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my back hurts (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Battle_Masker@lemmy.world to c/dankmemes@lemmy.world

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[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't walk more than an hour a day and that's just to the shops and back.

🤔 I drink green tea. And fruit juice. Do those things prevent back and knee pain?

...Do people not walk to the convenience store?

What is it that you guys eat and drink every day?

[-] puppy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You either live in New York or outside of the US. Which one are you?

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

I don't know if it'd be a good idea to say because I don't want to doxx myself. But I don't live in either of those areas.

I just do this stuff naturally. I walk to the store because it's a waste of gas to drive and I don't want to contribute to climate collapse unless I have to go a long distance, in which case I drive.

I make this green iced tea where I boil some water and steep the tea with lemon slices because it's delicious and better tasting than shitty tap water.

I thought everyone did that. 😳

[-] FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No actually, in my very unresearched and unknowledgable opinion the majority of people don't really set out to walk much more than to and from their cars, the washroom, or the kitchen

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

That's... worrisome.

[-] loutr@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Beer mostly.

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

I see you too are a man of culture

[-] Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

I don't walk to my grocery store, despite it being half a mile from my house, because there are no sidewalks along the 6 lane roads between my house and the store.

The street in front of my neighborhood has been under constant construction for 7 years, and I'm afraid to ask them to add sidewalks because I'm pretty sure this would make the entire area entirely unwalkable even in an emergency due to the construction barriers they'd install for at least the next decade for that project.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I don’t walk more than an hour a day and that’s just to the shops and back.

That's plenty for upkeep, your body knows that walking is a thing that it's supposed to do, and continue to do, and not just an interim state between sitting at a desk and sitting in a car which can be safely deprioritised just as it deprioritises balancing on one leg while holding on to a cabinet leaning over a mine-field of legos to get hold of the winter bedsheets stowed away in a far-away corner.

If you want to up the ante a bit add hanging to the walking: No need to get into pull-ups, at least not intensively so, just hanging provides enough data to the feedback loops in your shoulders/upper back to prevent getting confused as to how they're supposed to control the muscles there.

And if you're in a bad state (or just enjoy it), say you're fat and walking is actually a joint issue: Swimming. No need to train lap times, just enjoy yourself, of course, if you enjoy training lap times then do that.

While I'm at it last but not least: With every exercise, don't choose the hard stuff. If you can't do 10 pushups then you shouldn't be doing pushups, you should be training to get to 100 wall-pushups: Less resistance means you can focus on form and actually develop good form, and many repetitions of a low-resistance exercise tire the muscles just as fewer repetitions of a high-resistance one. Muscles will become stronger in the recuperation period after the lactose starts burning, as such don't set a number goal but train to exhaustion.

Oh, and this guy.