Ended Official BYC Contest - Guess When We'll Hit 22 Million Posts And You Can Win!

[Waves]

What I did was to click on search, then on advanced search, then Threadloom Search, then Time and from there I chose Custom Dates and entered today's dare as both For and To.

I finished by clicking on the magnifying glass. It pulls up all the posts for today. The number you are interested in is right above the first result and currently is 2,003 posts.

Play around here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threadloom/search?tab=0

Thank you sooooo much!!!!

 

[casportpony]

 

[ShrekDawg]

Hum, .. you ain't the boss of me................but , dang somebody needs to be.

Oh,, I see the Kdog thing now. How many steps can Kdog take? because it is a Dog against Dog kind of world and I am top dog. .. and if you believe that there is some land I need to sell ya.

you crack me up!!

Normally not many but I’ve really been stepping up my game lately.

Yesterday was a bit of a lazy day and I didn’t walk or anything.

Today I went on two but shorter ones lol

Only at like 8300 today but I’m gonna for a real walk, like a super long one, in a second. It’s hot as heck here today but cooling down some now so perfect time to go.

The other day I did like 18,000.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I wasn’t planning on contributing to the post count today but I couldn’t stay away.

 

[CindyinSD]

you crack me up!!

Normally not many but I’ve really been stepping up my game lately.

Yesterday was a bit of a lazy day and I didn’t walk or anything.

Today I went on two but shorter ones lol

Only at like 8300 today but I’m gonna for a real walk, like a super long one, in a second. It’s hot as heck here today but cooling down some now so perfect time to go.

The other day I did like 18,000.

If you don't walk, then you walk a lot, you're gonna get sore. Your legs will burn, making it hard to get to sleep. For me, I was okay with that. I'm old (as I may have mentioned). By the time you get old, you also get used to everything hurting.

Your legs are full of lactic acid from using up primary energy storage (ATP) and then using secondary energy storage--which degrades to lactic acid. As you use your muscles, your body stores more and more ATP, so you don't need to dip into reserves. Your legs will stop being so sore. This may take a while.

If the pain is gonna stop you walking, it's definitely preferable to start out modestly with, say, 5,000 steps a day for a week or two, and build up to 10K steps over the next couple weeks, etc. I can easily walk 25K steps and not get sore, even if they're largely uphill. But I'm used to it. You shouldn't attempt to do that out of competitive spirit, because you will certainly pay and next day you'll likely crash and get very few steps at all--so, your body doesn't get the signal, and next time you'll get sore again.

With squats, etc., it's a double whammy because in addition to the lactic acid you will get muscle tearing. This also burns, and you need to give your body a couple days to repair the tears and in so doing, build muscle tissue. If you do not, you will keep getting more tears with no time to heal. You will break down--not build up--your muscle tissue. This is why people exercise different muscle groups from day to day.

So... exercise smart, not too hard.

 

[ShrekDawg]

If you don't walk, then you walk a lot, you're gonna get sore. Your legs will burn, making it hard to get to sleep. For me, I was okay with that. I'm old (as I may have mentioned). By the time you get old, you also get used to everything hurting.

Your legs are full of lactic acid from using up primary energy storage (ATP) and then using secondary energy storage--which degrades to lactic acid. As you use your muscles, your body stores more and more ATP, so you don't need to dip into reserves. Your legs will stop being so sore. This may take a while.

If the pain is gonna stop you walking, it's definitely preferable to start out modestly with, say, 5,000 steps a day for a week or two, and build up to 10K steps over the next couple weeks, etc. I can easily walk 25K steps and not get sore, even if they're largely uphill. But I'm used to it. You shouldn't attempt to do that out of competitive spirit, because you will certainly pay and next day you'll likely crash and get very few steps at all--so, your body doesn't get the signal, and next time you'll get sore again.

With squats, etc., it's a double whammy because in addition to the lactic acid you will get muscle tearing. This also burns, and you need to give your body a couple days to repair the tears and in so doing, build muscle tissue. If you do not, you will keep getting more tears with no time to heal. You will break down--not build up--your muscle tissue. This is why people exercise different muscle groups from day to day.

So... exercise smart, not too hard. ❤

Thank you!! This makes a lot of sense and is super smart

Honestly, I wasn’t really sore yesterday, at least not a ton, but I just didn’t really move, idk why I was more sore the day I did it, like right after, haha

But I’ve been trying to walk every day this week and haven’t really been sore thankfully. I do think I need to build up slowly though and not go totally crazy with the walking. The 18,500 one was definitely overdoing it and I felt it. but I also had the dog that day and took her on two big walks. But I didn’t need to, I think I was just being competitive and using the dog as an excuse

I haven’t been doing the squats or anything else lately thankfully, been bad about that too, but probably for the best. I’ve just been trying to walk a lot but I do think I need to take it easy haha

I think I would be fine with even 10,000 but over that and I start getting sore.

 

[R2elk]

Moments ago. 3,352 posts so far today.

@casportpony is running away from everyone.

 

[casportpony]

@Kiki's wheels fell off.

 

[casportpony]

Four posts with zero replies here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/fo....15/last_days=7order=reply_countdirection=asc

 

[R2elk]

Four posts with zero replies here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/fo....15/last_days=7order=reply_countdirection=asc

Bad link.