Fitness

[Celt_Ginger]

Originally Posted by spamel

It must be a nightmare chasing after your kids all day!

Myself, I can eat what I want and never get fat! If I could bottle this physique and sell it to ladies, I'd be a rich man as it would rid the world of fat munters in one fell swoop! God alone knows what my arteries look like though, probably partially blocked and ready to explode, but who cares, you only live once!

Exercise: I have to walk upstairs to go to bed.

You cheeky turnip. Any more of that and I'll get Mouldsy to move in next door to you!

[Royce]

Originally Posted by spamel

It must be a nightmare chasing after your kids all day!

Myself, I can eat what I want and never get fat! If I could bottle this physique and sell it to ladies, I'd be a rich man as it would rid the world of fat munters in one fell swoop! God alone knows what my arteries look like though, probably partially blocked and ready to explode, but who cares, you only live once!

Exercise: I have to walk upstairs to go to bed.

You bring up an important point. Physiques are largely inherited. Having been around strength athletes most of my life, I can pick them out. But most people cannot. Exercise, if correctly applied, does create a certain “look”, if you will. But the average person is impressed simply by wide shoulders and a narrow waist.

And it is true that lots of people can eat like hungry horses and stay thin.

If you just want to look good, pick your parents very carefully.

Take the family photo album and look carefully at your family members—those older than yourself. Chances are, you will find someone there who will feature your personal gene set. Look at them at various ages, and you will likely see a kind of mirror image of yourself.

One should also keep in mind that fitness and health are two different things. I have been around some very unhealthy people who still very good performers on the athletic field. History is replete with world class athletes who collapse and die with little or no warning.

[Xylaria]

I cycle as my main form of transport. I also do yoga really badly, and walk a lot.

I did a lot of athelics as a teenager, I can't remember my pb for a 10km but I was fast. I then got catstrophic hip injuries and now have arthritis, which I have found a dietry solution for. I am a bit tubby at moment, but I am fit and for chick I am strong. Getting my body very fit though 20 years ago does effect the body shape perminantly I believe. Even when I was three stone overwieght just after having my first kid, I looked like an hungarian wieght lifter not a fat bird.

Most women go for skinny rather than healthy and end up slowing up thier metabolism and making themselves fat, if I need to lose wieght I just cut out the rubbish food and do more stuff.

[TeeDee]

Originally Posted by Royce

You bring up an important point. Physiques are largely inherited. Having been around strength athletes most of my life, I can pick them out. But most people cannot. Exercise, if correctly applied, does create a certain “look”, if you will. But the average person is impressed simply by wide shoulders and a narrow waist.

And it is true that lots of people can eat like hungry horses and stay thin.

If you just want to look good, pick your parents very carefully.

Take the family photo album and look carefully at your family members—those older than yourself. Chances are, you will find someone there who will feature your personal gene set. Look at them at various ages, and you will likely see a kind of mirror image of yourself.

One should also keep in mind that fitness and health are two different things. I have been around some very unhealthy people who still very good performers on the athletic field. History is replete with world class athletes who collapse and die with little or no warning.

Also Royce which you have touched on , form ( ie Physique ) is not a good indicator of Function ( cardiovascular or strength )

Checkout the very average Bob Peoples here

http://www.superstrengthbooks.com/bob_peoples.html


or the 'Mighty Atom'

http://www.oldtimestrongman.com/imag..._atom23191.gif

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Greenstein

Not a 'winnig' triathelete , but still 'fitter; then 95% of the average population here

http://www.slowfattriathlete.com/



Also , need to be careful when we say the term 'fit'?? People have an average concept of what they call FIT which tends to side to cardiovascular steady state aerobics.
Not weights.
Not anaerobic sprints or intervals.
Not sport specific skills.

Different people need to be 'fit for their lifestyle, job or sport

Who is the fitter here for their lifestyle??
http://www.japantravel.co.uk/ask/wp-...2/sumo-kid.jpg


I've seen plenty of Para's who eat all the fried brekkies the naffis will serve ,drink like fish , smoke like steam trains , are racing whippet fit and would crush most pro atheletes over cross country ground.
Fit Yes. Healthly? doubtful by modern standards.

[goshow]

It an interesting topic when refering to "fitness". As TeeDee has touched on, triathlete or sumo wrestler, who is the fitter?

My perception of that would definately be the triathlete and that perception comes from previously being a gym addict and bodybuilder. 5 years ogo i was 19.5 stone and had a body fat % of 8%, at 6ft 3" tall i was fairly big but back problems soon put pay to that. Anyway, for competing in bodybuilding there are numerous classes and levels but one of which is fitness. It's mainly done by the ladies and is stereotpically the aerobic gym instructor kind of physique.

For me fitnesses is about being an all round athlete. Sumo wrestlers and power lifters aren't fit but are extremely strong.

Anyway, I keep fit by going to the gym, lifting a few weights (higher reps on lower weights now) and for aerobic fitness i'm now back playing ice-hockey. I played for 20 years before i joined the job and now have a bit more time to start playing again. Great game and excellnet for fitness and reaction times.

[johnnny]

alot of walking up hill, and alot of lifting and moving around...

In the forest, the lean and mean are more fit then the slow and bulky....

[Silverback]

Originally Posted by johnnny

alot of walking up hill, and alot of lifting and moving around...

In the forest, the lean and mean are more fit then the slow and bulky....

Unless of course you happen to be a bear

[johnnny]

lol a bodybuilder can crush you if he gets you, but in the woods all he is good for is taking out dead trees that arent too high, poplar ><

but a bear, well a grizzley can run as fast as a horse but im more worried about the black bears then grizzlies

[mole trapper]

Until i was thirty i boxed, sparred ran six miles every other night did an extremley physical job, i needed about 3000 calories a day just to stop myself feeling shakey, then i discovered home cooking and real ale, 15 years later and 6 stone heavier, BAD BAD BAD
Started training again about 2 months ago, genuinly needed to take a breather halfway through tying my boots up, now do 2 hours 3 times a week in the gym, plus swimming and 4 mile yomps across the moor in 45 mins. Pushing myself harder every visit, amazing how fast it comes back, Oh and stopped drinking beer, lots of water and wet ones instead.

[Addo]

Originally Posted by Pedroski

I get up at 6am, sort the kids' school lunches out, sort my lunch out, have a bowl of porridge and a cuppa, go out the door and meet my workmate some time before 8am, spend all day digging, up and down ladders hedgecutting, shovelling compost and sh1t, weeding, mowing, doing tree work, chipping, chopping wood, erecting fences, 30 to 45 minute lunch break, cup of tea whenever possible, get home by 7pm in summer and bit earlier in winter, have dinner and shower, help get kids off to bed, sit on my butt with glass or 2 of wine or beer, fall asleep.....then it all repeats again Monday to Friday (avoiding Saturdays these days!). Often after work I'll walk the dogs too. Weekends do family stuff and really enjoy being able to let me body do nowt energetic for a couple of hours. Cycling and skiing (when time/finances permit) and other activities seem physically easy compared with work!

I'm fit these days. Years ago I worked in an office and always felt so miserable and unhealthy! Used to attempt going to the gym to make me feel right, but that's crap as well. There's no way I can ever go back to something like that.

That was me for years happy and fit as a fiddle, eat and drink whatever I like. Kung fu, tree/rock climbing, training, and walking in the hills at the weekend too.

Now in an office or driving a landy. Suposed to be the right thing to do but I cant do exersice without a reason, and evenings im knackered from doing dowt, so im going downhill fast.

Mind, spent all day today on top of a conifer hedge in a storm and got payed for it, got some exersise too and feel great. Might have to go back to it I recon!