Your Health Is Your Wealth (3 Viewers)

[seanc]

Your 10-year QRISK®2 score and QDiabetes® score are: 3% and 0.5% respectively. Heart age 49, that's not great.

My BMI is outside the range of the thing. Sheesh, sorry.

 

[Cormcolash]

I was working in Airbnb HQ before Christmas and they have this cool health check machine in there that I had a go on. It measures your height and weight and how fit you are based on your level of daily activity basically. You hold these handles and apparently it shoots impulses through your body to judge muscle tone and stuff. Anyway I did alright, basically the same as I've had for years which is 'a little overweight for height but in decent health all in all'

 

[Deadmanposting]

I was working in Airbnb HQ before Christmas and they have this cool health check machine in there that I had a go on. It measures your height and weight and how fit you are based on your level of daily activity basically. You hold these handles and apparently it shoots impulses through your body to judge muscle tone and stuff. Anyway I did alright, basically the same as I've had for years which is 'a little overweight for height but in decent health all in all'

They've just put one of these in the work gym

91.5 kilos
16% body fat (in association with KerryGold butter)
42 kilos (I think) of muscle
BMI 24.9 (absolutely scraping in the 'healthy' range)

Not sure I trust any of it apart from the weight tbh

 

[Unicron]

Got sick with a cold before xmas. Then hurt my back due to the resulting inactivity (I have to stay on top of it or my lower back acts up) so after a couple of weeks of gentle build up I'm back onto my full routine this week.

Aching all over and I still don't have full back flexibility compared to a week ago.

 

[Deadmanposting]

Got sick with a cold before xmas. Then hurt my back due to the resulting inactivity (I have to stay on top of it or my lower back acts up) so after a couple of weeks of gentle build up I'm back onto my full routine this week.

Aching all over and I still don't have full back flexibility compared to a week ago.

What do you do for your back?
Stretches?

 

[Deadmanposting]

I'm back on pushups

Doing 200 per day
Can really feel a difference only 3 weeks in

 

[Unicron]

What do you do for your back?
Stretches?

It's like a power yoga thing. Lots of strength and flexibility work but I try to focus on the movement and flexibility aspects of it these days. 6 days a week when I'm really in it and not skipping days.

 

[Deadmanposting]

It's like a power yoga thing. Lots of strength and flexibility work but I try to focus on the movement and flexibility aspects of it these days. 6 days a week when I'm really in it and not skipping days.

I dunno what the fuck it is, but I can go out and run for an hour or two

But ask me to stretch for 5 minutes afterwards and I need to summon willpower from David Goggins

 

[Unicron]

I dunno what the fuck it is, but I can go out and run for an hour or two

But ask me to stretch for 5 minutes afterwards and I need to summon willpower from David Goggins

I do well with routine, I find it anchors me for the rest of my day. I often think of the opening sting that used to be on Off The Ball on Newstalk, some GAA head talking about how good habits are as easy to form as bad habits and how they're as hard to break, I'm so used to it now that I get annoyed with myself if I skip it.

And from an ego point of view I get more of a kick from being able to bend in ways that I really don't have any practical need for then I do from bigger muscles or a flat(ter) tummy.

 

[egg_]

from an ego point of view

After 10 years of trying I can nearly do an unsupported handstand. Would be great for the ego if I could do it properly, but I suppose it might never happen

 

[Unicron]

After 10 years of trying I can nearly do an unsupported handstand. Would be great for the ego if I could do it properly, but I suppose it might never happen

Sure isn't it the journey rather than the destination with these things.

I'm tempted to set a goal for the year to try to get a good crow pose

It'd involve a lot of falling over to get the balance right.

 

[Deadmanposting]

Sure isn't it the journey rather than the destination with these things.

It absolutely is
or that's where the real value is to be found, I think

Not in achieving goals, but in developing the practice

 

[Deadmanposting]

I keep talking about doing pull up and pistol squat progressions, but it is fits and starts

And yet I still have big opinions on the value of practice and habits

Always improvements to be had

 

[therealjohnny]

I'm back on pushups

Doing 200 per day
Can really feel a difference only 3 weeks in

i could possibly manage 200 pushups over 12 months

 

[egg_]

I keep talking about doing pull up and pistol squat progressions, but it is fits and starts

I was working towards pistol squats, and had a good handle on the shrimp squats, but then didn't do them for a while and went back at it too hard and now have some dodginess in my knee. My usual pattern of not being able to tell if a bit of pain is just my body whinging, or something I need to pay attention to

 

[Deadmanposting]

i could possibly manage 200 pushups over 12 months

I started out with 3
That was as much as I could do in one go.
Eventually worked up to 10
Our bodies - including yours - are amazing. Like it's just incredible what they can adapt to over time.
All you really have to do is want it. Everything else will flow from that.

I was working towards pistol squats, and had a good handle on the shrimp squats, but then didn't do them for a while and went back at it too hard and now have some dodginess in my knee. My usual pattern of not being able to tell if a bit of pain is just my body whinging, or something I need to pay attention to

Yup
I find it's about 90% of the time just body whinging on most all of these things.
Your/our knees will get stronger if we do this, not weaker.
It's our brains looking for an easy go.

I went to a specialist for my knee pain when I started running. He politely told me to fuck off.

 

[Anthony]

Can't play stuff on guitar I could play a year ago. Maybe I'm just in a slump.
I've started a guitar playing regimen there I put on headphones and play along unplugged to my latest batch of tunes, about 45 mins. I don't even hear what I'm playing, it's all about strength and movement. Gotta do it now.

Note, it's not for enjoyment.

 

[flashback]

I was working in Airbnb HQ before Christmas and they have this cool health check machine in there that I had a go on. It measures your height and weight and how fit you are based on your level of daily activity basically. You hold these handles and apparently it shoots impulses through your body to judge muscle tone and stuff. Anyway I did alright, basically the same as I've had for years which is 'a little overweight for height but in decent health all in all'

E-meter - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

You're basically a Scientologist now by the sounds of it.

 

[Deadmanposting]

Can't play stuff on guitar I could play a year ago. Maybe I'm just in a slump.
I've started a guitar playing regimen there I put on headphones and play along unplugged to my latest batch of tunes, about 45 mins. I don't even hear what I'm playing, it's all about strength and movement. Gotta do it now.

Note, it's not for enjoyment.

Fair fucks to you, man

 

[Cormcolash]

E-meter - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

You're basically a Scientologist now by the sounds of it.

Tom Cruise is calling over for cans in a bit