What's the most strenuous activity you do?
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September 24th, 2014
Lift weights, juggle kids/jobs? What is your biggest struggle?
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Power walk a track 2–3 miles, six days a week.
Having to learn what I know will serve me nothing in the future.
Single mom supporting a child and working a 40 hour work week with a two hour daily commute. Job requires some evening meetings which adds to the busy-ness. My salary needs to cover her after school care, which is until 6:30 pm.
Free climbing. I tend to stick to shorter routes. If I was climbing them with protection I’d probably not think twice (or let’s be honest bother) but you add the risk of serious injury in the middle of nowhere and it it gets the adrenalin going just standing at the bottom thinking about it.
I carry the weight of the world on my shoulders.
I would say mountain biking. Seems more strenuous than the jogging I do.
Mentally strenuous would be work.
physically: the gym (strength training)
emotionally: parenting
Physically strenuous:
Lift weights. And not 10 lb dumbbells, either. I actually lift weights. :) My weekly cardio session is also very strenuous. About an hour of HIIT, kickboxing, or something similar. Yesterday there wasn’t a single spot on my body that wasn’t soaked in sweat after my workout. Felt pretty awesome.
Mentally strenuous:
I’m married…to a man. Yikers.
Okay, I kid. I’d say dealing with my mother is mentally/emotionally strenuous and borderline traumatizing. Working for demanding attorneys doesn’t even compare to just having a 10 minute phone conversation with this woman.
Definitely my job. I lift 50 lb cases of wine all day, I’m running around all the time, and standing on concrete floors for 50+ hours a week.
By comparison, my little power walks are fun and relaxing!
The wifes’ family, i’ve been carrying them for years…ba dum tiss.
mentally strenuous
Being in grad school full time while running a department of 200 students and 10 teachers at a college (and I teach 4 classes a year).
physically strenuous
All day marathon house cleanings (about once a week).
emotionally strenuous
Raising our 11-year-old, pubescent tween daughter.
Milo here: Benchpress Gail.
Run three miles per day, five days per week.
Also, run two steps at a time up the stairs at a BART station, which is fast than the escalator.
Walking half way across Red Deer to get an medical appointment. Also carrying groceries up three flights of stairs.
Hike
With a backpack
Uphill
Against the wind.
Trail running (plodding, really).
Not much anymore, and it shows. Most of my favorite yoga positions aren’t very stressful—anymore. My favorite position is the Shavasana, or corpse posture. I spent a lot of quality time in the corpse posture.
I hoist and maintain the sails, lift stuff in and out of the boat. The heaviest thing in ages was a case of Anejo Rum. I have an inflatable kayak to explore shallow inlets in. I will bike when there is one available. I dislike running, but enjoy hiking immensely. There are no gyms where I’ve been living. I swim almost daily. I surf and dive regularly. So, I’m in good shape, but I’ve lost a lot of muscle mass in the past 2 years and am no where near as strong as I used to be. I miss that, but not the bulk.
Emotionally, I don’t think I’m stressed much. I keep away from toxicity and know how fortunate I am to be able to do that. It wasn’t always that way, but I insist on it now. I have an extremely low tolerance for assholes, and actually have a boat to kick them off of, or simply leave them at the pier.
Physically – moving and stacking hay bales.
Mentally and emotionally – grad school.
@wildpotato I remember doing that at 15 years old and it kicked my ass even then. There was also a constant threat of finding a snake under or half bailed so it was mentally exhausting from fight or flight at times too.
I’ve been pretty lazy physically over the past two or three years, and it shows; I’m 30 pounds heavier than I was 3 years ago (some of that is due to the testosterone therapy but at least ⅔ is sheer lack of exercise). But a couple of weeks ago I joined a gym so I’m going there three days a week and working up a good sweat. Cardio and weights. My knees can’t handle running but I use the bike and cross-trainer.
Work is mentally strenuous; keeps me sharp but isn’t stressful.
Nothing much in the way of emotional stress these days, since my daughter and her boyfriend moved into their own place.
@downtide Don’t you walk a couple miles (at least) everyday? That sure counts in my book. It may not be the most strenuous to you now. You are used to it. For me, it would be exhausting.
@anniereborn Most days it’s probably between 1 and 2 miles. Back when I had Xena and she was young and fit it was more like 4 miles a day. 4 was enough to maintain my weight. 1–2 isn’t.
Cycling and occasional hillwalking.
The usual office exercises:
– Jumping to conclusions;
– Running down my co-workers;
– Flying off the handle;
– Swimming with the sharks.
That sort of thing.
If heart rate is your measure of strenuousness then Jogging does it for me. It gets my heart rate up the highest of all the workout activities that I do.
Work, plus, shovel poo in 2 horse paddocks every evening, shovel up wet shavings in stalls, rip apart bales of hay, weigh hay, ( 8 lbs. each 2 x daily + grain and supplements ) toss hay into feeders, carry, empty and fill 5 large buckets of water for our duck and goose barn, pitch soiled rice hay and put in new hay, walk up hill feed chickens, fill feeders.
Groom horses, saddle and ride horses, bathe horses, sweat scrap bathed horses.
Shovel more horse shit, rinse repeat, day in and day out. lol
Horse barn just had new automatic waterers installed. Yay!
Managing stress, that’s a tough one.
Pillow wrestling, and lawn sprinkler jumping, usually.
Today was delivery day, and I had to move several paper bundles from a pallet to the cubicles where they are stored. There were some boxes to rearrange, etc.
I do some walking, but it isn’t tiresome and heavy like my activities today.
Today, after having been given the green light by my orthopedic surgeon, I am going to increase my walking program 50%, from 10 to 15 minutes (three more telephone poles). Doc said it would ache and that that is a good thing.
Spring cleaning in the fall. My house guests finally left, and there are many messes that remain. But I get my house back!
(Doc said it would ache and it did, and i do…at 17 minutes).
—_—_—_—_ Running – from Rosh Hashana, to What brought me joy today, to here – is very strenuous. I’m beat. I will be in the Watering Hole IF anybody cares to say hello. —_—_
19 minute 30 second walk today (those seconds matter),
The types of jobs I work at usually require a high level of physical activity. I’m usually beat with exhaustion many times when I come home from work.
Nicely done. Keep working at it. I may be joining you there if I live that long.
Plodding on, 24 minutes today. All parts ache. Wll probably not increase time for the next few days.
Have you tried a stationary bike? I did that for a while and it really helped. The only drawback was it slowed my agility, so I stopped.
I like the treadmill better, which I use during inclement weather. Now, it is so lovely outside, that I choose to walk outside. Either way, I am supposed to increase as best I can. The surgeon’s advice was to overdo it. Who could resist such charming counsel?
(I already own a serious treadmill. Large and expensive and takes up a lot of room)
What do you mean by “slowed my agility”?
@gailcalled The stationary bike shortens your leg muscles, so it messed with my lateral motion or speed when I was playing basketball or tennis. I didn’t notice it normally, but when I tried to cut or move laterally my legs were like, what’s the hurry? That wasn’t good.
I used a stationary bike at PT. I did not love it. The treadmill seems kinder on my lower back, even though I probably won’t be playing basketball or tennis any time soon. Plus I can at least swing my arms while on the treadmill.
Get up and walk to the refrigerator.
@Misspegasister28 Thats my exercise for the day. My bed is on the floor so it includes a push up and a sit up twice a hour.
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