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Perhaps more at home in the 'Stupid things you have done' thread, but I was using Wii Fit the other day, with a couple of 2.5kg weights to exercise my arms, when I saw my phone flash up with a text message. I put the weights down on the sofa, grabbed my phone and watched on of the weights roll off and land on my foot.

First couch to 5k run done, pretty easy.
No problems fitness wise, but running hurts my shins and feet a bit. I assume that will get better over time once I build up some leg muscle, and I work out the best technique. I'm more of a plodder than a runner at the moment

@DM because it was saying you weigh less than you are.

@Trooper Have you got proper running shoes? I used to have that problem until I got me some asiscs.

Did my 2nd yoga class today, can already do more than last week, but my flabby bits are getting in the way now.

Meeting James my personal trainer tomorrow, don't be surprised if you don't hear off me.

Very unrelated, but Brad Pitt's fitness person in Burn After Reading was one of the funniest things I've ever seen him do.

I do have proper shoes

Good, hopefully you just need to get your body used to it.

Ah. You might try reading my post again then.

*re-reads* Oops!

Also, I agree.

Take it easy with shins. They'll build up over time, just don't try and run through it, follow the plan, man.

How far did you go?

Just ask GazChap.

I only had one

First session was 60 seconds running, followed by 90 seconds "brisk" walking, repeated 8 times. Total was about 4.5k
I was tempted to go straight to week 2 as I didn't find it hard at all really, but follow the plan I shall

Well done mate, but being the sad twat that I am, that 4.5km distance didn't look right to me. If we assume 12kph for the running bit (which is pretty fast, to be fair) and 6kph for the brisk walk, that gives a distance of 2.8km.

(I'm a reet fat bastard at present; I managed 8.5km last night, same again tonight - but I have more that I need to lose than you mate! )

Cavey, have you logged on to myfitnesspal.com?

Plus 5 minutes either side brisk walk to warm up and warm down, then I was a 5 minute walk away from home, so I just carried on
Took 35 mins in total.

I can run 5k in under 30 mins without having done exercise in months. I don't know if I have some kind of level of natural fitness (i know my rotund figure says otherwise).

Recently I've been so lazy. Exercise annoys me because when I'm going hammer and tongs I can't get below 13st, but when I'm stuffing my face being a lazy bastard I never get over 14st.

Whilst I think of it, as I'm seeing him later, my friend J does a fair amount of boxing. He said that in between boxing sessions, going to the gym has really cut down on niggling inuries he was having. In his legs and back and things, as opposed to some 14 stone bloke twatting him in the face ("I don't mind it so much, my face doesn't hurt, but it makes my fillings jangle for about an hour afterwards). Once agian, do as I say, not as I do.

I had mine with Bupa.. I got a good old prodding and testing.

Everything is better than 3 years ago.

I'm very happy to hear that, dude!

See, what you need to do is stop being a lazy bastard and put some effort into stuffing your face. Trust me, that'll shoot you right past 14st.

Thanks...

No, I'd never heard of it sweetheart and have just checked it out now, it looks really good - thanks for that!

I do a lot of exercise (for my age), but I just love my food so much, including a whole bunch of stuff that's pretty bad news lol (chocolate for starters - I am quite the worst chocoholic I've ever known). Plus, I do like a good drink up on Fridays and Saturdays, though have managed to cut this back to sensible levels during the last few weeks at least.

I'll give this regime a go I think. I'd love to get something resembling my old six-pack back, instead of this party seven!

If anyone wants to friend me on myfitnesspal you are welcome to I'm trooperlooper on there.

I'm still alive!

Really enjoyed it actually. Nice chap, will try and stay with him.

Excellent! I have Friday PT sessions, and it's great. My trainer thinks up all kinds of weird and hurty things for me to do. Things I wouldn't necessarily do (or have heard of) of my own volition. A good trainer is wonderful.


This is because... I dunno... just weighing yourself isn't the best metric of the benefits of exercise?

I just managed 51 press ups.

That's from hitting the gym this week rather than just working with my dumb bells in the apartment. Well that and I weigh less now which is a bit cheaty.

I get free gym membership with work so I might go down the personal trainer route to push myself that bit further.

Halfway through the week and a quick update.

Weight:
12st 13lbs
181lbs
82.1kg

Weight loss to date : 5lbs

BMI : 25.2

Exercise for the week so far:
58 minutes on the exercise bike
37 minutes jogging


Finding it pretty easy at the moment, both food and exercise wise, but Mrs T has been away. The food test will come when she is back and we get carried away in the kitchen and going out to dinner
I'm not going to bother doing the gym, i'm happy with the exercise bike and jogging for now. Plan is to do 20-30 mins on the bike one day, then do the couch to 5k run the next, and then back again. Should be pretty easy to do that as it doesn't take much time. If i'm not getting any fitter i'll need to up the work rate and do more exercise, but baby steps

51 in one go?! Either way, that's really nice.


Yay, do it.

Fuck no - 3 sets of 17.



I think I will - I'm 42 now and need to work a bit smarter in the gym so some guidance would be the best course of action.

That's still monster.


Excellent. Well, I'm happy to help too, in my decidedly non-expert way.

You still doing the 100 pressup thing?

If you're asking me, the answer is sadly not. I did some as part of a fitness test, do some in classes and have a weekly session of pressups on dumbells into plank rows. But not the challenge in itself.

So, week one over with then.

Starting weight : 186lbs
Current weight : 182lbs
Weight loss : 4lbs

Exercise
Bike : 58 minutes
Jogging : 72 minutes


All good so far. Back at work in the office from now on though (and with random weeks in various locations) so it is going to get trickier. I've gone from "oooh, Double Deckers in the office!" to "arse, Double Deckers in the office"
Went out on Saturday night for a meal and a fair few drinks, plus a large homemade chilli on Sunday, so my 5lb loss on Friday has gone back to a 4lb loss today

Plan for this week.
3 runs
3 sessions on the bike

If it helps, you can send the Double Deckers to me for safekeeping.

Sure thing, I'll take some home tonight. The postal system is so crap, I wouldn't expect them to ever arrive though...

While weight loss is a great short-term side-effect it's not a robust diet strategy.

My diet strategy is to eat less and move more. Seems pretty robust to me

edit: Ohhhh, I just got it

On a similar theme, I found extensive dental surgery to be an excellent weight loss aide. Being unable to eat much more than luke warm soup for a few weeks really makes the chub drop off.

Me too!



Me toOH WAIT NO THE OTHER THING.

I took part in a horrible class today. We normally have about four people turn up. So the plan was we rotate who does stuff with the heavy ropes, and when you're not on the ropes, you do kettlebell swings/burpees/lunges/crunches/squats.

Problem was nine people turned up. So while you're waiting for your turn on the ropes, that's a lot of burpees/swings/etc in one go! Then we had to do planks and side planks. Nightmare.

I find parpees are worse than burpees though, especially in public.

On a more serious note, I don't think it's fair if devilman gets all the chocolate, and he should be forced to share, specifically with the likes of me.

Done all of the first week runs now, my main issue is my legs ache after 5 minutes of running, I don't really get out of breath as such.
I'm assuming I just need to build up some muscle and get used to it.

It wasn't actually that bad. Breath was my biggest issue - no big shock there, having smoked 20 a day for 16 years.

I did two 60min+5min warmdown 'Round the World' bodytrek stints on Sat and Sun on Level 16 - 1,000 cals burned per session! Ouch. The sweat that was coming off me did not make for a pretty sight!

Rest day yesterday but back to the weights tonight. Managed a 230lb Smith Press benchpress (10 reps, heaviest 4th set, unspotted) last time; whilst well off my 300lb peak of many years back, which is hardly surprising lol; still, not too shabby for an old bastard who needs to lose a few lbs and smokes too much.

I'm up in Newcastle overnight on wednesday, which is going to make fitting in a run a bit more tricky.
It looks like i'm actually going to have to get up early tomorrow and run before going to work, which sucks!

Just have mint, lad.

Just done 30 lengths in not a full size hotel pool.

Anyone watch The Men Who Made Us Fat? Fascinating stuff.