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Metabolism manu !mPVQxchC5E
Hello /fit/,

can you tell me aspects and ways which will benefit my metabolism? I'm not aiming to lose fat or somesuch, but I want to have more endurance during high intensity/explosive workout, such as tricking or breakdancing, since I run out of power pretty quick when I do it. (which is natural for those kinds of excercises, I know, but I want to improve it since I feel that I run out of power way faster than others)

Well, when I pause for a minute I can go again, my muscles aren't sore but simply weak away the more I combo until I can't even hold a handstand anymore (which is very easy for me normally)
That's why I think it has to be my metabolism, the muscles supply with nutrients is too slow and so I wear out too fast.

Well I usually try to not eat for at least an hour, usually two hours before I do sports as if I don't, I feel kind of 'down' since the abdomen's probably still working.
I only drink water before and while excercising and eat no other boosters like sugar before/while training.

Otherwise, my general diet pretty much sucks, although I do eat a salad here and there, I have around 2-5 meals a day, sometimes less, sometimes more, as such I don't have regular times to eat, either. No Breakfast most days because I got no time in the morning and am too lazy to prepare it in the evening before. And most fast food I eat is even healthier than what I get at home. (sad but true)

So having a better diet would be one obvious way to improve it, but seeing that I can't just change it radically, I ask you if there are other ways which will also benefit me.

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>> Anonymous
try increasing your anerobic endurance. sprints and hiit. maybe your diet just sucks in general also. maybe the jews didn't do 9/11. sometimes it gets hard to say.
>> Anonymous
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It's not your "metabolism" in that it's not the fault of your BMR that your strength endurance gives out. What's letting you down is strength and anaerobic endurance.

tl:dr; Grow stronger!

tl;dr:
>> manu !mPVQxchC5E
>>42843
well I kind of want to do that, no? Would like to know of effective ways to do it. If it was just doing stuff and waiting for it to improve, I'm doing that already...
>> Anonymous
Your metabolism and your endurance are to different things. Metabolism is how much energy your body burns to sustain itself. Endurance is how long it can maintain an increased heart rate.

You'll just have to condition yourself to whatever it is you're trying to do. Keep practicing and aiming to last a little bit longer than the last time.

And please, PLEASE, if they're one thing you can do to improve your health, eat some breakfast. Your body needs fuel first thing in the morning, when your system has been empty for a long time.
>> Anonymous
>>42852
How long are your training sessions? If we're talking about hours of strenuous work you might get ahead with some carbs while training.
>> manu !mPVQxchC5E
>>42849
I'm speaking about combos that affect the whole body, not about doing one muscle group explosively. The strength is always still there, but then I wear out, feel like lying on the ground and sleep, after some seconds to a minute it's perfectly fine, again. I don't believe it's strength endurance, just because that feels different to me. This is a whole body thing, strength endurance effects a muscle that is being used.. no?
>> Anonymous
>>42859
no, you're a fucking idiot.

your body moves due to muscles. lol, strength endurance is teh muscle thing yes/no? why is it one muscle thing, and not applicable to all the muscles that move your body, stupid head? maybe you lack strength endurance across the board. christ.
>> manu !mPVQxchC5E
>>42854
I think that metabolism is one part of endurance, and I think the others; lung capacity and strength, are sufficient at for me, at this moment. But thinking about it, it might aswell be a shortage on oxygen... Doesn't feel like it, but it's still possible.

>>42857
hmm, usually around two to three hours of constant excercise, but I usually don't do any strength training, though, so it's mostly cardio, even though I do around 50% training 50% resting inbetween because it's still high intensity.

I might try it, what would you recommend eating during training? But I have my doubts whether this is the problem, since I'm fine a minute later, again. Still thinking my body just can't keep up with pumping nutritions into the blood, and/or the muscles can't retrieve them fast enough...
>> Anonymous
>>42859
Strength endurance is the ability to "express" (God what a horrible term) strength in a given muscle or movement at a given level of strength without weakening. Think about a guy who can pick up a 200lb sack of gravel fifty times. Among other qualities, he shows great strength endurance.

What you're seeing is your muscles' inability to hold a certain level of performance. That could be affected by almost anything from anaerobic conditioning to lactic acid threshold to sleep deprivation.

Congratulations, you have a specific goal and a nonspecific complaint. You've reached the voodoo stage of training. We all reach this point WRT one of our goals. Your only hope is to start changing things in your training plan one at a time and keep track of those changes. As your performance increases/stagnates/decreases, your records will allow you to customize your training to fit your needs. If it makes you feel high-speed you can call it cybernetic periodization.

Tighten up your eating, listen to your body, increase your strength levels. Go from there.
>> Anonymous
>>42864
If you can stomach it, try honey packets. You can steal them by the fistful at KFC.
>> manu !mPVQxchC5E
>>42866
Hmm, let's say I do a 100m sprint, all the way out, and then immediately after that I try to perform a handstand, but my arms can't 'express' strength because I am exhausted, is that strength endurance? Because I havn't used the arms much, the muscles aren't really exhausted, it's because there's no more oxygen/nutrients ready to be used available. At least that's as much as I figure, always correct me if I'm wrong, I want to learn not be a dumbass...
>> Anonymous
>>42872
no, you're a dumbass. i'm not even sure what your point is. what part of 'endurance' do you not the fuck understand?

you came here looking for the answer you wanted to hear i think.
>> manu !mPVQxchC5E
>>42879
I'm trying to break the endurance down and improve it by improving it's aspects. Simply doing stuff and waiting for it to get better simply doesn't do it for me. I thought anon had ideas which could help me improve, but I don't need "train your fucking endurance" posts... I know that myself, and trying with aswell as without tips. sheesh...
>> Anonymous
>>42872
No, that isn't strength endurance.

What you've got there is a situation where you've got mad oxygen debt. After a 100m sprint, your CNS will also be more than a little taxed. You won't be able to use your full strength and your movement patterns will be all hosed up.

My first thought would be to increase your strength levels across the board. If A>B, then .5A>.5B, you follow? You could also work on circuits with short recovery times (shuttle runs to pushups to shuttle runs and back again) to improve your recovery.

It's been a long fucking time since I read any sport science, I'm giving you the best I can.
>> Anonymous
>>42887
strength endurance means the muscle is able to express strength for longer. foolio. jesus christ, it isn't that hard to understand.
>> Anonymous
Check out conditioning routines for fighters.
>> manu !mPVQxchC5E
>>42906
it simply isn't what I'm looking for >_>
Yes I want to better my endurance, and yes I know what strength endurance is. I want to improve my overall power output >duration/recovery<, I don't want to do 500 pushups, but I want to be able to, ideally, constantly move without pausing at around 80 to 90%. (not likely without pausing, but sure as hell improvable)
aren't there any capoeristas or breakers here?
>>42897
now when I do a combo, the intensity isn't nearly that of a sprint, but I wear out way faster and come crawling out after 5 seconds in. While it is normal that you can't do this stuff for long, I want to improve it because I feel that more is possible.
Just read up on Shuttle and HIIT, will try to do both more or less regularly, then.
>> manu !mPVQxchC5E
>>42912
thanks anon, facepalm because I didn't do so myself, already. First result at google already sounded promising.