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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 16, 2009 - 11:10pm PT
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The pump is everything. It varies with the person but the result is the same. The endorphins get flowing and release the nectar of the gods. Suddenly you're really breathing, you're oiled and feeling better than Jilly getting unstuck from the OW crack. (Sorry Jillian...only metaphor that came to mind.)
Where are you at today, or in your goals for the summer and your long term dreams ? Goals don't have to be physical... people that write words, music, scientific data, create art and the myriad of joy we have to develope in ourselves and give to others ....well this needs the pump too. Lose the tv, crawl off the couch, put down the phone and get out from behind the computer and pump. Cheers, lynne
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Jun 16, 2009 - 11:12pm PT
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On the road for the Valley, leaving in 2 minutes, 14 hour drive. I will probably crash in Southern oregon somewhere tonight, roll in tomorrow eve. fully pumped for 12 days of granite walls and vertical action. Going to be righteous.
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Chinchen
climber
Living on the road
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Jun 16, 2009 - 11:14pm PT
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Im learning to tame the pump. Slow the breathing, relax the grip, rest the muscles.....focus on the future....then send.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 16, 2009 - 11:15pm PT
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Goodly Pump on there Dude. Keep us posted please. Righteous !
Edit: chinchen....Your comments for climbing are on mark. Slow it down, breathe and focus. Channel the flow.
I was kinda talking about doing the work out running hills, weights etc. It's all great ain't it ?!!!!
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sweetness
Trad climber
chicago, IL
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Jun 16, 2009 - 11:21pm PT
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Quoting arnold Schwartzenegger? 1977 movie "pumping Iron"
"The greatest feeling you can get in a gym, or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is... The Pump. Let's say you train your biceps. Blood is rushing into your muscles and that's what we call The Pump. You muscles get a really tight feeling, like your skin is going to explode any minute, and it's really tight - it's like somebody blowing air into it, into your muscle. It just blows up, and it feels really different. It feels fantastic.It's as satisfying to me as, uh, coming is, you know? As, ah, having sex with a woman and coming. And so can you believe how much I am in heaven? I am like, uh, getting the feeling of coming in a gym, I'm getting the feeling of coming at home, I'm getting the feeling of coming backstage when I pump up, when I pose in front of 5,000 people, I get the same feeling, so I am coming day and night. I mean, it's terrific. Right? So you know, I am in heaven. "
mike
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Doug Robinson
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Jun 16, 2009 - 11:22pm PT
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Yep, that stuff is 20 to 50 times stronger than Heroin, and made right in the nerve endings where it can do the max most good.
However, the real true story is a lot bigger and a lot more interesting than that. You're on the right track to bypass calling it Adrenaline addiction. That ain't right. No one would cheerfully repeat a true adrenaline jag, like from nearly getting sideswiped to death on the highway. It's ugly.
But the hormonal cocktail you got brewing is a blend of half a dozen big compounds, each adding its own trademark spin to the high. NORadrenaline. Dopamine. Serotonin. Endorphine, of course. And some psychedelics that get made as byproducts but profoundly change your mood.
You're dead right though, that the thing to do is get off your butt and stir your brain with a little action.
Thanks for the reminder.
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Chinchen
climber
Living on the road
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Jun 16, 2009 - 11:23pm PT
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Thanks Lynne...but I was talking about life.
;)
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 16, 2009 - 11:27pm PT
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DR.....I never fully realized...no wonder it's so sweet.
BIG QUESTION: when it feels so good, why do we sit on our butts and deny ourselves ???
Edit: sorry chinchen, just heard a great climber say what yo said...just assumed....but Great For Life !
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
Sprocketville
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Jun 16, 2009 - 11:33pm PT
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfcnIMZq6is
hey, first day of summer, if you can't get all jacked up on that eventiuality, then ok, fine.
and the ladies?
lets just say that "there ain't no cure for the summer time boobs."
ja man.
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Doug Robinson
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Jun 16, 2009 - 11:38pm PT
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Lynne -- Nobody fully realizes. That stuff has never been written down in one place. I'm working on it though. Fascinating.
And why do we forget to get back out there? It's a great question, because it happens so much. I think that the high, powerful as it is, is also fleeting and the memory of it is very hard to hang onto. Endorphin itself has a built-in forgetfulness factor. Part of its value, in evolution, is to mask the pain of running so hard, to help you forget.
Running hills and pumping to exhaustion just flat hurts. When the endorphins start to flow after 20 minutes, it helps keep you at it. Ever notice that sometimes it's nearly too much to get your butt out the door? Then half an hour later you're just surging up the next steep grade, ready to press on over the top and look for more. That's no accident; it's a nice combination of the high and the forgetfulness.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 16, 2009 - 11:49pm PT
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DR...lol, have I ever noticed ? Oh yeah. Lotsa times it's a fight to get out there, like tonight, but then got back and ahhhhh what a sweet, sweet feeling.
But we gotta focus on the question since you understand it and ask the folk. WHY....do we not do the great thing for our bodies and minds and souls and spirit ? Why do we eat chips and dip and watch tv and blow off the great feeling for boredom and worse, lack of focus on fun goals and then slide into laziness or depression ?
Sure there have been many medical tomes written on this, but I want to hear the Taco's take. The brain surge here is awesome plus original. lrl
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Robb
Social climber
It's like FoCo in NoCo Daddy-O!
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Jun 16, 2009 - 11:57pm PT
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Goals:
After a forced two year hiatus and three lower back operations in the last year I'm working towards getting back to riding thirty to fifty miles six days a week. Busted out sixteen today--getting there one day at a time.
Weapon Of Choice
Newest addition
Would like to start lifting again,but my tendonosis is hampering that effort.
Thanks for asking Lynne.
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hooblie
climber
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Jun 17, 2009 - 12:04am PT
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my buddy does hundred mile trail runs. i've been lucky to have the chance to be his support crew at a couple of them. it's a thrill to watch him hold his own not far behind the tarahumara indians. the part that i can relate to, and is gratifying to hear coming from such an athlete is his acknowledgement that "the first mile is always the hardest." abject pandering but i'll take it
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 17, 2009 - 12:20am PT
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Dr. Sprock, lol as usual....Dude !!!111 it's BLUES
OMG and LOL also when I read Hooblie and Robb....ok I am a cheap date for an endorphin rush.....bwahahaha
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 17, 2009 - 11:31am PT
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No way !!!! Our Bluto on Utube, pumping....scary way to wake up bwahahaha.
Edit: not really, pretty good if true. :D
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
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Jun 17, 2009 - 11:45am PT
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eh?
Crazy, mon.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Jun 17, 2009 - 12:25pm PT
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Lynnie, for heavens sake, you're in the business. I mean pharmaceutical business.
What are you saying here? How in hell could you be missing this? Just put the two together. DR I am ashamed of you too. Look what happens without supervision. Of all the people. Ms Leichtfuss, start selling "Lynne's Endorphin Pumps", vendor maybe, "Pumping Over Stone". And Dougie you have no hegemony on the Other Side. Don't forget it. I hate it when you try to hog the Noumenal!
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 17, 2009 - 12:34pm PT
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Oh Peter Haan, thank you very for a Grate mid week bump over the hump LAUGH !!!!! :D Laughin'=Endorphins (lynne's laugh potion, perhaps ? Got any catchier names ?)
Edit: say, you seem to know a good deal about the Rx ?!
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Jun 17, 2009 - 01:07pm PT
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Lynnie, it's all part of being your basic polymath. Doll. John Stannard's one too, except he is currently all sidetracked and stuff with Paris Hilton. Can you believe that someone of his stature collects her signed posters and photos? He even tried to tell the cabbie to take him there when he landed at De Gaulle International. Can you believe it? He claimed he had reservations! We might have to bring in Tarbaby to fix this mess. You people have got trenches going all over the place but where it counts! Can we say rococo?
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