Darn that military training, I bet it doesn't even cover rocket-jumping or the finer points of respawning. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Soundwarp
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Darn that military training, I bet it doesn't even cover rocket-jumping or the finer points of respawning. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Soundwarp
I heard of a guy who was an ex-Army sniper who would always cream everyone else in paintball skirmishes. :p
Geminii: how is it modified? Are you taught fighting applications or is it only taught as a form of exercise? (I suspect it may be modified to be purely a form of exercise/fitness)
The three main styles of Tai Chi are:
Yang
Chen
Wu
Some basic fighting applications for Tai Chi (Chen style)
Lol i wish i could respawn in the middle east, it would make patroling easier :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Geminii
It's mainly taught as fitness for oldies and housewives, the class I go to being made up mostly of these. :)
I prefer a style where the combat applications are covered, if only so I have some vague idea of what I'm supposed to be accomplishing with various movements. I'm the one who keeps pestering the teacher with "So is this movement supposed to be a block, a strike, what?"
The Tai Chi place I went to in Canberra was more forthcoming with this info - they'd even occasionally do a live combat demo of a movement to show exactly what its point was. "And here, this movement pulls the opponent off balance so, and flings them across the room, so. OK? Right, someone go help Billy out of the wall, please."
Those paintball's never fly straight. I'm a reasonably good shot, and I find those paintball guns infuriating... No 2 shots EVER hit the same spot! I guess it's due to the lack of conformance with those 'pellets'Quote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
paintballs are painful.. lol always wear thick clothing!
man so sore from gym yesterday, i can hardly move.
Weak.Quote:
Originally Posted by sifun
well we don't know what he did at the gym and/or how regularly he goes. I sometimes have lapses where I don't train for months and then when I get back to it I feel reeeaaaally sore afterwards. :p
I don't do anything to stay looking good, as for looking good, thats not possible. I'm an ugmo if you ask me ahah.
Only things that I have ever been complemented on, and can say on the board... Is my eyes, hair and arms.. Other then that. I guess the entire thing where I act like a kid, but have a way with words that an adult has and don't tend to care how people see me. I guess that helps a little aswell. The Transformers collection has helpped out of late, but that can only go sofar. I was willing to sell it, just to make the moving out, then moving in alot faster. But, The Girl ran off with her ex and I'm stuck here alone:(:(
Yeah, that sounds like a form of Tai Chi that's intended primarily for exercise rather than fighting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Geminii
Such questions are kinda pointless if you're learning a non-combative style of Tai Chi. It'd be like asking a Yoga or Pilates instructor for fight applications in their 'sport.' :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Geminii
Hehehehehehe. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Geminii
One thing that bugs me about some Tai Chi teachers (and teachers of internal arts in general) is the insistence on everything being soft and never hard. It's like they've entirely missed the entire point of Yin Yang - i.e.: a balance of hard and soft - not one to the exclusion of the other! Sorry, that's something that really irks me something chronic when I talk to internal martial artists. Likewise I'm equally irked when I talk to external martial artists who think that they're art has to be completely hard (I find a lot of practitioners of Southern Kung Fu, Korean and Japanese martial arts tend to fall into this category, with the exception of Aikido which is a Japanese internal art - but then I find a lot of practitioners fall into being too soft).
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Tai Chi's a good starting point for me from a martial arts perspective. It's soft enough so that I can do it even with a couch potato physique, and it provides good practice in things like balance and co-ordination that might serve well if I go into a 'harder' martial art at any point.
I do have a couple of akidogi, but haven't made use of them yet. I figure I need to be a bit more flexible and with a few more muscles for padding before I start getting tossed around a dojo.
I had a leg injury about 7 weeks ago now and have just started going to the gym again. In the intervening period, I put on 7 kilos and now weigh in at 87!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:
My missus is givin' me a lotta crap now cos i usually give her crap about her chicken wings! :o :o:o
Oh how the might have fattened! :(
(I sweat like a pig running at 11km/hr now - I used to run at 16km/hr and not even registered a sweat!) :o :o
You still got a ways to go before you catch my nice even 100kgs boy.
I hit my personal best for bench press!
90kg x 4 reps. Soon I will have nice man boobies.
STL: have you considered low-impact exercise until you've fully recovered?
e.g.: Tai Chi, Pilates, Yoga, low-impact swimming and other aquatic exercises etc.
Cough....Quote:
Originally Posted by TheDirtyDigger
115kg
I charm them with my personality. :)
But I do go swimming and running (with the dog) to keep myself from becoming Jabba the Hutt.
Is it bad that i think of Pizza hut when i read Jabba the Hutt????
Whoa! I thought this thread was long since dead & buried... :D
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fat sapper - it works miracles
Either that or you've been watching too much Spaceballs. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Soundwarp
"Pizza the Hut!"http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g1...t/pizzahut.jpg
Speaking of which, there's a new Spaceballs animated series coming soon! :D
argh, now that u mentioned it i haven't decided what to eat tmrw for lunch yet! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Soundwarp
I did thanks. I swam twice before doing some "quick" walking the previous week. Have only started to jog but my heart rate is poor. I'm clocking 180+ at 10km/hr. A long way to go but tonight was fairly steady. I'm not really overexerting and I've probably for once in my life actually issued some caution and not rushed back into things.Quote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
[QUOTE=Pulse;45688]Whoa! I thought this thread was long since dead & buried... :D
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Wrong!
I was at the gym tonight and on the treadmill and I run a tough regime at 11km/hr, 12km/hr, 13km/hr, 14km/hr every four minutes before restarting the cycle again at the end of the 4 minute interval. I couldn't use my usual machine b/c some chubby fella was on it :mad: so I jumped on the other ones. I was doing fine up to 28 minutes and then my machine spiralled out of control. I was adjust the speed downwards back to 11 but noticed the machine was getting faster. At first I kept w/ it but then something just wasn't right and I raised myself using the two handle bars either side and then planting my feet on the stable area while the machine kept running.
I watched totally freaking out as the speed climbed up to 60km/hr! The machine was shaking like hell and I just raised myself w/ the handle bars again and got off the damn thing. It kept going and I totally just hit the stop button and then got the gym girl over to have a look and we could smell the smoke straight away.
I realised how close I was probably to being hurled off the thing and into the other treadmills behind me and probably doing some serious damage to my body. It totally freaked me out. The treadmills are supposed to have a top speed of 20km/hr for safety's sake so that just made me all the more incredulous. If I hadn't been more alert it could've been pretty ugly.
Wow, ghost in the machine or what, crazy... Are you ok Little Man???
Reminds me of what happened to a friend of mine, he was running on the treadmill and he turned it up too high, and instead of lifting himself up like you did, he decided to try and keep up with it.. He ended up slipping, fell over and broke his arm
We laughed at him a lot
Man that would have been hiliriaous to watch :p
Yeah, I'm alright, Sunflower. Thanks for asking though. Just freaked out. Have a beep test tmrw so I'm pretty excited about that too tho this kinda stuffed up my prep. The incident did kinda shake me up tho (as it would) :o.Quote:
Originally Posted by jacksplatt11
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Originally Posted by jacksplatt11
Boy, I'd love to have you guys around in my hour of need. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by loophole
They'd be the ones turning the speed up by remote control... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by STL
my cardio sucks.
Beep tests are evil too. lol last time i did one was in highschool though.
Gah... stupid term four... currently swamped with work and haven't had much time to do much exercise outside of weekly school sport (although that looks like it will be rained out this week). :(
I'm now in the exercise club, and get paid for it.
My new job involves me being on my feet the entire time and walking. And walking, and walking, and some more walking. 8 hours a day, ~40+ hours a week of it. And yes, my feet are murdering me.
So I've gone from bugger all to most likely the most exercise out of anyone else here.
Scored 12.8 on the beep test!!! f--- yeah! I couldn't believe it since hte last time I did one was pre-season post year 12 in my first years in the amos.
Followed it up w/ 300 jog and 200 sprints for 30 minutes not to mention the drills we had afterwards.
Very surprised too that despite me putting on 7 kilos a few months ago and keeping that, I'm still as fit as a whistle. I'm 177cm but 88kg so I'm a bit unhappy at the moment about my weight but my fitness is really good. Is that possible???
Refueling this thought-dead thread with some nucleon.
I'd like to be fitter, but mostly thinner. I'd like to lose 10-20 kilos by the end of the year. Anyone know a good city/chain gym they recommend? A good exercise plan to follow? Trainer? Anything to recommend like that?
(And yes I know that being thinner/fitter wont necessarily get anyone 'drooling' over me but it might help my confidence which could help me meet someone.)
Just running around the block every day will make you loose weight fairly quickly and less hassle than going to a gym.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
Karate 2-3 times a week
Weight training Mon/Wed/Fri mornings before work
I ride one of my bikes as much as possible (ie to work, to shops, around town) instead of car/motorbike -- or if whether doesnt permit I do 30min sessions with bike on wind trainer Tue/Thurs morning before work
Conditioning training (see link below)
walk the dog
eat well.
I do not have gym membership. (Dont need it!)
If you need ideas and such check this guys website:
http://www.rosstraining.com/nevergymless.html
Buying a few weights and training aids (or even making your own!) is much cheaper than gym membership.
You can then exercise whenever you want without leaving home, which severly cuts down the hassle factor (sharing equip etc) and (travel) time involved.
All you need is a little space at home.
I lost 20 kilos by going to a gym in a about 2 months, about 4-5 times a week for approx 1-2 hours. Lots of running, biking, sit ups & push ups and some weights. I also jogged to the gym which acted as the warm up. Going with a friend who was training for the army helped a lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
Don't go back to being a lazy bugger when your done or you'll just put the weight back on, like I did :(
Funnily enough, I have been a lazy bugger and have been stuffing myself and I have seemed to have lost weight.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Gutsman Heavy
Oh to be fast and free and young! I want to count myself among the fortunate ones. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Golden Phoenix
Back in high school(96) i used to play basketball at a state level, before tearing my ankle ligaments about a week before NSW try-outs. Then after leaving school i went on the dole for a year and surfed up to 3 times a day, 7 days a week. I was pretty fit back then but after having 2 kids (actually my wife had them, i just watched) and having a malignant melanoma removed from my back (always wear sunscreen at the beach), i had less time for anything and put on weight.
Then i got a job with Sydney Water reading water meters all day. I lost about 15kg just from walking on the job. And this was while eating Maccas twice a day, for breakfast and lunch. But i was walking anywhere from 20-30km a day at a fast pace. As long as you exercise and keep you heart rate up for at least 30-60 mins a day, you'll speed up your metabolism and start losing weight.
Who needs looks anyway when you have wit and a sense of humour to make the girls giddy and tingly?
the best weight loss is heroin and hard liquor.
but srsly i ve been walking my dog heaps lately, its good =]