Corycm
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something something more like fitness boot in ya ass.
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something something more like fitness boot in ya ass.
LiamGallaghersBucketHat
Go on, geezer.
debianlinux
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Your boy took 3 state records at a local USPA meet yesterday. I kept it quiet going in since I bombed out last year. I chipped thé squat record with 163kg, destroyed the deadlift record with 230kg (completed a 3rd attempt at 241kg but caught two red lights for supporting on knees; maybe I did? I was blind and hearing nothing but whooshing in my ears to the point I couldn't hear the down command). This let me crush the total record with 493kg. Overall very happy still wish I could have broken 500kg, put the DL record higher, and hit a nationals qualification total but that's how we stay hungry.
Oh, Deb!! This is great!! I am so glad for you. This is definitely something to celebrate.
This is also amazing!! I think I would have died after the first hour of running.
mrjoshuamccormack
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I attended my first ever ZINCON (zumba instructor convention) last week. I became an instructor on a whim during 2020, since my wife had been one since like 2015 and I was teaching with her online anyways.
It was... interesting. A lot of fun, but after like a day and a half of learning new things I kind of tuned out mentally. Also, it's really weird how there are celebrities and super-fans. Like, I'm friends with a pretty popular ZJ (yeah, the terms/acronyms are goofy as hell) and I saw a line of like 100 people after his class waiting to take a picture with him. I made a joke to my wife about this being my first cult meeting. She didn't find it as funny as I did.
Anyways, that's my fitness story for this week.
It was... interesting. A lot of fun, but after like a day and a half of learning new things I kind of tuned out mentally. Also, it's really weird how there are celebrities and super-fans. Like, I'm friends with a pretty popular ZJ (yeah, the terms/acronyms are goofy as hell) and I saw a line of like 100 people after his class waiting to take a picture with him. I made a joke to my wife about this being my first cult meeting. She didn't find it as funny as I did.
Anyways, that's my fitness story for this week.
This is where my Zumba instructor was all last week!! I cannot wait until tomorrow, because I am sure she's going to have all new dances for us.
mrjoshuamccormack
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I'd imagine so! I need to remember a few of them so I have something new. I'm kind of lazy about learning new stuff, but my wife tries to immediately start working in new stuff so she doesn't forget.
I went on stage once with a really popular instructor (anna marchenko) for a belly dance choreo, which is kind of funny since 1)it was my first convention and 2) a couple students in our class have dubbed me "mr hips."
So new bellydance number for sure for tomorrow...lol, Mr. Hips
I would love to take a flamenco dancing class. I took tap dancing as a kid and I see a lot of those steps in flamenco, plus I love the idea of the dancer providing some of the rhythm to the music.
mrjoshuamccormack
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An actual flamenco lesson sounds fun. My wife and I took some salsa lessons, but I'm kind of terrible at dancing with other people, more of a solo artist, I suppose.
Corycm
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Same. I took a week off from the gym since my doc appt left me feeling beat up Monday. I’m definitely feeling the no-workout ouch.
LeSamourai
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If I take more than a couple of days off running, my legs get very mad at me and ache.
debianlinux
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I took a full week off after my competition and that was just stupid. I am still trying to get past the sudden ankle issues that arrived and the first 2 or 3 workouts left me the sorest I've been in years. My excuse is that the post-meet program I am on prescribed one week off so I was just following the program, guys! It has been very nice to be doing easier things and not feeling any real urgency about having to do them. Hopefully, I'll gain some weight.
Bull Shannon
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I ran only 2 miles today, but Strava pegged it as my personal best 2-mile stretch. Somehow having the entire effort be my best effort feels good, rather than isolating some chunk of it and doing contortions to find the segment that seems impressive.
mrjoshuamccormack
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Those "segments" Strava creates are so weird. Like, I'll find out I'm the local legend for some random 1 mile stretch... until someone else runs that random stretch.
TCell
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I actually like the segments. A buddy and I use the same 2km of trail for our interval training every week, sometimes together, sometimes not, so it's always fun swapping Local Legend status. I also like seeing how I do in comparison to friends on different routes.
But yeah, so of those segments are so random, because they're user created. I also hate it when you know you've done a segment, but Strava/GPS doesn't match it.
Bull Shannon
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I really, truly dislike people's penchant for giving rhyming names to the segments (though I'm unsure whether that's normal across the app or just an unfortunate local phenomenon); there's one I always go down called "I gotta turd on 53rd," and it only leaves me with questions: did the author have to poop along that segment? Did they step on some poop there? Or are they simply overreaching towards a rhyme?
I do like that I'm getting to know where the segments on my regular route start and end, and I've been trying to push myself when I'm aware of them. I managed to get an all-time tenth-best time on a two-block sprint and felt pretty self-satisfied about it.