The Get fit club!

Let's do it people! I just came back from a trip to Colombia and lost weight! I couldn't believe it. I was cramming my face full of empanadas and running around like maniac, yet I still managed to go from 171 down to 168. Anyway, I just weighed in after a big meal and am at 169. Not too bad.

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

I been doing about 100 sit ups a day for a few weeks. I almost have a six pack!

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Woot! Getting a six-pack was my hardest achievement, in terms of physical aesthetics. Keep up the good work my man. Just remember a few key things: lay off the red meat (stick to chicken and fish), eat more antioxidants, and cardio is king.

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Originally Posted by gloomyDAY

Let's do it people! I just came back from a trip to Colombia and lost weight! I couldn't believe it. I was cramming my face full of empanadas and running around like maniac, yet I still managed to go from 171 down to 168. Anyway, I just weighed in after a big meal and am at 169. Not too bad.

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LIGHTWEIGHT!

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Woot! Getting a six-pack was my hardest achievement, in terms of physical aesthetics. Keep up the good work my man. Just remember a few key things: lay off the red meat (stick to chicken and fish), eat more antioxidants, and cardio is king.

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I could never give up red meat, just not possible.

Skiing season just might be over, today the track was too soft in many places. Three and half months, 470km and heartrate monitor data shows i have improved my fitness. :)

Next week is cycling season. Might have to do a 10km time trial test to see if I'm still beaten by 13 year old girls. :D

I just completed a red cycle route. I thought my fitness was seriously shot near the end. It knew my brakes needed looking at but it was only when I finished that I realised my rear brakes had been stuck on. Red routes are classed as being difficult. No sh** they are difficult with your brakes locked on. I just thought I'd become really unfit. Panic over. :)

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

LIGHTWEIGHT!

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I'm drowning in your tears of envy. :)

I'll start my cut next Monday because I need to be fit for the military.

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Originally Posted by gloomyDAY

I'm drowning in your tears of envy. :)

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The only tears of envy will be when we go to gym together and I lift weights three times bigger than you :D

Do you train your entire body? There are plenty of blokes in my gym that only train thier upper body and can lift huge weights. As they don't train their lower body they have weedy little legs and never wear shorts. Always makes me chuckle as they just look weird. :s

lol, get used to going home on foot, no need to train the little legs :D

I think my exercise regime is being hampered by my drinking regime

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

I think my exercise regime is being hampered by my drinking regime

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When I was at Uni I used my drinking regime as part of my exercise regime. I developed what I called 'the Cider and Pork Chop Diet' which basically stemmed from me being too lazy to cook anything other than toast and pork chops, and Strongbow being 3 quid for 16 gallons (or summint). The excessive drinking meant lots of walking to and from town and the lack of a decent meal meant I lost weight.

For those worried that the diet wasn't balanced I can assure you that I took the precaution of eating a Snickers bar every now and then. Snickers are useful because they have each of the food types, protein, fats, water, nougat and chocolate.

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Originally Posted by Mr Jan Yeo

When I was at Uni I used my drinking regime as part of my exercise regime. I developed what I called 'the Cider and Pork Chop Diet' which basically stemmed from me being too lazy to cook anything other than toast and pork chops, and Strongbow being 3 quid for 16 gallons (or summint). The excessive drinking meant lots of walking to and from town and the lack of a decent meal meant I lost weight.

For those worried that the diet wasn't balanced I can assure you that I took the precaution of eating a Snickers bar every now and then. Snickers are useful because they have each of the food types, protein, fats, water, nougat and chocolate.

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Well not being from the south west I don't drink cider, but technically with the amount of sit-ups i've been doing I should have a ripped 6 pack. Sadly, a few gallons of Guinness a week mean my sit ups are only slowing down the development of a beer belly.

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Originally Posted by GridGirl

Do you train your entire body? There are plenty of blokes in my gym that only train thier upper body and can lift huge weights. As they don't train their lower body they have weedy little legs and never wear shorts. Always makes me chuckle as they just look weird. :s

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Yes, I train my legs too.
My exercise method is based around the 4 most important compound exercises (bench press, squat, deadlift and military press), so all parts of body will be worked throughout the week. That said, if I was to rate my body parts based on strength, legs would probably come last, as because of some knee problems I dont concentrate on legs as much as I should/could.

I think most men primarly concentrate on chest (bench press) and biceps, leaving other parts of the body untrained (legs and lower back probably suffer the most). I see it at my gym all the time. Every guy must do bench press it seems, but I rarely see guys do deadlift and military press. Of course, women easily could also do those 4 compound exercises, but they rarely do. Which is really a shame, because they are good for the body and there is no logical reason why females shouldnt do them.

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

Well not being from the south west I don't drink cider, but technically with the amount of sit-ups i've been doing I should have a ripped 6 pack. Sadly, a few gallons of Guinness a week mean my sit ups are only slowing down the development of a beer belly.

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You can do as many sit-ups as you want, but if you are overweight, the muscles will never show (even if in theory you have pretty good abs). So if you want a six-pack, then stop drinking that piss (I mean, guinness out of all beers? Do you have no taste at all?)

Did a quick 20k cycle today since I brought my bike back to college. Will be going back working as a courier in May so want to get back into the swing of things. I'm also making an effort not to order so much take-away and eat healthier. :)

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

You can do as many sit-ups as you want, but if you are overweight, the muscles will never show (even if in theory you have pretty good abs). So if you want a six-pack, then stop drinking that piss (I mean, guinness out of all beers? Do you have no taste at all?)

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Guinness is a good choice seeing as most bars have either lager or John Smiths on tap

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

You can do as many sit-ups as you want, but if you are overweight, the muscles will never show (even if in theory you have pretty good abs). So if you want a six-pack, then stop drinking that piss (I mean, guinness out of all beers? Do you have no taste at all?)

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Well i'm closer to being underweight actually. And what's wrong with Guinness? :p

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Originally Posted by Mr Jan Yeo

Guinness is a good choice seeing as most bars have either lager or John Smiths on tap

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The bar I watched the football in last night gave the choice of about 8 lagers, Tetleys, John Smith and Guinness. I ended up drinking Frulli last night. :beer:

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

Well i'm closer to being underweight actually. And what's wrong with Guinness? :p

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Guinness is awful. I have tasted that piss once in my life and it was enough for me to never try it again.

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

You can do as many sit-ups as you want, but if you are overweight, the muscles will never show (even if in theory you have pretty good abs).

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yep... my muscles are still there, I just can´t see them anymore :p

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

Guinness is awful. I have tasted that piss once in my life and it was enough for me to never try it again.

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Nothing like a good pint though. It's a risk, but if I get a bad pint I'll just complain and tell them to sort it out.

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

Guinness is awful. I have tasted that piss once in my life and it was enough for me to never try it again.

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Acquired taste really, can be very refreshing. Depends on what you usually drink too, if you're a lager man then Guinness will probably taste too strong, whereas if you're partial to a few ales then it's just something else to try.

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Originally Posted by Mr Jan Yeo

Acquired taste really, can be very refreshing. Depends on what you usually drink too, if you're a lager man then Guinness will probably taste too strong, whereas if you're partial to a few ales then it's just something else to try.

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I prefer a good brandy to be honest, I rarely drink beer.

I am taking better care of myself now and am maintaining a balanced diet. I will be leaving for Vancouver tomorrow for a few days, so I hope I can keep my momentum and not stuff my mouth!

Glad you guys brought up the topic of working out your legs. Time and time again I see fat dudes at the gym with huge arms, a gut, and chicken legs. Work out your legs people! It's easy and you can really feel a difference after a few weeks of consistent training. Here's a site that can give you ideas on how to train your legs. Remember to leave your ego at the door and work on technique (can't stress this enough), then steadily increase weight.

OK. Enough talk, time to run!

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

I prefer a good brandy to be honest, I rarely drink beer.

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I think I know a beer that can change your mind.

Stone Brewing Company (San Diego, CA) - Arrogant B@stard

I love it, and I hate that piss water everyone else seems to enjoy.

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Originally Posted by gloomyDAY

I am taking better care of myself now and am maintaining a balanced diet. I will be leaving for Vancouver tomorrow for a few days, so I hope I can keep my momentum and not stuff my mouth!

Glad you guys brought up the topic of working out your legs. Time and time again I see fat dudes at the gym with huge arms, a gut, and chicken legs. Work out your legs people! It's easy and you can really feel a difference after a few weeks of consistent training. Here's a site that can give you ideas on how to train your legs. Remember to leave your ego at the door and work on technique (can't stress this enough), then steadily increase weight.

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I see skinny guys doing leg presses with 250 kg, but the amplitude of their leg movement is almost non-existant and they always lock their knees (good luck trying to walk at 40), it is quite sad to watch people put their egos in front of their health.

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I think I know a beer that can change your mind.

Stone Brewing Company (San Diego, CA) - Arrogant B@stard

I love it, and I hate that piss water everyone else seems to enjoy.

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I would love to drink beer named after myself :D

If I ever arrive somewhere in California, the beer`s on me :D

I'd like to go for a run where I don't get chased by cows :mad:

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

I'd like to go for a run where I don't get chased by cows :mad:

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Go to Pamplona, around July 7th, and you can be chased by bulls instead :)

The bull run is on my birthday? Cooooool

Now that summer is almost over it's time to recap how miserably one failed at keeping in shape. :D
I rode about half what I inteted on the road bike, at the moment only about 1100km. No running at all until yesterday when I did the Cooper test for the first time in ten years, 2400m isn't very inspiring. :(

On the positive side of cycling I did improve my 10km time trial time for about 30 seconds between early June and last week, but that's mostly due to a new rear wheel and much better tires.

And there's a chance I might start thinking about concidering to get a new mountain bike to replace the one I haven't ridden in five years. :D

I'm glad somebody bumped this thread.

All I managed to do during summer was get skinny and I lost a lot of my muscle mass. This is mostly due to the fact that I run a lot more than I ever have, thanks to the Army, and I haven't lifted weights since May. I feel and look good, but I'd rather bulk up again and get that "cut" body I once had.

Wish me luck! I'll start lifting this following week once again and going strong until the rest of the year.

I've not done any upper body exercise for months. I have been running at least 5 miles per week and playing a football match every week.

I'm really enjoying my running and I wish I could do it more often, but my joints and shins can't seem to take it.

My excercise regime has been severly disrupted because my body seems to think I am about 50. Every joint in my body seems to be going and even doing push ups makes me feel like my wrist is going to brake. I played some beach hockey on saturday and I feel incredibly stiff. Oh dear.

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Just found this post from 2 years ago

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

I may be the only person here who wants to put on weight. I'm 6feet3 and weigh 150 pounds, so I believe my BMI is 18.75 which means i'm underweight.
I never miss a meal, I hardly get any exercise (although I have a standing up job) and I'm a weekend binge drinker.

I'd like to put on 2 stone, preferably muscle over fat :p . Any suggestions?

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I've just weighed myself and I'm now 151 pounds :mad:

Maybe I'm just at my optimum weight?

My biggest problem is sticking to a fitness regime. I usually do a month of a fitness plan, don't see any gains and give it up. Currently I have a low intensity plan because I think that is much more achievable and I'm more likely to stick to it.

Currently:
About 50 press-ups per day, 6 days a week
10 diamond press-ups per day, 6 days a week
2 minutes in the plank position every other day
30 crunches per day, 3 days per week
One session of 20 Biceps curls and bench presses once a week
One 2 mile run at least once a week
A 40 minute football game once a week

I don't have any ambitions to be ripped, hence no gym work. Fitness and cardio is much more important to me.

I can't put any weight on at all, no matter how much rubbish I eat and little exercise I do :s I do want to be fitter though and since February have been swimming for 30ish mins each weekday morning before work, which has been good but I still have no muscles or stamina :s I did try to go up Ben Nevis 3 weeks ago and it took me a week before I could walk up or down stairs without being in pain :bigcry:

May joing the local gym and do some different exercise rather than swimming all the time, but it's cheap and convenient.

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Originally Posted by J4MIE

I can't put any weight on at all, no matter how much rubbish I eat and little exercise I do :s I do want to be fitter though and since February have been swimming for 30ish mins each weekday morning before work, which has been good but I still have no muscles or stamina :s I did try to go up Ben Nevis 3 weeks ago and it took me a week before I could walk up or down stairs without being in pain :bigcry:

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Just doing the brakes on the 500 yesterday made me walk like John Wayne today......

I swim, walk, hike and ride both my mountain bike and my new road bike on a regular if not daily basis. Im thinking of joining a gym this winter though. Rather annoyingly I'm way behind on my personal target of completeing 300km's worth of exercise this month. After going ankle deep in a bog two weekends ago when mountain biking I had to purchase new cycling shoes to go road cycling the next day. I picked up my new peddles from the post office this morning and hopefully I will be going clipless this weekend. It can only be a recipe for disaster. :uhoh:

Working on getting down to 80kg by the first round of the ARC next year. Just so i can fit in my super duper race suit :)

Have changed my whole diet and have lost 4kg over the last 6 weeks, doing a lot of walking and not so much time in front of the computer.

Body is starting to wake up get into the fitness thingo.

Ray

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Originally Posted by GridGirl

I picked up my new peddles from the post office this morning and hopefully I will be going clipless this weekend. It can only be a recipe for disaster. :uhoh:

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You don't have clipless pedals on your mountain bike? If not, don't worry, the learning curve isn't too bad. :) I wouldn't switch back to regular pedals anymore, cliplesses give a much more stable feel on the bike, especially when bunnyhopping a small kerb on a road bike at 35kph. :D

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Originally Posted by janneppi

You don't have clipless pedals on your mountain bike? If not, don't worry, the learning curve isn't too bad. :) I wouldn't switch back to regular pedals anymore, cliplesses give a much more stable feel on the bike, especially when bunnyhopping a small kerb on a road bike at 35kph. :D

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I've never had clipless pedals full stop. :s I'm going to learn to go clipless on my mountain bike as it has a much lower bar and far superior brakes. Once I've mastered using them on my mountain bike they will be switched to my road bike. I'd never even riden a road bike before I bought mine about a month ago so there was no way that I was going to go clipless straightaway on a bike with a racing position, high bar and really rubbish brakes. :p Don't think I fancy mountain biking clipless though. One X-ray after a fall this year was plenty enough for me. :)

A constant shoulder problem has stopped me from working out at my usual schedule for quite a while now, just doesn`t seem to want to go away. So my weight has dropped, I have lost muscle mass and I am far weaker than 2 years ago. Very frustrating.

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

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Just found this post from 2 years ago


I've just weighed myself and I'm now 151 pounds :mad:

Maybe I'm just at my optimum weight?

My biggest problem is sticking to a fitness regime. I usually do a month of a fitness plan, don't see any gains and give it up. Currently I have a low intensity plan because I think that is much more achievable and I'm more likely to stick to it.

Currently:
About 50 press-ups per day, 6 days a week
10 diamond press-ups per day, 6 days a week
2 minutes in the plank position every other day
30 crunches per day, 3 days per week
One session of 20 Biceps curls and bench presses once a week
One 2 mile run at least once a week
A 40 minute football game once a week

I don't have any ambitions to be ripped, hence no gym work. Fitness and cardio is much more important to me.

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151 pounds at your height. START EATING FFS. That is not optimum weight for a man, no way.

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Just doing the brakes on the 500 yesterday made me walk like John Wayne today......

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Are you sure that is not because you had dunnell over last night? ;)

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

Are you sure that is not because you had dunnell over last night? ;)

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:laugh: No, definitely just because of doing the brakes :p

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

151 pounds at your height. START EATING FFS. That is not optimum weight for a man, no way.


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I eat way more calories than the reccommended daily intake for men. I just **** it all out.