If anyone is interested in resistance training, this reader is starting to work with Starting Strength by Rippletoe- an emphasis on compound lifts, esp squats.
J
If anyone is interested in resistance training, this reader is starting to work with Starting Strength by Rippletoe- an emphasis on compound lifts, esp squats.
J
I'm a novice at fitness training. I've suddenly put on a lot of weight because I've been driving to school a lot more recently instead of walking and my diet consists of Pepperoni pizza with extra cheese and soda. It's the quintessential college life but it is posing a deleterious impact on my health.
My goal is to walk to school more often and take up a vegan diet, sprinkled with venison on occasion. I like salmon too and there are plenty of healthy salmon dishes out there so I should try those as well. But.. walking, keeping active, listening to music, writing poetry, writing short stories, reading genetics, histology, calculus, and biochemistry text books... this is the way to go!
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Several weeks ago, at a local fundraising run, I ran a 5K in 21:42 -- first place in my age group. Not too shabby. . .
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I'm having a really hard time giving up sugar.I was doing ok for a while there, but now I've regressed badly. Help! Any ideas, anyone?
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"Sugar" stuff is a big category of food. But, if sugared beverages are a challenge, well... Unless you HATE tea, you might try becoming a tea aficianado. Of course, if you can't imagine tea without sugar this won't work. But: if you think tea is OK, and could maybe have it without sugar, I think it's a way to get away from sweetened beverages. I didn't have a problem with sugar drinks, personally, but I did enjoy exploring the world of tea. The variety, and "having a favorite" could maybe distract one from the sugar angle (i.e. taking on the opinion that sugar interferes with the tea appreciation...). It's kind of like getting into wine, maybe--there's a chance to look for subtler pleasures, besides a massive sugar hit, and then crave/appreciate those instead. I think coffee could work like this too, but it has so much more caffeine--tea is much less likely to lead to a problem in that regard, and a person could even get into herbal teas with no caffeine. Collect maybe a half-dozen different types, and try to match moods, find a "regular" maybe, have some "change of pace" types, get a special one for Christmas, work a green tea or two into the daily mix... There's a type from So. America that's good for exercise (Yerba Mate), some Koreans used to gift me with excellent Ginseng Tea (an acquired taste... this is what I'm talking about!).Originally Posted by qimissung
Sometimes I have to step back and wonder at how worked up I can get about tea. I think this is honestly more about me wanting to talk about tea than it is about providing useful advice, sorry.
And, actually, straight up getting into wine would work just as well, and be more obviously enjoyable--but tea works throughout the day, and is better for reading, imo. Anyhow, I can't get excited for sugar in a drink at all anymore. Oh, god, I'm about to get started on unsweetened iced tea now... They have a type that's dehydrated (crystals of 100% tea), and you can dump a scoop of it into a big cup of orange Juice with a lot of ice, just great on a hot day....
Don't beat yourself up, Qimi. This happens to me too. Forget the regression and just start again. Just try to scale down slowly and allow yourself a cheat day every now and then.
Eat a pickle.
Really, just eat a dill pickle.
I’ve got a sweet tooth a mile long, so when that Snickers Bar is calling my name, I’ll eat a pickle and *POOF* I’m good to go. The other night at around 2am I was lying in bed, staring at the ceiling, and picturing in my head the Reece’s Peanut Butter Cup in the pantry – just sitting there on the shelf in its crinkly orange wrapper, saying “Sancho, you know you want me, Oh Sancho...” I could see myself peeling the pleated brown paper away from the cup and then licking that little patch of chocolate/peanut butter that always sticks to the bottom. Anyway, I knew I wasn’t going to get back to sleep with that kind of tension hanging over my head. So I staggered into the kitchen, but went to the fridge instead of the pantry and ate a pickle. Ha ha, take that, Reece, you shameless hussy!
And so I slept happily and soundly until sunrise.
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And then I returned to the kitchen and constructed an architecturally unsound stack of flapjacks, which I smeared with huge pads of creamy butter and drowned in maple syrup. Mmm-Mmm good.
Ah well, Rome wasn’t built in a day. I’ll burn it off on the bike.
Uhhhh...
Sancho, you fiend!
I'm hooked on Deadlifts. Normally I train 3 times a Week with additional Excercises, but in moment it's much toooooooooooooooooooo hot.
You're on the right track, Jack of Hearts, Deadlift - Squats - Benchpress and Bicep-Curls. That's the way to go. Have fun and don't forget the Protein.
Buy the Ticket, take the Ride...
My arms are too skinny to donate blood. My veins are too small. :-/ The nurse lady told me to lift stuff more often, so today I did actual "exercise" and lifted some things.
Hahaha, that just might be the greatest two sentences of advice I've ever read.
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Finished my Wednesday night run, 3.8 miles by the light of a half moon. Cooling down with a Boddington's pub ale.
The cycling I do is good, but I need to do more. The gardening and walking I do also help, but I need to do more on the upper body. My daughter runs many a morning, but I have a dicky ankle - it would put me out of action if I turned it again. It's a pity as it's more interesting than the gym.
I told my wife about the 191 pounds that I reported earlier in this thread and she said I needed to go on a diet. It also turns out I wasn't weighing myself right. I guess you have to do this early in the morning the same time every day. It turns out I lost 2 pounds without having to do anything. I'm now 189 pounds.
Unfortunately, now my assigned goal is 180 pounds.
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Thoughts of a 40-year-old man on the treadmill
In an attempt
To postpone keeling over
For a few decades
I jog and jog and jog
And risk keeling over
Every afternoon.
Last edited by DocHeart; 07-27-2012 at 04:36 AM.
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine...
keeling over..?? why are you postponing that .. what would be next.. ??
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