Fitness

[imogen]

They've just announced the pricing for the new University sports centre over the road from me. It looks super fantastic, but it's more expensive than I hoped.

It's £40 a month for unlimited use of the facitilites, except the pool will be timetabled so there are only windows of access which is a bit poo.

Do you have to live in Heslington/Badger Hill or be a student to use it?

[<3]

No, it's the same as the current one, it's open to the public.

The irritating thing is there are no single use prices, so I can't tell how much a single swim will be.

[nonamethanks]

Is anyone here interested in some banana flavoured milk protein? I have a kg pouch that I don't want and it's a bit of a waste to just throw it out. It's been opened and one scoop has been taken out of it. It's best before Nov 2012. This stuff: http://www.myprotein.com/uk/products/mi ... ein_smooth 80% casein/20% whey, worth £16, will send it for the cost of posting it which will probably be a fiver, or free if you're in glasgow and can pick it up in town or somewhere. I'll throw in the plastic scoop for free too.

[Beth]

Does anyone here belong to The Gym? There's one where I'm moving to, and I like the sound of how cheap it is and the lack of contract.

[yeah and what]

Been at the one in Birmingham before, really nice gym.

Had it on top of my local gym membership as it was convinient after work. I blow that money on crap each month so it's not like I noticed the money and it's the best value for money gym I've ever been too.

[Jemma]

Does anyone here belong to The Gym? There's one where I'm moving to, and I like the sound of how cheap it is and the lack of contract.

My housemates go to the one in West Hampstead (i say go to, they are members, but i'm not sure when they last went) - meant to be really nice and modern but basic.

I'm caving and joining virgin active when I get paid.

[yeah and what]

I can't wait till February next year when I'm out of contract with LA Fitness, going to treat myself and start going to the Virgin active in Solihull. Going to be worth the extra £10 a month!

[Jemma]

I'm pretty excited about the jacuzzi there. And they do discount for under 26s. And free towels, that's my main requirements !

[Beth]

Annoyingly I work directly opposite a Virgin active, but there is no way I can afford membership there. We get a charity discount but it's only about a fiver, which is pretty crap. I love swimming and I know that The Gym doesn't have that, but I'll probably just suck it up and join due to the cheapness.

[zildjian]

I was about to join my local councils gym membership thing. £25 one off administration fee?! Fuck off.

[BennytheBigDog]

Just started gettin back into the gym after a couple months on my arse. Also started the paleo diet. Anyone else into this? It's also known as the caveman diet. You basically only eat things that humans could have huntered or gathered prior to the advent of agriculture. Weaning myself off caffeine and sugar hasn't been easy but I feel like a fucktonne better now I have.

[Matthew A]

That diet has more holes than some cheeses you're not allowed to eat.

[yeah and what]

I've heard good things about the diet provided you eat as much of it as 'raw' as possible. You can still cook veg if you like but only via dehydration. It just seems a lot of work to maintain. Fuck any diet that takes that much preperation.

[nonamethanks]

Just started gettin back into the gym after a couple months on my arse. Also started the paleo diet. Anyone else into this? It's also known as the caveman diet. You basically only eat things that humans could have huntered or gathered prior to the advent of agriculture. Weaning myself off caffeine and sugar hasn't been easy but I feel like a fucktonne better now I have.

uh oh. i'm just waiting for the usual suspects to take the piss out of you and/or insult you for doing the low carb thing. it's not healthy, didn't you know?

[Matthew A]

Sorry too busy burning calories to search the internet for alternative life theories. Soneone who says they struggled to lose weight and then suggests beginners do a 5x5 routine in the gym has suspect views. Benny is Scottish & generally insane.

[nonamethanks]

here we go

[Matthew A]

No, you're right. I'm going to rush out and start a diet that's an absolute fucking nightmare to follow and is entirely based on a completely flawed anthropological model.

[yeah and what]

In nonamethanks defence she didn't Suggest the 5x5's I don't think.

Anyways, I was wrong as the raw food diet I was thinking of lets you have grains, which is obviously a massive difference between the caveman diet. It's still hard as fuck to follow though.

[BennytheBigDog]

Yeah, there's a lot of criticism for the diet, I'm aware of that. Quite happy doing it so far though. Can't be unhealthy to eat fruit, veg and meat, that's the stuff everyone tells you to eat. If people done it for thousands of years, it cannae be that bad. Undoubtedly better than the high sugar diet I normally maintain.

[chrisd]

Pulled my calf's last week and could hardly walk this week. Feel much better now so can get back to killing the gym. started in April i think and have lost about a stone and a half just by going 3 times a week and stopped having 5 cakes a day and not eating pizza every day. Starting to hit the wall now though and cant seem to shift the last few pounds. Anyone got any tips apart from starving myself?

[yeah and what]

It does get harder to shift the last bit, unfortunately to shift the last flab usually requires going more extreme on the diet, minimal fat, good carbs only, avoiding sugar like it's aids infested clown and turning the cardio up to 11. Sort of depends on what you're doing in the gym as well, as I've said before I recommend strongly not following progress on weight alone and possibly building some muscle to increase your metabolism which can stop 'weight' loss due to the muscle being the same weight as the fat you lose or even make you heavier.

[spoon_of_grimbo]

Can anybody recommend some bicep weight exercises that have a very low impact on the back please? I've recently recovered from strained back ligaments, so I want to ease back into the whole weightlifting thing after having been limited solely to light chest/tricep exercises for the past couple of months.

[Matthew A]

Preacher curl is the most obvious.

[chrisd]

It does get harder to shift the last bit, unfortunately to shift the last flab usually requires going more extreme on the diet, minimal fat, good carbs only, avoiding sugar like it's aids infested clown and turning the cardio up to 11. Sort of depends on what you're doing in the gym as well, as I've said before I recommend strongly not following progress on weight alone and possibly building some muscle to increase your metabolism which can stop 'weight' loss due to the muscle being the same weight as the fat you lose or even make you heavier.

yeah thought as much. its sucks that the less you weight the less your body needs to get through the day. so makes it harder to lose the last few pounds! I have started to do a few weights but as im not down to my ideal weight yet i am still on a calorie deficit and dont have the energy to do much. obviously musclues weight more than fat but i still need to lose a bit of my beer belly even if my weight goes up ill be able to notice the gut going down. Got two weeks till my holiday so thats my motivation.

[yeah and what]

I'm pretty excited about the jacuzzi there. And they do discount for under 26s. And free towels, that's my main requirements !

I have a jacuzzi, steam room, sauna and pool at the LA Fitness I go to with a pretty well kitted out gym. For £30 a month it is a bargain really, but it is just small.

The Virgin in Solihull has all of these, is far larger, isn't full of mutants and house a frigging outside pool also which is amazing!

They do an under 26 discount at this Virgin also, alas, that ship has sailed for me, I'll be nearly 27 when I join there....