Matt S wrote:Yeah I gave up once. It's not hard. I just started again a few years later because if I didn't smoke at work I wouldn't do anything. I've always wondered if it's as easy to smoke and pump weights at the same time as sylvester stallone makes it out to be.
I like smoking at work because I get breaks. I like smoking at home because what else would I do while the ads are on?
Started the 30 Day Shred this week and I'm aching but feeling awesome. Circuit training is the bomb! 3 minutes strength training, 2 minutes cardio, 1 minute abs, repeat 5 times.
Ellen Melon wrote:I think it's a difficult thing to teach someone anyway but once you introduce any kind of anxiety or fear it's much harder to get through to someone. I recognise that I need someone with experience of teaching swimming to show me how to do it, rather than a friend, but that also means it might take a while to build up trust. No-one has ever tried to teach me to swim, though I did have a swimming instructor set up the situation that led to me nearly drowning 16 years ago. I've been in pools a whopping three times since. I've been sailing and kayaking and, like I said before, I want to row. I don't have a fear of water. Just pools. Good luck to the instructor who gets stuck with me.
My gym has funding through some sports council or other to do five half hour beginners classes for a tenner, so I'm doing those just to get in the water. Then I'm signing up for a proper course at a council pool, which is about £60 for ten 45 minute sessions. A tenner a lesson seems expensive if it's a group session!
Yeah that's Shelley's problem, fear of water. The thing is, if she could swim, she'd not be nearly as scared, but you know...
It's a small group I think, 2 or 3 people maximum, I still see that as pretty expensive.
Du-can wrote:I normally go swimming on my lunch break so I always feel like I could do more, but have a time restraint. I did 60 lengths of breaststroke the other day though, in about 45 minutes and that felt really good.
The only problem with swimming is that now it’s the summer holidays the pool gets really busy. Best exercise though.
Eurgh, I've detailed the local pools faults in here before, but they have a double wide line t encourage overtaking in the middle - so dickheads just skull on their backs in the middle of the lane, swim on the wrong side, and generally act like wankers. It's really irritating. Now it's the school holidays though some of the worst characters don't seem to be there, so I only have to put up with wacky little shits racing each other at the slowest pace you've ever seen.
At the gym I go to a fair amount of the cardio machines have TV's attached to them, so I've got into a nice little rut of watching The Fresh Prince on Viva everytime I go for a run or cycle.
Du-can wrote:I normally go swimming on my lunch break so I always feel like I could do more, but have a time restraint. I did 60 lengths of breaststroke the other day though, in about 45 minutes and that felt really good.
The only problem with swimming is that now it’s the summer holidays the pool gets really busy. Best exercise though.
Eurgh, I've detailed the local pools faults in here before, but they have a double wide line t encourage overtaking in the middle - so dickheads just skull on their backs in the middle of the lane, swim on the wrong side, and generally act like wankers. It's really irritating. Now it's the school holidays though some of the worst characters don't seem to be there, so I only have to put up with wacky little shits racing each other at the slowest pace you've ever seen.
Today is hot so I expect it to be extra full of kids. They have fast, medium and slow lanes but no one pays a blind bit of notice and just swims their own speed in whichever one they fancy.
My other really big bugbear with swimming is I get so bored. They don't even play crappy music like they used to when I was a kid, or the dance stuff they pump in the gym that bleeds into my headphones.
I'd love to have three lanes, at least you could move to another lane if someone was being a dick. One massive lane is the worlds worst idea. I've seen two fights in the pool because of it.
Ah, gym music. Mine plays either Radio 1 or Metro in the changing rooms and gym. That includes the spin and circuits rooms. You can always hear the radio slightly, bleeding into the music for the class. Which is itself usually shit.
There's a spin teacher at my gym who has a single playlist for his classes. It includes Men in Black, Cotton Eye Joe and the Final Countdown, interspersed with David Guetta. I avoid the class he takes as he uses the same playlist and routine there, every single week, but sometimes he shows up to do cover for the other classes I take and it's ruining my life.
Thanks to a bastard chest infection, i've lost nearly a stone in a week, so to follow suit of Waltz and Benny, the Dr. Dre/Bench press combination is going to get hit hard tonight. Had my first smoke in a week (again thanks to said illness), it was awesome to have my lungs filled with shit again.
I just remembered when my yoga & pilates teacher put her iPod on shuffle and some filthy R&B slow jam came on when everyone was in happy baby pose. Fantastic.
Had an induction at my new gym yesterday, only the PT who was doing it decided that as he had 40 minutes to kill he'd give me a proper PT session.
Every single inch of my body hurts today. I didn't know half of these muscles existed. Thank god there's a jacuzzi so I can just go and sit and soak and relax at the weekend. Jesus it hurts.
<3 wrote:I'd love to have three lanes, at least you could move to another lane if someone was being a dick. One massive lane is the worlds worst idea. I've seen two fights in the pool because of it.
I forgot that today half the pool is 50+ and so it was probably the busiest I’ve ever seen it. They should have a cap on how many people they let in really. Half the pool was over 50s which doesn’t help, but that meant there was only one lane, which was packed and the rest of the pool was a manic free-for-all, a bit like what you described. I managed 30 lengths before nearly strangling this bloke who was arguing with everyone.
<3 wrote:On the subject of music in the pool, I've got a SwiMP3 and I've worn it maybe 4 times. It's great, but it makes me look like a serious dickhead.
You should use it. If i saw a dude using one, i'd just think that dude has $$$ in the bank. "It's the kind of technology that says, yeah i've been nude on camera, what of it?"
I have one, too! I used to have a speedo aquabeat, back when I was working full time and could afford such frivolities. When it died I replaced it with a £30 one I found online. It does the job perfectly well. I'd totally recommend them to anyone, so useful.
I had literally no idea these SwiMP3 things existed! The pool I go to always plays radio one, which is fuck-awful the hours I'm usually there (apart from the other week when they were bigging up the Refused/ATD-I reunions, and New Noise and One-Armed Scissor got played back to back), so I could do with something like that. I'd throw on CVA by Paint It Black and go like the fucking clappers!
My gym plays a county local station (Lincs FM) and so, when I forgot my mp3 player the other day, I ended up lifting weights to not one, but TWO Kelly Clarkson songs, some 80s pop also-ran that sounded a bit like that shit Prefab Sprout song ("Albaquerque"?), and Call Me Maybe. That said, "Survivor" by Destiny's Child made an appearance... Suprisingly good workout music!
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