It's the new year, and of naturally that means resolutions. It's a known fact that one of the most common New Year's Resolutions is to start exercising more, to lose more weight, to eat healthier, things along those lines. It's also a known fact that most of these resolutions don't survive the first month of the year. Being alone on such a journey is certainly a difficult task, and it's one of the main reasons people abandon it. Well, not anymore. I present to you all the Everypony Fitness Thread. Everything fitness related can be posted here, including race times, workout advice, and the most important thing of all: Encouragement. It truly sucks to go into something like this alone, so now none of us have to be alone in this anymore, we can stand together and get through these promises we make to ourselves and others. Come on guys, Faux News has labeled us as fat, jobless, weirdos. There's no way to use logic and common sense to overturn an opinion created by such ridiculousness, so instead let's go out there and prove it. Let's be fit bronies that we know we can be this year. Who's with me? (Thread idea credit goes to Mr-Stitches and S.P. Rocket)
I have no resolutions, other than continue helping the people I love most, and keep being me. However, what I can do is help you take some serious steps in your journey to follow that resolution, whatever it may be. Even if you don't plan to shed off pounds, this documentary is a highly insightful one and I recommend watching this. It will change your life: http://www.hulu.com/watch/289122/fat-sick-and-nearly-dead
Do you know if there's anywhere us non US bronies can watch that? It sounds interesting. As for fitness, I haven't made any new years resulutions but I will be continuing rowing every week. I could probably afford to spend more time in the gym as well, but to be honest between rowing, karate and cycling everywhere, I think exercise is sorted for me. That said, if anypony needs support with/has questions about rowing, karate or cycling, I'm all ears.
I'm not really sure. If you have a Netflix account, it's there. I also think they have the movie up on youtube, but I'm not sure. If worse comes to worse a quick google search can never hurt.
I'd like to be more active. I'm easily one of the most active non-athlete in my group of friends, but I just want to be stronger and faster. For me, a sudden burst of physical activity is accompanied by a huge adrenaline rush of happiness (the nothing-can-hurt-me feeling us teenagers are supposed to have all the time). I'm also going to try to be the nicest person I can be.
I get that all the time after long runs. (Like 7+ miles) And oh god the feeling I get right after a race, it's indescribable.
My resolutions always get broken, so I've made it more of a goal of sorts. To be more active/eat better. I spent this past summer living/working in Yosemite National Park in California and lost 40 pounds while there. My goal is to at the least keep it off, and at the most lose more. I also want to eat more vegetarian dishes. I was a vegetarian for 3 years and sometimes I miss it. I just got a wok for Christmas, and it's super fun to cook with. It'll be fun to keep track of this stuff along with other people =) Also, if anyone's interested in a Fitocracy account, I have 9 invites left. I never use it. Only registered after that one XKCD strip about it. But yeah, if you want an invite, just leave your email address here or message it to me. It seems pretty neat if you work out/are active consistently.
Another thing: I'm a pescetarian right now, and as soon as I ship off to college next year I plan on becoming a full-on vegetarian. So that's sort-of like a new year's resolution. Well, I have some legit asthma, so a 2 mile run would be a huge accomplishment for me. :derpe: I have a deep admiration for people who can achieve such things.
Surprisingly enough, one of the kids on my XC team, who is able to run a 5K in 18 minutes, also has asthma. Don't hold me to this but I'm assuming that the body just finds way around the whole asthma thing by making your heart pump blood more efficiently, making your arteries more elastic, and all sorts of other things. My point is, don't let your asthma hold you down, overcome it.
I've tried to get into weight lifting again, but I'd need a partner. It really doesn't bother me much and I only care for leg strength, typically. My flexibility and equilibrium are much more important to me than being overall fit. I tend to be a bit health conscious when it comes to what I eat. Too many bad things in a row (greasy foods, fast food, etc) makes me crave vegetables.
Yeah, I know kids on my school's Cross Country team who have asthma. A 2 mile run was, for me, overcoming my asthma. I used to be slow. Not just slow, but slow enough where my 5th Grade gym teacher yelled at me during a mile run, asking if she needed to get her car and come out there to pick me up. Upon which, you may be interested to know, I sprinted and finished in ten seconds (flat). I take every physical barrier my body gives me as a challenge. Everything I do has to be faster and stronger than yesterday. It's not that I let my asthma hold me down so much as it does limit me in some small ways. Now, when I run, I just let go. I don't think about breathing, and I just make myself go faster for longer. Okay, so my fastest mile time EVER is 7:00 minutes. That's not particularly fast, but I certainly intend on beating it. It's also five minutes faster than my middle school mile times (back then, my asthma was much much worse- I almost really hurt myself a couple of times). Now, I'm on par with most non-athletic kids that I have classes with. I have never run a distance longer than 2 miles, so I might not be able to tell you exactly when I would run out of juice, but it's probably somewhere just past there. Yeah, you can totally train your body to overcome asthma! But, I'm simply not an athlete. Well, thanks for saying that anyway. It got me thinking. There's NO WAY I'm going to give up. If I'm told to run 3 miles (about 4.8 kilometers, near the 5K point you talked about), then you better believe I'm going to try as hard as I can.
So recently I've ran a few races, here are my times. 2 mile- 13:11 and 12:44 (like half a minute off! Yeah!) 800 meter(4x8)(AKA The OhGodWhy Race)- 2:30 split, around 9:40 total (team score) You guys do anything recently? Edit: Just before my most recent 2 mile I had to take the biggest poo right beforehand, but had no time to do so. This is the essence of motivation.
THIS! This really inspired me to kick my diet change up a lot. I prefer carrots to kale in my veggie juice but the difference in me is night and day. I got into healthy, organic eating for more pressing reasons than a new year's resolution. I've always been sick-ish. Its never life-threatening but I never felt "good" or "well" especially when my chronic migraines and sinus attacks started. After years of unsuccessfully dealing with it, I decided to start taking better care of myself. So I started experimenting with cutting out certain foods: overly salty, sugary, and processed foods. I also cut out bread, nearly completely and in doing so, discovered I have a gluten intolerance (not full blow celiacs but still no bueno). And low and behold, not a single mirgane or sinus infection since, and gluten has been said to cause said problems. And since I started eating organic, my energy levels are through the roof. Now when I cheat an have the "bad stuff" I just feel like crap and am reminded why I changed my eating habits in the first place.
I recently just ran 2 miles in length, yesterday, to be exact. It was on a treadmill, too, and it was one of the more advanced ones. I did something our coaches here call a 'Dead Run', whereas you run at least 2 miles in total length, with a 3-minute break after each mile, and you must maintain a speed of 8.0 - 10.0. The incline was set to 2.0, as well. Believe me, it may have only taken me 7 minutes to run each mile, but I was pouring down sweat afterwards. My body felt like it was made out of lead afterwards, and I could hardly walk right. I guess that's why they call it the 'Dead Run', heh. After getting some cold water chugged down, I then did 30 pushups and 30 'Static' pushups. After I did those, I took a nice, relaxing shower, ate dinner at around 6:30 PM, and then fell asleep at around 8:30 PM at night, hehe.
