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Re: Surf Fitness & Nutrition

Postby Doc » Wed Apr 20, 2022 10:19 pm

I chipped away bone in the left ear 15-20 years back.
Right ear is 90% blocked but since I'm already deaf in that ear thanks to really loud music...never bothered with it.
I can never get a good seal with plugs so I just use a big old wad of blue tack 'n' stik with old man ear hair as anchor points.
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Re: Surf Fitness & Nutrition

Postby Major Lazer » Thu Apr 21, 2022 1:35 pm

Dr Lewis at PDX ENT do yours? He retired. Now that your retiring to warm water, watch out for those ear infections. Almost every warm water trip I was getting ear infections and my ear would literally clog up.
Routine is a vampire. Manu Chao-
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Re: Surf Fitness & Nutrition

Postby Chanel Derrière » Wed Apr 27, 2022 8:54 am

It's all mental. All of it. Just change your perspective and you can achieve anything, even immortality.

I'm not worried about any of it.

Pop-ups and paddle endurance are getting better because I am eating more cake. The sugar puts me in a good mood and I go pretty hard.

You can do it.
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Re: Surf Fitness & Nutrition

Postby Tex » Wed Apr 27, 2022 9:36 am

Sugar is a dirty dirty vice...harder than heroine to kick.
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Re: Surf Fitness & Nutrition

Postby Chanel Derrière » Wed Apr 27, 2022 9:47 am

Tex, I'd like you to take some time to sit on a cushion. Perhaps put on some of your favorite tunes and really think about your relationship with sugar.

I never needed Narcan to bring me back from too much cake.
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Re: Surf Fitness & Nutrition

Postby Tex » Wed Apr 27, 2022 10:22 am

Its a love hate relationship and as I reflect on my nutrition journey, i realize that I have very little ability to moderate. I have actually achieved sugar hangovers from too much cake and ice cream on a saturday night, I have never been able to not polish off a pint of B&J in one sitting. Sugar and weed is the double whammy that most likely would have put me in a diabetic coma at some point.
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Re: Surf Fitness & Nutrition

Postby Doc » Wed May 18, 2022 10:25 pm

I haven't tried the cake and ice cream route to improve my surfing longevity...
Yet.
Beer and whiskey seem to have effected limited improvement qualities but...
I keep trying.
I'm wondering if some sort of combo of the 4 might just...
Be the ticket.
On a separate note...
Got steroid injections in both hands today...
Super fun and painful...
Nearly to the point of passing out...
That said...
Having two operable hands could potentially surpass even...
Cake, ice cream, whiskey and beer.
I won't count on it though.
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Re: Surf Fitness & Nutrition

Postby Tex » Wed May 25, 2022 12:53 pm

i feel like I am getting arthritis in both hands, boxing and grappling do not help.
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Re: Surf Fitness & Nutrition

Postby Doc » Thu May 26, 2022 10:17 pm

Probably...Punching and grasping after 50 has its risks...
And rewards.
You've got 10 years or so before it's intolerable though...
It took COVID to take me out of training.
Otherwise I'd probably be getting injured on the regular.
Getting old is like being an old brittle surfboard that dings too easily...
And the patches just are inevitably going to fail.
At least we have flex.
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Re: Surf Fitness & Nutrition

Postby Tex » Tue Apr 18, 2023 10:26 am

Dabbling in a plant based diet over the past 10 days, my body is like WTF, where is the BEEF???
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