Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff
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@Three-Eyed-Crow said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
@Ganymede said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
If you're a casual gym-goer, you may want to consider your local Y. Especially if it has other amenities, like a pool or racquetball courts. Plus, you'd be giving your money to a charitable organization that gives free classes (probably) to underprivileged kids.
Casual best describes how I'd use it. The Y is a little out of the way, but we're talking a 10-minute drive as opposed to 5, so it ain't exactly a hardship.
Jesus fuck arbitrated gym disputes. I'm curious how the industry became so mired in contractual horror, but I suspect the answer is just "people are making money and customers don't know any better."
I learned the hard way that their 'if you move outside of X range' distances are calculated as the crow flies, not as it would take you to drive.
But I second the Y. I loved having a Y membership, last I did.
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@Three-Eyed-Crow said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Jesus fuck arbitrated gym disputes. I'm curious how the industry became so mired in contractual horror, but I suspect the answer is just "people are making money and customers don't know any better."
Simple cost-benefit analysis. Arbitration costs around $10K to secure the arbitrator. You do the math.
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Does anybody have a Leesa mattress? I'm considering it as a long term purchase but want to know if it would be comfortable and cool, particularly for a side sleeper.
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I'm currently horrifyingly sleep deprived. I think that's on topic.
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Weekend before last (the 3rd), I was on a flight, surrounded by children. So I got to spend last week with the flu.
I still have it. Ended up at the doctor today, afraid I have bronchitis. Oh no, just the flu lingering and with a really severe asthma attack. So I got to spend a bit on the nebulizer, prescribed cough meds, and more 'just keep taking it easy' after already spending a week all feverish.
Cursed little plague carriers.
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I am 6'1".
I used to weigh 145 lbs.
I was thankful when I rose to 170 lbs.
I'm now 180 lbs.
I need this to stop. Without weights. I do not want to lift, run, do sit-ups or push-ups. I could change my eating habits, but that goes back to "not eating", which as a nerd is where I started.
My bike is old and hard to pedal. A lot of people have questioned me for purposefully riding a heavy bike. I tell them that this is the point.
Now I just need to use it.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
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Body weight exercises = WIN.
Then when it's all over and the rest of you are ready for Dead Animal Pickup, I'm gonna go balls deep into Dahl. But only because she asked me to. Sweet-like. - Riddick (2013)
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@ThatOneDude said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Body weight exercises = WIN.
Not likely to happen.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
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Even something as simple as taking walks every now and then, making sure to get up and do something as frequently as possible rather than making it easy to sit forever. For example, buy small bottles of water instead of one large bottle of water, if you drink bottled water. It means you have to get up more frequently to get more.
Do some easy arm exercises, you don't even have to get up, just move around a bit for like 15 minutes a day or so, get some basic cardio in without even standing. Every little bit counts.
I say this as someone who very lazily lost a ton of weight, doing little things help you at the very least maintain your weight. I haven't changed my diet dramatically since I stopped constantly eating junk food and drinking sugary drinks, so I don't lose a lot of weight unless I do a lot of drastic physical activity, what I do now mostly just keeps me from becoming huge.
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Sex.. please post to the date Thenomain thread.
Okay actually if you want a leaner look, you could take up yoga. It's a lot of moves but isn't too intense and you can alter intensity as you get use to it. Also you get the added benefit of flexibility. Pilates use to kick my ass EVERY TIME when I use to do it.
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If you drink sugary stuff, that will make you gain weight.
Imo get a bike you like to use, but get some ankle weights instead. I used to cycle a lot before I was wheelchair-bound and kept my weight at about 135. I was down to 150 before chemo (even in a wheelchair, by avoiding too much sugary shit), and the roids I had to take have me stuck at 185 whether I eat or not.
Though my back was too unstable for a bike, I dropped about 30 lbs and quite a few dress sizes by sitting with my ass close to the edge of the couch, and cycling my legs fast for a few minutes, then slow for 5-10, then fast again, working up to about 45 minutes. Did this once a day; would read books while I did it. Right now I have too much damage to safely do it now, argh.
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@Thenomain said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Now I just need to use it.
Stop using a car to go places. Let your car insurance lapse, stop paying for gas, get a better bike, and some good saddle bags so that you can carry groceries and a laptop and stuff.
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@Thenomain I know this advice is probably moonspeak, but find something physical that you just like to do.
The husband and I love beachcombing and rock collecting. We would do it more often if we could, but simply doing that 'walking on sand' thing once every 1-2 weeks (far less now, post-surgery and suicidal depression still blows) was/is a helpful thing. It's a hike of a drive to get to places to do this or we'd do it more often, too.
Whenever I'm working with the yarn -- winding, dyeing, wringing, etc. -- it is also a lot more physical than most people would think. (Anyone who doesn't think you're lifting weights when that 1lb skein of yarn is suddenly saturated in water to be 10x the weight, and you're lifting and wringing and rinsing it a dozen times before moving on to the next, is fooling themselves.)
So there are things. They make it less a thing you feel you have to do, and more a matter of more fully engaging with things you already do, and possibly even really like to do. You can technically just do more of one of those things, in some cases.
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@Sammi said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Stop using a car to go places. Let your car insurance lapse, stop paying for gas, get a better bike, and some good saddle bags so that you can carry groceries and a laptop and stuff.
That might work great for people that live in the city, in an apartment, who just go to the grocery, entertainment venues and then work/home... but some of us actually NEED vehicles to get things done. I can't imagine hauling lumber, electrical supplies, etc on a bike.
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@Thenomain said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
My bike is old and hard to pedal. A lot of people have questioned me for purposefully riding a heavy bike. I tell them that this is the point.
Now I just need to use it.
A better bike might make it more of a joy to use, thus making you more motivated to use it. I know it gives me a burst of enthusiasm for an activity when I get a new toy or tool for it.
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@Rook said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
@Sammi said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Stop using a car to go places. Let your car insurance lapse, stop paying for gas, get a better bike, and some good saddle bags so that you can carry groceries and a laptop and stuff.
That might work great for people that live in the city, in an apartment, who just go to the grocery, entertainment venues and then work/home... but some of us actually NEED vehicles to get things done. I can't imagine hauling lumber, electrical supplies, etc on a bike.
It's not an option for those of us that live in the middle of nowhere, either. My area (Southern MD) is very rural and so spread out that you're pretty much screwed if you don't own a car.
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@RnMissionRun said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
@Rook said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
@Sammi said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Stop using a car to go places. Let your car insurance lapse, stop paying for gas, get a better bike, and some good saddle bags so that you can carry groceries and a laptop and stuff.
That might work great for people that live in the city, in an apartment, who just go to the grocery, entertainment venues and then work/home... but some of us actually NEED vehicles to get things done. I can't imagine hauling lumber, electrical supplies, etc on a bike.
It's not an option for those of us that live in the middle of nowhere, either. My area (Southern MD) is very rural and so spread out that you're pretty much screwed if you don't own a car.
If you live within a handful of miles of everything you need/do, that's an option, but... in some areas (MD is one of them), you have to go a ways to do anything. Maryland was designed in such a way that there's urban centers (shopping, restaurants, etc.) outside of residential areas, so you sometimes have to travel quite far to reach them. I have noticed they're slowly changing that in recent years, but I know when I was growing up and a teenager, it was def. not that way. I tried, before I was driving, to get around and socialize just on a bike and it was not doable when I lived out near horse farms.
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We still have bikes for exercise and fun. Just not as transportation.
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@Rook said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
@Sammi said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Stop using a car to go places. Let your car insurance lapse, stop paying for gas, get a better bike, and some good saddle bags so that you can carry groceries and a laptop and stuff.
That might work great for people that live in the city, in an apartment, who just go to the grocery, entertainment venues and then work/home... but some of us actually NEED vehicles to get things done. I can't imagine hauling lumber, electrical supplies, etc on a bike.
I don't imagine that people who routinely need to haul lumber have much overlap with people who live excessively sedentary lifestyles and have difficulty getting exercise in. Even if I had a car, I'd still have to borrow somebody's truck or van if I needed lumber.
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I work at my office desk as a job. But, I also regularly need my truck to run to Lowes, Menards, etc. I wouldn't say that I'm slim, as I am overweight, myself. I dunno. I know a lot of people who do physical work outside all day and are still carrying a spare tire around their waist?
