Your aversion to military press is how I feel about deadlifts. Feels like a back injury waiting to happen. Squats and barbell high pulls are good enough for me.
Both hammie’s at the same tim? T’s and P’s. I tore my right hammy in August of 2002 playing soccer. Exactly a year later, I tore the left playing rugby. I then had to drive a stick shift home. Took months to recover enough to run more than 2 miles and even then sprints or any sudden movement scared me.
C2 rower and bad backs don't mix. Fortunately, I didn't screw up my back as a UW galley slave (not true of a lot ex rowers) so doesn't bother my back at all.
That said, I try to limit C2 use to 2 or 3 days a weeks tops and don't so any crazy 2K sprints anymore.
I don't anything requires more complex movements. It's pretty hard to screw up bench press, pull ups, back squats, etc unless you're a total dumbass. I'll let the cross fit bros succumb to all the injuries.
I had four knee surgeries before I graduated from high school. Eight years of football, six asphalt motorcycle crashes (one really bad) and about 100 offroad (worst resulting in separated shoulder). Tendons in my wrist are severed from crashing, so really easy to reinjure them. My lower back is so fucked up that I can't think about lifting anything heavy without being unable to walk for a week. The double hamstring tear and shoulder nerve damage are only the latest to heap on the pile.
I rode myself hard and put myself away wet, and now I'm a turnip.
I played hoops, tennis, pickle ball, all competitively into my late 30’s…shut that down after witnessing 2 ACLs and 2 Achilles get blown up, in a 2 month span, all in my age range…
Same. Concussion playing rec ball at age 37. Taking a charge at any age is fucking stupid. Taking a charge in rec ball was a feeble attempt at reliving glory days. Skull meeting hardwood, not good
Thereby avoided the blown Achilles and ACLs phase of middle age.
You can't "pull" fat as John Daly used to say (aka NEVER)
I was playing pick up hoops (ILTCIH) until my mid 30s. Great exercise but terrible on my knees.
Played pickle ball at the gym 2010-2011 before for all the hipsters caught on. Felt a pop in my calf and I was done. I was in New York last month with lil Nacho and in Central Park, an ice rink has been converted to a huge pickle ball complex with a dozen or so courts set up. Fucking hipsters, man.
I kept my back intact too but had knee tendonitis come out of football injuries coupled with rowing. It hurts plenty from golf but not like others end up with. What always gets me is seeing people on the C2 with the damper set at max. Like, no, that is not the point. Anytime my back is feeling a little off I lower the damper setting and it usually helps to loosen it up. I've been able to manage the knees well enough and find yoga more than anything is the cure for them.
I think there is a place for exercise that is not repetitive and gets you unpredictable plyometric movements even as you get older. Preventing injury is obviously more important but you want to keep your coordination and keep the brain firing. What sucks is doing all the other work to prevent injury in such movements - stretching, core work etc. Tennis is pretty good for this and I've grown to really like playing it on clay which is so much softer and easy on the body. Hand-eye coordination of hitting a moving target, unpredictable movements and high intensity cardio follow by recovery over and over.
Any time I see the damper set at 10, I laff. I prefer a lighter drag factor of around 110 which usually is somewhere around 5.5 to 5.75 on a the damper setting. Anything between 110 and 140 is acceptable though.
We're really lucky live in a place where non repetitive outdoor exercise is so easy. Mt Biking is a much better form of exercise that road biking (or peleton) and way more fun. Skiing hard on a powder day or ripping groomers is as good of a leg/core workout as there is. There's a reason why there are no fatties on the West Side of White Wakanda. If you go East where the (no skiing / no mt biking) pours live, the fatties are in proportion to state average.
Basically all of this. At about 35 I collided with a teammate playing flag football who broke both bones in his lower leg and now has a rod. I was done right then.
As much as I want to ski the strained knee ligaments I acquired on Mt. Hood at 18 years old made that my last act of skiing ever. I have not regretted retirement.
I wanna see @Doogles vs @UW_Doog_Bot in a rugby scrum at the next Hardcore Husky Natty Game tailgate. Thick Puerto Rican thighs vs Squarehead Viking Quads.
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Sprints are good. I like to do them on sandy beaches for some extra perspective.
I avoid military press like the plague due to a fucked up shoulder. C2 rower and bench/push ups don't seem to bother things though.
Your aversion to military press is how I feel about deadlifts. Feels like a back injury waiting to happen. Squats and barbell high pulls are good enough for me.
Both hammie’s at the same tim? T’s and P’s. I tore my right hammy in August of 2002 playing soccer. Exactly a year later, I tore the left playing rugby. I then had to drive a stick shift home. Took months to recover enough to run more than 2 miles and even then sprints or any sudden movement scared me.
C2 rower and bad backs don't mix. Fortunately, I didn't screw up my back as a UW galley slave (not true of a lot ex rowers) so doesn't bother my back at all.
That said, I try to limit C2 use to 2 or 3 days a weeks tops and don't so any crazy 2K sprints anymore.
I don't anything requires more complex movements. It's pretty hard to screw up bench press, pull ups, back squats, etc unless you're a total dumbass. I'll let the cross fit bros succumb to all the injuries.
Is “hitting the gym” code for masturbating furiously?
I had four knee surgeries before I graduated from high school. Eight years of football, six asphalt motorcycle crashes (one really bad) and about 100 offroad (worst resulting in separated shoulder). Tendons in my wrist are severed from crashing, so really easy to reinjure them. My lower back is so fucked up that I can't think about lifting anything heavy without being unable to walk for a week. The double hamstring tear and shoulder nerve damage are only the latest to heap on the pile.
I rode myself hard and put myself away wet, and now I'm a turnip.
I played hoops, tennis, pickle ball, all competitively into my late 30’s…shut that down after witnessing 2 ACLs and 2 Achilles get blown up, in a 2 month span, all in my age range…
Same. Concussion playing rec ball at age 37. Taking a charge at any age is fucking stupid. Taking a charge in rec ball was a feeble attempt at reliving glory days. Skull meeting hardwood, not good
Thereby avoided the blown Achilles and ACLs phase of middle age.
No need to throw it down big man after age 22.
Hell, my wife retired from hoops fully at age 22 and still needed a brand new fucking hip some 2 decades later.
I was playing pick up hoops (ILTCIH) until my mid 30s. Great exercise but terrible on my knees.
Played pickle ball at the gym 2010-2011 before for all the hipsters caught on. Felt a pop in my calf and I was done. I was in New York last month with lil Nacho and in Central Park, an ice rink has been converted to a huge pickle ball complex with a dozen or so courts set up. Fucking hipsters, man.
I kept my back intact too but had knee tendonitis come out of football injuries coupled with rowing. It hurts plenty from golf but not like others end up with. What always gets me is seeing people on the C2 with the damper set at max. Like, no, that is not the point. Anytime my back is feeling a little off I lower the damper setting and it usually helps to loosen it up. I've been able to manage the knees well enough and find yoga more than anything is the cure for them.
I think there is a place for exercise that is not repetitive and gets you unpredictable plyometric movements even as you get older. Preventing injury is obviously more important but you want to keep your coordination and keep the brain firing. What sucks is doing all the other work to prevent injury in such movements - stretching, core work etc. Tennis is pretty good for this and I've grown to really like playing it on clay which is so much softer and easy on the body. Hand-eye coordination of hitting a moving target, unpredictable movements and high intensity cardio follow by recovery over and over.
Pickleball is fun but I refuse to give in.
Tennis or nothing except on vacation.
Any time I see the damper set at 10, I laff. I prefer a lighter drag factor of around 110 which usually is somewhere around 5.5 to 5.75 on a the damper setting. Anything between 110 and 140 is acceptable though.
We're really lucky live in a place where non repetitive outdoor exercise is so easy. Mt Biking is a much better form of exercise that road biking (or peleton) and way more fun. Skiing hard on a powder day or ripping groomers is as good of a leg/core workout as there is. There's a reason why there are no fatties on the West Side of White Wakanda. If you go East where the (no skiing / no mt biking) pours live, the fatties are in proportion to state average.
Basically all of this. At about 35 I collided with a teammate playing flag football who broke both bones in his lower leg and now has a rod. I was done right then.
I have a steel plate and 18 screws in my right arm from skiing. Not gonna quit though.
As much as I want to ski the strained knee ligaments I acquired on Mt. Hood at 18 years old made that my last act of skiing ever. I have not regretted retirement.
I'm built like a Lego, but probably have second best cardio on board next to Yella
I wanna see @Doogles vs @UW_Doog_Bot in a rugby scrum at the next Hardcore Husky Natty Game tailgate. Thick Puerto Rican thighs vs Squarehead Viking Quads.
sounds like a fundraising opportunity