What's amusing me today is just thinking about the fact that at 50, following a number of years of serious slacking and going through treatment for stage 3 lung cancer a little over a year ago and generally not lifting more than a 40lb bag of dog food for a few years I now find myself employed at a job installing big assed custom steel security doors and entryway gates. I think I've accomplished more at this job in a week than I could have at a gym in a month and I've finally found something to get me to quit smoking in the process
You're showing more than physical strength. You're also showing mental strength and that is even harder to come by these days. I'm proud of you Kat.
indeed, i've never understood driving to a gym, when you can walk to the grocery store. or well, where i live, walk to a bus stop and from a bus stop to a store and back again, which all together add up to the same half mile as when i lived in a little tiny village out in the woods.
I am considering turning the entire wall by my staircase in to a climbing wall. However I am a bit concerned about the dangers. I believe people must be harnessed for when they lose their gripping.
also natural cliff faces are usually not that virtical. sometimes they are, depends on the processes by which they were formed. i would love to live someplace where the wall next to the stares was a natural cliff face, er, provided the stairs weren't too narrow and were reliably enough supported. actually i'm all for as easy as i can, i just don't find the logic in endenturing myself to a car to drive to a gym. now if i lived next to a forest instead of a parking lot, i would find it a lot easier and more inviting to get off my ass infront of this thing (computer) and go for an actual walk out in it. whatch all the little creatures playing peekaboo behind the trees and practice the art of not scarring them away so i can.