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Originally Posted by IronicDeadBird
Anybody else generally gain weight during build season?
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You know in college I took a class called: "Stress management through exercise"
I have often thought it might be wise to engage in exercise at least once a day as part of FIRST activities.
If one can justify pushing this hard, why not accept that this body and mind are linked.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/exerc...s-scott-lister
Years ago I walked with a cane because I hurt myself moving a very large printer.
I never got proper physical therapy because my employer ran interference.
It took 1 week before I could walk.
1 year before I wasn't periodically in a bad pain.
2 years before I only really dealt with pain in the morning and when lifting things badly.
3 years before random lifting couldn't cause spasms.
5 years later sometimes I had to walk hunched over in the morning.
Finally this year I got physical therapy at my expense and with some simple targeted exercises I am much better.
It's worth it to spend that few minutes even if you don't have chronic pain.
I think of weight gain as your body's way of planning for extremely unstable situations: missed meals, lower quality food, broken sleep patterns, longs periods of unusual activity.
Considering I weigh 300lbs at 6'3" and have weighed at least 240lbs since I was 14 and I've been working since I was 10: that should probably say something about doing crazy things, sitting around doing them and body weight.