Do you grunt??? if no then possibly you should :)

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Grunting is widely used by professional tennis players, but no research has been done to verify enhanced performance with grunting. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine if grunting enhanced ball velocity in ground strokes and secondly, to determine if grunting increased the physiological cost of hitting (VO2, HR, VE/VO2, and RPE). Participants were 10 members of the men's (n = 5) and women's (n = 5) tennis teams at a Division I university who had just completed their indoor competitive season. Two hitting sessions were used as players repetitively hit forehand and backhand shots while either grunting or not grunting. Each hitting session consisted of five 2-minute periods with a 1-minute break in between each period. Ball velocity was measured with a radar gun. During each hitting session, players wore a portable metabolic measuring unit. HR was monitored using a Polar monitor, and RPE was assessed using Borg's 6-20 scale. Grunting increased ball velocity (kph) 3.8% compared with non-grunting condition (p < 0.034) with the mean ± SD being 83.4 ± 0.6.1 and 80.3 ± 0.8.7, respectively. The physiological responses (VO2, HR, VE/VO2, and RPE) for the 2 hitting conditions were not significantly different for any variable. When averaged across both hitting conditions, HR over the 5-time periods was higher in periods 3-5 than period (p < 0.018) 1, whereas VE/VO2 and RPE were greater in periods 2-5 than period 1 (p = 0.001). RPE significantly increased over time with periods 2-5 being greater than period 1 (p = 0.001). It was concluded that grunting increased ball velocity without increasing VO2 or VE/VO2 or RPE in comparison with not grunting. It may be worthwhile for players and coaches in tennis and other sports to experiment with grunting to determine possible improvement in performance.
 
I remember reading something along those lines a year or two ago. It could explain why i have better workouts in our home gym, I'm not self conscious at home whereas in the gym i was and that held me back from getting that all important last rep.
 
^same... my wife says sometimes she can hear me from inside the house. She sends me a text if im overdoing it. I try to keep it down, with the music too, as its early and i dont want to wake the neighbors, but sometimes you gotta let it out on that last couple reps.

Apparantly I swear a lot too.
 
mt666tm said:
^same... my wife says sometimes she can hear me from inside the house. She sends me a text if im overdoing it. I try to keep it down, with the music too, as its early and i dont want to wake the neighbors, but sometimes you gotta let it out on that last couple reps.

Apparantly I swear a lot too.
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My wife a couple weeks ago subtly hinted something to the effect that if the music was turned down just one notch it'd be perfect, I just looked at her and said "why would you ask me that?" I make my environment when training, loud music, slamming plates, whatever noise comes out of my mouth comes out. I get into an "angry" aggressive mood, she's never complained about the aggressive sex right after my workouts :p
 
I was big into track and field when I was younger and was into shotput, javelin and discus. It was common knowledge that grunting would give you a little more out of your throws.
 
Part of the reason I go to the gym I go to as its acceptable grunt, there are no rules against it and nobody is judging you for it. I also tend to just grunt sentences out as well and get annoyed when I have to repeat my grunts
 
Curiosity got the better of me and today was leg day, so i turned down the music and recorded audio of myself. So Warmup was two light sets pyramiding up to: 5 reps at 405lb, 10 at 365, 12 at 315 x 2.

On the working sets I grunt on every rep and it sounds like im dieing when my set is done. I say 'Fuck You' when im giving it every last bit to get the last rep. Followed by 'motherfucker' when its up.

And I never really paid attention to this but it made me laugh hearing it. Looks like I do Ronnie Coleman shoutouts to psych my self up. Same volume as if i were talking, so not yelling it, but you can hear it:
'Light Weight Baby' when setting up the bar on my shoulders, and 'Yeah Buddy!!!' when I set it back down.

Home gym for the win!
 
mt666tm said:
Curiosity got the better of me and today was leg day, so i turned down the music and recorded audio of myself. So Warmup was two light sets pyramiding up to: 5 reps at 405lb, 10 at 365, 12 at 315 x 2.

On the working sets I grunt on every rep and it sounds like im dieing when my set is done. I say 'Fuck You' when im giving it every last bit to get the last rep. Followed by 'motherfucker' when its up.

And I never really paid attention to this but it made me laugh hearing it. Looks like I do Ronnie Coleman shoutouts to psych my self up. Same volume as if i were talking, so not yelling it, but you can hear it:
'Light Weight Baby' when setting up the bar on my shoulders, and 'Yeah Buddy!!!' when I set it back down.

Home gym for the win!
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Lol, I hate to hear what the neighbours hear when I’m trsining on the machine in the garage with the door open. Thankfully it’s like 9:30 and everyone is inside. But on a good arm day when you feel the white cold burn of pain from your set, I know I’m bouncing around saying shit like, ahhh, that fucking hurts.

I love workout at home
 
Sorbate said:
Yeah I wish they told you if you pushed too hard you can actually damage your colon. Look up diverticulosis for fun. You’ll take your fiber after than, lol.
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Yeah I believe it, I think you can pop blood vessels too which can be serious. But I’ll def look into that, I eat a cup of dates a day almost so I get plenty of fibre
 
ElectricRocker said:
Yeah I believe it, I think you can pop blood vessels too which can be serious. But I’ll def look into that, I eat a cup of dates a day almost so I get plenty of fibre
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In hindsight, if I couldn’t crap without pushing really fucking hard, I would now just stand up, and deal with the uncomfortable gotta pool feeling till the next morning. I also woukd gave ate more fiber and drank more water in the past, instead of an all meat diet, lol.
The cure to this now is they will cut out likely 8 inches of my colon where the probems keep reoccurring and stitch the ends back together. After that I’ll still have the diver pouches, but as long as I’m careful, I’ll never have another issue again. The biggest thing is like all surgeries, hopefully they don’t fuck up amd make me worse, lol.
Worst part is, this is the only thing wrong with me, besides that I’m in great shape.
 
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