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Post by Meursault on Jul 16, 2004 10:59:18 GMT -5
Yeah I was young and dumb when i quit, probably a bit worried about possibly having to try and save someones life only to lose them, that probably doesn't happen to often though I guess, i'm not interested in chicks just wanting me cause i'm a lifeguard though, i want them to like me because i'll be a house husband.
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Post by RocDoc on Jul 17, 2004 13:56:27 GMT -5
...and you tell them this...
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Post by Meursault on Jul 17, 2004 18:19:08 GMT -5
Only half joking, and still look at their response.  hehehe |
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Post by Meursault on Sept 15, 2004 9:45:11 GMT -5
So i'm thinking when i have the money i might take some martial arts, i'm thinking either Akikido or Brazillian Jujitsu.
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Post by Mary on Sept 30, 2004 1:06:52 GMT -5
So ever since I've had a bit of personal turmoil, my response, weirdly, has been to really start exercising way more seriously.... especially running. Ever since I started graduate school, I have run 2.5 miles either two or three times a week. Nothing grueling, pretty easy, just enough not to feel like a total sloth. Until last month I was perfectly content just to do this forever, I had absolutely no motivation to make things more difficult. But suddenly I've just become determined to run way more often and way longer distances. So I just wanted to report, apropos of nothing in particular, that today is the first day since high school that I did a 5-mile run!  It felt good, and not too hard... I think 10 miles as a goal by the end of the year seems reasonable. There's also some pull-up bars where the track where I run, and my other random goal is to be able to do 4 consecutive pull-ups by the end of the year. This one is pretty depressing cause way back in high school I held the record for my entire school for most consecutive pull-ups (18!) but now it is pretty tough just to do one. Although getting easier as I've been doing one every other day after I run.... ...in short I am attempting to bid farewell to Lazy Bum Mary!!! NP: Outkast - Stankonia (song: So Fresh, So Clean) Cheers, M |
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Sept 30, 2004 6:32:05 GMT -5
I tried to do some stomach crunches yesterday and put my back out on the second one.
The moral of this story is that exercise should be strictly limited to the occasional furtive hand shandy.
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Post by RocDoc on Sept 30, 2004 12:15:00 GMT -5
Jesus, adding to his legend as this hirsute 6'4"(sorry, I don't do heights in metric), 98 pound(see previous)goth exer-phobic person...
His tendency for the furtive hand shandy has been sort of OVER-mythologized here however...
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Fantastic that you've (re-)discovered the tranquilizing effect which exercise has on a stressed-to-hell life, Mary...I honestly can't go more than a couple of days without a good sweatathon...
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Post by tuneschick on Sept 30, 2004 14:28:39 GMT -5
This is the second board in a row that has depressed the hell out of me - the first being the 'breaking habits' board. Sheesh.
I've totally fallen off the exercise wagon. I was doing so well with my giant fun exercise ball and my kickboxing... and then started missing a day here and a day there because I was away a lot... and now have just resorted to total slothdom.
My problem is - this thing people always say about how you'll love exercise once you start? Big fucking lie, in my experience. I DON'T love exercising just to exercise. I love to swim and I dig the kickboxing... but I hate running (bad knees) and sit-ups and pushups and all of that.
My other problem is that I always have these grand ideas about how soon I'll see results - and then I get totally discouraged and disappointed.
So what's the best way for a lazy girl to get back on the wagon (besides any sort of personal tragedy)? I don't want to be at a competitive level or anything... I just want to find enough willpower to get going again somehow, cuz so far it ain't happening.
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hehehe
It felt good, and not too hard... I think 10 miles as a goal by the end of the year seems reasonable.
