Working Out

[Barb Gordon]

So how many people here attend a gym weekly, monthly...yearly...or do some other type of activity that keeps you fit? Is there a point to being "fit", excercising and working out? How much do you do, why, and how have you benefited from it? Also, do you think it's very easy to go majorly overboard when it comes to working out?

~Barb

[Mattashell]

Since I started riding my bike to and from work everyday, people keep commenting that I've lost weight. The truth is I haven't lost a single pound, I think all my weight is going to my legs. :eek:

[oranthal]

Originally posted by Mattashell
Since I started riding my bike to and from work everyday, people keep commenting that I've lost weight. The truth is I haven't lost a single pound, I think all my weight is going to my legs. :eek:

well, it is like this. muscle is heavier than fat and muscle also takes up less space than fat. what this means is that, you have probably gained muscle mass so there is no loss in weight. when people comment that you loss weight, it is probably because you have replaced your space-taking fat with muscles that takes up less space.

[Clayface]

I "work out" usualy 3 times a week. Usually some running, biking, or weight lifting for toning. I started doing it because I was starting to pack on the pounds, but I've gotten down to the weight I wanted to be. Haven't stopped because overall, I generally have much more energy as a result of keeping some exercise in my schedule.

[JustJack]

Work in general keeps me pretty fit. Stepping up the ladder, carrying heavy boxes....moving shelves around...

But, I still try to take long walks daily, lift weights, do situps/crunches, and 25-100 push ups every day. Sometimes I do some pull ups outside, but that makes my hands hurt...I dont like my hands hurting...

[hello_lola]

I jog every day, plus, since I don't have a car of my own, I walk a lot. Honestly though, I hate working out, I just do it out of vanity. And you won't catch me near a gym - those places are meat markets ;) .

[Weatherman]

I try to do some push ups and situps each day. when I remember to, 50 pushup and 20 situps, and now that I am at school I ride my boke everywhere on campus, so that's alot of exercise.

[JohnCrichton]

I will never have the body of my high school self.

No exaggeration, from the torture I recieved in high school wrestling I had an eight pack!

Now all I see is a ghost of a six with wispy voices saying, "Help us..... save us..... don't let go...."

:(

I try and do some sit ups and push ups every so often.

[Defector]

During summer? 2-3 times a week :)
During School? I try to once a week, but usually it turns out to be once every 2 weeks. :(

[gtracer72]

I just do push-ups and sit-up/crunches. I don't have a schedule that i follow, I just do it when I feel like it. When I've eaten a lot of fatty foods, then I definately do them.

[Patrick Bateman]

I don't really do it on purpose. I like physical activity like jogging and bike riding, so I'm getting excersize, but I think I'm having fun. :rolleyes: The only serious working out I ever do is lift some weights every once and a while.

[Batman347]

I play sports each day, I'm on the Basketball team so I really have to work out and do a lot of running everything. Spend about 4,5,6 hours depending on which day playing sports and running. Gotta keep in shape or I'll get cut!

[Spike04]

I'm on the soccer team and we just got a new coach this year who has had teams that won state champs in CT so he knows all of the torturous drills.. ill explain one..its hard to explaiin tohugh

OK from the goal line to half field line is one segment from half line to the other goal line is another segemnt form one end of the goal line to the other end is another segment and so on.

So we the first lap we sprint one segment , jog around the rest of the field , the second lap we sprint two segemnts jog the reast of the field and so on until we have sprinted all the way around the field

And these beasties are called Jones's I don't know if any of you other athletes have heard of them, but THEY'RE TEH DEVIL! :eek:

[bfmusashi]

I go to karate/taekwondo whenever I can, and usually come back dead tired. It's a good workout, though. On other days, I run about 3 miles at the gym and occasionally lift, though I focus more of my energies on running. During the school year, I wrestle on the wrestling team and I'm probably going to go out for track again this year.

[Barb Gordon]

All through high school I was in some sport or another kind of activity: tennis, track, horseback riding. I didn't do anything my senior year, and to help stay in shape, I started attending the gym. Now I'm in college and have been able to get a good regime going still: I go to the gym about 2-3 times a week and use weights and the cardiovascular machines as well as adominal excercises. Besides that, I rock climb anywhere from 1-3 times a week. I'm at the average weight for my height and all, but I would really like to lose 5 pounds, and that's it, just 5 pounds. But that's such a little amount, and because I'm not overweight or anything, that measly amount is taking forever to get rid of! *grr* anyone know of anything I could do at the gym that could help that out....maybe you the running machines more?

~Barb

[The Game]

I play 2 JV sports and lift for football in the offseason (the winter I mean). I can't get a gym membership until I'm 16, but I have a treadmill in my house that I run on once a week, and I lift at the high school weight room.

-The Game

[murmur]

I've been doing push-ups, crunches and squats regularly every day. I know that if I tried to do the gym thing I'd find excuses not to go, so I stick to my own sets at home.

[TimTwoFace]

Man, despite all my excercise, I really oughta invest in a new bike...that's where I'm a viking. Like Barb, I'm also at a decent, normal weight for someone my height, but hey, if I could shed some pounds (or move them around to be, I dunno, a little more muscular) then I'm all for it. Ever since I was a child I rode my bike ALL OVER the place, right up until I was about 16, when schoolwork was getting in the way that I couldn't do it too much; then, when I was *COUGH* 21 *COUGH* I quit my paper route *COUGH* so that cut down on my biking even further.

At least my legs are still strong. Here's hoping I don't end up looking like a pear by age 25, though. :p

-Tim
(The Viking of Biking)

[Pilmedium]

I don't do much exercise. I would never want to work out to the point where the muscles are visible, as it is just... disgusting.

[meatwad945]

i just play various games wit my friends

[BLACKHEART]

I work out daily including today with an injury to my shoulder

[Pilmedium]

I think physical workouts are a waste of time, most of the time. BTW, meatwad945, you double posted.

[BLACKHEART]

I don't agree. It improves stamina for other activties I do

[Singin' Stray Cat]

Originally posted by Pilmedium
I think physical workouts are a waste of time, most of the time. BTW, meatwad945, you double posted.

Fixed it. Mistakes happen. :p

Anyway, back to the subject at hand - I don't really go to a gym or make it a point to exercise every day, but I do get quite a workout walking around campus and the place where I work (which also involves occasional light weight lifting).

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

I'm not fit at all. I'm thin as a cable, but at least my pride and will enables to me to be as strong as a cable when the time calls for it.

I should probably work out, but I don't have a big appetite, so I don't eat enough to beef my body up with muscle.

At any rate, my stamina is pretty low for a kid my age.

[ZorBrak]

I work out regularly on account of I have a HORRIBLE metabolism, and I always gotta sit down to do school work and stuff. I'm talking like I have the metabolism of an old man, I basically never consume carbs, contrary to popular belief not ALL bodies digest food the same, when I eat carbs I get fat, when I eat fat I lose weight :cool: .