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Actually I think there’s a good connection there on the emotions that drive the behaviors. In a better (face to face) format I’d bet a lot of coping skills and tools could be discussed and exchanged.

I don’t care about labels when it comes to tools. The loose screw doesn’t know whether it says Snap-on or Craftsman on it.

Edit: I should add that I don’t want to turn this into that. We can shoot the bull on any types of tools or coping methods, but I don’t want to drill down on any one person or thing. I’ve been that subject a few times and don’t see it as having any value other than shutting someone down.

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Yeah, I kind of see that happening in her thread. I think the point has been made and we should all move on.

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Here’s one you might get a ghastly chuckle out of:

There was a meeting that quickly became my first home group. It had all kinds of good shit going on. A bunch of guys around my age (mid-late 20’s,30’s), a whole slew of good looking women etc. And some people with some time.

A couple of years go by and people change. Trends change. There are good ideas and bad ideas that catch on. So some bad ideas caught on and a real rift was beginning to form in this home group. So we open the meeting, time for a subject, and I’m just being an asshole (I actually wanted to fight one guy but he would never) so I say “Hey! Let’s have one person sit in the middle and we’ll just go round the room and take their inventory!” thinking that would draw some fire that I could use to fuck this guy up.

These assholes actually did it. The regular meeting went on as usual, but these guys actually formed their own little back room group and started round robining each other on their character defects. Not in a helpful or productive “this is my observation” way, but like really picking through each other’s shit.

It wasn’t much longer before that group broke off and started their own group, and consequences being what they are, nobody lasted a whole lot longer.

The meeting is still there though. Actually a pretty good one that has helped a lot of people.

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Love it. It’s always a bit of a clusterfuck when you get a bunch of addicts together and don’t follow the rules.

Rehab was a trip! We had community meeting every morning at 8:30. We had a president, a vice president, a secretary. It started with a check in, your name, your goal for the day, your community resource you were working on, and naming whom you could turn to for help.

My last week there, I was the president. Going to put that on my CV…NOT.

My first day as president I invited everyone to breathe with me, the coming home breath - deep inhale and hold, then sigh it out.

Well, you can imagine how that went with a bunch of addicts. Many were legally mandated to be there, multiple felons, legit gangsters, and some medicated to the gills.

The rest of the week, when cross talk got out of hand, I threatened them with the coming home breath and they all shut up - they were afraid of me, lol.

One of the meetings I go to is kind of a low bottom group. I’m not really a fan of it because it’s not my kind of peeps, but it’s close and convenient. One day a retired cop qualified, compelling story, drinking a fifth of vodka in the squad car every day.

When he finished, this flamboyant sixty year old lady shared. She was wearing striped leggings she had no business wearing, her FUPA was hanging over the waistband, she had long grey hair, many necklaces and bracelets, and a wide brim hat.

“It’s funny. You were a cop for twenty years, and I was a criminal for twenty years, and we’re both in the same place.”

Wow.

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You know they hooked up after the meeting. The old “Hey, I really like what you shared…”.:rofl:

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Heavy smokers often have trouble with breathing exercises. It doesn’t relax them, it makes them feel panicked or like they can’t breathe. They do better with deep breaths if they pretend they’re drawing on a cigarette.

You fancy professional athlete types may not know that!

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I like opening the meeting up to a topic and watching that uncomfortable silence build until somebody finally coughs up the goods.

An intentionally quiet exercise like that in a room that raw is basically mass murder! :joy: :joy: :joy:

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Touche. I actually don’t think club pro qualifies me as a professional athlete.

Yeah, most smokers don’t realize that smoking a cigarette is the deepest breath they take all day.

Side note - since I smoked crack I hold my cigarette smoke like it’s gold.

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Ha!

When I was 15-16 I started smoking cigarettes to increase my lung capacity for weed. Always thinking, me.

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So, for tonight:

Warmed up using arms only, then went for 15 min @ 35-40 rpm arms only because it just fely good.

Then things got weird. @EmilyQ

Decided to throw in some high intensity intervals. Used my base rate of 45 rpm. for the low intensity, and 70 rpm. for the interval. Did one minute low/ 30 sec. high for 15 min. then a five minute cool down.

Covered 6 miles, felt like a piece of cake. Sweating pretty good, but certainly no worse for wear.

Might pump guns just for :poop: & :face_with_hand_over_mouth:.

Edit: The weird part–time got all wonky going from 1 min. cruising to 30 sec. fast. That was the shortest 15 minutes I’ve ever experienced.

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I know! And then that it’s actually better for you than a challenging slow ‘n’ steady? Madness!

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Sometimes I feel like taking a bunch of creatine and Lasix, drinking a gallon of water and standing on a bathroom scale in front of the toilet just to see who wins.

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For tonight:

2 sets of 20 sit ups, 20 lb. dumbbell.

4 sets of pushups, 20 per set.

A bunch of curls where kiddo loads the bar and calls the reps. Completely random, didn’t keep track.

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Threw in another this morning just because.

20 pushups

10 mile ride (leisurely pace)

20 more push ups.

I might just start doing those (push ups) a lot more. Something I really like about them. Kinda takes me back to when I was a kid and the world was in good working order or at least I didn’t know any better. I’d do a couple hundred per night.

I don’t think I’ll be doing that many now.

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That sounds familiar. Probably my first forays into lifting was nightly sit ups and pull ups as a kid.

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Yeah. And they still work too!

I did stuff like that since forever. Me and my brothers would have contests to see who could do the most. I don’t know if there was some advantageous weight/strength curve there, but they were so much easier back then. :smiling_face:

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You weren’t weighed down with so much wisdom. I’ve found that’s the issue as I get older.

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Excellent explanation! I’m using that from now on.

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In my late teens and early 20’s a favorite pastime for me and my weirdo friends were drunken sit up contests, which I always won. It was like I could just do them forever.

Also, in early December or so my husband and I had a sit up contest, which was my first in many, many years. I won. He pissed and moaned about something being off/unfair so I graciously granted a rematch - which he refused.

Edit: to clarify, he did like 4 sit ups and I did maybe 10 before he stopped to tell me that the event wasn’t fairly organized.

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Just for giggles I’m going to see how many I can do unweighted later on.

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