What do you do to keep fit?

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I'm not really a fit person but I play badminton once a week and sometimes tennis in school. (I'm getting slightly better and better each week in badminton :)). In the first term of my school year, I played basketball. It's kinda fun with your friends but I'm not really good at basketball :p
 
I've done sports such as track, soccer, and cross country every year since middle school.
I attend a gym, and still play soccer occasionally with my neighborhood friends.

However, thanks to my cubing workout, my index finger has sooooo much muscle tone for reallz. x)
 
Yeah? Well my thumbs are toned from playing DS all the time, and my ring, middle, and pointer fingers are toned from playing TF2! HAH! BEAT THAT MR. WEAKFINGERS! (what did I just do? D: )
 
Yeah? Well my thumbs are toned from playing DS all the time, and my ring, middle, and pointer fingers are toned from playing TF2! HAH! BEAT THAT MR. WEAKFINGERS! (what did I just do? D:)

WELL ALL OF MY FINGERS ARE SUPER STRONG FROM...uhhhhhh.... doing...something.....ummm... never mind. :o
 
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Honestly, not much at all.
I walk dogs every day, early in the morning, and that turns out to about 40+mins/day, I play some basketball, and I lift. Boxes. Lots of heavy boxes that my dad and I get from auctions.

I've never been really interested in sports and have mad allergies, so I pretty much stay indoors, where I facebook chat, watch youtube videos, check e-mail, and play some games.
 
I stairstep (while cubing, of course), 40 minutes each time, 3 times a week. I also lift weights 3 times a week.

Before cubing, I would juggle while stairstepping. Now I'm probably not quite as fit. I still juggle instead occasionally; I'm always really worn out after that.
 
Funny you should mention that now since i literally just got back from joining a gym.
I used to run a lot, and i was pretty good at racquet sports like badminton, squash & racquetball (EDIT: and table tennis too). Wasn't that fussed with tennis though. Used to play quite a bit of football, but I'm s**te.
Notice the frequent use of past tense and you'll know why I joined the gym :P

Guitar gave me very well toned forearms though ;)

Out of curiosity, how did/do people do in the 'Bleep Test'? I think I was around 13-14 a couple of years ago. Right now I'd probably find it hard to break 10...
 
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Yeah? Well my thumbs are toned from playing DS all the time, and my ring, middle, and pointer fingers are toned from playing TF2! HAH! BEAT THAT MR. WEAKFINGERS! (what did I just do? D:)

WELL ALL OF MY FINGERS ARE SUPER STRONG FROM...uhhhhhh.... doing...something.....ummm... never mind. :o

Not much movement, so how would anything be super strong? o.O
 
I swim. It really sucks. It's like running but you can't breathe. Your lung capacity gets huge though.
I also lift weights. That and swimming don't really go hand-in-hand. Lifting weights builds bulk when swimming requires lean muscle. Swimming makes you too sore to lift and lifting makes you too fatigued to swim. I should probably find something else.
 
WELL ALL OF MY FINGERS ARE SUPER STRONG FROM...uhhhhhh.... doing...something.....ummm... never mind. :o


that would be your forearms, kid. :p
Speaking of which, a little story from Physics class:
My teacher had a bunch of slinkies, and told everyone to pair up.
After giving each pair a slinky, he instructed us to see who could get the smallest period, so there were like 5 crests/troughs throughout the slinky, and then he commented about how guys usually did 2/3x as well as the girls...then all the guys were like..."uhhhh...." :p
 
Since school I did really less sports until this year february when I had heartache (also because of stress, unhealthy food etc.). Since then I play Bowling every Saturday (~2 hours), table tennis in a team on 2 weekdays (in total ~5 hours) and I do push ups every day (300 in average, there are days when I did around 700). I'm really fit at the moment and I feel good =)
 

I do this workout exactly, only instead of the second workout where you swing the dumbbell I do 15 one armed military presses with a 30 lb. kettle bell for each arm. I hold 30 lbs. of weight for the jump squats and 16 pounds for the split squat jumps. I do use resistance bands on the elevated pushups like he does in the video. I also am trying to train myself to do one armed pushups. Right now I can do 30 one armed push ups off my kitchen counter, and I am working down to being able to do them on a coffee table. After that I will try the floor.

I don't look like the guy in the video, but I hope to one day be that toned. I used to do the workout 5 times a week for about 4 months, now I am down to 3 times a week, and trying to stop being lazy and get myself back to 5 times a week.

Chris
 
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I'm so out of shape, but I ice skate, run, and work out. I love sports and physical activities, but I don't have the time for it.

EDIT: I just watched that video. It's quite an intensive routine. However I noticed it lacked several muscle groups, particularly anything good for the shoulders and neck.
 
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I'm a bum. I don't really do much. But I do run a 3 mile loop around some streets every weekday. Unfortunately, I don't go too fast, since I'm not really a long-distance runner (that's why I'm doing it). I like med distance (like 1 mile, etc) much better. You gotta be really fast, but also have good endurance.

I did swimming during school (wayy back when, like in the winter and spring).

At least I can say that I'm not as out of shape as some other kids at my school (that's my mentality, comparing myself with other kids-that's how I stay alive).

I'm not too much of a fan of sports like baseball or football, because I just don't like them. I like the really physically taxing ones (running, swimming, etc).
 
i go to gym about three times a week. I do squats (90kg), deadlifts (90kg) and bench press (75-80kg). I also do swimming a few times a week. I play golf and i use my powerball daily for about an hour!

i cant believe after all this im still so heavy! :(

p.s. i do the powerball becuase my trainer said i can lift well over 100kg in the bench if i strengthen my forearms and wrists and i also use it to help cubeing (wishful thinking!)
 
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