how many PE'ers workout?

[canadianpizza]

I was just wondering it's kinda cool how everyone gathers to this forum to improve themselves - and since everyone who comes here seems to have the mentality of wanting to work hard to better themselves, i'm wondering how many of us also workout our bodies in the gym

just purely out of curiosity =/

[G-Spot19]

YEs for me. I find being in good shape to be as important if not more so.

[Tiger_Penis]

I try to run at least a mile everyday. I am really fat so I can only do about a 8:30 minute mile. I want to shave at least 30 seconds off that.

[G-Spot19]

Thats actually a good mile time I think. MAny can't do it that fast.

[w3]

Count me in.
I do work out, but pretty much only at home, and with my own weight.
I also do bicept curls with weights of course, but that's pretty much the only extra weight I use.
Oh yeah, I also box with weights, 5kg each arm.

And I run occasionally, been a bit lazy for a couple of months, I've only ran once or twice a week lately.
I used to do it daily, but there's a lot of shit going on right now so I can't fit it in anymore.

[Codzilla]

I dont, but i voted yes since i will be starting a workout routine from June 2nd.

[Crimson]

I usually workout everyday, it's become a ritual almost and if I don't workout I tend to feel a little less than great. I usually workout first thing in the morning, around 0430. I want to be muscular all over. :lol:

[wayoutwest]

0430?!

Man, I'm still awake from the previous day at that time! Well, sometimes. My typical sleeping hours are 4am-10am (I'm a student, and I work better at night...).

I work out about three times per week, but they're hard sessions. I wouldn't want to work out more often else I wouldn't heal and grow. It's exam season at the moment so I don't have as much time for cardio as I'd like, but I'm keeping the weights going. I'm 6'8" and fairly stacked. I can't seem to bulk out my calves though - they can take a lot of weight, but because my legs are so long they look pretty small :(

[canadianpizza]

ive been working out regularly too, recently had a knee/ankle injury from tennis and have been out of the gym for over a month - and off the court.. driving me crazy, feels like im turning into mush
at least i can p.e lol

[canadianpizza]

Count me in.
I do work out, but pretty much only at home, and with my own weight.
I also do bicept curls with weights of course, but that's pretty much the only extra weight I use.
Oh yeah, I also box with weights, 5kg each arm.

And I run occasionally, been a bit lazy for a couple of months, I've only ran once or twice a week lately.
I used to do it daily, but there's a lot of shit going on right now so I can't fit it in anymore.

hey i've been thinking of taking up boxing too and i wanted to build my back so i thought bout using wrist weights. i'm kinda worried that if i put them on my wrists, it'll mess up my shoulder joint. where do u strap them? onto ur bicep? wrists?

[w3]

canadianpizza, I strap them on my wrists.
I also do rotator cuff training.
I would recommend only starting without weights, just hit a bag without weights, and then move on to .5kg per arm and start moving up slowly.
Your shoulder should be able to take it that way.

[Crimson]

Yeah I wake up usually around 0400, then take some BCAAs and such and then workout at 0430. The reason I started working out that early, was because I didn't like working out after work. Somehow I always seemed to wakeup at 0345, so I just adjust my schedule so that I would go to sleep earlier and wakeup earlier. Works for me, all my workouts tend to be different, I've been working out like this for nearly 6 months so.

[Rekal]

6 days a week, 1.5 to 2.5 hours at the gym.
if i don't get close to throwing up or passing out a couple times, it wasn't a good day.
i wear headphones not so much to deflect the shitty gym music as to divert random dipshits from asking me questions. what do you eat, what supplements do you take, what workout are you doing...

then i come home and PE usually =P
adds up to about 3 to 3.5 hours a day of physical self improvement. hate it and love it :?

[Tiger_Penis]

Thats one hell of a workout Rekal. I am not sure it is safe but what do I know I am not a doctor. Knock yourself out, I don't give a shit.

I lift a little, mostly I work on my core. I am not looking to get a six back so much as meet military standards for sit up and push-ups. I also run. My fastest time in the mile is about 8:31. I need to shave half a minute off of that and I should be golden.

[G-Spot19]

To those of you who work out, i would like to point you the new Bodybuilding section ZW has been long at work implementing. This place will be body building central. I think i will move this thread there now. Expect a good amount of info and stickies in no time! Enjoy and thank ZW for his hard work!

[wayoutwest]

Tiger, I've always thought military standars for sit-ups and push-ups were not that high. The running is pretty tricky (at least, I would find it difficult to get 100 in the APFT).

e.g. for press-ups (push-ups) in 2 minutes...

Age 16-21: 42 to pass basic training, 71 for 99th percentile.
Age 22-26: 40 to pass basic training, 75 for 99th percentile.
Age 27-31: 39 to pass basic training, 76 for 99th percentile.
Age 32-36: 36 to pass basic training, 75 for 99th percentile.

According to that, I'm in the 99th percentile which I find hard to believe since I'm not a fitness freak by any means - I just regularly work out.


The one exercise that always confuses me is the sit-up. I'm not trying to brag here but I've always, ever since I was young and we did them in P.E. (gym) classes, found them easy to the extent that they feel pointless. I could honestly do them for 30 minutes without a break. They just don't seem to wear anything out when I do them. I have a friend that can do 120 consecutive push-ups, but he's only 5'7" so I call that cheating :p

[Rekal]

man i wish i could still run miles outdoors...but my stupid knees always sucked. my mile now is about 7 min. back in highschool it was maybe half a min less.
now i'm just an elliptical machine junkie =/ hah

[wern]

I have a friend that can do 120 consecutive push-ups, but he's only 5'7" so I call that cheating :p

I don't see how height has anything to do with ability to perform pushups. Pushup difficulty depends on weight as well as tricep, pectoral and abdominal muscle strength as far as I know:?.

[Rum_Runner]

I love working out. It has become my one constant, without it I am a S.O.B. to everyone and everyone. Over the years my body has been breaking down usually by me making a dumb mistake or over doing a workout or running to far or for to long.

I have been trying to workout smarter as of recently. Putting extreme amounts of effort into a little amount of time. It seems to be working for me. It keeps my heart rate up and time at the gym to a minimum.

I am hoping to lose about thirty pounds that I have been losing and gaining since I have been married. It comes and goes as I "diet" I mean eating well and with purpose. I know we all try to stay within limits with are eating and training and I know most of us fail at some point. I have been on the failing side of for a while now. However I am hopeful that with the recent events in my life will keep me on the right path towards a healthier lifestyle as well as a more fulfilling one.

Enough typing I got work to do, weight to throw around and some serious jelqing too.

[wayoutwest]

I don't see how height has anything to do with ability to perform pushups. Pushup difficulty depends on weight as well as tricep, pectoral and abdominal muscle strength as far as I know:?.
It has EVERYTHING to do with height! If you put the same muscle mass on a tall person and a short person, then the tall person will appear weaker in many strength exercises. It's just basic mechanics - imagine you're doing a bicep curl right now. Now imagine your forearm was twice as long. It would be harder to lift the weight, right? It's the same principal as a spanner - you get a greater turning force the further you are from the pivot.

It's the same when you're doing a push-up - it's mechanically easier for a short person to push themselves off the ground. A short person also has less distance to move through when they do a push-up. Imagine your arms were twice as long as they are now - you'd have to push-up twice as far!

There is a big 'however' though. For some exercises, it's much better to be tall. Rowing is a prime example. I'm 6'8", and even if I just row gently, a short guy has to be rowing like a demon to keep up with me because my stroke length is so long.

There is another 'however'. I started by saying 'if you have the same muscle mass'. Tall people typically have a bigger muscle mass and even if it's not in proportion to their height, there's still more muscle on their body.

Hope that explains it.

[goleveling]

Well, son, I'll tell you:Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. I spam on CC, sites in which none will care. So I envy you, for i was knocked down from the stairs clear as glass: Rolling, rolling to the bottom with a banning stick rammed up my ass.

[G-Spot19]

Now that is poetry :mrgreen

[RagingWaters]

I don't know if someone noticed that this poll is not well targeted, since most PE'ers that enter this thread also entered the bodybuilding subforum, and if they entered the bodybuilding subforum, they were interested on bodybuilding, in which case they would be actual or former bodybuilders already. (Me vote yes, for example)

[Wildcat78]

I think things like PE, weightlifting and other self improvement activities just have a certain appeal to people with mind-sets like we all seem to have. On top of physical improvements, I'm really into mental, perceptual and personality self-improvement. I have a mentality where no matter how good I get, I always want, and try to get better. By our age (early-mid 20s) most people have consigned themselves to being as developed as they ever will, and accept who they are rolling with what they have from then on. I can't think that way, I love who I am as a person, as far as my morals, judgment, character, and the framework of my personality, but I'm always trying to better myself. I do everything the hard way first. That way the hard way is that much easier, and the easy way is nothing at all. My mind, too, is always moving, always firing, always finding things about myself I want to work on, culling parts of myself that I no longer want or need. Its a tiring way to live, but I feel better in the long run, as I'm sure most of you do. You can all agree that theres nothing like the feeling you get after a workout where you know you've pushed your body to its limits and beyond, and soon those limits will get smaller and smaller, until you have no limits left...

[kim]

wow, apparently most of us here in PE also workout regularly! looking good outside and looking good down there seems to be a great deal for everyone. :cool

I was into body building first before PE, but before body building I was already into sports.

[G-Spot19]

We all understand that we need to look good too to even get to use our improved tools. It helps to have a body to attract the women to us to begin with.

[wern]

It has EVERYTHING to do with height! If you put the same muscle mass on a tall person and a short person, then the tall person will appear weaker in many strength exercises. It's just basic mechanics - imagine you're doing a bicep curl right now. Now imagine your forearm was twice as long. It would be harder to lift the weight, right? It's the same principal as a spanner - you get a greater turning force the further you are from the pivot.

It's the same when you're doing a push-up - it's mechanically easier for a short person to push themselves off the ground. A short person also has less distance to move through when they do a push-up. Imagine your arms were twice as long as they are now - you'd have to push-up twice as far!

There is a big 'however' though. For some exercises, it's much better to be tall. Rowing is a prime example. I'm 6'8", and even if I just row gently, a short guy has to be rowing like a demon to keep up with me because my stroke length is so long.

There is another 'however'. I started by saying 'if you have the same muscle mass'. Tall people typically have a bigger muscle mass and even if it's not in proportion to their height, there's still more muscle on their body.

Hope that explains it.

What I meant to say was that height isn't the deciding factor in your ability to do pushups. Your tricep strength as well as your body weight comes into play as well.

[Frenchcock]

Yeah I do workouts but I'm the laziest man on Earth so I'm not very consistent.

[fosho]

6 days a week, 1.5 to 2.5 hours at the gym.
if i don't get close to throwing up or passing out a couple times, it wasn't a good day.
i wear headphones not so much to deflect the shitty gym music as to divert random dipshits from asking me questions. what do you eat, what supplements do you take, what workout are you doing...

then i come home and PE usually =P
adds up to about 3 to 3.5 hours a day of physical self improvement. hate it and love it :?

That's awesome dude! Random dipshit diversion!! Hahaha
Feel the same way about them - I work out every day of the week on a cycle that repeats itself every 6 days - so every third day of the cycle is a rest day where I'm not doing any lifting but I'm at the gym every day of the week (doing cardio on rest days).PE every other day.
I had to change my routine up so I was never 'predictable', because there are always random ASSholes standing around at the same place at the same time with their frikken towels and cellphones that think it's ok to come and talk to me while I'm busy, just because they see me often enough. I take my training seriously - I'm not there to make friends - especially not with ASSholes!!
(Not that I'm being a dick, but shit man! If they were genuinely interested in what they were doing there, they'd have more of an idea of what and how to do it?? Know what I mean?!!)
I understand the hate it and love it point of view man! Keep it up! The pain in "No pain, no gain" - doesn't only refer to the physical pain. Peace bro

[Apollo]

That's awesome dude! Random dipshit diversion!! Hahaha
Feel the same way about them - I work out every day of the week on a cycle that repeats itself every 6 days - so every third day of the cycle is a rest day where I'm not doing any lifting but I'm at the gym every day of the week (doing cardio on rest days).PE every other day.
I had to change my routine up so I was never 'predictable', because there are always random ASSholes standing around at the same place at the same time with their frikken towels and cellphones that think it's ok to come and talk to me while I'm busy, just because they see me often enough. I take my training seriously - I'm not there to make friends - especially not with ASSholes!!
(Not that I'm being a dick, but shit man! If they were genuinely interested in what they were doing there, they'd have more of an idea of what and how to do it?? Know what I mean?!!)
I understand the hate it and love it point of view man! Keep it up! The pain in "No pain, no gain" - doesn't only refer to the physical pain. Peace bro

fosho :cheeky::cheeky::cheeky:

[Alt_tude]

Yes for me, in reply to the ongoing poll... I workout 6 times a week! =)