Wow Josh, that's epic! Do you eat many carbs (rice, potatoes, bread)? Are you a thin, lean guy or do you have a bit of muss? Be honest!
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Wow Josh, that's epic! Do you eat many carbs (rice, potatoes, bread)? Are you a thin, lean guy or do you have a bit of muss? Be honest!
As for my routine (if you can call it that!) I am running every second day. I take the dog for a walk/muck around up to three times every day but I don't think that counts. The 'favorite' run at the moment is just under 3km. Yes, you say this is short, but for me this is good work. I didn't use to be able to even walk up the first hilly bit without wheezing to near death!
I love my baking and deserts. I usually bake low sugar and low butter stuff (oat cookies, banana muffins etc). I do however make up cupcakes occationally and also my version of the Cookietime buscuits. I have plenty of yogurt though (high sugar). I also drink coffee and tea. I am sure there are a lot more things I could be doing to loose the chubbs but I do also enjoy how I have been living, so I'm not changing too much from that!
I don't exercise at all and eat what ever I feel like.
Some people worry about their health and others dont, I dont have a choice got caught up with long ago so need regular looking after. Family history grim reading.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rushy
Good thing is youll see two of everything< when the roar startsQuote:
Originally Posted by Wirehunt
Josh - you will stay match fit longer with what you do. At your age you will be burning off the calories like a racehorse
As you age your metabolism slows (take heed young ones) I gave up smoking after 30yrs and put on 10kg. This year I have tried to diet and lost 5kg. No dinner, banana for breakfast, what would have been dinner is now a meal for morning smoko and rest of the day nuts and dried cranberrys followed by fresh fruit on the way home so I'm not hungry when I walk in the door. Just can't seem to lose anymore for some reason. As a result went to the docs last week (and yes my prostate is healthy :O_O: ) waiting for the blood and fecal test results. I have a half fucked left knee from a fall when hunting in 04 and as a result no longer run (running will fuk your knees anyway) so will be going into the roar 95kg wringing wet. I will be heading up the ridges at a slow pace and work the ridges. No problem as I enjoy hunting like this as it reduces sweating, controlls breathing and see more until something hits the deck and I have to bone it out and carry back down.
Regardless of who is doing what for the roar, different ages and various levels of fitness I hope you all have a great time and return with many good stories.
If you pass me on the way down a ridge struggling under a full load - keep going and have a beer ready at the hut
Sako75 if I pass you on the way down a ridge it will mean I have tripped at the top. If you want to lose that other 5 kilo's then ditch eating Banana's
Bananas WTF??? I like bananas
Few years back I was heading off the ridge with rifle in one hand, stags head in the other, meat pack on my back loaded up from a stag that came in to 8m before deciding that was close enough and daybag on my front. Went arse over tea kettle for a good 10m after one foot found the loose patch :D:pissed off: spent the next day in camp in quite a bite of pain. Got the head cleaned up pretty good
Yep so do I. Used to eat at least a couple a day. Seriously give it a go. Stop eating them for six weeks. Keep every thing else the same (food intake, exercise etc) and just find something else to eat for breakfast. How bad do yo want lose the 5KG?Quote:
Originally Posted by sako75
Bad enough to quit bananas.
Thanks Rushy. Maybe I should have got you to check out my tail pipe :o
You shouldnt be skipping dinner. By the time you eat breakfast your body has slowed metabalism to a near stand still . You should eat something high fibre low g.i before 7 at night that will see you through to the morning. And some physical activity before breakfast also helps boosting metabolism. Says me tipping the scaLes at 120kgs lol
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Look!! ive resisted from posting my expertise on this but i can wait no longer...................pie's pies pie's carbo load the night before a hunt pies cheese tosties and atleast a dozen piss,..... in the morning get up a half hr early and have a long dump.When your on the starting blocks at the bottem of the hill youll be amped ready to go with all the fuel to burn up those hills:thumbsup:.......try before you think im bullshitting ya;)
Youv read my training manual then :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Neckshot
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Im the editor:thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
That would workQuote:
Originally Posted by Neckshot
I think I would do better with a good pot of chilli the night before and have a "rocket assist" up the hill!!!!!!!!!!!!! Should make it easy to find me, just follow the scorch marks:omg:
Need all the help I can get as I ain't small, my legs are poked and I haven't chased a deer in 14 years.
Not really mate. My better half is a secondary PE teacher and trains 6 days a week, crossfit at least 4 of those days. If I don't do anything I feel bloody lazy and usually get peer pressured into it! Haha. But in all honesty, keeping the body fit makes the long days at work so much more bearable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dougie
We don't eat many carbs at all. Maybe spuds once or twice a week. Ill have a bun most days. Used to eat alot of pasta and rice but have gone away from that. Eat more veges and protein.
I'm 86kgs, just on 6 foot tall, normal? sized. I'm more lean than muscled. Not big on outright strength, but will happily walk all day with a pack on, so endurance is my strength.
I find the best thing to get the lungs working is yell out to TimeRider to bring me the remote. Other than that I don't really do any exercise as such. Dougie will verify that this keeps me slow and out of shape.
Other than that Dougie, when I was your age (long, long ago) I used to bike everywhere. I had a motorbike and a van, but I used to bike everywhere; normally about 40km a day. As GravelBen said you have to push down on those peddles to make it work. A good indication is that if you can walk when you get there then you were not pushing hard enough. In those days I was great on the hills and could easily carry two 20kg packs, (happened way too often). Swimming is also good for building stamina and breath control.
As shown by different people on here there are lots of things you can do. The big thing is find out which one that hits the right areas for you you enjoy. If it is a task to do it you probably wont stick at it, if you enjoy it you'll be more likely to continue. Be inventive. Personally I wouldn't have spent 20 minutes of my life in a gymn (other than with a physio standing over me), too many posers on a fashion parade.
Yep this is the main reason I gave crossfit a go. Tried the gym at uni, hated it. with crossfit its small groups of everyday people with similar goals, and in its own way it makes everyone equal....you're all f&*ked at the end of a session :DQuote:
Originally Posted by gadgetman
As long as you don't have to cross dress for crossfit!Quote:
Originally Posted by JoshC
As shown by different people on here there are lots of things you can do. The big thing is find out which one that hits the right areas for you you enjoy. If it is a task to do it you probably wont stick at it, if you enjoy it you'll be more likely to continue. Be inventive. Personally I wouldn't have spent 20 minutes of my life in a gymn (other than with a physio standing over me), too many posers on a fashion parade.
Yeah but when some of those posers (female!!) bend over only one muscle seems to be getting a workout:cool:
Well if you get luck that is a good CV workout too.
I climb Te Mata Peak 4 days a week
The goat track via the redwoods is a 6.5kms round trip with a 200m total climb.
Takes me about 50 minutes to haul my fat arse up to the summit and about 1 hour 20 minutes round trip.
and it doesn't seem to get any easier either :(
I've never been to a Gym... Can't understand why someone would drive to a Gym and pay someone to walk on a treadmill.
Most, MOST, of you people sound like machines! I just play at least one game of sports Monday-Wednesday and IF I get really motivated maybe jump on exercycle the other days of the week. Even with all that I'm still a fat, lazy prick.
Unfortunately my mountain bike was sacrificed for a ring so 30k rides through the forest no longer happen :oh noes:
Maybe I should take a leaf out of your books and go walking more often, Mrs would probably appreciate it too
The Woodhill forest is a good place to walk Nibblet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nibblet
Yeah I use to ride my dirt bike out there. Tried tackling a few deer on the odd occasion too. Rode my mountain bike in riverhead and me and a mate were doing well for a while there doing 4-5hr hikes through Riverhead too. Might have to pull finger and get back out there.
Sure I will find some excuse not to...."Sex and the city re-runs!!! Count me in!!!"
If the Mrs runs out add The Sound of Music, Titanic, The Rambo series, Beaches (which I'm not allowed to watch with the Mrs again coz I laughed too much) .... and other chick flicks.
Rambo - the classic romantic chick flick.
Well chick's did draw first blood DougieQuote:
Originally Posted by Dougie
Tussock you are like my other half. No training, always cranks out a respectable half marathon time. Some days I dream of chopping his legs off from the knees..... ;)
Using that criteria then Tussock, I am one of the most naturally fit people around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tussock
If you did that Dougie, i wouldn't recommend going to the bathroom and closing the door in the early hours of the morning
So you can see eye to eye?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dougie
I used to be the same. Hadn't been for a run or swim for over 10 years. My twin, who had been training for months, entered me in a mini tri and told me about it a week before the event. After getting some road tyres for the mountain bike and something I could wear to swim in, actually didn't even own a pair of shorts, I had time for one run and one swim. Rattled off a 10km run in just over half an hour and pulse returned to below 50 within 5 minutes. Biked to QEII jumped in the pool and promptly swam 2km (40 lengths); that surprised me as I'd never done over 200m before. On the day I did the 500m swim, 12km ride and 5km run with ease and beat my twin by 40 minutes.
After last weekend I can fully understand your comment on natural vs real fitness Tussock. :ouch...it hurts:
That would have really pissed him off GM.Quote:
Originally Posted by gadgetman
Just a little! The excuse list was as funny as hell. :wtfsmilie:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rushy
He was determined to beat me at something. Don't know why he was bothering as he always crossed the finish line before me when rowing; I was the stroke so only the coxswain was behind me in the boat.
That's me. I have a habit of gut busting till I run out of juice and just stop. Good thing is a quick top up and I'm off again. Though I think I'd go for a soft length of cotton than wire nowadays.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tussock
Screw it, all this talk of exercise I'm going to have to get back into putting in a proper effort. Bring on the abs! Been a while since I seen them, wonder if they still in there somewhere?
They will be in there somewhere Nibblet. You need to work on the FL factor. That is what makes the difference between flabs and abs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nibblet
Bugger Tussock, too late for me. I have lost 20+ kilo's since Christmas day (mind you there is a shitload more to go). I don't run either so I will sit here and be a spectator. Hope you pull this off though as it is a good idea.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tussock
Not a bad idea. Personally I'm just going to be going for self satisfaction, loose some weight and get my fitness back up. Not been doing too bad with all the basketball and netball recently. Smashed a good team last night too (56-14).
Not sure how many people on here would want to see before and after photos though haha. Its always a hard thing to judge though as some people are naturally better in average shape then other in peak performance.
I'll buy the winner a box of beer and a kilo of chocolate though :thumbsup: