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clevermanka) wrote2012-04-17 08:10 am
clevermanka) wrote2012-04-17 08:10 am
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Wouldn't it be nice
I have an eye exam this morning at 9:15, and then acupuncture at 10:30, so I'm just sorta hanging out on the couch with some coffee and the internet, thinking wouldn't it be awesome if every morning was like this. YES, YES IT WOULD.
At my eye exam, I'm going to ask Dr. Crandon about colored contacts. I've always wanted blue/gray contacts (especially if I can scrounge the money to pay for a spray tan for dancing at KCRF), and that eye color would be perfect for the Sherlock costume, too. They're shockingly cheap when you don't have a prescription put in them ($48 for a pack of six pairs!), so I don't feel like I'm putting a lot of (well, a lot more) money down for this costume. At least the coat is going to be mighty fine.
Oh, hey, speaking of money. I'm selling my short bloomers at Star Struck Clothing here in town. Tell your friends, tell your grandmas. Bloomers. At Star Struck Clothing. I also make custom orders, so drop me a line if you're interested. $30 a pair.
My latest exercise crush, Nerd Fitness, just posted a video of himself exercising all over the world. I'm embedding it, but please also go watch it on YouTube so he gets the page hits/views counted. And like it, too. Here is his post about it, and if you read it, you'll understand why I'm asking you to give him some page hits and share this yourself.
And speaking of exercise, last night I totally earned a gold star for going to Crossfit even though I was completely wiped out. Yesterday was a bad day for me, pain-wise, and even though I slept probably eight hours on Sunday night, I was still running on a sleep deficit. I had to take two naps at work. My left hip was aching pretty bad, even after the walk home, and I worried about making it worse but I was more worried about what it would do to my mental space if I skipped out on my promised schedule. So I went.
OMG they had us run with a fucking kettleball for kind of a long way. For me. Shoot me. Man, I suck at running. Then we worked on handstands and headstands, which have never been a strong suit for me, although I certainly gave them my best shot. Thomas, the trainer who spent so much time with me last week, gave me some ideas about why I have such a hard time getting upside down even when I have no mental block with it (like I do with box jumps). And of course of course of course it's related to the issues I have with my hip pain.
Basically, every muscle group between my hips and my knees is fucked. Quads, hamstrings, IT bands, adductors, abductors, all of it. If it's not tight, it's weak and tight. Thomas hypothesized that all the tightness and lack of strength is what makes it near impossible for me to kick up into a head- or handstand. Once I'm up there, I can stay for a reasonable amount of time (handstand better than headstand). It's the getting up there that's so difficult. And (possibly, probably) all because of the issues I have with weak and tight upper leg muscles.
So--something to add to the To Do For My Body list: Serious daily stretching and foam rolling of those muscle groups. Daily. And by Daily, I don't mean "days I remember to do it." I mean "daily before you're allowed to eat dinner." These things must loosen up a bit before they can develop into long, lean muscles.
There's a metaphor in there, somewhere.
At my eye exam, I'm going to ask Dr. Crandon about colored contacts. I've always wanted blue/gray contacts (especially if I can scrounge the money to pay for a spray tan for dancing at KCRF), and that eye color would be perfect for the Sherlock costume, too. They're shockingly cheap when you don't have a prescription put in them ($48 for a pack of six pairs!), so I don't feel like I'm putting a lot of (well, a lot more) money down for this costume. At least the coat is going to be mighty fine.
Oh, hey, speaking of money. I'm selling my short bloomers at Star Struck Clothing here in town. Tell your friends, tell your grandmas. Bloomers. At Star Struck Clothing. I also make custom orders, so drop me a line if you're interested. $30 a pair.
My latest exercise crush, Nerd Fitness, just posted a video of himself exercising all over the world. I'm embedding it, but please also go watch it on YouTube so he gets the page hits/views counted. And like it, too. Here is his post about it, and if you read it, you'll understand why I'm asking you to give him some page hits and share this yourself.
And speaking of exercise, last night I totally earned a gold star for going to Crossfit even though I was completely wiped out. Yesterday was a bad day for me, pain-wise, and even though I slept probably eight hours on Sunday night, I was still running on a sleep deficit. I had to take two naps at work. My left hip was aching pretty bad, even after the walk home, and I worried about making it worse but I was more worried about what it would do to my mental space if I skipped out on my promised schedule. So I went.
OMG they had us run with a fucking kettleball for kind of a long way. For me. Shoot me. Man, I suck at running. Then we worked on handstands and headstands, which have never been a strong suit for me, although I certainly gave them my best shot. Thomas, the trainer who spent so much time with me last week, gave me some ideas about why I have such a hard time getting upside down even when I have no mental block with it (like I do with box jumps). And of course of course of course it's related to the issues I have with my hip pain.
Basically, every muscle group between my hips and my knees is fucked. Quads, hamstrings, IT bands, adductors, abductors, all of it. If it's not tight, it's weak and tight. Thomas hypothesized that all the tightness and lack of strength is what makes it near impossible for me to kick up into a head- or handstand. Once I'm up there, I can stay for a reasonable amount of time (handstand better than headstand). It's the getting up there that's so difficult. And (possibly, probably) all because of the issues I have with weak and tight upper leg muscles.
So--something to add to the To Do For My Body list: Serious daily stretching and foam rolling of those muscle groups. Daily. And by Daily, I don't mean "days I remember to do it." I mean "daily before you're allowed to eat dinner." These things must loosen up a bit before they can develop into long, lean muscles.
There's a metaphor in there, somewhere.
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(Though short distances a la Crossfit ought to.)
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You must have reached an ultimate level of amazing! Congrats!
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I can't imagine running eight blocks.
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Although, I'm not sprinting as fast as I can carrying a kettle ball--other than the kettle ball I have distributed throughout my body.
You may always feel miserable when you run, but one day you'll be surprised that you have to run faster with more weight to get to that state of miserable.
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I shall take those words of encouragement and treasure them. Because really. Right now I'm miserable after about twenty feet.