The Fitness Thread

[Jack of Hearts]

Busy here, but everything is going great. Eating is back on track. Working on natural tan (anyone know anything about tanning?). Emotional health seems ok-- two glaring failures in terms of intimacy in the last week or so (refer to 'Intimacy' thread in Serious Discussion sections). Threw out old clothes, bought clothes that showed off leanness. Mostly preparing for/apprehensive about trying to gain healthy body mass now. End report.





J




PS Does anybody else just feel fantastic after 30mins of swimming? What is with that?

[PoeticPassions]

Busy here, but everything is going great. Eating is back on track. Working on natural tan (anyone know anything about tanning?). Emotional health seems ok-- two glaring failures in terms of intimacy in the last week or so (refer to 'Intimacy' thread in Serious Discussion sections). Threw out old clothes, bought clothes that showed off leanness. Mostly preparing for/apprehensive about trying to gain healthy body mass now. End report.





J




PS Does anybody else just feel fantastic after 30mins of swimming? What is with that?

I'm a tanning expert haha. Well no, but I used to tan a lot, and I have reduced it now due to the health hazards... still, in the summer I do tan quite a bit. Just ALWAYS wear sunblock (UVA and UVB protection) and really you do not need SPF beyond 30 (small difference between 30 and 50, or even 80... only 1% or so better coverage with the really high SPFs).

I always rotate along with the sun (as the sun moves or er, the earth is the one moving... so does my towel) and that seems to give me the most even tan...
Not sure what else you wanted to know about tanning.


I stopped with my nutritional plan (diet) because I was ultra sick last week, and had food poisoning before that, and it was generally really making me weak and taking up too much time and mental and physical energy. But am resolved to eat healthier.. salads for lunch and all that. Back to the gym as well now...

[Jack of Hearts]

Tanned, sunburnt, 170lbs and 15 percent body fat. Little further to go.





J

[Sancho]

Well done, Jack!

So, I took my nephew (aged 13) mountain biking yesterday. And then I took him over the emergency room to get his leg sewed up. On a rapid decent, his front wheel got wedged in a rut and he went Superman over the handlebars. The nurse told him that chicks dig scars. I added that while chain-ring tattoos are cool, chain-ring scars are badass. I think he bought it.

At any rate, when the nurse left the room, he said, “Tio Sancho, that nurse has some big ole knockers, doesn’t she.”

I said, “Yes she does, Chico. Yes she does.”

[Jack of Hearts]

Well done, Jack!

So, I took my nephew (aged 13) mountain biking yesterday. And then I took him over the emergency room to get his leg sewed up. On a rapid decent, his front wheel got wedged in a rut and he went Superman over the handlebars. The nurse told him that chicks dig scars. I added that while chain-ring tattoos are cool, chain-ring scars are badass. I think he bought it.

At any rate, when the nurse left the room, he said, “Tio Sancho, that nurse has some big ole knockers, doesn’t she.”

I said, “Yes she does, Chico. Yes she does.”

Haha brilliant! The first step is acceptance. Yes, dear lad, there are big ole knockers in the world. Now go forth and make bad decisions!

This new generation may just have a chance.




J

[DocHeart]

Well done, Jack!

So, I took my nephew (aged 13) mountain biking yesterday. And then I took him over the emergency room to get his leg sewed up. On a rapid decent, his front wheel got wedged in a rut and he went Superman over the handlebars. The nurse told him that chicks dig scars. I added that while chain-ring tattoos are cool, chain-ring scars are badass. I think he bought it.

At any rate, when the nurse left the room, he said, “Tio Sancho, that nurse has some big ole knockers, doesn’t she.”

I said, “Yes she does, Chico. Yes she does.”

I love it

I remember having an accident of this sort when I was a kid. The challenge was to race down the road that leads to the beach in under 10 seconds. My brakes failed, and I ended up tumbling across the sand and into the sea. The knockers of the nurse who took care of my gashed eyebrow were really nothing to write home about.

I've been going to the gym again in the last couple of weeks. I say "again" which might give you the impression I only briefly neglected my fitness, but in fact it had been 4 long years. I wouldn't have bothered, either, but I read somewhere on the internet that regular aerobic exercise can alleviate the symptoms of my most annoying ear more than cortisone and beta-histine.

I go there after work, which means I don't get home till 8 pm. I don't have much energy afterwards, and my evenings now consist of watching the news drinking juice, very little smoking (if any), and little or no poetry writing.

As for my ear, the tinnitus does go away after my gym sessions; but it's usually back as soon as I wake up the next morning.

Jack, keep going, man. The fitter you are now, the more capable you will be of partying after you're 40

Best,
DH

[Sancho]

They truly were world-class. I feel a smile creeping up on me just thinking about ‘em. No worries about the younger generation, Jack - El Chico is going to be a Tom Cat.

Yeah, Doc - go man go. I’m glad you can hit it after work. I’ve always been a morning-exercise man. A good endorphin rush can carry me through the whole day.

I also enjoy a more-or-less permanent tinnitus – not the result of Ménière's disease, but rather the result of a misspent youth, hanging out in road houses, listening to loud music, tuning up turbo charged engines, all the while considering hearing protectors to be gear for sissies. My solution now: just crank up the volume some more.

[Darcy88]

I do martial arts for fitness. I also bike and walk but I consider those activities to be transportation, not exercise. Right now I am very absorbed in the art of Thai Boxing. I had a lesson at a local gym a month ago and since then I've been doing thai boxing for at least an hour a day. Its a very efficient martial art. Not to knock other martial arts, but if you youtube thai boxing you will see thai boxers utterly annihilate practitioners of other martial arts. Its not as fun as karate or tae-kwando, that I will admit....but as far as self-defense, sheer power goes....its a tough martial art to beat.

[crusoe]

I'm lifting weights and stay lean

[Sancho]

...Right now I am very absorbed in the art of Thai Boxing. I had a lesson at a local gym a month ago and since then I've been doing thai boxing for at least an hour a day. Its a very efficient martial art. Not to knock other martial arts, but if you youtube thai boxing you will see thai boxers utterly annihilate practitioners of other martial arts. Its not as fun as karate or tae-kwando, that I will admit....but as far as self-defense, sheer power goes....its a tough martial art to beat.

I dabbled in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, but it made my face hurt.

[Scheherazade]

I dabbled in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, but it made my face hurt.

Their waxing style is quite painful too, I hear.

[Jack of Hearts]

Well, we all learned something there.







J

[RicMisc]

I have a somewhat hard goal to achieve (hard for me). I have 7 percent body fat right now and my goal is to get a little more bulky by going to the gym and working out a lot. The problem lies in the fact that first of all that due to me not having to lose any weight I don't have any discipline and second of all that I have no idea what I am supposed to eat to gain muscles quickly.

So the goal's there but it's not coming along really well atm.

[Sancho]

Their waxing style is quite painful too, I hear.

I wouldn’t know. But I have been on a website where they all had…Mmm…Oh never mind.

I have a somewhat hard goal to achieve (hard for me). I have 7 percent body fat right now and my goal is to get a little more bulky by going to the gym and working out a lot. The problem lies in the fact that first of all that due to me not having to lose any weight I don't have any discipline and second of all that I have no idea what I am supposed to eat to gain muscles quickly.

So the goal's there but it's not coming along really well atm.

RicMisc, I’m guessing you’re a young guy. If so, what you’ve probably got going on there is a metabolism that eats, on average, about twice as much as what you eat. Here’s the rub: as you age, your metabolism slows down, but your appetite does not. So, if it were me, I’d avoid any rapid weight-gain program, and just let your body find its own center of gravity.

As for resistance training – probably not a bad idea, but ease into it, and try for a resistance program that works the muscles on both sides, e.g. bi’s then tri’s, abs then back. I had a friend in college who thought it’d be cool to have big biceps, so he did a bunch of curls, and he did wind up with big biceps, but his triceps were disproportionally small by comparison, so much so that he couldn’t straighten out arms. He’d walk around campus with arms bent at the elbow at around 30 degrees all the time. It was a crack up.

[RicMisc]

RicMisc, I’m guessing you’re a young guy. If so, what you’ve probably got going on there is a metabolism that eats, on average, about twice as much as what you eat. Here’s the rub: as you age, your metabolism slows down, but your appetite does not. So, if it were me, I’d avoid any rapid weight-gain program, and just let your body find its own center of gravity.

As for resistance training – probably not a bad idea, but ease into it, and try for a resistance program that works the muscles on both sides, e.g. bi’s then tri’s, abs then back. I had a friend in college who thought it’d be cool to have big biceps, so he did a bunch of curls, and he did wind up with big biceps, but his triceps were disproportionally small by comparison, so much so that he couldn’t straighten out arms. He’d walk around campus with arms bent at the elbow at around 30 degrees all the time. It was a crack up.

Thanks for the tips. I'll definitely make sure to train all of my muscles instead of just training one.