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2011/10/05 02:15:44
Subject: What kind of exercise do you get on a regular basis? The fitness topic!
I've liked running/walking for quite a while and a recent contest at work involving a pedometer has reignited that fire. Today I did around 9 miles which is honestly kind of wimpy for me, but usually get around 30 miles a week of physical locomotion for purely leisurely purposes. I've tried "working out" but it just bores me to tears if I'm standing or sitting in one place so I'm a little hopeless on that front. What about you Dakka?
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2011/10/05 02:19:30
Subject: What kind of exercise do you get on a regular basis? The fitness topic!
Pull-ups. I challenged my older brother when I was drunk to a pull up contest. I was a 12 pack deep by this time. The rules were perfect form, dead hang pull ups (chin over bar, no swinging and arms must be fully extended) He did 6. I did 20.
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2011/10/05 02:20:15
Subject: Re:What kind of exercise do you get on a regular basis? The fitness topic!
This is my daily workout.
15 piston squats.
30 pushups
15 pull ups
100 situps
300 meter dash.
25 vaults
12 nightgales
3 twisties
5 super vaults
15 climbing exercises
10 hand stands in various ways
20 drop dives
5 front flips
10 dive rolls.
3 tornado kicks.
From whom are unforgiven we bring the mercy of war.
2011/10/05 02:29:45
Subject: Re:What kind of exercise do you get on a regular basis? The fitness topic!
I have a pull up bar I got at Walmart a few years back for about 10 bucks, and I keep it hanging above the door to my room.
Every time I go in or out I do 5 pull ups. It's literally seconds a day, and unless you have a REALLY short attention span it shouldn't bore you at all.
I've got ADD and I find that it actually helps because it feeds that part of my brain that wants to do something new every 10 seconds. If you have trouble with 5 pull ups, just start at one, or however many you feel comfortable with. If you can do one every time you go through that door for a week, you'll build your strength really quickly.
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2011/10/05 02:35:51
Subject: What kind of exercise do you get on a regular basis? The fitness topic!
There are some who walk until their legs fail them and they fall to the ground. I find that respectable.
Then there are those who drag themselves further. I find that admirable.
2011/10/05 02:36:17
Subject: Re:What kind of exercise do you get on a regular basis? The fitness topic!
My dad made me do all sorts of stuff...I still walk my dog and jog regularly around my block, not a whole lot of extensive stuff. My favorite exercise by far is swimming, I've been doing that since I was a toddler. Recently though my dad wanted me to start lifting weights been doing that for the past five years off and on. Took weight training classes in high school, by the time I graduated I was pressing around two hundred pounds maybe a little more at max.
@ Asherian Command...hats off to the people that can do that parkour stuff, I probably wont ever have the body for it but I've seen people in public who do that kind of stuff and I gotta say they are pretty hardcore...
EDIT: I haven't actually tried to do a pull up since we had those presidential fitness exams back in elementary school...great...now I gotta go find something to do a pull up from...
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2011/10/05 02:39:46
Subject: Re:What kind of exercise do you get on a regular basis? The fitness topic!
WARORK93 wrote:
@ Asherian Command...hats off to the people that can do that parkour stuff, I probably wont ever have the body for it but I've seen people in public who do that kind of stuff and I gotta say they are pretty hardcore...
Thanks mate. I was out of shape before i got into it. It took me a year to get into shape anyone can do it. except if you exceed 190lbs and you are wrestler from Strike force or something you should be fine, unless you Are Spider. But thats spider he's spider... Dear god that man is a badass.
But anyway its fun and the exercises are hard at first like the piston squats, which are basically holding in one place on one leg for 10 seconds then on the other leg switch constantly every 10 seconds, its hard and it hurts like helk if you do it wrong.
Regarding the pull ups thing that is exactly how i got my arm strength except i increased it by 1 every day.
15 was my last weeks, hopefully i can get up to 17.
From whom are unforgiven we bring the mercy of war.
2011/10/05 02:41:54
Subject: What kind of exercise do you get on a regular basis? The fitness topic!
For all the runners here, if you really want to run in the healthiest, safest and most efficient way possible, ditch your shoes. Your feet have evolved into the perfect mechanism for running over thousands of years, and shoes just get in the way of the foot's natural mechanics. I had the flattest arches in the world, and running barefoot cured them. I can't stress the benefits of running barefoot enough.
2011/10/05 02:55:37
Subject: Re:What kind of exercise do you get on a regular basis? The fitness topic!
rubiksnoob wrote:For all the runners here, if you really want to run in the healthiest, safest and most efficient way possible, ditch your shoes. Your feet have evolved into the perfect mechanism for running over thousands of years, and shoes just get in the way of the foot's natural mechanics. I had the flattest arches in the world, and running barefoot cured them. I can't stress the benefits of running barefoot enough.
thats actually what i have been told to do when i do parkour. but barefeet parkour is highly addicting and it can hurt like a mother sometimes.
but yes I completely agree with ya rubiksnoob do it and you will not regret it.
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0005/06/27 02:57:15
Subject: What kind of exercise do you get on a regular basis? The fitness topic!
Up there with Atlas' job and holding back the Gates of Hell.
All the exercise you need, right there.
There are some who walk until their legs fail them and they fall to the ground. I find that respectable.
Then there are those who drag themselves further. I find that admirable.
2011/10/05 03:03:56
Subject: Re:What kind of exercise do you get on a regular basis? The fitness topic!
I chase my dog (tackle football like) for about half an hour. I do karate for maybe 2 hours to three. but for no one reason no one wants to go for a seventh match...
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2011/10/05 12:34:33
Subject: What kind of exercise do you get on a regular basis? The fitness topic!
ineptus astartes wrote:This thread is 'how do you exercise?' not 'how do you pleasure yourself?'
What if they are the same thing?
No they are not. I don't feel pleasure when i get home from a run. I am a devout of slaanesh that i enjoy my physical pain! PAIN! PAIN! PAIN! PAIN! Nah just kidding i do get pleasure from working out, (And not in that way!) i enjoy it but only because it gets the attention of the ladies.
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2011/10/05 13:11:42
Subject: Re:What kind of exercise do you get on a regular basis? The fitness topic!
I lift weights and walk/jog a mile and a half four days a week. On my days off I walk around the neighborhood. I normally play airsoft twice a month, but I currently only have one working airsoft gun and no cash to play :/
EDIT: I also do core/oblique work outs twice a week...desk-jobs are terrible on physical fitness
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I use resistance bands occasionally, used to be everyday but Ive been slacking. I also ride my bike often, and lately have been doing alot of yard work because of fall.
2011/06/28 17:40:14
Subject: Re:What kind of exercise do you get on a regular basis? The fitness topic!
Football every day for about an hour. That's soccer for all you Americans out there.
I also do push ups, sit ups, planking and lift weights every two days. And I go rowing for about an hour every Thursday.
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LoneLictor wrote: I like to imagine the Emperor kills so many Orks that he ends up half buried beneath a pile of corpses, with only his head sticking out. A lone grot stumbles across him, and starts choking him.
Then Horus comes across the lone grot, somehow managing to kill the Emperor, and punts it into space.
2011/10/05 17:13:17
Subject: Re:What kind of exercise do you get on a regular basis? The fitness topic!
I've started the physical preparation recommended on the Navy SEAL homepage for the BUD/S test five weeks ago. I'm following the instructions in this little book here...
..to the letter until today, with only 2 days lost because of a vicious cold until now. I like it because of all the different types of excercises you get. For those who don't want to bother themselves with the link:
Monday
- Long Slow Distance running (I'm just at 4.5 miles at the moment)
- Upper body weight excercises (varying)
- Core excercises (Bridge, Plank, Sideplank, Bird Dog, Superman and Wipers)
Tuesday
- Continuous High Interval swimming (15-20mins of 80-90% of your max power...later phases of the program include multiple repetitions)
- Lower body weight excercises (varying)
- Pushups, Situps, Pullups (at the moment I'm at 6x12, 5x18 and 5x5 respectively)
Wednesday
- Interval running (400m/quarter mile sprints, 6 at the moment with short breaks)
- Core
- Push-sit-pull
Yesterday, I made the mistake of adding 90 mins of Krav Maga to the mix. Another 50-60 pushups during warmup already...and sparring, while friggin' nice to do after a long time, sprained my right thumb pretty badly. Felt like crap all day today because I couldn't properly keep up with regeneration and nutrition. Have to see if I can add two 90min Krav Maga lessons to the aforementioned program. It's getting a bit time-intensive.
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2011/10/05 17:33:59
Subject: Re:What kind of exercise do you get on a regular basis? The fitness topic!
I'm afraid I've had to delete a few posts that were, literally, a bit too far below the belt.
If we can keep it clean please people.
And the thread/posts too.
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2011/10/05 17:35:51
Subject: Re:What kind of exercise do you get on a regular basis? The fitness topic!
Ssgt Carl wrote:I was gonna reference the workout Mr Incredible did, but Cheesecat kinda stole my thunder
That movie was "incredible". In all seriousness, I don't really work out and I maintain a stable weight (I'm kinda thin) although I do like outdoor activities (though I'm rather nonathletic) but I would
consider that recreational pleasure not exercise.
2011/10/05 17:37:19
Subject: What kind of exercise do you get on a regular basis? The fitness topic!
Lost 27 kilo's year and a half ago, now keep fit most days with weight sessions, cross trainer, Muay thai, MMA, most i've put back on was 3 kilo's over winter and i didn't work out for 4 months :-) but feeling fine and lookin' good! imolol
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" I will constantly have those in my head telling me how lazy and ugly and whorish I am. You sir, are a true friend " - KingCracker
"Nah, I'm just way too lazy to stand up so I keep sitting and paint" - Sigur
"I think the NMM technique with metals is just MNMM. Same sound I make while eating a good pizza" - Whalemusic360
Maybe you hang out with immature women. Maybe you're attracted to immature women because you think they'll let you shpadoink them. 
And if you're drinkin' well, you know that you're my friend and I say "I think I'll have myself a beer" 
In all seriousness, I don't really work out and I maintain a stable weight (I'm kinda thin) although I do like outdoor activities (though I'm rather nonathletic) but I would
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