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Get Fit, Stay Fit, Feel Good - 2026

lefty said:
I really need to get off my butt. I have a high stress job, where I spend 50% of my time in my office (or teaching classes) and 50% of my time doing physical work. I am fried when I get home from work. All I want to do is make myself a drink and hang out with my dogs. I'm about 25 lbs overweight and I don't bike / backpack / lift weights like I used to do. I have EVERYTHING at home and I just need to use it. I do hike with my dogs on the weekends, but my weekdays are not put to good use.
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I feel this so much :zzz Work is really an energy drain for me such that I find it hard to be personally productive towards any goals once I'm home.

I end up hitting something fun on the way home from work, like the climbing gym, so that I don't fall into the trap of "I'm home, time to be comfortable" and I'm not tempted to skip. Weekends I sometimes take my parents for walk at the park by their house and that's fun too. Make your doggies your accountability partners, they'll love it if they are the active kind.
 
Also, I can usually trick myself into feeling committed to my plans by putting it on my calendar. "well, it's on the calendar, so I have to go:dunno"
 
Sharxfan said:
I feel you on the fish thing that is why I try to restrict my sushi intake otherwise I would turn into a salmon. Although I am not sure about the canned tuna I have heard the brighter the meat the more heavy metals so salmon and ahi tuna are pretty bad but then again the white tuna is also a predator fish so probably in the same ballpark so it was just an old wives tale about the color.
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Ya it’s ez to find exceptions to any of the rules of thumb. And since we rarely know exactly where the fish came from, who knows. I try to limit cans of tuna to 1-2 per week. So it’s not THAT useful as a staple protein for me.

CA has some advisories on local fish
 
One idea is to study the habits of elderly Asians.
Eat a plant based diet with meat as a flavoring, not the main course.
Eat fresh whole foods , no processed junk.
Daily low impact exercise like Tai Chi or walking.
Drink green tea and water, no alcohol or soda.
No dairy and no sugary desserts.
And for goodness sake be consistent.
 
budman said:
@Bzwrthy
I would consider not running if you need shots to do so. More swimming and cycling perhaps?

2 cents from a knee replacement guy who did aerobics with bone on bone that just wore my shit out.
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but Bud, I'm stubborn as f :teeth I know better maybe it will accelerate knee replacement so I can do long runs again.......
 
greenmonster said:
One idea is to study the habits of elderly Asians.
Eat a plant based diet with meat as a flavoring, not the main course.
Eat fresh whole foods , no processed junk.
Daily low impact exercise like Tai Chi or walking.
Drink green tea and water, no alcohol or soda.
No dairy and no sugary desserts.
And for goodness sake be consistent.
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that’s actually how i lost my first 60 lbs. it works. i need to get back to eating better and i know more will come off.
 
greenmonster said:
One idea is to study the habits of elderly Asians.
Eat a plant based diet with meat as a flavoring, not the main course.
Eat fresh whole foods , no processed junk.
Daily low impact exercise like Tai Chi or walking.
Drink green tea and water, no alcohol or soda.
No dairy and no sugary desserts.
And for goodness sake be consistent.
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I will never be able to give up cheese. It owns me
 
Bzwrthy said:
I will never be able to give up cheese. It owns me
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it’s so good.

i did notice my inflammation went down a lot which i appreciated.

signed,
still cheese’s bitch
 
I may or may not have been seen eating a random chunk fresh from whole foods while driving home. If it never makes it to the fridge, it never happened.
 
Sharxfan said:
I switched to the kirkland protein as it is whey based and the price per serving is about the cheapest I have found. I usually supplement with pure protein bars when they go on sale.
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I'm pretty sure it's the Gold Standard that they also carry, the taste is the same.
 
My goal is pretty simple, keep my boozing down to ~2 days a week. Add strength training into my two miles of brisk walking daily. Trickiest part will be to find a gym nearby that I can afford so I can get there and back with time to get fed / ready for work in the afternoon. Gyms in SF around me are kinda spendy.
 
N4teTheGreat said:
My goal is pretty simple, keep my boozing down to ~2 days a week. Add strength training into my two miles of brisk walking daily. Trickiest part will be to find a gym nearby that I can afford so I can get there and back with time to get fed / ready for work in the afternoon. Gyms in SF around me are kinda spendy.
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Poor health costs way more than a gym membership.
 
I hate working out in the rain. For Christmas my wife got me a Van Rysel D100 trainer. It came with Zwift cog and click so I could keep riding. In all honesty I’m sure she got tired of my complaining. Anyway I’ve done 5 rides on it. Four of them have been structured workouts. It’s been very enjoyable. It will be interesting to see what my fitness will be like on my next outside ride, if it ever stops raining up here.
 
kawakakana said:
I feel this so much :zzz Work is really an energy drain for me such that I find it hard to be personally productive towards any goals once I'm home.

I end up hitting something fun on the way home from work, like the climbing gym, so that I don't fall into the trap of "I'm home, time to be comfortable" and I'm not tempted to skip. Weekends I sometimes take my parents for walk at the park by their house and that's fun too. Make your doggies your accountability partners, they'll love it if they are the active kind.
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Can you exercise before work?
I don’t like to but my wife works out in the morning in our garage and says it energizes her day.

FYI she runs daycare out of our home so she’s gotta be an energizer bunny all day.
After the last kid leaves at 6:00 she’s spent.
 
Continuing with the PT and Tai Chi. First session of the day done.

I am actually getting the Tai Chi thing. Limited on things there due to the leg, but I am on to workout 2 and will continue to push on.
 
I decided not to ride moto so I could squeeze in a pushbike ride in GG Park during a short window without rain and still get the apartment clean before I head to the airport.

What is this world coming to? :laughing
 
two wheel tramp said:
I decided not to ride moto so I could squeeze in a pushbike ride in GG Park during a short window without rain and still get the apartment clean before I head to the airport.

What is this world coming to? :laughing
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sometimes adulting sucks. :LOL:

I am debating on changing up my workouts this year. Maybe shifting sleep schedule and going to bed earlier and getting up earlier to hit the treadmill in the morning before work then I can hit the gym in the evening and do a good 2 hours of gym work although if I switch to the spartacus workout that usually gets knocked out in like 45 minutes or so once I can do multiple sets. maybe then I can sub in another cardio session maybe rowing or heavy bag I kind of miss hitting the heavy bag.
 
For the last 10 years, I've gone to circuits instead of doing sets on one machine at a time. I get in 26-28 sets in 30 minutes because I hop on the next machine/muscle group while the one I just did is recovering. I go to the gym to work out, not socialize or spend 2/3 of the time recovering. It also has the added benefit of keeping my heart rate higher. The only downside is that this time of year, with all of the New Years Resolutions crowding the gym, it's harder to consistently hop from machine to machine. Fortunately, this gym has 3 variations of each machine type, so I might not get on my prefered machine, there are alternatives.
 
I like using this hand crank machine, it hits just about every muscle in your upper body including your core and your legs as well.
I do 40 second all out followed by 1 minute of coasting then repeat 7-10 times. I'm ripped by the time I'm done.
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budman said:
Continuing with the PT and Tai Chi. First session of the day done.

I am actually getting the Tai Chi thing. Limited on things there due to the leg, but I am on to workout 2 and will continue to push on.
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Hey Bud, what happened to your leg? I kind of did a number of mine this year too. I ended up with two blood clots in my left leg, one of which ended up as a pulmonary embolism. That ended up making me really lazy due to pain and inability and it's been a hard road to get motivated.
 
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