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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 8:10 pm    Post subject: Were you physically fit as a teenager? Reply with quote

i was extremely unfit as a child but since i was 12 ive been working on it.
I have rigorous training and i just came from the football kickoff meeting 20 minutes ago.
I definitely think i can make it as they do condition us

but i am still a little unfit.
i post my stats and condition here all the time so i dont need to now
but i am somewhat uncoordinated and cant catch
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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 8:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was very physically fit as a child and teenager. Now, in my 40's I'm fat.
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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 8:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There are different kinds of fit. I was very small in High School but could whack the living hell out of a tennis ball and played all four years on the varsity. It's a great memory but I was far too small (much to my frustration) to compete in some of the more popular sports like football, basketball and baseball. It wasn't that I lacked skills, I just lacked physical maturity at that age. It eventually came along during my college years and I grew into a solid 6'00, 200-pound frame.

I've read some of your posts, muslimmetalhead, and admire your commitment to improving yourself physically, but I would also add that you can't fight nature. If your body doesn't want to be big yet, don't obsess about it. Genetics counts at least as much - if not more - than the amount of time you spend in the gym.
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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 8:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had excellent endurance, but was husky being my body doesn't allow me to get thin no matter what I do.

And for the people who say it's all diet and exercise, you're idiots. Period.
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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 8:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was husky during my teenage years through highschool. I was over 200 pounds during that time, and now I actually trimmed down abit to 185 pounds. Most of that weight loss was watching what I eat, and getting some exercise now and then.
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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 8:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was fit.
More like a cheetah though, not for endurance.

Have you tried hemispheric-integration type exercises for improving the motor skills?
I always enjoyed the few I did, and they probably helped too.
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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 9:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wasn't so much physically fit but I was extremely skinny and flat chested. I was a late bloomer. I was also very uncoordinated.

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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 9:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was obese throughout my teen years.
Overweight from birth, and then I reached 215 or so a couple years ago.
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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 9:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

CaptainTrips222 wrote:
I had excellent endurance, but was husky being my body doesn't allow me to get thin no matter what I do.

And for the people who say it's all diet and exercise, you're idiots. Period.


+ 1 million

Some people have abysmal metabolisms.
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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 9:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nope, not at all really. I was reasonably physically fit as a child, but uncoordinated and lacking upper body strength. As a child, my dad gave me vitamins, 90% natural/organic food, usually cooked from scratch, and I'd play outside all day. After my parents divorced, my mom didn't know how to cook and bought only processed food, and coincidentally during that time, I didn't have my big yard in the middle of nowhere I used to have as a kid, my mom had less money to send me to try out sports (I did do a hockey program for a couple weeks in like 6th grade, last sport I really tried) and I had to quit judo class due to lack of money, too. So as a teenager, a really crappy diet, plus lack of money for pursuing sports, and me getting really involved in anime/video games/etc, meant terribly out of shape. At 5'7, I was like 200lbs, and then I gained some height, and my highest weight was probably like 18-19 at 230 and 5'9.

After I started ice skating (which is super cardio intensive especially when you first start and have terrible strength and technique), I dieted and got myself down to 180, now I'm at 195 from a combo of weightlifting and eating, and I'm pretty happy with the amount of muscle I have, and don't think I've gained much if any bodyfat, but now I got a "weightlifter gut" but I'm happy I can now see the muscles in my arms, though. My genetics seems to be sorta weird, long arms, small torso/not wide shoulders, then tree trunk legs. I can only bench like, I'm guessing 135 on a flat, I can do 125 incline, which sucks, but meh. My first time squatting, I managed to do 225 to "parallel" which may or may not have been that low, but still, it was more than what the guy showing me could do, and I felt pretty sweet. Also my first time deadlifting, after a month or two of squatting, I pulled like 265 at 180something bodyweight.

Anyway, yeah, that's how physically fit I was as a teen, and now. But yeah, as a teen, pretty crap, I knew people who were like 300lbs and worse than me, but really, I wasn't good at all.
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PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2012 10:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

being something like dyslexic, i couldn't play sports with balls, so i marched in the band and competitive swam. i was in good shape. jogged for a number of years after that. now i just walk and not enough.
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PostPosted: Sat May 19, 2012 12:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

As a teen I had no choice but to be in good shape. I was on the wrestling team played fooball ect now I recently started working out again but I am a lil sore from working out to much.
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PostPosted: Sat May 19, 2012 12:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wasn't in shape in high school, but then I got a hard manual labor job, and I transformed into a lean machine. It surprised me so much that I was disappointed I didn't give sports a try in HS.

I'm not such the lean machine now, but I'm working myself down, and it's slow, and I think that's how it should be, if you want more permanent results.
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PostPosted: Sat May 19, 2012 9:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm still in my teens now, but not really an adolescent. Growing up I've never been the fittest of people. I'm more comfortable with long drawn out periods of light exercise like hiking and swimming. I'm not great at the harder stuff, I'm just really weak and lame! I also have no coordination so sport is out of the question. And I'm quite sedantry by nature and sleep a lot, I don't see myself having a ripped wonder woman body any time soon. Laughing Ah well as long as I can keep slim and healthy I'm OK.
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PostPosted: Sat May 19, 2012 9:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

CaptainTrips222 wrote:
I had excellent endurance, but was husky being my body doesn't allow me to get thin no matter what I do.

And for the people who say it's all diet and exercise, you're idiots. Period.


For a 75 kg man, 1700 calories aloe are used to maintain body temperature. Nobody's bodytype gravitates toward more fat than the upper-end of the ideal body fat percentage (which means 22% in men).

I have a slow metabolism; I still managed to cut down to 7% body fat last autumn.

http://healthmeup.com/photogallery-diet-fitness/stop-believing-these-metabolism-myths/5923
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