Witness the Fitness
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IdleRich
IdleRich
I'd say it's the sun, playing a lot of squash, being a bit more sensible with other things etc perhaps I even eat better I dunno.
IdleRich
IdleRich
I really am enjoying playing football and squash whenever I can just now. It's dawning on me how lucky I am to still be free of any injury that might stop me playing... lots of the guys I used to play with have simply had to stop - one guy I used to play with who is maybe ten years younger than me and a fucking brilliant player had one unlucky injury that kept coming back and he totally packed it in, as have several others who were so keen and competitive that I thought they would play to their dying day.
They go to the gym or whatever to keep fit but it's a pale imitation... in fact it's not even that. The great thing about truly enjoying a sport is that you go and have fun - sometimes amongst the most fun you can have - and then, at the end, you discover you've accidentally got yourself fit too.
When you have to stop you lose the fun... and then you realise, as part of a cruel double-whammy, you've lost that incidental fitness too, so you have to replace the exercise with some boring grind in the gym; the beautiful game replaced with lifting bits of metal and jogging on a conveyor belt, instead of the infinitely pleasing magic of turning someone inside out and leaving them grasping at the air in the wrong place you're supposed to be content with beating your own personal best on the rowing machine?
Having to stop playing football will undoubtedly leave a gaping hole that nothing else can be expected to fill. I truly dread that inevitable occurrence - but the flipside of that realisation is that every game I do play is twice as precious as it was before. I realise how lucky I am and that even if play shit and my team gets dicked on every kick of the ball is a bonus to be appreciated...
Right now I still feel fine with years left in me. If I stay injury-free there is no reason why I couldn't play into my 50s is there? How about 60s?
They go to the gym or whatever to keep fit but it's a pale imitation... in fact it's not even that. The great thing about truly enjoying a sport is that you go and have fun - sometimes amongst the most fun you can have - and then, at the end, you discover you've accidentally got yourself fit too.
When you have to stop you lose the fun... and then you realise, as part of a cruel double-whammy, you've lost that incidental fitness too, so you have to replace the exercise with some boring grind in the gym; the beautiful game replaced with lifting bits of metal and jogging on a conveyor belt, instead of the infinitely pleasing magic of turning someone inside out and leaving them grasping at the air in the wrong place you're supposed to be content with beating your own personal best on the rowing machine?
Having to stop playing football will undoubtedly leave a gaping hole that nothing else can be expected to fill. I truly dread that inevitable occurrence - but the flipside of that realisation is that every game I do play is twice as precious as it was before. I realise how lucky I am and that even if play shit and my team gets dicked on every kick of the ball is a bonus to be appreciated...
Right now I still feel fine with years left in me. If I stay injury-free there is no reason why I couldn't play into my 50s is there? How about 60s?
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Hate working from home, it's a trap
An offer was floated where we got more time at home teaching during lockdown-1 that rolled into the 2nd and kept running. Can cover the same hours over 4 days of hell, with a day's worth banked for writing summaries, teaching the kids and getting out
Haven't put weight on but am acutely aware that all the in-between walking, up stairwells, pathways, hillocks, Mount Hooton Rd, have gone and it's hard making it up. It's not a comfort device so much as an inertia creep and even then we're all active. There are worse problems
The autumn walk/bus/walk routine has gone. That was an easy strut, what's maddening is trying to re-pace it through exercise that's tedious
An offer was floated where we got more time at home teaching during lockdown-1 that rolled into the 2nd and kept running. Can cover the same hours over 4 days of hell, with a day's worth banked for writing summaries, teaching the kids and getting out
Haven't put weight on but am acutely aware that all the in-between walking, up stairwells, pathways, hillocks, Mount Hooton Rd, have gone and it's hard making it up. It's not a comfort device so much as an inertia creep and even then we're all active. There are worse problems
The autumn walk/bus/walk routine has gone. That was an easy strut, what's maddening is trying to re-pace it through exercise that's tedious
IdleRich
IdleRich
Similar to what I was saying above right? You're happily chuntering along doing enough exercise and then something happens to stop you - your routine changes, you get injured, you're too old to play football - so you have to replace it with boring, mechanical exercise.
For me that's bad cos I love sport but hate exercise. I just don't see myself sticking to any kind of routine that doesn't involve chasing a ball.
For me that's bad cos I love sport but hate exercise. I just don't see myself sticking to any kind of routine that doesn't involve chasing a ball.
Weird this. You know I was a total sports spacka and so never got a much of a sense of what this was like, chasing a ball or "winning". Apart from in fighting and sparring in martial arts I guess. I do enjoy lifting big bits of metal around though. There's something about it that's great, its' so absorbing "will I be able to do this life? Or not?". Competition with the self I guess - I often can't finish the routines from the programme I work from so have to scale them but I'm pleased when I do, not least 'cos they hit fitness from a range of angles. I'm glad I found something that works for me.
jenks
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I wouldn’t know what to do in a gym apart from the exercise bike. I love sport but was rubbish at all school sports and am hugely accident prone so it is amazing to my friends and family that not only can I ride a bike but that I’m actually properly competitive- albeit in a slightly odd discipline, time trialling. I couldn’t imagine not having the bike to train for and to train on, much like Rich and his need for football and squash.
I think footie tends to lead to injury, no? Correct me if I'm wrong but all that multi-directional movement at full speed. Can see it knackering knees.
The thing that's really striking about the program I'm doing now is that I've not injured myself. It's a sign of how thoughtful put together it is.
The thing that's really striking about the program I'm doing now is that I've not injured myself. It's a sign of how thoughtful put together it is.
Yeah that's what I thought.
This guy is really interesting on that score: https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-148-ben-patrick/
I think we're in a bit of a golden age in terms of the art of fitness? I used to follow the Crossfit stuff 15 years ago and that was really exciting at the time. I can see loads and loads of innovation built on that foundation plus revised knowledge about nutrition and diet etc etc. It's a really interesting moment - that guy being an example of it.
This guy is really interesting on that score: https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-148-ben-patrick/
I think we're in a bit of a golden age in terms of the art of fitness? I used to follow the Crossfit stuff 15 years ago and that was really exciting at the time. I can see loads and loads of innovation built on that foundation plus revised knowledge about nutrition and diet etc etc. It's a really interesting moment - that guy being an example of it.
IdleRich
IdleRich
I've got friends who have running pretty seriously since their teens. They do have aches and pains though... also I've noticed that if anyone says that they are going to take up a sport then their advice is constantly stressing a slow start to prevent injury that kills that before it's begun.
woops
is not like other people
and dancing which is equally perilous
