anto's Journal: Squash

Well I seem to just pile my addictions on top of each other.

For everyone who have the good fortune of not knowing me I'll give a small amount of background info..
A while ago (quite a few years ago) I decided that I could afford to get (a little) more into shape. So like millions of other idiots around the world I joined a gym. I showed up did their fun fun fun tests (I'm lying about the fun part) got a program and started showing up about 3 times a week.

Then someone at the office was starting to do some aerobics classes at lunchtime and wanted someone to go along.. Being more than a tad stupid I decided that how much pain can a few girly aerobics classes cause.. (the answer is quite a lot :)

So now I'm doing about 6 hours at week at the gym...

And then my little brother broke himself playing rugby (in a really impressive way) so he started coming along to the gym to assist his physio. So we upped the number of times we do weights.

Then just recently a friend of mine decided that wouldn't it be *fun* (yes there is that word again) to have a nice friendly game of squash. I though - what a fun way to spend an hour on the weekend - and answered 'yes lets do that'...

Before I know it we are playing between 2-4 hours of squash a week, and its starting to get hard. My poor body is racked with pain most of the time. I know the logical answer is to cut down on something - but the hard bit is selecting which bit.. I like all of it...

However squash is quite a fun game - easy to pick up while providing enough of a challenge to keep you interested, its also quite good if you have a sadistic streak (not that *I* do mind you) as there is not much more fun than making your partner run all over the court running into things :)

be careful!

[Em Emalb]

Seriously.

While I was on board a navy ship, we didn't have a lot of stuff to do after setting up our communications room, other than 1 10hr watch a day. Anyhow, this left me plenty of time to work out.

I worked out too much. I was eating 6 full meals a day and still losing weight. I went from 5'11" - 180lbs to 5'11" 140. I was strong as a bull, but light as a feather. It sucked. So, I toned it down, gained back the weight and now am comfortable again. Of course, I was working out around 4 hours a day then. Now I work out 3 times a week and play racquetball and tennis once a week each. Fun fun.

Also, pay attention to your body. (Duh, right) give it atleast 1 day a week of you doing nothing stressful to it. Otherwise, it will continue to break down and won't heal.

later

Re:be careful! - Jeepers

[anto]

Being paid to work out locked up away from all the places you can hang around being slack. Sounds like the ideal way to loose weight and tone up :) Although 4 hours a day would get to me pretty quickly...

Currently I use fridays as my hang around slack day (or at least night) but my workout schedule changes pretty rapidly in response to either a) my body telling me to dammwell stop-it or b) me being so slack. The only problem is that if I *always* listended to my body I would possibly never get out of bed in the mornings..

Its coming into summer now So I get the bonus of eating better without much effort - the winter diet gets a little restrictive as all the nice fresh fruit & vegies vanish..