Be More Than You Can Be; the Glove

[Island Son]

It's technically not about sets and reps, but it's AMAZING sh*t!!
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/bemore.html

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Vinh Cao, their squat, barrel-chested lab technician, used to do almost 100 pull-ups every time he worked out. Then one day he cooled himself off between sets with an early prototype. The next round of pull-ups — his 11th — was as strong as his first. Within six weeks, Cao was doing 180 pull-ups a session. Six weeks after that, he went from 180 to more than 600.
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In trying to figure out why the Glove worked so well, its inventors ended up challenging conventional scientific wisdom on fatigue. Muscles don’t wear out because they use up stored sugars, the researchers said. Instead, muscles tire because they get too hot, and sweating is just a backup cooling system for the lattices of blood vessels in the hands and feet. The Glove, in other words, overclocks the heat exchange system. “It’s like giving a Honda the radiator of a Mack truck,” Heller says. After four months of using it himself, Heller did 1,000 push-ups on his 60th birthday in April 2003.
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Read it.... hmm i wonder if I could make one at home

 

[ZGzaZ]

uuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhh.........

 

[perp69]

Nice read. Some interesting stuff.

Perp

 

[al420]

Really neat read

 

[Island Son]

Thanks for the move!

 

[xbhmwvz]

It's technically not about sets and reps, but it's AMAZING sh*t!!
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/bemore.html

[..]
Vinh Cao, their squat, barrel-chested lab technician, used to do almost 100 pull-ups every time he worked out. Then one day he cooled himself off between sets with an early prototype. The next round of pull-ups — his 11th — was as strong as his first. Within six weeks, Cao was doing 180 pull-ups a session. Six weeks after that, he went from 180 to more than 600.
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In trying to figure out why the Glove worked so well, its inventors ended up challenging conventional scientific wisdom on fatigue. Muscles don’t wear out because they use up stored sugars, the researchers said. Instead, muscles tire because they get too hot, and sweating is just a backup cooling system for the lattices of blood vessels in the hands and feet. The Glove, in other words, overclocks the heat exchange system. “It’s like giving a Honda the radiator of a Mack truck,” Heller says. After four months of using it himself, Heller did 1,000 push-ups on his 60th birthday in April 2003.
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Read it.... hmm i wonder if I could make one at home

I thought the same thing when I saw this a while ago. I think I could, the seal is the only hard part about it.

But you could get around the need for a seal, and do away with one pump if you are willing to get your hand wet, which I don't see as a problem for an athlete. It enters around your wrist, the separation between your hand and the collar and the water flow will determine the vacuum

As feedback to make sure everything is working you could measure the temperature difference between the input and output to the hand unit, and the water flow, then you have how much heat is being dissipated. Adjust for maximum amount and you're all set - well, of course that's simplifying a bit......

 

[Island Son]

I tried cold water on my hands and face before a difficult bench set, i definitely recovered faster but my hands were frozen I think the reason for the vacuum is to keep pulling the blood to the skin surface capillaries for effective heat transfer.

 

[Cucumber_Jones]

Amazing.