Biorhythms

[Michael Liao]

The Search Function reveals no Biorhythm threads so I'd like to kick-it-off.

I'm just curious as to whether anybody else is convinced? Bill Starr includes a chapter on Biorhythms in 'Defying Gravity.'

Thommen's obscure book -- 'Is This Your Day' -- is also useful.

Anyone with interesting anecdotes and stuff?

(My "emotional-cross-days" are the REAL bungers too!)

[BCGuy]

I sometimes wonder if this biorhythm stuff is a bunch of fluff (some studies claim this).

I have been experimenting with personal biorhythm's after reading Starr's books (using easy biorhythm calculator). So far, as long as I ignore looking at the charts everyday to see where I am at (to avoid mental aspects of thinking about a low day), I have seen some correlation between shitty weight performance and physical/intellectual lows. In particular, after my intense squats last night, I felt drained on my bench (no progress with weights that I usually smoke) and was 60lb less on my deadlift (really tired when I got to deadlifting). I looked to see where I was in the calculator and found out I was on a physical and intellectual low.

I should mention that I was running one of my older routines that has been proven to cause me a lot of fatigue for my later bench and deadlift (a Starr ramped variant). My Texas method variant with deadlifts on Tuesday (my intensity day) quite often nets me PR's with tons of energy. Three weeks back on Friday's volume day, at an actual physical low, I blew my lower back out from hyperextension while squatting (spasm is quite vivid in my videos). I rehabbed my back for a week then ran one of my older Starr routines with GM's to help prepare for a return to the Texas Method (which will be next week).

Given that I have hit PR's near physical lows, I think I need to make more accurate observations for a while to see whether or not biorhythms have any correlation to my performance in general (I do these checks months later so as not to bias my results with any predetermined conceptions of performance). If I see a lot of correlation, I will perhaps take biorhythms more seriously, but for the time being I will remain sceptical, but interested.