Pretty condescending without knowing the details. Especially since he was clearly talking about his weight and you just have poor reading comprehension skills. Anyhow, it’s all relative, and you could argue real man workouts aren’t in gyms, as dspapo pointed out.
I grew up throwing hay on a farm, and haven’t been in a gym in 3-4 years. For a while I boxed, now adays, I get my exercise trail running, rock climbing, raft guiding, whitewater kayaking and doing general backcountry junk. So by comparison, I think I do all right despite being in finance. Squats = manly, ROFL.
Pretty sensitive without realizing I was joking. I meant it in a whimsical way (you know, like guys do?). And did you really have to list your entire athletic resume? Now you make pencil-necked nerds like me feel self-conscious… I’m going to cry in the corner real quick.
I really learned to enjoy squatting after I had someone teach me the technique. Getting stronger at the squat and deadlift has significantly improved my life. My back feels good pretty much all the time, and it’s easier to do things like yardwork or lifting up my kid.
I’m far from strong for an adult male, but spending 6 months getting the most out of “beginner gains” in strength training is a pretty simple and achievable fitness goal. It was the first time in my life I felt like I was making quantifiable progress.
I liked the Greyskull LP program, but anything that has you adding weight every session will get the job done if you are a beginner.
Before my pregnancy is was running 3 times a week. and played tennis. now I do not sport anymore. but I am back on my old weight of 54 kilo. but I do walk or cycle a lot with my kid.
wow this newly added weight thing is odd I got up to 215 (with the wrong kind of pounds on purpose) hoping to keep an appetite, but now eating has turned into some kind of evil pleasure that it never used to be. It’s pretty cool that I have a massive appetite, but I find myself craving cheeseburgers, starches, and red meat all the time. I’m bouncing between 202 and 211 every couple of days. I had a boxing spar session (torso only) with this pro 155lb dude this past week and he dominated. On the upside, I sparred with an amateur 205 guy on the same day and did a decent job of defending. I really want to line up an MMA fight at 170lbs, so I would have to burn off the fat to 185 or so in 2-3 months and then cut some water weight to make 170lbs … I think it’s doable, but only time will tell…
I’m at 220 currently, looking to get back down to 200. I was 180 in January of this year. It is interesting – I was fat in high school. Now I’m the same weight I was in high school, but in two or three sizes smaller t shirts. Bulking is always the funnest part. Cutting, not so much
And you need a solid diet (or in some wrestlers cases, an absense of a diet for a while). I wouldn’t recommend losing it that fast, but diets and HIIT will make things move quicker.
yeah I’m *trying* to eat a lot better and am doing high intensity exercises. I did circuit training this morning until I about died and then followed up with some muay thai this afternoon (unfortunately got a few bruises on my nose and a bloody lip). Switching to a vegan style diet definitely helps a lot. You have to eat a lot more food (ie quantity when you’re eating vegetables) and make sure you’re eating enough beans to keep up the protein.
If you want to drop weight for fighting quit weight training so much, you should be sparring/training three times a week and doing nothing but interval training and running. Maintain strength with bodyweight excerises and even then focus on doing high reps till you puke. Cardio is what saves your ass in a fight because most guys that train can absorb dmage.
B*tch please, that’s because you live in a city where “trail running” is six miles through Central Park. Hit me up when she covers 70+ miles through mountains in a single day in an unsupported race pumping water out of streams as she goes.
Our sport has guys like Kilian Jornet doing Kilimanjaro up and back in 7 hours versus 7 days for the average “sportsman”.
What are some of the “real” trail races? Curious about the unsupported side of it.
Anyway, unless you’re like a super specialist I find its better to stay balanced. I’ll still run a marathon every now and then, but I definitely work on strength (squat, dead, press) in the gym and I’ve found it helps will general strength and power output. Also, the nice thing with strength is that it deteriorates slowly (you can take a break without losing too much) whereas I find that interval cardio tends to deteriorate after just a few weeks of stopping.
Well basically you have two types. You have your ultras, which are supported (semi), but stops can be as far as 25 miles apart. Western States, Hardrock, etc we have local ones here such as the Laurel Highlands 70. When I train for those I have to pump my water, carry my own food, layers, etc as I’m basically running 20 mile sections solo.
For fully unsupported, I’ve done fully unsupported adventure races in the past. Some of those were 48 hour races through national forests, state parks, etc. You had to carry a 30 pound pack that mostly contained food and water, headlamp, layers for night and a small pump to filter water out of streams as you went. There are no stands, no resupplies, just all out self reliance. But that one isn’t completely trail running. The mix changes, but for the Equinox Traverse that I ran for instance, it was about 135 miles of single track mountain biking, 40 of running / hiking, and I think 15 of kayaking as well as a short repel you had to complete. All on about 1 hour of sleep over 48 hours.
I’m 170, 6’0, in good shape, but I could use an extra 10 pounds in my biceps. I do 400 push ups, 100 chin ups, and jump rope on weekdays, swimming and squash on Saturdays, and grilled rib-eye steaks on Sundays. Unfortunately I had to cut the booze a lot.
I’m bouncing between 202 and 211 every couple of days. I had a boxing spar session (torso only) with this pro 155lb dude this past week and he dominated. On the upside, I sparred with an amateur 205 guy on the same day and did a decent job of defending. I really want to line up an MMA fight at 170lbs, so I would have to burn off the fat to 185 or so in 2-3 months and then cut some water weight to make 170lbs … I think it’s doable, but only time will tell…
