Anyone Play Any Sports?

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  1. Mary Stetler

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    I have equipment in the basement that helps maintain some things. Not others. I stopped my best ab exercise because I thought my chiro found fault with it, like it had thinned out my spine. Later, She commented how I had let myself go. I turns out she didn't mean for me to stop. She was surprised at how I had built up.:confused: Back at it I go.
    It is like when you have gotten as uncomfortable as you can stand and can't find an answer outside of yourself. Whether you are fat or just flabby.;)
    We must, we must , increase the bust.:)
     
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  2. John Brunner

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    I had to laugh at this. My threshold used to be the feeling of my t-shirt hugging my belly as I sat at my desk at work. I've been lucky that a few weeks at the gym would always take it right off. I've gone through that cycle maybe 2-3 times in my life. Since I retired I've put that weight back on, but now that I'm not working, I don't drive by a gym every afternoon on the commute home, nor are there any gyms near me...so I buy bigger t-shirts ;)
     
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    Dan, is that one of those automated repair facilities that can move cars or engines into a major heavy repair then move them out. We have a facility 2 miles from my location that does chassis repair and sometimes the line is 4 miles long, all automated by computer in a control center and has no engineer. They work 24/7 .
     
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    It doesn’t happen very often lately but I had an extremely rewarding experience today at the gym.

    A fellow senior I had only seen a few times before the Covid thing approached me today with a question.
    He started with telling me he had a left side stroke about a year ago and was just recently able to get around albeit he wasn’t quite ready to start playing golf again.
    He said he was having a problem feeling his upper back and rear shoulder muscles (traps and rear deltoids) so much so that he still couldn’t maintain any control.
    I changed cable equipment to a single rope and showed him some “touch” techniques whilst doing one arm exercises to help him feel the muscle move and make his brain connect with it.
    After a few reps of an easy exercise, he said for the first time since his stroke, he could actually feel the connection and flex the muscle at will.

    I didn’t stay with him very long but I did watch as he went around the gym experimenting with his new found form. He’d do a one arm trap exercise and reverse arms all the while touching and feeling his muscles move with his other hand. He also worked his legs using the same procedure and when all was said and done, I saw him head back toward the locker room with a Very big smile.

    Strange, but I’d like to be there when he pars his first hole on the golf course.
     
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  5. Daniel B Cooper

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    @Thomas Stillhere

    Nothing like that. It is a major hump and classification yard (that part is automated). The pic I posted is of the fuel rack. Four tracks that if we scrunched the engines up, 8 will fit per track with the abaility to fuel, sand, water, oil, change brake shoes and do minor repairs. Each track had a pit to access under the locomotive .

    Our main focus was servicing locomotives then switching them into consists for outbound trains according to their tonnage requirements. I won't bore the forum with additional railroad crap, but if you want general info feel free to DM me.
     
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    When I was employed, I started out working in a warehouse, shipping, receiving, driving a forklift and pickup/deliveries. Got plenty of exercise. Then, in the mid 1980's, got involved in rodeo and bought a horse. Nice exercise with that as well.

    After numerous years of the warehouse work, I got involved in purchasing and inventory control and went into my own office. Still done a little warehouse work, but main job was behind a desk using a computer. I absolutely loved it.

    Have never/ever been into really hard/physical work, but taking care of my horse sure gave me exercise.

    Today, no horse anymore and wife and I probably don't get nearly as much exercise as we should, but.........

    Now that we are living back in a "winter weather" area, our winter exercise is more of playing our Wii Game in the living room than anything else. We do have a 20 foot powerboat that can, and does, give us plenty of exercise hooking up, launching/retrieving and unhooking it. We did that yesterday, and afterwards, got some muscle cramps and other muscle pain, but ibuprofen and CBD Rub sure helped.

    BUT, don't do a whole lot of exercise on a daily basis, unless using a computer keyboard is considered exercise, cause we do a lot of that. With two rotator cuff surgeries, one on each shoulder and a hip replacement, I'm extremely cautious about overdoing with any exercise.
     
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  7. Mary Stetler

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    Once I healed up from hip replacement, I find it was the only thing that keeps me going. That leg does not hurt at all. Did your doctor tell you not to exercise much? Mine got specific because he said one of his patients felt so good he climbed onto his roof to fix it and then fell off, two weeks after surgery. Doc told me not to do that for 8 months.;)
     
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  8. John Brunner

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    There was someone else around here that was tied to the railroads somehow. And lots of us love picking up new stuff. Personally, I would like to see you start a thread on this topic. If it falters, I'll save you with stories of when I worked in the ionmicrofabrication industry ;)
     
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  9. Mary Stetler

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    So you worked at making teeny tiny things we can't see?
    Good work if you can get it.
     
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    I believe you’re referring to @Frank Sanoica. He built a working RR engine and tracks in his home machinists shop and ran it around his property.
    He’s an engineer but just not a choo-choo engineer. Or, maybe cause he built one he IS the engineer.
     
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  11. Thomas Stillhere

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    The count today is 300 and 3 miles long. The reason is strategic position and they are brought back into service as needed. A good thing they aren't in Chicago or all of them would have been scrapped by now.
     
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    Shhhhhhhhhh.......be vewy vewy kwyut.
     
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  13. Marie Mallery

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    We just got another weed eater last year and its batterry powered too. I was asking hubby yesterday if he thought I could use it. He said yes. But for now, I'm staying out of yard. I'm good with loppers, shovels but not sure about weed eater yet. Its been a long time.
     
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    One of my favorite uncles worked for R.R, an engineer back in late 1800s up to 1955. I like riding on trains.
     
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  15. Marie Mallery

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    LOL you know what you did,huh?
     
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