How do you maintain your perfect physical specimen so they keep drooling over you? ;)

[GoktimusPrime]

Is it bad that i think of Pizza hut when i read Jabba the Hutt????

Either that or you've been watching too much Spaceballs.

"Pizza the Hut!"

Speaking of which, there's a new Spaceballs animated series coming soon!

[STL]

Is it bad that i think of Pizza hut when i read Jabba the Hutt????

argh, now that u mentioned it i haven't decided what to eat tmrw for lunch yet!

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.

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.

[STL]

[QUOTE=Pulse;45688]Whoa! I thought this thread was long since dead & buried...
/QUOTE]

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 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.

[jacksplatt11]

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

[loophole]

Man that would have been hiliriaous to watch

[STL]

Wow, ghost in the machine or what, crazy... Are you ok Little Man???

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) .

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

Boy, I'd love to have you guys around in my hour of need.

[Pulse]

Boy, I'd love to have you guys around in my hour of need.

They'd be the ones turning the speed up by remote control...

[jacksplatt11]

Man that would have been hiliriaous to watch

I caught some footage of it here and here

[sifun]

my cardio sucks.
Beep tests are evil too. lol last time i did one was in highschool though.

[GoktimusPrime]

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).