The Shrine

It's fucking killing me.


Anyway, it all started with the cool weather. I hadn't been able to do much in terms of working out over the summer, Wii Fit was shoved under the couch; etc.... It was TOO frigging hot! So I lazed about, ate a lot of candy canes left over from Christmas, started eating icecream; lots of BBQs where I totally pigged out, and I was even eating pizza probably as frequently as twice a week. Needless to say, I wasn't treating my body with the respect it deserves. I noticed I was getting a little thick in the middle, my navel had become a bit of an innie. I'm fucking fat! I mean I don't have any flab on me, but I'm fucking fat!

Septembe comes! Cool weather follows. I tip the scales at a whopping 225 pounds which puts me in the overweight category; and yes I am overweight.

I decide to make up for lost time and run 5 kilometers, I come in and do my Wii Fit strength exercises, and hammer the shit out of the boxing (No less than 30 minutes of it).

This was Friday evening and how I spent most of it. Saturday morning I woke up with the most painful kinks over my body I can ever remember having. I mean, it is so bad that deep breaths cause anguishing pain, I can't even sneeze. It takes me 5-10 minutes just to figure out how to get up from a lying down position. I can barely work my left arm.

Massages are really nice in this state, I mean orgazmically nice! That would be my one tip for ending up in this state.

On the bright side, no knee or leg issues, it is just my torso, under my arms and on my sides, my neck! It seems to be all over my back.

One thing that worked wonders was getting trashed, two bottles of Chillean wine, and some scotch, and I am feeling like a pirate. I still have the pain but it is no where near as bad. I was even able to perform.

A matter of 3 south park episodes and some YouTube shit and the sobering process was underway enough that the pain was returning. No sleep for me last night, none! At least not as of now, which is nearly 9:00.

Don't repeat my mistakes; if you take a break from working out, ease back in. Otherwise you'll pay with lots of pain and kinked up muscles. This is about the shittiest experience I can remember having in years. The best thing I can think of doing is sharing this incident with you, as I lie on my back in the middle of the living room floor (anything with give is TOO painful right now) writing on my iPhone: because that's about the only thin I can do right now besides read.

I used to smoke weed until I couldn't feel a thing and then lift weights for hours. Then I'd flex a bit. Sometimes that night I literally would have muscle spasms so bad I couldn't breathe and pain that left me sobbing. One day I also tried to run to the gym, do a workout, and run back in ninety-degree heat, then dig up a stump that night for good measure, and got a staph infection that left me near hallucinating and bedridden for a month. It's all about not overdoing it.

I cant go to the Dr's office without paying for it afterwards with back pain and aches all over...so shut it

I feel your pain, Sera. Seek, it's nice to know I'm not the only one who turns into a donut in August. It's just too hot to do much cardio. I, too, am working my way back down, but it's frustrating.

Mine is a temporary situation though I cant freaking wait to have my energy back.

Replay wrote:I feel your pain, Sera. Seek, it's nice to know I'm not the only one who turns into a donut in August. It's just too hot to do much cardio. I, too, am working my way back down, but it's frustrating.

I was feeling back to 100% by Wednesday. The problem with my muscles was that my body wouldn't let me use certain groups no matter how strongly I willed it. It was a bit of a nightmare.

Yeah, I found it impossible to exercise this summer. Figured I'd take a break and weather it. I might keep a blog about getting back into shape.

Guh, we are all in the same boat. I went to the dr. the other day for routine checkup stuff and my 6 foot frame weighed in at 175. While not terrible, i usually hover around 165 or even 160. So, i've started running again and every morning since i've been hella sore. Just takes time to get back in the swing of things.

I'm up in NY again this summer, and I can't train much BJJ. So I'm doing lots and lots of lifting. I'm up to 200 pounds and my appetite is out of control. I just came into the office and I'm already craving my mid-morning snack. I've lifted three days in a row this week, and tonight will probably make it four - but I'm taking the weekend off (so I can work and sleep).

I'll probably drop back down to around 190 when I get back to Blacksburg and start doing more BJJ than lifting.

Within the last year I've started having lower back soreness if I sit wrong in bed or anything. I have to sit totally straight now and support my back. It makes me sad.

I also have issues with my sciatic nerve. If I lean forward while sitting for a long time or something, then I will feel the nerve pop when I stand back up. It's freaky, but I don't know that there's much to do about that.

I don't know what I did but for the last two weeks my right foot has been very sore. The pain seems to move around from the top of my foot by my toes to all the way where my ankle meets my foot to the pad of my foot underneath where my toes meet my foot.

This all started after I moved into my house two weeks ago.

The pain has been getting better slightly day by day but man it hurts like a bitch still.

We are all getting so old...

LOL I was gonna say...this thread is starting to sound like a bunch of old people comparing aches and pains

Flip wrote:We are all getting so old...

Speak for yourselves, youngin's :-)

It's just bitchly to work out in late summer unless you own a membership to a gym with full A/C. You'd think you'd eat less because you're not working out so much and it's hot, but no, there's nothing to do outside, so you stay in the house and eat. I'm only about five pounds heavier than usual, but I SEE all of it every time I look in the mirror, every last lumpy ounce.

The gym I belong to up here was either skimping on A/C costs or just has terrible airflow, because it was often hot and humid in the free weights section.

But I find it easier to work out when it's warm outside than when it's cold. The gym I lift at in Blacksburg, and the place I train BJJ at both have bad heating, so it takes much longer to get warmed up in the winter. I'd also rather go for a run when it's 100 F than 32 F.

Kupek wrote:The gym I belong to up here was either skimping on A/C costs or just has terrible airflow, because it was often hot and humid in the free weights section.

But I find it easier to work out when it's warm outside than when it's cold. The gym I lift at in Blacksburg, and the place I train BJJ at both have bad heating, so it takes much longer to get warmed up in the winter. I'd also rather go for a run when it's 100 F than 32 F.

Aw, hell no. I'll go for a run in freezing weather anyday. You stay nice and warm. Keep me out of the blast furnace.

Yeah, I'm with Kupek. I'll take the heat over the cold. I begin sweating very easily when I work out. I barely do anything at Wing Chun and I'm dripping and that cools you down a bit. I cannot stand running in cold weather.

I wouldn't be able to tell you if it is my Canadian upbringing, doing a lot of winter related sports, or my North European ancestry, but I am a cool weather person. My favourite running period is after the first frost when the air is crisp and clean.

Well, my favorite time to run is when it's 75, sunny, slight breeze, no humidity. Good spring weather. Well, that's just "good weather," period. When it gets hotter, I take the extra heat as some kind of a masochistic challenge. But cold, ugh, I'm not warm until at least half a mile in, the air is dry so it kills my lungs (not in a good way), I just don't bother.

Recently, I don't run as a regular workout. If I run now, it's because the weather's nice and I think "Damn, I should go for a run."

Yeah, I refuse to run in cold weather. I just can't get motivated to go outside in the morning even if I'm wearing sweats, a ColdGear shirt, and hooded sweatshirt, and a knit cap. I'm still too cold until I've ran for a bit.

I'll jump outside and run for fun in good weather though. It's refreshing and mood lifting to run a couple miles in 75 degree air.

You guys are nuts. I'll run miles in the cold and love it (to the extent that I love any kind of running). My guess is that it's my build, being 5'5" and stocky means that heat doesn't dissipate from my body as easily. In cold weather it all evens out and leaves me feeling refreshed. Give me a 50F day anytime for running, if I'm going to go.

I am young and beautiful.

*smokes a cigarette*

And healthy too!

RentCavalier wrote:I am young and beautiful.

*smokes a cigarette*

And healthy too!

Ha, i was the same way. Ate whatever i wanted, only exercised when it was softball or racquetball, and stayed 160 no matter what i smoked or drank. Then 28 hit.