Getting in shape for con season 2010

[soundninja12]

I've been very good with my diet lately. I can see the difference :3

But the other day I was sitting with my friends and bitching about how fat I am, and they all told me to shut up. They reminded me how crazy overweight I used to be, and I got really proud x3

[Cyprus]

I've been very good with my diet lately. I can see the difference :3

But the other day I was sitting with my friends and bitching about how fat I am, and they all told me to shut up. They reminded me how crazy overweight I used to be, and I got really proud x3

You look good lady! Keep it up because it's working.

As for myself...I haven't worked out a single minute per-say...I work 70hrs a week in a mill though & have been eating smaller portions & healthier foods. Honestly can't say if it's working since I never weigh myself...but it makes me feel better so it's good enough for me lol.

[soundninja12]

You look great, Chris, if you worked out anymore than you did, you would be so worn out all the time that you couldn't move
And thanks, I like to think I look much better then I did a while ago.

[chelseahavoc]

i havent been working out recently... which isnt good... but i have been eating pasta instead of  pizza!

[soundninja12]

Sounds like a good choice

The ho hoes were right next to the yogurt and I chose the yogurt TAT
I'm so proud of myself!

[Cyprus]

I am already really worn out all the time that you guys see me   But at least it keeps me in decent shape for the most part...& keeps money in my pockets.

By the way Rebel...I LOVE YOUR TAP-DANCING SWAN PICTURE THAT YOU HAVE FOR YOUR AVATAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ♥

[nikkiolie]

Just got done doing my weights. I did dead lifts, bent over rows, and a military press today. Dead lifts are hard. It has been so long since I did those x.x

[reppy]

Dead lifts are awwweesome. XD

[soundninja12]

I am already really worn out all the time that you guys see me   But at least it keeps me in decent shape for the most part...& keeps money in my pockets.

By the way Rebel...I LOVE YOUR TAP-DANCING SWAN PICTURE THAT YOU HAVE FOR YOUR AVATAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ♥

Yeah, so you should be good on the whole weight scene. YOU AND YOUR DAMNED SPICY FOOD.

ISN'T IT AMAZING?! xD
I saw it and I just couldn't resist >.<

[Dragard]

Well I plan on cosplaying Chad and maybe Beat (TWEWY, thanks to suggestions), so I'm gonna have to put on lots of muscle, which I planned to do anyways. I can already shoulder press 250 lbs, but I can only butterfly around 130 Push ups are needed.

[Infested_wound]

Oh man. I did squats, dips, pull ups and bench press today. Walking up the stairs was hard afterwords.

On squats I did up to 145 (started at 105)
Pull ups (weight assisted was somewhere around 70 lbs)
Dips about 100 lbs on my 5th set
Bench 60.

What I have been doing is 5x5 and increasing the weight by one increment (for squats 10lbs, pull ups and dips it was one little rug thingy, and bench press 10lbs.

My mom said she thought my arms looked bigger before I even told her I was doing strength training so that is good news

[Tomecko]

Woke up this morning to a comment on my Ayla costume on Cosplay.com: "I didnt know that when you sign into cosplay.com it also comes with 2 free tickets to the gun show."

Hee! This makes me happy. I've been in need of some upper body strength anyways, and apparently the work shows!

And I've been doing good at eating healthier, though I still miss my junk food. Question, though: I thought while eating healthier, I'd start taking the multivitamins my doctor's been telling me to take. Does anyone else get sick when they take a vitamin pill? Taking the One A Day brand actually makes me throw up. Which defeats the purpose of the healthy meal I just ate. So I switched to Flintstone's Chewable Vitamins. Om nom. They go down just fine, but don't contain as many nutrients. Maybe I just have a sensitive stomach?

[Infested_wound]

I take one a days and they don't make me sick at all....sometimes they turn my urine a funny color but that is about it XD You do need to make sure you are getting the right amount of vitamins so it doesn't matter what you really take as long as you are getting what you need.

[Dragard]

I started taking some multivitamin tablets as well, they're called Therems-M, and I haven't noticed any side effects. They're prescription though (I think lol).

And I found out there's a gym in my town (I can't believe I missed it, this place is tiny), so I'm gonna see how much the membership costs so I can start going =]

[Felix]

It's possible that you were getting enough vitamins from your food already, so the supplement caused you to have too much, or perhaps you're allergic to one of the ingredients. In some countries you can't buy supplements without a prescription because they don't want people overdosing. You'll probably be fine taking the Flintstone ones... just be sure you're eating healthy enough to cover everything.

[nyahaha]

today, I biked to the library. On my way back, I decided to take a shortcut...well, that shortcut turned out to be entirely up hill I was so tired when I got home.

[Classy Viking]

Well I just got back from the Voodoo Too/Mall Meet up, and I feel fat. Time for some crunches.

[chelseahavoc]

i did my leg lifts, crunchies... and i even did planks.... last night.... my abs and legs hurt just a tiny bit but im hoping i'll get more into shape!

[soundninja12]

I'm in California right now, and I feel crazy fat! I need to go runnnnnning!
These chicks have b-e-a-utiful legs >.>
And I want to do crazy amounts of crunches, but they hurt my back crazy bad ;.;

[camname21]

@nyahaha  I love big hills, its one of the only thing that gets me completely out of breath before the muscles give out.


@sound    Try an exercise ball.  If exercises are done the right way with them, they are suppose to be the best thing you can use for your abs.

[chelseahavoc]

i did my exercises again! my tummy feels slightly flatter allready but it might just be my imagination

[nikkiolie]

Oh lord. I got a gym membership here and I did a little workout and I was able to do 10 dips without weight assistance. It was hard x.x

[reppy]

Dips are awesome. XD

[nikkiolie]

I just want to get to the point where I can do that many pull ups XD

[soundninja12]

^ Oh god pull ups *looks horrified*

I did a bunch of crunches and I've been running up and down a two mile hill all weekend. I FEEL WONDERFUL *3*

[Tomecko]

Dare I ask what dips are?

I'm still not seeing much progress on my abs (I've kinda got a 4-pack going, but I'd like the whole 6), but I'm definitely noticing a difference in my arms! Yay for bicep curls. I've noticed picking up heavy items at work doesn't require hardly any strain anymore.

[reppy]

I just want to get to the point where I can do that many pull ups XD

Yeah I hear you, haha.  From what I understand, best way to improve your pull-ups / chin-ups is to just do them!  The program I've heard prescribed for that is to just do as many as you can every single day for a single set.  So, get up on the bar, use proper form, and do as many as you can until failure.  Then you're done for the day.  Don't try to do anymore.  Repeat the next day.

It's important to keep track of your progress.  I've been doing this now with push-ups. ^_^;

(Another good one I've done myself is to do 1 rep, rest 30s, do 2 reps, rest 30 secs, etc. repeat until you hit 5.  Do that twice and you've performed 30 reps.)

Dare I ask what dips are?

I'm still not seeing much progress on my abs (I've kinda got a 4-pack going, but I'd like the whole 6), but I'm definitely noticing a difference in my arms! Yay for bicep curls. I've noticed picking up heavy items at work doesn't require hardly any strain anymore.

I've heard that the appearance of your abs is largely genetic. . .

And these are dips.

[nikkiolie]

Dare I ask what dips are?

I'm still not seeing much progress on my abs (I've kinda got a 4-pack going, but I'd like the whole 6), but I'm definitely noticing a difference in my arms! Yay for bicep curls. I've noticed picking up heavy items at work doesn't require hardly any strain anymore.

I can not stress this enough. Just doing ab workouts wont give you a six pack. You may have the abs you want but if you don't eat right you wont see them. In order to see abs you need to lose fat around your stomach. That is what is keeping mine from showing through so eat low fat foods and do cardio to burn off the fat. Every person in the world is capable of having a six pack. The reason why so many don't is because their body fat % is too high. It needs to be pretty low to show up.

[chelseahavoc]

thank you much for that imput nikki <3

i played more wecheer today.... my arms always ache after playing that game....

[nikkiolie]

It is a good idea to still do those exercises though to build up strength to improve your posture and what not. Unfortunately the cardio and eating right is the problem I have. I can't seem to do either for very long =/

[reppy]

Yeah, it's tough.. especially if you live with people that eat bad food. D:

[soundninja12]

I'm walking instead of driving to Pat's today

[nyahaha]

just biked about 4 miles =_= after biking home from school.

So I biked to the library, from my mom's house all fine and dandy, only about 1.5 miles. Then to my dads house, about .5 miles away. When I went back to my mom's house, I took a wrong turn...the street looked almost exactly the same as the street I'm suposed to take. It was a huge hill, just like the other street. but at the top, it was a dead end. So I biked back down and turned down another street that branched off of this one, thinking it went through. well, it didn't so i biked back to the main road and continued up it and found the correct street. by then my legs were killing me from the previous hill. Well, up the correct hill i went and back to my house. I could barely make it up my driveway walking my legs were so weak =.=

I think i got my excersise in for today xD but i'll still do abwork before bed

[lychee-twist]

God. My work out plan is so lame. I run, jog, or walk. That's it.

I've seriously got to get my legs into shape if I'm going to flash a miniskirt.

[reppy]

God. My work out plan is so lame. I run, jog, or walk. That's it.

I've seriously got to get my legs into shape if I'm going to flash a miniskirt.

http://www.tmuscle.com/free_online_article_issue/issue_628#complex-approach-to-quads-hams

Give those a shot. xD

[veraca]

I've got to get in shape too for con. I've really let myself get weak, where walking to class is about all the exercise I get >>; If my bike was fixed I'd ride it, but that costs money..

Basically I need a whole refresh on getting in shape: arms, legs, abs, back...

Namely it's because I can't barely lift my wooden keyblade anymore x_x; And at con I have to carry a metal sword almost as big as me... *sweat sweat* I'm tempted to start doing push-ups for my arms, and squats (FF7CC style! XD) for my legs and so on...

Any tips?

[chelseahavoc]

D: meh!!!! i havent done my nightly exerciss fr two days.... i blame msn and the cosplay chat.... must get back on the bal tonight!

[nikkiolie]

I may have found more motivation to stay in shape and lose a few inches off my stomach A costume I want to do may keep me in check but at the moment I am keeping it a secret because I don't even know if I will be able to do it or not =/

[soundninja12]

Wall sits. They suck. But they work.

For my abs, I like to balance in such a way where it is entirely my abs holding me up. It doesn't hurt my back as much as crunches, and works them out a lot more ^^

And I've been trying to do push ups... Not working so hot, but I like to try xD

[Vysh]

Once schools out I'm going to be running up and down these really tall bleachers at a high school near my friends house....They're like two stories high. And I'm going to be putting weight on my legs... in other words I will be running up and down those bleachers in platforms.
 One cause the extra weight has been making me tired and I really don't want to let myself get so weak, and two because I don't want to trip down the hilton stairs again just because I'm uncordinated in heels


Otherwise I'll be doing some core and thigh workouts, anyone have any good exercises for the core and thighs? I don't know of any.... And crunches hurt my back, I think i do them wrong...
 -___-'

[StarryShay]

I should probably start getting more....um...toned? x3
Especially with summer coming up, I don't want to embarass myself or anything. >//o//>
But yeah, I'm going to start eating WAY healthy, and drinking water, and doing more sit-ups and whatnot. o u o

[nikkiolie]

I should probably start getting more....um...toned? x3
Especially with summer coming up, I don't want to embarass myself or anything. >//o//>
But yeah, I'm going to start eating WAY healthy, and drinking water, and doing more sit-ups and whatnot. o u o

If you want to do situps to strengthen your core then go right ahead. If you are expecting to tone your stomach you need to do cardio not ab workouts.

[chelseahavoc]

woohoo!!!! i played wiifit+ for an hour today... and i mean like hard core play and the little piggy time bank said an hour (it was more like 1.5 hours if you include the not "playing" parts).
ialso set up my personalized work out which turns out to be almost 30 mins (o.o wow thats alot) so i did yoga, strength exercises, 2 sessions of hula hoop, two sessions of running, two sessions of the wii step thing, and 1 session of the rythem boxing. ._. im tierd...

[nikkiolie]

I have been really bad the past couple of weeks. I have lost all the progress I once had. I am going to really focus now on losing some fat. I was going to the gym 5 days a week then I went to three and so far I have only been to the gym once this week. I really need to buckle down. Once school gets out my mom is doing a weight loss menu for the whole family so that will help. I will probably end up going to the gym with her a lot. Not to mention I have a session next Friday with a trainer so that will kick my butt.

[reppy]

Otherwise I'll be doing some core and thigh workouts, anyone have any good exercises for the core and thighs? I don't know of any.... And crunches hurt my back, I think i do them wrong...
 -___-'

http://www.tmuscle.com/free_online_article_issue/issue_628#complex-approach-to-quads-hams

Maybe give that a try.

Also, you're definitely not the only person that has problems with crunches.  I personally like stuff like planks or reverse crunches.  Wall sits are pretty good too, if I recall correctly. 

[veraca]

This talk of crunches just gave me an idea... Since I noticed in class I couldn't sit up straight  without it hurting my back. I slouch soooo much.

My solution!!! Copy that Disney Princess movie, tie your shoulders to a chair to force you to sit up straight!! for like an hour or two or while watching tv. not comfortable, but it'll get your back muscles and stomach muscles working ^^

[camname21]

Disney:  teaching kids how to behave sence October 16, 1923.

[chelseahavoc]

oh my god... so i totaly over twisted when doing a stretch on the floor yesterdy D: owie my lower back muscles....

[soundninja12]

When you sing, it works your lungs, stomach, and abdominal muscles.
Singing's a good workout too. 8D

That is awesome to know *3*

[nikkiolie]

OMG I had a hard workout today. I did an hour of cardio at the gym (15 mins jogging, 15 walking up hill, 15 on stairs, and 15 on the bike). I walked to the bank (about a mile total) took two loads down to my car (one consisted of my desk chair and the other a trash can filled with bottles) and walked a mile total to and from classes. So far I have probably spent about 30 minutes on stairs all day today (that is including the 15 mins at the gym). Oh yeah and I did pull ups and dips x.x Time for some tasty food and some Grey's Anatomy