Bodies and insecurity, oh yeah and yoga.

Oh yeah, and seeing guys with userpics like and not good for my body image. Like, at all. So very, very pretty. Even after the 8 years on the swim team, 2 hour practices, 5 days a week, summer and winter, I didn’t have a six pack. We won’t discuss how often I gorged myself at the Wendy’s & Rax all-you-can-eat thingies of the era. I was also only like 5 pounds heavier than I am now. No, I didn’t lift, or do situps, or pushups, or any of that.

I don’t think I want my body renovated in a major way. Less than 10 pounds more muscle for the upper body. Less than 5 pounds less fat (and that I’m actually iffy on. My bf% was on the high end of healthy the last time I remember getting it checked).

Not that my craving a six pack has anything to do with functionality.

I am so tremendously fucking uncentered these days. I think it’s time I actually _used_ that yoga mat. I wonder if my yoga manual in the stuff Jane shipped to me. I know the routine pretty well, but it’s still nice to have the book there since it’s been forever and a day since I’ve actually yoga’ed.

I should make a commitment to do that like 3 times a week, for as long as it takes to do it right. (2-3 hours, historically speaking). I’ve never had that level of commitment to it, but if I want to cultivate my inner peace I could do much worse.

I think I’m all about deciding what I want to be when I grow up at this point. I think that inner peace is the first and most important change necessary. But I don’t want to lose my quirky, chaotic charm. Hmmmm, peaceful chaos. A point to ponder. Bed time for me. (after I finish commenting on other journals 😉

4 thoughts on “Bodies and insecurity, oh yeah and yoga.”

    1. Re: making a commitment

      In a couple of ways yoga is sorta the reverse of my compulsive sex problem, it’s this thing that I have trouble getting myself to do in the first place that pretty much always leaves me feeling much better after it’s all over.

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  2. A couple of tips on how to get a 6-pac.
    1) Anorexia is underrated. ^_^’

    2) Do bicycles, 100 of em for 3 months. Lie on your back, with your arms crossed accross your chest (much like how you would be if you were doing crunches) lift your legs in the air and ‘pedal’ like you are bicycling. After about 30 you’ll start to really feel this to work. after 100 you should be seeing the pink rino at the end of the tunnel of white light. 🙂

    3) If you don’t want to look like a nelly bottom with your legs in the air fluttering, you can always do crunches. (not situps, there is absolutly no reason to do situps, EVER.) Lie on your back, arms crossed your chest, make sure you don’t force your feet down(someone holding them or cramming your feet under something heavy. you run a risk of hurting yourself and you’re not pulling your body high enough to really make your feet move at all.) Tighten your abs and pull your upper body off the floor, think of trying to “crunch” your pelvis to your chest. When you reach the top of the rep (your upper body is off the floor) hold it for a split second and really feel your abs tighen up. Doing it this way you shouldn’t have to do too many till your really burning. Try to go till failure and remember to stretch before and after working out or you’ll slow your recovery time down and it’ll hurt more later. 😉

    After 3 months of doing either #2 or #3 5 days a week, you should have some nice tight viewable abs.

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    1. and remember to stretch before and after working out or you’ll slow your recovery time down and it’ll hurt more later. 😉

      I already know and use this well for working out other areas, but how do you stretch out the stomach?

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