Gym/Exercise

[Solly]

What do you do?

About three or four times a week I'll do 20-30 minutes on a cycling machine keeping my heart rate around 155, and then around 1.5 miles on a treadmill in around 15 minutes, in a combination of walking and sprinting. No weights - I have enough muscle naturally, and am trying to mainly remove fat.

I'd reckon most people here don't do enough exercise..?

[FrustratedPoet]

Cycle to work and back every day. 30 mins total per day, 5 days a week - no idea what my heart rate would be, but I go as fast as I can (usually late ) so I get pretty out of breath.

10 mins of sit-ups and 10 mins of lifting weights either 0, 1 or 2 times a day depending on if I can be bothered or not. Usually only once.

[Solly]

Your HB would hit up around 180 I'd imagine, FP.

I've cut since the start of June - started at 198lbs (14 stone 2 lbs) and am now 181lbs (12 st 11lbs). I'd like to lose another 7 lbs or so, but I doubt I'll manage it any time soon due to this damn London meeting..

[st_swithin]

I lift my fat a55 off the chair once in a while to go to the fridge or to go pee.

[C0ckney]

my job is pretty phyiscal, and because i'm a lazy git that does me for exercise. it wouldn't hurt for me to lose half a stone but i can't be bothered making the effort right now.

[st_swithin]

Maybe the extra stone needs to lose YOU!

Hinx, minx, the old witch winks...

[Lawrence of Arabia]

I run two miles every day on the streets, meaning there are downhills, flats and uphills. It takes me around 12:00 minutes. Then I life weights every other day.Thighs, calfs, back, biceps, and pects. Then I play soccer twice a week for a total of 4 hours.

I'd say I do enough excercise.

[Drogue]

I cycle to and from work 5 times a week (and grin smugly at all the drivers in rush hour gridlock ) which is about 5-10 mins there (downhill) and about 15 back. I go to the gym between 1 and 4 times a week, do 2 or 3 sets of weights, about an hour in total, and I do free weights most nights (just a few dumbell curls and shoulder presses). I probably do enough, though I'm trying to make up since I stopped doing athletics a year or so ago, and used to train (about 3 to 4 hours) 3 times a week. I don't put muscle on though, I guess I just don't have the genes, though I get stronger and faster, so that's ok.

[Pekka]

Lawrence of Arabia, 2 miles for 12 minutes? That's good. You're in good physical condition.

[Jon Miller]

I use to work out a lot more

ahven't at all in a little over two weeks, was going to go today, probably will go tomorrow

Jon Miller

[Pekka]

You want to lose fat, but don't want to get more muscles? Run, run and run your ass off... you have to increase that to let's say one hour per day, not including warm up and stretching. But including few brakes or slow downs. Swim, swim, swim your ass off. Do 2 kilometer swim 3 times a week, combined to the running.

This is what I do for cardio, but then add muscle training too. That is if I'm actively training, which I haven't currently done in few months. I should boost up again, my beer drinking will give me too much gut sooner or later .

[st_swithin]

All things in moderation. You can't drink like a fish, can you? I mean, try living in a frathouse keg sometime and THEN we'll see how bad your drinking problem is.

[Pekka]

Oh and doing that (running 1 hour per day straight and swimming 2 kilmoeters 3 x a week) IS HARD for your body if you're not used to it. Boddingtons seems to do some work out so he can hack it, but if you haven't moved a lot lately, be careful. Listen to your body.
Especially in running, you have to watch out your knees. When they start REALLY hurting, you're likely to have an injury, can't know the name in english, but can result to braking your bones for real. These appear in the second or third week of running, so be careful and if you start to hurt seriously.. just rest and start again when you feel you're healed.

[Ted Striker]

lift weights

for all you players in training make sure you are lifting your legs because the ladies like guys with nice legs

they comment all the time on it

[*End Is Forever*]

I've not made the gym as much as I'd liked recently, but as a general rule when I'm there I'll do between 30 minutes and an hour on the treadmill, usually a brisk walk uphill interspersed with a number of five-minute running spurts, plus some cycling, followed by a short swim (nothing major - 5 to 10 lengths say - as I'm a lousy swimmer) just to cool off.

I also play tennis at least twice a week.