Originally Posted by
jimnyc
I did see the thread and was too busy shaking my head to reply. Told excessively our entire lives that exercise is great for us, and now I find out it's gonna kill me. What a crazy world
Yup, got the return objectives set. Will lose weight on traveling as usual, and will have workouts for sure lifting crap and riding the machines. But then add in the crab, steak and alcohol and, well, you know what I mean. And quite easy to get relaxed. But I will eat differently as I'm used to it now - just hard to pass up the opportunity for crab I can't really get around here. But crab isn't too bad for you anyway. It's the steaks and alcohol!
No doubt the trainer likes a dummy like me, but I have been a member before here and I just know myself, that without as trainer I don't do half these exercises and not nearly as hard as I do. Been busting my butt for that hour session. If I knew I would do the same without this guy I would. But those have little choice but to end soon as my wife is back to hating me again.
I can certainly get rid of the belly side mini-rolls, but other than that no flab. Can also go lower a tad with the total body fat which is at around 22-23%. Gonna be tough for me to get much lower. I like the working out - but not THAT much.
I love crab legs. Not real fond of the rest of it. Steak too. I don't worry too much about that kind of food. It's the McDonald's, pizza and fast and convenient crap like that. Airport and airline food is worse than 1970s military chow hall stuff and has the nutritional value and taste of cardboard.
One thing about working out/doing athletics since the 1960s, and being in the military, I'm pretty self motivated. Used to have training partners when I was first learning to do free weights, but I finally learned enough to dump them. Going on independent duty for a bit where there was no base gym and had to work out on my own time was the final straw for working out with others. I never have used commercial gyms unless on leave. From what I see on the internet, I'm not missing much but drama.
Free pizza and doughnut days at Planet Fitness? And they let the slobs eat it all over the equipment. But no gallon jugs of water allowed (or heavy lifting because it intimidates people). It's like the Woke version of a gym. I digress
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