Correction -- I worked out yesterday too so that makes four days in a row! I walked over to RedWifey's parents' house and did a quick kettlebell triad in their backyard:
Sheesh, if you're gonna make me feel bad every time I try to be funny…
Ah, yes. Cue the violins...
I make good money and we live in a nice house. We have very little debt and have never missed a meal. I have a good job and we have savings accounts. Yet at this moment we cannot afford to spend $400 on more fitness toys. Tragic...
Your pity is appreciated.
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Hit the YMCA today -- nothing freaky to report, so maybe later I'll tell you a story that I've only shared orally with the people at the summit. Oral-only sharing... kinda like herpes, I guess.
Workout included:
Hip/glute activation and shoulder warmup
DB snatches (working up to 70 lbs for the first time)
Single-leg bridges (foot was sole-down on little-person swiss ball.. wow that makes it tough)
Seated rows
Farmer's holds (80 lbs each hand, 30 second hold, 60sec rest, 30 sec hold)
PNF
Swiss ball pike with pushup-plus -- 2 sets of 8
Barf.
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She looks ironcore, for sure. She's even using the "skull and barbed wire" grip!
Two things today. First, the old YMCA story that I shared at lunch one day during the summit. Second, a new August mini-challenge for myself, with some pretty serious stakes.
The YMCA story. So a few months ago I head into the locker room to get my workout clothes on. The lockers are in a "U" shape, taking up three walls of the room. I go to one corner, locker #36 out of 38, giving plenty of room on the other side in case someone else comes in. It's like the implicitly-understood urinal rules. Create space.
So I put my bag, PWO drink and other junk in the locker and start getting dressed. In walks a tall black dude, definite high-level athlete, maybe basketball. He comes in and just stands next to me, looking pissed off. "Something wrong?", I ask. "I want that locker.", he says.
What? He clearly just showed up to the gym and hasn't even picked a locker yet. It's not like I moved his stuff out of locker #36... I was here first. Whatever. I grab my stuff and move to the other side of the room, probably locker #5 or something. Once I get there I ask the guy, "So why do you have to have #36 when all the rest of these are available? Is that your lucky number of something?"
He just gives me the look of death and says nothing. That's my Y.
Now for the mini-challenge. As part of my career goals, I will close 10 deals this month. I haven't hit double digits on sales in a year, and so I'm going for it this month. Won't be easy.
The stakes are high. One of my dark secrets is that I was on the Bozo the Clown show when I was five years old. Televised silliness and game-show challenges like balloon-popping and ball-tossing. I have a picture at home of me and Bozo after the show. If I don't close 10 deals this month, I will scan and post the Bozo picture in this thread. That will give you all an unbelievable amount of ammo. I must close 10 deals.
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Clamshells
Pullups
Low-bench pistols (about mid-calf height) -- 3/2/1 on each leg
Wall slides
Bowling lunges
Rotating planks of fail
Had to keep it brief because there was a wreck on the highway that delayed my commute to the Y. No biggie.
There's a sign on the door to the steam room with some basic safety rules. One of them is supposed to say "Limit use to 10 minutes" but it's missing the letter "E" in the word "use". So instead it says:
Limit us to 10 minutes
It's almost like there are some dudes in there who put up the sign and want us to get them out. No thanks.
In the shower area there was a legendary farter. He did it over and over, and always moaned after each one. WTF?
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There's a sign on the door to the steam room with some basic safety rules. One of them is supposed to say "Limit use to 10 minutes" but it's missing the letter "E" in the word "use". So instead it says:
Limit us to 10 minutes
It's almost like there are some dudes in there who put up the sign and want us to get them out. No thanks.
My gym has signs that say:
"Replace weights. Somebody else is using them."
"Put dumbells away. Somebody beside you is using them."
On the second one, the spelling is intentional on my part, not the gym's part.
Yes I intend to read log next month regularly!!! I generally like to encourage people to make this goals but oddly I want to sabbatoge this one.
Your Y is unbelieveable. The farter reminds me of the grocery store. You guys prolly don't spend enough time in the grocery store to note this but the old ladies in the grocery store are hilarious with their farting. They sound like the lids on boiling pots of water and their hearing is broken so they do not realize it. Or maybe they do not care. I can't wait until I am there!
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the old ladies in the grocery store are hilarious with their farting. They sound like the lids on boiling pots of water and their hearing is broken so they do not realize it. Or maybe they do not care. I can't wait until I am there!
Mebbe you should change your tag-line to "when I am an old lady I shall wear purple and fart in the grocery store"
See all the things that guys miss out on by not doing the grocery shopping for the family on a regular basis? And YES I am going to be totally out of control as an old lady. Old ladies get away with EVERYTHING!
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Worked out today. I don't have a Y story, so instead I'll substitute with a story I heard yesterday. Trust me, it'll be the most awesome thing you hear all week.
Now the story. We know a man (not a friend or even an acquaintance... can't explain further), 91 years old, who had been ill for some time. Earlier this week nurses were tending to him at home and tried to catheterize him. They struggled to get it done, and it seemed like the old skinboat was coming out to play as they messed with it. They tried a few more times, and the sun continued to rise. Finally they gave up but there he laid, saluting them.
They asked the man and his wife if he had some kind of implant. They both said no, but unfortunately they're suffering from dementia and can't really be counted on to remember things like that. The nurses researched it on their own and figured out that he had a pump surgically inserted, and while they manipulated the sausage the pump inflated. They also learned that to deflate it you're supposed to pinch the tip.
You never know when info like that may come in handy.
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Was this pump inserted for urological reasons? I had a patient not long ago who had one of those pumps but the inflate/deflate was in his sac. It was used to control continence.
Also i am pretty good with exercises but what is a bowling lunge. Teach me oh Master.....
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Great question on the pump, James -- I have no idea. Maybe someone else here can throw us a bone?
The bowler's lunge is a standing lunge that looks just like the follow-through of a bowler. Instead of stepping forward or backward for a lunge, the free leg crosses behind the anchor leg. Balance is easier if the arm on the side of the free leg also swings behind the anchor side. It's sort of a redneck ballet move. Really gets the glute medius, which I need after two knee dislocations and a hip dislocation on the right side.
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Well, along the same lines, I'll tell you a story. My ex's 93-year old grandfather (dementia and a bit nuts), whom he took care of, fell and broke his hip/leg. He had to go to the nursing home for a couple weeks until he could go back home. Apparently, because of all the trauma and surgery, there was some significant bruising. I went to visit him in the nursing home and when I walked in the room he said, "My balls are black.....LOOK!" and pulled away his gown to show me. Nobody should ever have to see 93-year old black balls. I am still traumatized.
Interesting. Thanks. I had read that and had started to figure out what type of lunge that might be but I wanted to be sure. I can certainly see where it would fit into a program...
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Well, along the same lines, I'll tell you a story. My ex's 93-year old grandfather (dementia and a bit nuts), whom he took care of, fell and broke his hip/leg. He had to go to the nursing home for a couple weeks until he could go back home. Apparently, because of all the trauma and surgery, there was some significant bruising. I went to visit him in the nursing home and when I walked in the room he said, "My balls are black.....LOOK!" and pulled away his gown to show me. Nobody should ever have to see 93-year old black balls. I am still traumatized.
This is not an uncommon thing to happen in the medical world. Trauma, site specific edema, anasarca, etc all produce some strange results/swelling. At some point you become immune and are no longer traumatized...
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The bowler's lunge is a standing lunge that looks just like the follow-through of a bowler. Instead of stepping forward or backward for a lunge, the free leg crosses behind the anchor leg. Balance is easier if the arm on the side of the free leg also swings behind the anchor side. It's sort of a redneck ballet move.
Sounds like what I've always called a curtsy lunge. Are you too insecure to just admit that you're curtsying?
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