2016 Health and Fitness thread

[mudcow007]

So after a failure to lose any weight last year, im signing up to a gym tonight to finally lose my timber

anyone else?

[KnuckleShot]

Started my diet week and half ago.
Getting a push bike to get a bit more active first and then sign up to the gym.
Good luck!

[hellkat]

Still not officially dieting, and not exactly anything to do with New Years resolutions.

But with this new job turning up right at the cusp of the new year, and being right across the road from Green Park, it would be rude not to put my trainers on, cross over the road and walk for half an hour and try to eat a bit more healthier.

Only been 10 days but I actually feel better getting out of the office for a bit of fresh air, if nothing else. Might sound pathetic but I try to do at least a thousand extra steps a day. Nine months of sitting on my arse being depressed, demotivated and eating shite all day, means I had got to the point of being woefully unfitter than I have been for a long time.

Make the most of it while it lasts. I'm likely to revert to type eventually
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[grr666]

Once I'm over the worst of my dental work yes, being unable to easily eat solid food at the moment is helping me get
a head start for when I start training myself fit again and eating right.
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[J4mes]

March 2015, came back from skiing holiday 16'7lbs

Lost 35lb last year after I STOPPED GOING TO THE GYM and starting running in the mornings. 14st

Put 10lb on over Christmas, which hopefully by next week I'll have lost again and be back to 14 stone.

Target is 12 stone, by christmas this year.

I've gone from walking/running 5KM in 39 minutes down to 26 minutes, hoping to shave a few more minutes off this year, and maybe work up to 10k if I can find time in between work/wife/baby and house renovations.

Best weight loss tip? MyFitnessPal app, set a reasonable limit (mine is 1800cals) and stick to it. Don't let other people fuck it up for you. Lose 1-1.5lb a week. Don't lose a bit of weight and then think you can have a massive blow out.

1lb of fat is 3500 cals, its VERY easy to ruin your progress with a few days off your diet!

[mudcow007]

First night at the gym last night, what is it with all the other fellas eyeing each other up!?

Was thinking the place should be renamed The Blue Oyster bar or something.

Anyways, did a bit of running then on the bikes, shoulder press, bench press etc...

Found my legs to be freakishly strong, was lifting 150kg pretty much easy

anyways onwards an upwards

[pinkyfloyd]

I think at the start of the 15 thread I intended to survive. I did.

I also started in the gym which I attend 3 times a week now. I lost over 3 stone and completed a 5K run for charity. I have dropped from a tight 36 inch waist to a 32 inch waist. I still have a little bit of flab on the stomach but the rest of me has started toning up nicely.

Aims for 2016. Continue as I started.
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[BTTD]

Couple years ago I was running half marathons in 1hr 45. Just before Christmas I jogged 2 miles in just under 30 mins.
My overall weight hasn't changed much, but I've definitely lost muscle mass in my legs (used to cycle 100 miles a week, currently zero) so all the trousers that I had to buy in a 34 waist because my legs wouldn't fit the 32, now fit around the waist.

So I'm watching what I eat, and going to start running once a week. Not much, but it's a start. I don't have big amounts of weight to lose, but I'm at the point where if I ignore it, I'll pile it on.

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[kramdra]

Done 80km of muddy forest trail, and a bit of road running since my leg unbroke itself. Im 26% through the strava February hill climb challenge and 2nd on a segment for a really fucking steep hill, that I can just about sprint up.

So today I did buy a pair of these.
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[el_oso]

restarted stronglifts this year.

After a fairly slow start i feel like I'm actually making progress.

Squat 5x5 @ 102.5
Overhead press 5x5 @ 45
Deadlift 5x1 @ 135
Bench Press 5x5 @ 62.5kg
Barbell Row 5x5@ 42.5
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[spnorm]

I lost 60 lbs in 2014 and kept it off until starting Xmas in about September last year I'd slipped almost a stone on after the end of the cycling season, but thankfully I've lost most of it since the new year. I'm aiming to drop another stone by the end of the year and to cycle 100 miles in a day (I managed 61.75 miles last year)

[thx1138]

I'm okay. Just got over a lung infection, put a few pounds on. Still a 34" waist though. Managed 6 pull ups, which is a personal best. Few weeks back on the diet and building cardio should be good again.

[Alpineandy]

I don't really understand this love of throwing money at a gym.
Start at home doing 5 press ups and 5 sit ups a day. If that's to easy then do ten, fifteen, twenty etc. Increase the number every week. When you get to a pre-set target (50/100 whatever) then try to do them slightly quicker. Add to this a fast 20 mins + walk which can later turn into a 20 min run. You will be as fit as anything you can do in a gym.
I find most guys drive to the gym to use weights (which add muscle mass rather than making you fit), have a 5 min splash in a pool (if it's got one) and 5 mins in the Sauna (if it's got one). Then they feel they can justify a few pints and a kebab that evening... So the financial double whammy.
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[chickenstrip]

I seem to have gone the whole nine yards this year, which is puzzling as it was never my intention - not like it was a new year's resolution or anything like that. I was (am?) however very unfit, and was actually starting to feel quite unwell. Too much time sat around waiting for things to happen (house sale, house purchase etc). I guess then it took a couple of months to really start to feel settled in. Not working still, so a lot of time on my hands...what to do? Just started to do a few press ups, sit ups, squats, much like Alpineandy says. This made it so smoking was proving a real problem, so have now gone to vaping - cold turkey seems to be beyond me

Since having all this time and my own space, I've spent a lot more time (and money!) in the kitchen, learning some new, healthy recipes, and my fresh fruit and veg intake has risen sharply, fat intake dropped sharply. I'm not going by any advice from anyone, not studying up on nutrition, taken no guidance from a doctor or anyone else. Just using the small amount of general knowledge I've picked up over the years, and ignoring all new fads, food revelations (what was once good for you is now bad for you etc) - a bit of common sense to give a balanced diet.

I have had fitness jags in the past that were very short lived before getting lazy again, and all the bad habits came back. But this just feels different. Very peculiar. And in the last few days, I've torn down a shed in the garden, ripped up some paving slabs and dug the area over ready for a concrete base for the new shed - if I'd tried that only a month ago, I reckon I'd have had a heart attack!
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[trevoriv]

I'm 32, 15 stone, 38" waist, pie eater, beer drinker.

I'm doing a marathon in April. Not really changed my diet but trying not to drink during the week. I've run distance in my 20's but due to real life getting in the way I've not done much recently.

Started running 4 times a week in January, long run I'm up to 8-10 miles, aiming for a sub 4 hour marathon but really I'll be happy to finish it.

I'd better lose some weight.
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[pinkyfloyd]

For us, we paid for a membership at one a Portsmouth, we got 15 months for the price of 12. Works out at £13 a month or so. It gets us out of the house for a few hours and the fact that we have paid for it does motivate us to actually go. Even when we do not feel up for it. I have found that dragging ourselves to the gym actually makes us feel better when we have finished.
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[J4mes]

Alpine Andy, some people want to put on muscle though, hence going to the gym. Perhaps cardiovascular fitness isn't their main aim. I have plenty of mates who still go, including one in his 40's who benches 180kg and can push 500 on the leg press. He's fucking huge, in the single figures for bodyfat. You're not getting that by doing 50 press ups and sit ups a day.

So it depends on your goals as to what path you take.

[Alpineandy]

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[chickenstrip]

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