#Gym Stats!
It was another push day and I came through just fine, no matter how it felt at certain moments. Working out has taught me how often I let how I feel at a current moment control that moment.
Between that and mindfulness, I’ve learned that I can step back and take stock independent of how I feel.
The result is progress on my goals. There’s a saying stenciled on the wall of this gym here. “The key to success is consistency to purpose.”
@NiveusLepus You inspire me! 129 minutes - wow! Is that daily or do you have off/on days?❤️💪❤️
@JGSchaeffer Six days a week. I take Sundays off.
I also do a half hour of warm up in the morning, just get going calisthenics. 3 minutes of plank, 100 leg lifts, things like that.
I spent a long time neglecting the health of this body, but over the last ten years, I’ve come to take better care of it.
I’m a long distance thru hiker, and I get so much from the work, even if some days its hard.
@NiveusLepus @JGSchaeffer Wow! That's awesome!
You flatter an old beast. ^_^ If it’s possible for me, it’s possible for anyone. Mired in self hatred, at 21, I was 370 lbs. I’ve learned and grown a lot since then, or it at least seems like I have made some progress.
The goals I chase, I chase because they serve my purposes. Having a high degree of physicality means I can respond better to what arises in my world. I often travel to help people in my network do things like move, or recover from surgery.
@NiveusLepus @TrueBloodNet OMG you are amazing! From 370 to where you are now. Just incredible!🤩🥰🤩
@JGSchaeffer @TrueBloodNet That glow to the west is me, my friend. ^_^
@NiveusLepus @JGSchaeffer That is amazing Becca. So proud of you!
I went from a very muscular 175 to 305 when I ripped the tendons out of my ankles in a snow incident in my late 30s. Took me over a decade to be diagnosed and then get it repaired. Another decade to really move the needle on weight down to my fighting weight. Then I bounced back to 250. During pandemic lockdown, I got fed up and started dancing through my chores, tracking calories etc, Now 5 lbs above being just fat. :) #Goals
@TrueBloodNet @NiveusLepus AWESOME! ❤️💃💃💃💃❤️
@TrueBloodNet @JGSchaeffer Yeah, I bounced back to 230 for a while there after an Injury in 2021 led to tend of my pacific crest trail thru hike at 2000 miles in. I was a month away from completing the whole trek and I got deeply demoralized.
I fought it back, put down the waffles, and got to work.
I’m resolved to keep coming back stronger than before.
@NiveusLepus @TrueBloodNet Wow again - both of you on persevering through injuries! I have this weird 50 lb slow bounce I’ve done several times now that I’d like to end with consistency in working out. 2009: 190; 2012: 140; 2017: 190; 2020: 140; 2023: 190. Enough!
@JGSchaeffer @NiveusLepus 2 things that helped me were working out a group of meals that I knew about what the calories were consistently and sticking to those until I had time and energy to figure more out. And secondly to increase my movements during every day activities. Dance while you do things like dishes and vacuuming. Lift milk jugs up and down while getting them from the fridge to the table - or cans whatever.
GL!
@TrueBloodNet @JGSchaeffer
Any amount of physical activity is good for the body, a 1/2 hour of walking is half hour you aren’t sitting in a chair, and those gains add up. People look at my 2 hrs and boggle, but I see people at the gym just getting started every day, or people in the sunset of their years, just being a boss, and those are the ones that are my heroes
I know how hard it is to get started and I know how hard it is to stay on that horse. If you give it your best, I’m proud of you