Are You Fat?

themachinist · Post by **themachinist** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:49 am

professor ganson wrote:I'm usually in good shape. I walk every day and do 100 pull-ups (4 sets of 25). I can't get back to this routine until I recover fully from hernia surgery. Soon, hopefully. I hate watching my arms get skinny.

Wow man. How can you do so many? My sets go something like 10, 6, 2. Pull up is the over hand grip right?

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 6:06 am

Let's just say I made a relatively convincing tenth Doctor last Halloween.

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 7:01 am

themachinist wrote:
professor ganson wrote:I'm usually in good shape. I walk every day and do 100 pull-ups (4 sets of 25). I can't get back to this routine until I recover fully from hernia surgery. Soon, hopefully. I hate watching my arms get skinny.
Wow man. How can you do so many? My sets go something like 10, 6, 2. Pull up is the over hand grip right?

Maybe I should do this too, just to balance out my disproportionately thick thighs. I don't have a chin-up bar but I live a few blocks away from an elementary school, so I can easily stop by after work each day and do a couple (of kids, har har). Those monkey bars are obscenely high, I can dead hang from them and point my toes, and still not touch the ground.

The n00b · Post by **The n00b** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 2:35 pm

As a long distance runner I object to this poll. There's no option for those of us with an athletic body.

doodude · Post by **doodude** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 2:56 pm

themachinist wrote:Is a meaty hand or a spindly hand better for manipulating a joystick??

Saaaaaaay, mabe you belong on the Sassy thread! Im just sayin'...

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 4:50 pm

themachinist wrote:
professor ganson wrote:I'm usually in good shape. I walk every day and do 100 pull-ups (4 sets of 25). I can't get back to this routine until I recover fully from hernia surgery. Soon, hopefully. I hate watching my arms get skinny.
Wow man. How can you do so many? My sets go something like 10, 6, 2. Pull up is the over hand grip right?

With a pull-up your palms are facing away from you; with a chin up they are turned in toward you. (At least that's how I remember it.) If you do them really regularly, it's not so tough. I can't wait to get back to it.

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:17 pm

Few years ago I meassured about a 140 Kilograms!

Last year some stuff happened in my life that made me decide it was enough.
Since then I've lost over 60 Kilograms of weight. (well actually managed that in about 6 months time!!!).

With my height being just around 1.80 metres I am decidedly avarage of weight now.

DEL can confirm this story alright... (didn't recognize me when meeting up after about 2 years or so

)...

nem · Post by **nem** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:20 pm

I'm slightly underweight, always have been.

My metabolism is stupidly fast, I can eat like a horse and won't gain any weight. Picture a tall skeleton with a layer of skin around the bones, and you have me in high school. The last years I've been doing on and off weights training and I've gained some 20 pounds. Thing is, I have a bad knee (party trick: my knee makes an audible pop every time I squat), so I've only been doing upper body training. Now I have built upper torso with stick legs.

Diabollokus · Post by **Diabollokus** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 1:15 am

I train like a monster and couldn't do 4 sets of 25 chin ups/wide arm pull ups either! thats impressive ganson. Dosen't help I'm 215 lbs at 6.1, I stick to bag and pad work for cardio as I'm a bit too heavy for running, body fat is around 8% though which isn't bad. I train for mma which I've combined with some heavy weight lifting over the last few years, however life is making time for training harder and harder to find. I've started using bodyweight training now a bit more frequently due to its do it anywhere anytime nature.

You guys have posted some incredible weight loses, I find even losing 4-5 pounds for an event a bloody nightmare, Well done.

Arvandor · Post by **Arvandor** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 3:32 am

I've just been doing various resistance training coupled with cardio on a rowing machine. Lately I've been doing about 8 kilometers in around 35 minutes, but only twice a week >_< I need to wake up earlier on Friday so I can get some time in before dinner with my family.

Any of you have suggested exercises for working up to being able to do a pull up? I can't even do one, and not being able to do one, I don't know of an alternative way to strengthen those muscles.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 4:39 am

Diabollokus wrote:I train like a monster and couldn't do 4 sets of 25 chin ups/wide arm pull ups either! thats impressive ganson. Dosen't help I'm 215 lbs at 6.1, I stick to bag and pad work for cardio as I'm a bit too heavy for running, body fat is around 8% though which isn't bad. I train for mma which I've combined with some heavy weight lifting over the last few years, however life is making time for training harder and harder to find. I've started using bodyweight training now a bit more frequently due to its do it anywhere anytime nature.

Yeah, I know people much bigger and stronger than I am that can't do near as many pull ups. It really helps that I weigh between 160-165 pounds at just over 5'8".

I'm a real fan of bodyweight training, but I need to research what is best for avoiding a further hernia. I never want to go through that surgery again.

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:35 am

Stick figure reporting in .. :p

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 6:29 am

I find that skipping snacks before bedtime is a good start to loosing weight. Hard to do when you work until 9 pm though.

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:13 am

Super Laydock wrote;

DEL can confirm this story alright... (didn't recognize me when meeting up after about 2 years or so )...

Well I had to do a double-take that's for sure

. A 60kilogram loss is impressive - a huge loss.
I still have some photos of us in Bergen Op Zoom and an 'after' shot in London this year.

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:17 pm

My weight is ok for my age and size, but I need to tone my body. I hate having flab.

elfhentaifan · Post by **elfhentaifan** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:41 pm

My tits are bigger than the ones of my mom.

FIL · Post by **FIL** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:55 pm

pics plz

doodude · Post by **doodude** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:35 pm

FIL wrote:pics plz

Boys gone wild!

robivy64 · Post by **robivy64** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:43 pm

I didn't see the PHAT option

Post by **Shatterhand** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:06 pm

Most of my life I've been skinny... but in the last 4 years or so I begun gaining some weight, due to lack of exercise (I used to play soccer at least twice in a week) + getting a job where I stay sitting on a chair for 8 hours... I begun to develop a belly, and nowadays I am not fat, but I am around 3-5 kgs above my ideal weight.

themachinist · Post by **themachinist** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:01 am

Arvandor wrote:Any of you have suggested exercises for working up to being able to do a pull up? I can't even do one, and not being able to do one, I don't know of an alternative way to strengthen those muscles.

Old thread resurrection!

One way I read about that can help work your way up to pull ups is doing "negative pullups/chinups" since you can usually lower more weight than you can lift. Basically what you do is you set up a box or raised platform below the bar. Then you step onto the box and grab the bar, setting yourself up in the top most position of a pullup (chin above the bar). You lift your feet off of the box so you're now hanging not supported by the box, then slowly lower yourself from the top position to a dead hang over the period of like 5 seconds. Then step back onto the box and go to the top position. Repeat that a whole bunch.

A different way would be to use a lat-pulldown machine or an assisted pullup/chinup machine.

Dale · Post by **Dale** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:10 am

The n00b wrote:As a long distance runner I object to this poll. There's no option for those of us with an athletic body.

Yeah it's kind of corny just to judge of pounds to height.

I'm just under 190Ibs, 13 percent body fat about 5'10. 25Ibs of fat the rest is muscles, bones, Organs, etc.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:16 am

A different way would be to use a lat-pulldown machine or an assisted pullup/chinup machine.

You should aim for the chin-up or pull-up. They are the bench mark of strength. Nott to mention amazingly gratifying when doing one.

Also don't forget to get off your ass and run. Spring is coming up, so no excuses. I'm going for swim tonight.

dpful · Post by **dpful** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:58 am

When you can get that visceral rush from pressing a button and looking at a screen, why would you ever go jogging?

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:07 am

I fall under the Obese level.
5'11" and 230lb here.

themachinist · Post by **themachinist** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:18 am

GaijinPunch wrote:
A different way would be to use a lat-pulldown machine or an assisted pullup/chinup machine.
You should aim for the chin-up or pull-up. They are the bench mark of strength. Nott to mention amazingly gratifying when doing one.

Also don't forget to get off your ass and run. Spring is coming up, so no excuses. I'm going for swim tonight.

The ideas were for the people trying to work up to doing even 1 pull-up.

320x240 · Post by **320x240** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 9:37 am

GaijinPunch wrote:You should aim for the chin-up or pull-up. They are the bench mark of strength. Nott to mention amazingly gratifying when doing one.

If you don't add weights it becomes a strenght-endurance exercise after a while. With pull-downs you can forget your own weight too. You never see weightlifters or powerlifters do chin-ups or pull-ups much, there's a good reason for that. I have seen several olympic champions (rowing, canoeing, athletics) prefer pull-downs over chin-ups and the like. Of course others did a lot of them.

D · Post by D » Thu Mar 05, 2009 10:37 am

How about we do a what color are your eyes next eh?

slightly obese; what's it to ya? Are you going to guestimate the total weight of the shmups forum members? and then calculate how many pools can be filled with unnessecary fat?
Or is this another OMG, look I can haz make a thread to which many people will react, so I am god!

How many times do you brush your teeth?
Do you eat breakfast?
Sleep on stomach, back, side or alternate?

Sorry, bad day at the office; taken out on Ceph

Dragoforce · Post by **Dragoforce** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:52 pm

I have been putting on a little too much weight the last couple of years, mostly around the belly. But who cares, thin people always tend to look miserable compared to people with a little blubber on them.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:00 pm

weighed in at 68Kg today fully dressed.

im pretty unfit tho, im gonna start working out but i dont think ill loose any weight from it, just shapen up a bit..

im about 174cm if you want to put that into perspective..

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