I love Zookeeping

[urbpan]

But it's really bad for your back. I've got separate upper and lower back strain injuries from lifting and carrying things, and I can really feel them when I bend and stoop, which is pretty much constantly at work. If health insurance was sane and logical, the zoo would be sending me to the gym to build strength in my abdominal muscles and upper body so that I would be less likely to injure myself and more able to lift and carry. Instead health insurance seems to mainly cover emergencies, like when you throw your back out and have to miss time at work.

I should go to a gym on my own, but it's just too expensive. Also, all these people that go to the gym all the time, when do they actually do it? My dad goes right when the gym opens at 5 or whatever. Other people seem to go after work. I guess there's time if you are willing to sacrifice it, but I feel like we have to grasp for all the time we have already.

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[frith]

The colleagues that go to the gym do so after work. We have a package deal for our zoo that reduces the gym membership fee provided we have a minimum number of adherents (I don't know what the numbers are). Personally, I don't attend gyms, my exercise has to be incidental to other activity, like mowing the lawn and cycling to work. You may want to look into Wii exercise programs. I used to have crippling back pain. My back has been great for several years now. The pain stopped after I took a few months off work for R&R (not the gorilla kind of R&R). Then I traded in my back pain for bursitis in my right shoulder which I have 99% cured, so I traded in the bursitis for two slightly sprained thumbs. There's always something.