Standing on one foot is one of the few things I'm good at. It comes in handy when...never.
I'll be honest: It was really nice not transcribing my bi-weekly workouts.
Today was a leg day. I did snatches, single leg roman dead lifts, lunges, and some other random crap.
My trainer works out at a normal gym, and apparently the hip thing at his gym is doing lunges for 30 minutes. We laughed at how ridiculous it was. All it does is make people hurt themselves and hate their trainers. I threatened violence if he ever pulled that shit on me.
Then we joked about it being a spin off from CrossFit. LungeFit. Later we'd see KipFit, SquatFit (I'd do that) and SnatchFit.
SnatchFit is just begging for a tshirt design. Something about fisting.
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I finally went to the doctor for my sleep issues. I haven't had a satisfying night's sleep in two months. Which is ridiculous.
I think my new doctor is a keeper. The first thing he suggested was that I exercise. After I laid out my exercise history he encouraged me to start running again. He also scrolled through all the possible afflictions for "not sleeping well," reading them out loud and laughing. He kept threatening to put "African Sleeping Sickness" in my file.
We're waiting on bloodwork to see what to do next, but in the meantime he encouraged me to do some yoga stuff in the evenings to calm my shit down before going to bed.
Enter randomly searching on youtube.
Tonight I tried this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spWmuGEgnUA
I don't know how to breathe in to my arms, and I'm pretty sure the chick was Jesse Spano, but it could have been worse.
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Random irrational annoyance of the day: I really hate it when people park in front of my house. It's a free country, and it's not like they're blocking ME parking anywhere. We have a driveway, and plenty of parking in our neighborhood. But it still annoys the crap out of me. Totally irrational.
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What happens when a blogger dies? Would someone in their life come on and post on their blog? "Hi, I'm the friend of Cupcakes, Feces, & Badmitton. She died." Would the blog just stop, and no one would really know?
After people die, Facebook friends tend to post creepy "I miss you" posts on Facebook. So I guess people who followed someone's Facebook would be able to figure it out? And then post creepy comments "I hope you're blogging from Heaven!!!!" (since 95% of bloggers seem to believe in some form of God/Jesus/Whatever)
Which makes me want to randomly go on blogs that are slightly inactive and post creepy "I can't believe you died in a freak dildo factory explosion!" messages. Except I'm not that much of an asshole. Well, I am, but I'm lazy. Feel free to steal that idea. Or just tell people you came up with it. I don't want glory. I just want to increase the laughter in the world, man. Fuck giving the world a Coke. Can't we all just laugh more often?
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Based on the comments on the last post, The Funk is pretty common. Is this something that should be talked about more? Is it talked about, but I never noticed, because I wasn't in one? Do we, as bloggers, not talk about it when we're not running, because we are running bloggers? Who the fuck knows, man. If you're in a funk right now, I'm sorry. Sucks balls, yo.
Good advice I received:
-Run sans clocks/run for the shit of it, not for time or distance. Basically, take the stress out of running. Just go out and pound some pavement without worrying about it.
-Do something else. There are like, 47 different ways to exercise (probably more). No one HAS to run. Unless it's your job. Does anyone here get paid to run? No. You don't have to run. Want to stay in shape/lose weight/gain muscle/get endorphins/have an excuse to be outside in a sweaty sports bra? Pick another sport. Roller blading is big again in LA. Maybe. Hula hooping. Weight lifting. Whatever. No one has to run. If it isn't giving you what you want from it, don't do it.
-Shake up your running. New trails. With people. Without people. In a thong. Backwards.
-Do nothing. Take a break.
Whatever. I'm not a doctor or a personal trainer. I know nothing about this shit. If you're basing your life on my advice you have bigger problems than being in a running funk.
I think you should totally leave those comments to make good bloggers come back. How could you resist if a comment like that showed up in your inbox?!
ReplyDeleteWas literally thinking about the dead blogger thing yesterday. May be because of Cely's scary dramatic blood loss episode (Running with Reese's). You know what I realized? Now that there are forums OUTSIDE of blogs for blog readers to talk (e.g., GOMI), I think word would get out pretty fast. More importantly though, I was thinking, how would a blog reader feel? Would it be extra sucky sadness, knowing you felt like they were a friend even though you had never met, so it would be hard to kind of...mourn over a stranger? Would you think you were allowed at their funeral if you communicated one-on-one a lot? Depressing.
ReplyDeleteDoctor's aren't usually funny. THis guy is a keeper.
I definitely sleep better when I am exercising more, my body needs the rest so amp up your workouts and run girl, find that running mojo!!!
ReplyDeleteMy friend has a trainer who made her do about thirty minutes of squats on the smith machine, where she had to squat so low her butt touched a 15 pound weight turned sideways. I think I'd rather do lunges for 30 minutes. Or not work out with any of those trainers.
ReplyDeleteConsider a sticker design for SnatchFit?
Sounds like you need a sleep study. I had one 5 years ago and found out the reason my sleep is shit is I don't go throught REM cycles of sleep...I just go into one long DEEP sleep for like 5 hours instead of in and out of the deep sleep. Mild narcolopsy (I have 3 of the 4 symtpons associated with it) was the diagnoses....take heavy drugs or have crappy sleep. I deal with the crappy sleep issues over drugging myself nightly. Fun times. I would have never known all of this without the 24 hour sleep study. I also did a nap study the next day - I never I would go into REM sleep in less then 5 minutes...which you are not supposed to do. To say I can fall asleep anywhere is an understatement. If only my quality of sleep was better I would be golden.
ReplyDeletePffft. I'm in a funk at least half of the time, and I blog that shit. I don't care if that means people think I'm the laziest person ever.
ReplyDeleteYou said snatch.
ReplyDeleteHehehe
SnatchFit. BAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
ReplyDeleteTeehee statch...
ReplyDeleteI followed a blog for a while where the girl died from cancer (seriously!) and her mom now posts as there is a charity to keep running, so behind the sadness the blog keeps going.
ReplyDeleteSnatchFit ... you SO need to design a Tshirt :-)
LOL, I thought I was the only person that hates people parking in front of their house! I love when it's me doing it though........ Go figure.
ReplyDeleteI'm incredibly insulted you didn't respond to my month long blog hiatus by posting about a dildo factory explosion. I thought you were a true friend. Really, if I do die, please post that I'm burning dope with Jesus, then it'll appease the religious folk too.
ReplyDeleteI have a thing of all my passwords/logins. I told one person where it is. I even have a note that "If you're reading this then I died. I'm sorry. But thanks for taking care of this for me." I figure that way she can go on to my facebook and blog and tell everybody.
ReplyDeleteI never thought about the fact that she and I travel together sometimes, so then what if something happens to both of us?
Maybe I'll have to get you in on this. My blog would suddenly become awesome if I put you in charge of it!!