Man I got to get back in shape

[mike]

I feel like shit. Seriously. My stamina isn't near what it use to be, I have back issues, etc. In my late teens to about my early 20's (legal drinking age, that was the drop off I guess) I use to be 220 lbs solid. Lift weights, run and fight. Fcuk I feel old, it sucks.

Now that I'm in my 30's, and my weight has crept slowly upward. I stepped on a scale today, 262. Holy shit! How did that happen?! (I am 6'4" so its not too bad) its mostly a beer gut. I like good food and drink so that has some attributing factor. My arms and legs are still rock solid.

The gym is out for now. I had a membership for years, but the last few years, I paid the fat tax. I started to go regularly for a few months, but with my long hours at work, when I get home I'm done, so I canceled it awhile ago. I'm going to get up and start running in the morning, sit ups, push ups, pull ups, etc all I can do without a gym pass. I hope to get back around 230, then I'm going to join an MMA gym. If I do it now, it will be bad since I will get my ass handed to me since I'm so out of shape I will end up barfing in the trash can and passing out. Anyone else go through this crisis and have some pointers other then get a medic alert bracelet keep my insurance card and next of kin #'s in my wallet?

[karmakid]

dude i hear ya, well maybe not as bad but yepperz, i just need to get back in shape. we need to start some kind of work out group or one of us buy that p90x and pass around an educational version... take it today wasnt much help eh sir?

[mike]

Best start now before you end up in my shoes. I knew this was a long time coming, and I kept putting it off.

[karmakid]

yeah, today i decided to take the long way around the hospital, and boy those hills are biatches :P

i may just get a bike soon and join sly mike (TecharT) on those rides by the beach he does every weekend.

[mike]

I'm just gonna have to bite the bullet, get up early 3-4 times a week and do my routine. Too many years of lifting pint glasses and good food. This is double torture. I love my food and drink, but feeling like shit isn't worth it. Moderation is the key as they say.

[slowjet]

yeah, today i decided to take the long way around the hospital, and boy those hills are biatches :P

i may just get a bike soon and join sly mike (TecharT) on those rides by the beach he does every weekend.

Why don't you do some real biking and hit up the mountians with me? I'll whip u n shape real quick... lol

[madajb]

Are you married and/or have a long-term girlfriend?

-ajb

[karmakid]

Why don't you do some real biking and hit up the mountians with me? I'll whip u n shape real quick... lol

dude, hellz to the yeah, ill let ya know when i get one. airforce guys gotta stick together... yeah i know i wasnt in it but i did take all them test and said no thanks in the end. curse these glasses, i just wanted to fly T.T

Are you married and/or have a long-term girlfriend?

-ajb

if ya sending it my way i would have to say "nope, no more". which kinda did put me in a downward spiral, well aided in it, but that's another story for another time.

[mike]

Are you married and/or have a long-term girlfriend?

-ajb

Good guess Yup. Working on year #9... that is also a contributing factor.

[oc-audica]

whenever I start getting back into shape... first thing I cut is meals/food/snacks after 8pm. that tends to get the ball rollin slowly your appetite decreases imo... then you can shed some lbs by cutting meals back overall.

just suggesting that since the gym is out. combine it with some brisk 30min walks and you're golden... you will be back down to your fighting weight before the summer.

on my last little workout/diet "era" I dropped like 15lbs in 6 weeks doing just that. I was up over 300, and only 6'1". yek.

time for me to get back on it too. i get winded tooooooo easily. with my family history, we're talking life or death.

[SYNYSTAGLI]

Wish you guys were closer...we could all do this shit together. I started gaining after Thanksgiving. I quit smoking and now i'm loving the taste of all foods...must get help :P I usually will go out for a walk with my dogs daily but since the rains

[mike]

I'm going for a walk tonight, I have one of those "exercise" trails walking distance up a big hill from my house. That should do. But like you said Ricky, its the inbetween meal snacks. Since I'm on the run all day, the vending machine is my friend! I'm gonna go ghetto and chuck a weight bench in the front yard and some cinder blocks.

Manny, good for you on the quitting smoking. Thats great. Stick with it.

[madajb]

Good guess Yup. Working on year #9... that is also a contributing factor.

Well, then, your body has done its job. You've secured your genetic legacy and successfully fought off other contenders.
Let it have its graceful retirement.

-ajb

[Kelly Girl]

Go easy...start with walking 2-3x a week, something you can easily commit to.

do this for 2-3 weeks, upping your pace. Start with a 20 minute mile, working up to a 15 minute mile.

after a month bump up to a light jog and try for a 12 minute mile.

By then you'll have your workout days carved into your schedule and you can introduce biking, weights and the like. The most important thing is to keep a schedule -- it doesn't matter WHAT you do.

Before you know it, you'll be up to 4-5 days a week with a regular workout schedule.

[mike]

Well, then, your body has done its job. You've secured your genetic legacy and successfully fought off other contenders.
Let it have its graceful retirement.

-ajb

You are too funny! Rep coming in!

I would let it retire, but I want to have more energy, and be able to climb five flights of stairs with ease and not die!

[mike]

Go easy...start with walking 2-3x a week, something you can easily commit to.

do this for 2-3 weeks, upping your pace. Start with a 20 minute mile, working up to a 15 minute mile.

after a month bump up to a light jog and try for a 12 minute mile.

By then you'll have your workout days carved into your schedule and you can introduce biking, weights and the like. The most important thing is to keep a schedule -- it doesn't matter WHAT you do.

Before you know it, you'll be up to 4-5 days a week with a regular workout schedule.

What will you do if I get skinny? Love me more? I thought you liked my thunder, when it gets going, it keeps going! Momentum and physics work for everything you know!

[TOYr32]

^^ riding the wave of Mike huh . . . look slike someone is drinking the kool-aid

[3THREE7]

Man I'm in the same boat, as in I need to get back in shape as well. Last summer I was working out pretty hard, ran 20-30 miles a week, lifted for a good 8-10 hrs/week, and even played some bball couple times a week. Then I went to the Philippines for a good month and kinda never got back into it. =/ My muscles right now feel like its the consistency of goo...

[FunkTron]

Well, then, your body has done its job. You've secured your genetic legacy and successfully fought off other contenders.
Let it have its graceful retirement.

-ajb

You are too funny! Rep coming in!

I would let it retire, but I want to have more energy, and be able to climb five flights of stairs with ease and not die!

thanks Mike....I tried....but couldn't

[Arts_1_8t]

Man I'm in the same boat, as in I need to get back in shape as well. Last summer I was working out pretty hard, ran 20-30 miles a week, lifted for a good 8-10 hrs/week, and even played some bball couple times a week. Then I went to the Philippines for a good month and kinda never got back into it. =/ My muscles right now feel like its the consistency of goo...

you and me both, i lost 25lbs before i went to the philippines, constantly running. then when i got to the philippines and ate alittle bit, then forced to eat more by my lola...this happened consistently 3 times a day, i couldn't say no, and it tasted so good. and then my uncles got a hold of me, i started drinking a bit, san miguel beer or red roster, not my kind of beer, but i had to tagay with everybody in the nieghborhood, and thats alot of people in just one block, damn, make me wonder how i got home to my dad's.

now im back, trying to get back on my work out routine and stop eatting filipino food.