pushing your body

[KSig RC]

Originally posted by KSigkid
When I look at friends who seriously slacked, lost scholarships and forced their parents to pay more than they should have had to, I would go back and work all those hours again.

Yeah - 'those guys' were worthless pieces of shit, huh?

[KSigkid]

Originally posted by KSig RC
Yeah - 'those guys' were worthless pieces of shit, huh?

Nope.

Losing a scholarship doesn't equate to being a "worthless piece of shit," and I wouldn't characterize any of my friends of that.

What I was saying is that if I had lost scholarship/financial aid money, I would have been done at Boston U., no second chances coming from the parents.

Working all those hours, and in effect paying for most of my schooling, reminded me how much was at stake and kept me on my studies at times when I really felt like slacking.

[browncat]

I think this is why we have such an obesity problem in the US. People eat huge portions, and then act like their knees cannot handle a stairway. As a collective nation, we need to learn our bodies can handle daily exercise, and we all could use it. So many people are blaming fast food companies for the obesity problem, and sit on a couch all day and stuff their faces... whose fault is it?? absurd..

[James]

You can do a lot of abuse to your body and take it. But you won't be able to evaluate how poorly you might be performing.

Try a mental puzzle after being up for 24 hours with an erratic meal schedule versus the next day being well rested and eatiny properly.

Generally when will we do better?

One of the keys to brainwashing people or controlling them is to deprive them of sleep and also to give them bad foods lol.

So in a sense, if you push yourself to exhaustion routinely it means that you will have very little reserves. There will be more times when you will feel overwhelmed and not able to put that little extra.

ITs harder to make long term plans, or evaluate opportunities. And its really hard to change patterns that you might want to work on, you are just to tired.

[LuaBlanca]

Anyone who's worked in theater will probably have had simliar days to this one:

6:00am- wake up, get ready, drink coffee en route to work
7:00am- arrive at work (secretarial/desk duties)
11:30am- leave work, eat banana and change clothes en route to theater
12:00pm- arrive at theater, work (semi-strenuous lifting and working with power tools, hanging upside down to fix lighting fixtures, etc....OR performing)
5:00pm- work through dinner break (lighting crew always works through dinner)
6:30pm- run across the street and grab a salad from the deli before it closes
6:45pm- back to work @ theater
2:00am- go home

...do it all again for a week straight...

this summer I pushed myself to dangerous limits...I don't reccomend it to anyone.

I worked 3 days like the one above only minus the eating. I just didn't have time and I basically "forgot." (when I'm busy I tend to forget to eat...it's bizarre.) By 10:30pm on the 3rd day I was gagging and throwing up nothing and the guys that I work @ the theater with had to force me to go home. On the way, I stopped to throw up nothing twice. It was not enjoyable. Don't do it. Know your limits, and don't forget to eat!

[KerriMarie]

Try being a camp counselor... yeah it's fun and games and swimming and crafts - but it also means being on-duty 22 hours a day, 6 days a week - it's an exhausting job! You're normally going to sleep around midnight and waking up at seven - which isn't too bad, but then there are a lot of nights where you're up at 2 am to do a bedcheck, then up at 4 am to deal with a homesick/bedwetting/puking camper... It's a crazy life, but I love it!