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This is the workout thread. Post your recent workout accomplishments, or what you've been doing lately to stay fit! Also, feel free to share how out of shape you are if you want.
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- Go to PSN
- Look up Cho Aniki
- Buy Cho Aniki
- Play for 1 hour sessions everyday
Before long your manliness with go through the roof! XD
Wait, are we supposed to give reps or something? Because my workouts generally are the sort where I do an assigned workout until someone tells me to stop and do something else.
I walk tons and I do a lot of manual labour so it evens out I guess. I'd never ever ever run 13 miles, ever.
*dies*
I do Yong Mu Do, which is what Hap Ki Do became in the US. And for our workouts...we basically do whatever the don in charge for the day wants. Usually starts out with running (forwards, backwards, sideways, suicides), then gravitates to shrimping/inverse shrimping, bear crawls, this weird shimmying thing that I can barely do, long jumps, light ground work, stretch kicks, falls, rolls, stairs, pushups/situps, yoga, or any other exercise that they come up with on the spot. Usually this takes the first ten to thirty minutes and the rest goes to technique.
And yes, it's the best workout ever. When I tried gym-ing, I found that I very quickly got used to the exercises I was doing and could increase them substantially without getting much of a gain. I find that with someone else randomizing it, my body never has the chance to adjust to any of the workouts, so they always have an effect. There's also the fact that I really do need an external motivating factor to get a workout done. Looking back at the time before I started exercising, I was a sad, scrawny weakling because when I don't exercise, I don't really eat either.
Sounds pretty similar, though we only have one instructor who plans all of the sessions, so it's a bit more structured. It is indeed an excellent workout -- even after building it up over many sessions, each time still provides new and interesting ways to render me unable to walk properly for a day afterwards.
Yeah, my school is...at my university. And we have more black belts than you could shake a stick at, though honestly, I wouldn't want to shake a stick at any of them in the first place. But yeah there's about twenty or thirty of them, with about ten rotating around as instructors. And one head instructor who I would never want to fight because he has to be the toughest dentist in the world. His honeymoon with his wife (who is also a very high level black belt) was going to a world martial arts tournament to compete.
Ok, that's pretty different from my club, other than also being affiliated with the university. We only have 3 black belts who regularly attend, including the instructor, though there's a load of other people who come.
For some reason they've decided to make it very difficult to get dan rankings. My instructor is going for his 3rd dan soon, and he's been doing it for almost 20 years. I suppose it might also have to do with the crazy stuff they make you do to get them. They also require that all black belts have instruction experience so you have to wait at least a year between deputy black and 1st dan.
Yeah, I don't think people have to wait nearly as long at my university. First don is pretty much awarded immediately, and then most people wait a year before testing for second and another few years before third. And I haven't seen any tests above that. I don't even know what rank the head instructor is, but I think he might be eighth, since eighth is as high as you can go without saving a train of orphans or dying. He's definitely been doing it long enough since he got his first don back when he was just out of college (he's gotta be over sixty now).
Count yourself lucky, you can't get to tenth don unless you DIE saving those orphans.
And only if you convince them to join your dojang before you kick the bucket. :cool:
They sure don't make things easy, do they? I guess this is all a ploy to create scarcity. Becomes meaningless if you can just take a test.
From August to December my weight loss has really picked up steam, so much so that it's been observed by the girl, friends returning into town and various people I know.