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[HT413]

Maxim magazine wrote once that losing 30 lbs has the effect of adding an inch to your tool. I'd have to lose 100 lbs to do **** movies though.

Haha, I read something similar once (heck I guess it could have been maxim!)

To your point, Greg, I've always felt that we did not evolve to workout 30 minutes a day and sit on our asses the other 23.5 hours a day. Back when I was working construction (as an engineer / CM), I walked the job as much as possible, except big emergencies where there just wasn't time to walk there. I would sometimes knock down 5 miles a day doing that.

When I take my kids to the park, I workout in some way. If the park is empty I jog circles around the play area and mix in some intervals. If it's full of people, I at least knock out a few push-ups or compete with my son in a couple rounds of monkey bars.

The way I figure it, more important than my health, I need to show my kids that working out is part of everyday.

These days, I'm an engineering / shop / science teacher and I purposely got rid of my comfy chair in favor of a steel stool. Keeps me from sitting on my *** for more than a few minutes at a clip.

 

[Kern Dog]

I like seeing parents that teach by example instead of being hypocrites!
Maybe the next generation has a fighting chance!

 

[moparcrazy]

I have an '88 GT Mach one, nothing too fancy but I bought it with my allowance back in the summer of '88 (back when I was 13). Glad I kept it.

Go to bmxmuseum.com, it's a lot like FBBO, lots of good people restoring their old bikes. Tons of parts for sale and advice. I picked up some old school race hubs, spokes and rims and actually hand built the wheel set that I always drempt about but could never afford.

Hey man, webco really brings back memories. By time I was into it, webco was one of the old school frames. Check this out...
http://www.bmxsociety.com/topic/24034-webco-bmx-history/

Glad you kept it, bro.

Wow Cool stuff HT413 i would love to restore it all original ! if the stickers and parts are available Thank you !!

 

[747mopar]

I just built the kids (me!) a bmx track out in the far back of the property. I restored my old bmx a few years ago and me and the kids (7, 4 and 2 years old) go ripping it up back there on some combination of bmx, scooter and running. Boy is it fun and a great workout!

I plan to introduce rc cars and eventually mini bikes and quads as they grow and have probably 50 yards of good fill from the recent home addition waiting to be turned into jumps and burms. Can't wait!

Not knowing much about bikes I went to a cycle shop (not walmart) and bought what looked liked nice bikes (the daughters is a Haro and mines a Kink). Tried to buy American but couldn't even find an American made bike.... I still have my motorcross track in front of the house but it's a bit much for bikes although the mounds of dirt are there to build with. The daughter is in Softball (I'm a coach) and the boy is into Soccer and MMA. I refuse to let myself go and not be able to physically participate in the fun.

 

[HT413]

Not knowing much about bikes I went to a cycke shop (not walmart) and bought what looked liked nice bikes (the daughters is a Haro and mines a Kink). Tried to buy American but couldn't even find an American made bike.... I still have my motorcross track in front of the house but it's a bit much for bikes although the mounds of dirt are there to build with. The daughter is in Softball (I'm a coach) and the boy is into Soccer and MMA. I refuse to let myself go and not be able to physically participate in the fun.

There ya go! I agree - although I have to be a spectator from time to time, I refuse to just sit back and watch my kids get big and strong while they simultaneously watch me get fat and old. Ain't happening.

Yeah bikes just aren't made in the US for the most part. Heck, back in the 80's I remember all the big US BMX companies moving overseas to Japan. I literally have parts from the early 80's marked USA, same part in the mid/late 80's marked Japan.

 

[super-bee_ski]

So,
I'm pushing 63 in Dec.
Stevie, I try to adhere to all the suggestions everyone in this "POST" have put forth.

1. Eat less
2. Exercise more (Ad "The Dude {HT 413} stated, building the track .....Great Example: GET YOUR METABOLISIM GOING
3. Awake 30 minutes earlier each day
4. Try to walk 1/2 mile per day, then increase
5. No sugar....! Simply put Steve, little treats daily shut down your metabolisim, those little 1 or 2 pieces of hard candy or that 1/2 snickers bar...It stops your body's capabilities to burn fuel (As many in the post have stated)

Remember: It did not come on quickly, so removing it is a slow and tedious process.....

 

[Bart K]

I will be 60 next June. I am 5' 8" and my peak weight was 223 2 years ago. Since then I have moved to Arizona where I can be outside most every day. I walk a 1.6 mile route twice a day and I do it in about 25 minutes each time. This morning, I weighed in at 172, so down 50 plus pounds over the last 2 years. I also am eating less...virtually no second helpings. I do have my ice cream, but less of it as well as less of everything else. I do not snack between meals. I am up between 5 and 5:30am and in bed usually by 9pm. I no longer live to eat, I eat to live. I have diabetes (runs in the family), so doing these things is not just to weigh less, but to live a longer and healthier life.

 

[fwi]

depending on height & stride....avg, 2 feet per stride X 8000= 16,000 ft divided by 5,280...just under 3 miles. A 6 footer probl'y strides over 2 feet per stride....ball park?
How's airplanes? I may have a King Air 200 to do some fiddling with coming up.....got to get some medical issues taken care of first....right kidney is an obstacle.

When I get back to AZ this fall I'd like to get over to Davis-Monthan and see if I can get in.

 

[HYRDGOON]

Lots of diet and cardio recommendations in here but not once have I seen anyone say lift.... Your basal metabolic rate is dependent on how much lean muscle your body has to maintain. Build muscle and your body will work harder to keep it which causes additional fat burning in the process.

I'm at the age now where I notice that I don;t have the same body on the same effort and I eat like crap often because of my time on the road and unpredictable hours. Time to clean up the diet for sure but the reason I'm not obese is because of putting the work in at the gym 3 days/week

 

[HT413]

Lots of diet and cardio recommendations in here but not once have I seen anyone say lift.... Your basal metabolic rate is dependent on how much lean muscle your body has to maintain. Build muscle and your body will work harder to keep it which causes additional fat burning in the process.

I'm at the age now where I notice that I don;t have the same body on the same effort and I eat like crap often because of my time on the road and unpredictable hours. Time to clean up the diet for sure but the reason I'm not obese is because of putting the work in at the gym 3 days/week

Guilty - I avoid traditional weight lifting like the plague! About once or twice a week I do a few sets of pushups, some burpees and some tabata squats, maybe some plank.

Those tabata intervals are crazy - you guys need to try them. 20 seconds as many as you can do, 10 seconds rest. Repeat 9 times for a total of 4 and a half minutes. I do tabata squats with either just my bodyweight or maybe 20lb dumbbells and they really helped me build some serious stamina for riding / running up hills.

so the weight lifting for me is usually stamina type stuff rather than slow and heavy.

 

[Pops1967GTX]

 

[Pops1967GTX]

dieting is not working out...

 

[Pops1967GTX]

 

[Pops1967GTX]

making fun of myself & I am trying to lose some weight.

 

[Pops1967GTX]

My wife caught me standing on the bathroom scale, sucking in my stomach...

“Ha! That’s not going to help,” she said.

“Sure, it does,” I said. “It’s the only way I can see the numbers.”

 

[Pops1967GTX]