May 15, 2009
How To Tell If You’ve Overdone It At The Gym
1. You lift your hand to brush your teeth and decide it would really just be easier to bring your mouth down to your hand level instead of the other way around. Who cares if your head is in the sink?
2. You see that your hair needs to be brushed, but figure that if Meg Ryan can still pull off the messy look, you can too.
3. Simply wiping off the counter is painful enough that it makes you whimper.
4. Turning the steering wheel in the car hurts, so you decide to drive home a different way so you can eliminate as many turns as possible.
5. Your first thought in the morning is that you can't wait to go to bed at night.
6. When you go to put your pajamas on at night, you decide it might just be easier to sleep in your clothes since raising your arms above shoulder height feels like people are ripping the insides of your arms apart.
7. You've decided that swinging your arms when walking is optional.
8. Little elbows pushing off of your chest reminds you of the time you got the massage from the crazy Russian lady who you thought would kill you before she solved any of your back problems.
9. You decide to make for dinner only meals that don't require you to retrieve anything from the upper cabinets.
10. You have ibuprofen as your breakfast.
How do you know you've overdone it?
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When my hips as I try to get out of bed at 04:15 is when I recall the previous night’s workout.
There after, whenever I stand after sitting for too long.
I over did it once where I could literally not lift my arms for a couple of days. My family found it quite amusing.
When you have to pick your legs up with your hands in order to get in the car…
Or for that matter, when you can’t bend your neck enough to get into the car without scrubbing the side of your head on the top of the door.
Last July, the night before our community’s big fireworks display, I had class. We did 3 sets of 10 deep knee bends. On the last set, we had to spring into a jump as we came back up. The next day having to walk at the event, I thought I was going to die when I had to climb about 20 stairs. Serious, serious pain. Lasted for like 4 days, too!
I always feel it in my SI joint and my elbows.
As you’re getting an I.V. for the second ACL reconstruction inserted!
🙂
Oh man, do NOT even go there!
BBM
Haha.
When you have to use you’re head to pull your head up out of bead because your neck has stopped working on you.
Or when you wish you were a guy because of the whole ‘sitting to pee’ thing.
The rest I’d just agree with yours!
Isn’t it a Wonderful Rewarding Pain (if you have to be in pain at all?)
Remember that.
When the last time you went to a gym was 16 years ago and you worked out so hard that you couldn’t move for three days and haven’t gone back since?
*snorts*
I don’t know about the hair thing. Meg has poofed her lips up which sort of distracts us (men, that is) from her hair. (Perhaps women still notice her hair. I don’t know.)
When you can’t even hold the controller to play video games 🙁
When going upstairs is more difficult than climbing the Everest, when sitting is a nightmare, and getting on your feet the worst idea you could have, when your arms become a delicate shade of violet because of the combat training and everyone looks at you in the public transports, when running for the bus is out of the question and you prefer waiting for the next, when driving becomes painful because all the small moves you have to make…
I overdo at my dojo almost each session, my life is quite painful. I’ll never understand BDSM fans 🙂 (or people who say “sport is healthy”)
I was excited to find your blog because I also take martial arts with my kids. They both take tae kwon do. I take Thai Kickboxing and I am in love, addicted, in love with it.
The workouts are the hardest I have ever done and I was in pretty good shape when I started 1.5 years ago. I’m in much better shape now.
I know I’ve overdone it when I have to hang onto the the towel rack across from the toilet with both hands to lower myself onto the toilet and then hoist myself back off.
Dear Black Belt Mama,
thank you very much for this post. I mentioned your blog and this post in an article on my blog. I wrote your copyrightpage and hope that I have done everything right (Scenario 3). You can check out my post at http://marius300482.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/kampfkunstblogs-heute-black-belt-mama/
The post is in german and says something like, read this blog and this post because it’s funny and presents another perspective on martial arts.
If you have any objections please let me know.
yours mari*us.zierold
I very much appreciate the link and how you went about doing it. Thank you.
BBM
@BBM Thank you very much. I’am look forward to your next posts.
mari*us