My hairstyle forbids me from headwear.
My hairstyle forbids me from headwear.
Well boxing gyms usually have several bags ranging from really light (better for dancing around like a twat) to really heavy (better for working on your power/breaking your hands). You want something heavy enough so that it doesn't fly around every time you touch it (when punching it is supposed to be snappy, you shouldn't be pushing the bag) but not heavy enough that it doesn't bulge and your arm/hand do all of the dampening, which hurts like a bitch, especially without quality gloves.
If you want a number, I really have no clue, sorry.
It's a bit of a random thing to want to exersize Boyd? Taking up boxing? Why not just get an exersize bike?
Exercise bikes are a bit boring. I used to have one.
You'll say the exact same thing about the bag. It just seems such an inconvenient item for general fitness to have in your home. Didn't you say at one point you didn't have enough room for a bench?
Yeah, I don't. The bag can go outside. I can stick a bracket up on the rafters of the car port and hang it off that when I use it and take it down out of the way when I'm not. It seems pretty convenient to me. Much more so than a bench and a load of weights that need to be stored somewhere. And cheaper.
Isn't a car port just a roof? So presumably your neighbours will see skinny malinky noncing about a featherweight bag?
More like chubsy wubsy noncing about around a featherweight bag but yeah.
Oh Christ. I'd love to see that. Have you no shame! You were self conscious about going running for fuck's sake.
A skipping rope might be a good shout though.
Yeah but I went running in the end and it was fine. I don't really care what my neighbours think. They're all either old people or in worse shape than me anyway.
Oh well, good luck. You should take up boxing if you want to get fit. Even losers go to boxing gyms nowadays it isn't like Raging Bull anymore.
Only if you're talking about those 'cardio boxing' shitholes that are appearing all over the place.
Nah local boxing gyms. The hard guys have realised they need to appeal to the Boyd's of this world as their main targets are mostly broke/jailed.
I bet he would deck you.
Some woman at Sainsbury's asked me to move her car out of its spot as she was too fat to get into it since someone had parked too close while she was in the shop. So I can't be that fat.
Pepe says smacking a pubchbag is anaerobic isn't that the same as sprinting/HIIT which is meant to be good for losing weight? Better than steady pace cardio.
Just a salad, chunky.
Really?Originally Posted by Boydy
Some woman at Sainsbury's asked me to move her car out of its spot as she was too fat to get into it since someone had parked too close while she was in the shop. So I can't be that fat.
Pepe says smacking a pubchbag is anaerobic isn't that the same as sprinting/HIIT which is meant to be good for losing weight? Better than steady pace cardio.
I'd be so ashamed I'd probably just wait until they got back.
Couldn't she go in through the trunk?
She was probably too fat to to fit between the front two seats. She was oldish as well so climbing all through her car and over seats wouldn't have been very easy for her.
Presumably you've stolen her car?
That never even occurred to me that I could have. It was nice too. Some Audi jeep thing. Her friend/relative/lesbian life partner (unlikely in Ballymena) was already in the passenger seat though. But I could probably have kicked her out somewhere along the road.
Or raped her.
Would you hang it off the ceiling? I could see having one of those as a nice stress reliever.
Exercise bikes are nice because you can watch movies or football on them, but as Pepe said they make me ridiculously sweaty. I can't seem to control my pace at all on them so I always finish after 20 minutes.
Managed a couple reps of 120kg on squat today. A new pb. Happy with that.
Definitely getting bigger too
700kcal on my long runs, 450 on my short HIIT runs. Weekends off. On my static bike, that is. Feel good.
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BMI is bollocks though anyway, isn't it?
Your body fat is pretty much excellent, so you're onto a winner. Well, except for being 5'9".
5ft 9
I weighed myself this morning and I'm now down 13kg since June.
It's fantastic, but it is still a little frustrating that I'll need another 13kg to come off before I'm what I would call 'in shape'.
Foe can we see a boxers pic please?
PMing me the pic is far more sinister. Far more.
125kg squat pb tonight. Resulting in some quite prolific muscle pain.
BMI is out dated now, BMR is the one I believe is the latest way to find out your body fat - http://www.fat2fittools.com/tools/bmr/
Nope this is the wrong one.
Try this - http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/how-...-body-fat.html
About to go to a scary meathead gym. Pretty terrified.
Didn't really do much today but I've agreed to pay money to have a huge man shout at me (show me what to do) on Thursday morning.
I actually find those places more welcoming/less judgemental than your normal chain gym. Plus the trainers are more likely to know what they're doing and leave you to get on with things.
Had one of ours who'd be better suited as a Barry from EastEnders lookalike than a personal trainer try and criticise my form the other day.
Yeah, Lewis said the same thing.
And they did seem very friendly. The woman who showed me around was very nice and the guy (who owns the place) who I booked with for Thursday seemed nice too.
'Yeah, yeah, mate. Yeah. Not bad, mate, yeah. Just a bit of chest today. Mate. Yeah.'
What's that?
That is textbook gym patter. The trick is to ask somebody what they're doing as a way of telling them what you're doing. It's also a good idea to have a lingering back/shoulder injury to blame if they're ahead of you.
Got all lightheaded and thought I was going to pass out this morning.
Still, the guy was helpful and now I know what I'm doing at least. I'll be fannying about with light weights for a while though.
Bar only?
Started with that just to get my form right but I was able to put a little bit of weight on it for the squat and the bench press.
Still piss all though. It was only like 30kg bench.
But its a start and now I sort of know what I'm doing I won't feel like such an idiot in the gym and I'll hopefully keep it up.
Beasting it.
Best part is that at the beginning you make huge gains pretty much on a daily basis. Soon you'll be staring at your triceps in the mirror every five minutes.
Second day of gymming it on my own today (first was Monday). Did Workout B of the Stronglifts programme. I do not like deadlifts.
Also, I need to stick to the mornings. Slept in this morning and didn't go till 1pm and it was too busy for my liking whereas Monday morning at half nine was dead.
Getting into the routine is the hard bit, but it does get easier. The problem is you're starting now when it's fucking cold and horrible outside, so the incentive is to stay in the warm bed. I'm still having trouble getting up and out the door at 07:30.
I never had the strength for morning workouts. Each to his own.
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