Staying In Shape, Besides Thumb Work
<div class="IPBDescription">Who here gets their weekly excerise in?</div> So i was reading an article in some magazine the other day about the declining fitness levels of American kids. Today an even larger percent of US kids are obese. gee who would have thought. Americans? over weight?
One of the main factors attributed to this is of coures, those evil video games.
Dont laugh to loud you people of the rest of the world b/c trends also indicate that Europe and some countries in Asia and in Austrailia, they may be having the same problems as well in the not so near future.
On an interesting side note the game Dance Dance revolution both the at home version and the arcade version got a positive note for encouraging phyiscal activity during game play lol.
Which reminds me, who here remembers playing track and field on old school nintendo with the little running mat lol. And how many of you all cheated by just bashing the mat with your hands. I know you did dont lie lol. I did it too when I played it. hehe ooh how we thought we were so crafty to out wit the computer runner.
muhahaha
*cough cough where was I? oh yea
So I was just wondering how the rest of the NS community stacked up.
I for one like to think I have some pretty strong thumbs and fingers from all this key pressing and mouse clicking lol.(then again firing an HMG into the hive on full auto doesnt require a whole lot of clicking but oh well <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> )
But besides these thumbs of steel I always did lots of sports in high school and martial arts.
I dont have time for all that stuff now but I go to the gym, run, and lift weights 4 days a week. Im no where near huge and "built" but I have some nice muscle tone lol. And I have only 6.3% body fat if that counts for anything.
So what do some of you people do if anything? And why do u do it? Recreation? To stay in shape? or for job in some cases?
PS
speaking of DDR, try this with your keyboard.
<a href='http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/' target='_blank'>Flash Flash Revolution</a>
Clicky the FFR Game icon at top bar. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
One of the main factors attributed to this is of coures, those evil video games.
Dont laugh to loud you people of the rest of the world b/c trends also indicate that Europe and some countries in Asia and in Austrailia, they may be having the same problems as well in the not so near future.
On an interesting side note the game Dance Dance revolution both the at home version and the arcade version got a positive note for encouraging phyiscal activity during game play lol.
Which reminds me, who here remembers playing track and field on old school nintendo with the little running mat lol. And how many of you all cheated by just bashing the mat with your hands. I know you did dont lie lol. I did it too when I played it. hehe ooh how we thought we were so crafty to out wit the computer runner.
muhahaha
*cough cough where was I? oh yea
So I was just wondering how the rest of the NS community stacked up.
I for one like to think I have some pretty strong thumbs and fingers from all this key pressing and mouse clicking lol.(then again firing an HMG into the hive on full auto doesnt require a whole lot of clicking but oh well <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> )
But besides these thumbs of steel I always did lots of sports in high school and martial arts.
I dont have time for all that stuff now but I go to the gym, run, and lift weights 4 days a week. Im no where near huge and "built" but I have some nice muscle tone lol. And I have only 6.3% body fat if that counts for anything.
So what do some of you people do if anything? And why do u do it? Recreation? To stay in shape? or for job in some cases?
PS
speaking of DDR, try this with your keyboard.
<a href='http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/' target='_blank'>Flash Flash Revolution</a>
Clicky the FFR Game icon at top bar. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Comments
I am 190lbs and an 6"4'
I honestly think that thing about kids getting fat is bs. I know like 5 fat people at my school. Thats not to many fat people.
Heh. Well in America some people eat 2-4 times of what they are required (as in they eat stuff even if they're not exactly hungry) to eat. *Eats some <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif' /><!--endemo--> bacon*. It's true! <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
ect but I only weight 165 pounds, and I'm 5'9 5'10
but im going to start going to the gym 6 times a week, and do lots of cardio, and some lifting in between... im def out of shape
When I hit 30 however...
then...
<i>then I'm screwed.</i>
When I hit 30 however...
then...
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haha thats how i was for awhile untill i started to get stomach fat, now i want to do something about it.
ooh nice keep it up!
Break the habit man! <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Im trying to get one of my friends to stop chewing tobacco but its not going to well. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
im going to create a soda company and put nicotine in it.. so people always buy my soda... why not? its not illegal to do if they do it to cigs
:/
then they all get addicted like a white woman on crack and i win
edit: this post was generated by me because I ate a snickers
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Thats pretty much done, last Friday's schedule involved beer and I still managed to not light up <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> .
i have a belly...
i dont want to step on the scale...
im 5'6
I live in sydney, Australia so I guess that doesn't apply to some people [props to english beaches.. do you like pebbles? i know I do!]. I might go running with my mate if it's any fun, but I don't think it would be. In winter I'll have soccer so I'll put effort into that, and for summer I have the beach.
I don't like the gym and I'd rather that anything good about my body was a result of a healthy, active lifestyle, instead of being an illusion of.
If I'm bored some days I'll go run a mile or two... I feel so short being 5'11 <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I win.
I win. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
No, you do not win.
Unless you've somehow managed to get a metabolism that builds up muscles for you??
Weight loss != Fitness gain.
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EDIT: It could be due to me being a freaky mutant, my eyes change colour by themselves every 6 months or so. Like, seriously. And people who do have that (rare) normally don't have changing eye colour anywhere near my age
I still do a lot of walking because I rely on public transport to get from A to B and sometimes they move A a few hundred meters or it isnt running at all... (sillt privitised bus service(UK)). Then thers the fact that im on a hill so its a hard walk up on the way home every night.
But I dont want to be skinny so I force myself to the gym like 3-4 times a week.
Used to be a swimmer too, but cooming to uni stoped me because i don't know of any pools i can easily get to (i can't drive). I'm going to have to get something sorted out though, i used to really quite like going even though my instructor kicked **** evey time till it hurt.
But I dont want to be skinny so I force myself to the gym like 3-4 times a week. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
haha me too!
And mullet.
I would kill to be 5'-11" lol
I have ran 7 marathons, and training for them alters everything. We normally start increasing our long runs 12 weeks prior to the race and your diet and weightlifting changes significantly. The training is normally much harder than the race itself.
I smoked 2 packs a day for 30 years before I quit in 94 - the best thing I ever did. I joined the local Q, dropped 50 lbs in 5 months, ran my first 5k on Thanksgiving day 1995, and now you know <i>the rest of the story</i>. Oh yeah, I am almost 57 and am at 14% body fat. <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Now I play tennis for like 2hours a day for my school.
But I'm in a shape like a soggy washingcloth so I need to use it alot <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
And I go "running" with a friend when I have time in the morning.
Heh I need one of those.
I used to have god given metabolism, but after hitting 7th grade it all went downhill xD
Doesn't matter. As long as I keep running on the rof for 10 minutes and cut down the amount of food I eat, I should be fine.
And get more calcium and proteins, as well as Vitamin C in. Height++
Heh I need one of those.
I used to have god given metabolism, but after hitting 7th grade it all went downhill xD
Doesn't matter. As long as I keep running on the rof for 10 minutes and cut down the amount of food I eat, I should be fine.
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They are really handy, they display how fast would go if it was a real bicycle, it shows how much rpm's you make, which is really awesome for me since the endurance test for the academy requires me to go between 60-70 rpm for a minimum of 15 minutes and an as low as possible heartrate
cliffs:
Fitnesscontraptions ftw !
There are two things you can do to decrease your weight. You can increase your activity to make yourself burn more energy, or you can decrease the amount of food you eat.
If you decrease your food intake too much, you deprive yourself of nutrients. If you increase your activity too much, you'll damage your body. The most common thing to do is to gradually increase your activity, usually with exercising, while gradually decreasing food intake, usually with a diet. The weight should start decreasing, until it stabilizes at a lower value. At that point, you MAINTAIN these levels. If your metabolism starts to slow, you begin the process again, until you reach your desired weight level.
People usually fail at this process because they abandon it. Remember, you will have to maintain these levels for the rest of your life. You need motivation to succeed at this process. For example, I get paid to exercise. I seek to eat less food to save money. Hence, money is my motivation.