Keeping Fit

steddyeddy

I used to do sprinting so I do some weightlifitng (olympic and bodybuilding style). I also do some light running.

Wanderer2010

I walk a lot and play soccer. I must say though there is a bit of a gap between the media reports on obesity in Ireland and the actual reality. Now I only get into town 3 times a week but its at a very busy time so you get the full specturm of people and I have to see I see very few fat people, all the guys are slim, very fit and toned and the women are very glamorous. I dont know where all these fat people are hiding but I certainly dont see many of them!

Maybe the OP is right and people are going to the other extreme and getting too fit.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

I dont know where all these fat people are hiding

We are at home, eating inordinately large portions of food and staring out the window with our beady little eyes at all the slim people. :mad:

PizzamanIRL

Gym 5 days a week and 2 hours of basketball training twice a week.

Still not fit though.

3ndahalfof6

I tie my shoe laces and then at lunch time I will open them and tie them again, while it looks like I might be over doing it somewhat and could burn out, I am trying to cut down on the lunch time session,

what I am going to try is have a pair of slip ons and wear these at lunch time, this will force me to cut out the lunch time session.

its not easy trying to look like big daddy.

Oranage2

I have heavy bones so i can't exercise without getting very tired very quick, sometimes i get so over heated that im forced to eat a tub of ice cream.

mikemac1

Train my guns down the pub

Lift my pint with my left, lift and sip, lift and sip

For my next pint I repeat with my right

My squat routine is when I drop loose change on the floor

Gives a good workout

HemlockOption

walk up and down hills

1ZRed

Right now, I've started to get a bit lazy and I've fallen out of my weight training and running. Have to start up again but fvck in hell, it's hard work to get back to where I was a year ago at the peak of my fitness!

I don't usually go to the gym regularly as it's a pain in the ass to get there sometimes but I'm doing well in picking up my sprinting. Hopefully now I'll keep it up enough to break through that crap intensense period until it's doable and enjoyable. Once you've done that, you can't go without doing something active everyday.

Have to get back to my sport again as well because it's a much more enjoyable way of exercising.

desertcircus

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Gym 5 days a week and 2 hours of basketball training twice a week.

Still not fit though.

Either you have an extremely unforgiving idea of what constitutes being fit, or you're doing it wrong.

foxy06

desertcircus wrote: »

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Gym 5 days a week and 2 hours of basketball training twice a week.

Still not fit though.

Either you have an extremely unforgiving idea of what constitutes being fit, or you're doing it wrong.

He's not starting til Monday

The King of Moo

kneemos wrote: »

People who talk about thier "fitness programmes"make me want to kill them.

My fitness programme involves running for between 5 and 8 km about 4 or 5 times a week, and a few cycles too. I do some press-ups and sit-ups every day, and eat pretty well, mostly fresh ingredients and reasonable portions, though I treat myself a lot too.

The difference is amazing, not only in terms of how much weight I've lost and how much fitter I am, but also in terms of how much more energy I have and how much more positive I feel. I wish I'd started years ago. It's so much easier, cheaper (the people with expensive gear tend to be the ones walking and swing their arms like windmills who give me filthies as I prance past) and less time-consuming than I thought it would be.

1ZRed

desertcircus wrote: »

Either you have an extremely unforgiving idea of what constitutes being fit, or you're doing it wrong.

The gym must have a sauna.

ShaunC

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Gym 5 days a week and 2 hours of basketball training twice a week.

Still not fit though.

Maybe he goes to watch the women working out, it works for me! My right arm is getting very muscular.;)

barbiegirl

Walk the dogs every day for 40 mins to 1 hour, and at weekends longer up the mountains, down the beach wherever we fancy. So whilst I'm not uber fit I am fit enough.

TeddyTedson

TeddyTedson wrote: »

What do boardsies do to keep fit?

Run for an hour every morning.
Cycle for an hour every night.
Capoira once a week sometimes twice.
Brazilian JIu Jitsu once a week sometimes twice.
As much sex as possible, in various unlikely positions.
Grow my own herbs and veg and eggs where possible.
Strictly healthy diet which ties into my already high love of cooking hobby.

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Should the government reward people for choosing to eat right, implement a "sugar tax" so to speak.

It is not really sugar we have to target per so though I am sure it would help. One thing I have read coming out of current american research is that the move towards low sugar and low fat products has caused a large increase in the number of products using Corn Syrup as a substitute. The things I am reading about the effects of that on our health are not good.

I do not pretend to know much about the subject but I have read enough to know that engaging in a simple anti sugar campaign is likely not going to do the trick. Any government campaign towards healthy eating should go a little more indepth than that and target bad foods intelligently.

BUBBLE WRAP

I go to the GYM. three times aweek. I'm trying to get fit, but I also want to be able to move my pecs. I always thought that was cool.

Ush1

Used to play football and do jiu jitsu but a groin injury has me hampered for the last while. Started back jogging last night.

I also do weights 2 or 3 nights a week.

BraziliaNZ

www.boilerhouse.ie 4 times a week

Irishcrx

Ush1 wrote: »

Used to play football and do jiu jitsu but a groin injury has me hampered for the last while. Started back jogging last night.

I also do weights 2 or 3 nights a week.

Groin injuries...bloody nightmare to get rid of them. Once you damage it , it can come back to haunt you again and again..

Emeraldy Pebbles

Deleted User wrote: »

One thing I have read coming out of current american research is that the move towards low sugar and low fat products has caused a large increase in the number of products using Corn Syrup as a substitute.

Well, things should just be low sugar, not low fat.

Hardonraging

Emeraldy Pebbles wrote: »

Well, things should just be low sugar, not low fat.

Low sugar makes a huge diff, but there's also a point on corn syrup being introduced over here...

Emeraldy Pebbles

Emeraldy Pebbles wrote: »

Well, things should just be low sugar, not low fat.

Even then I am not sure how clear cut it is. Again I am not very well up on the subject of fat and sugar but the substitutes put into things like Diet coke and other low sugar products is not meant to be all that great either.

All I think on the subject is that if the government were to launch a campaign, using taxes or education or whatever, it should not be as simple as "Sugar, bad, attack" but should look intelligently at the food and drink market and target the things that really are bad.

Not that that would ever happen I fear.

Ush1

Irishcrx wrote: »

Groin injuries...bloody nightmare to get rid of them. Once you damage it , it can come back to haunt you again and again..

Yeah it's so frustrating. Rested for 3 months, felt only little twinge so went back to training. Knew I had reinjured it almost straight away but just gutted through it, when I had stopped moving and was in bed that night then was in absolute agony, literally couldn't turn over in the bed without intense pain.

I'm just praying I don't need an operation.

beeroclock

kneemos wrote: »

People who talk about thier "fitness programmes"make me want to kill them.

Me too some guys I work with all like ya I did 5k in such and such a time followed by this that and the other and then ask ya when was the last time you went to the gym, what did ya do etc

Fcuk off

1ZRed

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

I go to the GYM. three times aweek. I'm trying to get fit, but I also want to be able to move my pecs. I always thought that was cool.

GYM

beeroclock

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Gym 5 days a week and 2 hours of basketball training twice a week.

Still not fit though.

Is gym the name of a pub or something?

BraziliaNZ

beeroclock wrote: »

Me too some guys I work with all like ya I did 5k in such and such a time followed by this that and the other and then ask ya when was the last time you went to the gym, what did ya do etc

Fcuk off

How dare they have an interest in fitness!

LD 50

TheBody wrote: »

I type on my keyboard. I've the fittest fingers in the county!!

Yore ma said the same thing about me.

Einhard wrote: »

That's not rewarding people for eating well, but rather punishing those who ever have a treat. Which, considering that practically everyone indulges now and then, would actually hit those who eat healthily too.

I go to the gym. I was very overweight until a year ago but i've lost 3.5 stone since and I've never felt better. Although ask me tomorrow morn after tonight's session and I might have a different answer. :pac:

Everyone indulges, yes. But its the overweight people that do it more so. So if the tax is placed on sweets and soft drinks the ones who drink alot of it will pay more of the tax. They increase the tax on cigarettes, citing health reasons. By that same logic they could do the same with sugary food stuffs.

I used to do Muay thai 3 times a week. I got incredibly fit doing that. But fell out of the habit a while ago. I've put on some winter weight since(I'm in southern hemisphere) and getting into the habit again is difficult.

Rented Mule

I got back into the pool after being out for too many years. I am swimming anywhere from 5-10 miles per week. I am swimming in my first Masters Swim Meet at the end of this month. It will have been almost 26 years to the day since my last competitive swim meet.

My biggest problem with staying fit/healthy is that I work 47 miles from my place of employment. So, factor in the hours that I am stuck at my desk (@50 hours per week) with the travel times driving 104 miles round trip.

I have been trying to watch what I eat (more chicken and fresh veg/salads) and drinking loads of water. I've cut out most of the sweet and fizzy drinks. The weight isn't exactly falling off of me, but it is coming down at a steady pace. I will say this. I feel amazing. I have more energy. I am sleeping better. I am more motivated.

Looking forward to a long walk at much today, and then @ 2.5 miles in the pool.

Ush1

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

How dare they have an interest in fitness!

Sometimes you get people into fitness who think you're as interested as they are in talking about it all the time.

beeroclock

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

How dare they have an interest in fitness!

Ush1 reply was more along the lines of what I meant, for the record i think its great that people are into it

Drakares

I used to go 3 days and do martial arts but I fell out of routine. I've just started going to the gym four days per week again because I need to get back in shape :P

SiegHeilNosey

i ran to the chipper there on tuesday

Irishcrx

Ush1 wrote: »

Sometimes you get people into fitness who think you're as interested as they are in talking about it all the time.

True, the ammount of people I got rid of on my facebook page because I couldn't take anymore posts of.

' Went to the gym , 600 kg weights boosted tonight #i'm fit and shag me please#'

We get it , you go to the gym, you go running , you keep fit so do I, I just don't post every ****ing detail up for the world to know because #nobody gives a ****

Bazzerman

Swanfisting!

BUBBLE WRAP

1ZRed wrote: »

GYM

I wasted 3 minutes of my life to download that!? :mad: Now come on 1Z thats not on!!! :mad:





:pac:

I do around 6k twice a week, swim once, sometimes twice a week and try to watch what I eat to a certain degree during the week.

It compensates for a good feed of drink twice a week and eating more or less what I want at weekends

1ZRed

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

I wasted 3 minutes of my life to download that!? :mad: Now come on 1Z thats not on!!! :mad:





:pac:

Nah, figured it'd actually give you something to do up there in SHHHHLIGO! :pac:

TeddyTedson

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

I go to the GYM. three times aweek. I'm trying to get fit, but I also want to be able to move my pecs. I always thought that was cool.

I can do this:)
Jiggle Jiggle

1ZRed

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I can do this:)
Jiggle Jiggle

Moobs after the steroid crash, ah Ted?

18 holes 3 times a week plus gym+pool 2 days.

Plus walking to and from the fridge.

BUBBLE WRAP

1ZRed wrote: »

Nah, figured it'd actually give you something to do up there in SHHHHLIGO! :pac:

Haha, I have things to do.


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Pottler

I'm a keep-fit fanatic - I do 20 laps a day,out of the Van and into the shop for coffee and smokes. It's tough going, but I stick with it no matter what the weather.

TeddyTedson

1ZRed wrote: »

Moobs after the steroid crash, ah Ted?

I want to be like Zyzz brah :cool:
No moobs here I swear:D
I have a 6 pack too....or maybe I'm just some fat bald guy in my y-fronts posting on the internet eating some ben and jerrys right now...
We'll never know:p

biko

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I play Rugby, Soccer and do some MMA.

For me? Rolls, Sugar and do some SMS and KFC.

17 stone of sugar-powdered love.

WoollyRedHat

I swim from Dublin to London everyday, and that's just for breakfast

1ZRed

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I want to be like Zyzz brah :cool:
No moobs here I swear:D
I have a 6 pack too....or maybe I'm just some fat bald guy in my y-fronts posting on the internet eating some ben and jerrys right now...
We'll never know:p

You got a problem wiv me brah? :mad:

:P

In seriousness though, I think I'm going to start posting on bodybuilding.com to keep me motivated and well informed!
Was hoping to be the next Zyzz myself but you just had to call it

1ZRed

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

Haha, I have things to do.


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At least you might have a hope of getting something done with that hose! :pac:

BUBBLE WRAP

1ZRed wrote: »

At least you might have a hope of getting something done with that hose! :pac:

Haha, Cheeky!