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I'm going to start the "Numa Numa Dance" excercise routine. Apparently there's a video and everything.
What is your exercise regime?
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1. Stay on the Atkins diet.
2. Don't learn to drive.
I absolutely hate exercising. Now that Atkins allows me to not be too fat (I'm 6'4" and I dropped from 240lbs to 196 on the diet), I really have no incentive to exercise, beyond walking to subway stations and running after buses. I figure I'm probably giving up about 10 years of my life. But considering what hellish torture I find exercise, that's a price I'm willing to pay.
2. Don't learn to drive.
I absolutely hate exercising. Now that Atkins allows me to not be too fat (I'm 6'4" and I dropped from 240lbs to 196 on the diet), I really have no incentive to exercise, beyond walking to subway stations and running after buses. I figure I'm probably giving up about 10 years of my life. But considering what hellish torture I find exercise, that's a price I'm willing to pay.
Being that I've never been fat, my exercise regimen if you can call it that comes out sorta like this.
I teach dance once to twice a week depending upon the session for an hour and a half to three hours, and also go out dancing for four or so hours a week. And by dance I mean Lindy Hop, which can be quite physically intensive. I do Capoeira two to three times a week totaling about five to seven hours, which has built up my muscles very quickly since I started and also greatly improved my balance (on my hands) and body control. I walk 25 minutes to get to university, and then another 25 minutes to get back at least four days a week. I live on the fourth floor with no elevator, so going up and down those stairs helps a bit. I trade swing dance lessons for kung fu lessons on saturdays, an hour for an hour, so that's another two hours. I stretch every night before I go to bed.
I eat like a vegetarian since I live with one. We eat really well, making sure to fill out all of our groups. I eat a lot, but I also do a lot so it sort of makes sense.
I teach dance once to twice a week depending upon the session for an hour and a half to three hours, and also go out dancing for four or so hours a week. And by dance I mean Lindy Hop, which can be quite physically intensive. I do Capoeira two to three times a week totaling about five to seven hours, which has built up my muscles very quickly since I started and also greatly improved my balance (on my hands) and body control. I walk 25 minutes to get to university, and then another 25 minutes to get back at least four days a week. I live on the fourth floor with no elevator, so going up and down those stairs helps a bit. I trade swing dance lessons for kung fu lessons on saturdays, an hour for an hour, so that's another two hours. I stretch every night before I go to bed.
I eat like a vegetarian since I live with one. We eat really well, making sure to fill out all of our groups. I eat a lot, but I also do a lot so it sort of makes sense.
Stone Angel
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Well I my physical shape has greatly gone down hill since my days of being a high school all star athelete. My fastest time ever in the mile was just under six min. I had the fourth fastest on the team! I could at one point bench about 320 pounds, deadlift 545 lbs and squat almost 600 lbs. I would have been asked to play for a major university if I hadn't torn my knee almost off and had I not went to a tiny highschool and had I actually been taller and had the size.
Now I work for a weighing company I am constantly swinging 25 and 50lb weights all day, on the scale off the scale on the scale.
Usually I start to run in about March(hey thats comin up) I try to get in a mile or two every other day, to get in shape for lake season, but all the beer I drink at the lake seems to offset my running lol.
Hopefully work will buy us a gym membership so I can really get in shape, the biggest problem is that I don't have anyone to work out with and it's awkward to lift with someone you don't know, it's kind of personal and intimate I guess.
The Seraph of Earth and Stone
Now I work for a weighing company I am constantly swinging 25 and 50lb weights all day, on the scale off the scale on the scale.
Usually I start to run in about March(hey thats comin up) I try to get in a mile or two every other day, to get in shape for lake season, but all the beer I drink at the lake seems to offset my running lol.
Hopefully work will buy us a gym membership so I can really get in shape, the biggest problem is that I don't have anyone to work out with and it's awkward to lift with someone you don't know, it's kind of personal and intimate I guess.
The Seraph of Earth and Stone
Rel
Liquid Awesome
Ugh. Well today I got a reminder of why I have a treadmill.
I have had another damn cold lately and it feels like I've been sick since about the middle of December. That's meant that I've exercised virtually none and I've been feeling pretty blah.
So today I thought up this great idea: My truck needs to be inspected so after I take my daughter to pre-school then I'll drop it off at the autoshop near my house. I'll walk home, dork around on the computer for a few hours and then get in a run when I go back to pick up the truck (It's around a mile to the autoshop).
Well the first part went fine. It was cold and blustery out but I had on a warm coat, gloves and a nice, hot cup of coffee.
Then I went back to pick up the truck. It's sunny out and about 40 degrees so I strip down to a t-shirt and some jogging shorts for the run. When I step outside it feels COLD. So I walk for a couple minutes to warm up but I can't stand the temperature so I start to run. I have to cut through a local park to get to the auto place so I (stupidly) decide that one mile is just not a decent enough run (mind you this is probably the first time I've run at all in a month and a half). So I take an extra lap around the park, adding another half mile onto the run, before I get out on the road and head to get the truck.
Big mistake. The wind was blowing like a complete bastard. By the time I made it out onto the road my hands were getting numb and once I lost the tree cover around the park it was just pure hell. I make it to the auto place and drink some water from their cooler before I headed home.
But just because I was now in the comfort of my heated truck (and a couple minutes later in my house) doesn't mean the fun is over. All that sucking in of cold air has made it feel like I have about five pounds of quick-drying cement in the bottom of my lungs.
After a lengthy period of cooling my body down and a LONG hot bath I'm feeling about 80% as good as I did before I left the house. :\ Bleah.
I have had another damn cold lately and it feels like I've been sick since about the middle of December. That's meant that I've exercised virtually none and I've been feeling pretty blah.
So today I thought up this great idea: My truck needs to be inspected so after I take my daughter to pre-school then I'll drop it off at the autoshop near my house. I'll walk home, dork around on the computer for a few hours and then get in a run when I go back to pick up the truck (It's around a mile to the autoshop).
Well the first part went fine. It was cold and blustery out but I had on a warm coat, gloves and a nice, hot cup of coffee.
Then I went back to pick up the truck. It's sunny out and about 40 degrees so I strip down to a t-shirt and some jogging shorts for the run. When I step outside it feels COLD. So I walk for a couple minutes to warm up but I can't stand the temperature so I start to run. I have to cut through a local park to get to the auto place so I (stupidly) decide that one mile is just not a decent enough run (mind you this is probably the first time I've run at all in a month and a half). So I take an extra lap around the park, adding another half mile onto the run, before I get out on the road and head to get the truck.
Big mistake. The wind was blowing like a complete bastard. By the time I made it out onto the road my hands were getting numb and once I lost the tree cover around the park it was just pure hell. I make it to the auto place and drink some water from their cooler before I headed home.
But just because I was now in the comfort of my heated truck (and a couple minutes later in my house) doesn't mean the fun is over. All that sucking in of cold air has made it feel like I have about five pounds of quick-drying cement in the bottom of my lungs.
After a lengthy period of cooling my body down and a LONG hot bath I'm feeling about 80% as good as I did before I left the house. :\ Bleah.
Impeesa
Explorer
Well, up until about 2 years ago I swam competitively. Anywhere from 2-5 km per practice, twice a week in the off season and 6-8 times a week during the summer.
Now I do pretty much.. nothing. When I start feeling out of shape I'll make a more serious attempt at getting back in the pool, I guess. I should mention that swimming is one of the best low-impact, full-body workouts you can get, if anyone's looking to get into it.
--Impeesa--
Now I do pretty much.. nothing. When I start feeling out of shape I'll make a more serious attempt at getting back in the pool, I guess. I should mention that swimming is one of the best low-impact, full-body workouts you can get, if anyone's looking to get into it.
--Impeesa--
barsoomcore
Unattainable Ideal
I walk a little every day (20-30 min) and I don't drive or anything like that so I'm a little bit active. Walking to get groceries, walking to get coffee, walking to get beer...
My office is HOPEFULLY moving soon to a building with squash courts, which make perfect places to practice swordfighting, which is the only exercise I've ever found that I can actually tolerate doing. Lifting weights or treadmills or whatever -- I just can't make myself do it.
Practicing how to kill people with swords? That I can do. And it's pretty good exercise, too.
My office is HOPEFULLY moving soon to a building with squash courts, which make perfect places to practice swordfighting, which is the only exercise I've ever found that I can actually tolerate doing. Lifting weights or treadmills or whatever -- I just can't make myself do it.
Practicing how to kill people with swords? That I can do. And it's pretty good exercise, too.
Pbartender
First Post
Pinotage said:
That's me too.
I've got about a 10 mile round trip by bicycle. I ride year-round at all hours (I work a rotating shift). Last year I rode nearly 3,000 miles total. That's one oil change and (by last year's gas prices) about $250 in gasoline.
Tinker Gnome
Adventurer
Eating Marshmallows.
Blue_Kryptonite
First Post
More or less:
Wake up. Sit up. Wait for heart rate to drop.
Go downstairs. Take heart meds. Wait for nausea to pass.
Light housework. Quite a lot of sitting in between.
Take meds. Make dinner.
Lay down, wait for heart to stop pounding.
--
On good days, more activity, including resuming as much of my old martial arts workout as I can stand before I want to collapse... usually not much these days. Hopefully, I can get more active now that my meds are being adjusted after the trial period.
Wake up. Sit up. Wait for heart rate to drop.
Go downstairs. Take heart meds. Wait for nausea to pass.
Light housework. Quite a lot of sitting in between.
Take meds. Make dinner.
Lay down, wait for heart to stop pounding.
--
On good days, more activity, including resuming as much of my old martial arts workout as I can stand before I want to collapse... usually not much these days. Hopefully, I can get more active now that my meds are being adjusted after the trial period.
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