Get fit - unfat competition

[bitingmidge]

Is weight a problem if you are not carrying any fat?

That means you I've got too many muscles big fella, and you know what I feel about muscles!

P

[la Huerta]

I agree that exercise has to be enjoyable. I used to run about 60 km a week, and ended up hating it. Now I don't run much anymore but hit the exercise bike with a good book as my main form of cardio. Much better.

running is to damm hard on the knees and back, a fella i know took up a soft form of internal kung fu and just does that,he loves it and it has become his life... he's about 70 and can kick ass...

[Andy Mac]

I'm one of those lucky buggers, sit on 75-76kg and haven't budged for 10 years or more. My wife tells me I'm a scrawny little thing and sends me to work with containers of leftovers to try and fatten me up! Drink too many beers as well. I once went put in a concerted effort to gain weight, supplements and pushing weights etc, managed to put on a stone then lost it when I combined it with cycling:eek: . I think I manage to keep the weight off by not sitting still, constantly walking at work, and even in bed I tend to thrash about...but you don't need to know about that!!

Good luck to you all anyway, I can imagine that 10kgs off would make a big difference!

[bennylaird]

Running is bad for me, causes probs as I was a swimmer when young. I find walking so much easier on the old chasis.

[sinjin1111]

I couldn't agree more with "WoodBe"....if there is one machine to buy for home use its a rowing machine...there not cheap at all. They seemingly offer little resistance when you try them in the shop.
But its a bit of a joke of mine when friends see it and pull the handle saying it would do little. I have bet them all to sit of it and row for 5 minutes and gentle pace....they don't last. I have had mine for about 9 yrs and i bought mine for surfing. Office bound i would find i would go down the coast paddle out for a couple of waves and felt like i just rode the Tour de France. It helped me enormously. Mind you the bike still sinks no matter what i do.
Sinjin

[woodbe]

Must be a lot of cupboard rowers out there

Mine sits in the office beside the desk (I work from home) and it beckons me if I haven't rowed for some reason. Sinjin is right, they're not cheap - $2200 odd - I tried to buy one on ebay, but something 5 years old was selling for near new price so I bought the new one. These things are seriously well built, not a domestic-use machine, the same unit is sold to Gyms as to joe public.

Like I said, the motivation support is the cream on the cake, that gives the expensive machine it's longterm value. I'm not associated with the company, just a happy customer. Here's a quote from the bottom of the online logpage:

Active Members This Season: 23,542 Total Meters This Season: 5,147,501,949
Users Online Now: 464
TOTAL PAST METERS
2005: 5,474,434,430
2004: 4,587,515,127
2003: 3,555,639,401
2002: 1,615,165,521
2001: 705,735,955
2000: 119,624,070

Not bad growth, and not everyone logs online...

woodbe

[Clinton1]

I don't reckon I'm too far past skinny even at my weight, just a lot more to stretch it over.
I've been lifting weights as a pretty serious hobby for ten years, ever since I stopped labouring.

Every time I manage to stack up some more personal best's and to put on a little more weight, I get sent out scrub for work.
I usually loose 10 kg in one week while working 20hr days and eating dog food cunningly marketed as being 'fit for human consumption'.
Oh how I enjoy that.

And BM, I like muscles too. Particularly the one just above the leg and just below the back.




Grilled in inch thick slices with a mushroom gravy, potatoe to the side!

[ozwinner]

And BM, I like muscles too. Particularly the one just above the leg and just below the back.




Grilled in inch thick slices with a mushroom gravy, potatoe to the side!

Your bum? :confused:

Al :eek:

[Grunt]

No, BM's bum.

[Wongo]

My mum once said I won’t get fat even if she dips me in oil.

I was born to eat and eat like horse.

Wongo (6 foot 1 and 170lbs)

[ozwinner]

My mum once said I won’t get fat even if she dips me in oil.

I was born to eat a horse.

Hows it going.? :confused:

Al

[Grunt]

Speaking of that, I'm so hungry I could eat a whore.

[ozwinner]

Speaking of that, I'm so hungry I could eat a whole lot more.

Is your keyboard playing up again?

Al :confused:

[Wongo]

Gees OZ, you are worse than those journalists. You twisted my words like that.

[namtrak]

Is your keyboard playing up again?

Al :confused:

Are you saying he meant to type "Speaking of that, I'm so hungry I could eat a lot more whole"?