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"Exercise!"

This morning, at about 6.30, I went running. It was the first real cardiovascular exercise I've had in nearly 6 months.

Oh my god, you get unfit really quickly!
After 4 minutes I started to feel sick. After 5 it was gone again. On the home stretch, 20 minutes in, it came back and I really thought I was going to puke.
And my legs have felt feeble and weak all day.

How long does it take to get back into shape?


I'd guess I was going 8-10 mph (though I'm really not sure), for 20 minutes.
To be fair, most of it didn't hurt (or make me fear for my stomach lining), but I used to be much fitter than this!

Still, I feel great for having done it.

Not sure whether I could keep up the early mornings though - but even in nice areas I've found that you can expect to get crap from random a**holes when you go running. Where I live now you're just asking for trouble.
To be fair, it probably wouldn't be the kind of crap mentioned in my other thread ('How far...') - well, at least that'd probably be rare.
But it's not nice to deal with any of that sort of stuff, and I'd much rather avoid it.
And I'm a poor student, so no gym for me either.


Thinking about it, it's really messed up when you can't go running in any populated area without expecting to get crap from strangers.

Are there any nice areas of the UK, where you can expect everyone will at least treat people with respect?


Anyway, got off topic a bit. How long does it take to get back to non-puking levels of fitness?

Lunges are good exercises, and not as unpleasant to do as squats.

This site is like my tormented internet blog thing Stryke.

Heh, excellent.

I've been trying to get a bit more exercise recently, probably inspired by this thread. Been doing press-ups mostly, a few situps, and lifting pretty heavy dumbbells that i found in my dads shed. Been hankering for a run, but cant find a hat, else my hair gets really wild after excessive movement. Sounds like a big excuse, buti'll get round to getting one :P

Heh, I know all about the big excuses. It's hard to know yourself whether they're for real or not :^)

I was going to go this morning, but stayed up late watching snooker last night, my heating is brokne, and dragging myself out of bed, freezing cold and tried, felt too hard.

Decent excuse or cop out? I'm not sure.

Might do some skipping instead.

I lowered the seat on the pec deck today at the gym, because some woman had been on it. But I didn't put the peg in right, so when I sat down it collapsed to the lowest level. It hurt and people looked at me.

But then I did crunches with the machine, so everyone loved me again. I had a bit of a flex for the ladies and that was that.

Hmm, I'm on the verge of buying a rowing machine for £135.


It says the rrp is £250, but you never really know how accurate those figures are.

It'd be good to have one though, and it's definitely a quality model - big fan on the end and stuff.

I even have a free room for it now, since my flatmate fled the country to escape crack dealers she owed 50 grand to. (Or she may have dropped out of uni - my memory isn't what it once was).

Worth it?

I've ordered it now. Looks like a good one, so hopefully I won't be disappointed.

It'll mean I gane get a decent low-impact all round exercise, without getting up early, and I can watch tv at the same time. Result.

Daily (maybe) exercise here I come!


I'll try to keep up the running too, maybe once a week for now.

Build a dynamo into it to power your television to inspire you to keep rowing.

I tried running today for the first time ever.
I knew I was unfit, butI underestimated how much. A lot.

I ddn't even get to break a sweat because I couldn't breathe.
It's because my dad smokes everywhere in teh house.
Everywhere I go just clogs up my lungs.

:(