?? I'm going to the gym regularily now so i should lose some weight, I fully intend to return to my Harry Potter days. (and thank fully I have independant confirmation of that)
Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
don't forget to post a picture in a few months so we can see your progress. Good luck with your exercise routine. Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
I notice you didnt actually post how I look now lol.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
I'm afraid of png files.
-pH
Posted by airmanfour (Member # 6111) on :
How often is regularily? Here's the plan, no joke: If you can spend as much time (or more) exercising as you do on the computer, I give you a month till thinness. Seriously. The problem with any routine requiring discipline is motivation, and I think the computer is the biggest carrot you can hold in front of yourself. Go for it and leave pudge behind.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
im hoping for every day at best but every 2 days minimum. focusing on endurance/tone. I have no intention of being an athlete or gaining huge bulging mucles.
Posted by Irami Osei-Frimpong (Member # 2229) on :
quote:I have no intention of being an athlete or gaining huge bulging mucles.
I have on good authority that athletes with bulging muscles enjoy a higher quality.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
of what?
Posted by cheiros do ender (Member # 8849) on :
You'd be better off just working out a time to arrange to make spare time each week and go to the gym then than to try to go every day.
And early morning is best. And make sure you have a trainer. All gym training has a real world equivalent, but it's the trainer that makes the difference, and it might cost a bit more to have one run through the streets with you.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
I cant afford a trainer as of yet I'm going to the gym at my college where during break I can go.
Posted by Irami Osei-Frimpong (Member # 2229) on :
oops.
of life.
Btw, it seems as though diet along with exercise would be the best way to go. Do you have any untoward habits? Soda? Doughnuts?
Posted by cheiros do ender (Member # 8849) on :
plus bigger stomach means you can eat more spaghetti without getting sick. Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
but I'm a guy who doesn't lead a very active life style, gym training is meant to provide the needed activeness to remain healthy and look/feel good.
Like getting bulging muscles would be over kill if I wanted to beat people up ild learn kung fu.
Posted by cheiros do ender (Member # 8849) on :
I don't lead a very active lifestyle compared to what I need to enter Navy Reserve Diver Initial Training this May. But that's just an upper body thing. I'm a very fast runner.
Everyone has their strengths. Find something physical that works with yours and work from there to help yourself learn to love exercise. When I was younger my brother and I did Judo. I was always the first to get a new move, sometimes before Sensai had even finished explaining it. Sensai taught my older brother, who still had his baby fat, to use it to his advantage and he suddenly started advancing faster than me.
My point, you ask? Do Judo!
Posted by Irami Osei-Frimpong (Member # 2229) on :
Who cares about beating up people. I'm talking about women, Blayne.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
quote:Originally posted by Irami Osei-Frimpong: Who cares about beating up people. I'm talking about women, Blayne.
The way I read that the first time...
-pH
Posted by JonnyNotSoBravo (Member # 5715) on :
Did you read that women are not people or that Irami was talking about beating up women or both?
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Blayne, I can't see you.
Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
I *think* Irami is saying that whetehre or not Blayne wants to beat up people, he should get muscles to impress women.
Tante- C&p the url into your address bar.
Blayne-SMILE! Weight loss is good, yes, but not so much as what a big sunny smile will do for you.
Posted by Advent 115 (Member # 8914) on :
Good for you Blayne, keep up the hard work. Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
At first (and second) it didn't work, but now it does. 1.1.1997? Is the date stamp not set, or is it an old picture?
You look fine, Blayne. But could you take the underwear or whatever it is off the lamp? 'Cause that could be a fire hazard. And it's gross.
I think that if you dressed up, you'd make a very presentable date. Nice to see you!
Posted by human_2.0 (Member # 6006) on :
Holy schmoly, you look a lot like me.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
The date on the photo says 1/1/97. Has your look changed at all in the last nine years?
Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
quote:Posted by Blayne Bradley: I notice you didnt actually post how I look now lol.
I was too distracted by the fact that you have what looks to be Windows XP on your computer. WITH the original wallpaper. It drove me to start wondering why you didn't have anything more attractive. What kind of geek are you? I'm currently rocking a Pure Pwnage wallpaper. Show some class.
As to how you look now, I hope you won't take it amiss if I say you look only slightly more healthy than I actually am.
Lyrhawn - If I'm right, and that IS XP on his desktop, it's probably a recent photo on a camera that didn't have the correct date set. I remember Blayne saying he's 18, but he doesn't really look 11 there...
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
lol, I didnt set the camera date and wow, that's good detective work. Knowing that A) WinXP did not exist in 1997 and B) If I'm 18 now and look 18 in the picture I could not possibly look 11.
So thus the date is wrong.
I have the original background because I haven't gotten around to changing it.
That is not underwear its paper clipped to it and thats my moms lamp the room is my moms office and my computer happens to be in it.
Well enjoying a higher quality of life doesn't automatically mean == impressing woman. I didn't make the immediate mental connection.
I was smiling......
I'm a soda drinker, mostly sprite, spruce beer, root beer, orange crush kinda guy but lacking money I'm stuck with water. And god, I excersized for an hour and my arms hurt, my first goal is to do 20 pushups and sit ups with ease so that I can join the reserves.
Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :
Smile bigger.
Not trying to be a pain. Really. )
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
That's your MOM'S room? Tell your mom to clean her room.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
rofl.
Its an office and frankly I think its a doomed effort to try to clean the clutter.
Now my bedroom on the other hand is clean. Posted by cheiros do ender (Member # 8849) on :
Whoo, Reserves !!
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
armoured recon, I get a summer job, 4000$, soemthing good on my resume, more excersize.
And i get to drive LAV's, Jeeps and fire guns.
cons: I probly have to shave my head and I better not have to shower publicly.
Posted by cheiros do ender (Member # 8849) on :
Only ~$44 a day?
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
I think my summer is only around 8 weeks. so it would be around 66$ but I don' exactly know yet I think its 4000 but the info session is tuesday.
Posted by cheiros do ender (Member # 8849) on :
Do you have to pay tax on it?
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
Maybe I don't know.
Posted by cheiros do ender (Member # 8849) on :
Ah, well keep us updated at some point after the info session. Posted by Kristen (Member # 9200) on :
I don't see any need to lose weight. You seem totally fine. If you went on a 'routine' of exercise I think it would cost more (time, money for the gym, effort) than benefit (10 pounds?).
However, if you want to be more fit, just walk more, take up biking, or go to the pool and swim. If you can find a way to be physical that is pleasurable, it won't be the tedious routine that is lifting weights. Oh, and if you only eat about 3/4 of your total portions and drink diet sodas (basically find a way to eliminate a few hundred calories from your daily diet) you'll lose about a pound every 11 or so days.
Or, um, get cheated on by your jerk (now ex) significant other. I lost 25 pounds that way .
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
or thew flu flu is always a good way to lose wait.
i dont have to spend money for the gym its free, and I go during the 3 hour breaks I have between classes.
And I feel like I need to lose some weight, I like fine food a little too much to not make sure I excersize.
Posted by Kristen (Member # 9200) on :
quote:I like fine food a little too much to not make sure I excersize.
Point taken. My problem is the opposite: I cannot give up my pizza, beer, and french fries (boy, don't I sound like a prototypical American?)
Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :
Here's what I do: 40 regular push-ups 30 Diamond Push-ups 20 Spider Push-ups (arms spread out a bit more.) 10 Fist push-ups I do that like 9 or 10 times plus dumbells and stuff like that. Do that and some sit-ups and you'll be in good shape.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
quote:Originally posted by JonnyNotSoBravo: Did you read that women are not people or that Irami was talking about beating up women or both?
I read it as:
Who CARES about beating up PEOPLE. (insert "psh!" here)
I'm talking about [beating up] WOMEN.
-pH
Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :
ok pH is officially a member of the slapaho tribe.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
quote:Originally posted by SoaPiNuReYe: Here's what I do: 40 regular push-ups 30 Diamond Push-ups 20 Spider Push-ups (arms spread out a bit more.) 10 Fist push-ups I do that like 9 or 10 times plus dumbells and stuff like that. Do that and some sit-ups and you'll be in good shape.
Or dead....
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
Cardio works really well for me.
But weight lifting can help some people a lot.
Diet changes are also a big deal (I say over my Wendy's Value Meal).
-pH
Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :
I got some african american in me so maybe that's why Im not "dead" yet.
Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :
Work yourself up to it. You'll be able to do that in a few years. Im not even 15 and I'm doing it. Just set about 45 min each day a time that's convienient and just work out. Run, weight-lift, w.e. Take baby steps and you'll be in shape in no time.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
I think it's more beneficial to start with only cardio and THEN do weight lifting if you need to tone more.
But I really, really like jogging and the elliptical machine.
-pH
Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :
Ya running is important, especially with all the fast food joints around. I ran the 800m last year and all the training for that helped me bulk up. You're right about cardio and stuff but I run alot anyways and I get cholestrol tests often so I know that my heart is in decent shape.(my dad has an irregular heart beat and high risk for a heart attack)
Posted by sarcare (Member # 8736) on :
Supposedly a mix of cardio and resistance (weight lifting, push ups, resistance band) exercises is the best for getting into shape, and along with a healthy diet can help lose weight.
I've been trying it the past three months, and I've lost 25-30 pounds. I do a half hour on the elliptical and 30-45 min on resistance exercizes and skipping rope.
The funny part is that I've talked to my brother about getting in shape, which he is trying to do as well, and he said he didn't use the resistance band, because it was only for building up big muscles. BUT, one of the best ways to lose weight is to build up lean muscle mass.
Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :
Muscle is 16x heavier that fat right? Weight loss isn't as important as BMI and Body Fat %. You want a healthy BMI and a low Body Fat %.I mean when I started working out, I actually gained weight because I was so skinny.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
Well, body fat percentage isn't really a good indicator, either.
Me, I'm a girl, so it's good for me to have some body fat...and I have suddenly started to develop curves so that, at almost 21, I no longer have the body of a 12-year-old boy.
Size is probably a better indicator than BMI or weight, honestly. By that, I mean waist size or whatever it is that you're focusing on.
-pH
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
I know of that, I do triceps and other arm related stuff at school so I can do pushups.
And I use the stair master since I want to build up arm mucsles I wanna be able to run alot.
Posted by cheiros do ender (Member # 8849) on :
I hate the gym I joined. Costs $13 a fortnight to be a member, though I hardly even use it. But it costs $11 to quit so I can't be bothered doing that.
Wo is me!
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
I'm so glad I live about a block away from an extremely beautiful park.
-pH
Posted by Irami Osei-Frimpong (Member # 2229) on :
quote:I got some african american in me so maybe that's why Im not "dead" yet.
I don't know what to do with this statement.
Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :
cherish it forever
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
rofl.
My gym is free since I'm a student I can even go for a swim.
Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :
Swimming helps alot cause it works just about every part of your body.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
Indeed, the girl I met agreed to give me some swimming lessons when she had less work Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :
Is she hot?
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
indeed.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
quote:Originally posted by SoaPiNuReYe: Here's what I do: 40 regular push-ups 30 Diamond Push-ups 20 Spider Push-ups (arms spread out a bit more.) 10 Fist push-ups I do that like 9 or 10 times plus dumbells and stuff like that. Do that and some sit-ups and you'll be in good shape.
Ow. I'm sore from just reading about that many push-ups. Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
quote:Like getting bulging muscles would be overkill if I wanted to beat people up id learn kung fu.
This is the second time in this thread you've mentioned you're worried about getting 'bulging' muscles. It's not as if you go to the gym and walk out an hour later with huge biceps. It's unbelievably hard (from both a nutrition and weightlifting standpoint) to get those muscles that you see in magazines. And as long as you don't significantly up your caloric intake you can lift for an hour a day and not get any bigger. It takes fuel to build lean muscle mass, and I seriously doubt two days a week in the gym are gonna make you huge.
In short, wipe from your mind the thought that you might get too big. Watch your diet, move around more and lift some weights and you'll improve the way you look in a few weeks. It's really quite simple.
Posted by airmanfour (Member # 6111) on :
Rest easy Blayne, I doubt "bulging muscles" are in the cards for you.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
well I have mass, I'm not a thin person body type i have the ability to gain mucles mass. but hopefully your right and ill take your word for it.
Posted by cheiros do ender (Member # 8849) on :
You get "bulging muscles" from increasing the weight you lift as quickly as possible.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
Y'know, the look I want is Nitz from Undergrads, not Cal, not Gimpy, but... Nitz. Just without the freshman 15.
Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
Since nobody else has said it: That is a nice shirt. (The red one, I can't really tell what's on the t-shirt.) Who cares about getting in shape when you can just wear a cool shirt instead?
--Enigmatic
Posted by human_2.0 (Member # 6006) on :
When a guy is in shape, he can choose to not wear shirts. Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
shuuush. Stop making all of us seem... inadequate with your greek godness.
Posted by human_2.0 (Member # 6006) on :
Me? hehehe. I'm still *wishing* I'll be able to have chiseled muscles. Someday I want abs of steel... So when I workout I always push the ab exercises.
I'm in a wieght training class and I've heard some interesting things. The teacher said that muscles get bored doing the same thing over and over. And he also said that if you don't push your muscles to the point of failure, they wont build as much.
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