in my SV5 era

women should lift weights because it prevents osteoporosis in old age and makes you a more capable person in everyday life please shut up about butts and waists and hourglasses i'm going to fucking kill

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genuine question from someone who would rather chew their arm off than go to a public gym, and also doesnt have a lot of money: how do you safely get into strength training? are there youtube channels, apps (android), etc anyone recommends that makes it approachable and don't lean into diet culture / body shaming?

also the biggest thing that keeps me from working out is that I already have joint and spinal issues and moving the wrong way can fuck up a knee or a shoulder or my spine for days. I really don't want to injure myself, and have unwittingly done so before. resources that are extremely clear on exactly how to move and offer gentler / alternative ways to move for people with limited range are vital.

Okay, so this may not technically be strength training, but muscles are dumber than bricks and cannot tell the difference between your own bodyweight and actual weights.

So, may I recommend:

He runs a YouTube channel where he goes over how to work your way up to more complex exercises (for instance, his pull-ups videos start with using a door jamb and moving your weight back and forth) so it's good for easing yourself into things.

You also don't have to fork out for expensive weights and such if you don't want to/can't. Substitute with stuff you either already have at home or can get from the supermarket and build up the weight you can exercise with. 500 gram cans of butter beans then 750 gram bottles of pasta sauce. 1 litre drink bottle then your 1.5 litre milk bottle. 3 litre bulk-buy bottle of laundry detergent. Etc. One of my dogs weighs 13 kilos and I pick her up on the regular (to her delight). One weighs 16 kg and I pick him up too (to his consternation and mild disapproval). You don't have to fit out some fancy home gym before you can start strength training.

I second Hybrid Calisthenics, that's the program I use. It's run by one guy who's taken it upon himself to make exercising more accessible and it's completely free! Each exercise has different variations based on your ability and each variation is further divided into different levels of difficulty so you can work up to where you want to be. If you can't do a single push up for example then this program will help you work up to the point where you can, and if you're a master of push ups then there are more advanced body weight exercises you can tackle so you can keep moving forward in your training without stagnating. The routine offers a full body workout with absolutely no equipment required for the beginning levels. The only reason you would need to buy anything is if you want to work up to a full pull up, at which point you would need actual pull up rings

Here's his actual website which I feel is easier to navigate than the YouTube channel on its own and organizes things in a way that's easy to understand. He explains everything you need to know about the routine and each individual exercise has both a text description and a video tutorial

In terms of like, Please For The Love Of God Get Hobbies That Aren’t Scrolling Through An App For Six Hours A Day, I understand and experience completely the argument of like. with the stressors of modern work, you don’t have the energy at the end of the day to do anything but mindlessly watch Netflix and scroll through your phone. but like I would like to gently encourage you to simply force yourself for a time to do something instead of pick up your phone, bc the phone is literally designed to light up your brain with no effort from you whatsoever and it does in fact rot your brain. It makes literally anything but scrolling on your phone seem difficult and joyless. But if you stop scrolling on your phone all the time, and start like, reading or embroidering or gardening or going for walks, you will eventually find the joy in them once more

I understand and it is true that it is hard to have a life outside work and scrolling but there is not a near future where that won’t be the case and you should still live a life. And you won’t create a future where that isn’t the case if you don’t have the confidence and experience and drive to fight for it

https://forge.medium.com/get-the-most-from-your-limited-free-time-84de1bc3096

i honestly hope instagram dies before tiktok because the number of times i’ve met up with a friend and asked how’s it going only to have them say “well, have you seen my insta stories” is reaching critical mass and i don’t want to go to prison for terrorism

I just need to stop reading the notes on this post but there is actually no mental illness or neurological disorder that makes it impossible to choose high quality leisure over low quality leisure. You do not have to spend all of your free time scrolling if you have x y or z diagnosis. When you next talk to your psychiatrist ask them if it’s helpful for your condition to spend all your time online and get furious when anyone suggests it isn’t.

Our beautiful home

after a long day of doing laundry for the entire neighborhood, i walk into my kitchen and cook an amazing gourmet feast, which i then eat entirely while crouched in the corner set aside for dining. afterwards, i tuck my son into solitary confinement before making the long trek down the master bedroom hallway to bed, where i settle in with my wife who just finished bathing in our second bathroom's indoor swimming pool

I've taken it upon myself to build and furnish this house, and keep the Floorplan @woolandflax as accurate as possible to the story by @reve-nant

The first few hours I spent putting up walls and furnishing each room. I made some attempts to make it look decent.

Large living room where the sofa is too far from the television, If you want to see you'd be better off standing.

Serpentine kitchen countertop, with gourmet cooking stands for the four-star meals you can't make without taking the gourmet cooking skill. [This room is basically what I think Masterchef looks like in my mind.]

Guest bedroom where you walk straight down a corridor to get to bed and when you fall asleep, Bob Pancake will be watching you drift to sleep. Don't mind the shadow by the corner of the room.

Master bedroom where you also walk down a corridor and get to watch your sleep demons reflected by the mirror. The master bathroom is right next door.

A second bathroom AKA master bathroom, with an indoor swimming pool where your wife just bathed in.

Of course, can't forget to tuck your son into solitary confinement where he can begin cultivating a healthy fear for the dark.

Played for a couple hours too long, so I decided to make a maze of sinks to reach the toilet and showers, etc. Don't mind the dark trek back to the door.

The small dining room smooshed next to the obscenely large kitchen. And my last favorite room.

The laundry room.

Do we have a franz kafka diary entry for july 1st, i want to know what he thinks!!!

happy too tired July everyone

😭😭.

i go absolutely feral when the fyp cooks up an edit of an athlete to the most insane song choice like i cannot express how many neurons started firing when this came up

Pls reblog if u vote :)

A fresh beginner’s guide from the Shunted Fam for 2023.

Me a new F1 fan trying to talk to an experienced F1 fan:

the most underrated pdoium trio

Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me.

I know there is a lot of discourse (tm) around this right now but listen to me

sometimes you do just have to lie to children.

If, when my toddler is, you know, toddling around saying “mama? Big ball?”

If I were lean down and say “unfortunately the big beach ball for some reason fills you with such an unadulterated rage that is beyond human comprehension that you scream until you pass out, so mama had to remove the beach ball from the premises until you can better regulate your emotions” she would simply stare at me like I had 3 heads full of equal betrayal.

So, for now, instead “big ball went night night!”

Please understand when I say “removed the ball from the premises” I mean I popped it in a fit of exhausted confusion. I murdered the beach ball.

See I’ve lied to you all too and it was better this way.

you can’t just leave this in the tags etc.

You can’t be funnier then me on my own posts, I’m in tears from laughter

My fave thing about this pre-season so far has been how everyone was so focused on what a disaster Williams is, meanwhile Alfa Romeo also has no TP but it DOES have a driver collecting fashion sponsors like he‘s a candidate on America‘s Next Topmodel, the male character of every handyman porn movie from the 80s and Andi Seidl, I guess?

what they gonna do? fine him? he’s Sebastian Vettel.

Amazing end to his career <3

Some of Sebastian Vettel’s 2022 GP Helmet Designs!

anyone who told you much ado about nothing is good and worth watching was RIGHT and you should listen to them

Ah here we go! Free full play for anyone who needs it, i watched it last week so i still had the link in my history heh :D enjoy!

God I love this version

spectacular version. Tennant and Tate are on fire. Their comedic and dramatic chops are outstanding. They both should have gotten Tonys for this production. Tennant has always had the gift of making Shakespeare sound spontaneous and contemporary, but Tate more than holds her own with him. 

Reblogging, because frankly I can’t get enough of these two. :)

Okay time to have an absolute breakdown over Seb's merch video

It's giving kidnapping hostage video chic. We've got multiple camera angles but only one of them has eye contact. Was this filmed in a bunker? We'll never know

He's wearing six shirts and none of them fit. It's a clown car of shirt removal and the fact that it's exactly the same removal motion every time is simultaneously deeply attractive and also the least sexy thing I've ever seen in my life.

WHY DOES HE KEEP TAKING HIS SHIRT OFF? The bonus base layer shirt is killing me

I'm sorry the sound effects. Save the bees! *rim shot* This editor had vibes and vibes alone. Gay shirt! *air horns* How else do you cue your audience that you're an ally.

This is an absolute masterpiece, never change Seb

Her crowning achievements are that in six weeks she oversaw the deaths of:

Generations of political activists could never

She really is an inspiration. She packed so much into her short reign of terror.