oh no!
okay. Would it be possible for her to increase non- exercise activity somehow? Apparently, a lot of ppl tend to underestimate how sedentary they are. Things like steps add up. Not saying this applies to your wife’s case, but just as thought
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Well there goes the deca suggestion…
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You’re right to ask @anna_5588 . Its a great idea. But she’s a teacher. And does a lot of walking.
In fact at one point she was walking 4 times a week to make sure she walked 14 miles a week. Averaging 2 miles a day seemed like a healthy reasonable goal. But it stopped as it became hard work. Her issue is food. She has no idea how much crap she eats.
As a note if it comes over like I’m harsh on my wife I’m not. She’s in the same camp and any and all planet fitness/globo gym patrons. But I do have a genuine worry about her long term health.
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Ha - honestly I get the draw of PEDs. Part of me would love to. But never deca. Never deca.
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In that case, I actually think a trainer might help her develop some self awareness
A good trainer will probably ask her to track her food for a short period of time to “get baseline “ and in the process, she might have an aha moment.
Yeah Deca is too old school… 
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Just 6k period in my book… I don’t care if it’s supposively clean or dirty calories.
That’s the key word … survive. Pretty damn hard to actually create the proper environment of growth for most in that situation. ( excluding some form of intervention)
Oh absolutely. But tis better to have razor sharp abs year round and stay 160lbs and a size medium for 10 years than to ever lose a single ab and actually accomplish something.
Man, even Arnold lost his abs in the off season
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In the same vein as what’s been said here;
I confess that I’m at the point where I want to actively campaign against things like massage therapists, chiropractors, stretching, hot/cold therapy, etc etc.
The amount of people in my life who complain about physical pain is astronomical. The solution? Do nothing about it.
Now, I don’t really mean “nothing”. I’ll use one of my best friends as an example: he’s seeing a chiropractor, who wants him to come back for a half-dozen sessions, and suggests massage therapy too. I asked him if he’d seen a physio. Nope.
Or my wife (not to turn this into a wife-beating thread). She constantly asks for stretches or massages for various things that ache or hurt. Resistance training? Nope.
In most of these cases, people are just weak as fuck. You know what could solve those sore hips? Make them stronger. That bum shoulder? Make it stronger. Your low back? Stronger midsection.
I know why people turn to these temporary fixes though; as we’ve said, humans want things now and working hard at something sucks. It just irks me that these soft sciences within an already soft science are being touted as “cures”. They’re not. Hell, a fucking physio can generally do the jobs of a chiro (spinal manipulation therapy) and MT (active release) while also giving you a plan to get you stronger and not having you come back over and over.
There’s more to weight lifting than just getting buff.
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Wait! What? How dare you!
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I know, I know. Grab the torches and pitchforks.
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I fully support this message. For this bit in particular
My whole “chiropracticy is a scam” bit is this: I’ve never known ANYONE that went to a chrio and god told they were fine. EVERYONE has needed treatment.
…what medical field has the same 100% treatment required rate? You can go to an oncologist and find out you don’t have cancer, or a urologist can tell you that you don’t have low test, etc etc. But EVERYONE is broken from a chiro perspective? If everyone is unhealthy, no one is unhealthy: that’s just “average” now.
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It’s a weird dynamic… this idea that anything over 10% makes you a fat fuck.
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The only thing here that I see as dubious is that I’ve never seen anybody go to a chiro that felt fine in the first place.
The one I went to last year for a driving medical card didn’t even want to treat people. He does really well just doing those cards. $60.00 every 15 minutes and he usually has a line out the door!
Edit:
I should add though that one chiro I know, when he started having some medical problems, sought-in his own words “real medical treatment”.
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But in the same instance, those examples I shared could easily be people that feel maladies that AREN’T related to what that doctor specializes in. You go to the oncologist because you think you have cancer, they test you, you are fine as far as cancer goes and it turns out you have mono and that’s why you’re so rundown.
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Oh, yeah, not really disagreeing at all. Barking up the wrong tree because something hurts is as human as it gets. That’s why all symptoms, when properly researched on the internet, end in a horrible death!
That’s also why there are people driving a Porsche on aligning affluent white women’s kundalini. 
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Yeah I fully support the re-generalisation of this thread. Before my wife finds this page. Its not like my handle is hard to spot.
This is so correct. It seems that asking someone to get stronger is like asking someone to lop off a leg. Although our NHS does recommend strength training to people. If you go on their “fitness” page and enter your details (age, height weight, job, activity level, diet) it come out with some advice on getting healthier. And for some people getting stronger is the out come.
Is it time I started to buy diet soda?
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I confess I really want to try a chiropractor… just once…
My neck feels perpetually “stuck” and those videos are soooo satisfying
With that said, I don’t actually believe that the “treatments” do anything
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It’s totally penned up energy of the kundalini. I know just how to treat it, you’ll feel great after 6 sessions. Next time you’re in the 'burgh.
Oh, and cash only. Small bills, no hundos.
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