Exercise/Weight Loss

[Capt Worley PE]

Since I'm nearing 41, I started walking a mile a day, drinking much less beer, and eating better. I'm amazed how much better I feel. I also lost 7 pounds in the last two weeks. I hope I can continue the trend, even start some situps and pushups in the morning. I'd love to start swimming again, because that just really burns off the pounds.

 

[FusionWhite]

My biggest problem with working out isnt the motivation or eating right. Its lack of sleep. I usually require a lot of sleep. If I dont get 8 hours a night I feel like I didnt sleep enough all day. If I get less then 7 Im usually pretty worthless. Last night I got 6 hours and Im so tired I could lay my head on my desk and sleep right now. This of course makes it tough for me get moving and when I do workout I usually half ass it.

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

We just got a cool new scale yesterday. It was a belated birthday gift for the mrs. It's one of those scales that measures weight, % body fat, and % water by electrical impedance. You program your gender, height and age into it and it has memory for 2 people.

I tried it out. 5'9", 27 year old male, 172.2 lbs, 10.4% body fat, 61.4% water.

 

[ktulu]

Why would I want to lose the body that I have acquired over my college days? That would say that I did not enjoy all the good times I had getting this body, and I don't want to lose those memories....I only have a few anyway.

 

[frazil]

I thought I was working out so that I could eat whatever I want... :huh:

After a couple weeks of doing those lateral lifts I can feel more muscle in my shoulders, but I still can't see anything. I would also like that line that runs down the outside of your thigh. I can see that Mrs. DV has that too!

 

[roadwreck]

After a couple weeks of doing those lateral lifts I can feel more muscle in my shoulders, but I still can't see anything.

It takes time. I get frustrated w/ my girlfriend b/c she expects to see results immediatly. That's just retarted.

I'm annoyed w/ myself now. A little over two years ago I was going to the gym almost daily. It was great, and I was in great shape. Then they closed my gym and I didn't go out and find a new one right away. I kept meaning to, but I had a bunch of other things going on, moving jobs, buying a home, etc. and so I kept putting it off. Flash forward almost 2 years and I've only just now joined another gym. Needless to say I'm not in the same shape I was when my old gym closed. I'm a few pounds heavier, a lot slower, have almost 0 stamina and can't lift anywhere near what I was doing before. I guess I never really noticed it (it sneaks up on you slowly). It wasn't until I joined a soccer league a few months ago that I really realized how out of shape I was. I thought I was going to die in that first game. It's gotten progressivly better since then. Same story when I went to the gym. I went right in and tried doing my old routine. God did I feel like a p***y. I'm glad I've joined a more family friendly gym. I would have been laughed at in the old place I worked out in.

 

[FusionWhite]

Is anyone else completely incapable of doing pushups and/or pullups? Even when I was working out like a fiend I couldnt do pushups for crap (even right now Im in decent shape and can only do about 2 sets of 25). I could maybe knock out 30 before collapsing in a heap, even though I could benchpress the hell out of some weights. I probably couldnt even do 1 pullup right now. And no I dont have girly arms (no offense Fraz).

 

[DVINNY]

It's like a car, power to weight ratio.

When I'm 255 lbs. (off season) I can barely get 10 pullups on the first set, it's a killer

and when I'm almost show ready and weighing 210-215 lbs. I can do pullups all day long.

Sounds to me like it's an endurance thing too for you, if you're burning out at 25 push-ups, but there is nothing wrong with that, you're still working the muscles. It really doesn't matter if you burn out at 10 reps, if you're going to failure, then your breaking down that muscle tissue

 

[Capt Worley PE]

Pushups just kill my elbows. Always have. I guess I'm doing them wrong...

 

[FusionWhite]

People always tell me to work my chest to get better at pushups. I dont think thats the problem though because where Im feeling the "weakness" when it comes to doing pushups is in my shoulders. Which leads me to think its an issue with my form but its a freaking pushup, how hard is it to get the form right.

Sapper by the way the reason I brought this up is that I use the Army PT standards as a measuring stick to my general physical fitness. I can belt out situps all day and can nail the 2 mile run no problem but those damn pushups kill me.

 

[frazil]

And no I dont have girly arms (no offense Fraz).

<--These girly arms used be able to do 2 finger pull-ups! :thumbs: That was when I was climbing a lot. Now I'm sure I couldn't do 1. :sniff:

 

[benbo]

VtEnviro-

10% body fat!!??? Are you some kind of freaking Lance Armstrong? I think my left nostril has 10% body fat.

Notice my judicious use of "freaking" to avoid the f-bomb (per another thread). Not only is this website motivating me to start exercising, but it is improving my manners as well.

 

[DVINNY]

WOW, that's what EB.com is fudgin' all about!!!

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

VtEnviro-10% body fat!!??? Are you some kind of freaking Lance Armstrong? I think my left nostril has 10% body fat.

No, but I am pretty picky about what I eat and the majority of the exercise I get is cardio fat burning exercise rather than a bulking up type of workout. I've read a healthy male in my age range should have 8-20% body fat.

I also have a fairly fast metabolism. So when I am very active I need to eat a lot to keep the pounds on.

 

[MA_PE]

I'm on the beer and fried food diet and it shows. I revert to a line stolen from a friend (pointing to oversized gut) "It's fun fat, I just have a lot more fun than you do."

 

[JohnNevets]

My favorite was when a bunch of us where let know there would be a big Rugby alumni game and told we should try and get into shape. A friend replied "Circles are shapes, right?"

 

[Dleg]

... I really just don't like fast food. Makes me feel crappy. If you eat garbage, it stands to reason you will feel like it too.

You obviously haven't given fast food a fair chance. You get used to it. It grows on you.

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

It grows on you.

Literally and figuratively.

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

So it was rainy by me yesterday, so I was stuck running on the treadmill at the gym. I hate those contraptions, they are soooo boring. I can barely tolerate half an hour on those things before I go stir crazy.

Fortunately, yesterday I found something to keep me motivated a little longer. A well endowed young lady in a low cut tank top on the treadmill next to me. :bio: I think I coulda run a marathon on that thing!

 

[MA_PE]

So it was rainy by me yesterday, so I was stuck running on the treadmill at the gym. I hate those contraptions, they are soooo boring. I can barely tolerate half an hour on those things before I go stir crazy.
Fortunately, yesterday I found something to keep me motivated a little longer. A well endowed young lady in a low cut tank top on the treadmill next to me. :bio: I think I coulda run a marathon on that thing!

Were you lucky enough to be facing a wall with floor to ceiling mirrors? This helps reduce the "stare" effect. (I'm told)