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Relapse experience
After exactly 13 months of quitting smoking and seriously reducing bad food, physical inactivity and much less drinking, I relapsed for a 2 month period. I "had to", as I was under serious stress from work. I just couldn't cope otherwise. I was quite happy going back where I was previously, and of course also hated myself…
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The future of fitness halls?
When I grew up (60s, 70s), I was taught gymnastics at school. I joined a gym club as teenager (80s), where I did rings, horizontal bar, floor, parallel bars etc. I loved it. It was so damn good for my body, though I also recall that my hands were always full of blisters and the muscle pain was often terrible. Not to…
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High Interval Intensity Training (HIIT)
Hello all, HIIT is often praised for its virtues as calorie trasher. Yet, I can't find it in MFP's exercise database. But that is also hard because of the huge variation of intensity of the exercise. That's the point of HIIT, and what you burn doing it is just too different for different people I guess. I haven't' come…
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Ran my first 10k, and got a treat!
I used to be a heavy smoker, so I am very proud to have run my first first 10 kilometers within an hour today. It took me 10 months before I was ready. During that time I lost 10kgs so basically, I reached my goal!! Now, my body had this cool treat for me, to reward me. I do no think many people know about it and even less…
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Eh?! (Look again...) WOW!
That was what I said today in the gym. My gym has one of those old scales, with slides. I was used to slide the top one to 80kg and then the smaller one. Started with 91kg 10 months ago. Got stuck at 85kg for many months after some time. And I realized I was drinking too much wine, beer etc. But I couldn't cut that until 2…
