Man I thought I had some good conditioning going on until I did a jump rope circuit interspersed with dead arm hangs. I was supposed to go through 2 times but I made it through the first pass and laid down on the floor and considered simply letting go of my will to live.
Good news! Your meatsack body will cling desperately to life, trapping you against your will!
So what you're saying is that you're an expert at fighting dirty :biggrin:
Is it just local belts passing you or are they bringing in traveling experts as well?
Local. ...unless he knows something I don't... he studies under the current Headmaster, though, and he studied under the founder, Ed Parker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-3ZyQBCIUo
Today was my last big race of the year, so of course I woke up with an inflamed toe.
I initially thought I could take some ibuprofen and still manage , so I head out to the race site. Realized that even walking was causing some pain, so there was no way I could manage 13 miles.
Had to bail, and waiting for my rail back to my car while watching other runners head towards the race start was def one of those moments where even though I know I'm doing the right thing it still majorly sucked.
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Six months of working out and figuring out what I like to eat and how much I can eat/trial and error/some mild previous gymming about ten years ago.
Double edit I fucked up the year, that's about a year and a half. Edited the weights to reflect the updated dates.
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Thank you. I'm feel like I'm really annoying my friends IRL and I'm okay without having outside validation for most things but I'm incredibly self conscious about weight loss and buffing up so I really honestly appreciate this.
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It would probably have to be like, colder than -50 for an immediate freeze
Everything's still liquid by the time I get to my car less than a minute later at -10
Edit: if your hair is wet, it will freeze in less than a minute at -10
Thank you. I'm feel like I'm really annoying my friends IRL and I'm okay without having outside validation for most things but I'm incredibly self conscious about weight loss and buffing up so I really honestly appreciate this.
You’re looking great Mal! Keep it up!
Garry: I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but when you find the time I'd rather not spend the rest of the winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!
oh hey I got my knee looked at by a physio today, xx years after i probably should have
good news is there's no tendon damage, just a bunch of muscle weaknesses from the kneecap all the way up to my glutes. So in theory (and pending some improved motivation) I should be able to aim at half-marathon distances before too long, maybe by next summer. Buuuuut i'm gonna have to do daily strengthening exercises and if there's one thing I'm fucking terrible at, it's keeping up a routine.
maybe I should link it to my thrice-weekly bubble tea habit. "You want boba? get down on the floor and abduct that goddamn hip."
8.3km today and I don’t feel too bad after finishing! Furthest I’ve run consecutively in years. I’m on track to add 2km each week to make it to half marathon distance by March 1st, so I’ve been doing long runs on Saturday mornings, a shorter maintenance run on Monday, and either another run or Ring Fit Adventure on Wednesdays. Feels pretty good (once the run is over)!
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I've worked my legs to the point where I don't think I can wear these jeans anymore, so tight! Feels like my thighs are gonna burst out!
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I've worked my legs to the point where I don't think I can wear these jeans anymore, so tight! Feels like my thighs are gonna burst out!
Time to start dropping stuff and suggestively picking it back up again?
The bend and snap!
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I'm feeling really frustrated by my inability to get fit. I'm getting fatter every day and I constantly feel tired and crappy. But I need results to motivate myself to do things, and exercise takes too long to produce results, so I start exercising for like a week before I feel like I'm not achieving anything and give up. It doesn't help that whatever I try to do I feel like I'm probably not doing it right and should be doing something different instead.
That is the hardest part of exercising.
The results are far into the future, while the tedium is forever.
This is why the best kind of exercise is the one you can keep going, just as the best diet is the one you can keep going.
I'm posting here because I am going back on the exercise train. 2019 was not a good year for my weight or exercise, but I reversed course 3 weeks ago, and am so far keeping it up.
But the hard part is 2 months, 4 months, forever.
I think realistic goals are the most important part.
For myself, it's these rules that I'm hoping to keep going:
1 hour a day minimum of activity - bicycle or walking mostly. Walk during lunch breaks, take a detour after work. Go outside even on a rainy day.
15 minutes of cardio exercise: Steps, jogging, squats. Mostly about getting some heartrate going. Excersises picked to strengthen legs, maybe pick up some small weight stuff to intensify it.
I never found anything I truely enjoyed, though score attacking running times got close. The upside of that is that initial progress is fast. If you do a 3/week running schedule, you can make big gains in the first 3 months. (From 2mins intervals to a 5k)
And 2000kcal, with the important part of less bad days. I'm ok on my own, but I am terrible on gamenights where other people fill tables with snacks. And my life slowly changed to having 2 of these a week on average in the last 5 years. Which is socially great but bad for my body.
I'm going to try to transition to a little bit more running, but my runners knee never fully cleared, so I need to keep it short. There's a combination of factors (around my literal crooked right leg, bad walking and running form, hard time finding perfect shoes with size 13 (wide), and 90kgs of weight, tall man problems) that can be mitigated but never fully solved.
But the alternatives don't seem for me either. I can't swim because of ear problems, I don't have space to store a racing cycle let alone an exercise bike. I have a shared storage but I don't trust expensive things to not get stolen. (And I don't want to deal with the maintenance), I fell of gyms twice already. I lose to much time to delaying going there, then being a slowpoke while there because I don't enjoy it.
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Man, I'm both proud and disappointed in myself this year.
On the upside, at the start of the year I decided along with a friend to run a race a month as a way to get back into running. And I did it! Actually ran 15 races, including a tough mudder and a half marathon that went into Canada and back! Even lead a group of people through C25K and their first 5k!
I also joined my climbing gym Climb Fit class, and attended regularly. Felt that I made some progress in technique and strength.
On the downside I gained 15 lbs and it really hit me when I saw some recent pictures. And it's all cause of my crappy diet. I just can't seem to break my mental blocks when it comes to not eating crappy and constantly justified it by saying that I was working out enough to offset my late night drinks and meals.
Oh well, onto 2020. Got a brand new scale, back on my fitness pal, cutting back on my beer intake, got some new fitness goal this year (Run 1000 miles and better half marathon time) and trying to be positive.
Uhg. I wish I hadn't stepped on the scale this morning. Now I'm depressed.
I would go do a some exercise today but my neck has been bothering me for weeks now and I'd like to get that checked out first.
Is the pain so bad you cant go out and walk?
I can barely hold my neck upright today without pain. And it's hurting down the inside of my shoulder and down my bicep. I suppose I could, but I'm afraid I'll hurt or evert more.
And it feels really good. Yoga with Adriene on YouTube was where I was directed and she's great, started her 30 days of Yoga intro thing and it feels great, going to do loads for my climbing but also just develop my body in useful little ways. Gonna be a staple I think.
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This is worrisome news.
Bikes are cool
Involves a 2 mile run, all the techniques in sequence, a ton of calisthenics, and possibly sparring if I'm (un)lucky.
American Kenpo, only took me about 20 years, lol.
So what you're saying is that you're an expert at fighting dirty :biggrin:
Is it just local belts passing you or are they bringing in traveling experts as well?
Local. ...unless he knows something I don't... he studies under the current Headmaster, though, and he studied under the founder, Ed Parker.
1. Avoid DNA damage
2. Eat less
3. Eat less protein
4. High intensity exercise
5. Be cold
6. Be hot
Life is suffering
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
Ow.
I initially thought I could take some ibuprofen and still manage , so I head out to the race site. Realized that even walking was causing some pain, so there was no way I could manage 13 miles.
Had to bail, and waiting for my rail back to my car while watching other runners head towards the race start was def one of those moments where even though I know I'm doing the right thing it still majorly sucked.
6' 330ish on the left to 235isssh on the right
Double edit I fucked up the year, that's about a year and a half. Edited the weights to reflect the updated dates.
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
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Thank you. I'm feel like I'm really annoying my friends IRL and I'm okay without having outside validation for most things but I'm incredibly self conscious about weight loss and buffing up so I really honestly appreciate this.
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
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So does your sweat like immediately freeze? I bet that would be 'gram worthy, be a jacked crystalline statue.
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Everything's still liquid by the time I get to my car less than a minute later at -10
Edit: if your hair is wet, it will freeze in less than a minute at -10
I'm an inside-out dugong?
You specifically? Yes.
You’re looking great Mal! Keep it up!
good news is there's no tendon damage, just a bunch of muscle weaknesses from the kneecap all the way up to my glutes. So in theory (and pending some improved motivation) I should be able to aim at half-marathon distances before too long, maybe by next summer.
Buuuuut i'm gonna have to do daily strengthening exercises and if there's one thing I'm fucking terrible at, it's keeping up a routine.
maybe I should link it to my thrice-weekly bubble tea habit. "You want boba? get down on the floor and abduct that goddamn hip."
Time to start dropping stuff and suggestively picking it back up again?
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Untappd ID: Discgolfer1981
The bend and snap!
The results are far into the future, while the tedium is forever.
This is why the best kind of exercise is the one you can keep going, just as the best diet is the one you can keep going.
I'm posting here because I am going back on the exercise train. 2019 was not a good year for my weight or exercise, but I reversed course 3 weeks ago, and am so far keeping it up.
But the hard part is 2 months, 4 months, forever.
I think realistic goals are the most important part.
For myself, it's these rules that I'm hoping to keep going:
1 hour a day minimum of activity - bicycle or walking mostly. Walk during lunch breaks, take a detour after work. Go outside even on a rainy day.
15 minutes of cardio exercise: Steps, jogging, squats. Mostly about getting some heartrate going. Excersises picked to strengthen legs, maybe pick up some small weight stuff to intensify it.
I never found anything I truely enjoyed, though score attacking running times got close. The upside of that is that initial progress is fast. If you do a 3/week running schedule, you can make big gains in the first 3 months. (From 2mins intervals to a 5k)
And 2000kcal, with the important part of less bad days. I'm ok on my own, but I am terrible on gamenights where other people fill tables with snacks. And my life slowly changed to having 2 of these a week on average in the last 5 years. Which is socially great but bad for my body.
I'm going to try to transition to a little bit more running, but my runners knee never fully cleared, so I need to keep it short. There's a combination of factors (around my literal crooked right leg, bad walking and running form, hard time finding perfect shoes with size 13 (wide), and 90kgs of weight, tall man problems) that can be mitigated but never fully solved.
But the alternatives don't seem for me either. I can't swim because of ear problems, I don't have space to store a racing cycle let alone an exercise bike. I have a shared storage but I don't trust expensive things to not get stolen. (And I don't want to deal with the maintenance), I fell of gyms twice already. I lose to much time to delaying going there, then being a slowpoke while there because I don't enjoy it.
Honestly, I should’ve gotten this years ago.
I would go do a some exercise today but my neck has been bothering me for weeks now and I'd like to get that checked out first.
Is the pain so bad you cant go out and walk?
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On the upside, at the start of the year I decided along with a friend to run a race a month as a way to get back into running. And I did it! Actually ran 15 races, including a tough mudder and a half marathon that went into Canada and back! Even lead a group of people through C25K and their first 5k!
I also joined my climbing gym Climb Fit class, and attended regularly. Felt that I made some progress in technique and strength.
On the downside I gained 15 lbs and it really hit me when I saw some recent pictures. And it's all cause of my crappy diet. I just can't seem to break my mental blocks when it comes to not eating crappy and constantly justified it by saying that I was working out enough to offset my late night drinks and meals.
Oh well, onto 2020. Got a brand new scale, back on my fitness pal, cutting back on my beer intake, got some new fitness goal this year (Run 1000 miles and better half marathon time) and trying to be positive.
I can barely hold my neck upright today without pain. And it's hurting down the inside of my shoulder and down my bicep. I suppose I could, but I'm afraid I'll hurt or evert more.
And it feels really good. Yoga with Adriene on YouTube was where I was directed and she's great, started her 30 days of Yoga intro thing and it feels great, going to do loads for my climbing but also just develop my body in useful little ways. Gonna be a staple I think.