Health and Fitness Cult!

How far do you think I could throw you?

Not nearly as far as that.

You'd fall backwards trying to pick me up. Negative 5 feet.

I could throw both of you about 3 yards

I could throw both of them onto the same bed.

But standing how far from the bed, do you think?

I don't know what a "Pau Gasol" is, or why you carry a decoy one, but lol at you thinking I wouldn't squirm as you attempt to throw me.

the guy wearing the 16 jersey

I have an older brother. Many experiments were made on my throwability. They've all come back negative thus far. But I would LOVE to see you try.

i approve of this random comment.

I pick up giant babies all day. I could throw you all.

I weigh 91 pounds. You can all throw me.

Could and would, Irina, could and would.

I approve of your random appearance.

I like when you call them giants. Makes me picture those morbidly obese babies that are occasionally in the news. The state of our children's health aside, brings me an odd joy to look at some of them.

Fantastic. Now whenever I walk down a dark alley, I'll be looking over my shoulder for someone attempting to sneakthrow me. You've ruined dark alleys for me. I hope you're happy.

You know, we don't live very far away from each other. If I knew you a whole lot better, I'd say let's rent a bouncy princess castle and settle this. As it stands though, I guess I'll just have to wait for a young relative to age and then proceed to bounce myself around.

I have lifted my boyfriend! My knees almost gave out, but still. He's a big guy, so yay me!

Oh really? Where you live? Just curious.

If your signature was, in fact, true you wouldn't have to ask.

He has a point. I'm disappointed in you.

Hey I tried but all I could dig up is that your Colombian and you like headphones and birthdays a lot.

well, to be fair, those are all correct.

Yeah, I'm still going to have to ask he change his sig to "Internet stalker ordinaire, and street poet." Due to the benefit of the doubt I'll let him keep the second part of the sig, even though I've never seen him on Def Poetry Jam.

Other than the Colombian thing, that's everyone.

Well... I guess I'll admit, I like birthdays to a somewhat unnatural degree.

And I'm going to school near Austin. I'm not there right now though. So the better stalkers out there (hello!) will have to wait.

AND I've started going running again. I've decided that running when it's slightly raining is super fun. Now if only it would rain more often.

I think it depends on the person. For some people everything depends on the amount of exercise they get, no matter what they eat. My weight never fluctuates, and if I stop exercising I just look less defined.

Did 20 minutes on the bike, v-ups and some jiu jitsu push ups

stupid floor was slippery and i kept sliding

The better stalkers move from location to location with you.

Before you, in fact.

So with school starting up, I haven't been able to get to Muay Thai - which really sucks.

But losing a good portion of my cardio convinced me to finally go on my winter program of doing more tradition "weight lifting" to add some more size.

3 and 2 weeks ago I did 3 full body workouts (each week) with one exercise per body part with 2 sets of 15 reps. I hate these, but it's a great way to shock your system back into the weight training frame of mind and conditioning.

Last week I did a 2 way split. Upper body and Lower body. 4 workouts for the week - Monday/Tuesday and Thursday/Friday. So my body got worked out twice last week. With 3 sets of 10-12 reps for every exercise. 2 exercises per body part.

This week I'm doing the same split. And the same amount of exercises. The only real change this week is my rep range will be 6-8 reps and I will choose different exercises than last week.

I think when trying to gain size, it's important to change your workout up every 2-3 workouts (per body part) or every 2 weeks or so. And the most drastic change is changing up rep ranges and rest periods.

Ok I admit it, I'm not really a stalker, I don't have the time, energy, or psychotic mental resources to be fully dedicated to it. Just sometimes I Facebook stalk people I used to know that is all. It was meant more of a joke rather than literal. And I've been on def jam plenty of times although you wouldn't notice me from all the shoe polish on my face at the time.

Also I'm sure you will like the Area once you are here. If you want a small culinary tour let me know. I'll show you some of my favorite eateries.

This week and next week - four way split.

Most exercises use 3 sets of 8,6,4 reps. Some exercises sets of 8. Some sets of 6. Abs each exercise is 2-3 sets of 15 reps.

Day 1 - Chest, arms, lower abs
Day 2 - Legs and upper abs
Day 3 - Shoulders, lower back, lower abs
Day 4 - Back, arms, upper abs

Guys, dieting is easy. Just eat all the vegetables and fruits and only drink water (I'll never give up my coffee or my sweet tea entirely, though). Also eat lean proteins, watch your carbs and DO NOT eat fast food, ever. Don't buy processed junk and start cooking from scratch with fresh stuff every day. Most important, though, you have to move every single day. Do some cardio and pick up heavy things with different parts of your body and before you know it, you'll be losing inches, stop jiggling and feel like a healthy badass. Your body will get used to being healthy and you won't even want to eat that junk shit anymore.

My new thing is getting my cardio done early in the mornings, and then doing my weight stuff in the evenings. It's great because the gym is pretty empty in the early morning, so I can get my favorite elliptical for thirty minutes and work up a good sweat and get home in time to make breakfast for my family and get them ready for the day. I go back to the gym in the evening and focus on the hard part of my routine. I reeeally like my new p.t....he's just awesome.

It's pretty much common sense. But people like to pretend to be ignorant. That way they can eat whatever they want.

And Alecia, it sounds like you're doing great!

Psssh, I eat what I want. Seriously though since I'm limited to what my parents buy so I watch how much I eat. I've always had an erratic diet and my friends call me a freak of nature because of it. I do try to stay active at the very minimum I walk, a lot. The hills around here help with that cardio too. I'm so happy that I have access to a gym now too. With the holiday and weather changes I haven't gone as often as before but once school starts I'll get to go at least twice a week on a regular basis.

Alecia, you go to the gym twice a day? Holy crap, I feel so lazy.
The only exercise I get is that I play tennis twice a week, and that I haven't done for almost a month now with being away on vacation and whatnot. I am dreading going back.

Alecia kicks ass. I'd be scared if she took some sort of defense classes. Who am I kidding she scares me now. Have you seen how toned she is Becca? I'd ask for a new bikini pic but I know it has to go through the hubby and all that.

Totally, she is one fit lady. I wish I had that kind of commitment.
I should probably look into joining a gym or something, it wouldn't be possible for me to go in the evening, since I work til 8pm and am pretty much wiped by the time I get out of there, but I do have time to go in the mornings before I go to work.

You guys make me sound more awesome than I really am, hehe.

Kit, it sounds like it's a big deal, but it's easy for me to go twice a day because my gym is about 2 miles from my home, and since I work from home, everything I need to do (gym, errands, school stuff with the kids) is within a short distance. I'm doing two completely different routines when I go twice a day (with over 12 hours between my morning routine and my evening one), and it's just easier for me to break it up so I don't spend too much time away from my family.

I admire you for playing tennis...I'm too uncoordinated to play any kind of sport! Tennis is pretty vigorous exercise!

ahhh, working out of home, that would make the difference!
Yeah, I really love playing tennis and my coach works me pretty hard, usually for about two hours.. so it's definitely not a light work out. Hell on the legs at times, haha!

This week and next week.

4 way split:
- Chest
- Back and Abs
- Legs and Abs
- Shoulders and Arms

2 exercises 3 sets of 5
1 exercise 2 sets of 15
abs 3 exercises supersetted with 3 sets of 15-20

This is one of my favorite set ups. It's tough, but worth it

For anyone who's had back problems, I started using this machine pretty regularly at the PF. It's usually called 'back extension'. Last summer I pulled my lower back on both sides playing softball. I started stretching a ton and using this machine, and I realized that I never did anything to work my lower back in the past, and that it was way underdeveloped in proportion to the rest of my body. Since I've been using it, I've noticed that good posture is less tiring to maintain.

I know I neglect my lower back also. I tend to give it one exercise as an after-thought now and then. I also don't stretch enough. My posture is terrible.

^5 for terrible postures. ._.

Since I'll be moving to an apartment complex, I won't be able to work out like I'm doing now. Instead I'1l keep doing certain exercises, squats, push ups, etc. and go for walks a lot on the side. In the summer I can go jogging again as well. I hope it'll be enough!

Imke! If your new place has stairs, you can totally torture yourself on those.

My first dorm room was on the 10th, 12th, or some equally ridiculous floor. When I was moving my stuff in, so were a million other students... and the elevator was a single, small, slow, shitty one. My friend and I decided we were badasses and raced up the stairs to the top while carrying boxes. Guys, I saw god in that staircase... during that run that turns into a walk... that turned into a pathetic crawl slash body drag... and this was just between the 1st and 7th floors.

My point is... I'd walk or jog up the stairs when I was in a healthy or masochistic mood and I was never in better shape than I was that year.

The building clearly got the idea from seeing all those stairmasters in the gym. But it's a pretty good knockoff.

I was thinking about that as I clicked "post"! I've told myself I won't be using the elevator much while we live there. Go stairs!

It helps when the elevator smells like sweaty socks. I don't know if you'll be that lucky but here's hoping.

Haha, my halls were like that too, Jess. No lift. I lost 14 pounds in my first year of university and the stairs were definitely a contributing factor. They did make moving in a pain in the arse though.

I've been slacking with my swimming still. I've only been going twice a week which doesn't sound that bad, but because my pool is a 2 minute walk from my flat, and free, it's very lazy. I'm trying to improve my front crawl because my Chiropractor says I shouldn't swim breastroke really - it's a better workout anyway.

I lost weight in my first year too! And every cute article of clothing I ever left unattended in the shower room. Sharing bathrooms sucked.

And front crawl is just like regular default swimming, right? That's tiring. Why can't you swim breaststroke? Does he say it's just bad for you in particular or bad for everyone?

I think breaststroke puts the most tension on your back, so if you're succeptible to back problems, it's advised to do strokes that keep your back straight, like front crawl...

That sucks about having to share a bathroom - my friends at Oxford had that. At my university we each got our own onsuite. I must find a picture of it - it was ridiculously small. About the size of a telephone booth, so you could pretty much shower on the toilet seat.

That's interesting... thanks for explain it... I never do the breaststroke anyway... just curious.

And the bathroom sharing was alright in the long run... It built character... that's what it's called when one has something of above average discomfort to bring up when other people complain about anything, right?

When I was a kid, I had to walk down the hall in a towel! It sounds kinda sexy but NOPE!