What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[prfsnl_gmr]

I’m pretty lucky in that: (1) my children are older; (2) I have a relatively flexible work schedule; (3) I live near good roads for running; and (4) I work in a building with a nice gym. Still, scheduling time for exercise is a real challenge, especially during the summer when it’s too hot in Charlotte to run outside even very early in the morning.

[PretentiousHipster]

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Not saying you do it obv, but it reminds me. I'm on a film forum, and this former member from there was so desperate to get laid that he started exercising. As most people do in that case, he went way too hard, and started having brown urine after 2-3 weeks. Exercising can be addicting, which could be for the better tbh, as long as there's some self control lol.

I can believe that this guy ended up having brown urine, but I have a very difficult time believing that his exercising caused it. Brown urine is generally a sign of weird supplement intake or organ failure, not working out too hard.

Could lots of protein supplements at the same time be a factor? I dunno the details just him mentioning that it happened shortly after starting to work out obsessively.

Edit: although looking it up there is the thing called rhabdo. That could have been it?

Plus there's this case of kidneys shutting down for an actor after doing a bulking transformation for a role https://indianexpress.com/article/lifes ... s-8169922/

[Anapan]

Arnie explains "The Pump" at around the 10 minute mark:
https://anapan.ca/ThePump!.mp4
Many years ago my room-mates on a long job in northern Alberta got some budget training equipment. They'd watch this and then start doing reps while repeatedly yelling "Eiem Cahmmingh!"

[prfsnl_gmr]

Since we’re doing gym stories…

I was in the gym the other day doing my upper body routine. There were these two guys there I hadn’t seen before and both were lifting not that much weight with really terrible form. Still, they were filming each other with their phones and loudly commenting on the burn and the pump the whole time. It was both annoying and hilarious simultaneously. Has anyone else seen that? Why are they taking these videos?

[PretentiousHipster]

The gym scene for tiktok and instagram is huge. They're probably doing it hoping to get enough clout.

[ZRofel]

You have an extra 30 minutes to burn alongside the time it takes to do the work out?

Honestly, modern work schedules and parenting requirements create pretty insurmountable scheduling challenges for some without the complication of trying to work in exercise.

Hey, I totally hear you. The way the demands of work and childcare basically take over most adults' lives, leaving them with no time for personal enrichment, life-sustaining body maintenance, or even a little bit of mentally restorative recreation is one of the major BS parts of modern life. I don't have kids, but commute, work, exercise, and dinner basically eat up all the time I have any given weekday, so I can only imagine how much more overwhelming it must feel to add childcare into that mix. I know that's why most people don't exercise, and it totally sucks. I'm just telling you what worked for me when I started feeling a lot of post-workout soreness and stiffness. Even a little bit of cool-down stretching or 1/4 mile of casual walking after a run made a big difference.

[MrPopo]

When I was young I was on swim team, and in college I would do 20-30 minutes of DDR a day (that's actual song time, not just time spent around the machine), and I never felt like I was in a better state during the activity. When I was active I could do the activity without feeling like I was harming myself, but my feeling during the activity and my feeling when I was lounging about was the same. My theory is the folks who get really deep into physical activity are trying a post-hoc justification of the fact that they are bored from having a good life and have not reached the state of mental acceptance of "yes, it's ok for me to have things great compared to a few thousand years ago". This also leads to such things as camping, trying to find areas they can walk to everywhere even though the distances are 5-10 minutes more than is really comfortable, and jumping out of perfectly good planes with the thin promise of some nylon saving you from a terminal ending.

[Limewater]

Could lots of protein supplements at the same time be a factor? I dunno the details just him mentioning that it happened shortly after starting to work out obsessively.

Edit: although looking it up there is the thing called rhabdo. That could have been it?

If he's taking a lot of protein supplements but not drinking enough water that can be pretty hard on the kidneys. If he was taking other supplements, I would be more suspicious of those.

Rhabdo is a real thing, but it's generally really difficult to achieve just through exercise. Within Crossfit there are a group of people who kind of glorify it and literally attempt to get it. Relatively few actually do. People literally try to get it and fail.

Plus there's this case of kidneys shutting down for an actor after doing a bulking transformation for a role https://indianexpress.com/article/lifes ... s-8169922/

From the article:

Despite being a diabetic, the actor said he put on several kilos to bulk up and reach up to 100 kgs from his weight of 73-75 kilos.

In the following paragraph, he mentions the "dark underbelly."

I'm not going to subscribe to the article, of course, but the "dark underbelly" definitely contains performance-enhancing drugs. If you're an adult male and you put on 25 kilos in a year (and he probably did it in less) than either:

a) you were literally starving and severely underweight at the beginning (we know this not to be the case for Khan, who started at 73-75 kilos)
b) you ate calorie-dense food to put on weight and have added 25 kilos of fat to your frame
or
c) you used a very aggressive cycle of hormones and PEDs, in addition to a serious weight-lifting program

None of those are really great news for your kidneys.

Very few men, if any, have the capacity add 25kilos of lean muscle mass to their frames over their "natural" detrained muscle mass, period, given any length of time without at least boosting their testosterone to many times the levels naturally achievable.

[Limewater]

My theory is the folks who get really deep into physical activity are trying a post-hoc justification of the fact that they are bored from having a good life and have not reached the state of mental acceptance of "yes, it's ok for me to have things great compared to a few thousand years ago". This also leads to such things as camping, trying to find areas they can walk to everywhere even though the distances are 5-10 minutes more than is really comfortable, and jumping out of perfectly good planes with the thin promise of some nylon saving you from a terminal ending.

Or like trying to beat the turbo tunnel in Battletoads.
Or like trying to beat Super Mario Bros. in under five minutes.
Or like trying to beat your high score in Asteroids.
Or like trying to beat The Secret of Monkey Island without looking at a walkthrough...

[Ack]

Some body builders also experience a form of body dysmorphia, where they feel they are still not muscular enough and need to push themselves more and more. This can lead to more dangerous behaviors, such as steroid abuse. It isn't all of them, but it is a problem that I have heard acknowledged in the community.

As for me, I have to maintain a level of physical fitness for my work, because strength and stamina are considered necessary for the job, which must often be done in challenging and potentially dangerous conditions. I also experience a benefit to my sleep and mental health when I exercise regularly, and I do appreciate the compliments I get. So when I am feeling depressed, doing some activity will have a benefit, though I certainly don't try to be ridiculous or hurt myself.