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Sep 2020
2:28pm, 17 Sep 2020
48,573 posts
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Velociraptor
There is no evidence that physically strong people experience less pain, which is not to say that exercises aimed at increasing strength (and stability) are not a good thing for other reasons. Doing almost any form of exercise is associated with less fear and apprehension about pain, and more confidence in the body's resilience.
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Sep 2020
2:28pm, 17 Sep 2020
16,446 posts
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Sharkie
The fourth book is A.S. Byatt's 'The Children's Book', bought when it first appeared in paperback .... ten years ago. Eek!
It over 600 densely packed pages long, I've now read nearly 200. It's interesting enough on the whole but she veers into learned digressions about all manner of things a little too often. Erudition gets in the way of plot and character development.
And I'm not very interested in pottery techniques.
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Sep 2020
2:30pm, 17 Sep 2020
18,676 posts
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EvilPixie
As a reminder that I should do some S&C (maybe I should follow that link!) I noticed the other day that after weeks of using the field near me for part of my run/walks I have developed a habit of looking about 2ft in front of me the whole time and therefore stoop. It started as an attempt to not trip over roots .... I still trip over roots!
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Sep 2020
2:31pm, 17 Sep 2020
17,978 posts
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GimmeMedals
I have knitted my first pair of socks. Mr GM is going to have them for cosy feet in the motorhome on winter evenings.
I've just been to my 2nd (out of 5) Pilates class and survived it. I like its gentleness yet can feel those muscles working hard.
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Sep 2020
2:31pm, 17 Sep 2020
48,574 posts
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Velociraptor
I liked The Children's Book, which surprised me because although I'd enjoyed all of A S Byatt's earlier works I'd struggled with A Whistling Woman and wondered if the old lass was losing her focus.
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Sep 2020
2:31pm, 17 Sep 2020
16,447 posts
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Sharkie
The four books is only my 'extra' thing.
Getting stuck into heptathlon/multi-event training is my main thing. and that's going well. I've discovered extremes work well FOR ME. That's extreme training + extreme rest. (Hence the books! And the lengthy blogs!)
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Sep 2020
2:44pm, 17 Sep 2020
6,224 posts
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Raemond
It's a wooden one based on things from the Basic Fit app (which is a free app but I don't now if you can access all the content if you don't have a gym subscription and I don't think they have any gyms in the UK yet) and the six months or so last year when I paid a virtual personal trainer, Sharkie - the 'plan' bit is really just to do it every Sunday after my run, starting with 3 sets of 10 reps of each exercise and working up to 3 sets of 15 then increasing weight and going back to 3 sets of 10, rinse, repeat.
as it's post run there isn't really a warm up (I did swap a sunday for a tuesday when I didn't go to rugby training, so then I did some star jumps and jogging on the spot as a warm up as I hadn't run), then I'm doing
* seated tricep extensions with dumbbell (currently on 4kg, while sitting on a swiss ball)
* standing bicep curls with barbell (currently on 10kg)
* standing lateral raises with dumbbell (currently on a really wussy 2kg, and still struggling to complete the last set with proper form. Why is lifting things sideways so hard?!?)
* chest press with barbell (8kg, with back on swiss ball and feet on floor)
* glute bridge with feet on swiss ball (not weighted, currently on 2 'sets' of holding for 60 seconds)
* russian twist with dumbbell (5kg)
* squats with barbell (10kg)
* alternating superman planks (unweighted, 10 extensions per side in each set)
* one legged squats (unweighted)
I'm contemplating adding romanian deadlifts, but they're kinda awkward with a dumbell and I'm resisting the urge to buy more kit.
I'm not confident enough in my plan building ability to recommend it to anyone else (I'm almost too self conscious to share it here for fear someone wll point out that's rubbish), but I'm finding it manageably challenging, and figure it's got to be better than nothing.
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Sep 2020
2:50pm, 17 Sep 2020
16,448 posts
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Sharkie
Lateral raises. I COULDN'T AGREE MORE! 2kgs here too - and struggling!
I think that's a pretty good plan. Only really useful thing I'd add is something back extensions-y. 'Swimmers', Is and Ts perhaps - or just basic back extensions (could do on Swiss ball) (Strict) Shoulder press might be useful too?
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Sep 2020
3:01pm, 17 Sep 2020
6,226 posts
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Raemond
ooo, good ideas, thanks! (back and shoulder strength are v. important to avoid injury in rugby, particularly for forwards like me)
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Sep 2020
3:12pm, 17 Sep 2020
16,449 posts
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Sharkie
Lots of people get obsessed with sit ups and crunches and all sorts of forward flexion moves - to the detriment of all those big and small muscles in our backs and round the shoulders.
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