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Take care of yourself

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Johnny_Dangerously, Sep 11, 2003.

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  1. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

    I wish exercise put me to sleep. I have so much trouble falling asleep most nights.

    I sweat like crazy. By the time I am done running in the mornings, I am soaked. I just have to think about exercise and I go all Patrick Ewing all over mysef.
     
    The Big Ragu, Jul 21, 2006
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  2. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

    You should see me after 60 minutes of cardio, 30 minutes running on the mill and 30 minutes on the eliptical. I'm like the white Karl Malone in the middle of a game. But hey, I'm down from 284 to 245. I feel great.

    And hey, there's snakes on this motherf'ing thread! (All sorts of cool exhibits at a farmers market ... )

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    Songbird, Jul 21, 2006
    #890
  3. Idaho

    Idaho Active Member

    Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

    I've gone for a few solo bike rides outdoors, but this indoor class is eating up all my time for the fun stuff.

    It's all over on Monday, though, and my next big adventure is, fittingly, called the ULCER. It's  100-mile ride around a lake just south of town.

    Yesterday was interesting. My spinning instructor was this tiny little girl. She's like 21 years old, 5-foot-nothing and might weigh 90 lbs. But she's badass.

    On the final climb she rocked us out to some Killers and Van Halen. It's amazing how the right music at the right time can totally turn you into a raging animal in the gym.
     
    Idaho, Jul 21, 2006
    #891
  4. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

    I ran outdoors for the first time in close to a year over the weekend. I have been afraid of running on concrete since I had the stress fracture in my left leg. But I held up really well. On an unrelated note, I have been on a mission to try to strengthen my core (and harboring a bit of a pipe dream, too, of having good-looking abs). My core and stabilization muscles are by far the weakest parts of me and I ain't a spring chicken, so I am not sure how much I can expect in terms of gains. I have been doing weighted crunches on a nautilus machine every morning, mixing in crunches with my legs up on a medicine ball, and then side bends while holding a dumbbell, to try to get to my obliques. I definitely think I am getting stronger, but I don't see gains as quickly as I do wth other types of exercise. It's frustrating as hell.

    Someone a few weeks ago, showed me a "Bosu" which he balances on while doing all kinds of insane core exercises. Is anyone familiar with this thing? The encouraging thing is that he is much older than me, and really started building his core within the last year or two, and he is really strong and cut now. But he showed me the bosu and told me to balance my butt on thing with my legs up in the air, while doing crunches. I couldn't even do two, without sliding off. Apparently, you need great stabilization muscles in order to workout on this thing, and I don't have them. But I am thinking about trying to conquer the thing because I hate not being able to do something. Does anyone use one of these, and did you have trouble at first? How did you get over it? What kind of exercises do you do on it?
     
    The Big Ragu, Jul 26, 2006
    #892
  5. Idaho

    Idaho Active Member

    Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

    There's a Bosu class at my gym. Uma and I tried it, I fell on my arse too many times and I decided the bike was good enough for me.

    I just could get a handle on those simple dance steps they make you do in some of those classes.

    My core is better than it was a year ago. Even the biking helps that when you maintain proper position. I did pilates with my wife for a couple of months but we stopped because of time/schedule changes and it wasn't taught by a good instructor, IOHO.
     
    Idaho, Jul 26, 2006
    #893
  6. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

    This could give me away a little, but I did a story for a women's fitness magazine, in which they sent me to Pilates classes for a month. Sort of "typical guy does Pilates" thing. They picked the perfect guy (They knew it, too), because never has there been someone as ill-suited to Pilates as I am. It was a giant train wreck. I was in these mat classes with a bunch of professional dancers, who could balance on their tailbones for hours and keep their spines perfect straight and do all that other insane Pilates stuff. It was embarrassing. The instructor would ignore the rest of the class and hover over me the whole time, trying to encourage me (I think she was also a little concerned at times that my head was going to crash through the floor). Pilates and Yoga are the two things I can't do that I have no desire to try to conquer. I am more flexible than I used to be because of all the stretching I need to do now, but I am not built for things like that. I did a yoga class once. It was a bunch of middle-aged women twisting themselves into pretzels and me trying to copy them, except I looked like rigor mortis had set in. It may have been the most humbling experience of my life.
     
    The Big Ragu, Jul 26, 2006
    #894
  7. Idaho

    Idaho Active Member

    Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

    Ahhhhh, my legs and back

    Just returned from a 30-mile ride out and around the outskirts of the valley. the first 15 miles was all uphill at a slight grade until mile marker 14. Then the grade went up to 13 percent and I bonked. The group cruised right up the hill, but I slowed down miserably.

    About 15 of us in the group and, despite the bonk, I was No. 5 to the top. So I can't complain too much, though I nearly barfed while waiting for the rest of the gang.

    The ride back was better. Speeds up to 39 MPH on the downhills and then a nasty headwind for the final 4 mile return to the bikeshop.

    I think I'd have been fine had I 1) slept more than five hours before the ride and 2) had one of those nifty scrotum patches.
     
    Idaho, Jul 29, 2006
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  8. HC

    HC Well-Known Member

    Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

    What do those help you quit?  ???
     
    HC, Jul 29, 2006
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  9. Idaho

    Idaho Active Member

    Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

    Well, according to the guys at the Tour de France, they help you quit being a wussy in the Alps. The can also give you a high testosterone level in your piss sample.
     
    Idaho, Jul 29, 2006
    #897
  10. HC

    HC Well-Known Member

    Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

    Okay ... not some wacky European male birth control method then.  :D
     
    HC, Jul 31, 2006
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  11. HC

    HC Well-Known Member

    Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

    Okay, I wasn't going to post this in case I fail but then I thought, why don't I post this to make sure that I don't ...

    After approximately 5 years, I have gone back to the gym.  I have been overweight my entire adult life but, during a season at Stratford I joined a gym and started watching what I ate and, with the support of friends, lost 65 pounds.  Back in TO, working day jobs and living in a neighbourhood where getting to the gym meant an hour bus ride each way, I stopped going.  Gained it all back and then some (as though who met me at the outing can attest  :-[).

    Anyway, just before New Year's I was diagnosed with moderate depression which I have probably had since puberty (about when my weight gain began).  I've been on medication since then and had some counselling and my life is turning around in really interesting ways.

    So, there is now a gym in my neighbourhood.  It's a small place much like "Curves" - a circuit which mixes cardio and strength training and a women only clientele which looks like ... well ... ME. I had my first workout today (and rode my bike there and back with the humidex at about 43 degrees Celsius).  It was great!!! I'm not as out of shape as I had feared, the people were great and I enjoyed the workout.  I even added some extra treadmill time at the end just because I felt so good.

    So, if I start bitching and moaning or quit going, I give you all permission to kick my ass.  Except JR since he's gotta live with me.  :D

    Edit: I forgot to add my other motivation.  I've been cast in a movie filming here in Toronto this fall and it requires me to do full scale dance numbers.  I do not want to be throwing up fainting in front of my colleagues.
     
    HC, Jul 31, 2006
    #899
  12. Idaho

    Idaho Active Member

    Re: Take care of yourself (LiveSTRONG)

    get your canadian arse back into the gym, now

    And, though never diagnosed with depression, I can tell you I feel a heckuva lot better every day I work out a little bit.

    P.S. If I might make a suggestion, buy a bike and ride around a little bit. Good for the soul.
     
    Idaho, Jul 31, 2006
    #900
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