Battle of the bulge re-visited

[longhairedhippy]

Just some thoughts I'm jotting down to see where they're going

Comments

[dave_chimaera]

To say things are hectic at the moment is something of an understatement!

theres a court booked for tonight I think, although I don't think I'm able to make it :/

[longhairedhippy]

It's a thought, do you lot meet up regularly? In theory or in practice?

If you don't mind someone who's crap and can't remember how to play tagging along then fine... I'll have to borrow a racquet from somebody and I'd best go out and buy some shorts. I don't own any trainers, but I have some canvas yacht shoes which have rubber soles a bit like plimsolls so they should be OK.

Who's in the group anyway?

[confuseddave]

How do you feel about circuit training? It's not competitive at all, but I guess it can be a bit boring and therefore probably pretty tough to stick with, but it's my méthode préférée when I excercise. Lacking any kind of physical skill - not to mention being pathologically asocial - any kind of performance exercise (such as any kind of sport or even swimming) becomes a bit humiliating; but nobody pays any attention to you in circuit (unless you do something really stupid).

Cycling is also a good one but I always found when you were out of practice it was murder to get your body used to it again (especially in Sheffield).

Good luck.

[confuseddave]

I only do the excercises I can stand, which on reflection was only about a third of the possible ones. I swear cross-trainer machines are designed for people half my height, so they are absolute torture to use.

[glitterybint]

Circuit training and the like are good if you don't want to be competitive because you can still be competitive with yourself, and see and improvement.

[nigelh]

Although I never much liked them at school (which was the last time I ever - extremely reluctantly - did sports), perhaps some sort of team or collaborative sport might be a good idea, just to keep me motivated.

A friendly game of with a bunch of people you actually like is generally a rather more positive experience than the institutionalised torture that is the typical school gym lesson, at least IME.

[longhairedhippy]

You're almost certainly right. I guess I probably found games lessons at school unpleasant because, well, it was school, wasn't it?

[murasaki_star]

I understand your sentiments entirely (remember the short lived 'Pimp My Ass 2006'? ;)) The good thing is that you've recognised the issue, and are willing to do something about it. Aside from the vanity aspect, carrying fat around your middle is a sure-fire route to heart disease in later life

[longhairedhippy]

Thank you, once again you're making a lot of sense. I've sure we've done this before, when I was about two stone lighter and saying "Mura I need to lose weight"... that's the depressing thing. I'm really feeling angry about this now though.

Angry might sound like a funny thing to be feeling but it's actually how I feel. I'm pissed off. Before I was just fed up.

[murasaki_star]

That's good though! Anger = Action! If you're just fed up then you're passively acknowledging defeat, or something.

In reply to your Edit 2; I think as a species we are conditioned to hate things we have to do. Like I said, best to find an activity that you enjoy doing, that has the added benefit of being a form of exercise. You can trick you're brain that you're not actually exercising, you're just going for a walk/gardening, etc. Would it be possible for you to cycle to work, for example? That would have the added benefit of giving you a cast-iron excuse to refuse work related booze (Oh, I've got the bike

[murasaki_star]

Obviously I meant if you reduced your food intake to match your current energy expenditure, up there. Once you have increased your activity, and cut the (excessive) lard, your calorie intake should be less than your expenditure. Such is the path of Flabloss!

[ju_bear]

*hugs