[Offers] NSC Fitness Thread

[Jimmy Grimble]

Nice work [MENTION=12101]Mellotron[/MENTION].

After injuring my IT band, I’ve had a few easy weeks including no running. Feeling good enough to go again now though and am quite looking forward to the buzz of feeling a bit fitter again.

 

[Bozza]

Really impressive [MENTION=12101]Mellotron[/MENTION]!

I've charted your loss against my similar one from last year - you're 1lb heavier than I was at the same time, but you started 13lbs higher!



I'm very much in maintenance mode, of sorts, but I'm being too much of a pig, Despite running 44 miles last week, walking another 42 miles and averaging 22,000 steps per day, my weight still ticked up a couple of pounds. I need to ease back on the booze and sacks of crisps, which I will now (just not today as people are coming round for the football!)

 

[Mellotron]

Really impressive [MENTION=12101]Mellotron[/MENTION]!

I've charted your loss against my similar one from last year - you're 1lb heavier than I was at the same time, but you started 13lbs higher!

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I'm very much in maintenance mode, of sorts, but I'm being too much of a pig, Despite running 44 miles last week, walking another 42 miles and averaging 22,000 steps per day, my weight still ticked up a couple of pounds. I need to ease back on the booze and sacks of crisps, which I will now (just not today as people are coming round for the football!)

Thanks so much for charting that - it’s really appreciated.

 

[Mellotron]

For goodness sake. Come on you lot. Any updates from anyone?

While here, I had a strange/good new experience the other day due to weight loss. I had a bath the other day - first time in about 6 months, rarely have time for a bath with a 2 year old LURKING around.

I get in the bath. OUCH. Silly boy must have left one of his toys in the bath. Try to find the toy with my hands, can't find it, must've floated away. Will sit back down and find it. Ouch. Same again. Genuine confusion at this stage. Then it dawns on me. I could feel my tailbone for the first time in a long time when sitting down. A little uncomfortable but a sure sign of progress.

 

[JJ McClure]

Do any of the rowers on this thread have any recommendations for alternatives to the Concept2 (which is rather pricey and also has a 15 week wait time for a new one)? Ideally looking for an air rower that is app compatible to things like kinomap. Been looking at the JTX Ignite and JLL Ventus, both seem similar but cheaper than the concept with lead time around half the time.

 

[weymouthmick]

I have the jtx freedom cost £500 18 months ago uses air and magnetic resistance I like the fact it has different programs and resistance levels to vary things up a bit, drawback is you need an electric supply and I don't like the distance travelled as it only goes down in 100meters, they might have upgraded this on the newer model but a good rower

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

For goodness sake. Come on you lot. Any updates from anyone?

While here, I had a strange/good new experience the other day due to weight loss. I had a bath the other day - first time in about 6 months, rarely have time for a bath with a 2 year old LURKING around.

I get in the bath. OUCH. Silly boy must have left one of his toys in the bath. Try to find the toy with my hands, can't find it, must've floated away. Will sit back down and find it. Ouch. Same again. Genuine confusion at this stage. Then it dawns on me. I could feel my tailbone for the first time in a long time when sitting down. A little uncomfortable but a sure sign of progress.

Good to see that the thread has been revived. I'm a bit surprised it isn't visited more. We have a flourishing one for runners (wherein I lurk) plus there's the cycling one, but no 'general fitness' one. Given the number of gym monkeys (when they are open), muscle-heads, cross-fit geeks, swimmers, rowers and just about anyone who has heard of Joe Wickes around these parts I'd have thought it would be a popular one.

As well as running I do bit of cross fit in a geriatric sort of fashion and am also one of the worst rowers on the planet. Go on, don't be modest, tell us your best - bench press, pull-ups, rowing times, burpees etc. etc. Recommendations for YouTube workouts might help someone (aside from the ubiquitous Joe W's). My missus follows Sydney Cummings who, besides being a babe (Sydney, not Mrs GNT), does fantastic workouts.

Don't say I didn't try!

 

[lost in london]

Oddly enough I started on a push up app today. If the last few times I've tried to do it are any indication I will last a month! I've got the attention span of a

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

Oddly enough I started on a push up app today. If the last few times I've tried to do it are any indication I will last a month! I've got the attention span of a

Well done. Target?

 

[knocky1]

Good to see that the thread has been revived. I'm a bit surprised it isn't visited more. We have a flourishing one for runners (wherein I lurk) plus there's the cycling one, but no 'general fitness' one. Given the number of gym monkeys (when they are open), muscle-heads, cross-fit geeks, swimmers, rowers and just about anyone who has heard of Joe Wickes around these parts I'd have thought it would be a popular one.

As well as running I do bit of cross fit in a geriatric sort of fashion and am also one of the worst rowers on the planet. Go on, don't be modest, tell us your best - bench press, pull-ups, rowing times, burpees etc. etc. Recommendations for YouTube workouts might help someone (aside from the ubiquitous Joe W's). My missus follows Sydney Cummings who, besides being a babe (Sydney, not Mrs GNT), does fantastic workouts.

Don't say I didn't try!

I think having a target is important for motivation. My first target is to try and chase down an old geezer on Worthing Prom this summer. Year after year he tops me in the NSC Age Grade table but I never give up!

The second target is to appeal to all the old dears on Worthing Prom when I get to make my appearance. So daily 3X various sets of 5kg dumbbell lifts to exhaustion and 3 sets of press ups.

For general fitness I'm trudging the muddy downs three times a week and looking forward to swimming in the sea when it warms up in May. Missing the pool closures. Think I'll make more use of the road bike this summer too.

 

[Mellotron]

Ugh. So I've had problems with kidney stones and various issues since my post above in July. Sadly gone back up to 14st something, not all the way back up to the horrendous days of 17stone but still frustrating to see some of the good work undone.

As [MENTION=15605]knocky1[/MENTION] says, I need to find a new goal, a new motivation. I came so close to my goal weight and then went the other way, which is very demoralising.

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

I think having a target is important for motivation. My first target is to try and chase down an old geezer on Worthing Prom this summer. Year after year he tops me in the NSC Age Grade table but I never give up!

The second target is to appeal to all the old dears on Worthing Prom when I get to make my appearance. So daily 3X various sets of 5kg dumbbell lifts to exhaustion and 3 sets of press ups.

For general fitness I'm trudging the muddy downs three times a week and looking forward to swimming in the sea when it warms up in May. Missing the pool closures. Think I'll make more use of the road bike this summer too.

Fair points (well some of them!), mate. The weather is such a variable isn't it? Isn't there an old runners' adage 'winter miles equal summer smiles'?

I reckon there might even be lurkers on this thread who could beat your gruelling 5kg dumbell/3 sets of press-ups.routine. Those old dears on Worthing prom are not easily impressed. I know: I'm married to one!

 

[CHAPPERS]

Ugh. So I've had problems with kidney stones and various issues since my post above in July. Sadly gone back up to 14st something, not all the way back up to the horrendous days of 17stone but still frustrating to see some of the good work undone.

As [MENTION=15605]knocky1[/MENTION] says, I need to find a new goal, a new motivation. I came so close to my goal weight and then went the other way, which is very demoralising.

Don't be too hard on yourself. Motivation in the winter is difficult and kids at that age don't help. Mine is 3 now and much easier to handle (!) meaning I can get out more.

Just consider it a reset and go again. Start slowly and off you go, just get out the door and go.

 

[knocky1]

Ugh. So I've had problems with kidney stones and various issues since my post above in July. Sadly gone back up to 14st something, not all the way back up to the horrendous days of 17stone but still frustrating to see some of the good work undone.

As [MENTION=15605]knocky1[/MENTION] says, I need to find a new goal, a new motivation. I came so close to my goal weight and then went the other way, which is very demoralising.

42lbs in under a year is not to be sniffed at. A great achievement. Think of it as a 3 steps forward 1 step back routine. Health issues are a pain in the arse like when you sat on the toy in the bath last summer.

 

[lost in london]

Well done. Target?

It would be nice to be able to do 100 a day (in a few sets). I am a very long way away from that right now.

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

It would be nice to be able to do 100 a day (in a few sets). I am a very long way away from that right now.

That would be good. There is decent (I think) research that correlates press ups with risk of heart problems (i.e. the more you can do the less risk of heart disease). I don't know whether press ups are protective in that sense, but, in simple terms they are a good thing. Please see link.

I once managed a 1000 in a day* and it isn't that hard as long as you've got f-all else to do in that particular day! Wasn't there poster a few years back who was a burpee maniac (for charity, so actually a top bloke as well as a super-fit one)? I can't do a single one.

https://www.menshealth.com/uk/fitness/a31075348/press-ups-heart-disease/

*I'd been doing the bloody things all day mainly upstairs. I wanted to get to 1000 before the start of a TV programme, so I came down to do the final set in front of the TV. and finished at 9.00 on the dot. As a lay exhausted on the carpet from doing number 1000, Mrs GNT helpfully chirped up with, 'I thought you were meant to straighten your arms'.

 

[jamie (not that one)]

I did a degree in Sport Science (many years ago) and I feel like I'm finally using it with my current weight predicament.

I'll be 40 this year and at my heaviest was 109kg (I'm 195cm/six foot five so not outrageous for my height). I'm down to 103 and am targeting 95kg. I know the ket is setting smaller short term goals because just looking at the end goal can be disheartening on the route, and I know exercise etc is a great tool. My main problem is keeping control of the calories, mainly from over portioning and my old friend booze. The drink I've cut down on (mostly helped by all the bars here being shut until the 15th Feb) and it's helping the overall form, I'm drinking about 3L of water a day, and I've also gone with Huel for one or two meal replacements a day to keep a lid on the calories. The meal or two I do have are generally very balanced.

My job can be stressful at times and even more so now when we are just about keeping the lights on, so I've started meditating with Headspace every morning. Growing up on a council estate, if someone had shown me the future me meditating and using vegan prepared meals, I think my head would have popped.

 

[The Wizard]

I’m nearly 3 stone down since this time last year, I weighed an eye watering 17.4, which you’d never think by looking at me, started off cycling nearly every day and now I run/jog between 5-8k 4/5 times a week.

Diet wise, I did Keto early last year but that went out the window in the early summer and since November I’ve been doing 18/6 fasting(not eating 18 hours a day and only water/black coffee) which at first is bloody difficult but now I find it a doddle, lost 23lb in 3 months, with Christmas hiatus in the middle.

I used to do weights a lot as well but I decided to pack that in and concentrate on losing pounds and fat until I get to the weight I feel happy with and then build myself back up on weights from there, as it’s nye on impossible to gain muscle and lose weight at the same time.

 

[Mellotron]

Glad to see this thread get up and running again.

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

I did a degree in Sport Science (many years ago) and I feel like I'm finally using it with my current weight predicament.

I'll be 40 this year and at my heaviest was 109kg (I'm 195cm/six foot five so not outrageous for my height). I'm down to 103 and am targeting 95kg. I know the ket is setting smaller short term goals because just looking at the end goal can be disheartening on the route, and I know exercise etc is a great tool. My main problem is keeping control of the calories, mainly from over portioning and my old friend booze. The drink I've cut down on (mostly helped by all the bars here being shut until the 15th Feb) and it's helping the overall form, I'm drinking about 3L of water a day, and I've also gone with Huel for one or two meal replacements a day to keep a lid on the calories. The meal or two I do have are generally very balanced.

My job can be stressful at times and even more so now when we are just about keeping the lights on, so I've started meditating with Headspace every morning. Growing up on a council estate, if someone had shown me the future me meditating and using vegan prepared meals, I think my head would have popped.

On my estate someone would have popped your head for you!

Serious point: most folk who take a Sports Science degree have a sporty background, often to a high level. What was your sport? Do you still compete? That's a great way to drop the pounds alongside the diet.