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The Yearly Physical

I had my yearly physical today and as is always the case, there's good news and bad news. I will give you the bad news first.

Bad news: I was not able to return home and quit my job, then plan to spend the short-term future burning through my retirement account doing bucket list items.
Good news: I am apparently in excellent health.

This time of year always makes me a little nervous. It's a weird human tendency towards ignorance & bliss. But I'm also a firm believer in science, and statistics. So I get routine checkups, and vaccines, and I listen to the doctor's advice. This year I got a tetanus booster plus some old man's shot for pneumococcal pneumonia. Again, because science. My left arm is a little sore now.

We discussed the knee, and she agrees that this is almost surely due to being a single sport person for so long. We discussed my approach and she is 100% behind it. As I mentioned to her, the heart issue from 3 years ago is gone, 2 of my problems from last year are gone, and I'm working through this latest knee issue. I'm making progress on all of them and I am opting for the non-invasive approach. We're in alignment with PT & weight training followed by cardio on top of that. We both agreed crossfit is for social misfits, however. XOXO

Ok maybe she never said that. In any event, I feel great starting the year.

I have no picture today so I'll take something from the last actual travel blog. The dog.

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Norm said:
What is your Order of Operations?
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Rather than Order of Operations, it's been Priority of Operations for me, which aligns with the spirit of your question.

At this point in my Journeys Around the Sun, I've come to the realization that maintaining whole-body strength/mobility/flexibility should probably get equal/near-equal priority with the bike-riding thing.

My current breakdown is 4-5 hours per week on the bike (almost always the mountain bike) and 4 hours in the rock gym (two 2-hour sessions, usually Monday & Friday). I never ride and climb on the same days. That did occur occasionally when I was doing the bike-racer stuff, but those days are long gone.

I'd been a dedicated weight-work guy for many years, but the rock gym basically took over that role 15+ years ago.

I'm on the yoga mat for 30 minutes after every bike ride, and I stretch for 10-15 minutes at the beginning of every gym session, so that's another hour and a half (or so) of body work per week, minimum. I can go on at length regarding what I've discovered regarding the importance of hip mobility, but better leave that for another time.
 
shrpshtr325 said:
now this is a topic i have a recent (last couple of years) interest in
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Same. I do a specific stretch routine from Peloton that does wonders for me. I don't do it consistently, but when I have a nagging lower back/hip soreness it takes just a few days of consistently doing this routine to get me back in shape.

I went kayaking in last week of August, and have since been experiencing intermittent issues with one glute. For some reason it's taken me until January to get back into the hip mobility routine, and in less than a week it's basically gone away.

Off to the mat now ..
 
Red Mosquito said:
Same. I do a specific stretch routine from Peloton that does wonders for me. I don't do it consistently, but when I have a nagging lower back/hip soreness it takes just a few days of consistently doing this routine to get me back in shape.

I went kayaking in last week of August, and have since been experiencing intermittent issues with one glute. For some reason it's taken me until January to get back into the hip mobility routine, and in less than a week it's basically gone away.

Off to the mat now ..
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So you can accurately say kayaking is a pain in the a$$ now.
 
shrpshtr325 said:
Which one? My wife has an account I may try it out if you can share enough detail to find it
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It's technically "lower body" mobility but it's very hip centric. I think only 1 of the moves (ankle stretch) doesn't work your hip in some way. And that's not really true now that I think of it.

It's 20 minute lower body mobility by Hannah Corbin
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Red Mosquito said:
It's technically "lower body" mobility but it's very hip centric. I think only 1 of the moves (ankle stretch) doesn't work your hip in some way. And that's not really true now that I think of it.

It's 20 minute lower body mobility by Hannah Corbin
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got around to trying this today, going to have to give it a couple days but initial impressions are positive
 
shrpshtr325 said:
got around to trying this today, going to have to give it a couple days but initial impressions are positive
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Glad it seemed to help. A few days in a row makes a difference, especially as you start to dial in the moves. It took me a long time to get the proper stretch from the crossed knee move.
 
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