Chris Masterjohn

Actual like functional mechanical activity like if you optimize for functional mechanical activity such that you can swing around from acrobat From a trapeze and flip around in the air and swing on rings and push yourself up and stuff like that Does that?

pay forward into better immune function because your body is more properly structured.

I can't prove that, but I think it's very interesting to think about for those two exercises.

And then, it is very interesting to me that gymnasts and pole vaulters both spend a lot of time upside down.

And they don't stay upside down for very long, but they just, they repeatedly are upside down quite a bit, right?

And so,

This is, again, this is all just hypothesizing interesting ideas, right?

So one interesting idea is that

A vibration plate is the sedentary man's gymnastics.

And that flipping upside down is better at circulating body fluids than walking.

And like a vibration plate is better than walking, but actually spending time in the upside down state and flipping around is actually very good for circulating the fluids in your body.

I can't prove any of this, but it's all very interesting to think about.

What I conclude from this is you don't want to get sucked into just optimizing VO2 max or something like that.

The lesson from the gymnast is what are all the things that a gymnast can do that I can't do?

I should be able to approximate them in the best way that I can.

I take that a little bit more, more literally.

So I, I actually do like, uh, I am trying to convert all my workouts into like, what's the gymnastic version of this.

Um, and you think it's because of flipping?

Right.

And I, I think that, I think that, I think that, yes.