quote:Originally posted by Waynster: gyms are full of superfit muscle bound beefcakes.
Lol, this might be true of your private gyms where they charge extortionate fees that only the Jeremys and Jemimahs that attend can afford, not so for the council run local sports centre I go to. Seriously this place is just an advert for wwhat a sedentary existence and a bad diet can do to you, if more than one of these fuckers goes on the running machines at the same time all wildlife within a 1 mile radius starts looking around nervously thinking a herd of elephants is coming.
Besides even if there are a few muscle boys around you can console yourself with thoughts of what their daily intake of steroids and dietary supplements is probably doing to their bodies, not to mention the fact that most of them look fucking ridiculous anyway, all barrel chests and big arms balanced on chicken legs, with a neckless head perched on top that looks way too small for their shoulders.
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They walked around with their clothes off, as if they were fully dressed, and didn't even make any effort to cover up. I didn't know where to look, i had to swallow back at least 5 mouthfulls of sick.
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I think Physic is right, unless you go to the Chelsea Harbour club most gyms just have a normal cross-section of the population in, so yes you may have a few beef-cakes (and believe me they are too busy admiring themselves in the mirror to look at you) but mostly it's people just trying to keep away the spare tire or get rid of it in the first place, they are too busy listening to their iPod or counting down the minutes on the treadmill before they can go home to notice you.
Not sure if this is helpful advice as I know everyone approaches dieting/getting fit differently but I find the times that I do lose weight are the periods where I start exercising more, not because you lose weight that way (to be honest you may change shape but the only way to really lose weight is to cut down the calories) but because by trying to be fitter and healthier you find you naturally make healthier choices when it comes to food as well. Therefore people like Waynster who have started cycling may not see an immediate difference to start with but give it time and you will.
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quote:Originally posted by OJ: You must have terrible trouble with mirrors Ringo. Do you dress with your eyes squeezed tightly shut?
Yeah, and of course secretly I really love the filthy thoughts it gives me. I'd like to run naked round the changing room, stopping only to gently slap every flaccid pecker, just to see what sound it made.
Yeah, I think that's pretty standard for people who claim not to be comfortable naked in a room full of naked strangers.
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Yeah, although the calculations are ridiculously flawed, so well done.
Well obviously. I think I even went so far as to point that out myself. The upshot, as I recall, just pointed out how physics is more or less useless at describing how we gain or lose weight.
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Out of interest, Statist, why do you hate tennis so much?
Well, nothing really. And I don't recall saying that I did. I don't like it exactly although even I can see how it could be quite fun to play. I quite like playing some things myself: table tennis is alright, for example. Of course I do have things against tennis but no more so than I have things against other sports. Certainly a lot less than some. The thing is that sports are just an easy target to take the piss out of; I'm sorry for picking an easy target. As is so frequently and boringly pointed out: sport is quite absurd. Plus, in my opinion, it doesn't look very good on the telly.
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That's alright. last night I done went and fucked up my arm while playing tennis so today I'm hating on it more than you anyway.
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Last night the lady at the gym (who said about toxins in kidneys) said that toxins might be making your blood too thick to get to your head. That sounds prety serious to me - no head blood. Uh oh. Posts: 2793
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You can't compare Tennis to Ping Pong. One is actual excersise and the other, the other only requires sweatbands as a health and safety precaution.
This is reminding me of the time London told me there is some kind of olympic Babyfoot team and that they had asked her to enrol or something. I imagine she had to provide all kinds of bizzare Babyfoot manouvres to a panel of wizened elders and finally lifted a giant urn filled with coals that burned two miniature Babyfoot tables into each wrist.
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: You can't compare Tennis to Ping Pong. One is actual excersise and the other, the other only requires sweatbands as a health and safety precaution.
This is reminding me of the time London told me there is some kind of olympic Babyfoot team and that they had asked her to enrol or something. I imagine she had to provide all kinds of bizzare Babyfoot manouvres to a panel of wizened elders and finally lifted a giant urn filled with coals that burned two miniature Babyfoot tables into each wrist.
I bloody can compare tennis to ping-pong. But actually I wasn't really doing that. I was just pointing out that I don't mind playing some things. Even me, one of the least sporty of men.
Is Babyfoot what normal people call table football? Or is that something else. I am constantly amazed that people can be so fucking good at this game.
There are some sports that are OK but I've forgotten what they are. Just those that look so rediculous that they are kind of interesting. Oh, yeah, I like sumo wrestling, for example. And a few weeks ago I watched one of those world's strongest man programs for probably longer than I should have done. You know, when they drag express trains with their pubes and stuff.
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quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: Only in that they have:
Nets
Two Players
A Ball
Well, yeah, that is a pretty good start. I mean, it's tennis, what more do you need? I agree that they are not played on courts that are quite the same size but comparing is about finding the differences, right? Your list would indicate that tennis has more in common with table-tennis than it does with squash or badminton, for example. Would you object if I had compared tennis to squash?
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I did Davina (Power of 3) yesterday afternoon. I'm really feeling it on inner and outer thighs today and slightly on back and shoulders. Rating so far: slightly cheesy video but a good workout.
This afternoon I am going swimming at Hampstead Heath Lido
quote:Originally posted by Waynster: I have cut down a bit on fatty food, started drinking diet drinks, but sadly the one thing that I am going to have to cut out is beer, which I really don't want to do - cutting out beer will kill my social life - is there a diet which includes beer?
If you want to get all lean and beautiful I'm afraid kissing goodbye to your social life is exactly what you're going to have to do. I've only been beautiful for a year, maybe two, or so and in that time do you know how many peeps I've spoken to? Three, thats how many. And they were in the gym. Its fuckkin bow lux. Can't go to pub cos of all the smorkin and drankin. Not that you can smork in Oirland anyway. You have to go outside and do 'smirting' which is like smorking and flirting. So great, I give up and what do they do? Make all the lurvely people I wanted to admire go outside and chat to others less pretty than I. Its a fekkin conspiracy by the Uglies. So, as I was saying, don't drink, don't smorke, so pub is out, so what do I do instead? lots of fukkin sports thats wot. And I'm getting more and more beautiful and hott and all shiney healthy that I'm probably going to live for a thousand years and be worshipped like Apollo and it will be shit cus true happiness is nowt but a fag and a pint.
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: They walked around with their clothes off, as if they were fully dressed, and didn't even make any effort to cover up. I didn't know where to look, i had to swallow back at least 5 mouthfulls of sick.
I like nekkedness, I prefer to be entirely newd all of the time. I don't of course. It would upset the neighbours and I'm a newdie who is sensitive to those around him. What is it about a person, a society, that has to teach it's children such ashamedness? There are so many many damageds about. If you'd be worried about people with 'body issues' that would be the place to start methinks.
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quote:Originally posted by statist: Would you object if I had compared tennis to squash?
No. I would however like to play you at Tennis. me with my String racket and yellow bawl and you with a small bat trying to *toc* a tiny plastic ball the length of the court.
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: No. I would however like to play you at Tennis. me with my String racket and yellow bawl and you with a small bat trying to *toc* a tiny plastic ball the length of the court.
Have you been drinking?
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quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: I had a bottle of Dr Pepper if that counts.
Hmm. It's just that your post read to me very much as though it had been written on the mild 'high' of one of those 'lucky' cans of Grolsch that sends people insane for 15 minutes. And then leaves them wondering about how they can have been so pissed after consuming just one can of Grolsch.
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quote:Originally posted by mart: Happy birthday Misc! Did you lose any weight?
Thanks Mart! Yes, I dropped a good few pouns.
I can heartily reccommend the SplatterPlan™ Diet. It involves eating a sandwich made of Coronation Chicken which is a day past its use-by date but "looks like it'll be okay". Then just sit back and wait for the rectal explosives to kick in. Your body just can't seem to lose weight quickly enough! It also acts as a surprisingly effective appetite suppressant.
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You know how crappy diet advice things in newspapers and magazines etc often say stuff like If you feel hungry, try drinking some water! It might be that your body is mistaking thirst for hunger!!
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