{"id":179721,"date":"2026-01-21T21:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=179721"},"modified":"2026-01-21T21:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:06:21","slug":"back-aches-and-exercises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/01\/21\/back-aches-and-exercises\/","title":{"rendered":"Back aches and exercises"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s easy to see why people give up and hit the painkillers. How do you motivate yourself on those days when everything just hurts? It&#8217;s difficult for sure. <br><br>At the moment the new bit is doing sitting squats which I can also do through the day and that seems to be helping as I how have a bit of definition between the bottom of my ribs and the top of my belly. The core is my main problem so I am also doing stand-up planks. If I can keep it up I shall be able to continue my career as a frivolous musical internet tart. Today as I write this I have felt a little lost to be honest. Its very clear to me now that to keep on trucking I need a bit of a mini workout regularly if only to maintain my present mobility.And possibly a little over exercised  too. Suddenly  felt really cold and realised I have the heating set too low. A combination of east wind and a lot of rain has made it a tad chillier than usual here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A1658097279&#038;color=%23400e0e&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/we-all-the-same-who-are-they\" title=\"We All The Same Who Are They\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">We All The Same Who Are They<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So whilst I want to get on with stuff I wont be doing too much this week I think unless I have a bit of revival and uplift. I  Might transcribe a couple more of my old songs from recordings this week though as the first couple have gone well rather well. Although some of the songs seem complex due to the arrangements but the basic harmonic structures are often  6 to 7 chords underneath many of them so they are performable. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to see why people give up and hit the painkillers. How do you motivate yourself on those days when everything just hurts? It&#8217;s difficult for sure. At the moment the new bit is doing sitting squats which I can also do through the day and that seems to be helping as I how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/01\/21\/back-aches-and-exercises\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back aches and exercises<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-KKJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":156739,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2020\/02\/14\/february-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":179721,"position":0},"title":"February 2020","author":"diana Stone","date":"February 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, it's been a bit of a funny month so far. 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