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How did YOU work out today?? Yes..YOU!

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KStoner6tb said:
On another note, almost every single marine I've ever met smoked, and they can run all day, so... .
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Yep, Sunday evening, smoke 2 packs of reds, and drink a case of budweiser. Monday morning, run 3 miles in 22 minutes. No big deal!

Really, I don't think most people do cardio to "increase their cardiovascular abilities"--I think they do it because they believe that it's an efficient way to burn fat.

I'll probably get flammed for saying this, but I think cardio is a waste of time for reducing body fat. Even if people burn 500 calories a day on an elliptical, big deal. Why don't they just eat 500 fewer calories a day? Also, I believe that cardio taxes your energy reserves so that you lack the strength to do the exercises that actually build/maintain muscle during a cutting cycle, with the end result that cardio leads to muscle loss as well as fat loss. And even though we all want to be lean, nobody wants to be "skinnyfat", right?

But I could be wrong :)
 
^You could be right.

Yesterday I did a 16 mile hike over hill and vale through torrential rain. I felt pretty hardcore.

Today, probably nothing, I'm going hiking again tomorrow.
 
KStoner6tb said:
Why no more?
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Smoking is disgusting. I am embarrassed that I was a smoker. Smart girl. Stupid choice.
I quit cigs in Nov 2005. I smoked for 16 years.
I am a daily pot smoker. I vaporize most nights.
I do not plan to knock out that habit as I don't see it as detrimental to my lifestyle :) It compliments it.
 
Yesterday was really windy but I at least wanted to get a paddle in. One of the spots that I go to is pretty cool. You park at this huge rock, swim across a channel (takes about 5 minutes), walk down a long beach and cross over a built up jetty (a big row/pile of rocks that sticks out into the ocean and breaks waves headed for the bay).

The jetty itself creates a nice channel/rip tide that sucks you out beyond the breakers. Anyways, yesterday the channel was pulling really strongly, there was a south ground swell, a northwest wind swell, and lots of on shore wind. End result, big crappy waves with no real breaking pattern. Since I thoroughly traumatized myself the other day, I kind of chickened out and fought the channel for a while before making it out into the breakers and ridding them back to the beach. One back, I took the channel back out for another ride. ...I think I was braver when I started this sport :D

After that was a nice 3 mile hike with the gf and dogs.

This morning saw about 30 minutes of yoga. namaste
 
Binge Artist said:
Really, I don't think most people do cardio to "increase their cardiovascular abilities"--I think they do it because they believe that it's an efficient way to burn fat.

I'll probably get flammed for saying this, but I think cardio is a waste of time for reducing body fat.
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I absolutely agree. If your main goal is weight loss, you're going to waste a lot of time if you just stick to aerobic-level cardio exercise. If you add some HIIT or just plain old weight-lifting, you're going to do a lot more good things for your body AND increase the effectiveness of the cardio you are doing.

There's an exercise class at the gym I (and my gf) use that's basically just an hour of body-weight exercises (20 min legs, 20 min abs, 20 min arms) done w/ very little rest. She saw more fitness gains/weight loss after three weeks of adding it to her weekly routine (once a week) than she did over the entire three months she spent training aerobically for an 8k.
 
Perpetual Indulgence said:
I am a daily pot smoker. I vaporize most nights.
I do not plan to knock out that habit as I don't see it as detrimental to my lifestyle :) It compliments it.
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amen! i'm a daily vape user (before/after 90% of my evening workouts), and absolutely love the synergy w/ exercise. doesn't matter if it's weight training, mountain biking, two hour trail runs or grinding out repeats on the track, cannabinoids tend to ratchet up my enjoyment AND intensity.

frankly, the high from a big session right after my long run is probably the best feeling i have all week.
 
30 min fartlek warm-up
60 min hill-bounding circuit
20 min cool-down

and then two hours of dog walking afterwards.
 
KStoner6tb said:
Haha you know what I meant. Burn calories, get in shape, however you want to label it... smoking definetely isn't going to make it any easier. %)
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No, no.

I think the point of cardio (if you do it) SHOULD be to increase your cardiovascular abilities.

I think it's inefficient (compared to weights & diet) at burning fat.

Granted, cardio will make you "thin"...but since you're likely burning muscle too, you'll end up "skinnyfat".
 
Not today, but last night:
30 minutes on treadmill
20 minutes on recumbent bike
3 reps of 10 arm crunch weight thingies lol
10 ab crunches
 
Binge Artist said:
No, no.

Granted, cardio will make you "thin"...but since you're likely burning muscle too, you'll end up "skinnyfat".
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Haha what is skinnyfat? Soft-thin with absolutely no muscle mass/tone? As long as you keep your protein & calorie count up, that shouldn't be an issue. If you're doing enough cardio to burn up muscle, there's definetely not going to be anything soft left.

Cardio in addition to mucho carlories and a solid weight routine will have you ripped and feeling great...not thin!
 
Warmup.
Abreviated gsr.
40 fast squat w/ Ball, 40 situps, 40 pushups. 4 sets back to back. No rest inbetween.
15 ball walkouts.
Planks with 10 pushup plus.15 ball rollouts. 25 mountain climbers each leg. 20 sideups
each side. 2 sets b2b no rest in between.
Hopefully 15 runners each leg.
Cooldown stretch.

--using balance ball^

5 mile hike.
 
Today I just walked. Tomorrow I'm doing a long strenuous hike and im so pumped. i haven't gone hiking for months. it's pretty much my favorite way to get exercise.
 
cable curl / pushdown superset 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150
1 arm cable curl / pushdown superset 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75
barbell front raise / military press / upright row / bent row / curl superset 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55

max rest time between sets: 40 seconds
 
20 min warm-up
10 x 120m sprints
10 min cool-down

legs were wrecked from the last two days, but once i got moving it came pretty easily. i've always loved a big grassy field for speed work.
 
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