Nalod wrote:For the guys who are having a hard time getting back to basketball due to injury: Retire!Not being defeatist here. I had to do it. I broke my neck playing when I was 20. Got lowbridged and landed on my head.
Got back on the court a year later and was much lighter. Quicker than ever but was having problems with nerve in the area. A few years later attempted a comeback at the "Y" but bone head pick up games were to physical with dudes proclaiming "I own the paint". Ass holes!
So it was time to do new things. Move forward not back. I don't miss playing anymore. Its too brutal to get back into it. I know guys playing at age 50 and older but you can't stop. If you stop, you gotta train to take the pounding. Moving forward I got into mountain biking and running for while but now find Tennis is great to satisfy the need to compete and train for. The footwork reminds me of basketball. I see dudes into their 70's still playing!
To each his own. Eny is trying running and the challenge of a new activity! OBM is into lifting and eating cheese!
My perspective has changed drastically since open heart surgery. I have deep respect for the body as like most young men took things for granted in my yoot. I have been with young men who run and had bypass surgery in their early 30's. Came across a man of 21 born with similar problems as mine but needed the surgery at that age. Its a blessing to have this technology in this day and age. I lost an uncle in 1973 at the age of 45 to the same condition I have. Now open heart surgery is a "procedure"!
Respect the body.
One advice to the OBM, just get your numbers checked if you gonna mess with that diet. Not every body reacts the same. If Little skinny guys also get clogged arteries so can you. Maybe your doing everything right in which case keep on keeping on. But to dispense such advice as gospel for all is naive.
I consider myself in "semi-retirement," meaning I haven't lost all hope. There's really no other form of exercise I enjoy enough to do regularly.
EnySpree wrote:MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:Nalod, wake the hell up:http://www.marksdailyapple.com/saturated...
so you live and die by one website? Don't you think that is a little ignorant? how old are you btw?
It's not one website, that's just a great entry point.
Did you even read it?
What's ignorant is eating the 'conventional wisdom' diet and loading up on prescription drugs to get through life. Man wasn't made to rely on things like statins.
Just because a doctor tells you something doesn't make it true or good for you.
MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:EnySpree wrote:MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:Nalod, wake the hell up:http://www.marksdailyapple.com/saturated...
so you live and die by one website? Don't you think that is a little ignorant? how old are you btw?
It's not one website, that's just a great entry point.
Did you even read it?
What's ignorant is eating the 'conventional wisdom' diet and loading up on prescription drugs to get through life. Man wasn't made to rely on things like statins.
Just because a doctor tells you something doesn't make it true or good for you.
I agree 100% with you, just haven't been to the website yet
Im trying to figure out who is saying youneed to take doctor prescribed medication to do anything.....
I just started this thread to talk about workouts and maybe help each other out. My intention wasn't to get into a debate about who is correct and who is stupid as you have said plenty of times.
EnySpree wrote:Im trying to figure out who is saying youneed to take doctor prescribed medication to do anything.....I just started this thread to talk about workouts and maybe help each other out. My intention wasn't to get into a debate about who is correct and who is stupid as you have said plenty of times.
Yea, that's a good point.
MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:EnySpree wrote:Im trying to figure out who is saying youneed to take doctor prescribed medication to do anything.....I just started this thread to talk about workouts and maybe help each other out. My intention wasn't to get into a debate about who is correct and who is stupid as you have said plenty of times.
Yea, that's a good point.
I'll be first to admit, I'm sometimes overzealous with my paleo/squat beliefs.
But some facts emerge:
1. If you're using machines at the gym, "isolating" body parts, you're wasting your time.
2. If you think running like a hamster is the best way to lose weight, you're wasting your time.
3. If you think grains are good, whole or not, you're on the path to death and an ugly life.
4. If you think saturated fat is bad for you, if you think cholesterol is bad, you've been lied to your whole life and you're avoiding the best foods the Planet has to offer.
MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:MarburyAnd1Crossover wrote:EnySpree wrote:Im trying to figure out who is saying youneed to take doctor prescribed medication to do anything.....I just started this thread to talk about workouts and maybe help each other out. My intention wasn't to get into a debate about who is correct and who is stupid as you have said plenty of times.
Yea, that's a good point.
I'll be first to admit, I'm sometimes overzealous with my paleo/squat beliefs.
But some facts emerge:
1. If you're using machines at the gym, "isolating" body parts, you're wasting your time.
2. If you think running like a hamster is the best way to lose weight, you're wasting your time.
3. If you think grains are good, whole or not, you're on the path to death and an ugly life.
4. If you think saturated fat is bad for you, if you think cholesterol is bad, you've been lied to your whole life and you're avoiding the best foods the Planet has to offer.
You're replying to yourself!
