The Official Hype Fitness Thread 4.0

[THE MR. TERRIFIC]

I started Insanity Asylum today. It's killer!

 

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[ObakeTora]

If I was as strong as you, I'd be happier looking.
One thing though, is it good for you to be pushing your hips up each rep? I'd heard that could put a lot of strain on your lower back.

Thats why you make sure you have a strong core to support your upper-back. You should see this video I do with hanging leg raises before I start, it really strengthens your lower trunk.

I'll do like 4 sets of these followed by crunches and other various ab related activities for 20 minutes every other day before I work out.



this was when I was really heavy, I'm alot lighter now.

 

[Bubonic]

Thats why you make sure you have a strong core to support your upper-back. You should see this video I do with hanging leg raises before I start, it really strengthens your lower trunk.

I'll do like 4 sets of these followed by crunches and other various ab related activities for 20 minutes every other day before I work out.



this was when I was really heavy, I'm alot lighter now.

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[ObakeTora]

wthell!?

 

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[Bubonic]

It would do you wonders BrobakeTora. t:

 

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[WillardNation]

Todays WOD:
"Murph"
1 mile run
100 pull ups
200 push ups
300 squats
1 mile run
Time: 1:03:37

Soooo not fun. This is pretty much the only workout they let you split up the work so I did 20 rounds of 5 pull ups, 10 push ups, 15 squats so as not to ever really get burnt out on one thing. The pull ups and squats weren't really that bad at all but the push ups and last mile were ****ing killer. It definitely didn't help that I'm still sore as **** from doing 150 ring dips on Thursday.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

To add what I was saying in the other thread, I've been getting around 7-8 hours of sleep for the past week and a half and then on some days, 3 and a half hours. I heard lack of sleep affects eight. Is this true? I mean, I know that it does something to your mind causing you to want to eat more, but i never really had that problem with waking up real early and not getting enough sleep. It's just that I feel so over tired the past few months that I barely get enuogh sleep up until now.

Lol, I also want to know is 30 minutes of running/walking 4 times a week good? Last summer, i exercised every day, but I don't think it was necessary. I skipped yesterday. I tried to do it, but for some reason, my feet felt week. I plan on exercising today though.

 

[TerryMcGinnis]

Sleep deprivation causes changes in your hormone balance. Your protein synthesis and fatty acid oxidation rates are going to go down if you're chronically lacking sleep. That means you'll build less muscle and burn less fat, which leads to unfavorable changes to body composition in the long term.

There's a fine point up to which adding physical activity is good, and once you go past it, it can even be bad. I doubt you've reached that point, so yes, 30 minutes of walking/running 4x a week is generally good, I don't know your goals so that's as much as I can tell you.

 

[Bubonic]

I wonder sometimes if I'd gotten more sleep in my teenage years if I'd be taller than 5'9, moreso when I look at my dads lumbering 6'7. But my mom was 5 feet.

Damn Willard, these WOD be unforgiveable, is there a high injury rate in CrossFit?

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

Sleep deprivation causes changes in your hormone balance. Your protein synthesis and fatty acid oxidation rates are going to go down if you're chronically lacking sleep. That means you'll build less muscle and burn less fat, which leads to unfavorable changes to body composition in the long term.

There's a fine point up to which adding physical activity is good, and once you go past it, it can even be bad. I doubt you've reached that point, so yes, 30 minutes of walking/running 4x a week is generally good, I don't know your goals so that's as much as I can tell you.

Thanks for the info man!

 

[JAK®]

I wonder sometimes if I'd gotten more sleep in my teenage years if I'd be taller than 5'9, moreso when I look at my dads lumbering 6'7. But my mom was 5 feet.

Damn Willard, these WOD be unforgiveable, is there a high injury rate in CrossFit?

Really tall parents have just as much chance as having average height kids than kids that are equally tall, because of a phenomenon called reduction to the mean. Basically nature is controlling things so that people don't just get taller and taller. Same goes for short parents.

Considering your mother is short on top of that, ending up at 5'9 is normal and actually quite a favourable outcome. I don't think any extra sleep would have given you anything more than a couple of inches, it certainly wouldn't have put you over the six foot mark.

 

[Bubonic]

I'll take that answer.

 

[mrvlknight21]

I knew that a new threade would happen soon. Thats good. Glad to see all the new participation.

 

[ComicChick]

from January to now, I am averaging about 3lbs lost a month. proud of that, but would really like to improve on that this summer.

We have another family reunion Labor Day weekend. My new goal is to lose 15 pounds by then! ultimate goal will be 20-25 but I think 15 is reasonable

 

[BAH HUMBBUG!]

Really tall parents have just as much chance as having average height kids than kids that are equally tall, because of a phenomenon called reduction to the mean. Basically nature is controlling things so that people don't just get taller and taller. Same goes for short parents.

Considering your mother is short on top of that, ending up at 5'9 is normal and actually quite a favourable outcome. I don't think any extra sleep would have given you anything more than a couple of inches, it certainly wouldn't have put you over the six foot mark.

Interesting. It makes sense but never new that or thought about it that way. I went to school with a guy whose mom was barely 5'0" and his dad was around 6'0", he ended up being 6'10".

 

[ComicChick]

how bout the grandparents? that's usually a good indicator of height of the grandchildren.

my uncle was 6'10 or 6'11, and his wife was like 5'3 lol. his son's height is about 6'3, and his daughters are 6'2, and 6'0.

and grandkids? haha 6'4, 6'3 and the tallest daughter's son is 6'7. he JUST turned 15

 

[Bubonic]

Must be something in the water...

 

[ComicChick]

all the guys on my dad's side of the family are 6 ft+

 

[Bubonic]

Average height is scaling upwards.
Tall people get laid lots.

 

[Manic]

My dad is like 5'10" and my mom is 4'11". My brother lucked out at 5'9" while I got stuck at 5'7". My 12 year old half-sister (whose mom is about 5'4") is almost as tall as me.


I didn't go to the gym yesterday, so I had to do Monday's workout today. I get the impression that a lot of morning people are on a Monday/Wednesday/Friday split, because there's almost nobody there on Tuesday mornings.