What have I gotten myself into?

**RWaggs** · Posted On: 7/25/2012 1:54pm

That'll be $300, Top Knot

top knot · Posted On: 7/25/2012 2:23pm

Originally Posted by RWaggs

That'll be $300, Top Knot

The check is in the mail.

So, After waking up, I'm not nearly as sore as I expected...
And I had already quit smoking (but only by a couple of days.)

**Cowardly Lurker** · Posted On: 7/25/2012 2:37pm

Good job. Keep going back and I'm another advocate of cold turkey. I smoked a pack/day for 14 years before quitting for good. When you're ready to quit, you stop making excuses to smoke and it just works. My experience, at least.

Congratulations.

**RWaggs** · Posted On: 7/25/2012 2:51pm

By the way, I am in no way trying to marginalize what lordbd does. If people need help to quit, and help works for them, then that is very valuable indeed.

**ermghoti** · Posted On: 7/25/2012 3:32pm

Originally Posted by top knot

The check is in the mail.

So, After waking up, I'm not nearly as sore as I expected...
And I had already quit smoking (but only by a couple of days.)

Maybe you're like me, and you've gotten old enough that the consequences don't kick in until the second day.

*yawn* "Hey, this isn't too bad... a little stiff, a little sore... I'm not in as bad of a shape as I thought."

*calendar page falls to floor

"The pain. All. The. Pain."

**lordbd** · Posted On: 7/25/2012 3:35pm

Originally Posted by ermghoti

*yawn* "Hey, this isn't too bad... a little stiff, a little sore... I'm not in as bad of a shape as I thought."

*calendar page falls to floor

"The pain. All. The. Pain."

I'm only 26 and this happens to me every time I take more than 5days off from training. When I get back, the day after training I feel strong and immortal. I've finally forced my body into line through the power of my will. Day 2, I drink beer in the bathtub all night and wonder how it is that so many different parts can hurt all at once.

**RhinoUP** · Posted On: 7/25/2012 3:48pm

Originally Posted by top knot

So, I finally hauled my out-of-shape whale's carcass to my first morning jiu-jitsu class.
Mother of God, what have I done?
Surprisingly, I managed to make it through all but 10 minutes of class, I got through the warm-up exercises for the moderate part, having issues with the push-ups, excelling at the stretching (what, fatties can't be limber?), and getting into some moves, like bridging and shrimping, and this excruciating wall-crawl thing. Man, I didn't know that I could BE so tired... **** LISTEN TO ME WHINE! ;)

I totally gassed out during the last drill which was me and the only other guy there, I walk over him while he evades, then he walks over me while I evade. Well, I had the evasion bit down, it was the walking that got me. When I stood up, the room spun and I literally saw floating black spots. so, I threw up and nearly fainted. so the last 10 minutes I was off the matt, cooling down, resting my aching head (felt like my head was gonna explode!), while the Professor told me some inspiring anecdotes and generally encouraged me to get better, and give it some time. I fully intend to.
He's cool as ****.
I will return,
I will get better.
-Knot
PS **** CIGARETTES...gagh!

Holy ****...I was going to post something exactly like this this morning, but couldn't because work got busy.

Why do I have to like jits so much. My knees and elbows need to be iced every day..I'm gassed after 2.5 minutes of rolling...I haven't been able to lift in 2 weeks...parts of my body hurt that I didn't know existed...I have more bruises on my arms/neck than when I was a kid. Why god why...Why did I decide to do this at 40 years old:( And I smoke too...I wish someone would kick me in the balls everytime I want to smoke a butt.

**lordbd** · Posted On: 7/25/2012 3:52pm

Originally Posted by RhinoUP

And I smoke too...I wish someone would kick me in the balls everytime I want to smoke a butt.

Not too many hospitals have smoking cessation counselors yet I don't think, but there are freely available resources (e.g. hotlines etc.)

http://www.smokefree.gov/

Or just pay an out of work bully a dollar a day to punch your nads if you smoke.

**Permalost** · Posted On: 7/25/2012 4:07pm

Originally Posted by lordbd

Or just pay an out of work bully a dollar a day to punch your nads if you smoke.

But where would he possibly find someone like that around here?!?!

**3moose1** · Posted On: 7/25/2012 4:27pm

Oh my god. Have some self control, find your testicles and quit fucking smoking. Yell at your GF for a few days, train extra hard, and stop being a *****.