Comments on: Reasons to believe it may be time to hit the gym again http://www.thispile.com/archives/reasons-to-believe-it-may-be-time-to-hit-the-gym-again One Woman, Many Piles, Much Grace. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:21:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: The Pile I’m Standing In » Blog Archive » The Hard Work of Waiting http://www.thispile.com/archives/reasons-to-believe-it-may-be-time-to-hit-the-gym-again#comment-25472 The Pile I’m Standing In » Blog Archive » The Hard Work of Waiting Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:43:56 +0000 http://www.thispile.com/archives/reasons-to-believe-it-may-be-time-to-hit-the-gym-again#comment-25472 [...] nursing a back injury last week, I jumped back on the elliptical each morning this week for 30 minutes. It is during this [...] [...] nursing a back injury last week, I jumped back on the elliptical each morning this week for 30 minutes. It is during this [...]

]]> By: The Pile I’m Standing In » Blog Archive » Book Review: The Emotionally Healthy Church http://www.thispile.com/archives/reasons-to-believe-it-may-be-time-to-hit-the-gym-again#comment-24879 The Pile I’m Standing In » Blog Archive » Book Review: The Emotionally Healthy Church Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:09:18 +0000 http://www.thispile.com/archives/reasons-to-believe-it-may-be-time-to-hit-the-gym-again#comment-24879 [...] I spent an entire day in bed this weekend, due to the bottom half of my body becoming separated from my top half, I read an entire book. It was probably too much information to really let sink in all at once - [...] [...] I spent an entire day in bed this weekend, due to the bottom half of my body becoming separated from my top half, I read an entire book. It was probably too much information to really let sink in all at once - [...]

]]> By: Elvis Dingeldein http://www.thispile.com/archives/reasons-to-believe-it-may-be-time-to-hit-the-gym-again#comment-24859 Elvis Dingeldein Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:41:14 +0000 http://www.thispile.com/archives/reasons-to-believe-it-may-be-time-to-hit-the-gym-again#comment-24859 I turn 38 this year and have been mortified by my sudden slide into decrepitude; like you, I never expected things to start giving out this soon, and have since started hitting the home gym in an effort to stave off what is sure to be a massive -- and possibly fatal -- infarction in the heart region. At 6'2" I've always carried my extra weight well, but lately have felt like I'm hauling bricks up the stairs to bed each night (they aren't bricks, that's my ass, apparently); I'd always had perfect 20/20 vision until a few years ago, when I discovered that in order to read a book I had to hold it exactly as far away from my face as my computer monitor sits from my eyes. And the combination of The World's Worst Mattress and my steadily weakening back have turned wake-up time into a 20 minute silent-movie comedy in which various grunting acrobatics are required to hammer the Capital U of my backbone into its more appropriate Little L shape. Getting old sucks the big one. I turn 38 this year and have been mortified by my sudden slide into decrepitude; like you, I never expected things to start giving out this soon, and have since started hitting the home gym in an effort to stave off what is sure to be a massive — and possibly fatal — infarction in the heart region. At 6′2″ I’ve always carried my extra weight well, but lately have felt like I’m hauling bricks up the stairs to bed each night (they aren’t bricks, that’s my ass, apparently); I’d always had perfect 20/20 vision until a few years ago, when I discovered that in order to read a book I had to hold it exactly as far away from my face as my computer monitor sits from my eyes. And the combination of The World’s Worst Mattress and my steadily weakening back have turned wake-up time into a 20 minute silent-movie comedy in which various grunting acrobatics are required to hammer the Capital U of my backbone into its more appropriate Little L shape.

Getting old sucks the big one.

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