i become a big couch potatoe on the weekend because im dead tired from the workweek. if i do anything its wash the car/clothes or change the oil. i actually went to bed at 5:30 last night but it might'a been the beers fault - it made me do it..
WEEKENDS - active or vegitate?
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active during the week after work, even more so during the weekend. Couch potato-ing is a vicious cycle, the less you do, the less energy you have
YES - if i had a desk job i might be more active but i drive a beer truck and my work is extremly physical, im delivering 2500+ cases/kegs a week and handling/lifting them 2-3 times each. i need the weekend to just catch up and let the muscle aches/black and blues ease. thus COUCH POTATOEISM
Driving a beer truck will wear you out!
Since I messed my neck up I am stuck in potato land. Sort of. While I can't even properly wrench, I can take walks and I can do exercise the atrophied muscles. I usually walk a circuit 2-3 times a day on weekends now. My problem is that I am beat at work, sometimes by noon! When Thursday rolls around wow.....trying to run too many things. I can't wait until I'm healed, good G0D.
Since I messed my neck up I am stuck in potato land. Sort of. While I can't even properly wrench, I can take walks and I can do exercise the atrophied muscles. I usually walk a circuit 2-3 times a day on weekends now. My problem is that I am beat at work, sometimes by noon! When Thursday rolls around wow.....trying to run too many things. I can't wait until I'm healed, good G0D.
During the week I generally just come home and veg after work. On the weekends I go places and do things. Eery Sunday I go to a little hole in the wall bar and eat meatballs.
They put meatballs in a crock pot with Teryoki Glaze. I'll eat a few, drink a few soda's (beer = Eewwww, yuk!)play Keno etc.
They put meatballs in a crock pot with Teryoki Glaze. I'll eat a few, drink a few soda's (beer = Eewwww, yuk!)play Keno etc.
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I'm more active now on the weekends than I have been in years. I'm a naturally at rest type guy. If there's something I gotta do, then I usually kill it with zeal. Otherwise, I'm in reserve in case the Russians get any new big ideas.
If I'm "bored" ..I can get creative and do stuff that I "want" to do. Now the list of things I could be doing is long ..but most are beyond my means in either material/man power to accomplish. I can do something along the lines of polishing the brass on the Titanic after they hit the iceberg. The routine stuff is fun when the wife and I get to do it together. She's the "driven" type. Writing lists of things to do ..and if they get done fast enough ...adding more things to the list.
I, on the other hand, need a "finish line" ...not a floating goal line that gets put further out the closer you get to it for the day's/week's/year's/ agenda. For me, it appears like attempting to reach the speed of light.
If I'm "bored" ..I can get creative and do stuff that I "want" to do. Now the list of things I could be doing is long ..but most are beyond my means in either material/man power to accomplish. I can do something along the lines of polishing the brass on the Titanic after they hit the iceberg. The routine stuff is fun when the wife and I get to do it together. She's the "driven" type. Writing lists of things to do ..and if they get done fast enough ...adding more things to the list.
I, on the other hand, need a "finish line" ...not a floating goal line that gets put further out the closer you get to it for the day's/week's/year's/ agenda. For me, it appears like attempting to reach the speed of light.
I drive 125 miles a day for work. I sit at a desk & walk around a manufacturing plant during the day, as an Industrial Engineer. Then when I get home, I regularly take 40 mile bike rides. After that, I feed, bathe & put to bed two small children.
On weekends, I'm even more active than that. Yesterday, I rode my road bike 100 miles.
No veggin for me.
On weekends, I'm even more active than that. Yesterday, I rode my road bike 100 miles.
having no real job means weekends are meaningless for me. the days just sort of blur into each other.
I run for an hour or so 4 days a week after work, and I often take long walks. A little daily routine of pushups, situps, crunches, etc. I also practice my jo and hanbo, and run my Kenpo forns a couple times a week.
I used to ride my mountain bike every weekend, but I don't have it anymore, need to get another one.
But...sometimes I do indeed do nothing but sit and relax, play guitar, read, or just watch a movie.
There's a time to move and a time to veg.
I used to ride my mountain bike every weekend, but I don't have it anymore, need to get another one.
But...sometimes I do indeed do nothing but sit and relax, play guitar, read, or just watch a movie.
There's a time to move and a time to veg.
My job requires I sit on my can for long periods of time ... so weekends are get outside and do something or go somewhere.
Depends. Sometimes the mental relaxation of just taking the kids to the park and let them run & have fun while I sit & relax is wonderful. Then sometimes making progress on the Things-to-do list is very rewarding. Sometimes, it's a balance of both of those methods.
The answer is that it just depends.
The answer is that it just depends.
My weekends are spent on relaxing in front of the TV, a little garden work, biking to the location of group meetings with my classmates (about 10 miles round trip), and studying for the coming week.
I prefer not to work on the weekends but sometimes there is no choice.
I prefer not to work on the weekends but sometimes there is no choice.
That's me. With with severe back problems, I can only manage 2 or 3 hours of physical activity most days. I have a small veggy and herb garden. Right now I'm slowly building a scooter ramp for the neighbor lady across the road so she can drive her Hoveraround out to the mailbox.
If I'm not working, mowing the lawn, or doing vehicle maintinence, I can be found FISHING!!!
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On weekends I'm busy. I do veg out intermittently during the week.
I do a lot of walking on weekdays while on campus (10 minutes each way to each class, about 6-8 times a day) but on weekends I just tend to run a lot of errands it seems. I'd still like to get out more
I love getting out, but it’s kinda expensive to do here. Not much that I haven’t already done in this podunk part of town, especially by myself. Girlfriend works on Saturdays, and don’t have many others since the GF stepped into the picture.
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