Chickenbus.

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Some Friday musings from the mind of a misfit (bulleted for your reading pleasure):

  • Id estimate two of you reading saw the word CHICKENBUS & immediately knew what I meant.  Once upon a time I was a mom blogger.  Once upon a time I settled upon the word chickenbus as substitute for swearwords (and, inexplicably, for the word STUFF as in this post title).   I cant lie to you, People.  Ive been missing my mom-blog days.  Life is set to change a WHOLE LOT soon (Hello Garten of the Kinder!) and while I’ll always be fitness—the mamahood is going to take a wee bit of precedence.  Please to consider this your heads-up.  Same old FITNESS with a wee bit *more* of the stopping, musing, navel gazing and life-sharing.
  • This bullet point is super important.  Instead of recreating the already well-written wheel I shall point you to this post.  Id imagine many of you, as I am, are participating in the auction and are already aware—-but if you are NOT please to read and spread the word.  I LOVE ME SOME SUSAN and am, again, in awe at the power of our Tribe.
  • This one is, sadly, just fer the ladies.  Lately Ive been focusing on my hips.  The source of my unrelenting pain mild owienessment is my piriformis yet Kia made a comment to me recently which struck a chord.  She remarked how women carry the bulk of our stress in the hips. This is something I knew *intellectually* knew and yet scoffed at.   I scoff no more.  Id love to hear your experiences with this concept.  Do you carry stress in your hips? Do (as a few friends have shared) you find certain yoga poses or stretches can bring you to tears because they serve to release & open these emotions?  I have a post coming about my experiences and would love to include yours as well.
  • Fit Stanley & Stella have hit the road!  And thanks to Ryan at No More Bacon they have a home at FitStanley.com  As soon as I start getting your emails/FITventure stories the posts shall commence!

And that’s where I short & sweet I am on this Friday.

Warning you of navel-gazing ahead & chickenbus ahead.

Imploring you to join me in The Great Fundraising Act.

*Seeking* your hip/back area stress-stories and curious if/how you over came.

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  4. Three big cheers here!!

    I was a huge fan of your more motherhood writings and look forward to the return of the chickenbus!

  5. Looking forward to riding on the chickenbus! Before you know it it will be driving off to college ….. I don’t know the names of the yoga poses, but Rodney Yee hits most of them in the AM Yoga – Twists program. Pigeon pose is a good one. And happy baby pose. And that Figure 4 pose.

  6. I miss the Chickenbus too.

    Will you tag the posts chickenbus or will we just have to read and look?

    Kel

    • youre ahead of me. I shall taggeth the mom posts with chickenbus I guess? It really wont be different—just perhaps a bit more kindergarten musings than yer normal fitness blog 🙂

  7. Been lurking for awhile again…bad habit..but this one draws out my voice…I have carried the bulk of my stress in my shoulders..and unknown spoken fear…is that the shoulders only mask all the other places I hold my stress..yes..it’s complicated that fear and body stress and owieness..but I am venturing out of my fear place to tackle this fear head on…with yoga..for countless many years as I have SAID I wanted to try it the anxiety of sitting still takes over my rational brain…Looking forward to reading MORE about all of this as I take on this step..

  8. I, too, carry stress and fear in my hips which then migrates to back pain.

    Debilitating pain all started by stress and fear, Mizzy.

  9. I carry a ton of stress in my hips. I do clamshells with a resistance band, walking with the band, leg lifts with the band, all to strengthen the area. And then I do a whole lot of pigeon to stretch it out!

  10. I’m also raising my hand to show that I do know the Chickenbus! (and use it regularly in my house) Can’t wait for the navel gazing to come back!!!!

    I have a love/hate relationship with my foam roller. It hurts so bad….in a good way. We also do this stretch in my kettlebell class that really works my hips. (it may have a name, but I don’t know)

    We lay on our stomach, one leg stretched out behind us, the other leg up and slightly bent, pulling our knee/hip to the floor. Then we lay across that leg, head down, arms stretched out. So, your body weight is stretching the hip. It hurts – and feels good at the same time.

  11. (You were a mom blogger?)

    I have lots of hip pain and am working through some of it now in traditioal counseling.

    My pain = unresolved fear.

  15. I tend to feel stress in my neck and shoulders. When I get stressed I tense and hunch in on myself. It’s not good. Yoga does definitely help.

    In one of the yoga DVDs I have – I think it might be Kathy Smith – there is a comment about stretching out the backs of the legs because we often hold a lot of tension there.

    Maybe it’s just a full body thing and some people notice it more in certain areas.

  16. You are a fantastic Mama. I hope to be even half of what you are to your daughter 🙂 YAYYY to the fundraiser. And sorry I haven’t gotten back to you about the fit stanley…I’m fearing I will get him or her and go into labor…..I’m not sure Fit Stanley wants to be involved in the birth 😉

  18. I crack up every time you write Chickenbus!

    Okay, now you have me wondering about my aching hips…and my strong wanting to do yoga yesterday…and my relaxed, calm release afterward. Hmmm…

  19. I went through all kinds of injections, PT, etc. many years ago with a top NYC back surgeon. When nothing was working, they sent me for biofeedback. THAT fixed it. It was stress. As the PT said, “Why do you think we say ‘pain the ass’ and ‘pain in the neck’?”

  20. ooooh Melissa interesting!

    My misfit tidbit? You know the expression ‘long in the tooth’ as in OLD?

    Created because of us old folks’ receding gums!

    Ahhhh aging

    • My sister-in-law says – age is a priviledge denied many. I try to remember that as I see more evidence of it in my 49-year-old body …

  22. I love to read about the Tornado!!!

    I carry a lot of stress, tension and pain in my hips. I also think they aren’t “right.” Note to self – go to chiropractor and determine if this is TRUE!

    Since starting yoga, I have had much relief and release after hip opening postures and yes, it does make me cry…usually during shavasana or later that night.

    I am aware of #TGFA for Susan, my fellow Canadian, and I will be participating.

  23. I have seen the postings about Susan & it is an amazing community coming together!!! I wrote her a note even though I did not know her before & told her about ACOR.org – an amazing site for cancer patients & family that helped me when my mom got sick.

    As for stress, what I can tell you is yes, my hips but also that little tie in from the butt to hamstring – those are the 2 areas that are my bain with age. When I was younger, the stress never effected my bod but with age YES! I have been stretching my hips, piriformis, hammies big time along with the rest of the bod.

  26. Mine tend to get uneven, but I carry my stress much more in my neck and upper back. Pidgeon is good, butterfly (not sure if that’s the real name but…you know what I mean), straddle stretches, runners stretch… all good things.

    And I love to read what you write. Period. So whatever your musings are, I’ll be around. 🙂

  27. No, don’t think I do. Am quite flexible (presumably relaxed) hip-wise. However, I’ve not had kids, so that might affect things? Tho’ those intense poses are uniquely painful.

    Attended a yoga class (at 3 day yoga conference thing) & in one class, kleenex boxes were here and there next to mats. ?? The teacher was planning a lot of chest opening poses, which frequently opens people’s emotions up. They make my aunt cry, & one of my best guy friend burst out laughing.

    I carry my tension in my traps/upper back. On few occasions I got professional massages, they were kinda fascinated with the lumps I have just under my scapula and along my spine, and up to neck. I used the Theracane exactly 3 times and it’s TOTALLY changed what had suddenly ramped up to chronic pain. Now it’s gone. Freakishly helpful.

    =) Hope your Hip gets Happy soon!

  28. I keep all stress and problems/tension in my shoulders(traps) and upper back….hips not so much…

    yoga helps me but not always…not lately..have had too much ‘tension’ and at this point am just dealing with it and eventually it’ll unwork itself

  30. Chickenbus has entered our family lexicon thanks to you. I don’t know that there is another single word that paints such a vivid picture! I love it.

    As for hips – I adore yoga but for years dreaded the “hip opener” stretches like Pigeon. One day I was hunched over my front leg, in so much pain and just fighting it when my teacher came over and said, “Why are you fighting your hips so much? What’s going on inside you?” I realized that all I was thinking was “I can’t do this, I suck at this. I suck at life etc” She told me to clear my mind and then pushed gently on my lower back as I tried to “relax into” the pose as they say. And the pain just stopped. It was SO weird. Now, I have to make a conscious effort to clear my mind and really breathe before doing any of those poses. Some days I’m all kinds of flexible through the hips and other days I can barely get into the pose. I hadn’t really made the connection before you wrote it but I think that the days I can’t open up are probably the days I can’t get past all my stress/worries. Also, I think there are a lot of appropriate things that could be said about child-bearing in here about our hips:)

  31. Your comment about kia’s comment brought an aha moment for me. I’m going on month 7 of my right hip being out of commission so to speak. Last saturday, debroby and I took a bench break on a hike w/ FitBloggin local as both of us are injured. I mentioned I think my hip pain is connected to my dad’s death. I’m chalking it up to the grieving process. I know my hip will be okay again one day and find my power yoga position- plank makes me feel strong again.

  32. I always wondered why hip opening flow classes made me feel so much more relaxed and calm than any other types of classes. I’m going to have to ponder this more.

    When I had anxiety troubles, I had to watch out of blocking one of my nostrils during some classes. And I got super nervous and shaky in some warrior poses and I could feel the panic a’comin.

    It’s been years since my last panic attack (lots of lifestyle adjustments) and now those panic inducing poses…they aren’t easy, but nowadays I can clear my mind a bit and breathe into those poses. And feel stronger.

    So yeah, long story, I think there is a definite emotional connection to some poses.

  33. I’ve never been able to classify myself as JUST a fitness blogger. Because I’m a mommy first. And I’m a wife and a student and an artist and a poet. I’m looking forward to the posts about kindergarten. That was one of my favorite years with my daughter. One of the absolute best school years, and so fun to be involved in. Take every opportunity you get to be involved in her class because no year after it is anything like it.

  34. Yes always stressed in hips if anywhere. Esp. the right one for some dang reason. Yoga is not enjoyable for me – hurts to the point I cry and tense up again!! yay for me….. The link you posted to the stretches for the piriformis help tremendously though. I do them daily.

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