Core Commit to Health & Fitness 2017, 2nd Round: March-May

[Drastic]

2/3 gym last week.

+ 1 vball championship evening match - we won in 2
+ 3.5 hours open play in the sand Sunday

[ergophobe]

Ergophobe, that is a lot of activity for someone for someone recovering from pneumonia.

I gave myself two weeks of feeling good and long rests after activity before pushing it. And it was just walking pneumonia. Totally winded and needing to rest after half a flight of stairs, but never totally bedridden.

[littleman]

Travoli, you seem very consistent -- good job!

Rupert, nice to see someone else taking their kids out to exercise.  How old is she?

>3.5 hours open play

That sounds like it would be a lot of exercise.  Are you getting big caves from all that jumping in the sand?

Ergo, my dad has gotten walking pneumonia a few times.  Was this your first time?

[Rupert]

Lucy is just 16....  when I told her your girl was lifting 185lbs, she was soooo impressed! 

[ergophobe]

Ergo, my dad has gotten walking pneumonia a few times.  Was this your first time?

First time. I've heard you're more susceptible if you get it once. I think mine was a mild case

[littleman]

16!  Lucy & Kelsey are the same age.  It is nice to read about another dad exercising with his daughter.  I see a lot of father and son combinations at the gym, but it is very rare seeing a girl with her dad.  BTW, I was able to get my oldest to go with us once, she's 18.  She hasn't come back with us, but is starting to do some fitness stuff on her own.

[Rupert]

starting to do some fitness stuff on her own.

sounds like my girl and running! She goes without me.  I think we are both very lucky to have children interested in keeping fit.

4/4
3 runs 1 short cycle.  happy with that.

I have to say Drastic, playing in the sand sounds more fun.

... And I have decided that Ergophobe is an oxymoron.

[littleman]

"Ergophobe" is definitely irony.  Though, perhaps it does apply to him living a conventional lifestyle and towing the line of traditional employment expectations.

4/4 weight training sessions
2 one mile runs
2 1/4 mile quick runs

[Travoli]

Great job Rupert and littleman. You guys are staying very active.

3/3* weight training last week

*I wasn't feeling it last week. Had a minor cold and failed many sets. Completed the workouts anyway to maintain consistency. Missing one workout makes it easier to skip another, etc...

[ergophobe]

"Ergophobe" is definitely irony.

It's aspirational rather than ironic. And a bit of a long story.

Don't know about my count. Pretty sure I got 4 in last week. Today I ran/walked the Yosemite Falls Trail and, despite better conditions than last time, only shaved a couple of minutes of (1:06). My goal of 54 minutes before the snow flies again is seeming like a big stretch.

[Rupert]

It's aspirational rather than ironic

It might be to you.

To me you are a person like my Mum...  least like the Ergophobes I know. I say it as a tease, because you are still going when you are ill! That is aspirational to me.

(does that translate? I have a feeling its British)

[rcjordan]

175

[ergophobe]

least like the Ergophobes I know

Good God people! You were warned. I told you this was a long story.

It goes back to my childhood. When I was six years old, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. My father was a fighter pilot and a ski coach. My grandfather was retired. It didn't take me too much thought to answer "retired."

It wasn't until everyone laughed and repeated it with sniggers, denigrating my first true calling, that I realized that it wasn't a proper aspiration. Some months later, all the kids from my neighborhood were on a local TV show and it was only as it was airing live and they were asking every kid one by one what they wanted to be when they grew up that my family started watching attentively. Embarrassed by being laughed at for my true vocation, I answered "fighter pilot" because it was the only other job that came readily to mind. I never for a day in my life aspired to be a fighter pilot.

So fast forward through a varied career in which I tried to avoid "work" as I thought of it - something you wouldn't do without getting paid. Oh sure, I put in very long hours reading, studying and writing in grad school and beyond, but for most of that time I was surprised that someone was actually paying me to do that. Not much, but again, the goal was to avoid "work" to have time to do things I wanted to do.

But alas, like everything one does so much, I tired of being a historian and it started to become work. One day, I really just didn't want shut myself up in my office to sit down in front of my computer and books and get to *work*. I told Theresa that I think I was agoraphobic - I feared the marketplace and didn't want to be part of it.

Theresa replied: "No, you like the marketplace. In fact, I think the reason you're sick of your work is because it's too isolated and you actually crave the marketplace, just not the work that goes on there. You're not agoraphobic, you're ergophobic." Within the hour, I owned ergophobia.com (never did anything with it of course) and on the old usenet channel rec.climbing I became ergophobe. This was not a "handle" by the way, this was just what people called me. In those days, everyone had nicknames different than their handles, which made it hell to follow a conversation if you weren't an initiate.

Then when I joined WMW, I chose ergophobe as my handle.

So I am not afraid of EFFORT. I love a hard effort, running or climbing or coding or writing. I am afraid of being forced to do things I don't feel like doing right now, which is my definition of "work"

So it's aspirational in the sense that I aspire to never back myself into a corner where I have to spend long periods of time doing something that doesn't inherently interest me, money aside. But I have found that often in life, that is hard to avoid.

Being false to my true calling, I have on many occasions found myself doing something that meets the general definition of work. It is a personal failing and I continue to work on a solution, but I'm not there quite yet.

[Rupert]

Lovely story, thank you.  Sorry not to get back sooner... has a 3 day course so completely away from everything.

[Drastic]

>I have on many occasions found myself doing something that meets the general definition of work. It is a personal failing and I continue to work on a solution, but I'm not there quite yet.

lmao....great backstory for your nick.

>I am afraid of being forced to do things I don't feel like doing right now, which is my definition of "work"

Funny, I just put exactly the same language on this, just this week. I like all aspects of the work we do, but on my timeframe. When I *have* to do something b/c of deadline or meeting an expectation, I hate it and its work. When I can pick and choose what I feel like doing, I enjoy the whole day and cruise through like a hobbyist. It's the main aspect I miss from affiliate work in general, though I'm sure my production is better overall making things happen whether I want to or not.