Health & Fitness Thread

[The Blue Elephant]

I love broccoli and brown rice as well.

Brown rice is soooo overated. We all agree that white rice is ***. Spoonful of white rice might as well be a spoon full of sugar. Brown rice is barely more healthy than white rice. Just a little bit more fiber and protein. The best carbs are veggies and beans. If beans weren't some cheap well known food people would think of it as some sort of exotic weight loss grain. Compare the fiber and protein that beans have with rice, whole wheat, oatmeal, sweet potatoes, quinoa, bulghur (many turks will know this), tef (ethopian grain). Beans beats them all.

 

[b_line]

I've just got too much on at the moment, working 6 days a week and usually too tired to go out after work. Having a home gym is really handy cos you can just pop in for 30 min. and you're done for the day and can just have a shower and relax.


No need to get dressed up and drive out in the cold, etc. I think convenience was my biggest barrier to exercise before I bit the bullet and got something set up at home.


I do love me some 5 on 5 though, I'm probably most similar to JJ Barea without the 3pt shot.

Isn't it summer down under?

 

[b_line]

Starting a training program tomorrow for a sprint triathlon. Not anything crazy, but 12 weeks of swimming, cycling and running. I have been eating better, and I am going to cut way down on sugars and carbs. Right now I am 5'11" 240. Gotta either get taller or skinnier. I hear it's pretty impossible to get taller at my age, so I gotta trim down.

 

[QuinSnydersHair]

Starting a training program tomorrow for a sprint triathlon. Not anything crazy, but 12 weeks of swimming, cycling and running. I have been eating better, and I am going to cut way down on sugars and carbs. Right now I am 5'11" 240. Gotta either get taller or skinnier. I hear it's pretty impossible to get taller at my age, so I gotta trim down.

Holy cow you're heavy for a triathlon. How much weight are you hoping to lose? I'm thinking at least 30 pounds.

 

[b_line]

Holy cow you're heavy for a triathlon. How much weight are you hoping to lose? I'm thinking at least 30 pounds.

I would love to get to about 195, but that is long term. 195 for me looks super skinny because I have a big build. It's not a full triathlon though, a sprint is just a half mile swim, 5k run and a 13 mile bike ride. Any of those things I am fine doing right now on their own, but I am hoping to get faster and feel fine putting all three together on race day.

 

[The Midnight]

Brown rice is soooo overated. We all agree that white rice is ***. Spoonful of white rice might as well be a spoon full of sugar. Brown rice is barely more healthy than white rice. Just a little bit more fiber and protein. The best carbs are veggies and beans. If beans weren't some cheap well known food people would think of it as some sort of exotic weight loss grain. Compare the fiber and protein that beans have with rice, whole wheat, oatmeal, sweet potatoes, quinoa, bulghur (many turks will know this), tef (ethopian grain). Beans beats them all.

Yeah ok but I'm Asian so I've gotta have rice...

 

[The Midnight]

Isn't it summer down under?

Yeah but before buying it I was also thinking about how useful it would be long term...

 

[The Midnight]

Starting a training program tomorrow for a sprint triathlon. Not anything crazy, but 12 weeks of swimming, cycling and running. I have been eating better, and I am going to cut way down on sugars and carbs. Right now I am 5'11" 240. Gotta either get taller or skinnier. I hear it's pretty impossible to get taller at my age, so I gotta trim down.

Good on you bro, all the best.


I'm 5'8" and was 165lbs (75kg) when I started eating right & exercise, now I'm 143lbs (65kg). I was 181lbs (82kg) when I was at my heaviest (working in an office, having food cooked for me, etc).


I Still have a bit of love handle / belly fat.. hopefully I can get that area toned up a bit.

 

[♪alt13]

Yeah ok but I'm Asian so I've gotta have rice...

The one thing I don't understand about Asians is that they can't pronounce the "L" sound yet half of them are named Lee.

Seriousry what's up with that?

 

[The Midnight]

The one thing I don't understand about Asians is that they can't pronounce the "L" sound yet half of them are named Lee.

Seriousry what's up with that?

b_line and Duckdodgers both speak Chinese so I think it's best to ask him....

 

[The Midnight]

What Martial Arts discipline were you born a master of?

Football (or what you guys call soccer).

 

[b_line]

Good on you bro, all the best.


I'm 5'8" and was 165lbs (75kg) when I started eating right & exercise, now I'm 143lbs (65kg). I was 181lbs (82kg) when I was at my heaviest (working in an office, having food cooked for me, etc).


I Still have a bit of love handle / belly fat.. hopefully I can get that area toned up a bit.

I have been thinking a lot lately about where I have felt the best in my weight ranges. I think everyone's body has an "ideal" weight where you feel best and are able to do the most activity. For me, it was always around 190 or so. In the past 10 years, I have spent time at weight ranges from 165 (I was working like 16 hour days living on like $180 usd per month in Asia) to my weight of about 200 when I was in university, to my current "dad" weight of 235-240. Definitely felt like underweight was as bad as overweight for me, as both of them leave me with less energy and drive for physical activity. I am ready to prioritize being healthy again though, and I am really excited about that.