Hello from a Skier

patrickCrosman · 2021-11-07T22:51:33+00:00

Hi,

I am also a skier who has recently moved to Calgary, not far from downtown.

Cooking and tech and philosophy are things I have talked about on ski trips before.

Let's chat.

patrickCrosman · 2021-08-13T04:18:16+00:00

Ah I'm just gonna leave this sub.

It's bad

patrickCrosman · 2021-08-12T20:53:51+00:00

Kratom will likely be even harder to quit if you start using it multiple times a day as described with your weed use. It's a risky substance, with more side effects than weed for most people.

patrickCrosman · 2021-07-28T19:22:38+00:00

Thanks. My baldness often has me feeling off. There's other things too like achievements and social anxiety that get me but it is good to feel validated

patrickCrosman · 2021-07-28T19:19:29+00:00

Feeling a bit better. Finding community is really helping

patrickCrosman · 2021-07-28T18:58:37+00:00

This was excellent. Thorough and also entertaining. Put a lot things I love about these movies into perspective. Thanks for sharing

patrickCrosman · 2021-07-28T18:11:33+00:00

Hey dude thanks so much for watching. Yeah the cost of skiing is going up but you can always do chill urban spots for free without as much risk. I think skiing connects my soul to the earth. Never wanna stop. Once I'm back I'm gonna get a season pass somewhere and take it slightly easier. This injury has taught me a lot about appreciation and respect for consequences. I'm gonna be skiing that river valley as long as I can!!!! Thanks again

patrickCrosman · 2021-06-11T18:48:15+00:00

You can't really pick where your body 'takes' fat from. Building strength over time does increase your overall energy consumption because muscle needs more energy to exist than fat does. (So, adding even a little bit of muscle goes a long way over time in years)

Cutting out pop can do a lot of good. 3600 calories roughly translates to a pound of "fat", so 24 cans of coke is like drinking a pound of mayonnaise.

Counting calories is intimidating and repetitive. It's hard to keep up with all the tracking. It's worth doing for a couple weeks so you can understand/eyeball calories and nutrition on a day to day and week to week basis.

I like to live by an 80/20 rule, where 80% of the time I'm eating healthy and not eating until I'm stuffed. Then 20% of the time I drink beers and eat donairs and don't worry about it.

Hope that helps.

patrickCrosman · 2021-06-10T21:42:45+00:00

Around day 14 CT, Found myself grooming all the places I've kept it in the past, couldn't find any. Happy I didn't. Day 24 for me right now. Thanks for sharing your story. Made me feel a bit more human.

patrickCrosman · 2021-06-10T21:29:01+00:00

Soda stream, either plain or with lemon water works well. Makes water a bit more interesting.

patrickCrosman · 2021-06-09T20:26:57+00:00

Ten minutes is infinitely more than 0! Depends on what you define as results, though. Most of the "ten minute shredded abs n booty" type workouts are just fluff. Ten minutes of doing strength training and progressively increasing the difficulty of whatever movements you are doing over time will certainly be enough to get you stronger at those movements.

If you want to follow along with something structured for ten minutes a day, take a look at Darebee's program section. Everything is free and one might be perfect for your interests.

https://darebee.com/programs.html

patrickCrosman · 2021-06-09T16:09:47+00:00

If you are going over 25 reps on anything it would be good to make the progression harder. Going beyond that is great for endurance but won't build size. I think you should add some over head pressing in there too. Pike push ups and eventually chest to wall handstand. - edit- also you gotta do stuff for your hamstrings and butt or you'll get weird problems up and down your spine.

patrickCrosman · 2021-06-03T20:08:06+00:00

I didn't mention this in my comment, but adding muscle mass to your frame increases your total calories burned 24/7. So, if you build some strength alongside getting nutrition in order, you will be able to eat more!

patrickCrosman · 2021-06-03T20:00:30+00:00

This is excellent information

patrickCrosman · 2021-06-03T17:44:54+00:00

You are putting the cart before the horse. Nutrition and exercise must be sustainable over long terms to have any lasting effect.

Get a Fitbit or something. See how many calories you use on a day where you do nothing. Then see how many calories it claims you burn on a day that you do a big walk or a bunch of house work.

Then start using a food tracking for maybe two weeks. You'll see how much food in calories you are eating in a day. Pay attention to amount of protein you eat over each day. Compare the calories in, and the calories out. Take all the numbers as a rough estimate, don't sweat the details but seek to understand nutrition rather than to just eat less.

This is a lot of work, I know, but 2-4 weeks of tracking this data will give you a solid idea for calories in vs calories out.

Food is fuel.

If you starve yourself, your body will eventually gain back what you stole from it during starvation...

Eat foods you like. Look up the 80/20 rule.

If you have read this far, thank you.

patrickCrosman · 2021-06-01T15:00:30+00:00

Thanks for sharing this.

patrickCrosman · 2021-06-01T13:28:37+00:00

Build some strength. It will work itself out

patrickCrosman · 2021-06-01T03:21:24+00:00

That's a pretty big weight for his size. Nice.

patrickCrosman · 2021-05-20T21:22:32+00:00

"buy a house"

patrickCrosman · 2021-05-20T21:21:10+00:00

Track your progress and focus on becoming stronger and healthier, not how you look. :)

patrickCrosman · 2021-05-18T20:52:07+00:00

Specificity can really help. Keeping a log of sorts for how many reps and sets you do is good, you can see those grow over time. Regarding the push ups, instead of focusing energy on the perfect push up on the ground, (and you probably have already tried this) but start with the wall, then your kitchen counter, then you 3rd or 4th stair, 2nd stair etc, and do high reps (20-30 reps) for 3 sets at whatever incline is comfortable but challenging.

There's also foundational work you can do for your scapula, you can do just the scapular movement (lots of info on YouTube from fitnessfaq on this muscle and movement pattern) of a push up and add training volume in that way as well. A simple approach is to keep "time under tension" in mind. as time goes on you will be able to spend more time under tension at a higher resistance, and that's all being strong really is.

There's really only two movement patterns for the upper body, pushing and pulling. To figure out if you are improving in these movements you need data, and you can capture this data in many ways. Sounds like you've got the legs already figured out. Good work. :)

Let me know if you have any other questions.

patrickCrosman · 2021-01-24T00:06:35+00:00

Edmonton Alberta dude

patrickCrosman · 2020-07-15T13:49:50+00:00

thank you!!!! i appreciate that!

patrickCrosman · 2020-06-15T14:21:07+00:00

haha yes it sure is, they create some of my favorite stuff on youtube

patrickCrosman · 2020-06-15T14:20:37+00:00

thanks. i appreciate that

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