Feral peeves that I shouldn't feed, but that keep coming around looking hungry

[flexagon]

Overhyped email from recruiters whose company, when I dig into it, is found to be 3000 miles away. Why is business location not a prominent part of every recruitment email?

Not being able to order bathroom tile online with a few clicks, like I can anything else in the world. (Not remodeling the bathroom yet, but I found my dream tile [not the right color] and I'm feeling flush, so I thought I might order a batch before it gets discontinued...)

Circus, martial arts and yoga people dissing the "regular gym". Sorry, but plenty of smart training happens at regular gyms, and there's equipment at the good ones that's great for functional training. If you don't know your way around one, that's hardly something to be proud of.

Weeks with not enough workouts. UGH. I know muscle doesn't waste away so quickly, but it takes much less time to start feeling like a sluggety slug slug... and when I don't work out I fall into the sort of creeping resentment, anger and fear about work that smells like burnout.

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[islenskr.livejournal.com]

I love those tiles! I can certainly understand your desire to get it right away. That company has some beautiful tile

Slug: I'm right where you are. Feeling exactly like a slug. Slug slug slug. And it seems to feed on itself. And yes, the burnout! And I don't know about you, but I start getting twitchy and angry at the smallest things.

Hoping we both get back to regular workouts.

[flexagon]

Yes... I'm definitely getting more angry and snappy. I did go to the gym yesterday and have a long, kind of lazy workout that left me feeling better (although then I came home and worked and felt worse).

Is your upper body okay? Could you go to the gym and get a decent upper body lifting workout while you wait for the knee? I know that's not your idea of the most fun ever, but I find that even un-fun workouts can banish the slug feeling.

[islenskr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my upper body is okay, and I've been trying to beat myself into being motivated, because honestly, just a bum knee isn't any sort of excuse for not going to the gym. Plus, I can certainly do *some* core stuff (which is actually kind of necessary right now). This slug thing feeds on itself, at least for me.

[soong.livejournal.com]

Regular gyms are full of big scary smelly meatheads, right? Stereotypes are a wonderful time-saving device.
But mostly my old regular gym membership hardly got used and going once a month didn't make it worth the cost, so I dropped it. I didn't find a way to make the activity itself feel worthwhile. Annoying stuff now for possible future returns didn't motivate me. I got bored.
(Interesting, challenging, fun stuff now, and positive future side effects, works much better for me. Thus I've been able to stick with karate, and climbing and circus over the years.)
On the third hand, I've noted to myself and other several times lately that spending more time lifting ye olde weights might help me get better at lifting people.

[flexagon]

Could be. One nice thing about weights is that they come in a nicely graduated variety, and they don't get impatient or tired when you want to practice the same thing 10 times in a row.

I don't care if anyone goes to the regular gym, I'm just getting tired of overhearing the dissing. Too many of the best moments of my life have been in regular gyms. There are a lot of things I don't do regularly (swimming, CrossFit, martial arts...) but I think they probably all have a place in the fitness story of someone that I can respect. Even the really stupid ones are way better than nothing, and everyone starts somewhere, and people evolve, you know? So I don't diss them.

[soong.livejournal.com]

karls has a nice phrase about the dissing: "Don't Yuk my Yum"

[ellenclaire.livejournal.com]

Agreed that good regular gyms have plenty of equipment that can be used for functional movement. I spent lots of time in the gym in Brattleboro when I was there for pro-track, and really enjoyed most of that time.

Some less good gyms have none of that stuff, and instead have row after row of stepper machines with TVs attached, so people can zone out of their workout. Although I understand everyone's fitness routine starts somewhere, and I applaud efforts to become more fit, I do think it's unhelpful on many levels to encourage zoning out when exercising.

Anyway, I hear you on the anti-dissing sentiment. And/but, I bet you could have some really interesting discussions and educate more than a few people if you hopped in on some of those conversations.

[flexagon]

So true, some gyms really are lacking in smart things.

I'd probably have spoken up during one particular conversation last week, if I had known at the time it would keep bothering me for hours, but I didn't realize. Next time... :-)

[islenskr.livejournal.com]

Haha! I love that stereotype.
The gym I go to is populated mostly by senior citizens. I think the meatheads come out in the evening.