Fitness 2016

[mongers]

Did 55km on the shopping bike this evening; not such a good experience, as quite a bit of off-road on an aluminium bike with 60-65psi tyres is a bit, well tiresome.

Good work out I guess, plus I got soaked on the way home. 

A good full body work out that.

Had a little trip off road too today, feeling spring like I wore my summer shoes which was all fine until my front wheel got stuck in a deep mud hole and I had to step off planting my feet in 20 cm of mud.

Though I always wimp out before the mud gets to more than 3-4cm. 

[alfred russel]

I did a climbing trip this weekend, and had a long car ride back talking about fitness with someone in better shape.

I'm resolving the following:
-no more alcohol (I had basically cut this out years ago, so that isn't a major change)
-no more sugary sodas (will still drink diet sodas)
-8 hours of sleep a night
-I need to start eating breakfast, even if just a protein bar
-I need to do squats and quit ignoring legs in general
-I'm going to migrate to stand up desks

I think the tough one is going to be the 3rd one. I'm posting this after midnight, which is the first bad sign. We'll start tomorrow. 

[celedhring]

I have heard about stand up desks for a while now. I know a guy that even has one of those slow treadmills in his, where he works while walking really slowly. I don't think I could manage it and keep my concentration.

[Jaron]

I signed up for a 5k.

[Brazen]

I signed up for a 5k.

I've got a full-on NHS health check for the over-40s at the end of the month. According to friends who've had to they basically tell you to loose weight, drink less and put you on statins if your cholesterol's even slightly high. I'm making it a mission not too be nagged on too many fronts!

I do need to step up the age-appropriate exercise and lose some weight. I was the front rank kneeling in a musket volley at the weekend and had trouble getting up!

First 10K of the year at the end of May. Better get in training.

[mongers]

Did 39 miles on the bike late this afternoon, maybe the furthest I've gone this year. 

Is the whole treating normal people like athletes and insisting they stay 'hydrated' a bit of a marketing myth?

Because I took a 3/4 of a litre with me and ended up only drinking something like 200-250ml of lemon squash, but I didn't expire. 

[lustindarkness]

I have heard about stand up desks for a while now. I know a guy that even has one of those slow treadmills in his, where he works while walking really slowly. I don't think I could manage it and keep my concentration.

I am standing up right now  (I don't have a treadmill or would care to have one) and I have a balance disc that I stand on a couple of times a day. And I pace my cubicle a bit in the afternoons to try and stay awake. Mostly I just alternate sitting and standing all day.

I also spin my chair while standing and talking on the phone. So I spin my chair. And spin it. And spin it. And spin it. And spin it....

[celedhring]

Did 39 miles on the bike late this afternoon, maybe the furthest I've gone this year. 

Is the whole treating normal people like athletes and insisting they stay 'hydrated' a bit of a marketing myth?

Because I took a 3/4 of a litre with me and ended up only drinking something like 200-250ml of lemon squash, but I didn't expire. 

I gulp down 1,5 litres during a 90 minute workout. 

[Eddie Teach]

Your gym is probably considerably warmer than the English countryside.

[jimmy olsen]

Just walked 7 miles in 2 hours, 46 minutes and 23 seconds. 3.278 were up and down a local hiking trail. I'm totally wiped out.

[mongers]

Just walked 7 miles in 2 hours, 46 minutes and 23 seconds. 3.278 were up and down a local hiking trail. I'm totally wiped out.

I'd feel the same, that's further than I've walked in a long time.

[alfred russel]

Just walked 7 miles in 2 hours, 46 minutes and 23 seconds. 3.278 were up and down a local hiking trail. I'm totally wiped out.

Tim, I feel like I give you a hard time a lot, but mongers comments nonwithstanding (he seems to have an unusual relationship with non bike forms of transportation), but didn't you try to sign up for the marines a while back? In OCS they do 5 mile runs in the 40:00-42:30 minute range. Unless the trail involved an elevation gain ~1 km or if you were carrying a heavy pack, for a youngish guy like yourself, you shouldn't be wiped out afterwards.

[jimmy olsen]

I tried to join the Marines when I was 18. That was 15 years ago, and it was before I had bone cancer requiring three kinds of chemotherapy and the complete surgical reconstruction of my lower right leg (a leg that still contains two steel plates and seventeen steel screws) after which I needed 14 months of rehab to walk again. Physically I can not run and can not jump, all I can do for exercise is walk, or are you forgetting those points?

[katmai]

Nothing but excuses from TO

[jimmy olsen]

Nothing but excuses from TO

Alright, lets pump your body full of poison and then remove 4 inches of your tibia, replace it with bone from a cadevar and bolt it in place with metal plates and screws, and you can get back to me in a few years and tell me how easy getting back in shape was.