How often do you hit the "gym" ?
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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.
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A few times a week
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.
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A few times a week
Pickleball is fun but I refuse to give in.
Tennis or nothing except on vacation.
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A few times a week
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.
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I'm crushing WODs Mike Damone Style (i.e., almost every day)
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.
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A few times a week
I have a steel plate and 18 screws in my right arm from skiing. Not gonna quit though.
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A few times a week
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.
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I'm crushing WODs Mike Damone Style (i.e., almost every day)
I'm built like a Lego, but probably have second best cardio on board next to Yella
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A few times a week
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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I'm crushing WODs Mike Damone Style (i.e., almost every day)
sounds like a fundraising opportunity
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I'm crushing WODs Mike Damone Style (i.e., almost every day)
4x a week:
All legs
Chest/upper back
Shoulders/triceps
Legs/lower back/biceps
Cardio only as a warmup. Fuck running in all ways.
