups towards the end of the routine. My last, most tiring set was almost as many reps as when I started in September, and between then I had not done ANY PUSHUPS WHATSOEVER.
Once again, another testimony of the power you can achieve when you decide to build your muscles from the inside out without relying on outside forces (even the influence of gravity) to do your work for you.
For wisdom and truth,
DOtrainee
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
The 'Ab Doer' and Visualized Resistance
After observing many informercials on the world's latest ab thingy, called the "Ab Doer", I gave it a test. Not in real life, mind you. But in a VRT sense. Let me tell you what happened.
The ab doer is an expensive little machine in which one sits on a seat, and holds a horizontal cross-bar behind their neck (actually a little above the head), with handles on each end, and the vertical trunk that connects this cross-bar goes down behind the user's back to the seat, and can twist in any direction under the tension of a spring. So the purpose of it is, the user twists to and fro and every which direction, and the tension in this behind the back trunk-like spring provides resistance to the mid-section, thus making one spent and winded after performing this for several minutes. And they show off tons of models sporting the six-packs they got from it.
So after watching this TV commercial several times, I applied it, with flexion in my midsection; and I imagined I held a broomstick horizontally behind my neck, and I twisted right, left, backwards and forwards, all under visualized resistance to the abdominal area; and lo and behold, I found myself winded, tired, and with a tingling burn in my abdominal area!!
Now this WORKS. Try this with nothing but the tension from the flexion of your abdominal muscles. Imagine holding a broomstick behind your neck, or hold a real broomstick to get the feel of it, sit on the edge of a chair, and twist in every conceivable direction; forward, backwards, and to the sides. After one week of this in the mornings for five or so minutes, my abs are noticeably tighter, and I've pulled in my belt a full inch and 1/2.
If only the world knew.
Greg Mangan
VRT Man
The ab doer is an expensive little machine in which one sits on a seat, and holds a horizontal cross-bar behind their neck (actually a little above the head), with handles on each end, and the vertical trunk that connects this cross-bar goes down behind the user's back to the seat, and can twist in any direction under the tension of a spring. So the purpose of it is, the user twists to and fro and every which direction, and the tension in this behind the back trunk-like spring provides resistance to the mid-section, thus making one spent and winded after performing this for several minutes. And they show off tons of models sporting the six-packs they got from it.
So after watching this TV commercial several times, I applied it, with flexion in my midsection; and I imagined I held a broomstick horizontally behind my neck, and I twisted right, left, backwards and forwards, all under visualized resistance to the abdominal area; and lo and behold, I found myself winded, tired, and with a tingling burn in my abdominal area!!
Now this WORKS. Try this with nothing but the tension from the flexion of your abdominal muscles. Imagine holding a broomstick behind your neck, or hold a real broomstick to get the feel of it, sit on the edge of a chair, and twist in every conceivable direction; forward, backwards, and to the sides. After one week of this in the mornings for five or so minutes, my abs are noticeably tighter, and I've pulled in my belt a full inch and 1/2.
If only the world knew.
Greg Mangan
VRT Man
Friday, February 26, 2010
The Importance of Fidelity
The importance of fidelity. Faithfulness. Semper Fidelus: the Marine Corp anthem of "always faithful." Faithful to a cause celebre, to an organization, to a lifestyle, to a marriage, to a faith, to a country. I'm talking about honor to a cause, to a way, to a goal, literally a constructive channel of thought. This channel of thought gives mankind a purpose, a sense of value, a reason to live, a reason to go on.
Without it, a man is directionless, a wayward wandering ship on the ocean, without a destination, breaking the lonely waves without a way home.
Whatever the direction a man chooses, stick with it; put a goal on attaining it, and strive, with all the desires of your heart, to get there, whatever it may be....to a goal, to a cause, to a destination.
Greg Mangan
Without it, a man is directionless, a wayward wandering ship on the ocean, without a destination, breaking the lonely waves without a way home.
Whatever the direction a man chooses, stick with it; put a goal on attaining it, and strive, with all the desires of your heart, to get there, whatever it may be....to a goal, to a cause, to a destination.
Greg Mangan
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Qi Gong and VRT -- My Version
Qi Gong is more or less an ancient relative of VRT, and I have combined the two to make an exciting, muscle-building, breath-taking exercise that has moved me to a high energy plane.
First of all, I stand in a horse-stance, and move all my muscles around in various directions, including the knee joints, under COMPLETE FLEXION as hard as possible.
I move the arms in a bowstring-pulling fashion (as an archer would), then raise them skyward under tension, and lower the two of them in a pull-up fashion, under tension; and with stomach sucked in, I flex and twist my torso, as though writhing and dancing fashionably to a rock 'n' roll song; I close my outstretched arms in in front of my chest, and cross them, then move them back out behind me and then downward, all under tension; I move my head around under tension of a flexed neck; and finally do pretend-curls and tricep presses under tension, but only a few times, always moving and writhing around, ALWAYS under tension.
If a person were to watch me doing this, it would look somewhat strange, so I often do it alone; but within a minute of doing this, I am out of breath, panting, and need to take a break. All muscles in the body have been moved under tension, and the exercise is exhilarating and will make you feel years younger when done on a regular basis.
Greg Mangan
VRT Man
First of all, I stand in a horse-stance, and move all my muscles around in various directions, including the knee joints, under COMPLETE FLEXION as hard as possible.
I move the arms in a bowstring-pulling fashion (as an archer would), then raise them skyward under tension, and lower the two of them in a pull-up fashion, under tension; and with stomach sucked in, I flex and twist my torso, as though writhing and dancing fashionably to a rock 'n' roll song; I close my outstretched arms in in front of my chest, and cross them, then move them back out behind me and then downward, all under tension; I move my head around under tension of a flexed neck; and finally do pretend-curls and tricep presses under tension, but only a few times, always moving and writhing around, ALWAYS under tension.
If a person were to watch me doing this, it would look somewhat strange, so I often do it alone; but within a minute of doing this, I am out of breath, panting, and need to take a break. All muscles in the body have been moved under tension, and the exercise is exhilarating and will make you feel years younger when done on a regular basis.
Greg Mangan
VRT Man
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