Ripped Women

[Provost Harrison]

It doesn't even need to be high impact. Just walking for a half hour every day will get you there. If you want to be buff, you'll have to do different sets of exercise. Personally buff doesn't really matter to me.

Walking for half an hour a day? I do far more than that (in walking alone) just from day-to-day business. I rarely drive (only if unwalkable distances or have to move large quantities).

I DanSed you. My final paragraph notes that and notes that PH seems to think a leaner frame will provide him benefit with women... so it may be in his best interest to bust his ass even if it's not for health benefits.

I could be 2 metres tall and be built like a Greek God, but I just don't have the self belief to get anywhere with women. I do it to build my inner confidence but in the end I just end up frustrated with my lack of progress. But also for longevity. I used to be considerably overweight. I like being fit and full of energy, I can do so much and have achieved so much with it. And quite frankly I enjoy life and would rather live for as long as possible - and productively at the same time. And as for my predicament with women, well I know people will throw willpower at me, but sometimes a psychological prison can be the most inescapable. I don't blame women. I just lag so far behind it is overwhelming. And the damage is done.

[Darius871]

Assuming that I am those three is leading you dangerously astray. Hell buddy, I'm not justifying anything I am doing to a jumped up pr*ck like you.

Wow, struck a nerve have we? Have yourself a twinkie and relax.

[Ben Kenobi]

Walking for half an hour a day? I do far more than that (in walking alone) just from day-to-day business. I rarely drive (only if unwalkable distances or have to move large quantities).

Then it's what you're eating.

I could be 2 metres tall and be built like a Greek God, but I just don't have the self belief to get anywhere with women. I do it to build my inner confidence but in the end I just end up frustrated with my lack of progress. But also for longevity. I used to be considerably overweight. I like being fit and full of energy, I can do so much and have achieved so much with it. And quite frankly I enjoy life and would rather live for as long as possible - and productively at the same time. And as for my predicament with women, well I know people will throw willpower at me, but sometimes a psychological prison can be the most inescapable. I don't blame women. I just lag so far behind it is overwhelming. And the damage is done.

That's depression which is a whole different issue. If you were overweight and have dropped weight, then your weight loss should continue if you stick to the programme that you did previously. Have you seen a doc about treatment for depression, Provost?

[Al B. Sure!]

You're such a weasel. Is this some sort of secret? How much time on average do you spend when you're trying to lose weight and be buff? It could be a daily average, weekly average, whatever.

Dude, it's not a meaningful question! There's too much variation from day to day and from week to week!

You want last week? I was on a burpee kick:

Sunday: Prison Burpees (set of 10, set of 9, etc. going down to 1) Completed in 7:02
Monday: Prison Burpees again starting with 11 Completed in 8:32
Then did Tabata Burpees (35 burpees in 4 minutes)
Tuesday: Prison Burpees again starting with 12 Completed in 10:45
Wednesday: Burpee pyramid (1 to 10 then back down to 1) Completed in 16:49
Then did Death by Chinups (each minute, I do a successive number of chins; first minute: 1, second minute: 2, etc. until failure). Did 9 complete sets, 10th set was broken but completed; couldn't finish 11th set. Total time: 11 minutes
Thursday: Max sets of 6 chinups with 60 second rests (completed 16 sets; failed on 17th). Took about 20 minutes.
Friday & Sat: nothing.


So I spent what's that? 80 minutes over 5 workouts?

An average of 16 minutes a workout.

But again, I wasn't lifting. I wasn't running distance. I was doing burpees and chinups exclusively. That's not time intensive.

And I'm slow as **** at burpees because they're tough for me (that's why I'm doing them). A reasonably in shape person who is better than me at burpees should be able to knock out the burpees I did in about 75% of the time I spent. The Crossfit firebreathers can do 100 in less than 5 minutes.

[Egbert]

I thought this thread was supposed to be about ripped chicks? Not ripped male Polytubbies.

[giblets]

What are burpees? Firefox puts a red squiggly line under that word. I'm guessing something ridiculous and stupid that only a health nut would think of doing.

[Egbert]

Burpee might be a "Philadelphian english" word?
Who knows?

[Al B. Sure!]

Burpee is a military/sports conditioning/prison standard. It is a full-body strength and conditioning exercise that utilizes no equipment.

Anyone who has ever participated in any physical conditioning program in their life or played any team sports knows what a burpee is. Of course, it's a foreign word here on Apolyton

It's a squat thrust with a pushup and a jump. You can modify it to jump onto a pullup bar and do a pullup.


Here, Braindead, just for you, ripped chick doing burpees:

[Egbert]

Thanks Alby, now I sort of know what a burpee is.

An all right chick!

I was able to think of a more interesting exercise program but I won't go into that.

[Pax]

Alby, I've done this exercise but it was not called a burpee. I can't remember exactly what it was called. Alby remember people from different places have different names for things.

[Al B. Sure!]

Alby, I've done this exercise but it was not called a burpee. I can't remember exactly what it was called. Alby remember people from different places have different names for things.

It's a burpee. No questions about it. It differs from an up-down or a squat-thrust by the pushup and the jump. You may have heard it called one of those terms but burpee is technically the term.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burpee_(exercise)

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the exercise was named in the 1930s for American psychologist Royal H. Burpee, who developed the Burpee test. Consisting of a series of the exercises performed in rapid succession, the test was meant to measure agility and coordination.[2] It is not clear whether the exercise itself was invented by Burpee, or if his test merely popularized it.

[giblets]

I've never heard anyone call that a 'burpee'. Well, I guess I learned something today.

[Al B. Sure!]

I've never heard anyone call that a 'burpee'. Well, I guess I learned something today.

What have you heard it called? Squat-thrust? Up-down? They're related exercises.

[onodera]

Burpee has a terrible name and it reminds me of an army punishment called "catching butterflies",which is squat+jump performed until your legs give out.

[notyoueither]

I thought this thread was supposed to be about ripped chicks? Not ripped male Polytubbies.

Ripped men who sometimes pose as chicks?