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Keeping Fit

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    #62
    foxy06
    Registered Users Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭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


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    #63
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭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.


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    #64
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭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.


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    #65
    ShaunC
    Registered Users Posts: 919 ✭✭✭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.;)


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    #66
    barbiegirl
    Registered Users Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭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.


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    #67
    [Deleted User]
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    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.


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    #68
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭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. :D


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    #69
    Ush1
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    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.


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    #70
    BraziliaNZ
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    www.boilerhouse.ie 4 times a week


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    #71
    Irishcrx
    Registered Users Posts: 2,861 ✭✭✭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..


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    #72
    Emeraldy Pebbles
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    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.


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    #73
    Hardonraging
    Registered Users Posts: 2,641 ✭✭✭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...


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    #74
    [Deleted User]
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    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.


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    #75
    Ush1
    Registered Users Posts: 11,461 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #76
    beeroclock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭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


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    #77
    1ZRed
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    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. :D

    GYM


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    #78
    beeroclock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭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? ;)


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    #79
    BraziliaNZ
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    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!


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    #80
    LD 50
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    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.


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    #81
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭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.


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    #82
    Ush1
    Registered Users Posts: 11,461 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #83
    beeroclock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭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


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    #84
    Drakares
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    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


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    #85
    SiegHeilNosey
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    i ran to the chipper there on tuesday


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    #86
    Irishcrx
    Registered Users Posts: 2,861 ✭✭✭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 ****


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    #87
    Bazzerman
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭Bazzerman


    Swanfisting!


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    #88
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭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:


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    #89
    [Deleted User]
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    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 :D


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    #90
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭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:


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    #91
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭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. :D
    I can do this:)
    Jiggle Jiggle


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