5 Beginner Exercise Complaints and What You Can Do About Them
5 Beginner Exercise Complaints and What You Can Do About Them
Working out is challenging if you have never done it before. And it’s even harder to stick with it. As a result, beginner exercise complaints are common. Here are some solutions to the biggest.
Strained Back or Spine
You will strain your back during almost all exercises. The severity depends on what you are doing. The first time you perform strenuous repetitions such as sit-ups and heavy…
Some loom/weaving ASMR with a new batch of dishtowels on the new Wolf Pup loom. It's been weird to adjust to using 2 treadles at a time, but boy howdy is my core getting worked pfffttt
Nothing annoys me more lately than "Going to the gym isn't a personality" like yes??? it is???
People talk about the things they care about, that they spend time on, that they put effort into. That includes their bodies?
I work with a lot of athletes. Like more than your typical amount. And they will happily debate protein powders, tell you they're doing a new training regimen, talk about Lat Pulls like having opinions on them is something obviously I have as well. Going to the gym is exciting for them- they tell me they hit a new personal best bench press, or are trying to hit a specific weight class, or are working on knee strength after their surgery. They compare times they threw up or got too dizzy.
The same way when I talk to MTG players they tell me about their new EDH deck, or talk about that one wombo combo they pulled in Draft, or this asshole at FNM. It's all just nuts and bolts for a thing they care about. I don't know much of anything about Knitting but a lot of my friends do, and I would NEVER tell them that "Knitting isn't a personality" just because I personally find it boring or whatever. Because I would be an asshole.
Going to the gym is a ~personality~, it's just not one you want to talk about. You don't care about machine vs. free weights. You don't want to know how long they spent working out this morning. Frankly, you want them to do the work at the gym and not give you a peek behind the curtain. You want people to look good, look fit, look how you want to, but not talk about how much work and effort it takes to do so. Working out to you is a chore, and an unpleasant one at that, so you'd rather they not remind you of it.
But exercising your body shouldn't be a chore, it should be something you enjoy- your favorite rock climbing place, the dance class you and your friends take, etc. These people LIKE going to the gym. They would gladly tell you about it. And if for some reason you are talking to someone who works out religiously but hates every second of it- first of all, yikes, buddy you don't have to live that way- but second of all, that person will not talk to you about the gym. They will talk to you about what they are actually passionate about.
You don't have to enjoy their hobby! You can think the gym is boring, or exercise isn't interesting. But like. say that. The gym can be a personality. Anything can be a personality.
have developed a fascination with the idea of using abilities/spells for mundane things in every day life, especially when they would be overkill. like in the one fic I wrote where a smn summons his ifrit egi to boil water for tea (does not go well) and one I haven't posted yet where someone uses arms length to block a doorway
there's just so much potential here
high jump for taking multiple loads of groceries up the stairs
carbuncle night light
shukuchi for when you're too lazy to walk across the living room
chain saw to open boxes
foot graze to escape from people trying to hit on you or sell you shit
garuda to help you dust (results may vary)
aetherpact so you don't lose someone in a crowd
leg graze to beat someone to the last doughnut
the endless comedic uses of rescue
bahamut as a coat rack
cast sleep on those people being loud outside late at night
meteor for fishing
stub your toe? benediction is the obvious proportional response