I enjoy surfing the web. I don't feel like the Silver Surfer but I do have certain places that I haunt. I enjoy certain news sites, that way I get a filtered view of the world. I enjoy Instagram, although I use it less and less because of the every-other-post-is-advertising thing.
I actually look at Pinterest almost every night when I'm at home, but I'm more just mindlessly scrolling and grabbing screenshots of memes that I think would be fun to see in the future when I'm sitting on the couch or wanting to post something but don't know what. Encouraging memes, stuff I can use on postcards, that sort of thing. I also get ideas from Pinterest. I built a rain capture rig that was modeled after something I saw on Pinterest.
But anyways, a few weeks ago some of the fitness guru people that drift through my feeds. They were talking about how squats and horse stance exercises will extend your life. So I now have my phone remind me to squat every couple of hours. Fully clothed, mind you, but squat down and hold that in a resting position for at least 10 seconds, sometimes up to two minutes.
I do horse stances infrequently but when I do them my thighs burn and my body says, what are you doing? Another thing I saw was people balancing on boards that were on wobbly bases. The main wobbly base that I saw was a PVC pipe that was two and a half or three inches wide.
It was almost like they were skateboarding, but there were no wheels. They were just balancing and wobbling back and forth. They claimed that the wobbling imbalance helped them strengthen their core and their lower extremities and improve their balance overall. And that seniors and people close to being seniors could benefit from doing balance exercises like they were doing.
I've seen the boogie boards. I've seen the balance strap deal like you're walking a tight rope, but it's two inches off the ground. So, I was convinced about the pipe and board.
I went to Home Depot and bought a handle so I could stabilize my grip. I positioned the handle inside of a door jam in the basement and then I positioned the pipe in the middle of the door. It was a double door frame, so plenty of room. Then I positioned the board and put one foot on the side leaning down. Put the other end of the board down. other foot on the other side of the board and promptly fell down after I got up I figured out that I need to hold the handle before I get on this thing so I hold the handle and got on it again it was a fun imbalanced exercise I enjoyed wobbling back and forth and pretending I was skateboarding or surfing very limited space and I was afraid that if I fell a certain way I'd cut my forehead on a filing cabinet or worse bang it on the concrete floor of the basement and then have to be rescued by my wife again.
But I've successfully done this wobbly exercise for a while and I am noticing some tightening and muscles that I wasn't really aware were there for a while. Now I am painfully aware of them.
I love the internet!
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