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the_gneechGrande skim white mocha and blueberry muffin ... those goombahs on Olympus with their ambrosia and nectar have no idea what they're missing!
On an unrelated note, Kung Fu last night was a mixed bag. On the one hand, I'm glad to be back in the saddle again, because I really need the workout. My form is still decent (for a no-belt) and my power is still good ... but my endurance really took a hit. I rapidly got not only winded, but teetering on nauseous just from the warmup, and never really recovered for the rest of class. At one point, Sifu Bloomfield told me not to feel bad about having to stop so often, because most of the other students were so much younger than me. Um, thanks? ;P
At 34, I'm not exactly ready for the walker ... but I have noticed in the past year that my ability to push my stamina has declined a bit. When my body wants to stop, it wants to STOP, and the harder I push to keep going, the harder it pushes back. This, as you might imagine, makes it a lot harder to build my endurance.
Stamina has always been my weak point, even when I was six I often had to stop and sit in the shade while everybody else was running around in the sun. My body overheats quickly and I find myself gasping for oxygen in a few short minutes. I can improve it (and have in the past), but the moment I stop working on it, it's lost immediately. My body just does NOT like it.
My high point, on the endurance scale, was when I lived at The Oaks and was jogging two or three times every week on the walk circuit there. I got to the point where I could jog the entire circuit once without stopping (about fifteen minutes worth of jog, including some very steep hills), but it took me about three months to get that far... Then we moved to Lionsgate, where jogging sucked, and I lost it all within a month.
[gamer geekery]I need to spend a boatload of eps on END and REC![/gamer geekery]
So basically, like I've been saying for months, I've got to work a weekly jog or two into my routine, just so I'm not paying $55/mo to stand around winded watching the rest of the class do Kung Fu every Wednesday. That should be easy, what with all this free time I've got! ;P
Stupid finite resources!
-The Gneech
On an unrelated note, Kung Fu last night was a mixed bag. On the one hand, I'm glad to be back in the saddle again, because I really need the workout. My form is still decent (for a no-belt) and my power is still good ... but my endurance really took a hit. I rapidly got not only winded, but teetering on nauseous just from the warmup, and never really recovered for the rest of class. At one point, Sifu Bloomfield told me not to feel bad about having to stop so often, because most of the other students were so much younger than me. Um, thanks? ;P
At 34, I'm not exactly ready for the walker ... but I have noticed in the past year that my ability to push my stamina has declined a bit. When my body wants to stop, it wants to STOP, and the harder I push to keep going, the harder it pushes back. This, as you might imagine, makes it a lot harder to build my endurance.
Stamina has always been my weak point, even when I was six I often had to stop and sit in the shade while everybody else was running around in the sun. My body overheats quickly and I find myself gasping for oxygen in a few short minutes. I can improve it (and have in the past), but the moment I stop working on it, it's lost immediately. My body just does NOT like it.
My high point, on the endurance scale, was when I lived at The Oaks and was jogging two or three times every week on the walk circuit there. I got to the point where I could jog the entire circuit once without stopping (about fifteen minutes worth of jog, including some very steep hills), but it took me about three months to get that far... Then we moved to Lionsgate, where jogging sucked, and I lost it all within a month.
[gamer geekery]I need to spend a boatload of eps on END and REC![/gamer geekery]
So basically, like I've been saying for months, I've got to work a weekly jog or two into my routine, just so I'm not paying $55/mo to stand around winded watching the rest of the class do Kung Fu every Wednesday. That should be easy, what with all this free time I've got! ;P
Stupid finite resources!
-The Gneech
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Date: 2003-11-06 08:24 am (UTC)Soon you learn to walk fast and cover two or three miles without even realizing it, from what I've learned. It's saved me the need for a car :) Everything I need is now in my "walking" distance!
Lizard Rat out.
Walking In Circles in Rensselaer
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Date: 2003-11-06 12:15 pm (UTC)If I may be so bold as to say it, it sounds like you might be a bit asthmatic. This sounds like my life story, and I have found that my endurance, defined as my ability to not get winded, improves tenfold when I have Albuterol and Beclamethisone inhalers available. A little blast of Albuterol as you leave the house for class and you'll be showing those youngsters that they're no match for the wiles of age.
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Date: 2003-11-06 01:23 pm (UTC)However, I'm going to get a full physical sometime in the not-too-distant future, and this is one of the issues I'll bring up.
-The Gneech
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Date: 2003-11-06 02:33 pm (UTC)Bleh. I need to walk more too. And get a Starbucks Visa card.