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<blockquote data-quote="Nytmare" data-source="post: 7649988" data-attributes="member: 55178"><p>A handful of stories related to various things that have been said in this thread:</p><p></p><p>The major turning point for me, health wise, was unfortunately establishing myself in my career. When I was poor, I was in (generally) better health. I might not have eaten healthily, but I ate a lot less, and ate way less plain old garbage. My main mode of transportation was by bike until I started making enough money so that I could afford having a car. When I wanted to use a computer, I'd bike out to the university to use one in the lab. Now, if left to my own devices, I could easily spend a day walking no further than my bed to my computer, with a few short trips to the bathroom or kitchen over the course of the day. Unfortunately, a lot of the bad habits I established as a poor college kid have haunted me ever since, whereas the "good" (or at least better) habits have all, for one reason or another, managed to steal away into the night over the intervening years.</p><p></p><p>Thankfully a hefty third of my job (doing grip work for films) involves some pretty serious physical labor, so that's managed to keep me in some semblance of physical shape. I've managed to cut back on a lot of the complete garbage I was eating and drinking (I miss you Mountain Dew) over the last year or so. I also installed a pullup bar in the doorway to the kitchen and refuse to let myself in, for any reason, without at least hanging on the bar and tensing my shoulders for 30 seconds. The bikes are up in stationary stands in front of the TV, and I try to do at least a half hour on them while watching a movie or playing a video game.</p><p></p><p>At the beginning of one summer, my best friend and I discovered that there was a new Heroes of Might and Magic game coming out. Realizing that this ran the risk of dooming us to yet another wasted summer where we did nothing but set ourselves up for a fall of complaining about how out of shape we were, we decided to meld the game with a workout routine involving various numbers of pushups and situps. At the start of each day you did five of your choice, if you wanted to hire more troops you'd do ten pushups. Starting a battle? Losing a battle? Losing a battle you started? They all had various exercises tacked on to the in game costs.</p><p></p><p>That night I crashed on his living room couch and passed out almost immediately. The following morning I awoke to his screams coming from the back of his house. I immediately tried to jump up and rush to his aid but discovered that I couldn't move. At all. I wasn't just sore, I was nearly paralyzed. I couldn't bend at the waist, or lift my arms for HOURS. I was eventually able to tumble off the couch and somehow inch myself up a wall, but we were WRECKED. I don't remember what our eventual tallies were, but if memory serves they were in the thousands. We also never touched Heroes of Might and Magic ever again.</p><p></p><p> @<em><strong><u><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=19675" target="_blank">Dannyalcatraz</a></u></strong></em> - Did you ever do any LARPing or play paintball or anything?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nytmare, post: 7649988, member: 55178"] A handful of stories related to various things that have been said in this thread: The major turning point for me, health wise, was unfortunately establishing myself in my career. When I was poor, I was in (generally) better health. I might not have eaten healthily, but I ate a lot less, and ate way less plain old garbage. My main mode of transportation was by bike until I started making enough money so that I could afford having a car. When I wanted to use a computer, I'd bike out to the university to use one in the lab. Now, if left to my own devices, I could easily spend a day walking no further than my bed to my computer, with a few short trips to the bathroom or kitchen over the course of the day. Unfortunately, a lot of the bad habits I established as a poor college kid have haunted me ever since, whereas the "good" (or at least better) habits have all, for one reason or another, managed to steal away into the night over the intervening years. Thankfully a hefty third of my job (doing grip work for films) involves some pretty serious physical labor, so that's managed to keep me in some semblance of physical shape. I've managed to cut back on a lot of the complete garbage I was eating and drinking (I miss you Mountain Dew) over the last year or so. I also installed a pullup bar in the doorway to the kitchen and refuse to let myself in, for any reason, without at least hanging on the bar and tensing my shoulders for 30 seconds. The bikes are up in stationary stands in front of the TV, and I try to do at least a half hour on them while watching a movie or playing a video game. At the beginning of one summer, my best friend and I discovered that there was a new Heroes of Might and Magic game coming out. Realizing that this ran the risk of dooming us to yet another wasted summer where we did nothing but set ourselves up for a fall of complaining about how out of shape we were, we decided to meld the game with a workout routine involving various numbers of pushups and situps. At the start of each day you did five of your choice, if you wanted to hire more troops you'd do ten pushups. Starting a battle? Losing a battle? Losing a battle you started? They all had various exercises tacked on to the in game costs. That night I crashed on his living room couch and passed out almost immediately. The following morning I awoke to his screams coming from the back of his house. I immediately tried to jump up and rush to his aid but discovered that I couldn't move. At all. I wasn't just sore, I was nearly paralyzed. I couldn't bend at the waist, or lift my arms for HOURS. I was eventually able to tumble off the couch and somehow inch myself up a wall, but we were WRECKED. I don't remember what our eventual tallies were, but if memory serves they were in the thousands. We also never touched Heroes of Might and Magic ever again. @[I][B][U][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=19675"]Dannyalcatraz[/URL][/U][/B][/I] - Did you ever do any LARPing or play paintball or anything? [/QUOTE]
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