lolmnt

Yeah. Don't compare yourself to those guys, especially when just starting out. Everybody starts out in the same place, so they know what you're going through.

Especially now (I don't know your weight lifting history, so sorry if you already know this) worry more about form than weight. I had a problem in my form, hit some goals, realized that my form was off, and now have had to cut the weight in half. But it's worth it to do it the right way.

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twowheels

I'll commit to this! Currently I don't exercise much at all. I am 6ft tall and weigh 12.6 stone (about 176lbs) I'm not wanting to look like David Hasselhoff or anything but would quite like to have a good level of fitness and hopefully live a healthier life. I took on a half marathon last year with nearly zero training, which wasn't a smart move, but it has made me motivated to make myself fitter through running, perhaps with the occasional weight session to tone things up!

My ultimate short term goal is to be able to jog/run a half marathon by September, when the Great Scottish Run takes place, beat my rather poor time of 3 hours and get it down to the two hour mark. I've found a plan that claims to get from couch to half marathon pace in 24 weeks (Mid June) which gives me some time should the plan be rubbish (or should I be too lazy) or if I got injured. To encourage me to get out running I've spent £85 on some running shoes, and to stop me wearing them casually they're luminous yellow! I could use my brother's old weights too so I could probably be able to at least start off without a gym membership, but thats a decision I'll make once I'm a bit further into my training.

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Hydra150

Put my name in the OP.
I don't plan on doing a lot of intense exercise (I particularly dislike jogging), but I trying to be more active -walking a lot more, perhaps going swimming, see about buying another bike (and a better bike lock)- and I am trying to eat a lot less crap. My diet has been terrible this past year, I'm trying to cut out a lot of the unhealthy stuff and be more concious of how much I eat.

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TheReverend724

sign me up babe

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TheChaz

Yeah, I've been lifting for a while, but never very seriously. It's always just been to stay in shape rather than gain strength or size, but I think it's time to finally srs up.

But yeah, I always try to keep my form perfect. Tons of dudes at my gym (not the aforementioned meatheads) that pick up huge weights and swing them around with such poor form that it's hard to even tell what exercise they're doing. I can do the 225 with good form, but anything more than that I lose it, so I'm just gonna try to increase my reps with 225 before I move up the weight.

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Junglie

Yeah, it was bad. I've broken that bone about 5 times, and they can't do anything with it apart from give me a support for it. I don't know which bone it is

Hopefully I'll put some strength and size back on fairly quickly.

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TheChaz

Shit. I've only gotten 3 breaks total in my life. I can't imagine breaking one bone 5 times. My worst break was my clavicle. I broke the whole tip of the bone off. That put me out for months. Still have some shoulder problems from it too, but lifting has actually helped it a lot.

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Junglie

I've broken loads Ankle, wrist, most of my knuckles, broken my nose about 7 times. Nothing hurt as much as tearing my lat.

But yeah, I imagine breaking your clavicle is damn painful. How'd you do that?

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TheChaz

Holy hell. Too much, too much.

I ummm... was... well... I was hanging upside down from a pull-up bar and it tore out of the door frame.


Yeah.

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Hydra150

element, why don't you change the box in the OP from a [quote=Mistress_Ibanez] to a [spoiler=Originally Posted by Mistress_Ibanez], just to keep it tidier.

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Junglie

That's amazing. Should've got yourself a power bar

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lolmnt

Good idea. Didn't even think of it.

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Junglie

Goals:
Get my bench up to 100kg by the end of the year
Quit smoking
Sort my diet out

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WCPhils

My goal is to lose 10 pounds by the summer and just get healthier in general

Highelf04

Since we're putting up goals:-

Perma quit smoking, rather than managing it for 3-4 weeks and caving
Run Charnwood Hike in April, none of this walking bullshit
Get into better shape, and look at rejoining the gym when I hit 3rd/final year of uni


And of course, use my new found awesomeness to get bitches

Feel free to omit the last one

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I'm in
Target is to gain lots of muscle

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ali.guitarkid7

Sign me up for the one hundred push ups challenge. I can't jog so I have to limit myself to push ups and sit ups.

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TunerAddict

I'm in.

I want to be 180 by end of May. If I fail, permban me.

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MrDo0m

Cool, I was about 230 pounds (mainly fat, barely any muscle) several months ago, a chain smoker, and couldn't work out to save my life. Now I'm 6'4" (well, my height didn't change, but I figured I would include it to put it into perspective.. not trying to be a conceited dick), 182 pounds, and I can do chin-ups, pull-ups, and cardio exercise like I've never been able to before, and I completely quit smoking cigarettes. My goal is just to get in better overall shape.