Thread: Log in your workouts today!

Originally Posted by hallelujah

A castle on a hill with no steps. And how we ended up wishing there were.

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If you'd kept on going along the road another 600m and turned right, you could have walked up the track right up to the castle. A kilometer in total. A 10 minute walk. Next time, maybe.

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Originally Posted by Neverna

If you'd kept on going along the road another 600m and turned right, you could have walked up the track right up to the castle. A kilometer in total. A 10 minute walk. Next time, maybe.

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We actually ended up going the other way looking for the bus into town...but a kindly priest stopped us and gave us a lift!

Nic pics, Hal! Stairs are a great workout. It is easy to get bored if you are mostly just running for exercise. Time to change it up!!


I've gone full out workout crazy the last few weeks. I work two jobs, but trying to find time to workout four to five times a week.

Mon - Body Sculpt an hour weight class
Tues - cardio kickboxing 1 hr class
Wed - 1 hour walk outside
Thurs - 30 mins intense swim intervals, hot tub relaxation
Fri - an hour class of barbell class heavy duty for all body parts

This week's current schedule. I try to do weights twice a week, cardio both endurance and interval rest of the week.

Originally Posted by Edmond

beers n birds

have you fallen thru a time warp into the 1980s Dublin or what?

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

Stairs are a great workout.

Absolutely.

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

It is easy to get bored if you are mostly just running for exercise.

I certainly wouldn't agree with that. Unless one is only doing it on threadmills, or the same track every time. I have 4 different parks I use to run around in the morning, each one is lovely, shaded by lovely big trees, lakes, ponds, fountains, great way of meeting people and typically make 1 or 2 new friends each time. Usually cute. Often persuaded to enter the land of Cheddar without too much difficulty.







(I'm sitting on a step and runner-girl is crouching on a step behind me, before Dill or Snubs has an orgasm )

Running in parks is great.

Add in the music factor, and it's umm.... very great.


I personally find swimming laps to be the most boring form of exercise. It's like walking from wall to wall then back again 50 times in a silent blank empty room. Though is a great all round exercise, of course.

^ same style of denim jacket as current 19 yr old. Probably a 20 year age gap so hopefully it's not her mother.





Light n easy 60 minute leg loosener, bit o' a warm up then hit the 7.5kmph button.

Before abs, biceps and back.

Before a weekend of manic semi-legal debauchery.

TUGF, Teen Uni GF mentioned that she was part of her high school badminton team that won a regional competition at the start of the year.


Being quite a kind fellow, there was really only one thing for it.

To mansplain her faults and mistakes while teaching her how to play properly.


First to pick up me tutoring tools.





Decathlon's finest weapons.




Loosen up.


Decide that it's first to 100 wins. Decide on the stakes.

She wins, I need to take her to Mon Jam to go on some downhill slalom roller-coaster thing.

I win. Well, it involved fluffy handcuffs, blindfold and uni uniform just before she goes into class.


The facilities were quite good, especially when I needed to stop for a slash.









Ah shure we all love a jolly joker.





Stretching and joking and stake placing done, time to get down to business.


40 slightly sweaty minutes later there was a clear winner.








100-17 was a pretty fair representation of the skill and ability levels on offer.






Mon Jam it is.

Badminton courts do offer the opportunity for different types of quirky exercises.

#jolly.joker

Are you the generous sugar daddy who bought her the gold necklace, Edmond?

Or somebody else?

Originally Posted by Neverna

Are you the generous sugar daddy who bought her the gold necklace, Edmond?

Certainly not. She's a famous TikTok Takraw glamor girl, that one. I doubt the necklace would even get you handjo.... game.

Originally Posted by Edmond

Certainly not. She's a famous TikTok Takraw glamor girl, that one. I doubt the necklace would even get you handjo.... game.

*glamour*

Planting health seeds.

Got the kid down the gym for an evening sesh.



They've just put in a climbing wall.






The request to Santa for a new iPad with separate drawing pad has been denied, and instead will receive a pair of climbing shoes and chalk bag.

^Very cool, I also love Muay Thai, did it in Thailand many times at different camps. I do some boxing sparring classes now and then at my gym.
Love the climbing wall where your daughter is climbing. Good luck on your goals.

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Back at er again for me after a few weeks hiatus (ouch!). I got really sick a few weeks before Christmas with pneumonia, so I was off for almost three weeks actually.

Did 30 min intervals on the treadmill and weights for arms/back/chest both free weights and machines.

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

Did 30 min intervals on the treadmill and weights for arms/back/chest both free weights and machines.

Good stuff.

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

I got really sick a few weeks before Christmas with pneumonia, so I was off for almost three weeks actually.

Sorry to hear you were sick, MM. What symptoms did you have?

^Thanks Nev! Oh, I started with a sore throat, then it turned into a nasty cold with a bad cough I couldn't seem to get rid of. A lot of shit was going around in the schools before Xmas like walking pneumonia, flu, and RSV. Parents send their kids to school really sick with no masks, so I was bound to catch something. I'm going to be getting a pneumonia vaccine very soon. I need a subscription from my doctor for it.

5 sets.

skipping rope 2 mins.
Tricep dips.
Ab crunches with weights
Bench press.


The electronic skipping rope is kinda cool, for those of us that can't count to 20. First 2 mins was 212. The 5th was 429.

Was in the zone.

Headed to gym to see if there were any cuties to have a smiley happy chat with. There wasn't.

And I just remembered now I forgot to pay.

It's an unmanned scan-as-you-go place. Whoops.


Banged on Metallica's Black Album and slowly jogged along for 5km to welcome me pegs into the New Year.



2 seshes a day sounds about right for getting back in shape.

^Nice, I wish I had time to do 2 sesh's a day!


Did 1.5 hrs of skating yesterday and day before did about 3.2 miles on this elliptical type machine. First time using it, and love it. You move your legs and arms so get a good cross country workout.

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

I wish I had time to do 2 sesh's a day!

Are these sesh's called 'all you can eat buffets' in English?

1 sesh is enough for me, 2 seshes is a alcohfrolic.

^Ha! How is the exercising going, Joe? Are you still working out with your son?

^^Haha, right!

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We are in a major snow storm today, I think I'm going to do the stairs in my building rather than going outside. I live on the 20th floor, so sometimes I do the stairs up, then walk down. I'm usually done after that. Stairs will kick your butt. Last time I went down and back up and I couldn't walk for a few days. My friend said to start at the bottom and walk up first, so ill try that.

^Haha, bad boy! It is easier to run up when you are 14, then at my age. lol. The things we did when we were younger eh. I used to smoke behind my house on the train tracks.

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The more I do stairs the easier it is getting, doing two climbs now, so 42 flights..not bad.