Ready To Hurt More
Two more waiting to receive their copies of Fit for Combat: When Fitness is a Matter of Life or Death for a total of 18 since last month.
Two got The Complete Guide to Navy SEAL Fitness. One got The Official United States Navy SEAL Workout. And one, sensibly, got the Joist Mount Chin Up Bar. Which is a pretty neat-looking item.
I’m impressed, and pleased if the “Live Forever Or Die Trying” series of posts played any role whatsoever in encouraging that many people to start working out again. Particularly impressed that you’re actually seeking out people who know what they are talking about and not relying on this program:
Old? Fat? Feeling Death’s Icy Chill Down Your Neck? How To Live Forever Part 1, the Crittenden Workout for Middle-Aged Fat Bastards.
How To Live Forever Part 2 The Beer Workout. Drink and be healthy.
How to Live Forever Part 3 Israeli research finding: Advanced geezerdom no bar to exercise’s life-extending benefits.
How To Live Forever Part 4: Fit For Combat You think preparing for combat is healthy? Try combat. Hey, when’s someone going to market the Combat Weight Loss Program?
Run For Your Lives! Just got in that dirty little two-miler …
Danger Zone How to eat all you want this holiday season and not let something dumb like winter interfere with your workout program …
Hurt More You’ll feel better.
Here’s how much trouble that SEAL workout can get you into, BTW: Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10.
OK. Four-mile walk out around the general store and by the pond Monday. Four-mile run out around the cranberry bogs Tuesday. That dirty little two-miler with all the hills yesterday. Whole bunch of pushups, crunches and curls each day. Crittenden plan for fat old bastards calls for another walk or bike ride today to mix it up and avoid injury. The bulldog wants a big walk, I still want to run. Hmm. I guess the bulldog wins.
Still taking your progress reports and injury accounts plus remedies via “contact” or in comments.
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Topics: Live Forever Or Die Trying!, books
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:22 am Comments (4) on Thursday, November 5, 2009
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November 5th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
I keep arriving late to this topic. My key goal is to tell Rebecca how much I enjoyed hearing about her paddling in the first installment. That was a great story. You Go, ‘Bec!
I paddle, too, although not enough to have my own kayak. I rent over at South Bridge boathouse in Concord–well, that’s over for a few months.
I live close to a cross-country skiing place, where they rent nice equipment and the trails are not only groomed but tracked so it is almost impossible to fall down. Great exercise, as you say.
I am trying to get back on a walking program. Yes, Jules, you have inspired us. Or maybe shamed us into getting off our butts, but let’s call it inspiration.
As a representative of the non-Grimmy side of the fitness spectrum here, I will share my one and only injury story. When I worked at MITRE, I joined the women’s softball team. We played against the teams of other companies. I was so out of shape that I used to pull my right quadracep (thigh) muscle every spring in that first game, running to first base. Yes, I was usually thrown out, but not always. I did eventually learn to hit okay. Catching, not so much. I played “short center,” an ignominious and almost certainly made-up position behind second base that allows pretty much any ball that comes your way to be covered by at least one other player on the field.
Okay, now that I have made myself a laughing stock, I’m going out for my walk.
November 5th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Sarah:
That workout I posted was loooooong time ago. These day’s I am a dedicated, hard core, true life couch tater.
There was a reason for that sort of workout way back in the day. As a Dragon gunner (wire guided anti tank missile-man), my “combat load” was a pack that weighed an average of 65 lbs, flack jacket, warbelt (pistol belt and suspenders with a pair of canteens, entrenching tool, gas mask, first aid kit, and 4 magazine pouches with 3x 25 round magazines of 5.56 mm ammo each, a rifle and 2 Dragon launch tubes (40ish lbs each). Rifle sling would go around my neck to hang in front of my bod, a Dragon tube on a sling on each shoulder.
We needed to be able to hump that load up to 25 miles a day, day in, day out, in mountain, jungle, desert, arctic, swamp, savanna, forest, whatever.
Endurance was necessary.
These day? My most vigorous “workout” includes typing out comments on blogs and forums,with occasional thumb work on the TV remote.
November 5th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Thanks, Sarah. Kayaking is done for this year for me as well. I am contemplating a wet suit for cooler weather, but I’m unsure how many more seasons I can do it, and I’m supposed to avoid cold temperatures (as well as extremely hot ones).
So it’s back to walking/elliptical, and possibly an adult trike (that would be ideal for when the water’s too cold).
All these activities are things I can do without undue physical stress, while still getting the benefits of exercise (of the brain as well as the aging, frail body). Fall foliage on the lake was magnificent this year, and if it hadn’t been so much colder than average, I’d have been out there.
Anyway, fall is when I start to get the urge to slack off, so thanks to you, Jules, for shaming me into leaving the computer alone for a few hours a day.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
I used a wet suit when I went paddling in Tomales Bay (California). Cold, deep water. It was great not to have to worry about getting cold! (Especially if you fall in, but it kept me toasty during the windy paddle, as well.)
Yes, I like walking because it makes me feel energized and never leaves me feeling worse. I have a quick two mile round trip and alternatively a four mile round trip to the river and back, half of which is through woods.
It was chilly this afternoon! But that’s a net positive, I walk faster. Lots of birds–they seem to be doing an end-of-year thing, bustling about; the few that are still here. Sparrows, chickadees, something small with black wings and a white chest, and a small woodpecker. Saw some bursting milkweed pods; most of the foliage is gone by. Most of the leaves are down, and we have a good coating of pine needles. And now it’s starting to smell like snow.
Thanks, Jules!