Bouncy Shoe Class (new health and fitness)

[clare]

Continued from here... http://www.lastplanetojakarta.com/forums/index.php/topic,13403.750.html

Here's an interesting looking article on kettlebells, via Runner's World...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/fitness/how-effective-are-kettlebell-workouts/article4242932/

[Bernard]

Interesting -- I have been curious about kettlebells as they're very popular among derby ladies.

[clare]

Yeah, there's a bloke at work who is a personal trainer. he sometimes brings the kettlebells in and the boys all go out to the loading dock and swing these things around like crazy. It looks like fun.

[FreddyKnuckles]

It's a fitness trend.  It's better than not working out but no better than any other strength routine. Hey if the ruskies like it, it works for me. I love those hairy ass bear motherfucks

[Antero]

I like kettlebells because it means I can have a single item rather than multiple.

Speaking of which, I need to get working out again.  I gained a few pounds during that goddamn four-month murder trial.

[milly balgeary]

I been eatin paleo (mostly) and lifting some, squats, deadlifts, benching. Man! I'm so jacked! I was at a stop light, and there was construction, and I almost jumped out and started smashing concrete, that's how jacked I am! Shit.
Not really

[jebreject]

I'm not sure which was more brutal: my work out (which was pretty punishing), or the bike ride home in the 90-something degree heat with 50% humidity.

Either way, I feel pretty awesome right now.

[elpollodiablo]

Fuck man, you're a monster. I couldn't get it together to saddle up today, what with the 95F degree heat and all. Actually ended up being a rest day because Marin woke up at 6a and I hung out with her to let D sleep. I also ate empanadas for lunch. GIMP

[FreddyKnuckles]

yeah peeople are supposed to get shredded in the summer and fat in the winter but round here its so fucking hot you can't tdo shit in the sunmmer

[clare]

I'm currently wondering if running/exercising in general is making me sick. Every time I go for a run, the next day I feel really buggered and like I'm getting a cold. That feeling lasts for about a week and i take lots of vit C zinc echinacea garlic tablets. When I feel better i go for a run and the cycle starts again. I'm getting up early 2 days a week to be at work by 6:30, so I could just be really run down...?

[jebreject]

You might just need to up your caloric intake some? I dunno.

[dieblucasdie]

Yeah, sometimes people try to start exercising and start dieting at the same time, and that can be no bueno, particularly since low/no-carb diets are popular. Or start a drastic diet and don't modify their exercise at all. (Not that you can't do both successfully, you just have to be more careful/know what you're doing).

In general, though, just listen to your body and do what you can. Try to get more rest! When you say you feel like you're getting a cold, do you just mean fatigue/weakness/etc? Or are you experiencing respiratory discomfort as well?

[dieblucasdie]

Also guyz, wanna know how I lost weight in one week with no exercise? Food poisoning! Vomiting is also a great core workout! Just slather your meals in the juices from raw chicken and watch the beach body come in! I should write a kindle single

[nonotyet]

I exercised yesterday in 95 degree heat too! I even worked with SEVEN POUND DUMBBELLS I AM THE RIPPEDEDEST.  The only way I survived the wait for the bus home was by soaking my head in cold water in the gym's bathroom sink before I left.  

[Greg Nog]

Just slather your meals in the juices from raw chicken and watch the beach body come in!

I ate some raw chicken the other day and all it did was make me more awesome

Also I went for a run in the Hell Heat today and half my vision dropped out into a blind spot afterward which I was kind of not expecting

[Thermofusion]

I can probably one up you guys. I spent about ten hours outdoors Tuesday in Darlington, SC, helping a friend out with repairing a cathodic protection system at a shitty gas station. Heat index around 100. Brutally humid and smelly, like Lucifer's butthole. I was digging eight-foot-deep holes for anodes, hammer drilling concrete and carrying the rubble away, lugging around 75 lb bags of Quickcrete, putting down asphalt patch, carrying heavy magnesium anodes around, laying wire and conduit and thumbing around an outside junction box trying not to get myself shocked. Baseball cap had a half dozen salt deposit lines across the bill and crown by the end of the day, each white contour recording the progression of sweat throughout the morning and afternoon like tide lines in the sand. Drank about nine bottles of water and it wasn't enough. Got paid $400 for my trouble and it also didn't feel like enough.

[peacocks]

Yikes that's brutal

[jebreject]

Seriously

[Thermofusion]

It was one of those days I wished I knew any metal other than Tool or Dillinger Escape Plan. I was listening to Killer Mike though, feeling all glad that Reagan's dead.

[milly balgeary]

I'm currently wondering if running/exercising in general is making me sick. Every time I go for a run, the next day I feel really buggered and like I'm getting a cold. That feeling lasts for about a week and i take lots of vit C zinc echinacea garlic tablets. When I feel better i go for a run and the cycle starts again. I'm getting up early 2 days a week to be at work by 6:30, so I could just be really run down...?

You counting your calories? How much do you eat in a day when you exercise?

[milly balgeary]

I can probably one up you guys. I spent about ten hours outdoors Tuesday in Darlington, SC, helping a friend out with repairing a cathodic protection system at a shitty gas station. Heat index around 100. Brutally humid and smelly, like Lucifer's butthole. I was digging eight-foot-deep holes for anodes, hammer drilling concrete and carrying the rubble away, lugging around 75 lb bags of Quickcrete, putting down asphalt patch, carrying heavy magnesium anodes around, laying wire and conduit and thumbing around an outside junction box trying not to get myself shocked. Baseball cap had a half dozen salt deposit lines across the bill and crown by the end of the day, each white contour recording the progression of sweat throughout the morning and afternoon like tide lines in the sand. Drank about nine bottles of water and it wasn't enough. Got paid $400 for my trouble and it also didn't feel like enough.

You should have PAID for that cross training cross fit shit! No mercy!

[milly balgeary]

Just slather your meals in the juices from raw chicken and watch the beach body come in!

I ate some raw chicken the other day and all it did was make me more awesome

Also I went for a run in the Hell Heat today and half my vision dropped out into a blind spot afterward which I was kind of not expecting

Damn!

[FreddyKnuckles]

I used to scrape concrete off of concrete forms and stack them in a dirt lot with no trees in the driest summer in montana history.  Scraping concrete.  stack stack.  The 8 footers were about 50 lbs.  Wood surrounded by steel.  We also sprayed them with a mixture of diesel fuel and motor oil which we mixed ourselves and put into an old school sprayer.  that place was h-e-double hockey sticks.

Also, bitch pleases.

I ate half a raw chicken breast once. Didn't do shit to me.

[Good Intentions]

It was one of those days I wished I knew any metal other than Tool or Dillinger Escape Plan.

Tool isn't metal. Dillinger Escape Plan is a borderline case at best.

Just chiming in with something really important, don't mind me. I recommend some of the harsher Swedish stuff from the early 2000s for back-breaking work--some Darkane would have served you well.

[jebreject]

Those are both metal bands. I won't weigh in on whether they are good metal bands or not, but they are both definitely on the metal spectrum. Early DEP is also, by the way, really fucking awesome.

I'll second the rest of your post, though.