What are they called and where can I get one?

[Mr. Peanut]

Swimming is good for everything, seriously... It's fun, cheap it gets you strong AND fit and it's as hard as you want it to be. Don't be self conscious about getting your togs on, the pool is an excellent leveling field, all sorts of body types there.

Eat more in the morning and middle of the day than you do at night.

If you feel buggered from working out, don't go to the gym. Let your body rest.
(muscle is broken at the gym, and rebuilt bigger and better when at rest.)

Don't be one of those dorks who eats no breakfast, feels good about skimping on lunch, goes to the gym feeling weak, then crams their face in desperation at home...


If all else fails, some of us are into curves

[Waylander]

Swimming is good for everything, seriously...

Eat more in the morning and middle of the day than you do at night.

Don't be one of those dorks who eats no breakfast, feels good about skimping on lunch, goes to the gym feeling weak, then crams their face in desperation at home...

Hmm am I good for eating 4 meals a day then? Working hard all day and then going to the gym for an hour and a half afterwards?

[Mr. Peanut]

Yeah, sure im a labourer meself. Work hard for 10 hours a day then hit the bag when I get home. 5 meals a day for me

[Mr. Peanut]

Swimming is good for everything, seriously... It's fun, cheap it gets you strong AND fit and it's as hard as you want it to be. Don't be self conscious about getting your togs on, the pool is an excellent leveling field, all sorts of body types there.

Eat more in the morning and middle of the day than you do at night.

If you feel buggered from working out, don't go to the gym. Let your body rest.
(muscle is broken at the gym, and rebuilt bigger and better when at rest.)

Don't be one of those dorks who eats no breakfast, feels good about skimping on lunch, goes to the gym feeling weak, then crams their face in desperation at home...


If all else fails, some of us are into curves

Thats for maximising muscle and energy etc, if you want to put on weight full stop eating rich food late in the day is good.

[Waylander]

opu

Yeah, sure im a labourer meself. Work hard for 10 hours a day then hit the bag when I get home. 5 meals a day for me

You're taking the piss, I was being serious.

[R6_kid:Me]

pies and potatoe mash with bacon and cheese.

[spudchucka]

kewl... I'll try that...

I've got an hours work out that I do in the mornings before leaving for work... and then in the evenings I do about 3 reps of the same workout... I'm slowly building up my own equipment I need for home, but for now the basics are weights (dum bells or bar bells... whatever they are called), and sit ups on the swiss ball... my work out is pretty much 80% upper body (from waist upwards). I've skinny little legs (lol... seriously) and walk about 5 k's a day all up, so don't really bother with them a lot...

I was wanting to work out upper body due to:

When kite surfing... when doing jumps or any tricks, you need to unclip the bar from your waist to spin around and do tricks, then you need to pull the kite back down towards you to re-clip the bar to your waist... so thats what I wanted the arm strenght for...

99% of your sailing time you will be hooked into your harness. You only unhook for jumps and transitions, when windsurfing I don't even bother unhooking in a big jump unless it involves getting wrong side up. You will suffer through the learning phases but once you get the hang of things you will most likely find that the muscles that let you down before any others are your forearms, which are really hard to train.

[spudchucka]

We got a kite board over here, you do need brute strength till you get on the water. I let my mom hold it and it dragger her with her heels dung into the sand for a good 8 meters before pulling her off her feet and dragging her another 7.

A kite or a windsurfing sail will drag anyone along like that if they don't know how to release the power. If you just keep hanging on at full power you will get dragged until you hit something solid.

[Colapop]

Like the guy that got blown into a house - didn't he get a case of the ...dead?

PlacidF make sure you leave time for rest. To grow your muscles need to rest. If you overtrain you'll canabalise any gains you're trying to achieve - especially if you have a fast metabolism.

[Mr. Peanut]

opu

You're taking the piss, I was being serious.

Im not taking the piss. I work 50 hours a week and eat five meals a day. Breakfast, 3 breaks at work, and dinner.

[spudchucka]

Like the guy that got blown into a house - didn't he get a case of the ...dead?

He got caught in a freak gust of wind, lofted high in the air and deposited on someones roof. Bad luck, shit happens.

[raster]

PF, I don't know if you have enough space for it but would one of these be any use to you?

EDIT: sorry, gorgous chic not included!

[jahmin]

Feet up that high? is cheating. Its more a shoulder workout that way rather than arms chest and shoulders. Anything higher than makeing your body level when arms at full stretch is no good (if I remember my wieght training teacher correctly) though the higher your feet are the more shoulder strength you get so idealy you may want about half way between the floor and being level.

I think you've got her upside down mate - i belive she means her feet were on the floor, and she was pushing off the counter. (of course i could be wrong, its happened once before).

Another option if you have a swiss ball, is to do push ups off that. ie feet on the floor, hands on the swiss ball. Will also help with all the wee stabilizing muscles which are important to work too.

Might not directly help with kite surfing, but for general strength/weight gains it could be a goer

[Waylander]

I think you've got her upside down mate - i belive she means her feet were on the floor, and she was pushing off the counter. (of course i could be wrong, its happened once before).

Now what good would that do? Be hardly any wieght on her arms and upper body that way.

[jahmin]

Now what good would that do? Be hardly any wieght on her arms and upper body that way.

Well, it would be much more weight than pushing off a kitchen counter, and much less weight than having her feet on the kitchen counter and pushing off the floor.

Also, you can inflate/deflate the swiss ball to the desired level, allowing for increased/decreased resistance.

She mentioned she can only do about 3 standard push ups, this may be just the thing shes looking for. And again, the stabilizing muscles

Edit - sorry Waylander, i completely misread your post! I thought you were asking what good a swiss ball would do. I shall give myself a kick...