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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Before the pandemic I went through a medical weight loss program and lost close to 100 lbs. Then eventually I got sick of staying inside and barely doing anything and started walking. I eventually got up to 6 miles, but my knees started killing me (being in my mid 50s and then going up and down the hills in San Francisco will do that). I slowed down on the walking but then finally was able to get Ring Fit Adventure on the Switch and gat drat I love this game. I started at doing 15 minutes a day to almost 2 hours when I was really motivated. For something you would think is simple it really keeps me going with the diversity of exercises and can be a lot more difficult than I expected. i wanted to grab that game early in the pandemic but it was way too expensive. your post reminded me of it so i looked and it's half the price it was now! so i ordered it. i have been unable to motivate myself to actually leave and go on walks in the rain and dark so i need something to do in my small apartment, hopefully the flashing lights and tight cartoon pants can keep me interested
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plan your meals. make a dinner menu a week or two at a time and buy all the poo poo for it, then the stuff in your house taking up space will force you to cook it. at least that's what works for meGATOS Y VATOS posted:It's been great especially for my adhd brain. I think you'll dig it a lot. awesome, sounds perfect. I'll report back how I like it after I get into it a bit. grabbed some fitness bands too because they're about as much for a set as the baby dumbbells I have so I can flail around on the floor like a technicolor mummy PokeJoe fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Jan 4, 2021 |
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Jan 4, 2021 20:58
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i hear it's tons of fun, way more fun than working in a pharmacy
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Jan 13, 2021 19:01
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i've been ring fitting for a week now and it's pretty fun, pretty easy to keep playing it
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Jan 16, 2021 23:01
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i hiked 6 miles w 1600' of gain yesterday and boy my rear end hurts. those things aren't related
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Feb 2, 2021 05:58
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RustyKnight posted:so, I took my bike from the basement and went to cycle for some coffee and ride around the park, it was fun and made me motivated to finally do some exercises on our new fitness mat, I struggled to do a one push up and more than five crunches. Can anybody recommend some basic home training plans for complete couch potatoes? I am legitimately scared right now, I have never been this weak physically, at least stamina is holding up and mentally I have never been better ring fit adventure
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Mar 3, 2021 21:01
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I fell off the exercise wagon after getting a cold and need to get going again. My ring fit misses me
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Jun 9, 2021 17:52
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i've never been able to do cleans or front squats, my body doesn't like to bend that way
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Jun 9, 2021 18:27
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no, i don't think i will
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Jun 9, 2021 18:33
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a cool trick for losing weight is to replace your meals with some sort of drug. instead of breakfast try some coffee and a cigarette. want to eat lunch? take an Adderall. when dinner time rolls around you can permit yourself to eat one quarter of a plate of food or you can just take some ketamine. soon you'll be shedding the pounds
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Sep 13, 2021 17:43
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my ADHD makes it literally impossible to exercise on a machine without some sort of additional stimulation. i will get so terminally bored I'll just stop exercising
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Nov 10, 2021 22:18
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Instead of exercising I decided to become a breathatarian
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Mar 30, 2022 02:16
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i went to the gym this week for the first time since the pandemic started lol
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Apr 13, 2022 19:36
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i did a lot of outdoor stuff so I didn't turn into a fat blob but my endurance is definitely worse
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Apr 13, 2022 19:36
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i went to the gym 3 times this week. thats my best week in approx 4 years
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May 6, 2022 21:49
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Make your own smoothies. Put 1/2 c dry rolled oats in your blender and chop em up finely, add yogurt, frozen fruit, protein powder, instant breakfast, peanut butter, etc. maybe some milk or ice cubes depending on what fruit you pick to thin it out i make one all the time with a packet of carnation breakfast, some milk, and a carnation instant breakfast packet. Sometimes I add strawberry or mango or whatever, go nuts bro
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May 7, 2022 02:08
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If the texture is gross you can cook it into oatmeal and blend that in to smooth it out but it doesn't bother me at all to just do it dry. i often forget to chop them up dry first too and it still is fine to drink but just a little chunkier if you add it after you've already added liquids
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May 7, 2022 02:21
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i tried overcooking my smoothie oatmeal and it just disappears entirely now and thickens the smoothie. pretty good. Also I went to the gym 6 times last week (!) which feels like some kind of god dammed personal record
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May 16, 2022 17:57
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I've been really into the smoothie lately. I've never been a breakfast person and I take meds that make me even less interested in breakfast so being able to drink an actual meal is wonderful. Just throw some arbitrary frozen fruit, few scoops of yogurt, some oatmeal in the blender and thin with milk. Fast, satisfying, and easy to consume. Any other good additions? I'm wary of greens because I feel like they would make it taste much worse but I think I have some chia seeds sitting around 🤔
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May 16, 2022 21:41
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I got some more weight plates for my dumbbell set and now I actually have enough weight to do a few real lifts in my apartment. I also got a connector to turn them into a lovely barbell but it was the wrong size 
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May 26, 2022 18:39
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Lifting at home rules though, I can play lovely music through speakers and blast myself with a box box fan with my shirt off since I'm a sweaty piggy boy
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May 26, 2022 18:40
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carry on then posted:from experience, those connectors suck rear end and at least mine would get stuck hard enough to need tools to get it unstuck i ordered another connector but if it doesn't fit im just gonna go straight for the barbell to save myself time. i want the connector to save space though i live in a 1 bedroom apartment w my gf so space is a premium even though i expect it to be worse than a straight barbell
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May 27, 2022 01:02
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deadlifting her is the real challenge, i get too handsy
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May 27, 2022 01:29
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i second guessed myself and just ordered a barbell that can take my dumbbell weights, im giving up on the connector quest
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May 27, 2022 16:36
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I watched a guy dump a bench press yesterday and then try again at 1/4 the weight
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May 31, 2022 19:44
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it was his first set lol
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May 31, 2022 19:55
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Behold my home gym Yes the cat ears are for lifting before anyone asks still need to return the useless dumbbell connectors PokeJoe fucked around with this message at 20:54 on May 31, 2022 |
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May 31, 2022 20:50
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do some grip accessory exercises. farmers carries and such. also you should definitely use chalk, liquid chalk is relatively mess free and works well
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Jun 8, 2022 20:56
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i used to use gloves. gloves make your grip worse because they increase the diameter you have to grab. embrace the calluses
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Jun 8, 2022 23:41
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Speaking of, I bought the cheapest 45 pound plates I could find and the handle holes have such lovely powder coating that they're sharp and cut your hands so I have to take a file to them :/
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Jun 8, 2022 23:43
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i use some chairs to bench press off of and it works badly. i have the same squat issue though. pseudo comedy option: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1acIFO70B7c
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Jun 9, 2022 17:55
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yeah ive been turning the idea over too and i think an apartment rack isn't reasonable unless you just commit to dedicating the space for a cage. ive thought about building like a wall mounted one or some poo poo but everything just seems like a shittier version also i like to lift barefoot but i do it at home so i don't care what you think
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Jun 9, 2022 20:26
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theres literally a gym with a rack in my apartment building that i use sometimes but the convenience of having my own bar always available far outweighs it. my bar is covered in chalk and i leave weights racked all the time. i go down there for squarts sometimes tho
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Jun 9, 2022 20:28
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that thing looks sick but also it cost like 2x as much as my entire weight set and im not gonna install it in my apartment
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Jun 9, 2022 20:34
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ask the apartment manager to put in a rack
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Jun 9, 2022 20:45
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starting strength is fine, theres some other popular and fine programs too. the beginner weightlifting thread in YLLS has a few programs in the OP
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Jun 15, 2022 19:06
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I broke 100 lbs 5x5 today on my bench press using my janky living room setup 
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Jun 15, 2022 20:13
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Why don't you ask them to stop doing that
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Jun 15, 2022 20:56
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Good luck sweaty goon
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Yeah there's no secret sauce you just have to be an active person to be in shape. Exercise often
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