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do you do any exercise? what sort? why?

i tried to do 45 sit ups the other day, and it was really quite hard.

― gareth, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

me exercise freak until this year, my pecs/biceps are rapidly aging/fading. Why exercise, the old man was ex SAS, nuf said

― Kiwi, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

decided that i was unfit so joined gym. was pretty good at going 3-4 times a week until recently but am getting back on track! and starting a yoga foundation course tomorrow hurrah! actually i quite like the mindlessness of toodling along on treadmill, it makes me feel justified in watching TV (you can watch TV and exercise at the same time = TV no longer a big fat waste of time and i am hopfully no longer big fat katie)

― katie, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hahaha according to Nath I am super POSHO because I was supposed to meet my "personal trainer" (really a fancy fucking name for the dude who is going to show me how to use some of the more complicated machine-os at the 24 hour gym around the corner from my work). I hadn't been a gym goer for nearly 2 years, but I have so much time from 4-7am that I figure I should just use my lunch break and work out. I've been going for nearly a month and I am still doing 5 times a week (every work day). It'll probably last for as long as I have this job at least. Gotta admit I feel really good and that first cigarette after you finish is just fucking divine! I wish they had TVs at my place, but they tend to play Top 40 stuff which is MILES better than the soft rock that a lot of places gravitate to.

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

not so long ago, the answer would have been "no. never. what's the point. i'm just not the exercising type". For the last few months i've been going for runs, and now up to 2 runs a week, averaging probably somewhere around 10 miles a week. i am baffled why i thought it wouldn't have any good effect on me. i feel so much better in many difficult to express ways.

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I try to do some weight/resistance training at least 3 times a week now if not more. I really don't think of myself as very athletic but regular exercise like this has given me a lot more energy and is grebt for relieving stress.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Plus now if I had to beat someone up it would probably actually hurt them.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I run 4-5 miles 3 or 4 times a week with the occasional 10 miler thrown in. I started 3 yrs ago in order to lose 2.5 stones (34 pounds, USA folks), which went in 6 months. There are so many benefits that I just kept going.

― Dr. C, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Regular walks, two daily when possible, rather than runs for me (though I'm a pretty fast walker). It's good to stretch the legs!

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i lift weights 3 times a week and swim twice a week; i shd prob do some more aerobic stuff, i guess, though i've been saying that for months. i've lost a stone or two this year and i actually have some biceps (ok, they're not huge but they're there) which is pretty cool...

― toby, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am terminally lazy which is why about the only exercise I've done lately is yoga as you get to lie down for 5-10 mins at the end relaaaxing. Also I am terminally competitive and crap at sporty running things but quite good at bendy things so I prefer to do something I am not rub at and where I don't get school gym paranoia flashbacks. I also walk to the tube every morning which is 30 mins and sometimes back in the evenings. And I dance in clubs when I go out. Oh dear I am SO bloody lazy.

― Emma, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am being k-rub in going to the gym after a very good start. I admit this is due to house move - I no longer live within a reasonable walking distance of the gym and it's hard to get home/bother getting over to gym again - and there isn't one v near my work either. There's one @ Oxford Circus but their running machines = rub! So going now means I pack my stuff in advance, go to Brixton, and then come back in to my house which is a pain. I would change the gym but I am quite sure that I would have to pay up quite a lot for this. There's one at the Oval which looks good as well, sigh :(

Oh yeah and I need to exercise because I am very unhealthy and have extremely huge body issues which make me very upset. I play them down most of the time but they are still lurking in the background. I may talk about them when I am very very drunk => another reason why I have given up the booze this week!

I probably couldn't do any situps. And my heart rate is stupidly fast. Oh god.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh yeah and i do 150 or so situps before i go to bed on nights when i haven't been drinking (which varies between 0 and 5 nights/week).

― toby, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This is a very bad thread! Also Toby you are a mentalist :)

― Sarah, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh yeah, and i've started doing sit ups to wind down from a run. it's like the rest of me is going "ok, you've done legs/arse, what about the rest of us, eh? EH?"

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sit-ups are right bastards. I started doing them again a couple of weeks ago, and after being reasonably pleased with being able to do 50 or so after not doing any for years, my whole lower back/stomach/diaphragm rebelled and I was unable to even do ONE for 3 or 4 days. It's the old cliche about using muscles that you don't normally use etc etc

― Dr. C, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

which bit of that makes me a mentalist? the situps?

actually i do occasionally try doing the situps when drunk, but rarely make it through about 5 before deciding that lying down is way more important than having a flat stomach.

― toby, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In fact Alan if you focus on maintaining good posture & pulling in your abs while running you can work them too. The sad thing is I know about the theory but cannot be arsed with the practice. Exercise is too time consuming and takes too long to work.

― Emma, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've got a gym in my building, and have lately taken to spending 45 min. or so on the crosstrainer at heart rate = 150. I always bring a batch of new comic books to read, and usually listen on headphones to something suitably fast-paced--Disco Not Disco, Masters At Work, the new Wire. It does make me feel better afterward.

― Douglas, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am going to the gym tonight - then I am going to the pub and not drinking BOOZE but will have the biggest bitchfest in the WORLD about certain Wicked Witches of certain places called oh perhaps SLOUGH, grrr. I feel really fat and horrible. ARGH gym save me from my lardy doom.... :(

― Sarah, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Also I can EASILY get my heartrate up to 170. This shocked CWM. Oh god I am going to die of a heart attack!!! RITE I am cutting out salt and hidden salt and and and oh GOD wot else is good for hearts apart from Shredded Wheat (which is gross)...

― Sarah, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

arf! i bought myself a minidisc player on the pretext that it would make me go on runs more (i.e. make it less boring if i can listen to choonz) however i only did this a couple of times before realising how crap it is, cos it ruins your gait/pace. luckily i am continuing without it.

How hardcore is it to get one of those heart-rate thingies? (see it's just about gadgets)

― Alan T, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have started playing frisby occasionally in Forest Gate sometimes though and I like it. Leaping around the park like I was 10 again, it's oddly compelling. I was to play football this evening in Regents Park with my brother's mate but i forgot to bring shoes that can kick footballs so no.

I did the situps thing last year every night for a few months, building it up and it was dead therapeutic. I'd have music on and all, and I lost my beer gut. This year my beer gut is less cos going out and dancing seems to have lessened it, so I didn't bother with the situps. That and the fact that I didn't want to.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It is just the heart rate thing they have on the running machines - I am not dragging my fat lumbering ass out to run in proper PUBLIC with pointing and jeering skoolchildreng thangyewverymuch.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

All monitors on all gym equipment are notoriously dodgy esp. the calorie counters so instead of thinking blimey I have burned off 500 cals bring on the Haagen Dazs think, er, something else instead. Stupid machines.

― Emma, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My total exercize consists of typing and walking to/from the bus stop (which is two blocks away). I am still relatively slim. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

(I have the world's worst eating habits, though; I tihnk I consume about 800 calories a day.)

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I walk everywhere, that's my exercise routine. I'd like to have broader shoulders and a little less weight round my middle, but I never keep up with exercise routines for long as I still look like a physical wreck.

― jel --, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mmmm sloth.

(the trick, folks, is finding a sexual partner who appreciates your misshapen flabby body, coupled with an extreme disinterest in doing much of anything other than drinking and sitting on your ass.)

― jess, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I try to get to the gym once a week. Also, ideally one private and one group salsa lesson a week. If I actually make it out dancing, the combination is usually enough to keep me in fairly decent shape. Right now I am carrying extra weigh around since I was unable to dance or do much excercise for half a year due to a knee injury.

Partner dancing isn't really a great way to burn up calories, but if you do it frequently enough and dance enough dances in an evening, it can work. (I don't really do it for physical fitness reasons, however. That's more of a pleasant byproduct.)

― DeRayMi, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Merenue can be aerobic. I've seen younger-than-me dancers have trouble keeping up with fast merengues that were not particularly challenging to me.

― DeRayMi, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Merengue not merenue. I just don't like the way the error looks.

― DeRayMi, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A work colleage who exercises told me, when discussing this, said: 'Heathy body, helthy mind'. He's OK as a person but I'm thinking but, you know, it's not gonna prolong life (and then: would you want to?) and it's prob. some bloody scheme to get more money from us all when we could spend our money in more interesting ways. We could buy more music, for insatnce.

So its a DUD ppl.

― Julio Desouza, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

exercise is fun, although i haven't been doing any this summer. i find that when you're working 9-5 and both the gym and the music building close at 8, there's absolutely no chance that you're going to be able to practice sax for two hours and run on the damn treadmill. can anyone work out after 5PM and not be wasted for the rest of the evening?

― Dave M., Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I made the mistake of giving up smoking. Before that, I'd have to go up and down the stairs, in and out of the offices where I work several times a day. I'd usually run up and down the stairs. Now I don't smoke => I am far less fit. Doctors know nothing.

Being able to run more than, ooh, a hundred yards is useless. There are buses, tubes, trains, cars and taxis for that kind of thing. I don't know whether I can run a hundred yards without dying, however.

― Martin Skidmore, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

six months pass...

I love walking because you can explore new areas. Think I might tonight!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 3 January 2003 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

hahaha sarah was right i was a mentalist. i haven't done any situps in months. also i have done no exercise yet this week, and currently sitting in my office learning maths seems more attractive than going swimming.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 11:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I have put on loads of weight in the last few months, I think because I can't walk to work any more. I want to go swimming but I am blind without my glasses and fear wandering into to men's sauna or something by mistake. I like walking but not in the dark (roll on summer). My bike was nicked. I hate gyms. I am scared of exercise/yoga classes etc. I am not motivated enough to stick with my cringe-worthy Yogalates video.

What shall I do?

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 11:10 (twenty-three years ago)

swimming - contact lenses + googles are the answer here. actually i used to go wimming with my glasses on (i had one of those elastic straps that fit round your head), but it's not great + i felt pretty silly, too.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 11:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah I don't wear contacts though. I guess I need a swimming buddy to push me in the right direction (both literally and in terms of motivation).

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 11:29 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

ok now that i have moved i am regularly exercising for the first time in my life. this brought on by the enjoyment of the physical exertion of lugging boxes around, a disrupted routine that i'm now putting together again, a nice spacious clean floor, and the fact that a small 5 pound weight was left in the apt. by the last occupant.

being a skinny fucker who actually walks/jogs quite a bit and was a regular bicycler many yrs ago, i'm working on my chest and abs mainly, since training rather than weight reduction is at issue. i think i need to move up to a bigger weight coz i can't just keep increasing reps but that means ugh buying a weight. so i guess i'm moving to push-ups for the chest instead. also i found some lovely ab exercises (the reverse crunch seems v. good) for that area.

i'm probably not going v. intensive, but it's v. enjoyable. also should probably help with the back-fucked-upness i get from an overweight bag on one shoulder constantly.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 21 August 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's good times. I love this fatigue that sets in after a day of labor -- I did a short bike ride this morning, then went down to our community garden and spent a couple of hours moving bricks and swinging a sledgehammer to break up cement. Sledgehammers are fun! I never got to play with one before but apparently as long as you get the mechanics right, it's a cinch. Still tiring, of course.

Real life productive work instead of gym visit = classic when possible.

― Laurel, Sunday, 21 August 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

I'm surprised I never posted to say I never do any exercise.

― the pinefox, Sunday, 21 August 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

If gyms had sledgehammers I'd go every day.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 22 August 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

Oh look, I am in exactly the same situation as I was over two years ago - have I done any exercise since then? Have I buggery.

My new plan is to find a badminton partner, but someone who a) is as crap as me and b) I don't know TOO well, so politeness will keep me motivated not to duck out all the time.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Buggery is exercise? Hurrah!

― I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

I've tried that line, it doesn't work. Blah blah blah "you burn loads of calories that way" blah blah blah "but it'll hurt" blah blah blah.

― nabiscothingy, Monday, 22 August 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

I still mainly do walking around as my only exercise, I walk abnormally fast. I did some yoga poses yesterday, and now I'm feeling pretty achey, and my back is sore, oh dear. I do yoga about every 3 months.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

xpost

feel the burn.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

feel the bum

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

no thanks

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 22 August 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

so, sit ups

― terry lennox. (gareth), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 08:43 (twenty years ago)

I go for post-natal exercise (kinisetherapy or however you call it in English). I might take up fitness after that cause I wanna get rid of my flabby tummy. :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 09:31 (twenty years ago)

I don't think we have a word for it in english besides postnatal (or postpartum) excercise! It's funny how gooey your belly is, isn't it? It gets better but you do have to work at it. Picking up and carrying that baby helps a lot, helps you warm up to more exercise later at least. I took the kid on a walk yesterday, about a mile and a half total. Although it was down to the local bakery where I bought cookies and tarts. I may start doing that more often. Also the gym near me is offering a 'mommy and me' postnatal yoga class soon, where you bring the baby and use it like a weight!

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:26 (twenty years ago)

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