Does anyone else...

[tei]

Does anyone else feel like you're in a constant state of "just getting back into it"?

Covid/gyms shutting + me quitting my job and moving across the country and starting a new university degree mean I feel like every gym session for the past four years has been "oh, good for me for making it to the gym today, I'm just getting back into actually working out, I'll just fuck around a bit..."

Which I guess is... fine? There are worse things in the world than doing moderate exercise moderately often. I just kinda wish I could actually improve at something strength-related. But I don't have the energy to make it a priority.

Lifting heavy things in the wild

[coffeetime]

I live in a townhouse, and a few of my neighbors across the way often hang out and gab for hours. Tonight I stepped outside for something else and decided to investigate why they were unusually noisy. My neighbor Julie was trying to convince anyone else present to help her move a piece of furniture from the garage into her condo, and nobody would! They were all exclaiming about no, they weren't going to do it! When I walked over there, someone said, "Hey, coffeetime, you're strong, right?" I said, "Sure, what do you need?" Somehow Julie had acquired one of those electric lift chairs for her elderly dad at a thrift shop, and had managed to get it to her place, but she couldn't get it up the two stairs and through the door. 

Our internal garage stairs are NOT to code, I know because I already measured mine. They're like 11" tall, and then at the top it's an average-sized doorway. And also, Julie and I are about the same height (I'm 5'4"). I told her she'd have to help me because my arms are so damn short, I couldn't just pick it up myself as it was bulky and slippery (and kind of heavy with the motor right at the bottom). I deadlifted about 3/4 of the weight and she held the other side, and we got it up one step before she had to rest, then I deadlifted again and we wiggled it in through the door and she rested some more, and then one more big lift and we carried it into the living room. Took all of 2 minutes, I think. I said, "How handy that I still have my gym clothes on!"