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The 2010 Resolution Thread or D+D Goes to the Gym
Robman
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I'm throwing this out here because of the success I saw of a similar undertaking at TotalFark (fuck off haters) where a bunch of us set a six pack in six months goal. We'd post our starting guts and every week would post our progress, and chide each other's failings to adhere to the master race workout plan and diet.
It's been shown time and time and time again that the most rudimentary of group conditions will massively help people adhere to life changing goals, from quitting smoking, to AA, to getting healthy.
So, who wants to live to 60? Post your progress as often as you need to, be it daily/weekly/monthly or whatever. Let's get some good before and after pictures.
The biggest loser is you, for watching this show. And by show I mean this filthy mess that a dog just projectile shat all over your TV screen, leaving corn and pig nipples slowly sliding down. Fuck, now I'm hungry.
Ground rules.
1. You are not Arnold fucking Shwartzawhatever, don't come in here and act like tough shit because you're fitter then someone else. The fat dude at the gym is a hundred times more committed to fitness then you, because he's willing to tolerate judgmental assholes like yourself.
2. Change is slow. If people give you good advice, don't be a cock because you didn't gain 20 lbs of muscle and lose 60 lbs of fat in a month.
3. See a fucking doctor before you go to the gym. Don't be that cockwaddling retard who has a heart attack at 25 because he thought high blood pressure was an old person problem and blew his heart out pushing a big stack of iron.
4. There is no such thing as valid professional advice over the internet. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS VALID PROFESSIONAL ADVICE OVER THE INTERNET. There are no internet doctors or personal trainers. Skip buying Mass Effect: Fortress 7 and buy a few sessions if you're a scrub.
THE STANDINGS (PM ME IF YOU WANT IN)
USEFUL RESOURCES
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/index.html
http://www.shapefit.com/training.html
FOR MEN. Body Fat % Illustrations. Subtract finish % from start %, multiply by body weight and there's your fat loss goal.
FOR WOMEN Body Fat % Illustrations. Subtract finish % from start %, multiply by body weight and there's your fat loss goal.
Warning.
There are a large number of companies that have business models designed to prey on people looking for a quick fix to fitness. There is no such thing as a weight loss pill. You'll blow out your kidneys, your liver, and your heart and you will die.
It's been shown time and time and time again that the most rudimentary of group conditions will massively help people adhere to life changing goals, from quitting smoking, to AA, to getting healthy.
So, who wants to live to 60? Post your progress as often as you need to, be it daily/weekly/monthly or whatever. Let's get some good before and after pictures.
The biggest loser is you, for watching this show. And by show I mean this filthy mess that a dog just projectile shat all over your TV screen, leaving corn and pig nipples slowly sliding down. Fuck, now I'm hungry.
Ground rules.
1. You are not Arnold fucking Shwartzawhatever, don't come in here and act like tough shit because you're fitter then someone else. The fat dude at the gym is a hundred times more committed to fitness then you, because he's willing to tolerate judgmental assholes like yourself.
2. Change is slow. If people give you good advice, don't be a cock because you didn't gain 20 lbs of muscle and lose 60 lbs of fat in a month.
3. See a fucking doctor before you go to the gym. Don't be that cockwaddling retard who has a heart attack at 25 because he thought high blood pressure was an old person problem and blew his heart out pushing a big stack of iron.
4. There is no such thing as valid professional advice over the internet. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS VALID PROFESSIONAL ADVICE OVER THE INTERNET. There are no internet doctors or personal trainers. Skip buying Mass Effect: Fortress 7 and buy a few sessions if you're a scrub.
THE STANDINGS (PM ME IF YOU WANT IN)
Robman: Fitness
Target: 175
Start: 220
Current: 201
Organichu: Fitness
Start weight: 302 lbs
Current weight: 202
Current mile time: 6:38
Goal weight: 185
Goal mile time: 6:00
Matt_S: Fitness
Current weight: 182
Goal weight: 165
Current run time per mile: 9:00
Goal run time per mile: 6:30
Inquisitor: Fitness
Current Weight: 178
Goal Weight: TBD
Kyougo: Fitness
Starting weight:260 lbs
Current Weight: 184 lbs
Goal Weight: 170 lbs
Leitner: Fitness
Start Weight: 190
Goal Weight: 215
Forar: Fitness
Starting weight: 285
Current Weight: 273
Target Weight: 250
Target: 175
Start: 220
Current: 201
Organichu: Fitness
Start weight: 302 lbs
Current weight: 202
Current mile time: 6:38
Goal weight: 185
Goal mile time: 6:00
Matt_S: Fitness
Current weight: 182
Goal weight: 165
Current run time per mile: 9:00
Goal run time per mile: 6:30
Inquisitor: Fitness
Current Weight: 178
Goal Weight: TBD
Kyougo: Fitness
Starting weight:260 lbs
Current Weight: 184 lbs
Goal Weight: 170 lbs
Leitner: Fitness
Start Weight: 190
Goal Weight: 215
Forar: Fitness
Starting weight: 285
Current Weight: 273
Target Weight: 250
USEFUL RESOURCES
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/index.html
http://www.shapefit.com/training.html
FOR MEN. Body Fat % Illustrations. Subtract finish % from start %, multiply by body weight and there's your fat loss goal.
FOR WOMEN Body Fat % Illustrations. Subtract finish % from start %, multiply by body weight and there's your fat loss goal.
Warning.
There are a large number of companies that have business models designed to prey on people looking for a quick fix to fitness. There is no such thing as a weight loss pill. You'll blow out your kidneys, your liver, and your heart and you will die.
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That is my goal.
I am going to crush that goal this year.
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I need to actually get on the field. I want to be in the best shape possible for when practice for spring season starts (I could play winter ball though..) I just gotta do it I guess.
I can probably do it in 3 months, but getting back in the habit of working out is so hard.
No, I want to drop about 75 pounds. I'm going to say in a year.
But I'd like to be down about 50lbs in time for PAXPrime.
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I've also started bringing lunches to work instead of going down to the cafeteria every day. It's amazing how much cheaper it is to make lunches, in addition to being better for you. I'm also really bad at being a morning person, so one thing I found that helped was to make an entire loaf of bread's worth of sandwiches at a time. That way in the morning I can just grab one out of the fridge plus a couple of healthy snacks and go.
Skiing hard will burn a thousand calories an hour, and winter is the best time to start running.
Seriously, you need to be in great shape to run in the summer, and you need to have trained your body to rapidly process water from stomach to sweat glands. Also, all the layers you go running in hide any cottage cheese from bouncing around on display.
A good rule for running in winter is the ten minute rule, if after ten minutes of running you're cold, go home. You'll still have run for 20 minutes, and you've given yourself time to warm up. You should feel coolish to cold when you step outside, but not freezing, and definitely not warm. Just like skiing or boarding, you want to feel cool on the chairlift so you don't sweat out when you're working hard.
Then on New Year's day, I pulled a muscle in my knee which hurts like a bitch. So I've been reduced to the diet and some upper body weights while the knee gets better.
The diet bit I think is working on one important front: I had gotten into a routine where I would eat at a certain time regardless of how hungry I was, and by limiting my input, I've broken that.
So if your knee recovers soon, keep that in mind.
The moral of the story: You can restrict your diet, work out, be healthy as a horse and live past one hundred, but you'll still get hit by a truck and die.
I think exercise will help me with the deep mood fugues I have now and then.
I feel like I might try and get my weight down to 190 or so and see what happens, but eh.
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I don't know what my goal is yet
I'm 6'2" (188cm) and weigh ~220lbs (100kg)
mostly I'd like to look trim in my work clothes and feel comfortable at the beach
I think I weighed 180ish in High School, so maybe my first goal is 200 then re-evaluate
Physical activity has been shown to have a strong antidepressant effect
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Aren't you tall like a freak?
104 year old strong man, hard ass, longshoreman, WW-II vet getting killed by a mini-van. Theres some over arcing parable about America, just waiting to be turned into Oscar bait.
In the movie, the van bounces off him and he says "I tire of this planet" and ascends to heaven.
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Possibly. But everyone knows there's no escaping death. What stories like Joe Rollino illustrate to me, though, is how you spend your time going towards death.
I've known plenty of people who get to age 70 and have low mobility, tire easily, sleep a lot, and are retired and essentially just living because they haven't died. They don't do anything: they watch TV, eat some bland food, and go to sleep. The more adventurous ones read books.
People who look after their body through exercise and activity (and those who engage their brains regularly, too) are chipper and active throughout their older years. Rollino was likely capable of doing many things despite his advanced age, and it's stories like that that motivate me to continue to stay active, work out, stay at a healthy weight and engage in activities that can be life-long.
I'd rather be a Joe Rollino that's active, alert, and enjoying life (and die at 104) than someone who sits on a couch for the last 30 years of my life until congestive heart failure does me in.
This isn't a new years resolution of mine -- I started it in the summer of 09 when I started to train for a century bike ride. But I'm sticking with it, as I have my bike up on a trainer and my wife and I wake up in the morning and ride for about 30-40 minutes every day (we watch anime w/ subtitles, since the bikes are loud). I lost 20 lbs last fall and my plan this year is to keep it off and replace any lingering fat with muscle. I'm hardly "big," at 5'10" and 160lbs now, but even going from 178 to 160 people have noticed that I've lost weight.
So my 2010 is to be filled with more biking, more running, and likely more "official" events like 5 mile runs, century rides, etc. I also plan to finish my MBA and continue learning to play the double bass.
Stick with it
What's your routine?
It's going to be hard, since I just got moved to a new position with lots of overtime. So I'm not hitting the gym after work like I used to (and I'm at work at 6:30 am so no going before it) but I am forcing myself to go Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. And I'm resisting just eating fast food, and instead cooking when I get home.
So if you feel like you're not up to both right now, mentally, with all the other crap in your life, focus on the diet
Depends how you do it.
On second thought, fuck that noise the ground is ICY as all hell, that would be suicide. Maybe I could do some sittups or something, I dunno.
so far?
do a circuit of the machines with 3 sets of 10-15 reps on low weight
run on an elliptical-type thing for 20-30 min
takes about an hour total
I'm quite sore
the machines should do me just fine for a while
No. Free-weights are better there too.