Exercise Journal Week 4

This week was a week largely away from home. he first couple of days were rest days where the only activity I really did was the morning exercises and prepare myself to go away for a few days. The planks had to stop as my wrists were really suffering for it. I increased the duration of a couple of the physio positions and the reps of the core exercises. I didn't want to make too many changes as I was about to roll up my floor mat and take it with my to Sunny (look, I'm British, it's February, we lie to ourselves constantly) Hunstanton.

My partner and I met up with his best mate to go to a TTRPG convention called ConTingency in a caravan holiday park in Hunstanton. We stayed in a nice minimal cabin Each day I attended at least 2 4 hour games, both in the afternoon to allow myself to wake up and do some exercises before getting stuck in to some good old fashioned nerdiness.

Taking the time in the morning to wake up properly and do those exercises really worked hard to combat the gaming shrimp pose as well as the leg stress of not being able to touch the floor with my feet (the chairs are normal size, more than half the population[1] can't touch the floor properly in a chair and it screws all of us up in the joints and muscles). I'm thinking of bringing a footstool with me to next year's event to reduce the amount of hip pain those chairs were giving me. If I'm really lucky, I could make a few and sell them.

The only time I got up for the 9am slot it was because the GM was great and I didn't want to miss out on playing at that table. I took the time, though, to do my exercises as that was the a 3 game day for me, starting 9am and finishing at 11pm with quick breaks for lunch and dinner. It was absolutely worth getting up that 30 minutes earlier than otherwise as it would have been easy to skip it but I would have been hobbling by the end of it.

[1] the average chair is designed for a 6 foot tall person, if you will excuse the biological categorisation for the sake of statistics, most grown women and quite a few grown men are under this height. Plus, consider how many of the population are still children, we're well over half the population.