Meditation. The best way I can think of.

You could go for yoga, but for me, I'm already lifting about 9000KG on an average session. So that's about 19-20,000KG a day, so I definitely want my rest. (Those Chinese, Russian, Kazak, Bulgarian Olympic champion lifts between 48,000(Female)-70,000KG daily) so I'll stick with meditation and breathing techniques. There's this book "Mind and Body Fitness" which I read which teaches you how to focus yourself during training and how to clear your mind and neural pathways after training, to ensure your mind gets enough rest.

To be honest, my body's constantly sore. SO much so that it's become a part of me and I don't actually feel the soreness anymore.  Then as competitions come closer, we taper to heavier weights and lesser reps, and I get to rest more, the body recovers during this time and suddenly you feel a lot faster and lighter which is good lah.

This is what I learned during my researches and during the sports massage certification lah. Doctors will say it doesn't work, but when people feel better, science can go fugg off.

Massage, has relations to trigger points, adhesion, the fascia, blood flow and nutrients, deep heat, tangled muscle strands, lumps and tightness in the muscles. Often lack of stretching causes plenty of tightness in the muscle, so things become tight and tangled. What we massage therapists do is, we get deep into your tight muscles which you yourself cannot press because of pain factors, and we locate trigger points to release the strain in these areas. Then sometimes, people pinch a nerve and this causes strain. Massage releases these pinches. We have techniques such as friction, BXF, circling, kneading to help relieve the pain. Often, I don't understand why people go for certain shops that are famed for painful massage.

They manipulate your JOINTS in an unnatural angle. That's just akin to going to a Jiujitsu class. You want to relieve your muscles when massaging. Of course you'll feel better after they do this though. They've stretched you out and asked for RM100 for that. You could pay for 3 months of Jiujitsu class if you're looking for painful stretching methods. And people say it's expensive when I charge RM80 for a whole body massage. Ludicrous.

As for your burping, it's just you relaxing and your release gases. Which btw, isn't a good thing. Burping and farting just goes to show that you've not digested your food properly, and it's become rotten in your stomach and is released in the form of gas and horrid smelling poo

The human body's way more complex than you think. The theory is that we were built to run, fight, hunt. Then we began living a sedentary lifestyle. We can progress so much in such a short period of time. Remember about paleolithic lifestyle? Hunt, kill, eat, have sex, sleep, repeat. It wasn't that many years ago when we were hacking away at stone to make into knives. Today, we're exploring the universe in search of a distant relative. Our minds, thoughts, culture have evolved, but our bodies cannot evolve so quickly.

Also, I've been reading and recently came with a little logical thinking. Even if our bodies can evolve as fast as culture did, only ONE generation ago, our fathers were still working the hard life in the ships, in the farms. Two generations ago, our grandfathers were travelling to seek a better life for themselves. The human DNA cannot possibly change that quickly.

That is why we cannot modify our diets too differently from how it was originally. We shouldn't reduce our activities to the point where our only exercise is brushing our teeth. Yet many do this, which is why we see the people that end in in The Biggest Loser. That's why, when I train someone, I ensure that their activities are as closely related to the original motives and actions of our grandfathers.



Look at his body. It's muscular, but not bulky. I'm sure he can fight and hunt. He's vascular enough without using Nitrogen Oxide (NO) His quads and calves are very well developed. He's got a good straight posture. His rectus femoris and vastus lateralis muscles are even an well developed as well. Most importantly, notice his abs. It isn't concave. That's what we always say. Abs aren't meant to be concave. It's meant to be either flat or slightly protruding with muscle. We're trying to protect a spine here, not look so sexy but topple the moment a fly lands on our spine.

And running shoes. The Tarahumaratribe of North Mexico run for kilometers with no ill effects and run till late into their lives. They don't even use shoes. In fact, in a book "Born to run", it's believed that shoes may be the reason we suffer so many issues with our knees and joints when running.

Noooo... If your abs are strong, it doesn't matter if it's flat or what. That's for normal people. It's fine to be flat.

However, when you're like, lifting heavy weights like powerlifters, strongmen, weightlifters, and looks are not as important, it'd be best to allow your abs to grow. Or if you're like a fighter, a thick core can protect your internal organs better than a thin waist.

Before anybody debates with me about how you can have slim flat abs and be strong, I'm not talking about average strength people. I'm talking about maximal super strength athletes.




See? That kinda abs, super strong, thick ones that protect the core when lifting insane weights. Then compare to this

When you digest something completely, the food is gone. There's nothing to emit the gases. When there's undigested food, it spoils and turns rotten, and releases a gas. I THINK it's called methane. No it can't be. Methane is in your poo. A particular gas lah. I can't remember every single thing I've read, but basically it rots and releases a gas (If I could I'd be named Peta byte)

This is the gas that comes out of your ass and mouth when you burp.

Also ...some argue, that undigested food can also cause Botulism caused by bacteria (Clostridium botulinum) which causes you to get some major tummy ache. I'm not quite sure about that, but I'd rather have all my food digested to be honest. It's bad enough that I waste quite a bit just because of homeostasis and now if you're telling me I can't digest everything because I've got low acid levels, that'll suck even more.

As for the build up of gas from certain foods...they may have larger "space" between them. This space, stores gas. I think nitrogen. (As you can see, I never memorized my homework which is why I can't ever get the chemical names right) As it's digested, it releases the air that runs down our intestinal tract and is released out. That's ANOTHER theory. Then there's ONE more theory. When we eat food, especially carbs, it cannot be digested fully in the stomach and small intenstines. Then bacteria feeds on it, and hey presto! Fermentation and GAS!

I think all these bloody theories have a certain amount of truth to them. However, if you don't have digestive problems, you probably don't have to bother so much about these stuff..