Fitness 2015

[crazy canuck]

Excellent.  Keep it up.  I know it is hard now but eventually you will come to enjoy it.

[celedhring]

I sort of enjoyed it, despite the aches. After 5 years of couch-potatoing and a cerebral job, it's sort of liberating to exercise. I'm actually looking forward to this.

Plus the chicks at the gym are hot.

[Caliga]

Joined a gym this week; I'm hurting on places I didn't know that could hurt.

I'm determined to really improve my fitness though, I've got to the point where my back problems (which I have had since I was young) are getting worse due to my weight, and now that I'm nearing my late 30s I need to start taking care of myself.

Since I started going regularly about eight months ago I've noticed a big difference both in the way I look (mostly upper body) and feel.

[Liep]

I was planning a trip to the forest today, but it's so freaking cold. If the mud starts freezing it's no fun any more.

[mongers]

I was planning a trip to the forest today, but it's so freaking cold. If the mud starts freezing it's no fun any more.

Yeah I'm not going anywhere special today either, biting cold wind, though above freezing, just.

[mongers]

Did a quick 14 miles, much of it off-road, late this afternoon to do some shopping.

Didn't find that tiring, what did leave left me exhausted was getting waylaid by someone in the hot supermarket foray for like 20-25 minutes, I couldn't get away from them, they even followed me back outside to continue the conversation as I was packing the bike. 

[Legbiter]

Today was deadlift day. As I'm getting ready to do my last set they start blasting Nickleback on the sound system.  Now that I think about it, Nickleback, Justin Bieber, Celine Dion, Rufus Wainwright, Avril Lavigne, most of the worst things in the world come from Canada. 

[Eddie Teach]

This is how they remind you who you really are.

[Legbiter]

 

[Liep]

I'm thinking about buying this bike for some off road/frozen ground/ice/snow action.

[mongers]

I'm thinking about buying this bike for some off road/frozen ground/ice/snow action.

How would that perform with more mundane off-road?

[Liep]

It's suppose to be quite excellent at handling roots and mud as well. And if there's one thing Danish forests has it's roots and mud.

I'll be trying it out tomorrow so I'll see what I can throw at it.

[mongers]

It's suppose to be quite excellent at handling roots and mud as well. And if there's one thing Danish forests has it's roots and mud.

I'll be trying it out tomorrow so I'll see what I can throw at it.

Yeah roots and mud is a nasty combination.

Have fun. 

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Today was deadlift day. As I'm getting ready to do my last set they start blasting Nickleback on the sound system.  Now that I think about it, Nickleback, Justin Bieber, Celine Dion, Rufus Wainwright, Avril Lavigne, most of the worst things in the world come from Canada. 

Technically, Rufus Wainwright came out of New York.

Also, every gym day is deadlift day.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Anyway, I'm back to lifting again.  I decided to screw waiting for my eczema to clear up and bought a pair of full-fingered lifting gloves.  Saturday was only my third session since my arm surgery last March, and kicked my quads' ass despite the weights being in "wuss" territory:

Squat: 3 x 5 x 65lb
Press: 3 x 5 x 60lb
Deadlift: 1 x 5 x 135lb

My quads are still sore, so I probably won't up the squat and deadlift weights today.  It will be interesting to see where my bench has fallen to after all this time.