An intuitive eating follow-up. I had a uncustomarily big breakfast. I’m still “hungry”, but I’m energetic. To me this means: had at least enough to maintain.
This can be seemingly be a struggle, I hear, for some people (friends/coworkers). And what they’ll end up doing is ruminant eating between meals, as they’re “peckish”. Especially people accustomed to eating big, is that they express that they are always hungry even if they definitely had more than enough.
What I’ve observed in people like this is they’ll feel sluggish/lethargic after the meal. Admittedly, the meal itself can have a huge impact here (rice + bacon == sleepy sleep for me).
So, I’m not stating it’s a binary causation, but it’s something I try and remain attentive to. Because, at the moment, I want to go do handstands!
Another follow-up: I sometimes wonder if things like this are why I have some mental health problems. There’s not a single input, it feels like, that I don’t intimately experience and respond to. Nothing just seems to pass me by.
Further, experiences are very very… sticky. I don’t know if I’ve written about this but during my last stint of cohabitation we realised as we broke up I was still being responsive to things she had expressed as negative to her some years later. I just amass a successively longer checklist.
Well both would be ideal. Do you like your current job at least to the point that you have no issue going there? Does it cause you stress beyond the way it stresses everyone around you (I mean the pure thought of your job and/ or work environment stressing you)?
If not there is no problem in choosing money over fulfillment. As you said you can get that somewhere else. I just hate it when people stay in a job that makes them miserable - contentedness should be the minimum requirement.
Should be very doable. That would still be pretty lean at your height, I imagine.
Maybe stay with it and don’t start counting again? I feel it furthers the obsession around food.
Trying to do the adult thing and not just jump at impulses immediately which is my tendency.
Good question, yes and no. I have no fundamental issue with my current place of employment but I feel slightly out of touch with the others that have the same job description as me. I’m much more like the other, non-techy, employees. In Swedish there’s this word “eldsjäl” that I feel has no real equivalent in the English language. Google suggests “enthusiast” but that doesn’t even begin to touch on the level of dedication that eldsjäl depicts.
More or less, my tech-coworkers seem to have found their great fulfillment in their respective tech-niches and life itself is secondary to that. I, on the other hand, relate far better to my non-techy coworkers that have instead opted for a family and a leisure time filled with other pursuits rather than delving deeper still into becoming better at technology. I’m still plenty good, surpassing some others even, but I just don’t have that fire burning inside me.
So, I might seek out another place where I feel surrounded moreso by peers. That’d be more comfortable. Further, where I’m at right now, I think I’ll perpetually over-reach. The projects are fantastic, and they leave so much room for cutting-edge boundaries-pushing development that it’s very hard to restrain myself. Case in point, I was recently informed by my new boss as he was trying to assess my situtation that Google invested over a billion to implement the same features that I implemented. The difference being that I implemented it more as a proof-of-concept for small-scale databases (video archives) and they did it for YouTube (massive-scale) but it was still affirming to know that, yeah, what I accomplished was hella-hard.
I don’t know. I wouldn’t instinctively eat enough, but maybe I could stomach (pun) regressing briefly and adjust. And just learn by failing that I have to eat more instead of trusting auxiliary devices.
There’s a dark side of this moon, which is this: we have limited resources and allowing any single project idea to flourish to the extent that it deserves given it’s calibre is simply not possible with a 40hr work week. So, it’s possible to kill yourself on any one project if you want it to become realised as well as the idea itself allows. Add to that the reality that you’ll have 3-5 projects simultaneously, and the entire exercise is starting to feel like mental footbinding. Not a single project is “basic” and/or easy.
@j4gga2 my patellar tendon felt sore yesterday during squats, I felt it creep up during warm-ups even so I believe it was something that I did that day or the days previous. It’s still tender to the touch, right where the tibia juts out. The sensation is slightly more pronounced on the outside/center and absent on the inside of the leg.
Anything worth being proactive about or just give it a few more days and if it still persists then investigate further?
I’d say it’s at the bottom arrow and not where this illustration shows the pain.Guessing it might be where the tendon anchors on my body if I had to guy-guess.
Q1. did either one of you ever do any dedicated spray wall training?
Q2. This’ll be a few paragraphs,
Quite a few of my friends aren’t lead belayers, and inevitably sometimes we top-rope together. How to make top-roping fun when not pushing the limit? Obvious things to do are (if applicable) go through a lead route that’s a challenge/project but on top (so, not overhang ofc).
However, most vertical routes in our gym earn their grade by being really hard on the fingers (honest crimp fests, rarely any pinches or interesting volumes) and that’s okay some days but not always. What would you do to have fun on top-rope when it feels like you need an easier day from a tendon perspective that translates well into pushing your sport climbing forward?
Is this what the British call a woody? Which unfortunately is also a British term for something else. Yep done some of this and it helps everything. Happy to share more.
Q2. Several things you can try:
Do 2 laps on the route before resting. Or more, make it competitive. You can also do this with an outdoor route in mind, i.e if the route outside is 30 m and indoors it’s maximum of 10m, then 3 laps before you swop, no resting on the floor. Straight back on once lowered.
Pyramid up and down in difficulty, keep moving up grades to you fail, then come down the grades.
Features for feet, depending if your wall has little molded foot holds or screw ons.
Hands on one colour, feet on another.
Climb corners without your hands going above your head. Just lots of pushing.
There’s a few, do you want more? There’s also pointer stick games for bouldering endurance
Yes please! 1, and 2 are applicable in our hall and are great ideas. No top-rope set around corners sadly. 4 might be applicable but usually we interlace hard/easy routes so that might make the difficulty… medium. I’ll see if there’s a good pairing for it next time I’m in the situation!
I’m trying to imagine what this is and can’t guess any better than having a friend point with a laser pointer on the wall and have you moving about like a cat chasing a… laser pointer -_-‘’
Probably best to be pro-active, but this type of thing is usually very simple.
Two tests:
Jump up and down 5-10 times
try doing a squat with your heels (very) elevated and then compare to a squat with your heel flat
If your symptoms are exacerbated by the jumping (specifically, each ground contact made as you jump) and/or squatting with heels elevated exacerbates your symptoms moreso than squatting with your heels flat, it’s likely patellar tendinopathy. If not, patellofemoral pain (which is a sort of useless diagnosis, but it has implications I’ll discuss later in this post).
For patellar tendinopathy (PT)
PT onset is usually associated with an acute increase in workload/volume of the knee extensors. It can also be associated with poor strength/loading of the knee extensors, but this is unlikely given the fact you lift. Rarely, it is a true biomechanical/movement issue, and this avenue should only be pursued if the above management strategies do not work.
Outcomes for PT are excellent with correct care. Stretching and SMR is not correct care and will get you nowhere, but following the above guidelines should keep you sorted. For more info on PT management, look up Jake Tuura, his website The Jacked Athlete and his Jumper’s Knee Protocol
For patellofemoral pain (PFP), you could be dealing with something more complex and multi-factorial but it’s far more likely you’re dealing with an issue of acute overload, that will ease up over 7-14 days maximum.
If you hit that 14 days and you’re still symptomatic, you may be developing true PFP. Being able to successfully manage PFP within 3 months is a key prognostic factor. PFP management can involve improving quad and glute strength for gen-pop, but this is unlikely to help a trained individual like yourself. PFP management protocol is thus more likely to involve checking your biomechanics. This can include stability/proprioception exercises and certain mobility protocols (but not stretching… stretching is dumb for managing most injuries). Again, don’t worry about that until you get there, because the pain you’re experiencing now is far more likely to be an issue of acute overload than any real injury or degeneration.
That said, a quick linchpin test for your ability to manage this is to drop down into a split squat with your symptomatic leg forward and loaded. If a 30-45s hold alleviates your symptoms, you’ll be $$ for managing your symptoms, using the isometric hold as an analgesic, particularly prior to lower body training.
Above all else, don’t change your training unless you’ve recently increased (within 4 weeks) your lower-body training volume. If this is the case, reduce volume slightly to your volume before the increase, and build up volume slowly from there (adding a little bit of volume every 10-14 days).
Thank you for all of this! I don’t have the time to do all of it now, but I did the split-squat (did not feel great) but after the jumps it felt better. I can add to the post that I’ve been on a walk since (~7k steps and that did not make it better nor worse). Tomorrow I’ll start with the squat screen, then the jumps and again a static hold. I believe the likely culprit is a weighted vest walk or some odd running. Sometimes when I’m trying to spare my hamstring I change my stride a bit and it’s always felt harder on the knees when I run like that.
Do not believe lifting volume is the culprit as it has gone down.
And I mean, sometimes things just hurt. That’s the nature of being active.
Oh, get you and your high standard of living and higher climbing walls. I’m jealous.
Spray wall and woody are the same thing. They used to just have wooden off cuts as holds when I started out.
The first thing is to know why you are at the spray wall; strength, strength endurance, boredom. And then train for whichever.
The second is to know that you’ll be weak and the locals who spend their lives on it will look very strong. No one cares, just crack on. Failure is the point of that wall.
To start with I used to work out 3 very easy problems and then keep trying them till I got one. Then add another problem our two. The wall will become easier and your brain will get used to remembering footholds etc
When I used to be around the competitive climbers they used the spray wall for different things. It’ll be interesting to watch a world top 6 boulderer intentionally climb with poor technique to increase power. Or, try some ridiculous Dyno or knee bar for a laugh.
Btw if your knee is bad, forego drop knees etc and just land on your back, if safe. You’ll look silly but who cares.
Yeah this is typically the type of thing that can lead to some icky-feeling knees. That’s a great thing, since it means management will be really really simple
Did some spray wall afterwards, just trying to add to my already existing pump. Realised that was entirely unnecessary. Did some handstands, realised I was already plenty in need of recovery and not more stimulus. Went home. Ate lots of pancakes.
Good session. Finger feeling really good. Daring to crimp and touch pinches nowadays. Climber’s elbow not feeling as great. Need to get at that mofo.
The hall is comparatively new, just a year old or so. It’s a luxury. Super-crowded. I’m a bit miffed as I know the first design for it was some 2k square metres bigger. They should’ve gone for it, they were just worried it wouldn’t get utilised. It’s getting more and more crowded by the day.
Today it was to work on my ability to climb through the pump but all the locals, that you mentioned, had already taken the okay parts of the wall leaving me with something far too pocket-y so I just cut it short.
I’m one of those people that scream when climbing, I’m already used to judgemental eyes so I’m cool with this
