Exercise Related Puns

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Hello everyone - I am new to this community. I am in my mid twenties and have been working out consistently since college. I also have worked extremely hard to change my mindset around exercise (from punishment/way to prevent "letting myself go" to something for enjoyment).

When I have a lot of time on my hands, I LOVE working out. However, it is becoming harder and harder to enjoy fitting exercise into my day. I am a new teacher at a high-needs school, and this first post-pandemic school year has been crazy to say the least. Between an hour commute, a 7 -4 school day, and after school obligations, I find myself exhausted when I leave the building each day. When I exercise in the evenings on my way home, I often don't get back to my apt until 7 or 8 pm, at which point I still have 1-2 hours of prep work/grading/family outreach to do for the following day. I feel like I have no time to breathe, and I find myself wishing I could just skip my workouts in favor of a walk or simply just an extra hour to journal or chill.

This is all to ask if anyone else has ever been in a similar situation. If so, did you allow yourself to forgo exercise in favor of more organic forms of movement (walking, etc.) or did you force yourself to continue squeezing in workouts?

Thank you for any and all advice. I think I'm having a hard time figuring out whether "self-care" means taking the pressure off myself to exercise, forcing myself to remain consistent, or some happy medium.

Hi guys,

so this problem really sucks, and I feel it might be some kind of dysautonomia as it's totally not progressive. Been having this issue for over 7 years, only occasionally.

Sometimes, when I'm not totally fit and force increasing my running just a bit too much again I wake up at night with some shortness of breath. I've made notes from last night as I tend to forget this: wake up for some unknown reason. Curl up again and while I fall asleep I feel shortness of breath racing at me without any other symptoms and immediately thereafter a mild pressure in my chest and my heart beat suddenly drops to very weak and slow for a few seconds. Then my heart suddenly beats very strong at normal resting speed, another bit of pressure, and all is back to normal. According to my smartwatch my pulse remains so strong for at least 1-2 hours (it's recognized as stress). This is not a standard kind of double heartbeat with a break as it's preceded by shortness of breath, then a barely noticeable pulse, then back to normal but very strong. Totally rubbish, but for me it feels like blood flow to lungs is restricted for some reason, back pressure hits heart, heart takes a small break, then comes back with full force, problem solved.

The only thing that all these occurrences have in common is that I ran a bit longer or faster than I should have at that point (I only run in the evening, btw). This might as well just be a very slow 1km if I've not run in a while. I freeze totally thereafter. I can't stop shivering, a hot shower, huge mug of hot tea and extra blankets don't help either. Also lots of extra blankets in bed, heating on, long clothes. Nothing. But by the time I wake up I'm not freezing anymore.

I'm looking to try much harder this time round on my new years resolutions. I remember a ton of those walk-to-progress-the-story, walk-to-build-XP, etc. games and I'm wondering if there's any consensus on which is the best? Or which do you guys use?

Thanks!

Hello all, I'm currently attempting to work through Silverman and Tate's Rational Points on Elliptic Curves (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-18588-0) and while I'm having an alright time with the theory, the exercises are totally inexplicable to me. The issue is an issue that I have with many, many self-study math books - there are no worked out solutions to problems I'm struggling with, leading me to wonder whether my frustration is due to misunderstanding the material itself or just lacking some skill they're relying on without mentioning. For example, one question asks me to find the nine points of intersection between two cubics, and I have no idea if I'm supposed to just figure that out using traditional methods, or if there's something I'm missing in the material that should allow me to do it more easily. It's gotten to the point where I'm very discouraged.

So, I guess my question is, does anyone know 1) if anyone has ever taken the time to work through this particular book and record the solutions, or if the solutions are accessible somewhere, or 2) does anyone have another recommendation for self-study on elliptic curves? I'm really looking for something where exercises are worked out - I don't have a professor to run questions by, so it's much easier to get lost without them. Thank you!

I have a final project for a data visualization class that requires making a dashboard of visualizations through tableau. The project requires the data to have a geographical location and years, Preferably with 4 or 5 other variables including those two. have spent at least 3 hours trying to find one. Was wondering if anybody can point me in the right direction?

For example when I do overhead extensions or a bench press with dumbbells my elbow hurts a lot it doesn’t hurt after the workout but while I’m doing the exercise I feel elbow pain more then I would feel my triceps actually being worked

So I’ve had a hell of a ride the past 10 months but I have recently started to see results and been able to go back to work as well as taking walks in the parks and hikes in the woods. Some days are good some are bad but i seem to be able to now return to exercise slowly but surely. Still not stepping foot in a gym until I can buy a home gym because honestly fuck gyms I used to get sick all the time even before covid. However now I am walking about 10,000 steps a day and able to walk up and down elevation changes fairly easily. My malaise seems to be sporadic or related solely to diet. I know eat a ridiculously healthy diet that consists of whole food organic fruits, deer that Ive hunted, unaltered grains from local farms to make bread, and fresh vegatables. Its prohibitively expensive but Ive been able to finally be myself again to about 85%. I still have some occasional terrible nights but most days I can compete. Ive just given up on drinking and smoking weed entirely. I simply cannot do it anymore and it sucks but its so much better than suffering. Although I hate this disease I have developed some very healthy future habits if I am able to shake this illness. Also I do take 300mg of nicotinic acid and a zyrtec everyday. Im in a trial for lorenlimab and hopefully it makes everything better so I’ll be 100%!

Edit: My journey to going on hikes started very humbly with walking around my office at work and doing errands. Then I started small walks in the park maybe 1000 steps. Then I proceeded to going to a mile and now I do about two mile hikes at a time in addition to my daily routine to get around 10k steps a day. Walking is honestly the most underrated excersise and can do wonders reducing stress hormones in the blood as well as improving cardiovascular and pulminary functions.

EMS workers have all kinds of messed up backs and knees and who knows what else. Do you exercise to avoid this? Does it work? I am trying to decide if dead lifting regularly (body weight or less, good form) will preserve my back health or make things worse.

Long story short: I will be teaching a couple of classes to second year medical students for a Computer Science course, in particular I will be addressing the use of functions in general and possibly the use of pandas, why it is useful, why they should learn it and so on. I would like to find some ideas to make my classes interesting with some exercises related to medicine, like idk, some very simple data analysis on ECG, but I don't have a medical background of any kind and I couldn't find where to find some ideas (and maybe some data as well). I thought about something on images, I found some dataset on Kaggle, but I fear that it may be way too hard to start. Can anyone point me to some resources? Thank you in advance! (already posted in r/learnprogramming, they pointed me here)

i’ve got pretty bad anxiety in general, but when it comes to exercising it is absolutely brutal. because of that i can’t work out in places that have too many people (more than 4….i know, that’s pretty low, but i can’t help it.) i wanted to try going to the gym tonight, but found there were way too many people (12 on a monday at 11pm. normally it’s empty). both the fact that there were so many people when there normally isn’t and the thought of exercising in front of all of them triggered a meltdown (i’m autistic btw). it’s getting too cold to go outside now, which mom told me is why there is a rise in people going to the gym, and even if it were nice out, i still have crippling anxiety about even going for a walk because what if people i know see me? it’s a small town and my peers are assholes, i feel constantly judged by everyone, like they’re all talking about me.

realistically i know i’m being over dramatic because the fact that someone will both see me and remember it for long enough to talk about me are slim, but i can’t help it.

any advice?

Occasionally, if I’m doing yoga or pilates or something that requires moving from different elevations (not sure the exact word to use here,) I will get an intense, throbbing migraine like pain across the whole front and top of my head when I go from laying down to sitting up. It usually lasts a few beats and then I’m left with either a dull reminder of the pain or it can turn into a migraine. I had no head pain whatsoever, and just happened to me a few minutes ago. Anyone experience this or know what to make of it?

I recently started a 14 day exercise regimen with my friend (we both have been very sedentary the last two years). After day 1 I realised that I'm in no position to finish all the exercise that were a part of day 1 (squats, weighted curls, planks etc) because I was not able to do any of them for the prescribed 50 seconds time. I think that I should first concentrate on getting my strength and endurance up by slowly building up to be able to finish day 1 properly and then continuing the 14 day regimen, but my friend thinks that I should half ass the daily exercises and finish the 14 day regimen in 14 days (because doing just day 1 repeatedly is pointless and useless, according to him) My point here is that if right now I can hold only a 15 second plank and I'm just okay with that level of stamina and half ass all the other exercises, what exactly am I gaining here? So which one of us is right?

I hope this post is not breaking any rules. If it is, then please let me know

Hi! I've checked with a local podiatrist and I currently have paronychia, and there's also ingrown on the sides of my toenails because they swell up when they get stubbed and after I wear closed shoes. I was told that it'll eventually heal up, but how do you do sports or workouts that require closed shoes without them hurting or getting affected? It's just really frustrating and I don't know if it's just supposed to be the same cycle of when it heals up, I work out, and then it swells up again. How do you exercise with this? :(

I've always been able to manage my depression & anxiety issues through regular cardio (among other things like not drinking, diet, etc) But, recently stepped into my 3rd trimester and worried that it'll be just above my threshold of management, especially postpartum....

Talked to my OB and he prescribed Wellbutrin, but worried a bit about the anxiety aspect. He initially wanted me on Lexipro, but I've taken a gene saliva test that indicated that I should avoid SSRIs.

Before being pregnant, I'd take Modafinil and was definitely prone to anxiety unless I got regular cardio in. Anyone out there successfully manage their 'Wellbutrin anxiety' with exercise?

Picking up prescription tomorrow and appreciate any input!

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