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What he's doing is exercise. He's working a muscle to exhaustion, which is essentially weightlifting without the weights. I guess the value is that he's found
by jcl 16y ago
What he's doing is exercise. He's working a muscle to exhaustion, which is essentially weightlifting without the weights. I guess the value is that he's found a simple workout that gets the results he needs in eight minutes a day with no equipment.
It would be interesting to find out if he would get better or worse results through cardio instead of working a muscle to exhaustion, and whether or not it is important that the legs be that muscle. Some people suffer from restless legs syndrome which keeps them from achieving deep sleep, and maybe exercising the legs is countering this.
(I wish there was some way he could experiment that wasn't subject to the placebo effect, though, which makes the results moot when applied to anyone else.)
- keiferski 16y agoWell, yeah. It just seems a little strange (and likely less efficient) to do leg raises, when a decent workout of real exercises would be just as easy and more effective. Even if you stick to the legs, exercises like bootstrappers, squats, and lunges would be significantly better.
- peterwwillis 16y ago(see above comment) dynamic exercise is only more effective at increasing muscle twitch force. isometrics will be more effective at increasing strength at joint angle. for example, i could do more squats in a minute (up to 90) after i did isometric holds vs before.
- keiferski 16y agoFair enough. I just didn't get the impression that the OP took an exercise approach to his experiment. It seemed less isometrics and more "I'm gonna stand on one leg until I get tired."