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Drove the hot-rod Newport to physical therapy today, on request of my therapist, self-diagnosed gearhead. I gave it a little rev or two in the lot right outside his window, and he loved it! When I left, he lifted his blinds to watch me drive away. Driving that machine always makes me smile. Speaking of which, here's a photo from the Newport's (and my) first car show, Rev It Up! here in Lawrence, KS, a few weeks ago:
Look at that: Shorts! Ah, Kansas weather, you are a fickle sonofagun.
Therapist Rob continued to work on the tendon stiffness in my elbow and gave me stretches to deal with growing abdominal/rib soreness - turns out it's just more tendon issues. I'm supposed to do backward and side stretches on the big ball after workouts on the punching bag or anything else that really works the abs.
He also gave me a rule of thumb for rest after a workout that causes muscle soreness: Wait 36 hours before repeating the exercise to allow the muscles to heal up and get stronger; that soreness is actually little tears in the muscle, and the body deposits new proteins to heal them, which makes 'em stronger. One can do light workouts or work other muscle groups the next day, but give a break to the sore muscles.
Oh, and to my question, "Why do I keep encountering this kind of tendon issue?" he said, "How old are you?" I told him, and he smiled. "Guys like us who choose to stay active at our age just have to deal with discomfort like this."
Hmph.
He went on: "You make the choice to live with tendon and muscle soreness or get diabetes and heart disease. I'd rather have the occasional ache than let my body fall apart and die young."
Word.
Which reminds me: I meant to take new fitness-tracking photos over the weekend, but alas. Next weekend.
Something just came to me: Perhaps one of the (subconscious?) reasons I get such pleasure from hot-rodding the Newport is that I transformed a not-so-special late-'60s vehicle into something much more powerful and spry than it ever was before... much as I'm doing my best to transform this late-'60s Middle American into the fittest I've ever been, too, to hell with age. Both of us can get a little creaky, but we can still show the younger whippersnappers a thing or two. Hm. Something to ponder.
Hope you're doing well. Now I'm back to the (never-ending) grading. Who assigns them all this stuff that I have to grade? Oh, right.
Chris
Look at that: Shorts! Ah, Kansas weather, you are a fickle sonofagun.
Therapist Rob continued to work on the tendon stiffness in my elbow and gave me stretches to deal with growing abdominal/rib soreness - turns out it's just more tendon issues. I'm supposed to do backward and side stretches on the big ball after workouts on the punching bag or anything else that really works the abs.
He also gave me a rule of thumb for rest after a workout that causes muscle soreness: Wait 36 hours before repeating the exercise to allow the muscles to heal up and get stronger; that soreness is actually little tears in the muscle, and the body deposits new proteins to heal them, which makes 'em stronger. One can do light workouts or work other muscle groups the next day, but give a break to the sore muscles.
Oh, and to my question, "Why do I keep encountering this kind of tendon issue?" he said, "How old are you?" I told him, and he smiled. "Guys like us who choose to stay active at our age just have to deal with discomfort like this."
Hmph.
He went on: "You make the choice to live with tendon and muscle soreness or get diabetes and heart disease. I'd rather have the occasional ache than let my body fall apart and die young."
Word.
Which reminds me: I meant to take new fitness-tracking photos over the weekend, but alas. Next weekend.
Something just came to me: Perhaps one of the (subconscious?) reasons I get such pleasure from hot-rodding the Newport is that I transformed a not-so-special late-'60s vehicle into something much more powerful and spry than it ever was before... much as I'm doing my best to transform this late-'60s Middle American into the fittest I've ever been, too, to hell with age. Both of us can get a little creaky, but we can still show the younger whippersnappers a thing or two. Hm. Something to ponder.
Hope you're doing well. Now I'm back to the (never-ending) grading. Who assigns them all this stuff that I have to grade? Oh, right.
Chris
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I love this comparison.
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Keep up the good work!
--Hawk
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Just adding 50 pounds of additional weight on my off-nights, means I'm working those muscles more. I'm going back to fighting after the holidays, however. I have a shoulder that's not frozen, but trying to, and throwing a flat snap has gotten painful. think of it as a straight jab which hurts because you're yoinking it too fast.
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Are you punching a heavy or light bag? I find that hitting a 40-pound or bigger bag feels better than shadow-boxing because there's a solid resistance to keep those joints from over-extending, and 40 is light enough that I don't turn my wrist with bad form or fatigue.
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I do SCA combat. I use a rattan stick to beat my friends on the legal target areas. My user picture is a helmet that I made for my girlfriend.
She used to fight heavy list, like I do, but she's had too many concussions, so now she uses an arbalest to send 3' X 1.25" siloflex bolts downrange. I try to avoid being hit by them.
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That's awesome about her massive arbalest. I thought about doing that when I lived in Seattle, where I had friends with whom I could have joined a unit. I always loved the missile weapons, and thought being an archer would have been a blast.
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In SCA combat, self-bows are... ill-behaved. They tend to have their "arrows" make a 90 degree turn when logic says they shouldn't. Crossbows are more consistent. They don't have the mass of fire that would fill the sky, say, like Agincourt, but they do work well as a sniper.
There's probably an SCA group out where you're living now, I can poke around and see who's out in your neighborhood, if you'd like.
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I'd love to get those linkies, though I'm still behind in grading (dammit, will get caught up tonight or NOT SLEEP) and won't get to them until after.
Interesting about age-related sarcopenia - sounds like "use it or lose it" for sure.
Yep, that's how they work ;-D
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In the words of Hardman Nadir:
I’d rather live a few blazing years overflowing with life than a lifetime of half empty... existence. Life is survival against the forces of death. Death is an ocean all around us, water carving through rock, finding its way into everything. Life as we know it is like a dance across the seaside cliffs.
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this is totally right, and i need to make some new choices!!
sorry you're experiencing the soreness, though. :(
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Take it from a former lifelong dancer/teacher:
Stretch well AFTER working out those muscles. I know the whole "lactic acid" theories are supposedly being debunked, but I still know from my own experience, and the reports from my students, that a good easy stretch after working out makes it all feel better than when we didn't do that.
ETA: I always liked the Post Burn since it proved to me that I'd DONE SOMETHING, but I also like having a bit less of it.
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Good! My work here is done. :D Actually, it's a mutual reminder, I need to get moving more myself.
Also, I had to show off your pic to the co-workers, tis awesomeness.
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