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I don’t know if it’s a mid-life crisis or what, but recently I’ve been wanting to trade my truck in for something electric (Tesla truck, Bollinger, Rivian), I stopped watching football all day Sunday, and I’m looking for alternatives to hitting the gym.
I have a kayak I’m going to start taking out, but a good workout in that is time consuming as I don’t live close to a launch.
I’ll stop in for some jiu jitsu classes now and then, but I can’t do it 4-5 days a week, or even 2-3 days, haha. It’s not the cardio, it’s the wear and tear.
Tried rock climbing recently, and holy humbling experience. At 250+ right now, I was bouldering on children’s routes. My forearms and biceps and fingers and hands swelled up with blood within the first 3min, and after that, I could barely make a fist, much less follow little Johnny sideways and backwards on little holds made for doll fingers. All said and done, I had a blast and in an hour, I was completely spent. But I was also trashed for a few days afterwards.
I think the big thing is, I need more variety. I’m “blessed” not to have children, so I can be selfish with my time and branch out and experiment, without neglecting anyone or anything.
Just typing this out, I realize I need to just budget out a few hundred dollars a month and buy the memberships I want to the variety of places I enjoy occasionally, and then develop a way to juggle them so I’m not wasting money, but also recovering between sessions.
What do y’all do besides the gym that is as much for the workout as the experience?
For me, it will be boxing, kayaking, jiu jitsu, and rock climbing, 4-5 times each per month. I’m going to give up the gym for a few months and see how my body responds.
I have a kayak I’m going to start taking out, but a good workout in that is time consuming as I don’t live close to a launch.
I’ll stop in for some jiu jitsu classes now and then, but I can’t do it 4-5 days a week, or even 2-3 days, haha. It’s not the cardio, it’s the wear and tear.
Tried rock climbing recently, and holy humbling experience. At 250+ right now, I was bouldering on children’s routes. My forearms and biceps and fingers and hands swelled up with blood within the first 3min, and after that, I could barely make a fist, much less follow little Johnny sideways and backwards on little holds made for doll fingers. All said and done, I had a blast and in an hour, I was completely spent. But I was also trashed for a few days afterwards.
I think the big thing is, I need more variety. I’m “blessed” not to have children, so I can be selfish with my time and branch out and experiment, without neglecting anyone or anything.
Just typing this out, I realize I need to just budget out a few hundred dollars a month and buy the memberships I want to the variety of places I enjoy occasionally, and then develop a way to juggle them so I’m not wasting money, but also recovering between sessions.
What do y’all do besides the gym that is as much for the workout as the experience?
For me, it will be boxing, kayaking, jiu jitsu, and rock climbing, 4-5 times each per month. I’m going to give up the gym for a few months and see how my body responds.