Some might find this text I got from my youngest son amusing.
Well i guess we have confirmation…
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Confession: I did yoga yesterday for the first time in my life. I found it…pleasant.
I started working out again six weeks ago or so. As always the treadmill and sprints came first, then a week or two later I started cross training on the rower and doing kettlebell swings. Within a week I had the chronic neck issues I’d always before attributed to stress, but my three month workout break came during an excess of stress. I needed time to sleep and read books and just relax. Anyway, though I didn’t notice it until it came back, I was neck-issue-free during the break. So my assumption now is that it’s related to the workouts.
Anyone have advice? I’m going to continue with the yoga to see if it helps, then if it does reincorporate upper body stuff back in along with it. Maybe just go back to the weights and skip the faster conditioning-type moves.
Also, unrelated, I realized that Rush, not Yes, has a song containing one of my all-time favorite lines, which is “if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice,” from Freewill. (Which should be two words, not one.)
I used to think of it as saying that if you avoid making a decision, that too is a choice and it has consequences. Sitting around moaning “I don’t know what to do” IS doing something. It’s a choice. The one day I realized that you can choose not to decide, and that may be a perfectly fine decision. Why does it need to be decided right now? So it works for passive people as well as more aggressive/reactive people (like me). I quote it all the time at work.
So here’s to Rush and their one really excellent line.
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And Justin Beiber.
This kind of perversion is a great example of what happens when governments mess with the free market that anyone can understand.
(The subsidy being the Canadian contents laws, which requires so much of radio play being native Canadians.)
You get crap.
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I have to confess, Beiber has been growing on me. Just all of a sudden. I heard that “my mama don’t like you, and she likes everyone” line in Love Yourself and disdained him a little less. Then he collaborated with Ed Sheeran, whom I find tedious to listen to, and found Sheeran’s moany folk-pop nicely elevated by Beiber’s pretty pop sound. Somehow I’ve come to a place where I like the two of them together well enough to not change the channel on the radio.
Flame free.
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Get a deep tissue massage in you upper back and shoulders, inflammation in the muscles from lifting is maybe pushing on a nerve,
Will I have to endlessly repeat it, or do you think it could just fix it?
Probably just once in a while. It could be a single old knot or even a little scar tissue that needs to be worked out.
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You’re probably also doing something goofy with your neck when you work out.
The number of people I see sticking their neck forward or to one side when forcing a rep is high, including myself, sometimes. Some sort of imbalance starts it, probably related to sitting at a computer, and then you pull it.
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As a 280 lb guy, i always thought yoga was one of those “small guy” sports (like judo, jockeying, soccer and motorsport), but after doing a few weeks of it at home during quarantine, I saw fairly significant strength gains and a tighter core - I’m sold.
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Develop a 45 second neck routine. Do 10 or 12 head circles, just moving your head around in small circles moving towards bigger circles. Motion is good.
Another day tilt your head back and look at the ceiling 10-15 times. Pause at the “top” and let the weight of your noggin stretch out your front neck muscles. Then nod your head side to side 10-15 times. Start with short motions and work your gulliver closer to your shoulder gradually each rep.
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Pro tip: forget yoga, take the kids to a soft play centre. Free mobility, flexibility and conditioning. Plus family time to boot. Win-win.
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I’d recommend getting aligned by a chiropractor then get the massage. The chiropractor can give you some exercises based on your particular issue. This is based on my experience with my husband having bulging disks in his neck. He does this thing called “wall angels” and it helps.
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I actually picked up an old copy of Diamond
Dallas Page’s Yoga book over the summer. With the few bulging lumbar discs I’ve got, a lot more core work and stretching have factored into my weekly routines these days.
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For yoga or neck issues? Because, I have plenty to say for the former and none for the latter.
I’ve done all of these (for sustained periods of time). They didn’t help, but I was continuing to work out, and I suspect @Jewbacca is right, my form needs work somewhere.
Thanks all for the input. I guess I’ll keep on with the yoga and then if that doesn’t help try the chiro and/or massage.
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Pushing tho aren’t you.
I know.
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I just had baked beans (Heinz) for the first time, and they’re absolutely delicious. Love them. I’ll be trying to make my own soon.
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I eat them pretty much every day (Heinz are actually the worst tasting imo) - great discovery though, put them over toast and you’ve discovered the quintessential British student food (and my lunch, topped with fried eggs)
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