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vicarzThe rebirth of an alchem picture page, hiking this past week, a book called "American Idle," and my rain of injuries has me nostalgic and rethinking exercise - in a good way I hope.
I can still hike; I still leap over rocks like a goat; I may not face the same back tension/pain I used to (meaning my struggle to correct apt / muscle imbalances, while not over, are indeed making progress woot woot). I saw unfit people aging; I saw children playing, and reflected on what is natural. One nice conclusion is: natural sucks. We're designed to survive adversity, and for every benefit, there are drawbacks. A bear can sleep all winter and get up full strength, while a man confined to bed for a month is unable to walk. Sadly exercise does not erase sedentary life, but exercise does not need to be competition.
Cute class physical perspective: back in the early days of the olympics the difference between what athletes did and the population was far less than today.
lj guilt hint - if you feel like writing, don't feel obligated to catch up with the week of posts you missed first.
I think I've identified a problem in my shoulder which might be the source of my nerve pinch, or a problem caused by it, but in any case I need to do more work. As for the weakness, it remains but seems to be slowly going away. It seems obvious I won't be healed in the 6-month window, but I'm grateful that I can still squat full strength or close to it, have a reasonable DL, and even the OP isn't too crazy far off. Even the bench has gone from 95 to 115, though...that's still annoying, as are the other problems like not being able to sleep on one side or prop myself up on my elbow.
My bigger idea is more hiking. It feels good, and having done it a few times this past week, I kinda miss it. The problem here is it takes 1.5-2 hours to get to a good place to mountain-in-shade hike, but I think I'm going to put more effort into making occasional trips, doing some run-walk outside, and doing some run-walk on treadmills. I am already more likely to stand at the desk than sit - one improvement.
I like strong better than skinny, but I also like the confident comfortable me more than the insecure me (though I still love the pictures of fairy princess me).
I can still hike; I still leap over rocks like a goat; I may not face the same back tension/pain I used to (meaning my struggle to correct apt / muscle imbalances, while not over, are indeed making progress woot woot). I saw unfit people aging; I saw children playing, and reflected on what is natural. One nice conclusion is: natural sucks. We're designed to survive adversity, and for every benefit, there are drawbacks. A bear can sleep all winter and get up full strength, while a man confined to bed for a month is unable to walk. Sadly exercise does not erase sedentary life, but exercise does not need to be competition.
Cute class physical perspective: back in the early days of the olympics the difference between what athletes did and the population was far less than today.
lj guilt hint - if you feel like writing, don't feel obligated to catch up with the week of posts you missed first.
I think I've identified a problem in my shoulder which might be the source of my nerve pinch, or a problem caused by it, but in any case I need to do more work. As for the weakness, it remains but seems to be slowly going away. It seems obvious I won't be healed in the 6-month window, but I'm grateful that I can still squat full strength or close to it, have a reasonable DL, and even the OP isn't too crazy far off. Even the bench has gone from 95 to 115, though...that's still annoying, as are the other problems like not being able to sleep on one side or prop myself up on my elbow.
My bigger idea is more hiking. It feels good, and having done it a few times this past week, I kinda miss it. The problem here is it takes 1.5-2 hours to get to a good place to mountain-in-shade hike, but I think I'm going to put more effort into making occasional trips, doing some run-walk outside, and doing some run-walk on treadmills. I am already more likely to stand at the desk than sit - one improvement.
I like strong better than skinny, but I also like the confident comfortable me more than the insecure me (though I still love the pictures of fairy princess me).
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Date: 2016-06-11 03:19 pm (UTC)I have had a lot of struggles with injury over the past few years, and hiking is one of the ways that I started to take my body back.
I'm glad to hear the arm is getting better. That's good news.
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Date: 2016-06-11 03:32 pm (UTC)DC has many shady hikes if you count parts of Rock Creek Park.
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Date: 2016-06-11 05:27 pm (UTC)Here's the hike (http://www.modernhiker.com/2010/01/04/hiking-los-liones-trail-to-parker-mesa/) I did last weekend. 30 min from my house.
This one (http://www.modernhiker.com/2015/10/09/hiking-la-tuna-canyon/) was a couple of weeks ago. 20 minutes from my house.
When I'm willing to commit to a 45 minute drive we do these trails (http://www.modernhiker.com/area-maps/angeles-national-forest/).
There is an image that LA is an urban wasteland, but it is both surrounded by mountains and has a bunch of mountains in the middle that have never been built up. There's tons of hiking right at my doorstep. I can even Metro there!