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I do cardio 2 to 3 times a week. I go until my body hurts and my heart hurts. I get my heart rate up to 130+ (I've hit 147).
I don't stop until I get dizzy and have to step off before I fall down. Last time I had vertigo for a solid 30 minutes after.
I read about that bike route that's going to go from Maine to key west Florida. My goal is to complete it.
I don't stop until I get dizzy and have to step off before I fall down. Last time I had vertigo for a solid 30 minutes after.
I read about that bike route that's going to go from Maine to key west Florida. My goal is to complete it.
Harrison Bergeron
Member
Played sports all my childhood and teenage life, but mainly just lifted weights with some off and on running for most of my 20's. Injured my leg at 28 and got fat from eating too much and drinking too much alongside it.
Got disgusted with myself, implemented a challenging weight lifting plan and challenged myself to finally be a good distance runner.
Alongside that also aggressively reduced calories and was at a daily aggregate of about 1100-1600. Lots of eggs since the margins to get a variety of nutrients were slim. Lost ~40lbs in four months (185 to 142).
What was amazing was my body type changed to one I never thought possible. I always just figured I was thickish and a power athlete (I was never fat) and that was my type of frame. I became lean and downright bony-ass skinny.
In any case in the four years since I've built some additional lean mass, and am not strict with my diety, but am fairly disciplined overall and mindful. I am only three pounds heavier than my lowest weight. Most importantly I have maintained the exercise, and the weight loss enabled me to build that foundation.
My lifting program now has heavier lifts and more volume, and I run about 40k/30 miles a week and try to get in two half marathons a month (just recereationally) on top of that. Resting heart rate went from 76+having high blood pressure to 45-47 and low bp.
It's interesting because people talk about the wear and tear of running, and I was one, but I lost a lot of weight and got to a lower weight than I was when I was 12 years old. I'm telling you, as soon as a I got below a certain threshold joint issues, shin splints, and all that were no longer an issue. Also, when running a 10k in 40 minutes became an easy run for me I was astonished. It had seemed like such a significant distance my whole life.
So yeah, from a a guy who tried to do anything but distance running his whole life, it's the real deal. You have to get your weight low enough to be able to do it properly and safely, but it's a major factor in my overall physical health (can basically walk or stand forever without fatigue), and my heart is working half as hard at rest as it was before. Running sucks so hard, but its benefits are incredible.
Got disgusted with myself, implemented a challenging weight lifting plan and challenged myself to finally be a good distance runner.
Alongside that also aggressively reduced calories and was at a daily aggregate of about 1100-1600. Lots of eggs since the margins to get a variety of nutrients were slim. Lost ~40lbs in four months (185 to 142).
What was amazing was my body type changed to one I never thought possible. I always just figured I was thickish and a power athlete (I was never fat) and that was my type of frame. I became lean and downright bony-ass skinny.
In any case in the four years since I've built some additional lean mass, and am not strict with my diety, but am fairly disciplined overall and mindful. I am only three pounds heavier than my lowest weight. Most importantly I have maintained the exercise, and the weight loss enabled me to build that foundation.
My lifting program now has heavier lifts and more volume, and I run about 40k/30 miles a week and try to get in two half marathons a month (just recereationally) on top of that. Resting heart rate went from 76+having high blood pressure to 45-47 and low bp.
It's interesting because people talk about the wear and tear of running, and I was one, but I lost a lot of weight and got to a lower weight than I was when I was 12 years old. I'm telling you, as soon as a I got below a certain threshold joint issues, shin splints, and all that were no longer an issue. Also, when running a 10k in 40 minutes became an easy run for me I was astonished. It had seemed like such a significant distance my whole life.
So yeah, from a a guy who tried to do anything but distance running his whole life, it's the real deal. You have to get your weight low enough to be able to do it properly and safely, but it's a major factor in my overall physical health (can basically walk or stand forever without fatigue), and my heart is working half as hard at rest as it was before. Running sucks so hard, but its benefits are incredible.
Paralyzed from the chest down. Initially when the accident occurred I was very skinny. My ribs would show, my lowest weight was 87 lbs, then I slowly gained my weight back and I'm now atleast around 123 lbs. Problem is all my newly gained weight is sitting in my stomach. The worst part is I can't even exercise to lose the weight.
Shit, sorry to hear that. All the best.
blame space
Banned
I'm a disgusting pear-shaped piece of shit.
Have you looked into something like StimMaster?
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/spinoff1997/hm1.html
Essentially functional electrical stimulation bikes? I was reading that Christopher Reeve used one. I wonder if a therapist or a gym club would offer that service or more info about it.
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Transhuman
Unconfirmed Member
Women want to take a bite from that pear
blame space
Banned
I stood on a scale recently for the first time in years. it was not a good idea.
Extremely unfit. 7 months after 28 radiotherapy sessions and 13 months of chemo, i'm still useless with any kind of physical action.
I'm back to fulltime work but i'm knackered in the evenings.
I used to play tennis 3 to 5 hours a week which kept me fit, but i can't play anymore so i've gained a shedload of weight and i lost any kind of motivation for other kinds of activity.
It sucks.
I'm back to fulltime work but i'm knackered in the evenings.
I used to play tennis 3 to 5 hours a week which kept me fit, but i can't play anymore so i've gained a shedload of weight and i lost any kind of motivation for other kinds of activity.
It sucks.
Subpar Spatula
Banned
I run 5km each day (avg is 21mins) and bike 10km (avg is 20min). Free weights every second day for strength. Obstacle course once a week for endurance. MMA gym once a week as well. Going to start rock climbing once a week soon.
I am 5'11, 150lbs.
I am 5'11, 150lbs.
Thanks very much! Yeah...it's time. Had a doctor's appointment recently. He said my lungs are actually pretty strong for a person my age, but...best to quit while you're ahead, I think.
I can run a 5k without issue and that's about all I'd ever want to do.
Otherwise I just do body weight exercises and some dumbells like twice a week. So not really that fit, but I'm 6ft and 170ish so I guess I'm good. 28 yo.
Oh and I bike and walk a lot. Usually on Google fit I'm more active than 90% of Minneapolis, but I'm not sure how much that's really worth lol.
Otherwise I just do body weight exercises and some dumbells like twice a week. So not really that fit, but I'm 6ft and 170ish so I guess I'm good. 28 yo.
Oh and I bike and walk a lot. Usually on Google fit I'm more active than 90% of Minneapolis, but I'm not sure how much that's really worth lol.
truestatic
Member
Bad, but trying to get better. I go for short jogs several times a week, and am at the gym every other day. At the moment I only run a little less than two miles at a 10 minute pace... nothing to be too proud of, but I try to focus on the improvements rather than the current state of things.
Northernlights
Member
Awful. 5'9 around 238.
I completely lack motivation. Everytime I start up a new plan, its over by Wednesday. I just cant get my shit together tbh
I completely lack motivation. Everytime I start up a new plan, its over by Wednesday. I just cant get my shit together tbh
FrankCanada97
Roughly the size of a baaaaaarge
I'm 5'6 and 115 lbs, and that is not a typo. I am having trouble gaining weight. Despite eating bigger portions than anyone else I know, everything I eat gets burned off after doing cardio everyday. I'm not really into lifting weights, I just do 3 sets of all the major muscle groups and call it a day.
In really good shape ... 6-1 about 190 ... go to the gym 4-5 times a week and run about 3 times a week. I have been like this since college, 38 now and a normal diet, nothing too crazy. I actually look forward to the day I don't care enough to go to the gym so much.
A bit on the light side. I can easily get into good shape, but I've been a rock lately. I'm planning to get back into jogging on my next day off, and my cousin is going to give me swimming lessons as I've been wanting to get into that for a while now. Thankfully my asthma has gotten a lot better over the years, so I can do these things more now and should take advantage of that.
I'm decently fit.
I was always a skeleton but bulked up a bit in the army, and lost the little body weight that I had, so I look pretty good.
I usually do body weight exercises like Calisthenics, MovNat and Ido Portal stuff. Sure, those exercises won't make me swole but they did make me stronger and it sure beats going to the gym. I find lifting weights paralyzingly boring so it's a good way to find some entertaiment in exercising.
My cardio is a bit packing so I'm thinking of picking up a martial art though.
I was always a skeleton but bulked up a bit in the army, and lost the little body weight that I had, so I look pretty good.
I usually do body weight exercises like Calisthenics, MovNat and Ido Portal stuff. Sure, those exercises won't make me swole but they did make me stronger and it sure beats going to the gym. I find lifting weights paralyzingly boring so it's a good way to find some entertaiment in exercising.
My cardio is a bit packing so I'm thinking of picking up a martial art though.
I was injured and transferring to The rehabilitation institute of Michigan, and when I was there they did try the electrical stimulation but I was too skinny so the stimulants didn't work.
I was 16 back then and the main focus was on just trying to stabilize my body. Then throughout 2015 I was getting a lot of bed sores on my butt and sacrem area. On April 14, 2016 I went to the University of Michigan for a stem cell transplant. After the surgery I became inpatient resident. Where I started to do therapy there. They again tried the electrical stimulants but asoon as it connected to the thigh I started to have autonomic dysreflexia( since I don't have feeling from the Chest down, my body gets autonomic dysreflexia, as a way of telling me that there's something wrong)
And it's not that I don't have no feeling from the chest down. It's hard to describe, when someone touchs my leg, I can feel the pressure.
When I got discharged I started doing outpatient therapy and I wasn't as bloated as I am now. Then went back to 16/17 school year and I just graduated this year.
Now I think that if I start doing outpatient therapy I could get healthier again. The problem is we don't have a wheelchair van, to take me there and back . Also for that reason I will have to take online courses at Occ. and I can't see Dunkirk in IMAX and will have to watch it at a regular ass amc theatre.
Sorry that I went off on a tangent but electrical stimulation for some reason causes my body to go through autonomic dysreflexia
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Probably above average. I am in my thirties and I train in my martial art 3-4 times a week (between 1h30 and 2h each time), and lately I started doing some additional workouts (core/legs mostly, + cardio 2x a week, about 30m each, which alternates sprints and jogs). I bike to work every day lately because it's summer (only ~5km, but it's uphill when coming back home, and I go faster than over 90% of other cyclists, including when going up a steep hill).
I don't eat too much junk, most of my meals are balanced, but I snack a lot, and enjoy occasional ice cream, pizza etc. and don't deprive myself of fun stuff, even if I try not to abuse it. I never gain weight regardless of my fitness level though, I've stayed the same weight for literally half my life, maybe more.
I don't eat too much junk, most of my meals are balanced, but I snack a lot, and enjoy occasional ice cream, pizza etc. and don't deprive myself of fun stuff, even if I try not to abuse it. I never gain weight regardless of my fitness level though, I've stayed the same weight for literally half my life, maybe more.
O_O I... I know everyone's got different priorities in life and good for you for being healthy and disciplined, but I can't imagine living like that and not being utterly miserable. I don't know how you do it, lol.
CitizenCope
Member
I've worked physical labor nearly all my life, I can do pull ups and push ups like a champ and people always guess my age a decade too young yet I consider myself as not fit.
I've just always thought of fit as not cardio challenged. I'm so cardio challenged. Such a struggle for me to get that heart rate up where I assume fit people don't find it so hard. Fuck "fit".
I've just always thought of fit as not cardio challenged. I'm so cardio challenged. Such a struggle for me to get that heart rate up where I assume fit people don't find it so hard. Fuck "fit".
Food just isn't an important part of my life as far as pleasure goes, I only think of it as fuel. I can be around friends while they're eating pizza and ice cream or whatever and unless I'm really hungry I don't get tempted.
Though it did take some effort to get to that mindset. I basically try to prevent myself from eating anything overly enjoyable even if it isn't bad for me, just to to train myself into not thinking of eating as anything other than a nutritional necessity. I'm not all the way there yet though, as I mentioned I'm trying to cut back on certain fruits.
FallingEdge
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pixelation
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Dude in my avatar is me FWIW.
sineclamor
Member
I've lost around 70 lbs since April but almost all through diet. I need to get back into the gym for cardio, and before long, weightlifting.
I had a moment a while ago where I looked down and literally didn't feel like the same person. Thought I was gonna pass out for a second.
I had a moment a while ago where I looked down and literally didn't feel like the same person. Thought I was gonna pass out for a second.
Correctomundo
Member
Got a bit of a belly and love handles going on, and I do have essential hypertension (largely genetic maybe), but still in pretty good shape for being in my mid 40s, I'd say.
Grew up on a ranch and did hard physical labor daily. Was fairly muscular and able bodied until my early 30s, where I had a sedentary job. Moved and returned to intense physicality in the oil fields. Recently suffered an abdominal hernia and slowed down. Had it fixed, returned to the gym with my gym obsessed girlfriend. Took me three days to readjust to the exertion. Had to increase my treadmill speed because I wasn't even sweating at a slight jog. I get the workout high pretty fast and enjoy the exercise.
Still, aside from that very minor belly and sides, everything else has clear definition.
Isn't that the much ballyhooed "dad bod"?
Grew up on a ranch and did hard physical labor daily. Was fairly muscular and able bodied until my early 30s, where I had a sedentary job. Moved and returned to intense physicality in the oil fields. Recently suffered an abdominal hernia and slowed down. Had it fixed, returned to the gym with my gym obsessed girlfriend. Took me three days to readjust to the exertion. Had to increase my treadmill speed because I wasn't even sweating at a slight jog. I get the workout high pretty fast and enjoy the exercise.
Still, aside from that very minor belly and sides, everything else has clear definition.
Isn't that the much ballyhooed "dad bod"?
Was in good shape and got haglunds which makes my achilles hurt so now im 30lbs over what I should be. Saw a specialist roughly a year ago and requested surgery but he said I wouldn't need it and gave me nitro patches and physio exercises. The patches helped in reducing pain but its still holding me back a ton and I knew I was wasting time since I had been doing similar exercises for months prior to seeing him.
So im still stuck at square one and not sure what to do. Guess back to my doctor to see if theres another specialist in the area and even then likely a 6-12 month wait time...
So im still stuck at square one and not sure what to do. Guess back to my doctor to see if theres another specialist in the area and even then likely a 6-12 month wait time...
Jinder juice?
RadioJoNES64
Banned
Not overweight but not fit either. I'm been blessed with a very generous metabolism. I'm going to work on it though.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
You'll destroy your knees if you try to run 10KM every day.
Do the equivalent on a elliptical or something.
6' 175lbs 36yo
I lift 2-3 days per week
Yoga 1 day per week or so
Mountain bike 3-4 days per week
Softball 2 nights per week
Basketball, swimming, and/or skateboarding when I feel like it. Usually a couple times per week.
I quit binge drinking and smoking just after turning 30. I never want to go back to that lifestyle. My back used to hurt all the time from sitting too much, and I would get out of breath on stairs. Constantly hung over and never doing anything physical. Now I'm not sure if I'm even capable of getting out of breath. The better your body works the more fun it is to use it.
I lift 2-3 days per week
Yoga 1 day per week or so
Mountain bike 3-4 days per week
Softball 2 nights per week
Basketball, swimming, and/or skateboarding when I feel like it. Usually a couple times per week.
I quit binge drinking and smoking just after turning 30. I never want to go back to that lifestyle. My back used to hurt all the time from sitting too much, and I would get out of breath on stairs. Constantly hung over and never doing anything physical. Now I'm not sure if I'm even capable of getting out of breath. The better your body works the more fun it is to use it.
OG Shaka Zulu
Member
I am the fittest fat person I ever met.
Fast Forward
Member
Like I said to a friend the other day "I might be slim, but I'm out of shape."
Which is kind of ironic, BC I've felt more in shape when I was overweight a couple of years ago.
Difference is not the weight, though. Difference is I have a license/car, conquering my fear of driving, and thus, have much less of a need to walk.
Which is kind of ironic, BC I've felt more in shape when I was overweight a couple of years ago.
Difference is not the weight, though. Difference is I have a license/car, conquering my fear of driving, and thus, have much less of a need to walk.