Joined a gym

Corrected.

But it is also tiring, for the first few goes and then it's suddenly a lot easier.

I find that with the increased fitness that I now enjoy, it's easier to get up in the morning. In fact most things are easier.

Corrected.

Boring too IMO, so I've taken to cycling again. Get an audiobook on (been listening to the Wilt books by Tom Sharpe) and just pedal. Do

12-15 miles every night now. Got down to 10 miles in 35 mins, about 9 mins slower than I want to be. I want to beat my grandad's record from when he was time trialling at the age of 66. S

Mike P

I started walking up small hills with reasonable regularity in the last few months.

I'm not in any danger of winning any body building competitions but it has made me feel a lot better recently. Which is pretty cool as I wasn't actually very feeling fat/depressed/tired.

I don't follow the structure of that last sentence.

Can't argue with you there; I've lost *six* stone now (!) and I feel great. But I reckon it's now the time to increase my overall fitness level.

Shame I can't really do much on the weights, I'm waiting for a hernia op so I'm not allowed to do certain stuff.

The archery, while a very static exercise actually does a lot for posture/tone/stamina at least for the back/upper body.

And it is very relaxing because you need to clear your mind to shoot well.

Heh. I could use the excuse that I got up at 4am yesterday, went to work for 0530, did my shift, got on a plane, went to an island for about lunchtime, got in a van, drove to the Ferry terminal for 7pm, got off the ferry at 7am this morning when it docked then went to work this morning so I have been busy and feel great but am tired.

But I won't use that excuse. I just can't type.

(c:

But its worth of for the eye candy whilst you go flying off the tredmill :)

Scrap the gym and join a boxing club its more fun getting knocked on your backside :)

That's supposed to be the easy bit.

Looks like I'm going to have join one too.

I swim 3 times a week at local 25m pool about 4 miles away. I do 1 hour non stop and expect to do about 80-96 lengths. I pay about £40 for a book of 16 tickets and parking is refunded. Exercise lane is set

1 1/2 lanes wide meaning overtaking is possible.

They are closing it for refurbishment in October for 9 months. The changing rooms are truly dire, the soil pipes of the toilets for the bar/function room upstairs hang out of the cast concrete ceiling.

The choice of 25m pools are. 8 miles to over hot miners pit bath, 12 miles to pool with utterly useless times like lane swimming at 9-10pm,

12.5 miles to slightly warm one end cold other but clean pool, about same to a city centre pool. Since they now all have kids under 16 and over 60's for free, they are all full and the only way to swim for exercise is to do laned swimming. The times they have exercise lanes set up is useless and they don't make the lanes wide enough - just one lane wide means it's follow my leader, the leader being the slowest person in the pool.

There is a 33m pool 1 mile from work but that only has laned swimming at 7pm on Wed and 8am on Sunday or I have to become unemployed to do

1:30pm - 3pm sessions.

Nearest 50m pool is 24.5miles away at a University.

2 local gym's have 20m pools, I have a feeling they are too short. I suppose I'll just have to stop pushing off at ends. £40ish/month cost includes parking. Clearly there's scope for 1 or 2 1/2hr gym sessions doing lats, biceps, triceps, knee curls etc.

Move over there and you can have a whole ocean to swim in. : )

Fraser

If "there" is your "here", the added encouragement of sharks chasing you to get you even fitter :-)

We should start a ukrc.mods weight loss league table. SteveH could come back and ask how the fatfighters have done this week ;).

My commute is a 15 mile round-trip by bike. The nearby pubs are s**te, the best one the other side of where I work, so about 9 miles from home. SWMBO and I now think nothing of doing that 18 mile round-trip ride for an evening meal/pissup these days, it's wonderful. Actually, due to the weaving on the way home it's probably more like a 25 mile round-trip :)

Did the London to Brighton in June. I made it up Ditchling Beacon without stopping, despite my bike trying its best to throw me off into the bushes every time the chain skipped a cog (I knew I should've replaced the chain and sprockets!)

-snip how s**te local pools are-

Man! Sounds easier to build your own backyard pool!

Not well.

I peaked at 13st 36" waist, got down to 11st and nearly 30", BMI 24. Then I went on a med cruise, scoffed my way from Barcelona to Venice, via, Monaco, Pisa, failed to dock for Rome so spent day at sea, Pompeii, day at sea, Mykonos, Istanbul, Ephesus, Athens, day at sea, Venice. Put on 9lbs.

Been stuck at 159lbs for last 3 weeks.

To be fair, he was a professional boxer...