I miss the fitness threads and the fitness Doms!

[midwestyankee]

Yes, there are a ton of them and im sure most are good. Just curious if there was one that was the BOMB. Thanks!

From my experience, while most probably do a satisfactory job of turning fruits and veggies into juice (stay away from making potato or celery juice; just trust me on this), I think where you'll find yourself praising one model over another is with cleanup. Juicing a fruit produces a bunch of pulp and often quite a bit of it will lodge firmly in the juicing screen. Ease of cleanup should be high on your list of qualities to search out.

 

[okatty35]

Great!! Thanks...saw that one and thought it looked pretty good and price is right!!

 

[Keroin]

Re:juice

If you're drinking it just for taste, cool. If you're drinking it for health and/or weight loss, I'd think twice. A little juice is fine but the bottom line is that fruit is sugar and fruit juice takes away the benefits of fiber that you get from eating the whole fruit.

I rarely drink juice, I mean rarely. And I don't eat a ton of fruit, particulalry dried fruit.

Not trying to preach just trying to provide info.

Here's an article that explains the juice thing better than I can.

(Not the best article but I grabbed it on the fly and it does hit the important points).

 

[teknight]

A good winter bit of cardio...
Snow shovelling.

Another decent bit of cardio, but this one looks ...errrr...special, from anybody else's viewpoint- going up and down the stairs. I basically went to the top of a 50 story building today...and then came back down....and I did it on a single flight of stairs (let's not account for the fact that, with breaks, it took me about 50 minutes to do the whole thing).

 

[wicked woman]

Question, why do you want a juicer?

Why not just eat fruit/veggies?

Ditto

Okatty53 just be careful if you're using it more for fruits than vegetables as you get a lot of sugar. Yes I know it's natural but it will still pop your blood sugar levels.

The actual fruits and vegetables are really much better for you. Lots of fibre. I also found that juicing took much more raw fruit/vegetable than I thought it would so it was quite expensive.

 

[Keroin]

OK, whatever runners high is...I got it tonight. Forty minutes into spin class...


YOOOOOO-FFFFOOORRRR-EEEEE-YYYYYAAA!!!

 

[gypsy*seer]

OK, so I'm an outdoorsy person, and I need something for S. and I to do, since winter is SO not the best walking weather in New England. (We usually power-walk 2 miles a day.

(I HATE the gym!!! )

 

[midwestyankee]

OK, so I'm an outdoorsy persoon, and I need something for S. and I to do, since winter is SO not the best walking weather in New England. (We usually power-walk 2 miles a day.

(I HATE the gym!!! )

Used snowshoes. Used often, that is.

 

[Homburg]

http://shahtraining.com/tacift-commando-vs-crossfit/

I've seen some Scott Sonnon videos and products. He's a little out there on some of his ideas. Not my thing. that said, he's in freakin great shape, as are many of his disciples.

I really do not care for slagging your competition as a form of advertising though. I think it shows your own product in a poor light if it can only stand in spun-up comparison to your competitor's product shown in the most negative light.

And, not that I'm a fan of Coach Glass (as too many blogs and such that I've read indicate that he's a bit of a dick), but his own physical condition in no way obviates the knowledge in his brain. You aren't following crossfit because Coach Glass is buff. You're doing it because you've decided it's worth doing.

Insofar as general physical preparedness is concerned, bodyweight exercises absolutely can do everything you need to do. You can certainly get fit with little else than your own body and gravity, your primary enemy. But, that said, you will never be able to really exceed unless you go out and get the training that Scott is both poo-pooing and asking you to buy into. Well, unless you are one of the astronomically few that have the physique, brain, and sense of proprioception to design and pursue a world-class program for yourself.

Note - I'm not slagging Scott Sonnon. I'm just not buying his stuff. Nor am I willing to accept the almost knee-jerk slagging of Coach Glass and Crossfit for the purposes of marketing.

 

[Sidney_1]

OK, whatever runners high is...I got it tonight. Forty minutes into spin class...


YOOOOOO-FFFFOOORRRR-EEEEE-YYYYYAAA!!!

Yay!

As for me, I hope to experience it today when I push my run/walk mileage to 5 miles.

 

[teknight]

Yay!

As for me, I hope to experience it today when I push my run/walk mileage to 5 miles.

You don't have any snow?

 

[Keroin]

Did lower body last night and all my weights went up. Yay! I'm always amazed at how fast my hamstrings strengthen. Of all my muscles, those are the ones that react best to weight training. Weird.

Up to 105lbs on squats now!

I watched this guy doing squats, (without weights), while STANDING on the ball. Jealous, jealous, jealous.

 

[midwestyankee]

Did lower body last night and all my weights went up. Yay! I'm always amazed at how fast my hamstrings strengthen. Of all my muscles, those are the ones that react best to weight training. Weird.

Up to 105lbs on squats now!

I watched this guy doing squats, (without weights), while STANDING on the ball. Jealous, jealous, jealous.

I could do that.

Once.

And then I would be moved permanently into a long box.

 

[Sidney_1]

You don't have any snow?

Nothing significant since X-mas.

We missed the hammering that our southern and northern neighbors received.

Tek, I run indoors. I hate running on concrete. I love dirt paths, though.

In case anyone is interested, I lost endurance at the fourth mile, and was going to walk the fifth, and then I noticed a gentle yoga class was starting. . .and ran to it! I hadn't done yoga in 2 years, and it felt soooo good. I like a more challenging class, though.

My problem is 70% endurance, 30% boredom. I gotta dig up the archives of This American Life. That podcast has really helped me to keep moving.

 

[brioche]

I could do that.

Once.

And then I would be moved permanently into a long box.

I used to be able to do that, but developing the skill is way scary and you have to have great core skill and kind of Zen-like concentration to do it well.

Okay, here's my question: if I'm working all the muscle groups in different ways, does it matter if all my cardio is from a recumbent bike? \

I'm raising a sweat in other ways: doing squats and practicing tensing transverse ab muscles, in addition to my other exercises.

 

[Netzach]

We went to cycle on thrusday and pump yesterday. We are very out of shape. My upper body is agonizingly bad.

1kg weights on the bar on biceps and I'm crying today.

I ditched on doing abs, I get a "smart move" ribbon for that at this point. Everything else is sore.

 

[Homburg]

Okay, here's my question: if I'm working all the muscle groups in different ways, does it matter if all my cardio is from a recumbent bike?

Yes and no.

No, it doesn't matter if your goals are moderate general fitness, or really good ability to pedal the recumbent bike. And it really doesn't matter if injuries prevent you from doing other movements.

Yes if you want to really improve overall, and want to be proficient and efficient at other movements.

So the answer, as with many dealing with exercise selection, is "It depends on your goals, and your current condition/injuries."

And, as always, doing the movement for real, as in on a real recumbent bike on the street, is better overall than using a machine. It is, however, winter, so that is probably not a realistic option.

 

[Cattypuss]

Just looking at recumbent bikes makes my dodgy back go like this:

 

[brioche]

Yes and no.

No, it doesn't matter if your goals are moderate general fitness, or really good ability to pedal the recumbent bike. And it really doesn't matter if injuries prevent you from doing other movements.

Yes if you want to really improve overall, and want to be proficient and efficient at other movements.

So the answer, as with many dealing with exercise selection, is "It depends on your goals, and your current condition/injuries."

And, as always, doing the movement for real, as in on a real recumbent bike on the street, is better overall than using a machine. It is, however, winter, so that is probably not a realistic option.

Especially since I live in Canada's snowbelt region.
I see your point. Right now my back is so screwed up that even the bike is hard on it - I have to make sure I'm sitting all the way back and have my core tensed - so I'm probably not ready for anything else right now.

Nobody knows how much my back will improve - not only do I have referred pain from inflammation all over my body expressing itself there, but I have all sorts of other interesting stuff going on like two vertebrae moving together instead of separately. (They're not fused - my physio thinks it's something or other to do with the muscles.) So how much will it improve? Who the hell knows? But in the few weeks I have been there I have seen an improvement in pain level and they're already ramping up my workout. So in three weeks it's gone from just pain relief to that plus a workout and now the workout is about to get harder. I think I'm doing pretty well.

I own quite a nice bike and hopefully I will be able to ride it in the summer, but it's not a recumbent and it's harder than it used to be.

I guess the bike is ok for now and I'll start going back to the gym if I manage to get into a condition where I need something more challenging. I sure hope to. I'm kind of struggling in the diet right now, but it's entirely a mental/craving/self-destructive kind of thing. I'm trying to work through it with some journalling.

And cattypuss, it's not a typical recumbent bike, it's special. And it also has a full seat, with a back and everything. And I mean a full one.

 

[Cattypuss]

Glad to hear it re. the bike, brioche (mmmm....... I could just eat a brioche...)

Gym this evening...

Bike - 10 mins - 63 cals
AMT - 30 mins - 351 cals

I think I may have done something unspeakable to my left ankle on the AMT tonight. We shall see tomorrow, no doubt.

 

[Keroin]

Okay, here's my question: if I'm working all the muscle groups in different ways, does it matter if all my cardio is from a recumbent bike?

I'm raising a sweat in other ways: doing squats and practicing tensing transverse ab muscles, in addition to my other exercises.

If you're back is in the kind of shape you describe, I'd say get your cardio where you can, in the safest way possible. If that's a recumbent bike, great.

 

[Homburg]

Especially since I live in Canada's snowbelt region.
I see your point. Right now my back is so screwed up that even the bike is hard on it - I have to make sure I'm sitting all the way back and have my core tensed - so I'm probably not ready for anything else right now.

Yup, like Keroin said, and I alluded to, do what you can, where you are, with what you have. In this case, a recumbent bike is still movement, and movement is what you (and everyone else) needs. If it is safe for you, rock it.

Once you get healthier, you can worry about muscle confusion, SPP, etc.

 

[Keroin]

FUHK.

Had a near-puking spin class tonight. Those are my favorites. I love those moments when I'm digging to the very bottom of the tank to keep going. Then the instructor yells, "COME ON!" and somehow I push myself again, through the pain and near-puking. And man...glorious.

 

[teknight]

FUHK.

Had a near-puking spin class tonight. Those are my favorites. I love those moments when I'm digging to the very bottom of the tank to keep going. Then the instructor yells, "COME ON!" and somehow I push myself again, through the pain and near-puking. And man...glorious.

Obviously a post for the bdsm forum.

Kudos, K.

 

[Sidney_1]

It's unsettling how many stress fractures are occurring in women. Crap, I'd better improve my supplements somehow. I get the best high with running, but some days I just don't have the endurance or my injured foot gives me grief. Still, I'm off this week from work, so I hope to keep working out regularly. Including power yoga.

I really do enjoy the feeling after a good workout. Yay, endorphins!