I embraced the gut many years ago but the excess weight is making it too hard to do flip tricks so fuck it.
Plus, I’m an old father anyway, might as well make a bit of an effort not to look like her grandad innit?
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Any steps to self improve, for yourself, should be applauded.
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I’m so shook of joining a gym. I wouldn’t even know what to do.
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It’s fine, it’s just like skating. Didn’t you see Laetitia’s johnny ad?
That is absolutely terrifying. Do I need to take a condom?
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I know you didn’t ask for this but just thought I’d chime in. Just remember that what is more important than anything else for losing weight is to simply reduce calories.
It can be achieved more easily than you think with things like switching from full-fat milk to skimmed, using low calorie oil spray instead of oil (a tbsp of olive oil is 113 calories btw!), dropping beers, low-carb bread, etc. When lockdown started last year I tried a calorie tracker for a couple of weeks as I thought there’d be no better time to do so given that I was able to account for all my food and there were no takeaways/restaurants/drinks out, etc. Anyway, reason I mention it is that tracking calories reveals just how surprisingly calorie dense certain foods/drinks can be. The other side of the coin though means that cutting these small things brings about big differences. For me, life is too short for calorie tracking ever again, but it was definitely interesting to experiment with it for two weeks to get a better idea of things.
For many who go about creating a major change (i.e. suddenly wanting to lose weight) they start working out at a gym combined with a significantly reduced diet and then they abruptly find the two are not sustainable and the whole plan collapses before any difference is made. That mainly happens because of either willpower, or more usually, because they’re suddenly cutting way too many calories from what they’re used to. So just try drop about ~200 calories from your daily diet and otherwise eat as normal and do an amount of exercise you enjoy and actually can keep to. None of this shit like “I can only eat two times a day before 3pm before fasting for the rest of the day…”
As far as gym activity goes. You get way more bang for your buck with weights (resistance training). You can spend half an hour on a treadmill and barely touch on 200 calories. Learn deadlifts, squats, bench press and shoulder press. The first two, particularly, will absolutely strip calories off you in far less time. I know many people, especially skaters, frown at lifting weights, but they are really effective for things like lower back strength, core stability, and crucially, burning calories. Much like someone first starting skating looking for advice at a park, most people at the gym who aren’t roider dickheads and who look like they know what they’re doing will be really sound and happy to help you with technique.
As far as actual cardio training (rather than resistance training), rowing is probably the best machine you can do. Bike, cross-trainer and treadmill can be decent if you can really push yourself on them, but most don’t and it’s all too easy to do them too comfortably (at a leisurely pace and barely getting their heart going).
If your gym has a sled and battle ropes, then I would 100% advise you to hit those. You’ll get the heart going really quickly and burn loads of calories in a mere few minutes. I use a budget gym (The Gym) and it has both of them. Combine that with things like burpees and jumping jacks and some lunges.
Also, this channel is great for bodyweight fitness stuff at home - I’d recommend their HIIT videos. I used to think I was ‘fit’ until I tried them…
https://www.youtube.com/c/fitnessblender/videos
e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZnsLVArIt8&t
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Thanks man
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Put your headphones on and ignore everyone.
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Don’t you have to do some kind of induction @anonymity
“Lift it up, put it down again, repeat. pay your monthly fee, act like a right brian cant down the pub. Done”
I just paid and turned up.
No pads, no rules.
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I’m embracing my gut and moobs.
There is a theory that exercise doesn’t actually burn extra calories. I.e. the average adult man will burn 2500-3000 calories a day whether they sit on their arse in the office or do an hour long run. Theory goes that your body just switches off some other uses of energy like maybe maintaining the immune system and uses those calories to do the exercise instead. So the main way to lose weight properly is diet. If you eat any old shit cos you’re exercising you won’t necessarily lose weight due to the exercise.
The proof of this is things like how a couple living in a developing country can both be say 5’ 6” as their bodies divert calories that would have made them taller to things like surviving in a war zone. Then when that couple move to say the UK their kid grows to 6’ because their body is now focused on growth of the skeleton.
There are other benefits to exercise, like diverting calories from things like being stressed (which burns a lot of calories) to exercise. Hence why they say exercise reduces stress. It just makes you too tired to get stressed.
The podcast is here but it’s worth a listen
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I lost 7kg in a month just giving up booze. It’s not too bad after a couple weeks you get used to it
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I lost 2 1/2 stone in a couple of weeks splitting up from wife. In hindsight, I can totally recommend it for a quick diet option.
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I was 21st at the start of 2020 (I’m 6’2" so it was spread out a bit), and with fatherhood and the pubs shutting, I was 13st by May.
So I guess the solution is to have another kid, split up with the missus and stop drinking. Saves going to the gym, anyway.
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wow! yeah
I really need to shift the belly that I’ve developed over the past year because I’m otherwise pretty thin and it looks weird.
I just eat what I like, have low daily steps working from home and have no interest in exercise other than daily pull ups, and I’ve probably taken the benefits of a fast metabolism as far as I can - at 33 I can see it starting to fade.
Are you me? This is exactly my situation.
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