morning and exercise routines

I was just rudely awoken by a dream about spiders. I like spiders, but these guys were rude and did not follow rules of common decency. The nerve!

One of the cooler things someone can do is get into super good awesome tip top shape. You feel better, look better, can do more things, and I believe (perhaps erroneously, but I refuse to do the research that will prove me wrong) that it helps you think better. I've been working out a long time, but not consistently enough where I am a huge hulking manbeast. When I was 7 I did pushups just about every day. When I was 13, I could curl 130 pounds (that's TEN POUNDS for every YEAR :O) and I had a pretty good body when I was 15. When I started working a full time job and going through girlfriends constantly, I stopped exercising and due to insomnia and muscle atrophy lost a lot of strength and definition - but I'm exercising again, consistently.

After about a month I'm comfortable repping 100 pounds curling, which as the one statistic I tracked as a kid, is what I am using to benchmark how good of shape I'm in compared to my younger self. I started doing pullups and chinups for a workout I enjoyed more that also engaged the back and shoulders more. Since I'm lazy, I use the 100 pounds barbell for everything - deadlifts, squats and military presses. As much as I love working my shoulders, I would rather bench as I'm worried about being fit in my arms, back, shoulders, and legs, with a very weak chest. I started doing pushups to alleviate this concern, but I don't really feel the burn the way I do with other exercises, even when I work to exhaustion.

A problem that has plagued me throughout my life is tiny wrists. Strengthwise and pertaining to size it's the weakest link of the chain. Although my fingers are short, I've always had nimble and very muscular hands. As of a couple years ago, I'm developing pretty formidable forearms, but my wrists still are tinier than the girl I'm dating right now (who happens to be skinny - my credo in life is "no fat girls"). I've done wrist curls on and off, and tried forearm exercises, but my wrists would always make these weird popping noises and I was worried I was hurting them, and if I used smaller weights I never felt like I was working them out. However, in a fit of genius the other day, I invented the perfect workout for my wrists, and they feel great. Presenting the Ryan White Wrist Workout (like anything I do, very poorly planned and put together): Obtain one mic stand; I suppose a sledgehammer could work, but that's for people who actually do things. My workout consists of gripping the top of the mic stand with a thumbs down gesture and rotating it to the thumbs up position until I can't lift it anymore, at which point I move my hand further down the mic stand to make it easier until I've made it as easy as I can and my wrists are burning. The second phase to my workout is doing the wrist portion of a hammer curl while I keep my arm perpendicular to the ground, continuing the pattern of starting at the end and working towards the mic stand as my muscles give out. It's only been a week, and although in my wishful thoughts they look a little big bigger and stronger (ha) one development shows that the workouts are helping for sure. When I moved my wrist all the way back or all the way forward it used to give a little satisfying snapping popping feeling which I always felt was unhealthy and now it doesnt. I also feel like my pullups and chinups are easier, which could be bicep and back growth, but I don't think so. It's good to know I've found something that works.

I want to buy a punching bag, but I'm considering travelling soon, and I'd like the money to spend on getting places and eating to stay alive.

Well, that was the most boring thing ever. What a stupid way to start your day.

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