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Post by LowKey on Aug 26, 2014 4:42:30 GMT
(Dannus, this isn't directed at you.) I am about sick of the phrase "First World Problems". To me it implies that those of us "lucky enough" to be living in the first world don't have any real problems and have no legitimate grounds for complaining. There are homeless in the first world. There are hungry people in first world. There are all manner of ills in the first world. The first world isn't a magical land of fairies, unicorns, filled with happy thoughts. Likewise there are rich, privileged people living in the third world. The phrase "First World Problems" was created to instill guilt in people living in the western world to justify all sorts of shenanigans. Replace "First World" with the ethnic group of you choosing (normally one perceived as privileged) and you'll see the implied racism in the phrase. |
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Post by Gingerbread Man on Aug 26, 2014 10:20:46 GMT
I'm right there with you. I want MOAR cake and pudding but stick with salad and kale.
I'll be at the gym tonight too. Going to try to do 11 pull ups.
That's an excellent analysis of the "First World Problems" remark. Shit, sure, I could bitch about a lot of stuff and have my own crap to deal with but they still are my problems. The people who lived here before us worked their asses off to give us this life style. I've been to a bunch of 1st world place as well as 3rd. There are shitholes and great places in all of them.
So yeah, the FWP remark is a false leader and guilt inducer, IMO. Our problems are ours, we can bitch if we want to. 'Murica isn't perfect and neither is my life.
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Post by dannusmaximus on Aug 26, 2014 13:12:09 GMT
Errrr. Won't use the term 'first world problem' anymore...  Will still bitch that I want moar bacon...  |
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Post by LowKey on Aug 26, 2014 15:05:24 GMT
Errrr. Won't use the term 'first world problem' anymore... Will still bitch that I want moar bacon... Bro, use it all you want...I'm not who you have to worry about keeping happy. That person (definitely and definitively not me  ) shares a pillow with you. Really man, it was just a vent/observation about the phrase. I've used it myself more than once, I've just tried to stop now that I realize what it really means. And don't bitch that you want MOAR bacon. You want MOAR bacon and MOAR cheese on MOAR CHEEZEBURGERS. Preferably hickory smoked. You're finicky that way. ...now go coil a hose or something while the other boys playing fireman light up the grill and eat your food.  |
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Post by nxp on Aug 27, 2014 3:14:36 GMT
You know what? Eating right sucks. Pushing yourself away from a second helping of fries sucks. Eating your cheeseburger with 1/2 piece of cheese and no bun because you're trimming calories every chance you get sucks. First world problems, I know. But I'm still going to cry and complain, more so because simply saying no to that second helping of awesome fire station tastiness is the single biggest thing I can do to lose the weight I want to lose. I can't outrun or outlift another huge plateful of meatloaf and mashed potatoes. I have to just say no to it. I'm going to sulk now... Could be worse (or better if you're one of those strange vegitable loving critters that wander around here), they changed everything out in the cafeteria with color codes for us. Green is health and good for you even if it tastes like someone rubbed a wooden plank with a steak. Yellow means it has cheese on it. Red is BAD - or everything that you want to eat like butterscotch pudding or something they call a hamburger (no, cheese doesn't put it back into yellow). Everything with the exception of a few things are green, so they sort of force you into healthy. And charge accordingly for it. Bleh. "The greatest way we can help our patients to eat healthy is to eat healthy ourselves!" Don't get me started on the health blackmail they pull off for insurance. In the meantime, I put 6gal of water into a spare quarter slim and did keg drills in the back yard. I am pooped. Goal is to get the keg filled, and then maybe move up to the halfbarrel. |
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Post by Gingerbread Man on Sept 11, 2014 12:17:36 GMT
Okay, I've been focuing a bit on strength training, not to GET RIPPPPEEDDDD!!! GGAARR:::!!! No.
I have been just for general fitness and conditioning. Anyway, I started a few weeks ago adding the bench press back into my routine. The last session I put up 185 12 times. Next set was 215 for 10 reps. Then I added up to 240 for 6 reps. Screw it, let's see if I can go up. I put 265 on there a fatigued after 3 reps.
I'm pleased my work is paying off. Now, I just need to do it without hurting myself so I'm going to back off the heavy weights.
Anyone else getting closer to their goals? I've gone back up to 225 lbs. I was hovering around 220 lbs but I have been eating a lot lately and drinking more than usual due to company coming by. I need to chill out and get back to more cardio.
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Post by LowKey on Sept 11, 2014 13:59:08 GMT
I'm still out of action at the gym. Tore my right glute on weighted squats and tried going back too soon and messed it up again. Also moved from night shift to days, so less time at lunch + more crowded gym = I dowanna mesa around hurrying in a crowd.
I may see if my wife will teach me yoga. She picked it up about..what...4 months ago and can now do some amazing stuff. Me, I've got the flexibility of a railroad tie.
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Post by dannusmaximus on Sept 11, 2014 14:46:03 GMT
Getting closer to my goals? Kind of... I've dropped about 15 pounds, which gets me just under 210, which in theory is just a little more than what I weighed the last time I slid into my dress blues and they actually fit. The pants are okay at this point, but the top? Not so much. Either I've accumulated much extra tit and shoulder fat in the ensuing years, or I've spent the last 15 years doing heavier weightlifting and have just thickened up and filled out with old man strength. I've stopped lifting and am just doing push ups, dips, and pullups. Never thought I would be trying to lose muscle mass, but hey. It's giving my joints a rest at any rate. |
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Post by RTF Squared on Sept 12, 2014 2:45:32 GMT
Been at a stalemate with my fitness goals lately. I've been dieting and have lost substantial weight, but getting healthier isn't synonymous with more fit. Working in the install bay has me in all sorts of fucked up positions in, about and under cars, and it's translating pain in the lower back, left knee and left shoulder. Spending 20 minutes on your back looking up into a dashboard with the center of your spine on the door sill hurts. Cramming yourself into the trunk of a Mustang with a huge ported subwoofer enclosure to wire shit up sucks too.
I think a decent amount of it stems from average to poor fitness when I started. It's a pretty shitty cycle of excuses. I'm beating myself up at work because I'm out of shape, and I'm not exercising because I'm all beat up from work. I need to sack up and get myself in gear here.
At least there is some upsides, I've gotten really good at crawling on my back while running cables under cars and cramming myself into small places. Those skills may come in handy someday.......
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Post by redeyes on Sept 12, 2014 5:30:27 GMT
Dropped about 10lb and am up to two full pullups.
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Post by Gingerbread Man on Sept 12, 2014 15:13:57 GMT
I ended my workout last night and wanted to practice my kicks and punchs on the standing heavy bag. My first kick was a full force round kick kncoking the bag at a 45 degree lean. Well, someone left their phone on top of the bag and it went flying. It skipped a few times across the floor.
Oppps.
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Post by Browning35 on Sept 12, 2014 16:25:28 GMT
Starting to get leaner.
Scale yesterday said 223 lbs (easy number to remember) down from 240-something even though I quit dipping as well.
I also quit dipping, that's fucking hard. I almost ripped some dudes face off the other day (he was being an asshole to my 3 yr old son for making this really annoying noise in line at the gas station that he got off this penguin cartoon Pingu over and over again while I was already trying to get him to stop. - just to be clear I didn't hit the guy or anything). I put on the top level nicotine patch after that and haven't raged out on anyone since. I go down to the next level patch in a couple days. He was kinda asking for it though and I would have said something regardless, but the nic-fit did add something to the intensity.
I dropped a couple pants sizes (now at 36x34) in the process even though I didn't really gain that much while I wasn't lifting. I'm 6'3 in socks and 6'4 in shoes, so it wasn't exactly like I was wider than I was taller.
Mostly eating oatmeal, fruit, sandwiches, chicken, salads, drinking water instead of soda and that kinda thing. I'm walking, doing calisthenics and free weights. I don't have a bench right now, need to buy one.
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Post by redeyes on Sept 15, 2014 5:00:47 GMT
I really need to do more cardio. I am working 60 hours a week 12 hours a night on a nursing unit and doing some physical work on my second day off, so I don't really want to be on my feet anymore than I am already. Still, I suck at running. I guess I should add in running maybe once or twice a week. I started doing all this overtime a few months ago. I am slowly getting used to it. I just don't want to do too much and be ineffective at work or injure myself. Inadequate sleep is a big factor. I work nights and while the sleep situation has been getting better, I am not assured a full eight hours every day or even uninterrupted sleep. Sucks feeling completely wrecked by your third day at work. I didn't do anything on my second day off last week and I feel pretty good right now even though it is day 5 at work. Maybe another month or so and I will be alright.
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Post by LowKey on Sept 15, 2014 16:28:53 GMT
Careful with the massive hours. I've been doing 6 and 7 twelve hour shifts for yen years and in all honestyit takes a brutal toll over time. I'd advise not going any further down that particular rabbit hole.
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Post by nxp on Sept 16, 2014 4:13:24 GMT
B35 - good on ya for working off dip. That stuff is a PITA to get out of your mind, but you'll be better for it. I dipped through the 20's, got married, had kids and quit. Hardest part was finding something other than gum to chew on (went through a lot of baby carrots). That Smoke Mountain Snuff is okay, it's not perfect - but it does have some hot pepper for the burn and it feels like the real deal, good for when you just want something there but not the nic. Sounds silly, but hopefully you won't need it. I still buy a tin of SM here/there depending on which stresser is kicking my ass at the time - and even then I end up tossing 90% of it. Can't stand the real thing anymore, gives me terrible heartburn and I feel like crap.
Almost cut Dt. MtDew out of my diet completely, and it's killing me. I'm up to almost a gallon of some water-based drink (tea, those MIO things, whatever I can put into water to make it taste like not-water). I love the bubbles. At least I have my beer...
Looking over my sad little home gym, I'm actually a little proud of it. I need to grab an Airdyne, because I hate using Mrs NXP's treadmill, and a small/large sandbag (I have no room for weights), and I think I'll be mostly set for the moment. NXP needs more cardio! Walking around all day at work at a moderately elevated heart rate does not equal HIIT. I may steal a lead vest or two and go do stairs in the tower...
Also - I tried doing a few pull-up today. I am dissappoint. I used to be able to do 30+, one armed, the whole nine - now I'm pooped at 5 and things are making cracking sounds that shouldn't crack.
I'd like to blame the fact that I was swinging a 4lb hammer all day yesterday taking out a chimney brick by brick, but that's not gonna fly here..
NXP
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