Are you fit? do you use the gym?

carzony

After the week of sunny weather the one thing that's apparent is that men seem to be going crazy with the 6 packs, every second bloke seemed to have one and the women seemed nice, slim and have very sexy tans..



I was curious to find out how many boardies use the gym/excersize regularly? After this week i'll really have to get stuck into the gym because there really is a lot of fit people out there showing me up... :o:o

Prodigious

Do you even lift brah?

minidazzler

I don't use the Gym, but am extremely fit. I work a very very physical job.

Brego888

There sure was an unusual amount of beefcakes walking about this weekend

krudler

I didnt make it to the gym today, that makes 32 years in a row

The Backwards Man

There are no gyms in the bog.

Agricola

I can walk up a hill without having a heart attack. Happy out.

Czarcasm

Prodigious wrote: »

Do you even lift brah?

Bollocks Prodigious! :pac:

I thought the thread being fresh enough I'd post "In before do you even lift brah?"

First post after the OP! While I'm impressed and all, the phrase itself is getting about as overused and tiresome as "thinly veiled...", etc

toastedpickles

carzony wrote: »

After the week of sunny weather the one thing that's apparent is that men seem to be going crazy with the 6 packs, every second bloke seemed to have one and the women seemed nice, slim and have very sexy tans..



I was curious to find out how many boardies use the gym/excersize regularly? After this week i'll really have to get stuck into the gym because there really is a lot of fit people out there showing me up... :o:o

Yeah they aren't Irish

minidazzler

toastedpickles wrote: »

Yeah they aren't Irish

Or maybe they were.... there was no descriptors there that cannot apply to Irish folks.

Smidge

toastedpickles wrote: »

Yeah they aren't Irish

Ah ffs, here we go again:rolleyes:

toastedpickles

minidazzler wrote: »

Or maybe they were.... there was no descriptors there that cannot apply to Irish folks.

Maybe...Maybe indeed

Banjo String

Just discovered a few pics taken from Friday night of myself that my younger cousin put up on Facebook.

I kinda thought I could do with maybe cutting back on the beer a bit, watching bread/crisps/pizzas etc etc.

Now I know I do.

Determined to get back into shape after seeing those pics this evening:mad:

kneemos

Saw lots of middle aged women with burnt shoulders for some reason.

Colash

I train 4 to 5 days a week . Primarily bodybuilding . I've competed back in 2010 in bodybuilding and I'm thinking about doing so again in 2014 . I've always trained . Or always been involved in sports or exercise of some kind . Lately I've worked cycling into my cardio along with my lifting and loving it

minidazzler

Sitec wrote: »

Jenna Jameson?

Nope, working with John though. Good fella, but sells himself like a whore.

Larianne

Brego888 wrote: »

There sure was an unusual amount of beefcakes walking about this weekend

They only come out of the gym when it's more than 16degrees outside!

My name is URL

I don't go to the gym but I walk about 4 miles per day with my dog and do at least 10km a week in my kayak. Can't run for **** though, for some reason it just wrecks me.. so I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm 'fit'!.

Kirby92

Pay attention! This ***** important!

thefasteriwalk

I don't go to the gym. Something about the gym makes me feel really uncomfortable. It's not a space or atmosphere I enjoy. I do walk in the evenings, though.

Itwasntme.

Am I fit? I can do a 20 second plank - any more and I start to see stars. That's the extent of my fitness.

Do I use the gym? I am one of those idiots that buys yearly subscriptions, goes regularly for the first month, burns out and never goes again. I also have an exercise machine shopping something (I don't want to say addiction because it isn't). I keep hoping I can get fit from looking at them. So I guess that's a yes and no.

Vomit

The beefcake look seems to be the in thing right now. Just look at the majority of male film stars and celebrities- most are big and buff (and probably on the juice). I'd say many blokes feel this is the way they have to look now in order to the appeal to women nowadays. Though from what I understand, many women don't like big muscles on a man, or are sort of indifferent to it.

MadYaker

I'm well fit brah.

Seriously though, I am a member of a gym but I only use the pool. I'm reasonably muscular/fit I guess? More than most guys anyway. I do a lot of running. I do a 10k run at least twice a week, usually takes around 38 mins. But I have a sh!t diet and I drink too much so if I did no exercise id be a fat bastard.

When I started school I joined a rowing club so for that I trained like a mad f*cker (5-7 times a week) for the next 5 years of school. Then after I quit that and started college I was so in the habit of exercise that I felt weird if I didn't go for a run or do weights or something every few days.

Hande hoche!

Feeling guilty about skipping the gym today.

donegal_road

I swim 30-40 lengths of the local 25m pool, 5 times per week.. but I have built this up over the last 2 years. Before this I did little or nothing, so thought it was time for a change of lifestyle.

Chucken

The Backwards Man wrote: »

There are no gyms in the bog.

No need for a gym after a few weeks in the bog!

TeddyTedson

Not as fit as I'd like to be.
I use a gym, again, not as much as I'd like to.
I'm going to get back into the whole thing I think.
At one stage I had abs :eek:

Festy

I have a six-pack in the fridge...Does that count ?

Talib Fiasco

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Not as fit as I'd like to be.
I use a gym, again, not as much as I'd like to.
I'm going to get back into the whole thing I think.
At one stage I had abs :eek:

I should hope you still have abs. If you didn't then you'd be like cooked spaghetti :pac:

I can relate though. Back when school or drinking didn't matter or feature much I was in the gym a few times a week for about 4 months as well as doing GAA and soccer. I was ripped and shredded as they say. Then when those factors came in I struggled to stay consistent and eventually gave it up. Decided to try and get back into it when I started college but the drinking increased so never could achieve decent progress. I'm now trying to get fitness and foundation back and hope to be ready to hit it properly again in September. Trying to sort out the heavy drinking too in the time being.

Wattle

Yeah I'm in the gym about 5-6 times a week. I do swimming and a gym program on alternate days. I'm usually in and out pretty quickly though. 45 minutes of high intensity training and I'm done. F*ck this 3 hours a day in the gym lark.

rambutman

I run 3 -4 times a week and swim about 2 k every lunch time weekdays, somertimes i do weights, or go to the gym too - despite this i have a massive keg because i love beer and food - 4uck it, somewhere underneath the flab is a 6 pack and thats enough for me! I exercise only because i love exercising and its got to be keeping the body in better shape than it would be otherwise. Theres a good buzz to be had from hard exercise too.

entropi

carzony wrote: »

After the week of sunny weather the one thing that's apparent is that men seem to be going crazy with the 6 packs, every second bloke seemed to have one and the women seemed nice, slim and have very sexy tans..



I was curious to find out how many boardies use the gym/excersize regularly? After this week i'll really have to get stuck into the gym because there really is a lot of fit people out there showing me up... :o:o

Six packs are made in the kitchen first, the gym second. And having a six pack if you are already a skinny lad, doesn't count.

I exercise regularly, not enough as I'd like to.

FizzleSticks

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Duck's hoop

From what I can see, this 'beefcake' look is anything but. It's mostly skinny teens w visible abs and no body hair.

As they've low body fat and no body hair they seem more muscular than they actually are.

65kg guys thinking they're 'built' walking about in tank tops etc is totally Irish.

Dr_Brian_Cocks

Vomit wrote: »

The beefcake look seems to be the in thing right now. Just look at the majority of male film stars and celebrities- most are big and buff (and probably on the juice). I'd say many blokes feel this is the way they have to look now in order to the appeal to women nowadays. Though from what I understand, many women don't like big muscles on a man, or are sort of indifferent to it.

That's what us fatties wish is true.

Fbjm

I made a start there a few months ago, started making progress, asked a few gym rats I knew for advice and got laughed out of the place for apparently "doing it wrong". So now I've lost all my progress and am a twig again, since I've no idea how to go about starting up in a non-hilarious manner

El Guapo!

Fbjm wrote: »

I made a start there a few months ago, started making progress, asked a few gym rats I knew for advice and got laughed out of the place for apparently "doing it wrong". So now I've lost all my progress and am a twig again, since I've no idea how to go about starting up in a non-hilarious manner

You were in the wrong gym. Try going to a gym where the regulars aren't arseholes.

bb1234567

You must be joking, I was at brittas bay over the weekend and Ive literally never in my life seen such a high concentration of over weight middle aged men and women in one place ever. I was trying to spot the odd person who WASNT fat

carzony

Is it actually hard to achieve a 6 pack, I know a good few women and they all agree it would turn them on, Looking at a few friends facebook pics i'd say they must be ''cheating'' I mean lads who have school and jobs yet they can achieve big arms and a 6 pack.

I know my brother is into the gym about 4 times a week and he looks all the better for it but he has a lot of free time..

dgt

Am I fit? Sort of, my lifestyle of tinkering with cars, army stuff and raging sex with different women has served me well so far

Do I go to the gym? I do in my fook :pac:

Shenshen

Fit enough to swim 2-3km without getting seriously out of breath.

I don't use gyms - I dislike places where people go to sweat in company.

--Kaiser--

You can be fit without using a gym. Actually, in my kickboxing club I used to spar with a guy who was into bodybuilding, he seemed to have a lot of muscle mass but he wasn't fit at all, half a minute of a round and he looked like he was about to pass out

CruelCoin

Not fit, do use gym.

117kg starting, 108kg now, 95kg my target.

Remmy

I used to. Now I just do bodyweight stuff like dips,pullups and split squats at home. I'm seeing more results doing this than faffing around in the gym but that's mostly down to my adhd approach to lifting weights when I was there.

Esoteric_

I'm fit in that I can exercise and run and do what I want with no bother to me. I'm unfit in that I'm still overweight by about a stone and a half, but hey, I've lost half of my body weight already, so I don't care.

I do boxing, TRX, kettlebell classes, abs toning classes, 4 times a week. I run two or three times a week and I try to sneak in extra classes when I have time.

BrianD3

Yes, I have been training hard (free weights) for ten years in my home gym. I have the six pack, V shaped torso, decent legs, good vascularity etc. but am not exactly big, weight varies between about 11.5 and 13.5 stone. Have a reasonable diet and don't drink or smoke.

I don't take my top off in public and am pasty white but would get an ok tan if I gave it a chance.

Re: women, I get zero attention from them. It's been my experience that women prefer big thick f*ckers with beer bellies roaring their heads off down the pub than lean, fit, non drinkers.

rainbow kirby

Run around 4 times a week, cycle to work, usually one yoga class and gym 1-2 times a week. Not as fit as I'd like to be (though I lost a lot of fitness due to injury last year) and about a stone heavier than I'd like to be.

vitani

I run 4 times a week and do yoga, but I still can't make it up the three flights of stairs in work without getting out of breath. So I could be fitter.

LuckyLloyd

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

You can be fit without using a gym. Actually, in my kickboxing club I used to spar with a guy who was into bodybuilding, he seemed to have a lot of muscle mass but he wasn't fit at all, half a minute of a round and he looked like he was about to pass out

Well, thin or shaped doesn't equal fit or functional.

I'm somewhat strong - I can row 500m in under 90 seconds, deadlift and bench press a vaguely respectable amount of weight. Am I cardiovascularly fit though? No.

Seanachai

Don't use gyms , I'd say I've been in a gym about 2-3 times , used to do a lot of physical work as a kid in farming and later working in construction. I don't feel comfortable in that kind of an environment , I don't think heavy exercise especially weightlifting suits everybody and would be more drawn to calestenics or pilates. If I built up more muscle it wouldn't suit my frame anyway although it doesn't seem to stop a lot of fellas who end up looking like badly filled sausages :P. Need to get back swimming though I'm getting stiff in the joints.

FTA69

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

You can be fit without using a gym. Actually, in my kickboxing club I used to spar with a guy who was into bodybuilding, he seemed to have a lot of muscle mass but he wasn't fit at all, half a minute of a round and he looked like he was about to pass out

True, I've lost count of the amount of bodybuilders who think they can immediately cross over into boxing. I spar with a few fellas who look like they'd rip your head off but they have zero muscular endurance (their hands get knackered), bad to middling cardio and often fail to realise that boxing is a skill that takes years to learn.