Health and Fitness

binx_19 · 12-31-2007, 06:34 PM

ok so i have been a member here for some time now, but i cannot seem to find a section soley for health and fitness, why is that? those have to be two ingredients to be a safe rider right? i also want to share my fitness project with everyone here over the next year, i would be making updates every day for the next 365 days a year. photos included, so women be prepared to drool.

toyotapower · 12-31-2007, 06:39 PM

drooling is hawt

binx_19 · 12-31-2007, 07:14 PM

well until there is a board for Health and fitness this will be my track sheet to inform you all how to be healthy and sexy.

well as i went to take a shower today, i kept wondering how i can share my sucess with people on how to become healthy. i chose this site. i want to share with people who share my passion to ride bikes, and also in worst case senario be able to survive a wreck. i believe being in excellent physical condition will signifacantly reduce your chances of fatal injury in most wrecks, of course if you go over a guard rail and land on a fence post you will die, but if you go over the guard rail with limbs still intact and hit the ground in full gear you have a fair chance of walking away.

i played football for the better half of my life, i was no superstar, but i worked and trained to endure heavy hits, i played Safety. it has been 3 years since i last played football and i feel like i have a huge hole in me, i decided that sharing my route to being fit will help fill that gap, not to mention hours and hours of hundred mile trips on the bike. i know i will never be a motogp or ama racer, but eventually i would like to be an amature racer.

so here goes i picked up a workout program in a magazine FitnessRX, it is bits and pieces of the training they used in the movie 300. i started the entry level yesterday, and it does not seem like much, but it kicked my ass, so here it is:
5 pull-ups
rest 1 minute
10 deadlifts 135
rest 1 minute
10 push-ups
rest 1 minute
10 24" box jumps
rest 1 minute
10 floor wipers (if you do not know what these are, you are going to have to find the magazine)
rest 1 minute
10 single arm 35lb kettle bell (my gym does not have these so i use 35lb DBs) clean and press (get the magizine to see the demos)
rest 1 minute
5 pull ups
rest 1 minute then repeat all 7 exercises
Yesterday i also threw in 1.25 miles on the stair stepper for 10 minutes.
today was my rest day.
tomorrow i will be back to the gym for the same routine.
photo from last week:
laugh if you like, i know i look goofy

iaresev · 12-31-2007, 10:03 PM

I recently started working out and lifting steadily. After being the kinda skinny kid for a long time and seeing some benefit lemme tell you; it really feels pretty good.

Good luck with your routine, keeping up with the pictures is probably an excellent way to stay motivated lifting. If you don't feel like it one day, just go back to the first pic, then your most recent one, to put things in perspective.

binx_19 · 01-01-2008, 08:29 PM

went to the gym today, but they were closed, gotta get up early tomorrow and go

ZQ8Dude · 01-01-2008, 08:36 PM

I like the idea of a health/fitness sub-forum here. It could help give us all some useful tips for getting in shape.

IMO the best thing for working out is an MP3 player. It makes the entire experience better when you don't have to listen to awful gym music and can choose music thats to your taste.

silent_R1 · 01-01-2008, 08:40 PM

have you put this thought into the website comments/suggestions? I'll also pass it along to the powers that be. I think it would be a good thing to have as well.

06six00 · 01-01-2008, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by binx_19

well until there is a board for Health and fitness this will be my track sheet to inform you all how to be healthy and sexy.

well as i went to take a shower today, i kept wondering how i can share my sucess with people on how to become healthy. i chose this site. i want to share with people who share my passion to ride bikes, and also in worst case senario be able to survive a wreck. i believe being in excellent physical condition will signifacantly reduce your chances of fatal injury in most wrecks, of course if you go over a guard rail and land on a fence post you will die, but if you go over the guard rail with limbs still intact and hit the ground in full gear you have a fair chance of walking away.

i played football for the better half of my life, i was no superstar, but i worked and trained to endure heavy hits, i played Safety. it has been 3 years since i last played football and i feel like i have a huge hole in me, i decided that sharing my route to being fit will help fill that gap, not to mention hours and hours of hundred mile trips on the bike. i know i will never be a motogp or ama racer, but eventually i would like to be an amature racer.

so here goes i picked up a workout program in a magazine FitnessRX, it is bits and pieces of the training they used in the movie 300. i started the entry level yesterday, and it does not seem like much, but it kicked my ass, so here it is:
5 pull-ups
rest 1 minute
10 deadlifts 135
rest 1 minute
10 push-ups
rest 1 minute
10 24" box jumps
rest 1 minute
10 floor wipers (if you do not know what these are, you are going to have to find the magazine)
rest 1 minute
10 single arm 35lb kettle bell (my gym does not have these so i use 35lb DBs) clean and press (get the magizine to see the demos)
rest 1 minute
5 pull ups
rest 1 minute then repeat all 7 exercises
Yesterday i also threw in 1.25 miles on the stair stepper for 10 minutes.
today was my rest day.
tomorrow i will be back to the gym for the same routine.
photo from last week:
laugh if you like, i know i look goofy

Have you ever visited Bodybuilding.com? They have a section called Bodyspace which is exactly what your looking for. I still think we need a section for health and fitness but if we don't get one check out bbcom. I work there and they are doing a body transformation for the next 3 months, should be fun! If you get a chance to make one you can add me as your friend my name is Buff Brady.

binx_19 · 01-01-2008, 09:30 PM

yeah i will definately look into that, i need to add another website tovisit regular, sportbikes.net, Myspace, Facebook and Hotmail just dont fill my day completely

Smitty · 01-01-2008, 10:24 PM

Agree that it would be a good idea to have a section on body building.

Though my years as an ex-mountaineer, comp speed skater, to comp Downhill & Giant Slalom skier, to Amateur Wresting from '48 till '52 & Western Cdn Champ in my weight catagory to continue on as a Certified Amateur Wrestler in Free-Style to Greco-Roman that I continued to teach up till '77, tack on a bit of Judo for some 5 yrs, & my love for dirt comp m/cing. Well I had to keep in shape.

Much older now & though I have been going to gyms since they popped up in this area in the late 80s along with many going belly-up to their strange hours I have built up my own room with minor bit of gym equipment I can use any day of the week to any hr of the day.

Both knees a mess due m/c racing, both hips broken, most of my main limbs being broken means some I simply cannot do (not one finger or thumb on either of my two hands is normal as all have been crushed, broken, parts cut off, grafted, tendions shot & such in what one often call as "broken hand"--even at the gun club they cannot fathom as to how I can handle h/guns so well, but then that is why I am the Club's h/gun director/instructor & have been so since '74) & besides I am 77 yrs of age so the Model D Concept 2 rowing machine, the balance ball & the variation of different dumb bells help me out.

Besides I am not a ride around town person as I hit these Cdn Rockie Mtn roads & as long as the weather is decent in this part of B.C. Cdn then I clock from 5 to 7-8 hrs on one of my sportbikes around 3 to 5 days of the week. Yes said milage on the sportbikes is excersise as well.

Tuffguy #2 · 01-02-2008, 11:39 AM

I'd be all for a health and fitness section. This is typically a younger'ish site, so i think that would fit the demographic of the typical sportbiker.

I'm a bit of a gymrat and love to stay in good shape.

binx_19 · 01-03-2008, 01:29 AM

well made it to the gym again today, didnt run, but good thing there were two fights at work tonight so i could run to break them up.

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coronadozx · 01-03-2008, 03:17 PM

binx, that is one hell of a suggestion ... with all the off-motorcycle-topic forums we have here, health/fitness should be one of them. excellent suggestion.

i'll be with you for the 2008 transformation challenge. i was big into soccer and haven't played for 3 years. i don't want to seem like a cry baby, but moving, work, military, another country, and grad school really hasn't been conducive to my soccer desire.

i have put on some weight since i last played soccer and don't feel as positive as i did while being active like that. i go to the gym and run 2 miles a day, but i just don't have the motivation to kick my ass like i use to.

i'll be with you and write down my stats until i can photo-document the progress.

i've been wanting to get a fitness challenge going at my command but my with my schedule, i'm not there like i should be to put together a command-wide challenge such as this.

thanks again bro!