Life The Getting in Shape Thread

[blai]

I'm gonna start Kung Fu now because I lack the dicipline to work out as much as I need to.
Theres a beginners class fro age 16+ so at least I wont get beaten by 9yhr olds.

Going to be awesome tbh, haven't been in a group, working out and practicing for ages. And it's both strength and agility that you're boosting. And after the first year, if you pass and get graded you can choose a "weapon" to train with, and after that you get divided into groups o/ I'm so gonna use the sticks! ^^

After that, it doesn't matter how much muscles you have Arrogance, I'll beat you up with my wooden stick MWAHAHHA

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[Belisar]

Yeah, I thought of starting martial arts or a sport of sorts, but with my financial situation its quite a challenge. I've been though throwings some hoops as light evening exercise, but it isn't exactly the same thing

For some unknown reason I have a slight interest in kendo, even though I have never done any sword stuff. And its even more expensive than the majority of martial arts... But seeing them exercise it on the field by the lake every morning.. It looks so darn cool.

i don't think that martial art lessons are very expensive. not expensive as a monthly fee in a fitness gym. if a dojo is too expensive search for another one.

kendo is great. it is a spiritual martial art. it trains both, the body and the spirit. i think about starting iaido.

I'm gonna start Kung Fu now because I lack the dicipline to work out as much as I need to.
Theres a beginners class fro age 16+ so at least I wont get beaten by 9yhr olds.

Going to be awesome tbh, haven't been in a group, working out and practicing for ages. And it's both strength and agility that you're boosting. And after the first year, if you pass and get graded you can choose a "weapon" to train with, and after that you get divided into groups o/ I'm so gonna use the sticks! ^^

After that, it doesn't matter how much muscles you have Arrogance, I'll beat you up with my wooden stick MWAHAHHA

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what kind of kung fu will you start? qi qong? bajiquan? tai chi chuan? hung gar? baguazhang?

 

[blai]

I'm not sure what type it is myself but it's south shaolin

 

[Belisar]

there are a lot of southern shaolin arts. maybe wing chun but it's not a shaolin art.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_martial_arts

 

[blai]

Uhm, yeah but it's "lam siu lam ehm yeng kuen" or as you'd say in english "The five animals kung fu". work both with weapons, inner spirits, qi gong and tai chi chuan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Animals

 

[Arrogance]

Uhm, yeah but it's "lam siu lam ehm yeng kuen" or as you'd say in english "The five animals kung fu". work both with weapons, inner spirits, qi gong and tai chi chuan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Animals

..........someone's been watching Kung Fu Panda a little too much ....

Anywho I think I'm gonna go out and look for some good Resistance bands tomorrow, those should be good for me to take on vacation with me. I saw two REALLY good ones I'm gonna try and look for. Terrel Owen's (He's an NFL [American] Football player) Resistance bands and those seem to be a HQ set that can go up to 150 pounds with the combining of bands. Then theres one by Body By Jake that supposedly goes into the 200 pounds range. Both have door attachments so you can attach the bands to a door to do exercises like rows, decline benching, benching, etc. So anywho wish me luck in finding something .

 

[blai]

duuh, no it's cool

i'll be like those asian dudes that jumps around screaming HA HIA HYY and like do kicks and stuff...

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/drool

/wtf

 

[Belisar]

duuh, no it's cool

i'll be like those asian dudes that jumps around screaming HA HIA HYY and like do kicks and stuff...

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/drool

/wtf

i think it's cool. many people have prejudices. you can't be everybody's darling.

i have just found this site and it looks like Hung Gar from nothern shaolin style is similar to yours.
http://www.northernshaolinacademy.com/new/NsaHungGarFiveAnimals.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hung_Gar

 

[Arrogance]

So I leave today . I solved my problem btw. I went to Sports Authority and bought myself some resistance bands which will cover most of my arm exercises. They came with a door attachment so I can even do things like rows and other back exercises. For chest I'll most likely be doing push-ups cause I still haven't developed an effective way to do those with the bands. Overall everything seems to be covered, its just gonna take me some time to develop a good routine while I'm there. Thanks for the help guys, I'll tty all in 2 weeks. I'll let you know how the bands turned out .

 

[baboysai]

here's a question: how does sleep affect you in terms of health?

of course we know the obvious answer, but what I wanted to know was do you guys really feel these bad side effects of staying up late and sitting around all day?

 

[Belisar]

here's a question: how does sleep affect you in terms of health?

of course we know the obvious answer, but what I wanted to know was do you guys really feel these bad side effects of staying up late and sitting around all day?

funny that you metion it. i have the problem that i stay up late sometimes up to 2 am, then sleep until midday. then i'm sluggish the half day and about 8 pm, i start to be more energetic. but because i want to get up early in the morning (6-8 am) i try to get to bed about midnight. of course the problem starts there: i don't feel like sleeping because i woke up late.
if i force myself to get up early, then i'm often sleepy 'till the evening. i seem to be a night owl. to overcome the sleepiness i drink coffee, tea and make sport.

if i am up all night and sleep a few hours in the morning, my head feels heavy and i can't hear myself think.

i can start acting weirdly due to the sleep deprivation, like unprovoked laughing fit.

 

[blai]

If i go to bed after midnight, it doesn't matter how much I sleep, I do get tired and all grumpy all day. While I can go to bed at 10pm and wake up at 5am/6am and be in tip shape and ready to go jogging in the morning.

Waking up between 6-8 is great. Waking up between 8-10 is like "meh" and waking up later than that is "kill me plz"

Belisar, It does indeed look a bit like it... U taking any martial art?

 

[Belisar]

If i go to bed after midnight, it doesn't matter how much I sleep, I do get tired and all grumpy all day. While I can go to bed at 10pm and wake up at 5am/6am and be in tip shape and ready to go jogging in the morning.

Waking up between 6-8 is great. Waking up between 8-10 is like "meh" and waking up later than that is "kill me plz"

Belisar, It does indeed look a bit like it... U taking any martial art?

what do you mean please? my avatar looks like me or what? ^ ^

i made judo for about 4 years. then i stopped seven years ago. now i start with judo again but also want to start with german ju-jutsu. i must wait till the summer break is over, so till monday. ;(

 

[blai]

Ok, I've never tried judo but I tried out karate once. Will start on Defendo this december as well so I'll take that and kung-fu.

I meant that the martial art you sent me looked like the one I will be starting the 24th

 

[Belisar]

Ok, I've never tried judo but I tried out karate once. Will start on Defendo this december as well so I'll take that and kung-fu.

I meant that the martial art you sent me looked like the one I will be starting the 24th

many styles in quan fa are similar. if you want a style that is good for street fighting, then there are wing chun (core of bruce lee's jeet kune do) and bajiquan. these two are close contact fighting styles.

an advice: start doing fitness. martial art without power is like coffee without coffeine.

 

[blai]

Ah, nice. Naah I'm not really gonna prepare for street fighting, I haven't lost a fight yet, not that I've been in more than like 6-7 but still. I just want to add the explosiveness, agility etc to what I already can. And for street fighting or irl fights I'm taking defendo...

Oh, I do work out 4days / week and jogging 3days / week. Not now tho b/c vacation.

 

[Riku]

Hmm, unfortunately I need stop my training for a while, just after I got started. Saturday evening left side of my chest started to hurt everytime I inhaled. Sunday it didn't go away but got worse, and I couldn't sleep at all because the pain was horrible if I layed sideways (don't no the real term in english, thats the closest one I could come up with).

Monday morning to the doctor, off course they suspected it was my heart, but EKG was rather normal. And today the bloodtest results didn't show anything abnormal either. So they think it is just muscle oriented, so I should just take it easy for some time.

Such a shame, I just started to totally get into it...

 

[Belisar]

did you start kendo?

 

[blai]

Let's hope it's temp. muscle related. Don't you dare go back to training until you have the doctors ok

 

[Belisar]

most probably aching muscles. you need to warm you up really good. especially if that concerns body parts that were never train before.