I've got a doozy of a post in the offing, in which I reflect upon the times we live in ("dark times", according to Dave, master of understatement) and offer a bit of advice to the inexplicably limp Democratic Party. I say it's a doozy because there's *waves hands* SO MUCH SHIT HAPPENING, and it's nigh impossible to contain it in one cogent post, so do not expect cogency.
Zman's efforting a post that's likely much more interesting, though less profane, so be excited about that, too.
Today, though, just a bit of filler. Nothing fancy. Trying to keep y'all fit as we make our way through this fuckery, seven minutes at a time.
Some of you exercise regularly. Zman's got a 3,000 day Peloton streak going. Danimal's a damn dolphin, what with all his swimming. Dave is a polymath, or at least a polymove, playing hoops and soccer, rollerblading (insert joke here, and in the comments), among other things. I do some yoga, some Peloton bike and strength, a bit of soccer - I like to move it move it.
But some days I don't have even 30 minutes, especially now that the soccer coaching season has started. (Have I told you that I lost my three best players before tryouts even started? Not great, Bob. Gonna find out how my X's and O's stack up without my Jimmies and Joes.) So I was happy to see a feature in The Washington Post (soon not to get my subscription dollars, what with Jeff Bezos' knee-bending) about a scientifically-proven way to maintain strength and flexibility in a short window.
Exercise physiologist Chris Jordan created a seven-minute, 12-exercise circuit designed to raise one's heart rate and work a broad range of muscle groups. After testing it extensively, a 2023 study in the National Library of Medicine by a group of researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong found that the workouts raised the inexperienced exercisers’ heart rates enough to improve their fitness over time. The study also suggested that the circuit was more enjoyable than other exercise, making it more likely that adherents would continue to exercise.
You can find the workout here. And if you follow along, you get to work out with this fella:
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Does this regimen shrink your head and grow your hands and calves so you look like that claymation guy? If so I’d rather not try it.
ReplyDeletehe appears to be the paragon of clay fitness.
ReplyDeleteandor is coming back this spring!
ReplyDeleteZman has a 3,000 day peloton streak???
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ReplyDeleteI'm glad Zman found an activity where he could get a streak going without leaving home. I recall his senior year slog keeping a streak of going out to the 'burg delis for some ridiculous number of consecutive days.
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ReplyDeleteI’ve done my laundry in a Buena Vista, VA (“BYOON-a Vista”) laundromat with beers and card games with the fellas more than twice.
Other amusing Virginia pronunciations include Staunton (“Stanton”… f the u), Wytheville (“WITH-vil”), and, of course, Bumpass (“BUM-pəs”).
Yes, that’s a schwa. Deal with it.
I also enjoy the Powhite Parkway in Richmond (“POW-hite” properly but if you don’t say po white trash when you’re driving on it you’re unfun).
Not so much Parham Road, also in Richmond. In 1988 someone gave me driving directions over the phone and pronounced it as they do (PAIR-um) without spelling it. I was looking for something like Perrum and never found the damn thing. Stupid.
Botetourt! (BOT-a-tot!) French. A dorm on W&M campus. A street in the Ghent neighborhood of Norfolk where I lived in my teens and 40’s.
ReplyDeleteW&M also has a Taliaferro dorm. Ask a non-native non Tribesman how to pronounce that and there’s a 6.9% chance of success.
Rob is gonna say this shoulda been a post
ReplyDeletei mean, if the schwa fits
ReplyDeleteGotta say, I'm a bit offended that I didn't make the fitness cut. I go to the gym every day in the morning before work for lifting and cardio. I also play tennis and basketball. Whatever, Rob.
ReplyDeletemy bad. it's probably because you're young and i'm jealous.
ReplyDeleteI feel the same way, Mark
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ReplyDeleteLots to catch up on. Chatham is pronounced "Chaddim," whether it's MA, NJ, or UK. I remember a few snow days in the Burg, including one my freshman year which resulted in a snowball fight with Sig pledges. Hamrick played QB in high school and had the arm to prove it--the proof was in the snowball he exploded on the side of my head from an uncomfortably proximate distance.
ReplyDeleteAh, yes. We had some snowball fights with those beefy dudes as well. Not brilliant on our part.
ReplyDeleteThere was a big snowstorm in the winter/spring of 1989. 5 of us headed over to the intramural fields for some snow football. Perfect conditions: it didn't hurt when you got tackled, and it was great snow for marking sidelines and end zones, replete with team names etched into the powder.
ReplyDelete"Eat Me" was Dave's team, of course. "The Shit" was Hightower's. Rob and I, with my roomie Doug (Not 4 years but 2 weeks) as all-time QB, fleshed out the rosters. Really great fun for some carefree 19-year-olds.
That was also the storm wherein my freshman gf told me she wanted to make love in the snow. Blanket didn't help and snow got all over the place. It was no fun at all.
ReplyDeletethere was a storm the next year where rob northway's face got dragged along the street while we were skitching. at least i think that's how his mug got mauled. to the uninitiated, skitching is being towed on a toboggan behind a moving automobile. seemed smart at the time.
ReplyDeletewith respect to snowball fights with the sigs, we were called to the house as pledges and forced to hold up garbage can lids to protect the brothers while they stood behind us and lobbed snow. chris hakel, all 6'5" starting w&m qb of him, was one of the aggressors on the other side of the skirmish. we were outgunned.
ReplyDelete"forced" is a strong word. maybe encouraged?
ReplyDeleteYes strong big bro and well agreed Rob ending my WP subscription as well! And yes the Tribe snow of 89 was great memories of carefree boys having fun!!!
ReplyDeleteYa'll are old as hell. I was in 6th grade in 89.
ReplyDeleteI don't recall any significant snow from my four years. I'm sure the old heads in the house would have had us out taking snowballs from the sigs had the opportunity arisen.
ReplyDeleteI dropped my Wapo subscription awhile back. Next time they offer to get me back for $0.99 I may take them up on it. I'm trying to give less of my money to our aspiring ruling class, but when I know they're losing money on it I get tempted.
My only interaction with Hakel was the time he decided he wanted to maul everone's favorite ER doctor and Knapp stepped in. Afterwards Knapp admitted he was intimidated as soon as he put his hands on Hakel. I don't think Knapp was intimidated before or since so that was a meaningful admission.
ReplyDeleteIt definitely snowed your junior year. I know this because there was a young lady in our room the night it snowed and she expected me to drive her home the next morning, but I didn't have a snow brush or ice scraper to clean my car off so I demurred. She ended up calling her homegirl for a ride.
ReplyDeletePeloton says my streak is only 164 days.
ReplyDeleteWe've 9.5 - 10 inches of snow. Dog loves it! Sun is out now, so super fun time - kid went with friends to park for sledding. My 94 y.o. mother-in-law who has come to stay with us for 4-6 weeks fell yesterday, so the ambo and fire truck came down our Hilton Village road (15 mph, where cars give way to another to pass; parallel parking bc most houses have no driveways including ours), and 6 EMT/fire rescue folks supervised/carried her in the snow to the stretcher to go to ER, where she and hubby spent 6 hours before returning home about midnight b/c she broke nothing, noggin is fine, and mostly annoyed at herself for NOT using her walker, which I told said hubby she absolutely had to do! OMDL y'all, OMDL. Listen to your spouses would ya.
ReplyDeleteThat snow of '89 at W&M -- lots of folks from our dorm went to DOG st. and initiated a snowball fight as a group from the dorm were walking down and the first group jumped out from behind one of the houses and started pelting...it was a fun, very wet time. And if I remember, it was super cold. Snow stuck around a long time.
We should all make a pact that we won't be too proud to use a stability aid when we start to get wobbly. There's an old saying about something that cometh before the fall, isn't there?
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear this Donna, but sounds like your mo-in-law is as they used to say in the old days, "a tough old broad!"
ReplyDeleteI'll join the pact w/ya Rootsy, if not for me for my kids.
wow, i did not know i've been visiting a peloton positive public space. really makes me want to use a bunch of words from the 80s that are no longer permissible. i'll have to wait until i see you guys in person.
ReplyDeleteGirlfriend lived in Taliaferro her sophomore year. She told me what dorm she was in but didn’t bother to spell it. I was perplexed when I could not find “Tolliver” on the campus map.
ReplyDeleteScoMac and I once shot disk pellet guns at Hakel as he made out with Erin Holister in DuPont 2nd center. We figured we couldn’t jam him and well we were interested to see if he would kill us?? Fortunately I think Hollister encouraged him to spare our lives ….I mean maybe 2d could have one manned him
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