@dagill2 @mattjp @dchris
Y’all gonna have to step it up!
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That’s great!!
Meanwhile, I’ve told the kids it’s the Sherona Virus.
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I gotta say that I’m feeling the least bad ass I’ve felt in a long while when it comes to training.
Like I lost most of my mental toughness or something. I don’t feel motivated to train, I’m not following a program, and dragging my ass out to work out feels like a big chore. I’m hating every set, the feeling I get is just awful, whereas it used to feel hard but satisfying in the end. Not to mention my joints are aching. My left wrist has been fucked for a while, and now my shoulders have started to get upset at my as well.
Movements span from hurting, to not feeling right, to feeling like I’m using the wrong kind of load but I just can’t to heavier because I’m limited in equipment. I don’t like ranting and I would have rather not posted this. But I hope that, knowing this is temporary, this post well serve some purpose as a reference for when I do get back on track and in the gym (hopefully soon enough).
At least, I’ll be leaner by then.
Don’t feel bad about taking a break. It happens. Just don’t eat like an American during the break. Eventually you’ll come around and feel normal again.
It looked like I was headed for another shoulder surgery in January and I was modifying everything. I found myself hating 80% of my sessions but I got through it. I can’t explain what happened but I think it was the fact that external forces (injury) were dictating my training.
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Perhaps it’s because my job is deemed as a necessity to the general public, but as of late I’ve been dreading going to work, and have completely lost all patience for people who come into my job acting ANY type of out of line.
I’m rolling the dice every time I clock into work, and yet there’s people who still have the nerve to give me a hard time.
No I can’t make the limit purchase go away, no I can’t get my managers to stop making y’all line up in single file so y’all aren’t trampling and shoving each other like heathens to get into the warehouse, and no you will have to wait until the morning for paper goods, soap, sanitizer, and detergent to be re-stocked. Blame the other folks who were buying commodities by the HUNDREDS because they’re the ones who screwed it up for everyone else. No I can’t call the fucking shipping company, I’m a cashier. Even if I could, I could only IMAGINE the amount of stress they’re under. No I can’t put paper goods on hold, and for the last time, when the warehouse closes, we DO NOT open the warehouse doors until daylight at 9:30-10am. I don’t give a fuck about the city curfew, you should’ve been here earlier while we were open.
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If it’s any consolation, this too shall pass.
I work in a major food retailer on this side of the pond and we had similar stuff happening across the estate in previous weeks. We had police visiting every store every day and increased security budget substantially, because it was needed to protect colleagues.
On to the good news: recently there’s been a big swing in the opposite direction. Customers are becoming much calmer, more forgiving and much, much more appreciative to the point it’s almost embarrassing.
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If nothing else, this virus has been a fantastic means of confirming my view on humanity.
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Confession: I recently apologized to my wife for the fact that our ‘shelter in place’ life isn’t all that different from our previous life.
Flame free.
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Food/water, fuel, shelter, comms, transport and security are not the only Prepper dimensions…
That’s what I’ve been telling myself on the drive to work as of late. Has helped me from just saying “screw it, I quit.” Lol
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I believe you and I share the same views. I still try to make an effort to be kind of understanding. Not saying you don’t either lol
Absolutely. One must model the behavior they wish others to follow. Otherwise, I would be guilty of the same thing I despise: unrealized potential.
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I tend to be focussing my attention on making sure the vulnerable get what they need. That’s my “why” right now. I don’t know your exact circumstance, but might be a mindset you might be able to make work.
Me and the wife said the same. Isolation means work, home and the occasional food shopping. If I take away the kids sports and the gym (which I am still doing just now back in the shed) then life hasn’t really changed!! 
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Did it really need any more confirmation though?
My greatest sin is hope.
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I try to encompass the “why” as well. But then I think why not just get them all? Or at least try to. The “why”, “how”, “what”, “when”, and “where”.
At least in the work setting (well, outside of work as well, since that matters too). I work at Costco Wholesale, so I try to be mindful of not only the members but my coworkers and management as well. Granted they irritate me sometime, but the junior and senior managers are right there in the trenches with us hourly workers too.
Confession - I’m vicariously exercising through y’all’s logs. Keep up the good work, so I can keep feeling like I’m exercising without actually doing so.
(Studies have shown that talking or reading about exercising can make people feel like they’ve exercised. Reading here and not training is a thing.)
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I rigged up a backpack jump rope and cardboard box for loaded sprinting
Also dried mangoes are delicious and I really suck at counting problems
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I bought some “foaming” liquid soap because that’s all there was… It costs amore and I don’t think it lasts as long but I don’t think I can go back to regular soap now.
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