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Post by Meursault on Jul 9, 2004 8:09:33 GMT -5
Come talk about what you do to keep in shape, or what you should be doing. Share exercise programs etc....
So today i'm trying to talk myself into running up this fairly steep climbing hill. Come on body!
BTW, anyone know what food is good to keep your metabolism high?
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the*bear
Struggling Artist
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." T.S. Eliot
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Post by the*bear on Jul 9, 2004 9:36:17 GMT -5
I could bore you to death with my exercise program, basically I do something (run, bike, swim, lift weights) for at least an hour, twice a day. Doing a 100-mile bike ride next weekend, my first triathlon in September, and the Chicago Marathon in October. Turn 49 in November. ;D
Don't know of any magic food to increase your metabolism, can be done by increasing your activity level and by building more lean muscle mass, though.
Good luck with that hill!
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Post by Meursault on Jul 9, 2004 10:08:45 GMT -5
Holy fuck, that hill's a monster plus i'm super out of shape. When I got home and was in the shower i was feeling a bit spent, and then eventually upset to my stomach, you can guess where that went....
I didn't even make it up like a 1/4 of the hill before i ran home, did take a bit of a longer route home.
Perhaps tall lanky skinny guys should bike or swim instead of run.
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Jul 9, 2004 10:43:00 GMT -5
Perhaps tall lanky skinny guys should bike or swim instead of run. Yeah. Or, even better, sit down with a pack of Marlboros and play Madden on the Xbox. Biking was always my first choice though. Seems somehow more fun that running, and you get to travel faster and coast downhill. |
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Post by Meursault on Jul 9, 2004 10:52:22 GMT -5
You are priceless.
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Post by Thorngrub on Jul 14, 2004 14:38:22 GMT -5
Yeah, me & my bicycle are like . . . a bike and . . . me. Together. Racing along. I do like the downhills.
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Post by Proud on Jul 14, 2004 16:02:16 GMT -5
i did several sit ups the other day...
then my heart felt like it was going to explode, so i stopped. i'm sure disgusting and fat!
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Post by RocDoc on Jul 14, 2004 17:21:44 GMT -5
Oh man, bear's a '55!
T'was a good year....
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Geez Shane you DON'T start off by thinking you're going to run your sedentary ass up some huge hill!
Fuck, start on level ground, on SOFT level ground so's you don't grind up your knees....go for a mile and a ½(WeverTF that is in km), maaaybe 2...and s.to.p.
See what your body tells you...
Oh, and drink shitloads of water...
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Post by strawman on Jul 14, 2004 19:09:38 GMT -5
shane...do something you enjoy...exercise for exercise sake would bore the shit out of me...I train on my bike to race...simple as that. If I weren't racing then I probably wouldn't train at all!! I'm just lucky that I love racing and really enjoy pushing myself when training to the limits, knowing that the pain ion training will repay itself tenfold when racing. Yeah my bikes and me are really like siamese twins...always together.
And rocdocs advice is right on...start slow and easy and slowly build up....you can't start at olympic level...that'll take at least a week of solid training!!!!
Anyhow good luck on whatever you decide, but make it a lifestyle change and put the exercise first, and before you know it sickens you to miss a day.....
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Post by Kensterberg on Jul 14, 2004 19:30:21 GMT -5
Having just started up my own exercise regimine this summer, Shane, let me second what Strawman just wrote. If you don't enjoy doing something, you're not gonna keep at it. I'm by nature a pretty lazy guy, frankly, but I have so much fun out on my bike(s) that I wind up out on the road at least four days a week now ... and sometimes more! The last time I exercised this much, I was wearing a tree suit and toting an M-16. ;D
I personally hated running, and can't imagine doing anything like Bear's routine. But the important thing is that you find what works for you, and then do it regularly. Like Strawman said, you'll soon find that you hate missing a day, rather than having to force yourself to do it. Also, start with reasonable expectations in your activity. You're not gonna be ready for any kind of competition when you start out, but it's amazing how quickly you'll see improvements. I've increased my average speed on my regular training loop from just over twelve mph to better than fourteen mph in just a couple of months, and have dramatically increased the lenghts of my rides (though at around eleven miles typically, I'm nowhere near Strawman or Bear -- though I do plan on doing a 25 mile trek by the end of this month! not bad for a self-professed couch potato pushing his fortieth birthday this winter, IMHO).
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Post by Meursault on Jul 14, 2004 22:43:39 GMT -5
Cheers Ken, i'm going to look into swimming when i'm in the city, hope a month pass at the YMCA isn't expensive.  |
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Post by Howenstein on Jul 16, 2004 9:59:51 GMT -5
My exercise regime right now consists of cleaning my pool. I'm too tired and/or busy to actually swim in the damn thing.
Other than that, I'm just trying to avoid getting injured before bowling season starts up again.
;D
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Post by RocDoc on Jul 16, 2004 10:45:03 GMT -5
Howie ol' buddy, ol' 300-rolling buddy.....pleeease do something cause the weekend warrior-thing is where I get most of my 30-35 year-old plus patients, ESPECIALLY when you're talking the 'one-sided' sports like bowling, golf, any racquet sport...and further ESPECIALLY when they're used to competing at a pretty high level when they were younger. The mind still gots tha moves, the nerve patterns are often still burned into their pathways to do the sport well...but the body sometimes just says... 'Whoa-HO! Just wait a cotton-picking minute! You expect me to do this again after sitting on your ass for 'x' number of months/YEARS?? What are you friggin NUTS?' At the very least some stretching...better yet, dust off that Bow-Flex contraption in the basement again...  ~ Shane, DO you swim? Or to put it another way, have you been taught technique somewhere along the line? If not. 1.)It'll be hard to stick to something which you'll basically suck at. 2.)You can easily cause yourself all sorts of neck problems if you don't have some sort of workable breathing technique which does NOT involve craning your neck out of the water for every breath. 3.)The least technique-dependent strokes are the backstroke and the side-stroke, IF you can actually relax in the water in the first place... |
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Post by Meursault on Jul 16, 2004 10:48:57 GMT -5
I'm a good swimmer RocDoc, was really close to becoming a life guard but for whatever reason decided not to go all the way.
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Post by RocDoc on Jul 16, 2004 10:53:56 GMT -5
Mistake, Shane...the bitches woulda been all over you...
Lifeguarding was always a good way to meet girls...
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Plz pardon the sexist slur...it was 'effect' I was after...
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