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The 'I Feel Like Being Healthier' Thread!
GenericName:
RedLion, I am really envious of you. I went from running 5k races weekly to being completely sedentary over the course of this fall, due to a fence injury, and now where I used to have a six-pack I am getting flab. I keep promising myself I will become more active but then convincing myself I am too busy, therefore, I have not run since last fall.
Internets, this is a promise that by this time next week I will have run at least a mile.
Lunchbox:
Hey health thread, I am trying to cut sugary drinks and caffiene out of my diet, which is tricky because I am a barista and surrounded by coffee and assorted other drinks for seven hours a day. I have been two weeks without a coffee so far, surviving by having one cup of caffienated tea first thing in the morning, and then lemongrass tea with honey for the rest of the day.
I don't drink too much water because I dislike the taste of it and it always seems to make my stomach gurgle, but I am trying to drink a few glasses a day.
What are some other delicious things I can drink that are not awful for me?
KvP:
I drink Izzes in lieu of soda. they're basically sparkling water with juice from concentrate. You could try that maybe! Or just juice in general.
Harun:
Try to get used to water. If you don't like the taste, add a little something (lemon), or make some lemonade/iced tea with it. Stay away from artificially oversweetened drinks. Juice is good. You don't really need to cut caffeine completely out - I use it to wake up, and after a hard workout - just don't rely on it completely.
I drink close to a gallon of water in a day if I go on a long bike ride (4+ hours) - about a 24oz bottle an hour roughly depending on the temperature outside. I also like to use sports drink mix - it's a lot cheaper in the long run than buying Gatorade by the bottle every time you work out.
Elizzybeth:
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--- Quote from: LittleKey on 15 Mar 2009, 23:03 ---also, what exactly is conditioning? i do parkour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour), and i always hear about conditioning conditioning conditioning. i'd like to know what it is, because i need to get in really good shape for my parkour and related activities.
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Conditioning is essentially improving your fitness levels. It's a bit of a buzzword, it just implies that your body is adapting to different physical conditions.
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I don't know if this will help or not, LittleKey, but I actually took a parkour class once last year, and the conditioning they had us do was all about building up the muscles needed to do the leaps, etc. involved in parkour. There was a fair amount of pull up / push up / sit up kind of stuff, plus walking on balance beams (on feet, on all fours), yoga-style stretching, and some typical aerobic jumping jacks / jogging. Only then, after all of that, did we get into doing rolls. It might also be good to note that the guys teaching the class all did some other athletic activity outside of parkour: some of them taught gymnastics, others worked out out gyms, one guy was ex-military, I think.
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