Life In 19x19

Lifting weights every other day. Deadlifts, dumbell overhead press. Currently I am on low weight but high reps-- with no rest between the lift types.

I also do a set of squats with just the bar, trying to adjust my form as Fwiffo suggested a long time ago. Friends say I'm doing it right, but I still lose balance.

With my amazing lack of motivation (I wonder why I can't get myself to commit and play Go games...), I really don't work out. Really need to find somebody to exercise with. And there is even brand new gym equipment at my work that is free to use! So sad...

Best I do is walking a good 30 minutes or so, usually about 3-4 times a week. Better than nothing, I guess.

Phelan wrote:I haven't run a marathon, only a "mini-marathon" (10 Km), but what I got from the atmosphere, is that most people are not there to run against the others. The opponent is the course. Don't know if that spirit applies everywhere, but thought it might interest you.

I'm thinking that the opponent is more my attitude and the aim to run better than mm minutes. When I run for fun I don't look at the time, even for longer runs.

- Mic

I always really hated sport, but now that I'm getting older, I get the urges to move around a bit... I was going to a gym regularly for some time when it was two floors below my workplace, but then I moved back to Prague and didn't find any convenient+nice+cheap place. I liked to DDR in the past, but now it feels too much like a timewaste - I need to give my brain something to do while I move around, so I like to listen to radio / audiobooks / audio lectures, jpop ain't my thing. What do you do while exercising? Just relax and enjoy the silence, or do you like to listen to something?

Nowadays, I just lift some weights in front of the computer time by time, but more importantly I bought a bike and cycle to school about 1.5 to 2 hours almost daily, and it is starting to make a huge amount of difference. (Unfortunately, Prague is not the most bike-friendly city, but with some great net resources it's possible to find a car-less path between most places in the city, just with plenty of annoyance around crossroads.)

I have a younger brother who's one of those guys that eats nothing but chicken and canned tuna with protein shakes and go to the gym 18384x a day. I just try to tag along with him every once in a while. Also, DDR if that counts - I don't really do it for the exercise though, I made it an irritating imperative a few years ago that I would pass a 13-footer on ITG (currently passed 2 12-footers, ! + Go 60 Go). Here is a video of someone doing so.

pasky wrote:What do you do while exercising? Just relax and enjoy the silence, or do you like to listen to something?

When I lift I put on some aggressive goa trance (i.e. not the trippy spaced out kind). I like goa trance since it's mostly the same music all the time and it has a beat. I.e. I don't risk getting a bad song right when I'm about to do a max lift.

I could never listen to anything that requires attention. It would steal focus from the lifting and I would end up not getting the workout I want.

I used to do Kendo and Tennis when I was at uni, but since moving back home the only kind of exercise I do is mainly cutting practice, and even that is only a few times a week. I wish I had a treadmill or exercise bike, could stick some tsumego/tesuji problems on the computer screen and try to solve them while exercising!

I usually jog/run about once per week. Depending on my mood and physical condition, I may do anything from 3 km to more than 15 km. All slow pace and untimed.

im on a modified starting strength program. lift 3 days a week, squats every workout, alternating bench + deadlift days and shoulder press + pull down. i should toss in some accessory work but i feel pretty good about the program as is for now.

I work out roughly 6 days a week, but only 10-15 minutes lifting (mostly free weights) followed by five minutes on the treadmill (mostly running). It's short and sweet, but keeps me feeling energized

I used to be one of those people that beat themselves up in the gym, working out until I could barely walk out of the place, but overall I feel much better with this short routine.

wossname wrote:im on a modified starting strength program. lift 3 days a week, squats every workout, alternating bench + deadlift days and shoulder press + pull down. i should toss in some accessory work but i feel pretty good about the program as is for now.

Interesting program. I'd probably need something like that now. Been out of lifting for almost 2 months. Before that I used a westside template and liked it a lot. But it killed me if I went too heavy too often.

i am an assistant instructor in tae kwon do, as well as a practitioner of muay thai, krav maga, and Brazilian jiu jitsu. that being said, im in pretty decent shape

For a long time I really did no exercise aside from occasionally walking a few miles out in the woods. Last semester I took up fencing, but only once a week. The time that people met for it wasn't very convenient, so I stopped. About two months ago I took up taichi. I'm fortunate enough to have access to a place where the martial aspect of it isn't ignored. Bagua and xingyi are also taught there, but I'm waiting until I'm more comfortable with taichi before I take them up.

Another capoeirista here. (Hi there!) I also do a bit of parkour. I'm not that good at it, but it's the best all-round fitness I've ever encountered, especially the way they do it here in Glasgow. It's nice because I find the two movement systems bleed into each other a little.

I really really want to be able to do a cartwheel with no hands.

I also trained taekwondo for 6 months and had one fight. I've still got all the gear, so if I ever get time again I'll probably take it back up.

No gym for me, i only play soccer once in a while.