Ever try this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nTIquNMMw8...feature=related

Gooch, those pictures look awesome. I can't wait to be at that level.

Right now it is just a fun thing at the indoor gym near my house. Doing a mix of bouldering and Top Roping. On bouldering I can do the VB and V0 routes fairly well, V1 starts to give me some trouble, but I am sure with time I will start to be able to do the others. On the TR I can do the 5.7 and 5.8 fairly well. I have tried a few 5.9's but they too give me some trouble. Was talking to a friend of mine who has done some sport climbing in the past and we are just trying to get our strength up for it and then we will probably try to go outdoors and hit some sport routes. There are a few bouldering places near my house, so once Daylight Savings Time kicks in, I might start to go there after work to get in some quick sessions.

i'll post up some pics of the other places we go to this year

Where were those pics taken?

whistler, about 5 klicks from my house

Weighed in at 212.6 yesterday, so about 10 already gone.

I got rid of the shin splints just by getting new running shoes lol.

Last week went

Sunday-ran 6 miles with some major hills and starting to get in the running groove for spring
Monday- nothing, stayed up late so I slept.
Tuesday-Running late again, but did do pushups, crunchs and hyper bench.
Wed-2 mile fast run, again no time. I need to get to bed earlier.
Thursday-Bosu ab workout. I have to admit this is a great core exercise and not easy.
Friday- 5K run and pushed it pretty good, 30 minutes.
Saturday- Strong upper body workout, then cleaned the drive-way for snow for the 15th million time this winter.

Having watched the opening footage of that area on the Olympics last night, you can color me jealous. Awesome looking.

thanks brother, it really is a great place to live

i'm hella out of shape after the olympics, 14-16 hour work days, crappy carby food, redbull and boozy nights with no sleep, not even anything resembling excercise in there, gonna have to get to it tomorrow

what were you doing there?

i work at araxi at night, but during the olympics we were open for lunch too which meant a bunch of 10 am to 2 or 3 am shifts

gonna assume it's a restaurant or something.
poor you, get some rest dude.

gonna assume it's a restaurant or something.
poor you, get some rest dude.

http://araxi.com/

yeah watched the game on sunday with my daughter and then just lazed about the house, yesterday i did pretty much nothing but clean up and lay about, took about 12 naps, feel good today after a good nights sleep

yah the game was awesome. Well, I'm canadian so that's why.

link doesnt' work, it's ok tho, none here in Canada that i'm aware of

Watch Hell's Kitchen.

How goes the bet man? Did you fall off the wagon yet or are you getting down to your goal?

I have been keeping up with my running and I am really starting to like the rock climbing. It is just such a great workout and you don't even feel like you're working out. It's like you are a kid again and you have this huge jungle gym in front of you. I was there for two hours last night doing various Top Rope Routes and finished the last half hour with some bouldering. I am looking forward to getting out and doing some outdoor routes soon. A few friends and I are trying to plan a trip to Yosemite in May. Hopefully it all works out for us.

Sorry I forgot about this thread.

I have one week to go in the bet and I've already lost the 30 pounds. I have been good with working out everyday. I've gotten used to running every other day, and swimming on days I don't run. The bitch is the exercise bike. On days I swim I also do a little bit of situps, pushups, squats, and benchpress along with 30 min on the exercise bike. That thing kicks my ass. I push myself pretty hard on it.

For the most part I have been pretty good with the diet. About once every 2 weeks I get restless and eat a bunch of shit I shouldn't be eating. For instance last week I weighed in at 188.0 on Thursday and after a weekend of beer and french fries I weighed in today at 192. But this week I'll be fine and I should win the bet easily. I think for the most part I've kicked my eating problem, and I don't crave shitty food all the time anymore.

So right now I'm 192 down from 222 at the start of the bet in the middle of January. At the heaviest I was at 240 last summer. I feel great and I can actually fit into all my XL shirts from college now. Also, I'm not sweating so much all the time. The bet has been really good for me.

I'll post some before and after pics a little later.

Damn, good job! Now keep it up and don't gain it all back.

As far as running goes I ran 5 miles last Friday with some major hills and 8 sunday which is the longest run of my life. I felt like I could have done more but didn't push it. I'm hoping to do a half marathon next month. Oh and 6 miles in my finger shoes, 2 barefoot. I'm loving the barefoot thing now that the weather is warm enough and hope to keep building miles barefoot as my feet allow. Keeping up with the weight training as well.

I ran a half marathon this weekend.

Took me 2 hrs and 25 min which isnt a great time but i finished it. I entered it whimsically just to see if I could do it. Didn't train for it. I definitely will for the next one though.
I want to improve my time and also avoid the soreness that I'm experiencing now.

Awesome work!

This weekend we went out to do some sport climbing outside of Lone Pine (south of Bishop, CA) and I led a few 5.7's and some 5.8's. It was a totally different experience and I am hooked on it. It was the most fun I have had in a while. Good Times.

I have been excercising daily for 8 months now(push ups, sit ups, leg raises walking). For the last 2.5 months I have been weighifting also 3 times a week in addition. I kinda hit a wall and cant increase my weight or my reps and have been concidering supplements to give me a push. Any recomendations for a pre-wprkout supplement to give a extra push during my weightlifting? Anyone with any expiriences with NO Explode?

(CNN) -- Twinkies. Nutty bars. Powdered donuts.

For 10 weeks, Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University, ate one of these sugary cakelets every three hours, instead of meals. To add variety in his steady stream of Hostess and Little Debbie snacks, Haub munched on Doritos chips, sugary cereals and Oreos, too.

His premise: That in weight loss, pure calorie counting is what matters most -- not the nutritional value of the food.

The premise held up: On his "convenience store diet," he shed 27 pounds in two months.

For a class project, Haub limited himself to less than 1,800 calories a day. A man of Haub's pre-dieting size usually consumes about 2,600 calories daily. So he followed a basic principle of weight loss: He consumed significantly fewer calories than he burned.

His body mass index went from 28.8, considered overweight, to 24.9, which is normal. He now weighs 174 pounds.

But you might expect other indicators of health would have suffered. Not so.

Haub's "bad" cholesterol, or LDL, dropped 20 percent and his "good" cholesterol, or HDL, increased by 20 percent. He reduced the level of triglycerides, which are a form of fat, by 39 percent.

"That's where the head scratching comes," Haub said. "What does that mean? Does that mean I'm healthier? Or does it mean how we define health from a biology standpoint, that we're missing something?"

so anyways, I've got to lose 10 pounds by next thursday.

Why the fuck why?

Why?

I'm currently overweight according to my BMI at 5'8" 165 lbs. stupid thing doesn't account for MASSIVE GUNS so I have to get really skinny. 155 gets me decently below the threshold, so that's what I'm shooting for.

I didn't know you were so short.

knew this was coming.


I'm not short, I'm powerful. I can lift a hundred pounds right up over my head!