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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[dragonwrites.livejournal.com]

I've been doing Crossfit, which really gets results, and you only have to do it 3 times a week, about 45 minutes at a time. Very expensive though.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

crossfit can be very inexpensive if one has the discipline to build a mini-gym at home, and do the WOTD on the www... but getting the training to do the moves is either trial-by-error (do it right, or get hurt), or getting live training for a while.

nothing beats doing it with other people for that extra edge, but lots of people are doing CF at home on the cheap.

for core, for the back, nothing beats a basic set of exercises and stretches one can knock off in the morning. doing them regularly is the trick. note to self: do this more :)

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