In short, getting extra oxygen to your brain indeed does increase your practical intelligence and the best way to do this is to breath throaty, lungs-emptying exhales. It [ the oxygen reserve ] also lightens and relaxes your mood, obsoleting a ton of non-constructive, inefficient mind-up-lifting routines.

Breath deep and maintain it. Once you stop, the oxygen bottleneck will return, once again hard-limiting your brain functions such as idea generation abilities and outright trashing your mood by making you feel extra bored and extra frustrated even when you are doing mind-refreshing, somewhat enjoyable things.

Keep breathing. Breath deep. You have to try and learn it yourself. Mastering the persistence required for constant deep breathing requires extensive conditioning, unconditioning and loads of training. You will, however, get immediate benefits from the throat breathing itself. It is the persistence for being able to constantly pull it off and maintain it that takes the practice. Deep breath all you like. All it does is to burn extra calories and dry up your mouth and body much faster, though most non-Africans consider that a benefit rather than a cost at this point.

Breath boldly and everywhere, muh bois.

[TBF] In short, it never gets easy. If you want an easy challenge, try waiting for your death. You cannot fail at that. Everything else, especially exercising, is various amounts of difficult and challenging.

This addresses the reasons for why maintaining a long term, CHALLENGING exercise regiment is a major challenge that never ends. The development of a personal training regiment goes through the following stages. Notice how every stage from the first newbie one to the last grandmaster one has at least one major factor pushing towards the dissolution of the regiment. Nothing in life is forever and this wisdom extends to exercise routines.

The causing mechanics of training issues are too vast to briefly address and ultimately non-removable, making it best to focus on enduring rather than hopelessly trying to do away with the unending pressure. It is a fight that is best judged whether or not you are still actively exercising at the time of the death. The issues of the first stages carry over to the later ones. They will never leave you and as soon as you undo your resistance towards them, they will jump at your throat at full force all over again. That is why the only easy way is forward towards more difficult issues.

Phases of Pain:

1. Beginner — Finding the initial inspiration and the impressing example are the threshold challenges. Commitment, endurance and emotional resilience issues discover you. Regiment time 0 to 3 months.
2. Novice — Trying to understand exercising and to get the big pictures are the threshold challenges that precede the formation of original sense of motivation and the “I do” spirit. Technique-oriented, disciplinary and motivational issues take form and the rational and the emotional pressure to quit grows exponentially until the counter-emotional ability grows. 3 to 18 months.
3. Adept — You now have enough experience to easily master and comprehend your emotions and accept that it is you who ultimately causes them, making you the god and the devil of your own life. Trying to come up with your original inspiration/ emotional reasoning for ultimately practicing the physical arts and coming up new ones as the old inspirations fade, are your threshold challenges. Emotional refining, distraction resistance and self-directing issues emerge. 18 to 60 months / 5 yrs.
4. Slightly advanced — you notice that being adept aka expert at TAUGHT arts is nothing as it was not based on your own inspirations. This leads to the realization that you have no future following this disappearing road of dying previous masters. Even Bruce Lee, an adept Wing Chun practitioner, had to expand into other scenes of expertise many times before raising above the average line. What a person needs to do here is to discard past knowledge and create something multiple levels of magnitude better. This means creating whole new exercising methods and personal, unique long-term goals and spiritual / imaginational impressions and mental images to concretize the abstract goals as emotional sensations. Discarding your old misguided self and becoming a self-thinking, genuine self is your threshold challenge. Self-identitizing, creative and initiative pressures make you reconsider if you are cut out to become your own self and the subsequent pressure into giving up and becoming a mindless worker mind doing other parties bidding grows to border unbearable. 5.0 to 7.5 years.
5. Moderately advanced — developing genuine willpower for first time for real and experiencing the merciless mental pressure to give up. New challenges with mental endurance and the need to learn to mentally persist on advancing your personal goals. 7.5 to 9 years.
   
6. Elite Quality — most people can get a smidgen of elite quality for a few months of training, though all that amounts to is imitation and cheap party tricks. Being able to stay in the elite zone identified by tons of strength and excellent willpower takes a long time and plenty of major character toughening. The pressure to maintain even higher willpower and developing massive strength can easily break a man or just make him quit in just two seconds out of the strict pressure. 9 to 11 yrs.
   
7. Patriarch — strength and mind are no longer issues to you, though the attributes perception and wisdom become bottlenecks of your ability to direct that power. Perception and wisdom are not easy to come by and you are very likely to get stuck in this phase simply because you cannot locate an important knowledge source or you cannot get practical experience to train your perception or to learn what you should look out for in the first place. There are countless mental challenges (such as tendencies towards boredom and over- and under-focusing) and other aspects of mental hell. Nervous breakdowns or suiciding attempts are possible if you have no specific safeguards against them. 11 to 14 yrs.
   
8. Wizard — with the clear ideas of things and what to do, you are now limited by your ability to apply that info and observations. Your goal is to peel off all the wrong and inefficient information and ways of doing things from your mind. All this training mostly makes you realize who many wasteful choices you have made as “good” ideas and makes you seriously doubt your mental ability and intelligence. Challenges involve the pains of time and effort consuming info processing, which is a very slow and mentally exhausting process. You are very likely to give up not just on the training but also on yourself in general and at worst, for good. Many people never even try this and never learn to create very disciplined, complex information for solving their life problems. 14 to 20 years.
   
9. Master Crafter — you realize that all that strength, ability and discipline along with the time spent on training yourself is completely wasted if you do not try and challenge it in practical work. Your initiativeness, willpower, endurance, strength and dexterity are strained several magnitude levels harder than ever before. You are faced with the desperation and the emptiness of the world that requires your personal work to build it into anything even remotely bearable. Also the eternity of neverending need for working and the progressively weakening body. A long list of psychological disorders and character flaw related issues emerge and make your attempts so much harder. Everything in the world and every aspect of it becomes your emotionally-challenging enemy. Your main challenge is wear-your-work-role-or-perish-your-spirit. 20 to 30 years.
   
10. Grandmaster — 30 to 75 years of exercising experience. You carry multiple industries worth of valuable information and expertise inside your skull and an extreme amount of carefully repressed developmental issues that you use to fuel your creative needs. Your death is now close as you most likely have more life behind you than before you. Accepting death is not enough at this point. You need to accept the futility of your entire life in its full extent and DESPITE ALL THAT [ read: enough reality to instantly crush a good-spirited chap ], continue training to ascend the averageness and the life time mediocrity that you now represent to yourself. The ability to work day-to-day past the prospective death is an ultra-challenging trait that, if successfully attained, vastly surpasses any common life time achievements.

Enough about the plants. I noticed that no matter what solemn exercise strategy I use, there is a 90% likelihood of having practically inert, non-exercisable muscles out of the target zone. I am generally taught-by-life impatient, so of course that will not do with me. There are a couple of rare terminator-level moods that do not produce such tenseness. For us long-termers and mere mortals, the effortless solution is muscle exercise cycling.

The general idea is the “having a leg day” one on steroids. In practice, working mere legs is lazy. More like “legs AND everything else available” is what I am thinking. It is surprising how much stuff can be exercised if you keep the exercise movements under and inch or two centimeters.  That also helps to target individual tendons, train the small movement coordinating muscles and to completely skip over-exercising (with issues including the lactic acid syndrome and much more) that can happen in seconds with cold muscles and at least 4″ / 10cm muscle movement exercises. If you have tried hasty punch exercising, you know how annoying it is having a training session aborted after a mere minutes because arms get uselessly weak from some lactic acid.

I like these physical themes. Just writing about the stuff puts me deep into the mood of doing some more exercise. I am more of a writer than a reader at this point because how useless and information-void most paid writers these days are. People with no personal experience should shut up and reconsider communicating once they have original experience to deliver. My malfuction is the opposite i.e. I do not practice and further deepen what I know after a while.

For example, I am the person who stabs its vital [nerve] points just to see what happens, when that info is new. Let us just say that I figured out that you can reinforce the vital points. Everyone can be a titular master, though grandmasters most likely are the ones that never stopped re-learning what they just learned. Especially physical ability is not about an achievement ten years ago on a paper. That is probably why the one-time achievements such as diplomas and degrees are so obviously fake and worthless to me. I have ended low-grade friendships over people trying to ride on that fake crap and practically crying to me about being too much truth.

Exercising gets too easy after a while, so having any incentives or agitations to keep further  developing the craft are extremely essential. Most people do not progress past being slender or slightly muscular for this very reason. Personally, best I can have is slightly muscular considering that I am all about muscle density and minor muscles that do not produce visible change. It is very common among martial arts dudes that frankly are all about endurance and toughness, favouring muscle density over the bulk. More fitness writings can safely be expected.

Tl;dr, my yog-n-bread meal plan diet with exercise involves 800 kcal daily diet against a 2400 kcal metabolic consumption.

Current progress:

A Weight-Loss Tabulation of Some Fat Basement-Dwelling Nerd (kg)

2019/04/01	80.5	the initial weighing, low fluid content
2019/04/02	81.3	after drinking tons of watery juice and soda
2019/04/03	80.9	after waking up and draining, +165 kcal / 18 fat grams from soda
2019/04/04	81.2
2019/04/05	81.0	non-drained weight, physical outdoors exercise added
2019/04/06	81.5
2019/04/07	82.0
2019/04/08	81.3
2019/04/09	79.7
2019/04/10	80.0
2019/04/11	79.2	a new record, the previous one: 79.5.
2019/04/12	79.7
2019/04/13	78.3
2019/04/14	78.9
2019/04/15	78.0
2019/04/16	78.2
2019/04/17	78.1	the last entry

Now that I have emotionally grown up enough to ignore non-reasonable sensations of hunger, it is time to try fixed-calorie-count daily meal plans. My thick, lightly meat-enriched wheat bread is about 500 kcal [ aka Calories, with the capitalized C referring to 1,000 cal ] and the jam-and-oat-flakes yoghurt [ about 0.1 liters ] is about 300 kcal. I also take some extra meat, butter and diluted juice products to counter-act possible nutritional deficits ( e.g. liver bread for folic acid and choline, nutritionally rare DNA-preservatives ) accounting to about 100 kcal. I also plan to keep my body in a moderately-high metabolism mode for the extra strength & extra weight-loss double gain. There is almost no fat in the diet besides the tiny meat portions, explaining the low kcal count.

Now some (useless) extra info I discovered. For my 177 pounds at 5’10” or 178 cm, my BMI (Body Mass Index) is 25.4. This means that I am slightly overweight, with 24.9 being the upper limit for ideal weight. The minimum weight-loss required for reaching the ideal range is 4 pounds i.e. about 2 kg down to 78.5 . Personally, I plan to go back to the 73 – 75 range in that I used be for half a decade before I discovered the food-production supertool known as a sandwich grill aka parila. The flour-to-baked-bread rate of five minutes or slightly less per batch is super convenient. [ The flour type of choice is wheat. ] My current weight range is most likely 80 – 82. The two-kg deviation is caused by gut contents and extra water. My target range would be 78 – 80 and the ideal one 73 – 75.

Final notes, I do believe I underestimated the calorie count a bit. I basically eat one yoghurt portion in the morning and the bread portion in the evening, with only watery juice and possible supplements in the between. With the 2400 – ( 300 + 500 + 100 ) = 1500 kcal daily weight-loss rate, the loss of fat tissues should be 1500 kcal/day / 9 g/kcal ~ 167 g/d , which is about a 1/3 of a pound per day. As my current goal from 80.5 to 78 is 5.5 pounds, even on my low-calorie diet it is going to take me 17 days to get there. I will try to knock a day or two from that duration with intense exercising. Instead of spamming posts about it, I am going to edit them all into this one. Enjoy.

Field observations:

04/04/2019: 1) The hunger sensations have diminished close to zero during the first three days. Already there is no significant urge left for spontaneous eating. Just the healthy mild sensations involved with the stomach lining tension.

2) The best items for getting past the first couple days of hunger storm: artificial sweeteners aspartame and acesulfame potassium and a couple grams of fatty meat. You could try eating a couple raisins.  They should calm the fake hunger sensations a bit until the body ups its hunger threshold.

3) Dietary weight-loss is very slow i.e. 100 to 200 grams per day at most. Adding some intense lung-based exercise greatly hastens the process up to 200 grams per hour. Keep in mind that at least a half of that is water loss that needs to be replaced to maintain health and homeostasis.

4) I will be adding lung-intensive jogging noticeable by 05.

07/04/2019 : Since 05, I have not been able to exercise much because of hurting soles. Most likely I need even more impact-reducing insoles for my crappy outdoors shoes. I already have one impact pair and one slightly softer one. From tiny experiments I know that no amount of eating-compensation can fix this endorphin-and-fatigue-based condition. That leaves only the “work through the pain” option on the table. This would be a good chance to exercise the ability to ignore high-coercion-level sensations. I am going to actualize it as the alternative of wasting even more days by submitting to the natural tendency of no exercising is garbage.

08/04/2019: I went from 81.3 to 80.2 without anything besides a multi-hour outdoors exercise that incorporated deep breathing. It is pretty clear that for specifically me the Real Life Cookie Monster that likes eating a lot of stuff at once, it is perfectly suitable that I also spend a lot of energy at once or during a single session. I am planning to do some outdoors snow hiking while there is still knee-deep snow on the ground. I want to get to reach 78 and to shift my focus on other projects of mine such as woodworking and gardening/farming.

2019/04/12: ate quite a lot to take my mind off the greenhouse gases, an extensive low motivation mood gets much more terrible when you add hunger to it, was 78.7 before that

2019/04/13: Already within the BMI rating “normal weight”, crabsters [24.8 within the ideal range of 18.5 – 24.9 { 129 – 173 pounds or 58.5 – 78.5 kg }, for a 5’10”-er. ]. It will go even lower once I get rid off the copious amounts of yoghurt remains I have been eating during the past couple of days. I dropped most of the titular hunger diet a while back in favour of a much more practical lightened eating diet. Considering that most losses come from intense exercise that the sufficient eating synergizes a bit, it was a no-brainer. In practice, I did not do much intense exercising in the beginning, which is why my weight did not change much despite the low-calorie diet. Diet weight-loss plans are inert snake-oil scams for shortcut-seeking fools.

2019/04/14: Here is the deal right now: after about 15 min of watering my sod-heavy plants, I start having mild CO2 related issues. Door compartmentalization can only help so much. Exercising is the last thing on your mind when that happens. The tiny extra CO2 in the bloodstream makes the muscle strain feel at ten times as painful as it should be. My further loss attempts are not going to be stellar. CO2 makes even the random non-strained muscles feel painful for no good reason. Simply put, it is motivationally destructive.

2019/04/15: I mystically keep losing about 0.3 kg during my sleep. That did not always happen. I guess working on something keeps me from eating and makes the body consume more fat or something. I have not exercised intensely for a few days. The power of CO2 is my second guess. (Hehe, second guess.)