Don’t call it a comeback

I thought you were a natural footer blowin?

lol

Never gets old that one

Blowin wrote:

Ben Harding wrote:

Great read. Will save and send this on if you dont mind, Blowin. Few crew in my circle really need to read this and I needed this reconfirmed.

Mi faeces su faeces.

I’d be more than stoked if my dribble helped anyone take a single positive step.

haha

You would be suprised how they do already, you have gift with words mate.

Classic.

At the time I was living in China surfing little longboard waves basically all by myself. Had found a peaceful little corner of the world I called my own, amongst 1.4 billion people.

Had already booked flights back to Aus for late Jan 2020 to tie off some loose ends so I had no more major commitments to tend to and was free to wander for a while.

Only found out about covid when I got on the plane, a connecting flight from Paris, and the French lady next to me was wearing a mask, so I asked why.

One day I will go back and resume where I left off. I know it's still waiting patiently for me.

But I have it very good here on the SC too.

I'm right on the other side of this equation now.

Thought I was doing great, daily workouts, good clean eating, heaps of surfing and same weight as when I was 19.

Then a back injury I didn't see coming (on the second last day of 2 weeks of leave!) which has left me out of the water for 6 weeks.

Very hard to maintain fitness/workout with a back injury which means finding stuff which works.

Going to try riding a foamie this weekend before the surf gets big again and will likely be belly bogging or kneeling.

It's humbling having to go back to square one!

Don't take it for granted!

Freeride
Try water fast for 30 hrs if you can - your inflammation levels will drop ..if you can go longer and let Autophagy kick in...full cleanse at Cellular level and immune system Reboot..Its Free just needs willpower !

Yep, but nothing disabling.
Thought I'd figured it out with strength/conditioning and stretching.

Yes. Don't take it for granted. FR I found pullups are a great workout without hurting your back. Swimming can be hit and miss. Walking is great. Up stairs is better if it doesn't hurt.

cheers Flow.
can do pull-ups and push-ups.

walking is OK.

I hope it works out well for you FR.

"Muscle is a liability to the body unless it is being used, so you must continually fool it into thinking you need muscle by overloading it regularly." by rooftop.

Yeah ive been on a constant diet for a few years since my meds made me gain lot of wait and since hitting 40 my metabolism is slowing down.
I used to be able to eat anything and not gain weight untill i got put on anti psych meds and hit 40 years of age.
Anyway my current diet is all super natural foods which are microwave meals for only around $4 each.
tasty meals too.
I only eat one a day occasionally a ham and cheese sandwich toasted too but not weekly maybe once a fortnight.
Anyway i feel like my physical health has degenerated and my muscles shrunk.
I havent been surfing much and the last time i did it was from a boat with a long distance paddle.
after the surf i could hardly lift myself up on the ladder and nearly fell.
Im blaming the lack of protein in my diet and lack of excersize for that..not sure how true that is.

Also i recently went to hospital for a seizure where my mouth would suck in on itself, lips sinking in i couldnt swallow even drink water or powerade, i could hardly breath unless i told myself to relax...it happened about five times in a few hours so i woke up my brother who was sleeping..we went to the local doctor who facetimed a Dr in Perth..he thought it was tetanus or maybe an interaction with my meds...i had swallowed 3 grams of magic mushrooms a couple of days before which is a light dose but they tasted like dirt so had me convinced it was the shrooms.
Anyway the doctors sent me to Geraldton hospital to have cat scans and all sorts of tests...even checked my ears which i had one ear infection (maybe the cause)...
Anyway it happened again in front of the drs in gero hospital and they were all in shock staring discussing amongst themselves.
Still to this day they didnt know what caused it maybe a seizure from getting back on the alcohol at new years and having a bender.
However since coming home i discovered it was from sucking on my vape pen too hard and too strong a dose (35mg)per ml. which made my breath suck in too rough and sound like im snoring while im awake.
However the whole time in the ambulance to gero hospital i hadn't had my vape and it kept happening..

After i left the hospital the drs released me as they had no idea what caused it and it hadnt happened in about 12 hours..so i got dropped off at the bus stop to get back and the only toilets were around the back of the ex train station behind the office. the toilets were closed until the bus was due which would be 5 hours later..
near the toilets were all these homeless indigenous people who had a shopping trolley full of emu exports so i sat and drank with them. Some seemed well educated and i wondered why they were stuck here.
Since then ive had 3 or 4 seizures similar and its definitely due to the vape juice being too strong and me huffing on it too hard.

Your a Menace Groundy
For a Paranoid Schizo you do and take everthing your not supposed to...
What the Brand of this Microwave tucker your eating?

I did my lower back around the start of covid , 2 years ago, while i was renoing my house, I dont know what caused it, but at one point it was so bad I had to sleep on the sofa in a hotel because the bed i was in was affecting my sleep. I tried to do as much as I could to try and get it sorted, - physio, xrays, gym etc, nothing really worked

anyway long story short, 2 months ago I went to Indo and within the first week of solid surfing and a couple of massages it was gone, couldn't believe it.

Udo the brand is super nature by Visco foods.

Hey FR, slightly different but same outcome, was outta water for months with a pinched neck nerve.
One thing that helped fitness and trimming back into shape quickly was long prone paddles on the paddleboard. Jump in the old teatree lake there and do some sets, i was doing stuff like 3 sets of 100 slow paddles, 50 medium and 25 flat out sprints, along with maybe 1 or 2 km of just distance. You can muck around with the numbers to suit you. Also jump on a boxing bag and give that a good workout. It's amazing how a few sets of 2 or 3 minutes...(hitting it hard!!) can gas you. That'll get you back to peak fitness in no time. All the best with getting back out there.

All the best FR. Sound like you will work it out . I'm still on the swiss ball jack-knifes.

Great stuff Blowin. I’ve recently decided it would be more wise to decline the experimental “vaccine” and instead cut the alcohol from every day to special occasions with family or friends only as well as cutting refined sugars and processed food as well as surfing, swimming and moving more. Really hard at first. Feeling really, really good about this decision so far. Feeling so good all round only one month into it. Lost weight, less joint pain, more energy, better sleep, better sex and other benefits.
Just gotta figure out how to make good money like at my old job I was booted from…. though I hear un”vaxed” sperm is about to become the new bitcoin! Haha!
Easy money.
Fast money too. Ha!

FR 6 wks seems to be dragging on a bit for a typical pinched nerve or bulged disk type thing, so have you had x-rays/scans and a professional assessment of it and treatment plan?

I swear by a hanging stretch I do every day, like the pic below but I have the bar only slightly above head height and my feet back behind me to fully arch my back. The effect is the same as the bottom pic but doing it hanging works better for me.

I at least go for a light walk before hand to warm up. When I ease and relax into the hanging stretch I sometimes feel a small click in my lower back right in the spot and then I know I've got it and I feel very loose after that.

I'm also a health and fitness dude and basically do all of blowin's 8 point guide to better living. Hope you sort it out.

gsco wrote:

I'm also a health and fitness dude[/url]

What do you think of people cracking each others backs that everyone seems to do, is that healthy?

groundswell wrote:

gsco wrote:

I'm also a health and fitness dude[/url]

What do you think of people cracking each others backs that everyone seems to do, is that healthy?

GS....... No.

groundswell wrote:

I hope it works out well for you FR.

"Muscle is a liability to the body unless it is being used, so you must continually fool it into thinking you need muscle by overloading it regularly." by rooftop.

Yeah ive been on a constant diet for a few years since my meds made me gain lot of wait and since hitting 40 my metabolism is slowing down.
I used to be able to eat anything and not gain weight untill i got put on anti psych meds and hit 40 years of age.
Anyway my current diet is all super natural foods which are microwave meals for only around $4 each.
tasty meals too.
I only eat one a day occasionally a ham and cheese sandwich toasted too but not weekly maybe once a fortnight.
Anyway i feel like my physical health has degenerated and my muscles shrunk.
I havent been surfing much and the last time i did it was from a boat with a long distance paddle.
after the surf i could hardly lift myself up on the ladder and nearly fell.
Im blaming the lack of protein in my diet and lack of excersize for that..not sure how true that is.

Also i recently went to hospital for a seizure where my mouth would suck in on itself, lips sinking in i couldnt swallow even drink water or powerade, i could hardly breath unless i told myself to relax...it happened about five times in a few hours so i woke up my brother who was sleeping..we went to the local doctor who facetimed a Dr in Perth..he thought it was tetanus or maybe an interaction with my meds...i had swallowed 3 grams of magic mushrooms a couple of days before which is a light dose but they tasted like dirt so had me convinced it was the shrooms.
Anyway the doctors sent me to Geraldton hospital to have cat scans and all sorts of tests...even checked my ears which i had one ear infection (maybe the cause)...
Anyway it happened again in front of the drs in gero hospital and they were all in shock staring discussing amongst themselves.
Still to this day they didnt know what caused it maybe a seizure from getting back on the alcohol at new years and having a bender.
However since coming home i discovered it was from sucking on my vape pen too hard and too strong a dose (35mg)per ml. which made my breath suck in too rough and sound like im snoring while im awake.
However the whole time in the ambulance to gero hospital i hadn't had my vape and it kept happening..

After i left the hospital the drs released me as they had no idea what caused it and it hadnt happened in about 12 hours..so i got dropped off at the bus stop to get back and the only toilets were around the back of the ex train station behind the office. the toilets were closed until the bus was due which would be 5 hours later..
near the toilets were all these homeless indigenous people who had a shopping trolley full of emu exports so i sat and drank with them. Some seemed well educated and i wondered why they were stuck here.
Since then ive had 3 or 4 seizures similar and its definitely due to the vape juice being too strong and me huffing on it too hard.

This is fucken amazing. Again.

groundswell, no I never got into anything like that. But I've been to a chiropractor and that's all they mostly seem to do.

I keep things really simple and don't get into any alternative or fad kind of stuff.

btw fucken hell you seem pretty psycho mate, a complete weapon, in a funny and cool way of course, but you're a real worry for yourself (unless you're taking the piss with the above).

If I was you I'd go back to the very basics of things like 3 square healthy meals a day that cover all the food groups, regular exercise including light weights and surfing, no drugs or alcohol for at least 6 months, a multivitamin and probiotic every second day, regular decent sleep, maybe read some mindfulness or other self-help kind of stuff, connect with some healthy minded people who are on track, etc.

Just some basic healthy balance in life and let your mind and body heal a bit.

But I apologise up front if I'm overstepping here.

Spot on mate ...Groundy Spreckles please take Note !

gsco, not taking the piss it was just after new years so a lot of doctors thought id had a massive bender when besides the shrooms, beer and gin i hadn't celebrated much.
But will do.
The main thing i need to do is swim every day, its warm here i have a pool with warm water that's looked after and a groundskeeper that looks after all our gardens and lawns...also a river to swim in (with a few bull sharks)...
anyway been wasting away not exercising enough, even not surfing enough to keep fit...but theres only been one good day a week lately and im often working those days.

Not sure i can make it 3 square meals a day though, tried that with exercise and gained a lot of weight..
its my meds that cause it and my age.
Ill just have to start doing laps in my pool with regularity. Maybe eat some more steaks or biltong (the biltong here is unreal).

Sorry Groundswell, I've got to giggle at your sentence

"so a lot of doctors thought id had a massive bender when besides the shrooms, beer and gin i hadn't celebrated much. But will do."

gsco wrote:

FR 6 wks seems to be dragging on a bit for a typical pinched nerve or bulged disk type thing, so have you had x-rays/scans and a professional assessment of it and treatment plan?

I swear by a hanging stretch I do every day, like the pic below but I have the bar only slightly above head height and my feet back behind me to fully arch my back. The effect is the same as the bottom pic but doing it hanging works better for me.

I at least go for a light walk before hand to warm up. When I ease and relax into the hanging stretch I sometimes feel a small click in my lower back right in the spot and then I know I've got it and I feel very loose after that.

I'm also a health and fitness dude and basically do all of blowin's 8 point guide to better living. Hope you sort it out.

Swear by those 2 stretches, saved my back....
This guys video explains them.
https://m.

Yeah, been doing those 4-5 times a day.

it's slow improvement.

Blowin wrote:

Ben Harding wrote:

Great read. Will save and send this on if you dont mind, Blowin. Few crew in my circle really need to read this and I needed this reconfirmed.

Mi faeces su faeces.

I’d be more than stoked if my dribble helped anyone take a single positive step.

Be remiss of me not to share some feedback. Pretty resoundingly positive response mate:

"Lol the stomach verandah! Love it."

"Great words and write up, what a truly deep thinker"

"I like to think about ‘inputs’. What you put in you get out, but not just work on your health but also ... Why don’t enough people realize they are they are the asset. Feed it better inputs"

"This should be published"

"Haha. Wow!
Funny shit, but so much truth there. Def in line with all he said.. very pumped for a surf trip bro! And getting fit in general.. been starting as of last week.. plenty of training at home. Def need to take it up a notch though.. diet is my biggest weakness"

"Wise words"

And my favourite:

"What the hell is this mate? Didn’t even read it as it’s so long"

Haha, lol!

Best thread, and such a great antidote to these rotten Covid times.

- Blowin, thanks again for the words.
- FR, I hope you get your back in shape soon. Best of luck.
- You too, Groundy. Fark, you're hard on yourself.

Lockdown messes with me something awful, so I was chubby going into the holidays. Early Jan I made a decision to treat myself better, and shit has it paid off. A beer or two twice a week; no snacking; smaller meals and lots of veg; lots of surfing. Now I'm down to 82kg, and if I dip below 80kg I'll be stoked - hopefully there by the end of Feb.

Really getting into surfing my new obsession has helped too. One: it's a long paddle (1.5km) and generally a mission, and two: it's got me fired up and really excited.

Will weigh in and report end of Feb.

Right on IB.

Blowin wrote:

Your age has nothing to do with it. You’re only forty ?

44 years old. i reread your first post in this thread and it really resonates with me.
im going surfing right now if its not too small, as swells ssw direction at 3ft...anyway well written and good thread.
even though i only eat one meal a day i weigh 75kg and still have a beer gut...it will still be a lot of work to get rid of the gut i think. Would prefer more weight in my shoulders and pecks than my gut.
a six pack once you're past 22 years old is almost impossible imo.
stopped drinking beer yesterday too. Had 9 months off beer last year and spent $3000 on surfboards and wetsuits with the money i saved...looking forward to more things or places to go this year with the savings.

I think I said this to you before:

eat well - plenty of protein, veggies, good fats, limit sugar, alcohol, stuff in packaging

train both strength and cardio - think about functioning and being able to surf and forget about the gut.

If the gut improves by doing the above then that’s a bonus.

Groundswell i like your syle.the stories about wellington to jalan jaksa are great!
I'm no Dr. but Quit the vape juice if u can,quitting smoking is the best thing i've ever done!

Hey Groundy im sure your aware and the Docs how told you how Nicotine can really fuck with your Meds?

My local gp's here in the Barri dont seem concerned about the meds and nicotine but they are only gp's.. which is why they recommend i live in Perth as there are so many good Psychiatrists in Perth.

However i refuse to go back to that almost waveless dump and we have facetime and internet now and feel there is no better time to live somewhere with good waves in mostly warm weather except for a few 0'C easterly wind days in winter...the weather here is mostly warm or at most jumper worthy which i really like and all the b grade waves mostly go unridden..also its easy to find work here.
I like it here but i also like it on the east coast so if given a chance would consider a move to Ulladulla or nowra if they have good doctors..i havent looked into that however.
Also i hear south coast nsw has been ruined with gentrification so not that keen on that.

ps the surf was shitty but worth a paddle but i swear the swell was more west than the charts had it.

You're not going to get well off meds by taking magic mushrooms.
And either reduce the nicotine content of your vape pen or throw it away, it will kill you in your sleep.

Groundswell said
Anyway my current diet is all super natural foods which are microwave meals for only around $4 each.
tasty meals too.
I only eat one a day occasionally a ham and cheese sandwich toasted too but not weekly maybe once a fortnight.
Anyway i feel like my physical health has degenerated and my muscles shrunk.
I havent been surfing much and the last time i did it was from a boat with a long distance paddle.
after the surf i could hardly lift myself up on the ladder and nearly fell.
Im blaming the lack of protein in my diet and lack of excersize for that..not sure how true that is.
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Groundy mate -Your body is eating itself !
your food intake is a very Dangerous Calorie Deficit
your living on under 1000 calories a day no wonder you have lost all muscle as active as you sound you need to be on at least 2500 +
gsco was spot on with his advice..mate you have to get this sorted ASAP !.

udo wrote:

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Groundy mate -Your body is eating itself !
your food intake is a very Dangerous Calorie Deficit
your living on under 1000 calories a day no wonder you have lost all muscle as active as you sound you need to be on at least 2500 +
gsco was spot on with his advice..mate you have to get this sorted ASAP !.

Thanks Udo i will start eating two of those meals a day then and one toasted ham and cheese sandwich for breaky from now on. Maybe also some fruit or a banana.
Does that seem about right?
about 12 green teas a day instead of 12 beers a day.(i feel green tea helps me give up the booze)

There's lots of info out there Groundy

https://surfstrengthcoach.com/surfers-nutrition/
After a week of good food you wont know yourself - no vape -no piss- no mull
Care to jot down how you feel...energy levels sleep patterns etc A Daily Diary ?

groundswell wrote:

udo wrote:

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Groundy mate -Your body is eating itself !
your food intake is a very Dangerous Calorie Deficit
your living on under 1000 calories a day no wonder you have lost all muscle as active as you sound you need to be on at least 2500 +
gsco was spot on with his advice..mate you have to get this sorted ASAP !.

Thanks Udo i will start eating two of those meals a day then and one toasted ham and cheese sandwich for breaky from now on. Maybe also some fruit or a banana.
Does that seem about right?
about 12 green teas a day instead of 12 beers a day.(i feel green tea helps me give up the booze)

Put the fruit and bananas before your toasted sangas Grounddoggy,

Lentils, beans (not baked beans) and vegetables. Eat the rainbow of fruit and veg. Cheap nutritious and protein packed meals to get you going to surf all day.

Skip dairy, that shit is for baby cows to grow big and strong, not for humans.

All Grown and Cheap from the Geraldton area ....

https://www.instagram.com/geraldtonfruitandvege/?hl=en

Thanks udo and burleigh im due for a shop next monday too.

It's amazing sometimes how people spend so much money and time on surfboards but then abuse their bodies, i guess we all did it at some stage when young, but really your body and mind is the most important vehicle, doesn't matter how good your board is if your body is fucked up it will hold back your enjoyment and ability..

It's actually quite sad, a few characters in the surfing scene where i live heading towards or past fifty have really abused their bodies and are pretty fucked up units, hard to see them getting past 60 or so.

I wish i could be healthier but im too lazy for gyms and crazy diets and love sugar, but im lucky in that ive always been a big fan of raw foods and fruit and vegetables and never got hooked on smoking tobacco or pot and i rarely drink alcohol these days and stay away from all drugs now (Cocaine is huge in my circle of friends too)

First surf in 6 weeks today.
Quick one banger on a foamy in uncrowded 2-3 Point/beachy wedge.

duck diving wasn't great, paddling was oK.
it was good to be in the water

I’ve just been back and read most of the thread from the start, the original post by Blowin, “Blowin’s guide to better living” is spot on.
After an extremely busy and stressful (with not a lot/enough of surfing) 2021, I took from the 22nd of Dec off and head back tomorrow. I try and maintain level off fitness throughout the year, and keep the vices in check. Bit of a flat out pot smoker, and at almost 47 the lung decline is real. Prompting me to kick this 30+ year habit…… and I love getting stoned.
The last 6 or so weeks has pretty much been out of “Blowin’s guide to better living” only at home with the family.
I’ve surfed a lot, had a workout programme, completed renovation’s, eaten healthy not drank too much and had days off, early mornings and early nights and been fishing Done a few successful strikes east and west of home and I’m heading into work tomorrow feeling physically and most importantly mentally fit not only for work but life in general.
If you are able, the work free reset, I think, should be something everyone try’s to do at some stage, and if possible before you see the bottom.
Good luck gentlemen and tear it off.

Nice Steve and soggydog, great to read and hear.

Mr Groundswell
Did you have a go at a new Healthy Diet this week and no piss no vape etc ?