Fitness

[Steve27752]

So, what excercsise if any! Do you guys & gals do to keep fit?
I have just been for a morning run with my wife and I did 3 miles in 22m 49s. Not bad for a 50 year old.

 

[Man of Tanith]

dog walking and general walking is all i do.
i work in a care home and am constantly on my feet from moment i start to moment i finish so excersise is a moot point for me.
3 miles in 22m 49s is very impressive
Sam

 

[korvin karbon]

walks with the dogs, but no where near enough. I do krav 3 times a week but thats not enough really, just ordered myself some kettlebells to use in the office

 

[locum76]

at least 30 miles on my bike each week. Plus, digging, hoeing, raking, lugging stuff about...

 

[Melonfish]

i find that lifting those heavy pints really really takes its toll on me i can lift 8 or so then i have to lie down...





na i cycle to work, its only 7 miles between here and my house, so there and back each day rain or shine

 

[Humpback]

I have the fitest fingers and thumbs thanks to a strick regime of typing five miles a day
Alan

 

[tobes01]

I'm a fatster, but have done the London to Paris cycle for the past 3 years - now in training for next year's Ride Across Britain, 1,000 miles from John O'Groats to Lands End in 9 days. Help!

 

[Scots_Charles_River]

Mountain bike, road bike, hillwalk, rock climb, canoe and sea kayak. Normally do two of those within one week. Coming into Mountain bike night ride season too. I'm lucky as Ratho is the biggest indoor climbing wall in the world and it's 20mins drive for me.

Nick

 

[stooboy]

well im 29 and did a 3 mile run today in 28 minutes, ive a sedentary office job so need to make the effort to do physical stuff or pile on the pounds, ive noticed the overall benefits of being fitter, mean i can carry more beer and food into the woods.

 

[redandshane]

10 miles minimum per day on bike plus
I cover some ground walking recreationally ahem
Dont have a car
Smoke 20 fags a day and drink excessively on a routine basis
12 stone fit as a butchers dog
Whats not to love
lol?

 

[Peter_t]

does work count? being a tree surgeon im lugging big lumps of wood about and mucking about in trees. it keeps me pretty fit and iv noticed im getting more muscley since i started working full time
but the 10 hour days leave me completely nackered and haveing no energy to do anything at the weekends hopefull i'll get used to it

pete

 

[scrogger]

I walk around 4 to 6 miles a day with my dogs. Planning on getting out more on my bike over the autumn and winter. Also we are lucky to have one of those keep fit clothes hanging rails in the back bedroom (cross trainer) if we ever get round to unearthing it.

I really do want to get rid of about a stone but not sure how well I will do!!!!

 

[TallMikeM]

yup, working outdoors certainly counts. Not to mention all the digging, wood chopping and the like.
The irony is that since I've started college (studying outdoorsy things) I no longer get as much time working outdoors as I'd like and the fitness is quickly departing.

 

[lub0]

generally i just mantain the ability to pull my own bodyweight upward.
there's a 10ft wall near where i live which i test myself on ever now and then.

last year I could run up, grip the edge and pull myself up and over fairly easily. Last time I tried a few days ago I could'nt do it at all.


As a result I'm doing pullups on my porch to build my strength up again.

+A1 for digging.

grip, wrist, forearm, tricep, back, legs and core are what I tend to focus on. couldn't care less about the chest - i always use a basket anyway!

 

[monkey boy]

as a personal trainer i am training all day long with people.

 

[Chris G]

Nothing at the moment, but I need to start something heavy duty pronto. Time to re-read "Fit for Motorsport"....

 

[malente]

I try to go running, for about an hour or so, once or twice a week. My day job is long hours, in offices or at clients' sites, so not much exercise there at all.

At the weekends walking, being active with my two little boys.

I'm currently on a diet as well

 

[Shewie]

I play 5-a-side twice a week and usually do some outdoorsy stuff at the weekend, could be walking, hunting or canoeing normally.

Also a smoker but I hardly ever drink.

 

[lub0]

Just back from a run and was shocked at how unfit I am when it comes to cardio!
There was me thinking high intensity weight lifting cover both bases (cardio and muscle) but in reality it is not so! I could barely manage 25 minutes of jogging!

Gerard Butler in an interview about his movie "300" he mentioned how he hates cardio and that all he does is weight training and when training for the movie he very quickly realised how poorly his cardio fitness was and secondly that weight lifting alone cannot give you the psysique he had during the movie.

Anyway there's a guy I came accross recently and I've been using his training techniques and philosophy for a month now and I really feel this guy is the real deal. His name is Ross Enamait, check out videos here http://www.youtube.com/user/rossenamait

I've been doing sandbag shouldering but using a concrete boulder. I'll buy an army top loading duffel bag and fill it with sand bags, soon. Just earlier today we were filling plastic bags with horse manure for the allotmont and I was barely able to pick them up to put them in the car boot. Half of them I needed help with so I can really see how sand bag shouldering can be a perfect way to develop real-world functional strength.

I've also been performing his door "pinch and lean" technique to strengthen my grip - ingenious!

 

[Bigman]

Wish I could go running, not anymore.

Still a walk around Town for an hour and I was wrecked.