Weird things you do in the name of Fitness?

Mr Marri

I've rename my kitchen, "the training room", there's no weights in there but it helps to remind me that it's not all about how good it tastes.

So what weird things do you do?

Magic Eight Ball

Mr Marri wrote: »

I've rename my kitchen, "the training room", there's no weights in there but it helps to remind me that it's not all about how good it tastes.

So what weird things do you do?

'Personal Issues' is that way mate -->

g'em

Magic Eight Ball wrote: »

'Personal Issues' is that way mate -->

Is that the response that someone can expect when they start a thread that's a little different to the norm? No wonder this forum has such a shít reputation these days.

I was only thinking about this the other day - not so much weird things I do but little sacrifices I make. I've lost count of the number of post-work Friday night drinks I've turned down because I want to go home and rest before a Saturday morning training session

But a lot of my food choices would definitely be weird - cottage cheese, (casein), cashew butter (good fats) and manuka honey (antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral properties dontcha know ) would definitely be met with a sideways glance.

Magic Eight Ball

g'em wrote: »

Is that the response that someone can expect when they start a thread that's a little different to the norm? No wonder this forum has such a shít reputation these days.

I was only thinking about this the other day - not so much weird things I do but little sacrifices I make. I've lost count of the number of post-work Friday night drinks I've turned down because I want to go home and rest before a Saturday morning training session

But a lot of my food choices would definitely be weird - cottage cheese, (casein), cashew butter (good fats) and manuka honey (antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral properties dontcha know ) would definitely be met with a sideways glance.

I think most of us who train here have made sacrifices in the name of training. (food choices, beers etc) But referring to your kitchen as 'the training room' is just..

Each to their own I guess.

d'Oracle

Drinking a Gallon of Milk a Day was pretty damn weird.

marathonic

Mr Marri wrote: »

I've rename my kitchen, "the training room", there's no weights in there but it helps to remind me that it's not all about how good it tastes.

So what weird things do you do?

Went to the gym, improved the diet and cut down alcohol - all weird for me

Brian?

g'em wrote: »

But a lot of my food choices would definitely be weird - cottage cheese, (casein), cashew butter (good fats) and manuka honey (antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral properties dontcha know ) would definitely be met with a sideways glance.

OT a bit but, I bought some of that Manuka honey the other day, nice stuff.

Do you do anything weird with it? Or just use like normal honey?

g'em

briankeating wrote: »

Do you do anything weird with it? Or just use like normal honey?

I would absolutely love to respond to this with an AH type answer but I'd have to ban myself for it

I mix it in with the cashew butter and the cottage cheese, it's awesome. It's savage on porridge, in peppermint tea and drizzled over berries and Greek yoghurt too.

d'Oracle

Savage expensive too....

Brian?

g'em wrote: »

I would absolutely love to respond to this with an AH type answer but I'd have to ban myself for it .

I think I speak for everyone when I say: do it, it would be worth a ban

g'em wrote: »

I mix it in with the cashew butter and the cottage cheese, it's awesome. It's savage on porridge, in peppermint tea and drizzled over berries and Greek yoghurt too.

Must test these out. Cheers.

SpookyBastard

Lets see... eating breakfast..in the morning and everything... yeah I know but for me it was breaking a ten year habit.... still, mostly it was about hitting a daily food target. A couple of friends think it's odd and will make comments when I'm heading home and trying to work out how many more grams of protein I need today etc. Needless to say I'm in better shape than ever before and I've not been at it long. Next weird thing will probably be a range of odd leg exercise because I'd like some more variety. I love squats and press but after a while it's nice to have an affair with some other exercises

big_poppa

i call the my bedroom the recovery station and call my kitchen the feeder, not really weird i get bored easily

big_poppa

big_poppa wrote: »

i call the my bedroom the recovery station and call my kitchen the feeder, not really weird i get bored easily

oh and when im hungry i say i need my food injection

Red Cortina

Mr Marri wrote: »

I've rename my kitchen, "the training room", there's no weights in there but it helps to remind me that it's not all about how good it tastes.

So what weird things do you do?

-Totting up the number of grams of protein that I have eaten that day(think this is the norm around here but not for most folks)
-Figuring out when to eat so that it is not too soon or too long before training.
-Making plans for a night out weeks before hand and really looking forward to it but when the time comes regretting it as it means my planned session in the gym the next day is affected:(
-Trying to never make plans for going anywhere on the weekend til sat lunchtime so that I can get my training session in on the sat morning before we go:o

arybvtcw0eolkf

Not strictly fitness related.. But when I think no one is watching I practice foot sweeps (for Judo) on poles, tyres etc.. OCD perhaps

And I'm a wagon for taking my heart rate during the day, esp. during activities in work and guessing at my fitness level and recovery rates

COH

1- Doing stuff that could potentially put me in a wheelchair, and loving it.
2- Being sore one way or another 7 days a week, and loving it.
3- Going all mad hardcore and getting 2 chicken fillets in my baguette
4- Urinating luminous chemicals
5- Looking at calloused up shredded bits of hand like little trophies
6- Training regularly through the horrors of a coppers induced hangover
7- Bringing protein bars to the cinema, and scoffing at the fools with their silly minstrels and stuff. (Damn I love minstrels....)
8- Being known as 'Mr Eggs' in spar
9- Justifying cheat meals with overtraining
10- Justifying overtraining with cheat meals

Remmy

COH wrote: »

1- Doing stuff that could potentially put me in a wheelchair, and loving it.
2- Being sore one way or another 7 days a week, and loving it.
3- Going all mad hardcore and getting 2 chicken fillets in my baguette
4- Urinating luminous chemicals
5- Looking at calloused up shredded bits of hand like little trophies
6- Training regularly through the horrors of a coppers induced hangover
7- Bringing protein bars to the cinema, and scoffing at the fools with their silly minstrels and stuff. (Damn I love minstrels....)
8- Being known as 'Mr Eggs' in spar
9- Justifying cheat meals with overtraining
10- Justifying overtraining with cheat meals

That is just awesome!

Remmy

The only one I can think of is trying to get a gallon of milk a day in between lectures and always feeling like Im going to piss myself in class because of it..fun times..

d'Oracle

Alex Billions Musket wrote: »

Not strictly fitness related.. But when I think no one is watching I practice foot sweeps (for Judo) on poles, tyres etc.. OCD perhaps

I do stuff like that too.
While bored waiting for a ferry on holidays I started doing snatches and stuff. Must have looked an awful idiot.

itsallaboutheL

Eating pizza out of a box that was "on top" of the bin at 4am to stave off catabolism or some shit..

Putting creatine and protein into a pint of vodka becasue i didn't have time to eat and drink PWO and still make the taxi.

d'Oracle

Your doing that in the name of alcohol, not fitness.:p

Molly

itsallaboutheL wrote: »

Eating pizza out of a box that was "on top" of the bin at 4am to stave off catabolism or some shit..

Putting creatine and protein into a pint of vodka becasue i didn't have time to eat and drink PWO and still make the taxi.

Vodka, protein and creatine sounds absolutely mank.

brianblaze

Leaving the house for work at 7AM, and getting home at 9 - 10PM because it's off to the gym after work. Three buses if I go directly from work, and it's a pain in the lovely winter weather, (leave in the dark, get home in the dark) but it sure beats sitting in and watching X-Factor or whatever's on telly these days.

G86

brianblaze wrote: »

Leaving the house for work at 7AM, and getting home at 9 - 10PM because it's off to the gym after work. Three buses if I go directly from work, and it's a pain in the lovely winter weather.

I hear ya, I pure got frostbite waiting ages on the flipping bus home from gym this eve!

brianblaze

G86 wrote: »

I hear ya, I pure got frostbite waiting ages on the flipping bus home from gym this eve!

Doesn't help that the 17A route has changed and it's a lottery as to when it will show up, and adds a good 15-20 mins to my journey home! Thank funk for iPods and scarves is all I can say.

dartstothesea

Maybe this is more out of laziness than anything but it's somewhat related to fitness goals.

I eat ridiculously plain meals. Like, a load of mince on its own. A load of chicken breast on its own. Maybe with cheese on it, not much else.

I mix whey into smoothies I get at lunchtimes in work. Not weird for me but I'm sure ignorant (oh and unfit) colleagues around me have batted eyelids.

Oh and I'm probably going to start cooking my lunches in a net in a big kettle at work. I just have to buy a big kettle first.

I often try to get a quick (<1 hour) nap after work before the gym 'cause I have it in my head it'll let me have back a little more energy.

In the gym I'd say I do a few unorthodox looking stretches and stuff for my hips and groin that people might think are weird or even pointless. Just have it my head that they help.

G86

brianblaze wrote: »

Doesn't help that the 17A route has changed and it's a lottery as to when it will show up, and adds a good 15-20 mins to my journey home! Thank funk for iPods and scarves is all I can say.

As bad as the 120 so - it comes like every half hour! I was all happy with myself being outta the gym at 7.30 - but sure it was half 8 by the time I got home after waiting on that flippin bus!

G86

-I talk to/slag/facebook random internet people just because they lift heavy things, and this entertains me.
-I plan my week around my workouts rather than vice versa...
-I use up over 3 hours of my evening getting to/from the gym and training
-I haven't eaten chocolate in 9 years, because I learned as a fat kid that moderation was not my forte:p
-I have boob envy when I see flat chested women, no lie. You wanna talk about weight lifting? - try going for a run with 2 kettlebells on your chest.
-Drunken Burpees on O Connell Street at 4am. Singular incident, 'nuff said.
-Randomly check out chicks physiques in the street and try to guesstimate their max squat.
-Randomly check out guys shoes in the street, and try to guesstimate their...... max deadlift:pac:
-When budgeting pencil in gym as a necessity, over drink, shopping and even... Internet:eek:
-I have man hands, which I refuse to take pride in until I can do a proper pull up.
-I have to defend myself to people who think I'm being antisocial wanting to train as opposed to going to the pub.
-I have heated drunken conversations about training, to people that don't have a clue what I'm talking about, and therefore don't have a clue that I don't have a clue what I'm talking about either.

BossArky

Nothing too weird:

• Force feed myself every now and again.
  
• Choose fitness as my main hobby vs being a musician. More or less gave up playing in bands (late nights, alcohol, hours spent practising Vs. early nights, decent nutrition, time in the gym/bed). Happy with the choice and now just satisfy my musical urges by recording one man band on the laptop at home.
  
• Moderate this forum.
  
• Feel sore a lot of the time.

drdeadlift

Every morning when i wake up i look in the mirror and perform a front double bicep OH YEAH!

What i see in the mirror dictates the mood for the day.

token

I guess GOMAD while working 9-5 in an office environment was probably the weirdest. I rarely eat bread, pasta, rice, potatoes etc.. so people think thats pretty odd too.

dartstothesea

• Choose fitness as my main hobby vs being a musician. More or less gave up playing in bands (late nights, alcohol, hours spent practising Vs. early nights, decent nutrition, time in the gym/bed). Happy with the choice and now just satisfy my musical urges by recording one man band on the laptop at home.

This I could never do, although it could just be that I'm pursuing sort of a different path than you were musically. I know when I'm old and (god forbid) not so physically able anymore, much of what I'll have left to make me glad about life and stuff will be music we created.
I don't think the time spent on my fitness will ever be so rewarding in the long run and in the big, big picture - to me and to others.

But yeah I see where you're coming from because I dread the decision (hopefully never have to really make it) of more or less choosing playing music over being fit/strong.

d'Oracle

I don't intend being not able when I get old.
This is why I train....

dartstothesea

Please don't make it sound like I intend on not being in good condition when older.

Of course I'm intent on doing the same as you but I don't know if I'm going to be so lucky as to go from being well able and healthy to then just dropping dead immediately. Most people deteriorate a long time before they die, you know?
And even if I didn't, I wouldn't consider myself to have lived a full life without having made time for that pursuit (music) in any case.

token

dartstothesea wrote: »

Most people deteriorate a long time before they die, you know?

Most of which don't live a healthy lifestyle. When I'm old I'm gonna be rocking it like Jack LaLanne with maybe a pinch of Keith Richards throw in for the craic.

Sangre

If I've been to the gym recently, I think I'm the absolute shít. Everytime I walk by the mirror I'll give a flex, do hand pistols and then envy people who aren't me because they get to look at me all day.

If I miss a gym session, I walk by the mirror, I stick out my gut, jiggle my belly and slink off trying to avoid everybody.

I have issues.

BossArky

dartstothesea wrote: »

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This I could never do, although it could just be that I'm pursuing sort of a different path than you were musically. I know when I'm old and (god forbid) not so physically able anymore, much of what I'll have left to make me glad about life and stuff will be music we created.
I don't think the time spent on my fitness will ever be so rewarding in the long run and in the big, big picture - to me and to others.

But yeah I see where you're coming from because I dread the decision (hopefully never have to really make it) of more or less choosing playing music over being fit/strong.

We should jam :cool:

I'm not talking about playing in cover bands and covering Sweet Child o' Mine for the umpteen time. I've got a load of original stuff which I'm happy to work on alone and oodles of back catalogues stored on hard-drives all over the place. Sometimes I throw them on and it reminds me of a time when I wrote that stuff.... kinda like a musical diary. It fits in with my fitness stuff, where as late night pub/venue gigging dosen't.

amacachi

d'Oracle wrote: »

Drinking a Gallon of Milk a Day was pretty damn weird.

I should really start working out if that's considered a weird amount of milk. :pac:

kevpants

I kinda practice squatting EVERY TIME I SIT DOWN.

When I'm lowering into a chair I'm trying to engage my glutes and in my head I'm going

Back, back, back, back...

Every now and again I allow myself a

TAKE IT!

for comedic effect.

grimloch

kevpants wrote: »

I kinda practice squatting EVERY TIME I SIT DOWN.

I regard the toilet as a slightly above parallel box squat.

I thought I was the only one.

d'Oracle

I do that in work actually.

dave80

grimloch wrote: »

I regard the toilet as a slightly above parallel box squat.

I thought I was the only one.

same here but there below parallel too me

gavtron

G86 wrote: »

-I have to defend myself to people who think I'm being antisocial wanting to train as opposed to going to the pub.
-I have heated drunken conversations about training, to people that don't have a clue what I'm talking about, and therefore don't have a clue that I don't have a clue what I'm talking about either.

...these 2 especially, grinds my gears that even if i do go out and don't drink people keep on the Mrs. Doyle ah go on, go on have one molarky...

I also consciously think about squatting when sitting...glad i'm not the only one!

Constantly find myself explaining to people why I don't eat bread/pasta/potatoes etc.

Also on holidays while waiting for a ferry like d'Oracle; i found myself practicing my squat technique, girlfriend disowned me at that point...and my technique is still bad.

d'Oracle

gavtron wrote: »

i found myself practicing my squat technique, girlfriend disowned me at that point...and my technique is still bad.

Having a bad squat is serious business.

cmyk

Convince myself that these fivefingers are actually of some benefit and in some lights don't actually look as ugly or creepy as I imagine they do.

ray jay

cmyk wrote: »

Convince myself that these fivefingers are actually of some benefit and in some lights don't actually look as ugly or creepy as I imagine they do.

you're not fooling anyone

cmyk

ray jay wrote: »

you're not fooling anyone

Least of all myself!

AntiVirus

Eating chicken breasts for breakfast.

JohnnyMustang22

I mentally guess the weight of everything I lift. (outside the gym)

When i go out drinking in "town" it is about 5 mile from where i live. Several times I have run home alone at 4am totally smashed instead of getting a taxi. I don’t remember the thought process in deciding to do this but i can imagine it is something to do with being guilty for drinking and knowing i will miss at least one training session due to be hung-over over.

Often in my job i have to lift heavy stuff. (oil and gas drilling) and I often try to incorporate a gym move into anything I lift. So instead of just moving something from A to B I will shoulder press it and walk at the same time. My brothers have caught me doing this a few times and they break their **** laughing at me.

Remmy

JohnnyMustang22 wrote: »

When i go out drinking in "town" it is about 5 mile from where i live. Several times I have run home alone at 4am totally smashed instead of getting a taxi. I don’t remember the thought process in deciding to do this but i can imagine it is something to do with being guilty for drinking and knowing i will miss at least one training session due to be hung-over over.

Ha I did that once..only it was 13 miles to home.It made perfectly rational sense at about 3:30.Not so much at 5ish..never again.:rolleyes:

metamorphosis

I can relate to too many things on this thread. Jaysus