Fitness

Originally Posted by Will

We tend to make fun of the guys who want to look like Brad Pitt in Fight Club. Eat like Nicole Richie and you'll reach your goal in no time.

Let me get this straight. You laugh at Brad Pitt's Fight Club body? Dude, he is laughing at you all the way to the sack where Angelina Jolie is happily awaiting him. That body type is about a million times more appealing than the huge, muscley, overly built look, and is probably more healthy since someone with that body type probably does WAY more cardio exercises and eats a more balanced diet than a bodybuilder.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

He didn't say they're making fun of Brad Pitt's body. They're making fun of guys who dream of looking like him and think that Pitt is some kind of superhuman, while in reality it's much easier to have a body like his (just lots of cardio, a bit of weightlifting and more-or-less proper nutrition) than to have a more muscular body. Of course Pitt looks good in Fight Club, but that's because he's handsome in general, and also largely because of the camera angles and lighting, and the superconfident way he carried himself. Actually though, he was really pretty skinny. A picture of training for Fight Club:



A lot of fifteen-year-olds have larger legs than that, you know?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I used to work out every morning for at least twenty minutes, but I have become quite lazy and currently, I think I make my exercises every second day, which is still better than two years ago when I didn't do any workout at all. I want to stay healthy and I don't want to look like John Candy, but I also think that some people are too serious about working out, like they spend two or three hours in the gym each day. Of course it looks great if you have a sixpack and sure you will have more luck with the girlz (well at least with those who don't have much in their head) but don't waste your life trying to become someone who doesn't think of anything else than his body.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I work out for the sake of exercise and to get stronger. I could give a shit what I look like, but as a result I look pretty alright. I see people constantly setting goals at the gym based on vanity and they usually end up a complete failure. If you're there to look good and nothing more, you better have a ton of will power because it's a long process and depression will set in pretty quick if you don't set yourself some intermediate goals.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Alice

Let me get this straight. You laugh at Brad Pitt's Fight Club body? Dude, he is laughing at you all the way to the sack where Angelina Jolie is happily awaiting him. That body type is about a million times more appealing than the huge, muscley, overly built look, and is probably more healthy since someone with that body type probably does WAY more cardio exercises and eats a more balanced diet than a bodybuilder.

LMAO. Bodybuilders are some of the biggest health nuts around. Someone with the Brad Pitt Fight Club body type isn't necessarily eating healthily, but he's damn sure not eating enough. In the long run, people who maintain a hypocaloric diet will tend to have a greater lifespan (basically because their organs aren't processing as much). It's sort of like undervolting a computer processor. Personally I'd rather up the voltage and overclock mine, even if it dies on me sooner. With all the exercise I do and healthy things I eat, I'm still living longer than 99% of the population anyway. The steady-state cardio that most people do is crap. Resistance and interval training are king unless you actually want the muscle mass of a thirteen-year-old girl.

Brad Pitt in Fight Club was about as appealing as Christian Bale in The Machinist. I'd rather look like Bale in Batman. Most bodybuilders don't want to look like Ronnie Coleman or Jay Cutler. They want the physique of Eugene Sandow or Stan McQuay. I'm sorry if masculinity offends you. I'm well aware that the trend in women's tastes is toward the emo wimps and metrosexuals. They're naturally bi-curious, so if they can get you all to look and act more like them, they're going to do it. I, for one, will not sit around waiting for the death of man.

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Originally Posted by Will

Brad Pitt in Fight Club was about as appealing as Christian Bale in The Machinist.

Well, it was kinda hard for him to look good when he was costarring with Ed Norton...

I don't see the point in working out so much myself. Sure, it gets you healthy, sure you live longer but... It just doesn't seem worth it to me. I feel healthy enough with just doing the very rare workout I do, although I'm fairly limited in what I can do because I've managed to inherit godawful back and hip problems. I suppose I'm still young though, I may feel different about it in a few years -shrugs-

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I use to exercise allot when I was doing martial arts but when my dojo closed down I started to slack off allot more :$ my new years resolution is to start going to the gym when I come back down south in the summer.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I think I'm a little bit nervous about exercise. I walk everywhere I can, but apart from that I don't exercise much. I had a friend who seemed to have good intentions at heart when it came to being fit and then he just became very ill. I suppose it's sort of put a crimp on myself becoming fit, but I'm not that bothered about it anyway.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I've got around to working out just about everyday since October. Since being out of school, I've been less active. I used to go ball or something many nights. Now my regiment exists really just to keep me from feeling lazy, and maybe "get big." It's been working, since I got the question from my doctor's appointment last week: "have you been working out?" Hehe. =p

Each day, I do a bunch of stretches and workouts I did back from my martial art elementary school days, condensed into about 10-15 minutes. At work and/or at home, I do some upper body stuff, which includes 3 sets of 15-30 reps of 10 different upper body exercises. And then I do 100 or more each of abs stuff (legs lifts, sit-ups, etc), depending on if I have time or not. I don't do much for my legs though these days, but they're still okay since I still do a lot of walking, and really that's all I used back in school: soccer, basketball, DDR... ya.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I wanna stay in shape. I'm a martial artist, I try to lift weights and run when I can... (and play Wii Sports, lol!!! j/k). I also am very particular about eating specific foods. I'm the kind of person thats reading the back of food products for Nutrition Facts... so yeah, I'm a little bit nutty when it comes to health, although, I sometimes will go a day and just not care when something bad is going down, like having stress or just daily life drama.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by JazzFlight

I agree.

I feel that a person has to decide for themselves that they want to lose weight. Otherwise:

1. They won't stick with the program.
2. They'll get depressed.
3. They'll hate whoever told them they needed to lose weight.

This is just based on my experience, where I simply decided to lose weight by myself, with no prodding by anyone else. In fact, my family kept saying "oh, but you weren't fat" but I was clearly overweight by BMI standards.

Sometimes, it just needs to happen out of the blue.

I think youre right. I did the open honest thing and she respects my position but she's going to do it her way with some diet book. Eat this and that with a little walking or biking & poof youre a whole new person says the book.
I said I think the book is another one of those diet scams & I will believe it when I see it.
Honestly I feel we have grown apart in this respect and like I told her I miss the days when we did walk together and worked out. I really enjoyed it.
Now we have been together for awhile and I guess the real person has finally come out. Well I love her and her stubborn side is what attracted me to her in the first place. I will keep up my efforts and when she finally comes around I will be ready.

I was speaking idiomatically.