when you can’t get OUTSIDE?
By outside, I mean burning calories in a natural setting. Paddling, hiking, running…
Maybe that is a rhetorical question.
Yeah man. My grandson whines about having to go walk in the park with me. Listen, kid, if you don’t want grampa going crazy we’re gonna walk in the park for awhile. Capiche? After we get moving he always has a good time. That is the minimal
activity. The norm is 3 or 4 good bike rides per week… no grandchildren allowed. That’s real sanity saving time, there.
@Rex said:
Yeah man. My grandson whines about having to go walk in the park with me. Listen, kid, if you don’t want grampa going crazy we’re gonna walk in the park for awhile. Capiche? After we get moving he always has a good time. That is the minimal
activity. The norm is 3 or 4 good bike rides per week… no grandchildren allowed. That’s real sanity saving time, there.
Amen Brother!
Nope, it is not just you.
If I can’t bike, hike, or paddle you might as well put me in a grave!
Same here!
Ready for September!
We’ve had a steady stream of house guests for the last 4 weeks. While we do get some walking in with the guests, for the most part not very much. We generally walk most everywhere when guest free.
The only kayak use we get is in the day or two between arrivals and all the effort to get the house cleaned for the next group.
One more group to go–SIL and BIL-- they are somewhat independent tho. Then we have a couple of quickie, met you somewhere visitors.
All the eating out( which we almost always walk to and from) is down via car when guests are here-- ugh.
We want our lives back.
Summer, August, in Florida, indoors in the AC isn’t bad.
I picked the wrong career. In the office, I’d feel, well, not bad, but just not right. When I walked outside, it felt like a heavy, scratchy, irritating blanket was lifted off me. There were many years when I commuted on a bike. Three cranks into the ride, everything was right. I should have gotten a job featuring outside work.
So, I agree. At least for some of us, we need daylight and movement. When we don’t get it, we get cranky. My wife has learned to see it coming and will encourage me to get out so I don’t get “cranky.”
~~Chip
Not when its hot, I can’t do heat any more.
@BoozTalkin said:
I picked the wrong career. In the office, I’d feel, well, not bad, but just not right. When I walked outside, it felt like a heavy, scratchy, irritating blanket was lifted off me. There were many years when I commuted on a bike. Three cranks into the ride, everything was right. I should have gotten a job featuring outside work.So, I agree. At least for some of us, we need daylight and movement. When we don’t get it, we get cranky. My wife has learned to see it coming and will encourage me to get out so I don’t get “cranky.”
~~Chip
Chip, my wife knows the signs before I do.
@string said:
@BoozTalkin said:
I picked the wrong career. In the office, I’d feel, well, not bad, but just not right. When I walked outside, it felt like a heavy, scratchy, irritating blanket was lifted off me. There were many years when I commuted on a bike. Three cranks into the ride, everything was right. I should have gotten a job featuring outside work.So, I agree. At least for some of us, we need daylight and movement. When we don’t get it, we get cranky. My wife has learned to see it coming and will encourage me to get out so I don’t get “cranky.”
~~Chip
Chip, my wife knows the signs before I do.
And the same on the job. My high school aptitude test said to be a forest ranger, farmer, et
I got a biology degree to that end but soon found out what those jobs paid.
I drove a desk for 40 years.
I’ll never be sure it was the right decision.
Outdoors absolutely except when it’s blowing and -10 below or more. Even then I get a quick workout bringing firewood from the porch indoors. On the other hand, I wilt in high heat and humidity. Thankfully that’s a rarity up here.
@string said:
And the same on the job. My high school aptitude test said to be a forest ranger, farmer, et
I got a biology degree to that end but soon found out what those jobs paid.
I drove a desk for 40 years.
I’ll never be sure it was the right decision.
I made the other decision. If you wanted retirement you made the right choice. I’ll be working till I’m 95 or I drop dead. But this summer I’ve been working outside so much I don’t even have energy for it in my rare free time. And its been so hot and humid I can’t get very enthused about it anyway.
My brother apparently made the right decision after he got released from his government job.
He had always enjoyed real estate so he started flipping houses and doing a lot of the renovations himself .
He makes a good living and stays in good shape.
@string said:
when you can’t get OUTSIDE?
“…I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.”
from Herm’s whale of a tale.
(Beware of hypos and harpoons, and big ass whales when these former two are applied non-judiciously thereto.)
I work in a building with no windows. I need to at least see the outdoors or I start to go a bit antsy. I take a walk when my schedule allows but nothing replaces being out in real nature.
I paddled a hard 18 miles on Friday, to the point of being in pain and extreme fatigue . It was wonderful.
Hey DrowningDave, I thought of starting a thread asking if anyone else actually LIKED having their muscles be a little sore; didn’t mind being forced to the sofa trying to recover from a big effort. I guess there are a few of us here.
The weird non-motor people.
No pain no gain is still true no matter what the health commercials say. I’m not talking ER pain just sore to the point of needing a good nap and a day or two to recover. Most kayakers paddle for nature but I paddle for exercise and brain freedom. The nature part comes naturally since indoor pools are just too small.
A little soreness earns you a dessert and great night’s sleep.