Lose Weight

[Homesteaded]

Originally Posted by Dolalin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm now 103.8kg, weight loss slowed a bit heading into the winter and around Halloween for obvious reasons. Still on track though. I want to be below 100kg in time for my birthday in Feb.

Killograms? More like Gaylogram

[Toxigen]

this shit is nuts

[booter]

love the barkley, been following it for a while... a lot of the athletes i look up to in outdoor/endurance sports have been invited and almost none have completed it [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

the dude who runs it is pretty wild, v v weird dude

[unsunghero]

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Yea I had heard of that one too. Sounded like an interesting idea, but not all that enthused about ever trying it

To me there’s a line between a test of strength and endurance, and pointless self-inflicted torture. Did ya’ll know there’s a “haunted house” that no one has ever completed? A co-worker was telling me about it. You have to sign all these waivers and then they just basically torture the living shit out of you until you give up. Now, they can’t peel your fingernails off, but supposedly they feed you and make you sit in disgusting stuff, and even are allowed to like waterboard you towards the end

There’s also “manosphere” retreats put on by “TRT NPC” men who want to roleplay being an army drill Sargent. And at their retreats you can spend thousands of dollars to have them force you to crawl in the mud while they spray in you face with freezing cold water and call you a bitchy pussy for a week straight. And then they’ll give you some medal or a hatchet or some stupid trinket and call you a man because you willingly let them live out their drill Sargent torture fantasies for a week

For me, pass on all that shit. Tough Mudder and Spartan are about the limits of what I am down to pay money for to prove myself. That is unless something really awesome comes along that piques my interest

[Toxigen]

Originally Posted by unsunghero [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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To me there’s a line between a test of strength and endurance, and pointless self-inflicted torture. Did ya’ll know there’s a “haunted house” that no one has ever completed? A co-worker was telling me about it. You have to sign all these waivers and then they just basically torture the living shit out of you until you give up. Now, they can’t peel your fingernails off, but supposedly they feed you and make you sit in disgusting stuff, and even are allowed to like waterboard you towards the end

yeah thats McKamey Manor



shits totally fucked - an ex marine almost made it but the guy who runs it called a BS hypothermia danger and stopped it minutes before 10 hours was up

most people tap out before 3 hours

[unsunghero]

Been slacking on timed runs since I won the last 5k

And unfortunately cardio (vo2max) degrades faster than muscle when not pushed

So this feels like a pace I can maintain indefinitely, but unfortunately is 20s/min slower than my recent best 5mi, and a full min/mile slower than my last race 5k

I have about a month and a half to whittle this down, and expand the distance to 8ish miles, maybe 10. I don’t ever need to train the full half-m, the adrenaline of the race usually carries me the last 1/4ish

Anytime I lose ground in fitness, I feel the Linkin Park song playing in my head….it feels so hard to build, and so goddamn easy to lose

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=

[Homesteaded]

Setup my weight bench in the barn yesterday.

Setup three templates, Chest/Shoulders - Back/Arms - Legs.

Picked 5/6 lifts for each template. I've never really lifted weights, I did it when I was in high school and we did it for sports but never really as an adult.

Doing my best to keep it simple here. I end up getting drowned in information when I try and optimize something new. I did the same thing with Piano, I started that and am doing decent but early on I really went over board on how to get started...instead of just starting.

[unsunghero]

Originally Posted by Homesteaded [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Setup my weight bench in the barn yesterday.

Setup three templates, Chest/Shoulders - Back/Arms - Legs.

Picked 5/6 lifts for each template. I've never really lifted weights, I did it when I was in high school and we did it for sports but never really as an adult.

Doing my best to keep it simple here. I end up getting drowned in information when I try and optimize something new. I did the same thing with Piano, I started that and am doing decent but early on I really went over board on how to get started...instead of just starting.

Lifting is great for your bone health

When you lift weights your bones bend ever so slightly and when that happens your body goes “OH SHIT! Mah bones just almost bent a little! We need bone reinforcement, stat!” And it begins to grow new stronger bone tissue

I dunno the actual process, osteo-something. But exercise scientists say the best thing you can physically do for your bone health is lift

[Lune]

Originally Posted by unsunghero [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Lifting is great for your bone health

When you lift weights your bones bend ever so slightly and when that happens your body goes “OH SHIT! Mah bones just almost bent a little! We need bone reinforcement, stat!” And it begins to grow new stronger bone tissue

I dunno the actual process, osteo-something. But exercise scientists say the best thing you can physically do for your bone health is lift

This is referred to as Wolff's Law

The process is called osteogenesis.

The best thing you can do for your bone health is walk, due to how fibrocartilage works. The second best thing you can do is lift.

[unsunghero]

Originally Posted by Lune [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is referred to as Wolff's Law

The process is called osteogenesis.

The best thing you can do for your bone health is walk, due to how fibrocartilage works. The second best thing you can do is lift.

Ah, roger