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"Fitness Freaks?"

:) Having just insulted you I'm now hoping you'll be helpful :P

Anyone who has seen my pic on Special Observe will probably notice I'm what you'd call "overweight" and probably bordering on obese actually. Before the "who ate all the pies" etc joke replies start I'd point out that it's not all from overeating but something else as well, but that's not relevant.

Going off tracks...

If I wanted a piece of exercise equipment what would be best out of:

treadmill
exercise bike

From what little I have read I know that rowing machines are supposed to be quite good, as are these eliptical trainer things...but I want to start gentle.

The only gym in town is £35 a month so I figure that I may as well just buy my own stuff....swimming is also no good to me because without my glasses on I'm as shortsighted as...erm a very shortsighted person. With my glasses on I can't go underwater or wear goggles so my eyes soon end up hurting like hell...

Also if anyone knows any good online stores for the stuff, 'cause only Argos sells it where I live, though they seem to have a lot of stuff available.

Anyone?

Cub!st wrote:
> If you say so Azul

Finally, you're beginning to learn how this whole thing works.

Azul wrote:
> The Mojo w/ The Wal - 1
> Cubexclamationmarkst - 0

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Indeed.

REAL gyms have every kind of equipment you could ever need, even boxing rings.

A leisure centre gym is full of old men on treadmills and weights for women (light pink ones)

Edit -

And, no, I'm not generalising. I've been to many gyms in my time, and the best ones are the run down ones. They're full of people with expert advice, not old ladies trying to lose a dress size. Cubist, you're an idiot. I know it, everyone else knows it. Hell, even YOU should've clicked on by now. Just be quiet.

If you say so Azul although my points are still valid. He's making a sweeping generalisation about gyms and gym goers all over Britain. I'm not.

Firstly, it's spelt Azul, you ignorant philistine.
Secondly, no. You'll never ever score. Not against me.

Azool - 0
Me - 1

Cub!st wrote:
> I wasn't being dumb just you're being narrowminded. Just because you
> live in a one horse town with a gym, fruit stall and coconut shy for
> entertainment doesn't mean that there aren't top quality facilities
> in other places all over Britain.

*Laughs*

You have quite clearly lost this argument.

The Mojo w/ The Wal - 1
Cubexclamationmarkst - 0

I wasn't being dumb just you're being narrowminded. Just because you live in a one horse town with a gym, fruit stall and coconut shy for entertainment doesn't mean that there aren't top quality facilities in other places all over Britain.

"I live in Edinburgh and in the big cities we have buildings that are SO big we can have swimming pools, gyms, tennis courts, squash courts, climbing walls and more all under one roof! Strange I know but one day, when you leave the farm house you'll see the big world."

Shut it, you. Unlike most the people here, I'm not a country bumpkin. What I meant, and SAID, was that a gym in a leisure centre is not a gym. It's a place for old people to go to. Real gyms are working class gyms, full of dodgy looking blokes. You don't get them in leisure centre gyms.

Jeez, I know you're dumb, Cubist, and annoying, but even you must have limits.

*fap*

Not just, but mainly.

Depends how you move really.

Seamen stain licker.