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Royal Marine PTI told me to and he wasn't the sort of person to say no too!
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How come?Was a fat bassa at 18 and a half stone. Started boxing and within just over a year was boxing at 11 stone. Had to pack in boxing competitively and needed something else to compete in, so I persued my interest in the sport of powerlifting.
I was pretty overweight and had a few attempts at getting into going to the gym without really having any idea what I was doing at the time. Then started watching the Tour de France one year, and I suppose I identified with the combination of body dysmorphia, acute self-loathing and rampant egotism that is prevalent in that sport, so took up cycling in conjunction with going back to the gym to get strong and lose weight, whilst learning about weightlifting, elite performance cycling and nutrition, subsequently losing around three stone, over 20% bodyfat and increasing my strength exponentially from where I started through the training I was doing, even though I weighed far less. I started to enjoy the athletic and competitive sides of fitness training, and it was also a good morale booster getting hit on by women all of the time.Was just reading about male body image problems and how it's a massive problem among lads around my age, perhaps even bigger than for women but it goes unnoticed because 'boys aren't supposed to admit things like that'.
Got me thinking about why I really started training. I'd always thought it wasn't to do with self-esteem issues, I actually started because I wanted to put on some weight for Rugby but then fell in love with powerlifting as a discipline. However, I do feel a lot more confident in myself now so maybe I did have some underlying issues that made me start picking up barbells? I definitely used to feel like I was quite thin, even though I was an average, healthy weight and quite athletic.
Just wondering what got other people into it? Something to pass the time? Mates were doing it? Or did anyone feel really unhappy with how they looked?
Try Walking when your legs get that buckling feeling and you will find that the distance you can go before starting to walk will increase over time. Kep it up remember any exercise is good exercise.Do you just do running? Running is what I'm finding the hardest to do, I can only manage a few minutes before my legs start buckling but I put that down to my weight, it'd be like balancing a bowling ball on a cocktail stick.
I'm able to run for 30+ minutes at a time now without feeling pain, helped by building strength along with using comfortable shoes.Try Walking when your legs get that buckling feeling and you will find that the distance you can go before starting to walk will increase over time. Kep it up remember any exercise is good exercise.
I'm able to run for 30+ minutes at a time now without feeling pain, helped by building strength along with using comfortable shoes.
It's took a lot to get where I'm at right now. I started by doing small sprints to build my stamina, then once I struggled for breathe less and less I reduced the speed so I'm now at a lower heart rate and burning fat but will still do short sprints to give the heart a bit of a scare.There's nothing I love more than showing the 'Oh but you're unfit, what about cardio?' (which includes some friends of mine) brigade up by beating them over distances of say 3k or 5k.
Then asking them 'Fancy trying over 100m as well?'
In no way do I reckon I'd beat someone who seriously trains for it over those distances, but my mates who do park run on a saturday and maybe one or two more sessions a week and expect to be super fit are a bit daft!