Thoughts?

[DV8]

seriously though, Drak . . . like others have already stipulated, a proper diet is essential to bringing the whole workout thing full circle . . . in fact, it might even be more important than working out itself . . . point is, you could lose mad weight by just changing your diet . . .

 

[PLAS]

seriously though, Drak . . . like others have already stipulated, a proper diet is essential to bringing the whole workout thing full circle . . . in fact, it might even be more important than working out itself . . . point is, you could lose mad weight by just changing your diet . . .

I did

 

[DV8]

^yup, me too and it ain't easy being mexican, with all that tasty fried food we like to eat

 

[DBella]

Okay, so a bit later down the road, I'm going to get a gym membership. I told a friend of mine this, and he told me that I should instead just get a Bowflex and work out while I'm watching a movie or something, which I told him wouldn't work for me. My reasoning for that is because I'm the kind of guy who, if it's right there, I probably won't be very motivated to do it. Add that to the fact that I know that if I go to the gym, I'll do it because I don't wanna look like a loser in front of the people there. He called me "weird".


Does that, in fact, make me weird, or is it actually pretty common, like I suspect it is?

The answer to the first question of whether it makes you weird is... NO!
The answer to the second question as to whether it's actually pretty common is... YES!

Most people need some kind of motivation to work out and yours isn't out of the ordinary. If it motivates you to work out by going to the gym because you "don't want to look like a loser in front of people there", I say that's a good thing. Whatever that gets you to keep yourself healthy and in shape, y'know. I hope you have fun and remember, "no pain, no gain".

 

[knowsbleed]

^yup, me too and it ain't easy being mexican, with all that tasty fried food we like to eat

I guess I'm an honorary mexican then...with all the carne asada burritos I love to chow down on

 

[DV8]

^plus your name is papakeelo . . .

 

[Drakon]

I don't think it's weird at all....
The real question is... are you going to be motivated to go to the gym? And, what is going to be the motivation to go to the gym.

My motivation will be my health. As a lot of you know, I am missing a leg [birth defect], and over the last year, it's been worse and worse walking on my ancient prostetic, and getting the government to help me get a new one so I can go back to work is about as useful as a me in an asskicking contest.

Well, thanks to that, I've been less mobile, and when I do go out, I wear my leg as little as possible. Less activity means that I've gained weight. Without giving the number away, I'm well over my comfort zone anymore, and I honestly don't have the motiviation to do it here, because there's too many distractions, amongst other things.

But, my leg issue is at the beginning of the end, luckily, so I'll be back to normal mobility within a few months [I hope]. So, to expedite that, once I'm back to normal mobility, aside from doing the normal things I did [random walks around the neighborhood and what not], I'm hitting the gym, and a few friends said they will join if I do, so I'll have a group, or at least one friend with me.

seriously though, Drak . . . like others have already stipulated, a proper diet is essential to bringing the whole workout thing full circle . . . in fact, it might even be more important than working out itself . . . point is, you could lose mad weight by just changing your diet . . .

This is true. I've actually been changing my diet a lot over the past couple of months, and I'm sure it's helped. I've cut out a lot of the sugary drinks [but I just CAN'T say no to a good glass of Chocolate Milk ], I eat a lot less, and what I do eat is generally better for me than what I used to eat all the time. Pardon the pun, but it's a small step opposed to the giant leap I want to make.

The answer to the first question of whether it makes you weird is... NO!
The answer to the second question as to whether it's actually pretty common is... YES!

Most people need some kind of motivation to work out and yours isn't out of the ordinary. If it motivates you to work out by going to the gym because you "don't want to look like a loser in front of people there", I say that's a good thing. Whatever that gets you to keep yourself healthy and in shape, y'know. I hope you have fun and remember, "no pain, no gain".

Well, I have a buddy who lives out of town who has a gym membership. I tagged along with him twice the last two times I was down there. He's getting into shape for Army Basic in a month or so, and I kept up with him [except for two exercises, which I had to substitute more weight for more reps because he was lifting more than I weight]. So, I'm pretty proud of that.

I'm not becoming some power crazy bodybuilder with orange skin and speedos or whatever. I just wanna get back down to my wrestling weight [~130]. I'm 5'9ish, and considering my missing leg, that adds up to being about where I need to be anyway.

 

[AhabTheArab]

bowflex sucks man, trust me. its not for building muscles, just toning the body. go for the membership, and no its not weird that youd rather exercise in a social environment rather than sitting in your house alone 'lifting' on a bowflex.

 

[DV8]

^I was also gonna mention that Bowflex's are NOT nearly as tight as they seem when advertised on TV . . . I was in jail for 2 days once, and they had a Bowflex which I used to look all buff in front of the other 'inmates' LOL! It sucked!!! then I was ass-raped

 

[tzarinna]

A gym membership is the way to go, gets you out of the house to a place where the sole purpose is to work out. One suggestion though, wear your work out clothes there so you don't need to use the locker room, for some odd reason old men just walk around the locker room naked, it's very disturbing. I've been a member of three different gyms and this is always the case.

I built a fitness club in DC, very expensive place. They kept me around while it was fully operational to do work guys couldn't go in to, like the women's locker room. My assignment was to find some box in the ceiling. All these women were walking around buck naked, sitting blow drying their hair. Why do you have to be naked to blow dry your hair? I guess they wanted the other ladies to be jealous. Gross, I couldn't find that box fast enough.

man . . . the some of the shyt that went on in that locker room I will never speak of (no homo shyt though, jag)

seriously, I would see shyt and blood in the stalls sometimes, and one time I almost fuackin lost it . . . DIRTY OLD BASTARDS!!!

I worked on renovating one and the guy working said customers (gay men) would knock some light out and go to town. I don't understand why they couldn't just wait. LMAO. "I must have you...NOW!!!!"

bowflex sucks man, trust me. its not for building muscles, just toning the body. go for the membership, and no its not weird that youd rather exercise in a social environment rather than sitting in your house alone 'lifting' on a bowflex.

Aren't they like huge and take up way too much space?

 

[Drakon]

I'm not wanting to be some hulking Superman, though. Other than my broad shoulders, I've always been a pretty scrawny guy. That's what I want to go for.

 

[DV8]

I built a fitness club in DC, very expensive place. They kept me around while it was fully operational to do work guys couldn't go in to, like the women's locker room. My assignment was to find some box in the ceiling. All these women were walking around buck naked, sitting blow drying their hair. Why do you have to be naked to blow dry your hair? I guess they wanted the other ladies to be jealous. Gross, I couldn't find that box fast enough.

man . . . wish I was there

I worked on renovating one and the guy working said customers (gay men) would knock some light out and go to town. I don't understand why they couldn't just wait. LMAO. "I must have you...NOW!!!!"

yeah, seriously, WTF!?!?! and not that I know what butt-secks smells like from personal experience, but GODDAM! sometimes you just walk in somewhere and say to yourself "It smells like fuacking BUTTSECKS in here!!!" UGH!!! x 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

 

[DV8]

This is true. I've actually been changing my diet a lot over the past couple of months, and I'm sure it's helped. I've cut out a lot of the sugary drinks [but I just CAN'T say no to a good glass of Chocolate Milk ], I eat a lot less, and what I do eat is generally better for me than what I used to eat all the time. Pardon the pun, but it's a small step opposed to the giant leap I want to make.

yeah dude, chocolate milk really isn't good for you or anything, but it's a lot better than sugary beverages . . . cut soda out as much as you can, preferrably completely; try to stay away from diet soda too . . . the nutrasweet and artificial sweetener's makes me cringe (although I drink it in my coffee)

and another thing people often overlook is sugary juice . . . minute maid orange juice has just as much sugar as soda so just be weary of that . . . your best bet is to drink as much water as you can . . . especially getting in the habit of drinking it w/ your meals . . .

 

[tzarinna]

Soy milk is good, although I only drink the vanilla. I've never tried the carob. I've only eaten carob covered raisins.

 

[Drakon]

yeah dude, chocolate milk really isn't good for you or anything, but it's a lot better than sugary beverages . . . cut soda out as much as you can, preferrably completely; try to stay away from diet soda too . . . the nutrasweet and artificial sweetener's makes me cringe (although I drink it in my coffee)

and another thing people often overlook is sugary juice . . . minute maid orange juice has just as much sugar as soda so just be weary of that . . . your best bet is to drink as much water as you can . . . especially getting in the habit of drinking it w/ your meals . . .

That's going to be the biggest challenge, next to dropping the chocolate milk. I can't STAND having to wash something down with water ever, because it kills the flavor for me wayyyyyy too often.

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

I would think it's weird,you just apply yourself to the exercise in your home.Simple.