Carl_Carlson Member

We see this every year. There is a surge of new gym attendees every January. New faces everywhere using equipment as a kind of lounge furniture and impeding the flow of people wanting to get a meaningful workout. Groups misusing and abusing expensive equipment, like using the power racks to squat with "weights" that are so…

Pickled herring.

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Two years ago I was a hypertensive, 65 year old power lifter (250 Lb weight class). I switched from "Big Eating & Big Lifting", quit power lifting and took up a vegetarian (albeit not a strict one) cyclist's lifestyle. I Lost almost 30 lbs of fat and muscle and recently was taken off of blood pressure medications. I ride a…

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The word is" Gluggaveður " because today's weather is only fit to watch from the front room.

Why, when you dig a hole and then fill it up, do you always have dirt left over?

I suspect coffee's health benefits outweigh it's alleged problems. We've used it for decades to boost athletic performance and to ease efforts to "make weight" prior to competition.

Two days

As young men we would occasionally use treadmills during the long winters to keep up our VO2 max and "make weight" prior to a competition. It was common knowledge to increase the treadmill's incline a little to approximate running on the roads so I understand that running outside seems harder. We were used to the ice, wind…

I just want to get through today's bicycle ride without any mishaps or misadventures.

Need one friend to keep my account from being suspended.

Nudes should never attempt to bang out a new set of horse shoes on a forge.

Military Diet? Do you mean some guy with a cigarette hanging out of his face serving watery powdered eggs, cold coffee and dried out bread while you sit on an empty oil drum, wearing a plastic poncho in the rain? Oh, and explosions in the distance, don't forget the explosions.

How about a group of power lifters sitting around waiting while a group of women tie up a power rack doing squats with two 10 Lb weights on the bar? I maintain that this equipment was never intended to be used to do squats with 20 Lbs.

Headed the other way, trying to LOSE muscle and fat to get off of BP meds.

I have used polar products for years and can say nothing bad about them. I currently have a Polar M400 with GPS that I paid less than 200 for.

Forget raspberry ketones, tried them and only reduced the weight of my wallet.

As a kid I had a summer job on a dairy farm, that was almost 50 years ago and to this day I can't even think of consuming milk or milk products.

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Welcome heavenandhell, concentrate on consistency and not intensity. Resist listening to the fitness gurus, quack personal trainers, supplement salesmen and fad dieters. Never worry how you look in the gym or how you're dressed because everyone else is so focused on themselves they notice little to nothing else.

Too many

I ride nearly every day, the weather & tropical insects permitting, with no set goals other than to enjoy being outside. The distances I cover range from 30 to 100+ Km. I will probably not ride tomorrow as we expect to see the heat of the day reach 38⁰ C.

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EM2WL sounds like being told to lean into a left hook. Good for you in deciding to include eggs & fish in your diet. I have had good results by eating 3 balanced vegetarian meals a day and adopting a program of consistent exercise. Pay close attention to your protein requirements because meeting them can be challenging.