Oct
16th
2016
Exercise · 3:12am Oct 16th, 2016
So I began exercising again. Not just because someone close to me suggested it, but also because a sedentary lifestyle like mine isn't so good for me, so I need to do something to stay in shape. I had forgotten the ache of a genuine workout. I used to be able to do so much more than this when I was in Taekwondo. Then again, I was also a whole lot younger back then too. Maybe that has something to do with it.
So, how about any of you? Anyone out there that exercises too? Maybe got some tips for me? I mean I'm not obese, but I'm definitely overweight and very much out of shape. I only did thirty squats when I got up today, and two hours later, my legs want me to sit down and never get up again ever.
i haz feelz for u bro
i kno dat feelin
and im just joking around with my lazy talking but yea i know how you feel. im in mcjrotc and i can barely move my body when im done with them
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Makes me wonder what the Alan Wake game would've been like if it were more realistic. You see him jogging everywhere in that game, don't even try to tell me any normal person could pull that shit off, let alone your average writer!
Advice: Man the fuck up! I read a few years back on how (I think it was Willie) Willie Nelson, who was 83, got his 3rd degree black belt; also, my mother, who is...not exactly a spring chicken, goes to daily 1 hour workouts.
Point being, you can do it, work through it, it'll be worth it
(also, I'm not sure if you write for a living, but whatever you do, so some of it standing up. Merely sitting down for a long period of time is bad for you and just standing up instead of sitting down is.)
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Well at this point it's moreso about getting my muscles used to strenuous activity in preparation for losing weight. I'm moreso concerned with my ability to lift things (my arms have always been flimsy as shit, while my legs have always been my strongest features), but at this point it's more about establishing a routine with it than trying to 'man up'. I'm well aware I can do it, and that I'm capable of far more than I feel like I can do right now. The struggle for me is not getting absolutely bored with it.
Physical labor of any sort has always been excessively painful and monotonous for me, even Taekwondo. After I got my black belt, I was tired of it, and I did that in a year. Like I said though, I was a lot younger back then. When you're younger, you don't get sore so easily, and you deal with pain a lot better than when you're nearing your thirties and you don't move around with the same energy you used to. That was also back when I was carrying around a backpack with forty pounds of books all day too, so that might've had something to do with it. Maybe I should do that again.
4257696 And people say smart people are weak....tell that to my bookbag asshole!
But ya, sorry, that was pretty (extremely) rude to say on my part...shit I was always bad at this, and while I would say I'm not going to do it again, but I know I would.......I'll try and think through what I'm actually saying
4257709
Nah, it's cool. I know you had good intentions, so it's fine with me. But yeah, probably should think about what you're going to say more, with other people.
Smart people are perfectly capable of being strong as well. I think the problem lies in numerous variables, such as the stereotypical disconnect between 'nerds' and 'jocks'. We're not as smart and unbiased as we like to think we are when we're young, and the added pressure of our peers to fall in line and let ourselves be defined by certain established stereotypes shuts out other possibilities. 'Why would I exercise? What do I look like, some kind of meathead jock?' There's also the factor of how you're raised. I was raised to embrace my intellectual superiority compared to the average student, and I know how that makes me sound, but I really was a very smart child. That inevitably resulted in me staying home, playing games, getting my homework done and all that with zero encouragement to work out and keep myself fit and in shape.
Of course, my specific case has a lot to do with social anxiety and a deep-seated desire to not be like those around me, because the average behavior of my peers tended to disgust me in certain ways. I loosened up a lot in high school, though I think that had more to do with me finally going to a school that none of my previous 'friends' were going to, so I could start fresh and actually find people I could fit in with. I wound up getting into Taekwondo in middle school, and I stopped shortly after getting into high school.
That and, y'know, like I said, I hated physical activity because I hate pain.
4257729 Well said
ok, i dont know your exact personal fitness, but that doesnt matter. You have to start with laughable easy exercises and you will think: "I can do that easily, whats the next step?". But you must continue them for at least 2 weeks every day. at the beginning these exercises will take a lot of time, but at the later steps only ca. 20min together a day
1st step
-pushup : stand ca 2feets before a wall, plant your hand in shoulder height on the wall and do pushups, 2sec down, holt 1 sec, 2sec up,
repeat 100 times, alway keep a straight back. make a 2 min max break and repeat a total of 3 times.
- squats : Hold on to something stable, about as high as your belly, than bend your knees as if you want to sit down, but stop at 45°, 2sec down, holt 1 sec, 2sec up, repeat 100 times, alway keep a straight back. make a 2 min max break and repeat a total of 3 times.
- situps : lay on your back, normaly there is a small gap between your back and your behind, by tighten your abdomen it shold be touching the ground, try to continuing breathing normally despite your tighten abdomen. try to holt this for 20secs, make a 10 sec break, repeat till 3 min are over.
-pullup : take a pillar, lamppost or tree. plant your feets at the foot of the pillar or whatever, take a hold on it at your breast height. 2sec down, holt 1 sec, 2sec up, repeat 100 times, alway keep a straight back. make a 2 min max break and repeat a total of 3 times.
If you have any muscle ache, reduce to the half of a set and slowly work yourself up to 100 by adding 10 every 2 days
note: non of these exercise will reduce your weight, they are only to strengthen your muscles so that your joints can take more exhausting exercise.
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I'll take all of that into consideration. Thanks for the tips!
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if you go all the steps of the training, you can make one-arm-push ups with feet on the table in less than 2 years and squads with just 1 leg in aboud a year