07-30-2006, 02:52 PM | #1 |
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Workout motivation
What motivates you to work out?
Personal aversion to fatness? You wife's compliments? Competitive nature? all of the above. Well post here your workout numbers. Past week, average: cycling 145.8 miles, running 22.2 miles and swimming 8000 meters.
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07-30-2006, 04:11 PM | #2 |
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I haven't kept track of the distances that I jog/walk, I just want to fit into my clothes.
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07-30-2006, 04:49 PM | #4 |
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My motivation is remembering being in shape and wanting to get back to that point.
Last week: 85 miles cycling.
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07-30-2006, 07:51 PM | #5 |
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I've got a few...
1- Pain Reduction: I've never really stopped climbing/biking/backpacking... I have just become slower and it has just gotten more painful. 2- Fear of Death: Pretty much every dead relative met their fate with some sort of diabetes related illness. 3- Vanity: I'm just sick of being 250 lbs and having a gut that makes me look like a pregnant chick. 4- Sanity: Exercise helps with seratonin issues. Anxiety, Depression, etc... are a little easier to control if you're living a more healthy and active lifestyle. I'm down from 280. I was at 240 but put on a few pounds living with Mom this summer. My goal is to lose another 40 this year. Eventually it would make me very happy to get under 200 but if I can get down into the 210 - 220 range I'll be a happy man.
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07-31-2006, 02:33 PM | #6 |
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My motivation is probably mostly overall fitness/mortality and my competitive nature.
Last week, 70 miles bike, running 360 feet (Thats 4 trips around the base pads Thursday night - not much action out in left field last week). |
07-31-2006, 03:13 PM | #7 |
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Motivation: wanting to stay in the same relative shape as when I was in college and working out 4 hours a day. Thank heavens my metabolism hasn't slowed down yet.
Actually my wife is my greatest motivator, she makes sure I get out there and do something. Plus I am afraid she is going to start beating me is races once she can start working out agian. Last week: swim: 5400 meters bike 15 miles run: 3 miles but I was recovering from a groin pull and hope to start some real training this week for a race the end of September. I did go for a short run before work this morning and things felt ok, and I was able to maintain a good pace. |
07-31-2006, 06:30 PM | #8 |
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I just like to get out. No competitions, no sprints to the town line. I like being out on the bike (mountain or road) and feeling alive. I think I only biked one day last week, but I did take my son on a 3-day live-aboard scuba trip to Catalina before he goes on his mission next month. We had a blast with sea lions, octopi, horn sharks, angel sharks, barracuda, moray eels, lobster, etc.
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07-31-2006, 07:24 PM | #9 |
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Question for you swimmers. I've been putting in some swimming time in the past couple of weeks and this is new for me. I'm a good swimmer, but I have never preferred freestyle. When I pick up the pace in free, I begin to get about a 50/50 mix of air and water on each breath which makes life pretty miserable. Do you who swim a lot (Archae/bigpiney) have the same issue? I just find it really annoying.
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