Muscles And Stuff

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I went to the gym yesterday to work out with the weights and machines for the first time since Friday I think so I am feeling it today, but it feels good. I did a good balance. I hope that I’m able to continue to walk that line between challenging enough to be sore but easy enough not to do anything that would limit my range of motion for days. I won’t get stronger if I don’t challenge myself and as much as I never thought I’d say this, I do want to get stronger. Or at least I do want to build muscle. I think it would be good for my metabolism too, at least that’s what they tell me. The nurse says maintaining muscle does burn more calories than… I guess not having muscles. Maybe I should say, the more muscle mass you build, the more calories you use to build and maintain them.

I was at the gym, and there was this “mythbuster” poster that said, “muscle doesn’t weigh more than fat!” It basically went on to say that 5 pounds of fat are the same weight as five pounds of muscle because they both weigh five pounds. The poster said that you could say that muscle was heavier by volume or that it was denser than fat. It had a picture of a replica of five pounds of fat behind five pounds of muscle so that you could see the difference in their shape and size. It was a pretty big difference. The other thing they pointed out, which I’d never really thought of, was that muscle is smooth while fat is more “lumpy” which means the shape of a person can be very different when there’s more muscle than when there’s more fat. That makes sense, of course, but I just hadn’t ever thought about it.

I plan to go to the gym after work today, again, which I’m looking forward to. Never thought I’d say that either. It’s another time where I pretty much turn off my notifications and just get to be for a little while without everything and everyone else pressing in.

I do need to make some boundaries for myself. I cannot keep letting people take up so much of my energy.

 

Anyway, back to work.