D&D General Which ability score would you like to increase to 18 in real life?

[CubicsRube]

I regularly lift heavy weights in an effort to increase my real life Strength.

And I still would pick Constitution 100% of the time.

At most Strength training takes a couple of hours out of my day 4 days a week. But bettering my health is a constant never ending battle.

Off topic so i apologise in advance.

Would like to know some of your favourite excercises. I enjoy switching it up.

 

[CubicsRube]

Yeah I’m still struggling with diet in some ways, and I gotta find a new hobby that keeps me more active than just walking my dog!

I really can’t grok folks who get sugary desserts regularly and just basically ignore their doctor and “sneak” treats and whatnot.

People lose limbs to this disease, not to mention dying!

I think @BookBarbarian sounds like they're a better authority but I'm at risk of diabetes due to a surgery i had, and one of the best exercises I've been recommended is resistance training/ aka weight lifting.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I think @BookBarbarian sounds like they're a better authority but I'm at risk of diabetes due to a surgery i had, and one of the best exercises I've been recommended is resistance training/ aka weight lifting.

Oh yeah it’s a good way to go, I just enjoy literally nothing about it and my ADHD is specifically of the type where routine is very very hard for me, so my best bet for exercise is finding physical activities I enjoy and making them my hobbies.

Edit: which I mean...probably means that I should think of ADHD medication as indirect diabetes medication and just make a damn appointment to look into getting a prescription...

 

[Zardnaar]

Mine too, mate. My grandad, then my mum, then her mum (my grandma), then my friggin' dog, all within at the last year, have passed suddenly to cancer. It's been brutal.

Sucks got mum last year, wife's dad is getting blood tests and is in remission. Brother in law lost his mother, and cousins father.

Last two years have just sucked.

Wondering when the nightmares stop.

Losing pets sucks as well.

 

[CubicsRube]

Oh yeah it’s a good way to go, I just enjoy literally nothing about it and my ADHD is specifically of the type where routine is very very hard for me, so my best bet for exercise is finding physical activities I enjoy and making them my hobbies.

Edit: which I mean...probably means that I should think of ADHD medication as indirect diabetes medication and just make a damn appointment to look into getting a prescription...

Well actually one of the things I like about weights is you really don't have to follow a routine. You should target specific groups of muscles at certain times to give them a rest, but there's tons of variations and different exercises you can do within that.

But now I'm really getting off topic.

Maybe I need that boost in WIS after all...

 

[Zardnaar]

Went for walk today damn near killed me walking back up the hill.



Need that con.

 

[Zardnaar]

Found a small dungeon.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Well actually one of the things I like about weights is you really don't have to follow a routine. You should target specific groups of muscles at certain times to give them a rest, but there's tons of variations and different exercises you can do within that.

But now I'm really getting off topic.

Maybe I need that boost in WIS after all...

Trust me, to get results you need to do it regularly, which is difficult for me to literally accomplish “do the thing regularly” without external input at regular intervals reminding me to do the thing.

It’s an executive function issue. I’ll realize I haven’t touched a weight in three weeks, while I’m driving to work, resolve to work out after work or the next morning or whatever, and realize on the way to work that I didn’t do it. It’s not a “ah I told myself to lift this morning, but I’d rather read for an hour before getting ready” it’s “balls I did not work out at all and now it’s too late”

Whereas a physical activity I enjoy will naturally be on my mind when I wake up, and while that executive disfunction will still happen, it will happen far less often.

 

[DammitVictor]

Antipsychotics made me diabetic, too, but at least they didn't help my psychiatric conditions.

I am actually... a much more reasonable person... after I replaced them all with a vitamin supplement.

 

[Dausuul]

Oh yeah it’s a good way to go, I just enjoy literally nothing about it and my ADHD is specifically of the type where routine is very very hard for me, so my best bet for exercise is finding physical activities I enjoy and making them my hobbies.

Ballroom dance worked very well for me. There's always new stuff to learn, it's constant mental activity as well as physical, and it gets you out interacting with other people, which is good for those of us who tend to be hermits.

Unfortunately it's not possible to do it with a strained rotator cuff. Wish this thing would hurry up and heal already...