First off, it might be the wrong place as I am not a ripped or even trim bodybuilder or athlete. Nope, I'm someone who's done a few months at a time and stopped for months at a time for most of my life.
I'm 30yrs 20.5stone, 6'3" and 42" waist..so you get the picture. I'm not standing on muscle beach anytime soon, and never have had that look.
Why am I here then?
LOL-I'd given up on fitness stuff to be honest-I feel you either want to aim at this stuff or your not that fired up on it. I weapons train a little (I like the movement) and thats it. A mile walk this time last Monday with hills had me out of breath and hurting in the lower back.
I started training last week and promised myself I wouldn't expand it out to 4 hour sessions that I end up quitting.
Thats what used to happen. I'd do more and more, still look the same and perceive myself to be not that much fitter.
Anyway, I visited my niece and nephew. They're 3 and 5, haven't seen me for a year and I thought I'd be a stranger to them. I was wrong.
I was wearing them like clothes for the first 2 hours. I was also exhausted and had stitch wrestling with them. I was touched, they wanted to play.
I'm seeing them at Xmas and will see a lot of them this winter, and intend to be moving closer to my family anyway.
So my training-LOL, its to make it so that i can play and give them the attention they want without being in pain afterwards.
Thats it.
Is that silly?
Perhaps. Real silly when you see how I'm training. I used to get hung up on various muscles etc, and try too hard. Doing it for it's own sake was no good. I don't have that physical a life, and I don't like many sports-just a little martial arts.
Now my aim is getting the most out of the shortest training time. Has to be at least 25 minutes but no longer than an hour. That way it won't "overwhelm" me timewise. So far I'm punch+kickbagging, steel bo (quarterstaff) and throwing in some chinups and knife work--all designed to keep me heart rate high.
So, how would experienced folks go about getting the fittest in the shortest time?
Sorry if this is rambling-I'm posting on impulse to see what ideas there are.
I don't want to try and get over dedicated-it isn't me, I screw it up after a few months then get to feel bad LOL. At the moment I'm keeping to this.
Posted by: karnautrahl
It was the wrong place.
Sorry to trouble you folks.
Have a good Xmas.
Posted by: ABLQ2
a fitness forum is not the wrong place. : )
to get fit in the shortest possible time, you need an exercise that works your entire body.
for 25 minutes, you could get a lot of bang for your buck by swimming or playing with your niece and nephew in the pool. or just by playing with them period. swimming shouldn't cause the body aches (low back pain) that walking did.
all of these will not only help you loose some weight, but build up general muscle endurance/fitness.
the trick for people in your position is to find any athletic activity you enjoy and go for it. if you take martial arts classes, i bet they will whip you into shape pretty quickly.
you have the right idea with the punching bag, etc- getting your heart rate up will be the main key for you.
find something you enjoy and have fun doing it! good luck
Posted by: karnautrahl
Well I actually put something in the blog they give you here.
I been working out for 4 weeks now. Compared to the real athletes in here it's nothing much but compared to my sitting on buttedness of the last 9 months, it's quite a lot.
I've been working on this since 13th December and have made what I think is decent progress. At 20.5 stone, I've progressed to 7 chinups, a good 20 minutes of weapon+kickboxing bagwork and 2-4 miles walk at a decent pace with some long heavy hills. Apart from the running element I apparently meet a green requirement for the Army Signals fitness test now LOL.
I know I'm getting somewhere when the walks originally hurt my lower back a lot, quite quickly and now don't in the slightest-and my old dumbells can now be lifted dead sideways again-I don't know what you call that exercise-the wieghts held out either side at 90 degrees.
They are 27lbs each. So not humungous perhaps, but was another measure.
Niece and nephew are now little trouble to keep up with .
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