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Tim Carmichael wrote:
What is your motivation and work out?
No sports for me, the doctor won't have that 
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Mind giving me your doctor's number?
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Abbas A. Ali wrote: Mind giving me your doctor's number?
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Pumping aluminum here.
Motivation: thirsty.
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
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I run like hell. Motivation? Run like hell.
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 Mister sub-4:00 marathon
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Looking forward to running together...
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That would be cool, if a bit slow for you  .
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Were I to work out it would be for the chicks.
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I'm exhausted just having read that.
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For a few years, I did regular running up to 30 km per week, but I gradually switched to less time- and energy-consuming things
- swimming 1-2 times per week in an indoor swimming pool in relatively quiet conditions... winter, summer, all year long
- drinking mostly green or white tea without sugar
- nearly no coffee
- also, I say no to beer and to heavy drinks ...
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I quit smoking and drinking after 45 years so I had to regain my lung capacity and work on endurance.
My workout is clearing trail with chain saws, brush cutters and mowers and hiking a lot.
I cleared 100 miles of trail last year in 3-1/2 months. This seasons maintenance starts tomorrow.
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Mike Hankey wrote: My workout is clearing trail with chain saws, brush cutters and mowers and hiking a lot.
I cleared 100 miles of trail last year in 3-1/2 months. This seasons maintenance starts tomorrow
That sounds cool, Mike. You folks who help maintain trail systems are always underappreciated, so a hearty Thank You!
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Thanks
Our reward is seeing people use the trail, and of course an atta boy is always welcome.
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The group I am working out with, all 'newbies' get a name based on something in their life.
My name is 'Woodchuck' because I choose to heat with cut (so, cut and split by myself), and split by hand. Sledge and wedge!
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Awesome Wodchuch, love a wood fire.
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Motivation: Family history of diabetes and heart disease, personal history of stress, depression, and anxiety. Also some history of obesity in the family, as I'm the lightest adult male in my family at 6'1" and 215 lbs.
Current workout: M-W-F run 4-7 miles, T-Th weightlifting, Saturday run 6 or more with a neighbor. During the spring and summer I commute to work on the bike T-Th, which adds 50 miles of cycling to each week. I sometimes do longer rides on the weekends, 35-100 miles.
This is the ideal schedule. Over the last year it's been less than the ideal  due to family health issues, work schedule, and the like. I'm thinking of switching to a Tu-Th-Sa running schedule and a M-W-F lifting schedule. I've been slacking on the strength training over the last few months, I need to take off about 20 pounds, and I'm not getting there with the current routine.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: I need to take off about 20 pounds, and I'm not getting there with the current routine.
if you're working out less did compensate by eating less. that'll stop them pounds coming.
Quantity matters most (even good food adds on) - I'll happily eat anything junk food included, the trick is knowing when to stop wrt how much you're going to burn in the next 24 hours.
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Lopatir wrote: working out less did compensate by eating less
That's been a lot of my problem. Increasing the cardio revs up my appetite as well. That, on top of my tendency to hit the milk and cookies until the blues go away, explains why I carry the extra 20.
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Bought an elliptical and put it in my computer cave/den. It has all kinds of exercise routines stored in.
Use it every other day for around 15 mins.
Motivation: getting fat and high blood pressury. Running outside should be more fun than watching netflix while pushing the pedals though.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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My motivation is that my Dad had a major heard attack at 47, and my brother a triple bypass at the same age. So I try to keep moving and look after myself.
So far it's working. I do a mixture of running (I typically run 5-6 miles, at a pace of around 8:30-9 mins/mile) and walking (usually 4-5 miles), plus some pilates and occasionally yoga. The one time I did a parkrun (5k) I did it in 25 mins and hit an age grade of 67%, which apparently isn't at all bad.
http://www.parkrun.org.uk/bournemouth/results/athletehistory/?athleteNumber=3149645[^]
I also keep some weights and a yoga mat in the office just in case I get twitchy while I'm working. 
Anna ( @annajayne)
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"Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"
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(TL;DR -> I'm HypoThyrodic, so I have no choice but to exercise... I generally do about 2.5 miles a morning on my bike, there's lots of hills where I live, so it's a great workout. Then I'll have a jog round to the shop to get the morning papers.)
My Motivation is my Health.
4 years ago I started to pass out on the way home from work. At first I thought it was just tired, I didn't actually realize I was passing out, it just felt like I was sleepy, and on a 50 min bus journey, it really wasn't a bad thing anyway, headphones in and have a bit kip.
The thing was, I actually started to realize this was a bit more than just being sleepy, because there was some times that I was thinking to myself, But I'm not tired, and I was still drifting off.
On one journey home, I was drifting off, and I had some mint sweets in my bag, so I ate two of them, and the result was almost instant. My drifting off stopped, within about 5 mins, and bam I was alert and wide awake again.
Anyway long story short, I hot one of the increasingly larger 0's birthday and a doctors letter landed through my door, basically saying, now your X years old, you need to come and get some stuff checked.
So I did.
I know at this point I was slightly overweight, nothing too worrying, but loosing a few kilos wouldn't have hurt, I do spend most of my day sat at a desk.
They drew blood, did some tests etc, and called me back for the results.
I'll never forget the comment the doc said as I walked in the room.
"Hello Mr Shaw, we have your tests and you have the least serious of the 4 most serious disease we test for"
Now at this point, I had no idea what the things where they tested for, but I now know that various cancers are at one end, Diabetes is in the middle and Thyroid issues are at the bottom.
For me this was Thyroid issues (I later found out where hereditary), in my case I'm HypoThyrodic, which means my thyroid doesn't work as well as it should do, or in my case not at all.
The thing with HypoThyroidism, is the clues are very subtle. My Mother has T2 Diabeties, and I thought that (Esp after the mints) that I might be too. It turns out however, that it's nothing like that, in my case it was because my body was literally running out of energy.
The best way to describe it is to imagine a marathon runner, when they "Hit The Wall", whats actually happening inside their body, is there switching from using the energy from food and nutrients they just digested, to energy stored in thier body fat, that small "wobbly phase" is beacuse they suddenly don't have any physical immediate energy to continue (Like a car very low on gas) , and it takes a small moment for the body to switch to the reserve tank.
In a HypoThyrodic person, this switch over doesn't happen, so if I burn more calories than I consume, it's a simple case of Lights out, and that's what was happening on my bus home.
With replacement hormones and a managed diet (Which is what I have to do every day now) it's not a problem however.
The flip side is, because this switch over doesn't happen, it's very, very, very difficult for me to burn off body fat. The Hormone Tablets help because they artificially stimulate body systems to burn some, but it's very slow. If I don't exercise, or maintain at least a reasonable amount of activity in a day, I'll just grow and grow, and I'll grow faster than I can get the weight back off.
So It's not so much motivation, it's more survival, I have no desire to end up being like Jabba The Hut
My morning routine, is usually something like:
10 Situps
10 Crunches
10 Squats
10 High Angle Pushups
2.5 Mile Bike Ride (Hilly terrain, On a road bike built for downhill and speed)
1 mile Jog
I work from home mostly, so I'm up about 7am, Grab a banana and a green tea, off out to do my routine, couple of slides of wholemeal toast when I get back, Generally at my desk for about 10am.
I have to admit, it has made me more energetic, and when Iv'e had a good session (Weather's starting to get cold now where heading into Autumn) during the warm weather, I get an amazing amount of productivity.
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Good story.
It's good to see someone who identified the problem and chose to do something about it instead of just saying "well, I can't help it, I have a physical issue so that's why I'm fat".
Good for you.
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With HypoThyroidism, it's not just the weight factor you have to get right, but you really have to be quite strict about your diet too.
It also heavily affects your metabolism, so can cause serious depression, and prompt a serious unwillingness to just do anything, even get out of bed.
The most dangerous part though is making sure you have your energy intake right, as Iv'e said, if you don't It's lights Out, and lets take the bike riding stuff.... It certainly wouldn't be good for my health if I passed out while riding on a main road.
What I tend to do, is everywhere I go, I carry a pack of Dextrose tablets with me, I usually get a minute or so warning (Light head etc), so I can pull over and grab one out my pocket.
When I first started though, there was a few instances where I pulled over on one of the country lanes to rest, and passed out while lying on the grass, only to wake and find someone there who'd called an ambulance, thinking I'd been involved in a hit and run.
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I've got 6 mile round-trip bicycle ride commuting to work 5 days a week. Back in the late 90's that was a 20 mile round trip! Recently switched to to a single-speed racing bike which is a lot harder work than gears - worth it though. There's one particular hill that I've only managed to power to the top once and I felt like Rocky finally conquering the Art Museum steps.
I also do martial arts training a couple of time a week, so that's about 3 hours of punching and kicking people to let out any frustration
The missus and I also walk the dog for 45 minutes each night.
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