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The TFP Health Club

Discussion in 'Tilted Life and Sexuality' started by Mister Coaster, Dec 9, 2011.

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  1. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
    There's a term I've heard used for those who can ultimately toss 250 to 300 pounds on the bench: genetically gifted.
     
    Baraka_Guru, Nov 26, 2012
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  2. Cayvmann

    Cayvmann Very Tilted

    Location:
    Central North Carolina
    I can rep with 300+. My best for two is 355 and my best for reps is 320 for 8 reps. It's my only gift... I was doing good on squats, but injuries have set me back to just a little more than I bench.
     
    Cayvmann, Nov 26, 2012
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  3. Craven Morehead

    Craven Morehead Very Tilted

    Location:
    third rock from the sun
    Nearly finished with an hour of cardio on an elliptical. Avg 7.5 METs. Heart rate under 110.

    Having an iPad makes it somewhat less boring.
     
    Craven Morehead, Nov 26, 2012
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  4. Cayvmann

    Cayvmann Very Tilted

    Location:
    Central North Carolina
    Did an ad-hoc leg day. Now my knees are made of jelly, and I still have to finish the work day. Woot jelly
     
    Cayvmann, Nov 29, 2012
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  5. Japchae

    Japchae Very Tilted

    Ugh, didn't stretch correctly. Irritated left knee, pulled the entire upper portion of my rib cage, front and back. Awesome. Pecs and traps are angry.
     
    Japchae, Nov 29, 2012
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  6. DamnitAll

    DamnitAll Wait... what?

    Location:
    Central MD
    Santa, I want a kettlebell for Christmas. :D
    --- merged: Nov 30, 2012 4:12 AM ---
    Nonono, you need the thick terry cloth ones, along with matching wristbands. Clearly.

    My spouse and I have been doing boot camp classes between three and five times a week for about a year now (she actually started about eight months before I did and got me into it). Since that time, she's lost roughly 50lbs and I've lost just shy of 20. It feels awesome and I can't get enough.

    In part thanks to the improvements in my overall fitness, I've gotten a number of high mileage rides in over the summer and fall, including my first two century rides and a few intense climbing rides of 40-60mi.

    I'm determined to get to the point where I can do pull-ups unassisted. I'm already happy to be able to do some "real" (as opposed to modified "girly") push-ups with decent form, and I hope to eventually add hand stand push-ups to my repertoire as well. Once I can do an unassisted pull-up, I'll reward myself with a new tattoo. :D
     
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    DamnitAll, Nov 29, 2012
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  7. shanifaye

    shanifaye Dominissive

    Location:
    Lilburn, GA
    After 78 days...I finally broke 20 pds wooo Totals as of today, weight lost 20.5 pounds and 17.5 inches AND I got my butt into a misses size 14 skinny jean...happy day :)
     
    shanifaye, Dec 1, 2012
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  8. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
    I'm going back to the basics with my nutrition.

    For breakfast, I switched out my Quaker Harvest Crunch and replaced it with good 'ol steel-cut oats from the Canadian prairies. I mix in some unsweetened soy milk and a couple tablespoons of natural peanut butter.

    I'm also going to start eating more veggies and relying less on bread for the majority of my carbs, so that includes eating more new potatoes, sweet potatoes, turnips, and squash. It's a good time of year for this stuff too. :) I may also start introducing more brown rice.

    So less processed stuff.

    I'm going to be using my slow cooker more.
     
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    Baraka_Guru, Dec 3, 2012
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  9. arkana

    arkana Very Tilted

    Location:
    canada
    You goddamn hipster.
     
    arkana, Dec 3, 2012
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  10. CinnamonGirl

    CinnamonGirl The Cheat is GROUNDED!

    Location:
    Central Republic of Where-In-The-Hell
    mmm, oatmeal. That's been my breakfast staple for the past few weeks.

    I started week 4 of Couch to 5k this morning. I was a little nervous going in, but I got through it without stopping, and without being too miserable. Huzzah!


    Edit: Forgot to mention...I work at the restaurant one day a week now. When I went in Saturday, four or five different people mentioned that my face looks thinner, and I'm looking slimmer in general. Since I don't really see a difference looking in the mirror, that was a) totally awesome, and b) a great motivator. :D
     
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    CinnamonGirl, Dec 3, 2012
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  11. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
    I thought hipsters ate pretentious shit like vegan, gluten-free, fair trade, unsweetened, organic brownies or grass-fed, organic, Angus hamburgers with double-cream herbed brie and German multigrain mustard served on imported French spelt and cranberry artisan bread.

    You should be calling me a bumpkin or something, shouldn't you?

    I think you have it backwards.
     
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    Baraka_Guru, Dec 3, 2012
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  12. Cayvmann

    Cayvmann Very Tilted

    Location:
    Central North Carolina
    I love me some steel cut oats, and am eating gluten free ( my intestines are thanking me for that ). Does that make me a hipster?

    Any way, I forgot the sheer joy of lifting weights. I had been journalling my lifting for year, and the drudgery of the same old same old has been wearing me down. I have lately just been going to the gym and doing whatever I feel like, and it's a good change of pace. I get in a good workout and go home, nice.
     
    Cayvmann, Dec 3, 2012
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  13. Plan9

    Plan9 Rock 'n Roll

    Location:
    Earth
    My gym apathy is at an all time high. I'm trying to rerack the 80 pound dumbells but the 100 pound dumbells are in the 80 pound slot.

    How the fuck do you sleep at night doing that? The 100 pound slot is conveniently located on the end of the rack. And you're a behemoth.

    If you can walk around with 200 pounds hanging in your hands, you can be bothered to drop them back in the right slot, Mr. Douchebag.

    My solution has been to just drop them on the floor in front of their occupied slot and let the staff figure that kids-with-toys shit out.

    ...

    I've taken to staring the walls between sets when I go to the gym now. I... I can't deal with anymore. Not even trying to leer but the women are out of control. It's like a bad rap video.

    The girls have to be fucking with us. "Wow, I sure am sweaty. Let me wipe my brow by yanking my skintight shirt up my chiseled abs and thrusting my yoga-pants'd ass in a nice circle."

    That stuff totally triggers my prey response. Or maybe a heart attack. Ugh. I'd really hate to keel over on the elliptical one day and start grasping for my nitro pills like Craven Morehead.
     
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    Plan9, Dec 3, 2012
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  14. Cayvmann

    Cayvmann Very Tilted

    Location:
    Central North Carolina
    Just join a Planet Fitness ( fatness ). You won't have this trouble of not looking at hot chicks again...
     
    Cayvmann, Dec 3, 2012
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  15. Craven Morehead

    Craven Morehead Very Tilted

    Location:
    third rock from the sun
    Plan9 there's nothing near hot babe action where I work out. So my heart should be fine. Damn it.
     
    Craven Morehead, Dec 3, 2012
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  16. Lindy

    Lindy Moderator Staff Member

    Location:
    Nebraska
    This sound like my controlled carb regime, where I eat lots of veggies and fruit (raw vegan some days) and get all the carbs I need or want while eating almost no grains.

    Ahem.
    EXCEPT for steel cut oatmeal, which is a winter staple for me. To avoid being too healthy though, I usually have it with walnuts, berries, and real Jersey cream.;) Cooking tip: Steelcut oats will cook much faster if soaked overnight in milk. I don't know if soy milk would work for this, but it might be worth a try. I've tried water, and it doesn't.
    A sentence absolutely worthy of Garrison Keillor. You left out Volvo-driving.:rolleyes:

    He's just behind the times. LAST year you were a hipster. This year you fell off the vegan Volkswagen and are now a bumpkin. Probably happier and less stressed. Like most of us bumpkins.

    Lindy
     
    Lindy, Dec 4, 2012
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  17. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
    For me, though, it's more about carb redistribution. First and foremost: I need a lot of carbs for what I'm doing. I've come to a place where I've added a lot to my diet. Looking over what I've been eating, there was some fine tuning I wanted to do.

    The switch from Quaker Harvest Crunch to steel-cut oatmeal was probably the biggest change. For my breakfast, a cup of oatmeal vs. a cup of QHC has substantial differences. The biggest one is sugar. A cup of QHC has 24 g of sugar, which is 6 tsp. (I know! :eek:) Oatmeal gives me more of the good stuff and fewer empty calories.

    The other stuff like the squash and the root vegetables are more or less replacing the extra bread I've added. Bread is really convenient, and I only eat 12-grain bread, but I wanted to balance things out a bit by adding more veggies, which I tend to lack in my diet. I usually eat enough fruit (2 servings in my afternoon smoothie, plus 1 or 2 servings elsewhere—a banana, for example, is my immediate post-workout snack), but veggies I lack. So this is a change that has me eating maybe 2 to 4 servings of bread a day instead of 6 or more.

    I like root vegetables. They pack a lot of energy and nutrients, and they're delicious. Sweet potatoes are among my favourite food. Definitely in my top ten.

    With water, you have to boil it first. The overnight soaking method is handy if you're going to eat it all right away, but since I eat a batch over the course of a few days, just cooking it all outright is what we do. I've done oats in the slow cooker in the past. I may do that in the near future, but I don't know if it's really worth it. Boiling it fully at once is fine if you ask me.
     
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    Baraka_Guru, Dec 4, 2012
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  18. Plan9

    Plan9 Rock 'n Roll

    Location:
    Earth
    I need more oatmeal in my life.
     
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    Plan9, Dec 4, 2012
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  19. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
    Yes. Yes, you do.

    I'm surprised you aren't all over that shit. Wouldn't it be the cheapest cereal option for you? It's like $2 - $2.50/lb., and that's before you even add water.
     
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    Baraka_Guru, Dec 4, 2012
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  20. snowy

    snowy so kawaii Staff Member

    shanifaye, I added you on MyFitnessPal. Anyone else who wants to, PM me for my name, as it's a name I don't want in Googleable space here.
     
    snowy, Dec 4, 2012
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