Update

Not much changes, except the amount of night/pre-dawn.  It's definitely dark dark when I'm rolling out of the house at 0530.  And today it was definitely raining.  I've gotten a Hi-Viz rain shell, liberally striped with wide swaths of reflective tape.  For my feet I'm working on keeping my socks dry using gaiters.  So far, ok.  I did manage to wind the string that goes under my instep around the pedal tight enough to make me stop and untangle it.  Now I tuck the string into the gaiter.  Learning, learning.

As for the daily work-out, yesterday was > 12,000 steps.  Oof.

Bad knees? Here's your saint...

it was so fucking cold.  I had three pairs of gloves on and i hired some extra chins to keep my neck warm.....

And cold.

We go to the Y 3 times a week and do the water excerize. It seems to be working.

Joe is retired from being an Anesthesiologist on the west coast, then teaching Anesthesiology in Virginia.
He's also has been an avid runner for the last 20 years, outdoors and treadmill.
He posted yesterday that when he gets sore joints and muscles from overdoing it he changes shoes. Claims every make and model shoe put pressure on the body in different ways and changing shoes can be just enough difference. Try it, can't hurt.
He discovered this years ago when he suffered a plantar fasciitis injury and changing shoes made all the pain disappear.
 

Good luck to you, friend.

Weightlifting is just 100% not for me.  I get that the resistance produces the effect in your muscles you like, great, you go guy.  But not I, said the pig.

Hi Beestie!  I was wondering where you were.  I'm sorry about the shit, but I agree, do something physical, it really makes a difference

Hi Beestie you are right we need to move. Sorry about your losses.

I am very proud to say that I'm entering week 7 of doing a workout or comparable activity 3x a week.  There were a couple weeks I almost said fuck it, but I did something on Saturday to get the check mark

Congratulations, sounds like you've created a habit. That's 99% of the path to success

I was getting swole asf but then I got a deep tooth infection and literally laid in bed completely immobile for a week. It's super hard to get my momentum back. I have some new exercise theory to apply--

"Leaving reps in the tank" which is super counter-intuitive to what I've always done, which was taking every set to complete mechanical failure. Bro science in the 90s said "your muscle doesn't get the signal to grow until you hit failure." Current research says 1-2 reps from failure may be nearly as effective, with greatly reduced recovery costs. Basically you have 1) volume, 2) frequency, and 3) intensity. If you have the intensity turned up to 11, you don't have any room to adjust the other two factors-- you're either stuck with long recovery times, leading to less frequency/volume, or over-training and plateaued results.

Additionally, the most effective way for a natural lifter to grow (stimulate testosterone production to initiate muscle protein synthesis) is to train whole-body compound movements as often as 5-6 days per week. Impossible if you're hitting failure every set. As opposed to enhanced lifters, whose bloodstream is swimming with exogenous hormones and do not need their training to stimulate testosterone production. Basically, juicers can do a "bro split" hitting isolation movements for each body part 2x per week and while this is ineffective for stimulating testosterone, they are injecting testosterone analogues and don't need their endocrine system to do anything.
 

Last edited by Flint (4/26/2022 3:12 pm)

@glatt - Thanks!  It's the longest streak since I lost the gym and classes I used to take.  I don't think I'll ever get back to that level, but 3x a week ain't bad
@flint - working on a habit

That's smart planning!