Daily Discussion Thread: 🦔🦡🦚 Thursday 12 December, 2024
Daily Discussion Thread: 🦔🦡🦚 Thursday 12 December, 2024
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Sat a bit 'funny' on the couch yesterday and now suffering from a mildly sore back.
Damn you old age. Damn. You.
Stay active and stretchy. Go join a pilates / yoga club.
Seriously, It's been nuts watching friends / in laws / hubs grumping about farting wrong and throwing their backs out, meanwhile i actually broke my back a few years back and am older and don't have issues.
(I also did gymnastics for years. Can't do a full floor routine no mo but can still very easily roundoff / cartwheel/back arch as i barrel to my fatarsed 50's)
Normally I'm quite active, but recent issues have sidelined me. My current exercise regimen is limited to walk and bike rides. Yoga isn't a bad idea. I was doing it for 3 years (started during lockdowns) and gave up due to lack of time.
Small but fun thing to make you go "fuck" - sit on your couch.
Now get up without using your hands.
It's amazing how our own laze sneaks up on us.
Hahaha...I do that all the time. Thankfully my core is pretty strong so I can usually do it...with a lot of grunting of course.
When picking things up on the floor, keep one leg straight, and lift the other one behind you (also straight) while bending at the waist.
Kids make fun of me, but honestly little challenges like that add up over a long time.
That's a single leg body weight deadlift FWIW.
I knew there was a proper name for it, without the lengthy explanation.
Cheers!!
Thankfully I can still do this! (At least from a chair. Dunno about a couch.) But it’s only because I’m constantly getting up and down off the floor.
For me lockdown and worsening health issues/medical neglect undid all of the progress I’d made through physio.
Maybe if I can work out a way to get enough calories in and actually get my blood pressure managed I can go back to physio
do you do the neurodivergent "not sitting in chair as apparently intended"? That helps XD
Currently sidesaddle while his lordship crosslegs
Usually lying on side or deep squat rather than sitting, and mattress is on the floor so I’m getting up and down from that position.
It’s to avoid falls for me and so Melbcat doesn’t have to jump but it is good for retaining the ability to get up
One good test of overall fitness/mobility is to sit cross legged on the floor and then get up without using your hands :)
Also a good way to snap ankles if you do it wrong XD
That would probably = a fail of the test :P
Oh g'day steve! Haven't seen you around in a little while!
Life is pretty flat out at the moment but also i go through periods where i forget about Aussie Zone haha and ill remember every now and then and come back and post a bit before i forget again :P
Legit been thinking about Pilates. Just didnt wanna be the only bloke or only 30 something there.
why? No one's gonna focus on you, they're gonna focus on not farting
Hahahaha so true :P
I hear ya. I'm fully expecting to throw my shoulder out while shaking my fist at those dang neighbourhood kids to get off my lawn!
Very late 40s now and I'm falling apart at an alarming rate...
Recovery takes so long for the mildest of things now. Only upside is lack of caring and needing less sleep.
Maybe if you were sleeping more, you would recover quicker :P
On a more serious note, have you had your iron/ferritin levels checked recently? I was right on the low end of okay for Ferritin but my GP has a sports medicine background and knows how active i am, he said he would like to see the level at around 80 instead of the 20 it was at. I have to supplement to get to that level but i feel so much better for it and feel like my body recovers alot better now which was one of the main reasons he wanted me to boost my levels
I did have my iron levels done earlier this year. They were good...can't recall the number though.
My sleep is actually okay. I just wake up refreshed after about 6 hours. Really hard to get more. Even if I have some weed I get maybe 7.
I'll talk to my GP about iron next time. Thanks for the tip 😁
I was walking to the bathroom from the kitchen and apparently this angered my spine.
It made its displeasure known quite loudly.
Let that be a lesson to you. Don't walk ever again!!
Obligatory meme
