120: Do You Suffer From Itchy Nose Syndrome - a podcast by By Jonathan Chant - Answers Your Fitness & Exercise Questions So You Can Li

There's this type of martial arts training called Iron Vest Training. Iron Vest Training is this training where you get beaten with a small stick or piece of wicker until your body starts to become bruised and bloodied. Then you let your body heal and once you’re healed you get beaten with a slightly larger stick until you become bruised and bloody. Then you let your body heal again and you go back and you get beaten with an even bigger stick until your bruised and bloody. You keep doing this over and over again until your body starts to adapt and eventually the smaller sticks no longer leave you bruised and bloodied, but you continue to get hit with bigger and bigger sticks. Over time you build up such a big tolerance that even the big sticks no longer leave bruises or make you bloodied and it is at this point you obtain iron vest status where your body can actually withstand huge amounts of pressure and force without becoming injured and hardly feeling pain. The purpose of exercise is to do the exact same thing to your body, to break it down a little bit and let it heal back up and then break it down little bit more and then let it heal back up and then eventually your body becomes a machine that is incredibly difficult to break down, where you can now do workouts that used to make you vomit, without much effort at all,  this is an episode about the exact opposite of that. 

 

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