Eat_Up_Martha
Prince
Indoor exercises (pushup, pullups, situps, free weights) and running. Although I'm not running nearly as much as I would like to be.
How do you stay active?
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Akka
Moody old mage.
I always walk when there is less than 1 km to do, and I most often walk when it's up to three km.
I do workout after work (the gym is conveniently put right in the middle of the way between work and home, so no excuse to skip it ^^), save for friday (when I go back to the city) and wednesday (when I do self-defense, which is another kind of sport), so it's three days of workout and one day of sport a week.
I also try to run back home after that, but it's too short to be really effective. I've quite a lot of strength, but I'm EXTREMELY weak in the endurance side, and I don't manage to force myself to regularly do bicycling to compensate.
I do workout after work (the gym is conveniently put right in the middle of the way between work and home, so no excuse to skip it ^^), save for friday (when I go back to the city) and wednesday (when I do self-defense, which is another kind of sport), so it's three days of workout and one day of sport a week.
I also try to run back home after that, but it's too short to be really effective. I've quite a lot of strength, but I'm EXTREMELY weak in the endurance side, and I don't manage to force myself to regularly do bicycling to compensate.
DroopyTofu
Double Bass Double Bass
Until about a month ago, I tended to run around 50 miles a week give or take. Now, I don't do anything. But Probably in January, I'll start working my running back up. I also play outdoor games such as ultimate frisbee whenever I get the chance, but that's not often.
Quackers
The Frog
I walk about 25 minutes worth a day half of it uphill.
It's nowhere enough though I should really join that football team......, I am still most of the time so I don't use up a lot of calories. I only eat about 2 meals a day with a few bananas for snacks. This is my M-F routine weekend is a bit diff.
It's nowhere enough though I should really join that football team......, I am still most of the time so I don't use up a lot of calories. I only eat about 2 meals a day with a few bananas for snacks. This is my M-F routine weekend is a bit diff.
Hygro
soundcloud.com/hygro/
I walk 20+ miles a week, I dance, I lift weights, and I'm often on my feet when I could be sitting down. That last one is a key key key difference between fat people and thin people.
wilycoyote
King
I gained 50 lbs over the last six months due to being very, very busy and stressed (I changed like Mac on Always Sunny). Thus, I lift three times a week, run six times a week, and play basketball a couple of times a week on top of that. I better be me by the end of January!
causative or symptomatic?
Leonel
Breakfast Connoisseur
I'll normally try to regularly do weight exercises but on occasion my friend will get me to join him to volunteer for some intensive tasks. We'll go to Issaquah or North Bend and plant some trees for three hours for a volunteer organization. Sometimes it's really intense like digging holes and shoveling soils and my whole body will be sore for a week but it'll be something simple as punching small holes in the ground to put tree branches into.
Did you go to confession on behalf of your friends, who totally made you fat?
I love that show. So much craziness and absurdity.
Oh yeah, I also have a standing computer desk at home.
I've got a seated desk at work, but tend to pace around my office anytime I'm not actively using my computer.
Leifmk
Deity
Gym workouts (deadlifts and milk, bro), indoor exercises (supplemental bodyweight stuff, kettlebells), and "other" (interval toddler chasing).
mayor
Heart & Mind
I usually play sports (Floorball) but since I got a knee injury I haven't really been able to play. I (try) to do indoor exercises now, both ordered by the physiotherapist and some of my own.
I use my bycicle to get everywhere.. don't ahve a driver's license, so I have to + I like it
I used to jog/run but since my knee is weak (first injury was in january this year) that hasn't happend aside from one race where I found my knee was hurting after 5 km....
EDIT: and I walk a lot of stairs at work. 4 between my office and the front door, 1 to get to the toilet and 3 to get coffee (which I do a lot
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I use my bycicle to get everywhere.. don't ahve a driver's license, so I have to + I like it
I used to jog/run but since my knee is weak (first injury was in january this year) that hasn't happend aside from one race where I found my knee was hurting after 5 km....
EDIT: and I walk a lot of stairs at work. 4 between my office and the front door, 1 to get to the toilet and 3 to get coffee (which I do a lot
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azzaman333
meh
Sports are by far the most fun way to remain active.
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
I'm not a very active person at all, but I *try* to stay in shape.. somewhat. I'm not very good with making sure I get enough exercise each week, but I keep telling myself that it's not as bad as other people..
I play soccer once a week, or at least used to. Right now we're in between seasons. In the summer I try to join an 11vs11 team or a 6vs6 team. In the winter it's indoor soccer and usually 5vs5 or 6vs6. My most natural position is goalkeeper, but you don't get much of a workout playing there, unless your defense really sucks.. or the other team is really good. I really enjoy playing 'keep, but I also play as a striker. Lately I've been a bit out of form, but when I get into form I'm usually a half decent striker, scoring every second game, if not more frequently.
We have a group of people who rent out a gym in the winter once a week and play.. This started last year and was really fun - we're starting up again in January. This group of people is very talented, or at least a couple of us are. The guys know that I prefer playing out - especially on a smaller net (I don't feel comfortable in a small net. it needs to be a full-sized 11vs11 regulation net), so we got somebody to volunteer being goalie each game. That means that I'm going to be playing as striker.. and that's a lot of pressure, even though we just play pick-up games for fun.. not competitively at all. All the guys on the team are good.. They know all the plays, when you should be going for runs, etc. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that I want to step it up to their level of skill, but it's not going to be easy.
I don't mind playing defense, that was my position for a couple years before I took over the 'keeper position on my old team 5 years ago. I'm pretty good with man marking and getting in yo face at the right moment, but I really do prefer playing as a striker. Who doesn't? At midfield I'm not generally that good, especially holding midfield. As a winger I do okay.
So yeah, the soccer is usually weekly and for the first couple runs during each match I am usually easily out of breath.. but then once I get into it it's a lot easier. It's cause I don't really do anything outside of soccer, so my body isn't really ready for it.
I installed one of those pull-up bar things in the doorframe leading to my walk-in closet in my bedroom. So if I feel like exercising, I will use that. It tires me out QUICK though, so I don't really think it's very efficient in terms of the exercise I get out of it.
I tend to also walk everywhere, which I'm sure helps. I don't have a car, so it's sort of imposed on me.. I say 'sort of' because I could easily get a car. At some point I probably will, but I don't mind walking places at all.
I also enjoy hiking, but I'm pretty weird about that. Usually I sit in front of the computer for 8 hours at work and then long periods at home (on average, there are days where I go out or whatever), so I'm not exactly in the condition to be going on long hikes.. but I do.. seemingly once a year, through the mountains, with 17kg on my back. It totally destroys my body, but for some reason I'm addicted
It's probably just the amazing scenery I've hiked through..
I wouldn't mind being more active so that hiking through hilly terrain would become easier.
I play soccer once a week, or at least used to. Right now we're in between seasons. In the summer I try to join an 11vs11 team or a 6vs6 team. In the winter it's indoor soccer and usually 5vs5 or 6vs6. My most natural position is goalkeeper, but you don't get much of a workout playing there, unless your defense really sucks.. or the other team is really good. I really enjoy playing 'keep, but I also play as a striker. Lately I've been a bit out of form, but when I get into form I'm usually a half decent striker, scoring every second game, if not more frequently.
We have a group of people who rent out a gym in the winter once a week and play.. This started last year and was really fun - we're starting up again in January. This group of people is very talented, or at least a couple of us are. The guys know that I prefer playing out - especially on a smaller net (I don't feel comfortable in a small net. it needs to be a full-sized 11vs11 regulation net), so we got somebody to volunteer being goalie each game. That means that I'm going to be playing as striker.. and that's a lot of pressure, even though we just play pick-up games for fun.. not competitively at all. All the guys on the team are good.. They know all the plays, when you should be going for runs, etc. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that I want to step it up to their level of skill, but it's not going to be easy.
I don't mind playing defense, that was my position for a couple years before I took over the 'keeper position on my old team 5 years ago. I'm pretty good with man marking and getting in yo face at the right moment, but I really do prefer playing as a striker. Who doesn't? At midfield I'm not generally that good, especially holding midfield. As a winger I do okay.
So yeah, the soccer is usually weekly and for the first couple runs during each match I am usually easily out of breath.. but then once I get into it it's a lot easier. It's cause I don't really do anything outside of soccer, so my body isn't really ready for it.
I installed one of those pull-up bar things in the doorframe leading to my walk-in closet in my bedroom. So if I feel like exercising, I will use that. It tires me out QUICK though, so I don't really think it's very efficient in terms of the exercise I get out of it.
I tend to also walk everywhere, which I'm sure helps. I don't have a car, so it's sort of imposed on me.. I say 'sort of' because I could easily get a car. At some point I probably will, but I don't mind walking places at all.
I also enjoy hiking, but I'm pretty weird about that. Usually I sit in front of the computer for 8 hours at work and then long periods at home (on average, there are days where I go out or whatever), so I'm not exactly in the condition to be going on long hikes.. but I do.. seemingly once a year, through the mountains, with 17kg on my back. It totally destroys my body, but for some reason I'm addicted
It's probably just the amazing scenery I've hiked through..I wouldn't mind being more active so that hiking through hilly terrain would become easier.
EDIT: and I walk a lot of stairs at work. 4 between my office and the front door, 1 to get to the toilet and 3 to get coffee (which I do a lot
Same here, I'm 4 floors up, my lab is on the 5th and my office on the 4th, so I go up and down at least a dozen times each day. Refreshments and refrigerators are also on a break room on the 5th, so that's another few trips each day.
Communisto
Condottiere
Every other day I run up and down my stairs 60 times (up and down = 1) with weights in my hands. Then do 40 pushups, 65 squirms, 30 sit ups, 12 dumb bell rows for each arm, 12 weighted punches, 30 second planks, 12 chin ups and 30 second wall sit. All this i do because Im too cheap to go to a gym and also cause its kinda like Rocky. Right? Kinda like Rocky?
It keeps me lean, which is all I really want. So many dudes start to pudge out after HS ends. I didnt want to be one of those guys and have that, like, larval state beer gut at 23.
It keeps me lean, which is all I really want. So many dudes start to pudge out after HS ends. I didnt want to be one of those guys and have that, like, larval state beer gut at 23.
Hygro
soundcloud.com/hygro/
Causative. I recommend it to all people. We can also correlate being physically busy in low-intensity ways with the shared traits of geographic cultures that produce the longest living people. Aka super-longevity.
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