david1956 Member

Wow, you've achieved that and are ABOUT to start your personal trainer courses! My training really took off with a PT. I was 91.5kg a bit over a year ago, plateaued at around 83-85 (it was fluctuating a lot more then), started with a personal trainer about.. mmm, 2 months ago, and yesterday was at exactly 80.0, and it is…

You look absolutely hot, and your hubby is one lucky guy! I can see why you married the one with taste and not the BIL!

If you're looking at spending any reasonably serious money I'd look at reviews on a site such as dpreview.com. Probably not such a big deal if it's a simple point and shoot you're after, but well worth it in the more serious range. If you're thinking of getting into photography as a hobby, what I'd consider (and I recently…

Lynyrd Skynrd - Simple Man "Teach you how to dance Inside the funny farm "

My Ipod was out of power one day so I borrowed my son's (was feeling a bit skeptical) and had a revelation. Mine had been full of my typical rock, Pink Floyd, Chillis, Breaking Benjamin, Three Doors Down.. etc etc, but his was psy and trance stuff, a total unknown for me. Well, although my normal taste is still rock, for…

Love it! My first lesson was the moment I realised I wanted to get really fit, it is very demanding, but the best cardio vascular exercise there is, and great for core. It's made me address so many things such as balance, flexibility. And it is technically quite demanding (don't be afraid of that, we all start at the…

Firstly, are you sure you're not always looking in a room where lighting is from one side (a window) that creates a light/shadow illusion? But I do know what you mean. I've always, quite distinctively, developed the left side of my chest more than the right but my right lat more than the left. It used to be really…

"where do falling stars go?" Usually to some celebrity detox centre. Avoids a jail term and any publicity is better than none at all. If we have army ranks such as General and Major, why aren't there Specifics and Minors?

bikini (not on me of course, umm arrgh blush, far too old to wear bikinis now) surf or ski?

Well, our Kiwis are out but never lost a game and did not (against all predictions) come last in the group... Italy did! So we are pretty happy here.

A couple I like from one of my favourite bands

Rush - Presto "He runs, wishing he could fly"

Ditto what's been said generally, regarding facilities, availability of classes, staff etc. I've belonged to maybe four or five gyms in my life and I love my current one. As a general rule, I think there is an "energetic", "professionally run" feel about good gyms. Others that I belonged to were perhaps less expensive but…

I wonder if the elderly man who folds his underwear, or the women with her jeans creased use starch? People used to do that, but did they starch their undies? What would crisply starched undies, ironed with miltary precision, feel like to wear?

I'm with viviakay regarding a trainer. Not sure what is available to you, but at our gym there are classes of kick-boxing tuition, but I get one-on-one with a trainer half an hour a week (and do light practices myself). A number of reasons, one being that technique is surprisingly tricky to learn. Even a jab is technically…

I have a kickbox dvd that seems to be from a "Yoga Fusion" series by GAIAM. Like a kick-box aerobics class, looks good but to be honest it was an idea I never really perservered with. I do boxing training with my personal trainer, and I find mitt work with a partner to be far more enjoyable and easier to motivate than…

You don't know it, but we all watch a reality TV show following the misfortunes of some poor soul named brangwen. Audiences gather every evening scoffing popcorn and roar laughing watching brangwen's expression as woe after woe unfolds, currently the fake monsoon episode. When you accidentally drop toast, why does it…

briefs First date - taken to an expensive restaurant / meal cooked for you, candlelight, at their home

Ditto what's been said. Something to note (looking at those beginners exercises) is to watch that you progress from biggest to smallest muscle groups. It's common to see people who are trying to figure it for themselves wandering around doing everything in a random order. Back exercises tend to also work biceps, chest woks…

Slightly off topic, hope you don't mind, but I'm sure someone here can explain something to me. My male brain understands lofts of golf sand wedges etc but not certain other things. What is the waist measurement of jeans derived from? I take a size 33" Levis and have for ages, though now they feel a bit sloppy and I could…

He finds something about what you're doing threatening most likely, his hang-up. One of the strangest co-workers I can recall used to say a lot of things that implied to me that he issues about his own body, yet when it got to discussions about gyms he'd do stupid mimics of body-building poses and have a totally cynical…

Or you could do the Joe Cocker version and leave your hat on. And your idea is not crazy, a great sexy treat for your hubby I think! Way to go.

Next summer climb Mt Taranaki (on my doorstep) with my son and enjoy it rather than hating every moment (it is a very steep gut-buster). Do 4 sets of chin-ups with no counter-weight. (Just to be able to say, "I probably could never do that in my life before, but now in my fifties I can"). See my children wanting to be fit…

SHBoss1673, that is great information, thanks for that. Pattywantstolose, my honest opinion... not sure of you've done so already but if not I'd think about finding a good trainer. On and off I'd been to a gym a few times in my life and had a reasonable understanding of weight training techniques. Doing my own thing was…

I'm on a really intense strength training program, and what feels right for me (to be honest I'm not sure even what calories I'm consuming which is kinda daft given the nature of this site) is tons of veges. Probably my favourite dinner now is simple stir-fries with lean beef strips and quite a lot of lightly cooked crispy…

I don't care about other people sweating, looks to me like someone really going for it, and I perspire like crazy in summer. Something that can happen, not sure how commonly... this summer I started getting a sensation in my back vaguely as though knives were cutting it. Drove me nuts, and required moisturiser rubbed into…

The weather in New Plymouth is.... grey and more grey. Surprise, surprise... lovely Mt Taranaki cloaked in snow is... ummm, somewhere under cloud. Any spare room in your suitcase for a stow-away? My weight is static too, which is no concern to me at the moment, and I am off to the gym in about 15 mins. Today is…

Favourite in terms of it seeming a natural action that I enjoy is rowing. But favourite in terms of what i think works best for me is cycle machine. I always do my cardio as simple intervals, 1 min as fast and hard out as is mechanically possible, 1 min slow, fast, slow ... for say 30 mins. I don't enjoy it to be honest,…

Adding significant amounts of lean muscle mass very quickly is actually quite difficult for most people, and certainly doesn't happen overnight. As others have said it's about muscle being denser. Very crudely speaking, say I immersed two people, one after the other, in water and the amount the level rose was identical...…

BMIs are based on population averages. So they can re reasonably accurate for "average" people. They are useless for anyone outside the norm, especially muscluar builds. Someone up there mentioned athletes usually being "obese" according to BMIs - I recently saw a table of famous Olympians who were theoretically obsese at…