So fightbeat, how's your training going?

Hanzy.. I know this could be a hard concept to grasp.. but some people LIKE exercise..

I enjoy it..

I always have..

it is not a CHORE>. I like pushing myself and getting stronger etc..

I can honestly say that 34 I am in better all around shape than I have been in my whole life and I'm getting better and better..

 

Well I don't enjoy it. How am I going to enjoy something when 60% of my life revolves around working in an office? Maybe if I was a football player or a rugby player and I had to maintain a strong physical build then it would make sense. Because power training and cardio go hand in hand with professional athletics. So training would be my life and it would be motivation in itself.
How am I gonna push myself to improve when I know that as soon as I'm done, I gotta spend 8 f*ckin' hours in some piece of sh*t cubicle with a computer and some f*cktards coming to me every minute with a new project or something?
How does training and the office life even begin to correlate????
Ok, I'm gonna go run 3 miles and then do a heavy training session in the gym. After that, I go shower, head to my car and drive for an hour to my work where I will sit down for 8 hours to work on a f*cking computer.
How the f*ck can somebody motivate themselves to do anything when you're working a life like that?

 

If you do something 20 or however many times a day, it has to wear on the mundane.....I'm just going by normal human psychology you would get burned out on anything you do every day :nono: It's good you are in a groove and very optimistic on the future, but alas it must end sometime, based on sanity ::....

 

If you do something 20 or however many times a day, it has to wear on the mundane.....I'm just going by normal human psychology you would get burned out on anything you do every day :nono: It's good you are in a groove and very optimistic on the future, but alas it must end sometime, based on sanity ::....

 

Jesus Christ they need to fix this site, I am not the only one double posting in the molasses :fightme:

 

see Hanzy.. you act as if when some of us train.. it takes over our life.. that is not true at all for me anyway. .

look... at night watching TV, doing pushups during comercials..

or an easy 10 sets during the day while at work..

it is actually pretty easy to get it done and it does not have to rule out other things..

really weather I trained or not doesn't change much at all..

I like to wake up early so there is plenty of time.. during the day in my office, after work.. whenever..

 

it's all in how you look at it..

it is not mudane to breath.. or walk.. IMO you can make exercise part of your daily life and it is not boring

 

You have to breathe, it's involuntary. Unless you want to become a hobo, you have to walk too. Terrible analogies...you are obsessed right now, I cannot appeal to you being able to think outside your box.

 

Jealousy is an ugly thing, Hanzy. Some people train, and others sit around and lie about it all day like you claiming to bench 600. :dunno:

I like training, so I do it. I work out and I feel healthier than I've felt in a long long time. Maybe it hasn't occurred to you that we simply enjoy training, Hanzy. Once you get used to it, it's a piece of cake to do it everyday and still have energy to do other stuff. I'm not going to be out of shape when my kids want to play sports. artie:

 

You don't need to train 1/10 as hard as you're doing just to play sports with some kids Buddy. LOL!

 

Well, like you said, unless a person wants to become a hobo, they have to walk.

The point that LOK appears to be trying to get across is that if you want to be in really good shape, you have to introduce the exercise discipline to your everyday life and make it an ordinary thing like cleaning up around the house, getting your work done at your job, and any other thing you do regularly that benefits you. LOK makes it a part of his everyday life so that he doesn't get tired of it.

Would it get dull to do as much as he's talking about? Probably for me it would, but I do get 5km a day done MINIMUM as well as daily chins, HSPU, and knee kicks. Those are daily things for me that might be quite boring for someone else.

Boredom isn't an excuse though. Listening to music or jogging on a treadmill at the gym while watching tv makes it less boring, and I'm down 20lbs from Christmas. I'm in the process of dropping through the 200 mark (I'm 201.2 according to my scale), and I'm doing what I need to do to accomplish my goals.

For instance, stricter diet. I'm eating tuna, eggs, and other healthy foods as well as having one cheat meal per week (Saturdays). I had pizza last night and still weighed 201 today, so my regimented daily routine, though occasionally dull, is getting me where I want to go. :bears:

 

I'm not talking about when they are 4, Hanzy. I'm talking about when they are in their teens and want to play a little football with the old man. artie:

Plus, more and more research is showing that if you train as you grow older, there isn't as much of a decline in physical ability as there would be if you didn't train at all. I'm gonna make sure I don't break down. I'm staying healthy as long as I can, which is a lot longer than most men in my family who quit training around age 30 and then decline rather precipitously.

 

Trust me, I am into excercise as much as I can, but setting aside time to do it and taking up your day all through out it.....you are setting yourself up to failure and I don't believe it is beneficial except on the short term. I don't think anything is healthy when it becomes an obsession (every two hours of your waking life, example). Surely you know what I am trying to say here.....

 

You might want to think about this too....before I had to stop training, I had the same mindset, "how could I ever give this up when I feel better than I ever have?" It wasn't a chore and I liked it, almost looked forward to the next day. I trained VERY hard and made quite a progress in the months I went through without stopping, my diet and cardio/weights would be foreign and boring to someone else who doesn't do it....but when you HAVE to get out of that groove for illness, you would be amazed how daunting of a task it is when you realize how much hard work you did and have to do it all over again. It can be done, but that is what I am fighting along with some crap with my lungs that isn't helping, but goes to show you the mindset you guys have right now, can change and make you humble ld:

 

200 down today.

 

Training is a job to 99% of the world. Look at professional boxers alone. Most of these f*ckers shitted away their careers cause they hated training. Prime example; Riddick Bowe. A guy who HAD to train because his job required it. His reward was winning. I guess he only got out of his career what he put into it.
It's funnier that average 9 to 5 guys have more commitment than Bowe did.:: Although to be realistic, his type of training was far more rigirous than anything anybody here could comprehend. The dude burned out pretty quickly.

 

I am just saying.. some things you can do all day and not get bored of..

IMO our bodies are not "built" to sit on our ass so I make exercise part of my life..

"appealing" to me.. that in itself is funny.. it's like you are trying to explain why I should get bored of exercise::

 

I get what you're saying, Tyler. I really do. However, I've been doing mainly bodyweight exercises and light weights along with the cardio. I know there'll come a point where the law of diminishing returns comes into effect and I'm not getting the results I want for the effort I'm putting out, but that time isn't yet here.

I go to the gym for an hour in the morning, and I go for an hour at lunch. It really helps with my stress level because many of the documents I work on are time-sensitive. They have to be done quick and that can get on your nerves. Training actually gives me a break, and it has really helped my stress level while getting used to waking up 3-4 times a night because the baby is crying.

It helps me mentally as well as physically. Case in point: I just got back from my 6k jog, and I peeled off my stuff and weighed myself: 197.6. I know a few pounds of that is water loss, but it also builds my confidence because I'm achieving the goals I'm setting.

If I were training for superheavy weights like I was before, I'd be setting myself up for injury. Right now though, I jog on grass or a treadmill, eat sensibly, and do light weights and bodyweight exercises. I know not to try and lift heavy when I'm losing weight, so my goals are realistic.:bears:

 

Hanzy.. my thoughts on training are much more important than winning a boxing match..

people all over the world have all sorts of problems becasue they are Fucking lazy and eat too much..


my view of "winning" is being in Shape and healthy and living a good life

 

Hanzy, Bowe was known among his peers for being fat and lazy. He would go into training camp at close to 300lbs, and he lost 60-70lbs to fight Golota in the rematch. I don't know about his training being harder than anyone here can COMPREHEND.

At the same time, he was a great boxer. He likely burned out from all the head trauma. He took WAY too many headshots, and that isn't a way to have a long career. He was a gifted heavyweight boxer, but not a great example of work ethic in training camp. He had a lot of gifts to compensate for that laziness, but it also allowed lesser-gifted athletes like Holyfield and Bowe to get wins over him.

Heck, his balance was way greater than Lennox's, but Lennox was known for having a very regimented training camp.

 

i've just been doing some stuff at home 2-3 nights a week...basically alternating between push-ups and chin-ups every 30min

and once a week i usually go indoor rock climbing and do some dips and chins when i'm finished there

also at work i've started to run up 5 stories of stairs everytime i go to the bathroom, which is located near the stairs



pretty good, except my weekends are usually pretty out of control with binge eating and drinking :doh:

 

It's simple psychology, that was my only point when you use most of your waking day obsessed with it. Few hours tops a day should be it....

 

1 or two hours a day is reasonable.....I protest to LOK's obsessive training that involves most of his day (here's a free moment, let me get my pushups in) :doh: Having a designated time for it is good, involving your free time all day long can't be good emotionally, IMO.

 

For LOK, even sex is exercise. LOK develops his buttocks and gluts as he rams his cock in and out continuously, usually 3 sets for 85 reps should suffice. ::

 

I think Buddy's knees will be shattered by the time his kid reaches 10. He'll be throwing footballs with his boys from a wheelchair.

 

IMO, 30 minutes treadmill and 45 minutes of weights 3 times a week is more than enough for any average fellow. All this BS of training while your watching tv or showering, or doing 1000 push ups and chins ups and running 5-6 miles daily isn't going to benefit anybody. The body will break down over time. The whole point of training is to be alive till your 80 at least. No reason why a good diet, basic cardio and weights, and playing a sport like tennis or something shouldn't do the trick.
I didn't realize FightBeat was filled with f*ckin' freaks! :: :laughing: All these 'bathroom' He-Men who desire to be something they're not. Please! What the f*ck are you gonna be running 5-6 miles every morning unless you're doing it for a competition or something?

 

Amen Hanzy! I am only doing it to become Cruiser-weight champion before I am 40 :dunno: I probably will always lift weights of some sort, maybe some shadowboxing now and again for cardio.... but no way will I be doing cardio HOURS a day the rest of my life.....

 

Exactly. Hours and hours of cardio! Jeez! :doh:

 

:: LOK isn't going to burn out, you goombas :nono:


he's a powerful, beasty machine :fightme:

 

Nah, I'll be in great shape. I also won't be a fat, chickenhearted photoshopper too afraid to meet people in public. ::