#I'm currently sitting here wiggling around trying to find a single spot of soreness or tightness

[winged-mammal]

where’s that post about how annoying it is how good exercise is for you

because after working on my back and shoulder muscles for the past few months, I’ve suddenly noticed a distinct lack of pain and soreness and tightness that I’ve never felt before and it’s so fucking weird and I am ANNOYED

#like #used to be when I even just scratched the skin of my upper back I could feel how tight everything was #but now it just... feels... like... skin???? #I was on my feet for 12 hours straight for three days this past weekend #and I kept wiggling around the way I do when my back is sore #just out of habit you know? #and I kept getting confused as to why I wasn't feeling anything in my muscles until I realized it was because there wasn't anything TO feel? #like what the actual fuck #I'm currently sitting here wiggling around trying to find a single spot of soreness or tightness #and just coming up empty #it's so fucking weird how bodies work man #I've been doing strength shit twice a week since january #I've slowly worked up to using 20lb weights in each hand #which I've been using for idk two months #and it was literally just overnight one day a week ago that I noticed this #it was the same with the stretches I've been doing #just suddenly one day after working at it for ages I could put my palms flat on the floor from standing #suddenly one day I could squat down with my feet flat #it's like one day my body was like all right let's install this upgrade while this bitch sleeps #I JUST DID IT AGAIN. I WAS SLOUCHING AND STRAIGHTENED MY NECK AND ANTICIPATED STIFFNESS AND THERE WAS NONE #GOD. #I hate how right the pro-exercise people are!!!!! #(I also wish to make clear that my work schedule is fucking insane and in exchange for 12+ hour days I get four days off every week) #(which is the only way I've been able to keep to an exercise routine) #(capitalism is terrible for our health in so many ways and preventing most people from having time or energy to exercise is just one!)