Exercise - what do you do? Get inspired!

I do martial arts 4-5 nights a week with some training on weekends. Walk the dog around the block on the weekends and throw the ball, run around with him etc. That's pretty much all the exercise I do. Now I just need to work out a diet that suits me but somehow I don't think that's going to happen while I'm living with my parents still. Mum cooks heaps of food and I feel compelled to eat it all lol! Mind you, it's all good healthy food but sometimes you can have too much of a good thing.

I'd like to drop about 10kg's and get back to my ideal weight and then tone up but I also don't want to lose the muscle mass I have either so it's a double edged sword :/

I play cricket on a saturday, oztag on a monday cricket training on a thursday and also try to get to the gym 2 nights a week. The problem with my weight has been because mother nature cannot hold her bladder in recent times and cricket and oztag have been washed out more weeks than they have been on and I have not changed what I was eating from when I was exercising alot.

I try to be good every week :) , trying to reduce my 86kg down to 80kg. Not much success getting down, but no trouble maintaining, so it's not too bad. I'm 178cm.

Monday it's off to the gym for a 1.5 hour session with a target of 1000 calories, rower, treadmill, x-trainer, stairmaster, and cycle class, in variuos mixes.

Tuesday it's back to the gym, 20mins X-trainer to warm up for 30 min Bar class, currently oading up with 20kg but have been as good as 25kg.

Wednesday it's back again for a 60 min hill walk on the treadmill, speed 6kph.

Thursday it's weights, last week I did
- Lat pull down wide grip 20 @ 75kg
- Seated chest press - 24 @75kg
- Squat with 15kg - 20
- 45 degree leg press - 23 @ 360kg
- Seated Row - 15 @ 57kg
- Lat pulldown narrow grip - 15@ 59kg
- Horizontal leg press - 11 @ 239kg
- Tricep dips with 7kg assist - 12


Not too bad for a 60yo.

Why do I do this? I hated needing blood pressure medication 4 years ago, so decided to get off it. Started training and got off the tabs after 2 years, and dropped about 20kg fat and put on about 20kg muscle.

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Originally Posted by WhiteGU

I try to be good every week :) , trying to reduce my 86kg down to 80kg. Not much success getting down, but no trouble maintaining, so it's not too bad. I'm 178cm.

Monday it's off to the gym for a 1.5 hour session with a target of 1000 calories, rower, treadmill, x-trainer, stairmaster, and cycle class, in variuos mixes.

Tuesday it's back to the gym, 20mins X-trainer to warm up for 30 min Bar class, currently oading up with 20kg but have been as good as 25kg.

Wednesday it's back again for a 60 min hill walk on the treadmill, speed 6kph.

Thursday it's weights, last week I did
- Lat pull down wide grip 20 @ 75kg
- Seated chest press - 24 @75kg
- Squat with 15kg - 20
- 45 degree leg press - 23 @ 360kg
- Seated Row - 15 @ 57kg
- Lat pulldown narrow grip - 15@ 59kg
- Horizontal leg press - 11 @ 239kg
- Tricep dips with 7kg assist - 12


Not too bad for a 60yo.

Why do I do this? I hated needing blood pressure medication 4 years ago, so decided to get off it. Started training and got off the tabs after 2 years, and dropped about 20kg fat and put on about 20kg muscle.

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Mate, that is bloody awesome in my books. Well done! A true inspiration for us younger blokes.

My parents bought the Wii Personal Trainer game. So I took my Wii console out into the lounge room and set it up there for them. We ran through the disk, I picked exercise programs for them.. but that's about where it stopped lol. They haven't looked at it. Then I get the excuses of "but we don'tknow how to work it".. but I've told them. Then the old man says his calf muscle keeps cramping up and he has torn it.. but there's nothing wrong with your arms buddy! Do some punches!

Well they are going to get a work out on the weekend because I'm making them help me train for my first grading. Muhahahaha!

5 flights of stairs @ 12 steps each, 5-6 times a night, when we're quiet.. triple that when we're busy..
6km round trip to school and back, when I can be bothered, when there's no stairs.

Mountain biking is great exercise you get to go off road and it's low impact (unless you fall off) plus some road biking when I don't have much time. Been doing both for years and still enjoy.

I do cardio exercises for the weight control and fitness purposes.
My routine workout plan include jogging, running, swimming, cycling, push ups, pull ups, crunches, and squats.
I daily spend at least 30 minutes in my this routine workout, and I think it is a proper fitness workout plan.

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I casually walk to the fridge and back to get my beer. I dont wanna strain anything if I run...

About the same as Mudski ,cant seem to put weight on stay at a constant 83kg.
Love running and cricket, but ATM amongst my other problems I have an under
active Thyroid gland, so CBF doing anything, there are 2 home gyms here and a stationary stepper/bike
Will need to get back into it soon should be no excuses

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Originally Posted by mudski

I casually walk to the fridge and back to get my beer. I dont wanna strain anything if I run...

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Don't understate your level of exercise mate - you also have the controlled motion in the arm lift of the beer tot he mouth not to mention the rotation of the bottle cap!!