Guest guest Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 Liking guns doesn't make you a violent person. Mostly what I do is plinking with a .22 also, though I also have a .223 rifle. My pistol is a .40 (10mm) Glock that I like shooting, though the felt recoil varies with the type of ammunitions. Some kinds feel very nice, but others are very sharp. I very rarely hunt. Usually when I did it was at the request of a farmer cousin who was having groundhog trouble. Aside from that I never hunted anything like deer and such. For me, shooting can be kind of a Zen thing. You have to control your breathing and focus on what you are doing. The result is something of a relaxed mind. You can also become somewhat mechanical, getting into a rhythm so that it is almost like an out of body experience. But people like that who are so rabidly anti-gun are probably a little off kilter. Most of them I have talked to have wound up being more emotional and probably more dangerous than the shooters that I know. Lots of people around here know I shoot and noone bothers me about it. Some of the newer neighbors might, but I don't have much to do with them anyway. Weightlifting can be dangerous. Its all in getting the form right and listening to your body. I do my workouts here at home and I have three versions that I switch between. The heavy phase uses a barbell for deadlifts and another for overhead presses. The barbell is weighted to a base of 110 pounds and I run cycles up from there. I'll go up to about 150, then drop back to 115. Then its up to 155 and back to 120 and so on, until the top end just gets to be too much. Then I'll drop back to 110 and start over. The second is using a kettlebell, which is both strength and aerobic. The last is just simple calnesthenics, doing pushups, pullups and various situps. My routines will vary between these, but only one at a time, though I may combine calnethenics with the others. I'll do one for a couple of months and then switch to another. But it is very easy to injure yourself. Fortunately, I have just had some strains, but nothing terrible. Some people I know have really hurt themselves, including one guy who didn't listen to my advice and lifted wrong for years. Now he's probably gong to need surgery on his back. I don't really like machines because they limit range of motion. That said, they are probably the best place to start. Go somewhere that has a good training staff and tell them what you want to do and about your knee and back. They should be able to put together a program for you to work on and with those issues. After a while when you have built yourself up, you can add free-weights. That really how I did it. I took a weightlifting course in college that used machines. After it was over I went to a gym for a while and then transitioned to free weights once I had a good base of strength and and had the fundamentals of form and such down. Also, they sometimes try to make you do a lot of reps. That's ok if you are going to appearance and adding mass to yourself. But if you want strength, go with lower reps with slightly higher weights. You don't need to go to 80 and 90% of your max on them either. I don't even know what my max deadlift would be. What I go by is how hard is it to do the lift. If it is hard to do a full 5 but I'm still not at the gut-busting level, I'll drop back in the cycle. Just listen to your body: if it says "this is getting to be too much", then drop back in the cycle. By the time you get back to that previous limit, you should be able to pass it by a little. Then do it over again and so on. So those are the things to keep in mind. Get the fundamental and for down perfectly using easy to handle loads, then go up from there. Listen to your body: when it says your doing something wrong, you probably are. Stop and figure it out before continuing. The same goes for your lifts. If your body says this is the most I can do now, stop and go back in the cycle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 11, 2004 Report Share Posted October 11, 2004 I had the opposite problem of people thinking I was younger than I was. It was not uncommon for me to be carded (to check if I was over 21) even when I was nearly 30. Since I have put on weight and filled out some, I look more my age now. Still, people tend to think I'm mid 20's instead of being 33. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 11, 2004 Report Share Posted October 11, 2004 People have always thought I was older than I was too. I've been offered wine in restruants since I was 14. Shortly after I graduated from 8th grade, one guy asked me if I had graduated (from high school!) yet. Maybe that trend reverses as we get older... (I'm 20) Siren RE: Re: Body Awarness Inger: >Extra confusing is the >fact that Aspies often look a whole decade or two younger than their >chronological age. I was recently taken for 27 (I'm soon 43). And two of the >Aspies I met up with on our Aspie picnic in Stockholm got away with half >price on the train because they were taken for teens (they are 32 and 36, >respecively). :-) I have always been mistaken for being older than I am. One person I was acquainted with at work said that she thought the confusion arises because I am more mature than my peers – that I really didn’t ‘look’ older... she had a daughter the same age as I was and said I wasn’t silly like her daughter and all her friends were – I seemed more serious and responsible even on first impression, which implies the experience more years would give. Even on the playground in elementary school I had the aides telling me I was ‘too mature’ for my own good. WendiFAM Secret Society is a community based on respect, friendship, support and acceptance. Everyone is valued. Always remember that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 11, 2004 Report Share Posted October 11, 2004 At 10:03 AM 10/11/04 -0700, Herburger wrote: > Maybe that trend reverses as we get >older... I remember when I was 15, someone guessed that I was 25. When I was 28, someone guessed that I was 18. SO maybe you're right and it does reverse! Sparrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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