The gym

PA11 wrote:For 90% of people, its not.

If you're a dude grunting while you bench 400 lbs, or a chick wearing 3 inch shorts and something that shows your stomach, yeah.

If you wear a tshirt and regular shorts, you're fairly anonymous.

Yeah I think I just see the more ugly side of it all, at least at that one gym I went to. Was only one time as well, not exactly empirically sounds judgement.

Gyms are awful. But I find I'm getting better at them by just not giving a !@#@.It helps to have headphones so you can't hear anyone or anything. Just bubble in. Also, look around and you'll see there's all sorts of people at the gym for various reasons. Sure there's the roid ragers and the lululemon booty-short+sports bra girls (which can be nice to look at sometimes, even though I hate them) who are just there to show off to each other and get laid. But there's a lot of people who are there for physiotherapy, there's extremely obese folks and old ladies just trying to keep up their bone density. And then there's other people who are just there and don't care. The worst thing that's ever happened to me at the gym was running into someone I knew. In polite smalltalk I asked her how often she came here and when, so I could avoid her in the future.
Protip for just-not-caring: Do some intense cardio right off the bat, that gets me all dehydrated and foggy-headed and blurry visioned, so I don't even notice my surroundings anymore.

We schizoids are inverts: we live within ourselves, according to our own set of values. The logical extension of that is that we are in charge of ourselves - far more so than 'normals'. Therefore we are never fat. Why would we be if we are our own masters?
I suppose - because of our accompanying indifference.

Skeeter wrote:We schizoids are inverts: we live within ourselves, according to our own set of values. The logical extension of that is that we are in charge of ourselves - far more so than 'normals'. Therefore we are never fat. Why would we be if we are our own masters?
I suppose - because of our accompanying indifference.

Personality and weight are completely different entities. A certain personality does not predict or protect you from being over-weight. However, physical activity, diet, and family genetics do.

I don't like gyming. It seems like an exercise in narcissism, with those mirrors and all.
But I do like to play a couple of individual sports.

Obumbrata wrote:Nick: I live in canada Not as good a selection as where you live, I imagine. I want to ask if you know anything about brazilian jiujitsu. There's a place that offers it, and I'm wondering if it's very different from regular old jiujitsu (which is what I think I want to start doing if I can)

BJJ is almost entirely groundwork. It's fun, quick, technical and brutal. It's the groundwork side of MMA, in which fights only end by surrender, and as about 90% of MMA fights end with groundwork, that's what BJJ is. It's judo's older, more nasty brother.

Good thing to start with, but not so useful for standing self defence. If that's the best club in your area then go for it.

I don't know how people muster the energy to go to the gym after work, especially if they have not had dinner yet. These days, I get out of the hospital around 5pm. By the time I am home, all I want to do is vegetate and do nothing. In fact, I refuse to buy myself a television because if I had one, I would never get any work done. I would come home and watch TV until I go to sleep, which I really cannot do. Not only do I need to study for upcoming exams, prepare for tomorrow's cases, I also need to eat and, would also like to, ideally, exercise.

For those of you who exercise after a full day's work or class, how do you do it? I barely have the energy to heat my left-overs for dinner.

Darwinschild wrote:For those of you who exercise after a full day's work or class, how do you do it? I barely have the energy to heat my left-overs for dinner.

Practice, mostly. I used to train 20 hours a week, between 5-10pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday. I did it because at the time I had too if I wanted to join the army, but now I have a harder time motivating myself.

Darwinschild wrote: Not only do I need to study for upcoming exams, prepare for tomorrow's cases, I also need to eat and, would also like to, ideally, exercise.

For those of you who exercise after a full day's work or class, how do you do it? I barely have the energy to heat my left-overs for dinner.

This might sound flippant, but you simply assign thirty minutes of exercise to your daily routine. As with all new activities, the 30, 60, 90 rule applies: if you can make it to the 90 day mark with an unblemished record of attendance to a daily exercise regimen, your brain will have hardwired this daily event into your psyche as being as normal and as necessary as studying for exams or heating up your left overs.

The trick is to not flounder around in the gym. As an example: do a set of chin-ups, then go do a set of sit-ups, then off to the leg press machine, then back to chin-ups again. The idea here is to maximize your time.

Do thirty minutes on the treadmill at a brisk pace.

You will actually find that you are more energetic after adding routine exercise into your daily routine, and if you keep it up, within 90 days you will be fit, muscular, and beautiful to behold.

The crux is the first two weeks. If your body isn’t used to this sort of treatment, you’re going to feel absolutely knackerd for a couple of weeks. As well, if you don’t watch your nutrition, or get enough rest, you’ll crash like a ######6 meteor.

15407 wrote:

Darwinschild wrote: Not only do I need to study for upcoming exams, prepare for tomorrow's cases, I also need to eat and, would also like to, ideally, exercise.

For those of you who exercise after a full day's work or class, how do you do it? I barely have the energy to heat my left-overs for dinner.

This might sound flippant, but you simply assign thirty minutes of exercise to your daily routine. As with all new activities, the 30, 60, 90 rule applies: if you can make it to the 90 day mark with an unblemished record of attendance to a daily exercise regimen, your brain will have hardwired this daily event into your psyche as being as normal and as necessary as studying for exams or heating up your left overs.

The trick is to not flounder around in the gym. As an example: do a set of chin-ups, then go do a set of sit-ups, then off to the leg press machine, then back to chin-ups again. The idea here is to maximize your time.

Do thirty minutes on the treadmill at a brisk pace.

You will actually find that you are more energetic after adding routine exercise into your daily routine, and if you keep it up, within 90 days you will be fit, muscular, and beautiful to behold.

The crux is the first two weeks. If your body isn’t used to this sort of treatment, you’re going to feel absolutely knackerd for a couple of weeks. As well, if you don’t watch your nutrition, or get enough rest, you’ll crash like a ######6 meteor.

What is the 30-60-90 rule for exercising? 30 minutes of exercise for 60 days? Than 90 days?

Your suggestion is not a bad one, but realistically, I cannot imagine myself exercising for more than 8, maybe 10 minutes at most. For example, when I am on my bike trainer, I can feel each and every second pass by. It is painful. I tried distracting myself with my laptop since I do not own a television, but even if I am not consciously counting the seconds, the gnawing ache in my leg muscles was enough of a reminder. Every minute felt it would never end. After three minutes, I was pretty much ready to call it a day.