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Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 6:49 pm

Anyone one on here go to gym or lift weights and stuff?

So I'm 6ft 2, I was sitting at a nice 112 kg with about 25% body fat, and I was really flat and always getting sick, so I thought fuck it, and bought a gym membership. I got on the tread mill and after two months of running twice a day, I had lost 22kgs, I decided to try out some weights, and I could hardly lift 5kg dumb-bells, I had run off most of my upper body muscle!

So I decided to start a weight training routine. It's now 4 months later, I weigh 105 kg with 13% body fat, I'd like to get to 110kg and then try cut off about 4kg of fat, and then just run maintenance.

My personal bests are:
110kg sqaut,
100kg deadlift
50kg overhead press
I don't really bench press, I have an issue with one of my arms, but my personal best for dumb bells chest presses are 28 kg dumbbells.
89 kg weighted row / long pull

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Anyone wanna talk nutrion / fitness / gym?

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:18 pm

Boris_YELLsome wrote:

Anyone wanna talk nutrion / fitness / gym?

Slightly can lift a heavy burger.

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:25 pm

lol smart arse Laughing

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:30 pm

fuck the tread mill, go running outside

have someone with experience to make a weight lifting routine for you

very important: warm up and stretch, most people forget that!
and have fun!

I love sports, I took up judo and football (soccer for americans) in kindergarten, around age 10 I changed to athletics, I runned the 400 and 200 meters, I had to quit during the last year in highschool because I had no time, then I practiced muay thai for almost a year, now because of my slavery-like timetable I can only do enough to keep in shape, I go jogging and swimming as much as I can

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:33 pm

I can't run outside, I'll get mugged and raped. I do run barefoot if that makes up for it?

I used to judo, it's really awesome, I don't really have time/money for a sport, but medical aid pays for gym so that's ok.

My weight lifting is bad ? Embarassed

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:47 pm

I have started up with the bike again. More than anything I am amazed at how it improves my mental state. The weight loss/muscle gain is nice too.

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:52 pm

I run outside, running on a treadmill bores me.
I also play field hockey, speed skating on ice in the winter.

This week or the next I'll start speed skating on asphalt. Asphalt scares me, falling will probably hurt a lot more than on ice...

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 8:32 pm

The Man wrote:

I have started up with the bike again. More than anything I am amazed at how it improves my mental state. The weight loss/muscle gain is nice too.

It really does, I used to feel flat and pessimistic about everything, a regular routine really seems to clear your mind.

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 8:49 pm

I've neared the world record for 16 ounce curls. Does that count for anything?

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 8:57 pm

^^I would be willing to give you a run for your money on a 16oz curl off.

I do like to play racquetball a few times a week. When I was younger I lifted weights but after a dumbbell/testicle incident I have sworn then off.

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 8:58 pm

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 9:08 pm

Yeah the guy was pissed when I dropped the dumbbell and hit him in the jewels.

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 9:14 pm

I lift things up and put them down on regularly. Actually lost 20 lbs since January (damn the donuts!).

Those saying running on road v. treadmill are 100% correct. Loads different. Treadmills these days are built to absorb shock. When you got your shoes and the 'mill taking the stress off your joints then you try to run a 5K. Surprise! Your joints want to explode and you get a hulluva headache!! Laughing

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 9:15 pm

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I can't run outside, I'll get mugged and raped.

where do you live? san quentin prison?

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I do run barefoot if that makes up for it?

please, for yout own healt, stop it, it doesn't make running harder and you can really fuck up your legs and feet

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medical aid pays for gym so that's ok.

I hope it is nothing serious
Sad

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My weight lifting is bad ?

Doing weigh lifting exercise without any kind of guide can be harmful, you could end up de-compensated

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 9:27 pm

I used to jog and go mountain biking, but I had to admit I'm a fat bastard now (5'10, 220lbs) and don't ask me to convert to metric, I don't know.

I do try to go for regular walks and I get physicals every year, and except for back and knee problems I am healthy.

well me and the wife do have our own regular "excercises" there I am 100% fit!! Very Happy

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 9:31 pm

In the gym? EWL!

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 9:37 pm

^^^^^^
Jim Morrison:

running barefoot correctly with a good mid-foot strike is much better and healthy than running with shoes, and in fact has less impact on your joints. The foot after all is the result of millions of years of evolution. And you're right, it's not harder, it's actually is easier if you run correctly, and builds up your lower calves and foot muscles. In fact I do just about everything barefoot, even my weightlifting, it gives you a much better centre.

I live in Africa, I don't want to start a debate from anyone else that also happens to live in Africa, but personally I don't find it safe, the crime rates in my area are too high.

I'm not sick Wink

medical aid just encourages a healthy lifestyle, so they have a deal with the gym here, you pay a once off fee then you don't pay again, and they also give you redeemable points every time you go.

Oh I thought specifically you meant my stats were bad LOL I have a routine Wink

@bravo

I just shot some of my coffee out my nose

@bart

There goes the rest of my coffee

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 9:54 pm

Well the incident was tramatic but to be fair I did get a good cardio workout running away from the guy once he could get up off the floor.

Seriously I would love to jog outside but it kills my knees. I was a catcher (baseball save the jokes) when I was a kid and I think my knees are shot from it. Racquetball does not seem to bother me I guess because it's short burst and not sustained strain like jogging.

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 9:55 pm

I used to swim frequently and do a sit-ups and other stretches routine every morning. This helped me get over a nasty herniated disc.
Now I'm having increasing difficulty finding the time and mental energy to get exercise except for lifting groceries, walking, and any people or object lifting that gets involved in my first aid training.
In my youth I managed to run up to 77 minutes nonstop. Also did a lot of swimming.
I signed up with a gym recently but only went there once so far (fortunately I bought tickets and not a monthly subscription).
Not surprisingly, I'm also having trouble keeping my baiting frequency up, often I end up just dropping baits thinking "hell with it, let the lads wonder what happened to me."
I would like to lose 10-15 kilos but I don't expect it to happen quickly, especially since I have a huge appetite.
The fact that I stopped eating meat forever a year and a half ago, amazingly, hasn't helped.

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 9:59 pm

I watched a Jane Fonda exercise tape once and got tired!

It is too hot here to exercise outdoors. I just planted my tomatoes and herbs today -- that's it for exercise! Laughing

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:28 pm

Boris, barefoot is nice unless you over pronate.

Morgain, I am waiting for the snow to melt and dry up so I can hit the roadways (sorry, I won't run when there's a possibility of ice and me freeezing to death from a fall on said ice when no one finds me for hours out in the countryside).

It's almost motorcycling season too!!! Mr. Green

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 2:06 am

I wash my house up one side/down the other and work in my gardens too. Very Happy

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 2:35 am

I always subscribed to a quote that is commonly (but erroneously) attributed to Mark Twain: "Every time I feel the urge to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."

While Twain never really said that, he did include this comment in a speech he gave on his 70th birthday, and which was later published:

"I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome."

Works for me. Wink

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 4:33 am

Juan Freizwidatt wrote:

I always subscribed to a quote that is commonly (but erroneously) attributed to Mark Twain: "Every time I feel the urge to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."

I've heard that quote attributed to Robert Maynard Hutchins, the late president of the University of Chicago.

I used to run about four times a week until a stress fracture in my foot, torn knee cartilage, and shin splints ended it. My doctor told me that runners make him wish he had gone into orthopedic surgery -- he maintains only orthopedic surgeons and shoe manufacturers get any true benefit from running.

I now do non-impact aerobics (elliptical, bike). Because of some muscle problems in my shoulders I do weight training for physical therapy but not to bulk up.

Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 10:07 am

Badgerbait wrote:

Boris, barefoot is nice unless you over pronate...

I actually used to get pretty bad shin splints, knee ache etc before I started barefoot, I had a heavy outward slant to my feet and allot of impact on my heel. I find barefoot has helped me re-educate my running and walking. I even got a pair of the vibram shoes for every day stuff.

*edit Oh and to those asking about me running outdoors. Someone shot at my neighbor last night, because they said he had purposefully ridden behind them with his brights on, they then followed him home and took three shots at him. So no running outside for me.