How much exercise/training do you do during the week

[Otto_the_bus_driver]

Myself

1 hour swimming twice a week
1 hour indoor a week
Roughly about 1 hour of weights a week.

[Brad]

11K in gym 4 times a week.

[kevinbitzz]

none anymore.

there was a time when i used to do maybe, 3 trips to the gym for 75 mins running/rowing, a few hours of tennis and maybe 1 hour of 5 a side soccer a week,

[VzN]

try and run as much as I can - will be looking to do 30+miles a week running in the next few weeks.

[STEVIEG]

a few light swims
Gym usually twice or 3 times (poor for awhile back on it now)
5 aside soccer at least once usually twice
Lots of walking too mainly in the summer though

[scrumpy]

GAA training upwards of 4 times a week in the summer between hurling and football.light weights and swimming around 3 times a week to relax. all gone to shit since i broke the leg!

[gregson1]

none

[STEVIEG]

Actually does the internet count?

I usually spend around 5 hours a day typing and did 47 keepy-uppys on one of those Bebo games recently

[Liathroidi Mor]

Gaa training 3 times a week. 1 soccer match, Gaa match, 1 5 a side(actually 6 a side) and a small bit of gym work when i can fit it in!!
also like to try and play golf about 2 to 3 times a month

[boshea]

At the moment, I cycle 4-5 times a week, mix of cross country mountain biking and road........nothing less than 1hr of hard session up to 3hours or so of an easier spin just to build up the endurance....race at weekends if there's one within a 2/3 hour drive.
Soccer....play 5 a side once a week in astro.ie league,
1\2 sessions of skipping/bodyweight training
1/2 yoga sessions
thai-boxing classes, depends really....try and fit one in every week, but doesn't always happen.

[afeencalleddan]

I don't drive so I cycle and walk most places. I cycle to and from work which is a mile and a bit each way, not very far I know but when my brakes aren't fucked and the conditions are good I move fairly fast to give myself a bit of a decent cardio workout. Not too bad for keeping the leg muscles in tune either.

I play a full 90 minute soccer match at the weekend most weekends and I'd try to play one 5-a-side during the week too.

I should go swimming far more often than I do cos I'm a good swimmer but it kind of wrecks my head that my local swimming pool (Gus Healy, Douglas) is only around the corner but is an absolute fucking disgrace. I wouldn't even stand on the edge of it and piss into it for fear of what might splash back on me let alone get into it.

Running doesn't appeal to me at all, it bores the shit out of me but sometimes I'd do a few laps of the big field behind the swimming pool just to keep the cobwebs at bay.

I have some free weights at home too. I should use them to keep the auld muscles toned. I get them out every so often but they gather dust most of the time.

Ideally I should be doing light weights 3/4 times per week, going for a decent run once, playing one 5-a-side and playing one match at the weekend but the soccer and the cycling to work is all I do in reality. Still though, I'm reasonably fit. The fact that I don't drink an awful lot and don't smoke at all helps. I likes me food though. I have a sweet tooth.

[STEVIEG]

I should go swimming far more often than I do cos I'm a good swimmer but it kind of wrecks my head that my local swimming pool (Gus Healy, Douglas) is only around the corner but is an absolute fucking disgrace. I wouldn't even stand on the edge of it and piss into it for fear of what might splash back on me let alone get into it.



I live around the corner too and agree

I'm a shit swimmer though myself even though i do swim a lot

[raZor]

Used to be about 4 gym sessions a week for over an hour each time. Final year of college is putting an end to that, but hopefully should be back to some bit of gym visits sometime soon.


Will be taking up swimming in the summer as well, going to try running but my knee is fucked so we'll have to see.

[rockyoc]

Boxing 1-2 nights a week hour each time.
Rugby Training 2 nights a week. 2 hours each time.
GAA training once a week atm though will go up soon with rugby going down.
One maybe two rugby games a week.

[Rebelred]

Gaa training twice a week, tues n thurs, 90 minute sessions. Match at weekends normally, if no match, third training session. Rest days are wednesday and friday, need to rest to recover from training. Last year I was playing in astro league on wednesdays and with buddys on fridays, eventually I developed a back injury which in turn lead to a double hamstring tear, so no I'm watching what I do more. No astro if I can avoid it.

[RonnyB]

3/4 times a week in the gym.

2 GAA training sessions but only doing light work. Bit like Louis Saha for the injuries resulting in not having played a match in a year.

An hours swimming a week.

[Otto_the_bus_driver]

To the folks that go swimming, how many lengths do ye do?

I do 20 but i dunno if i should be aiming higher or what.

Yoga is something i wouldn't mind taking up.


Heard its meant to be unreal good for you and that its actually not a bad workout.

[Lamps]

Yoga? :lol!:

Madonna is into that isn't she?

[STEVIEG]

Yoga? :lol!:



Now now it is great to have fun and games but let's move on

I reckon a collective bout of yoga could do the whole board some good:)

[Otto_the_bus_driver]

I agree Stevie, it would bring the raging ying of the SFI and the smoothing yang of the rest of us into kilter.

I done a little bit of it before as part of other training i was doing and even the little bit that i know still stands to me.
Some great stretches. Definitely wouldn't mind taking it up full time .

[POL]

train twice a day 6 times a week. 45 min cardio at lunch 1 to 1.5 hours weights in the evenings

[STEVIEG]

I agree Stevie, it would bring the raging ying of the SFI and the smoothing yang of the rest of us into kilter.

I done a little bit of it before as part of other training i was doing and even the little bit that i know still stands to me.
Some great stretches. Definitely wouldn't mind taking it up full time .

Curabinny Woods

11am


"The Drago-Gate cool-down"

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[jd26]

I run for 20 minutes three times a week and I do 15 minutes of weights every evening.

[mightyquark]

45 min Ice skating at lunch time.
3 hours cross country skiing at the weekends.

[Lamps]

train twice a day 6 times a week. 45 min cardio at lunch 1 to 1.5 hours weights in the evenings

You sound fairly handy POL.

What do you bench?

[Langer Dan]

half hour of weights every 2nd evening.
Half hour of cardio most days.

[POL]

110 kilos, not really into it anymore though, chin ups are the king of strenght

[Lamps]

110 kilos, not really into it anymore though, chin ups are the king of strenght

Pretty impressive.

Thinking about getting a chin up bar for out the back myself

Couple of tasty polish ones living about 3 doors up might spot me too with the top off.

[POL]

there's polish meatheads in the gym that can bench 200k

[Lamps]

there's polish meatheads in the gym that can bench 200k

I know a few lads like that. Arms bigger than me legs. Must be injecting some load of shit into themselves

[POL]

must be, pig ignorant bastards for the mosy part into the bargain

[Professor Piehead]

Swimming four times a week. I was asked for advice yesterday, gave me a good buzz to answer the ladies questions.

[tim the trip]

i bench 155 myself, but i compete at world level. i used do all the big 3{squat,deadlift,ben ch} but i have been on a 2 year quest to become an ironman.
i had a go at the uk ironman last year and died on mile 4 of the run, so no more squats of deadlifts untill i claim my ironman finishers medal . hopefully at the french I.M. in nice.in 95 days........

i plan to be the first ironman who can bench double their body weight.


i am also an n.c.h.e.s. qualified personal trainer , but due to the volume of training i have at the moment ,i only have a few clients.

[KolaKubes]

I know a few lads like that. Arms bigger than me legs. Must be injecting some load of shit into themselves

Seems to work for them though.

I passed a hot Polish wan + pig ugly musclebound Polish feen couple not yesterday evening in the estate where I live.

You see even LD there is on the ould exercise thing now, he realises that the freshers aren't impressed with the likes of him anymore.

[Lamps]

I'm more into fitness myself, I've upped the soccer to 3 nights a week and try to so at least one swim.

Have a cross trainer and small multi gym at home but hardly ever use them, find it a bit boring to be fair. Fitness is gradually improving. Belly is as good as gone since Christmas.

Possibly going to go back playing junior hurling next year but not sure I could comit the time.

[Superior]

Run 8k in 35 mins at least three times a week.
40 mins of free weights twice a week.

Now that the weather is getting a little better I'll start doin a bit of joggin outside. Probably in Phoenix Park.

Just don't enjoy swimming. But I suspect that's cause I'm not doin it right. I wouldn't mind being in better condition. But I don't want to spend all my time in the gym either. I'm gonna buy a bike this week as well I think. Wouldn't mind taking up yoga.

[Papa Smurf]

At the moment, I cycle 4-5 times a week, mix of cross country mountain biking and road........nothing less than 1hr of hard session up to 3hours or so of an easier spin just to build up the endurance....race at weekends if there's one within a 2/3 hour drive.
Soccer....play 5 a side once a week in astro.ie league,
1\2 sessions of skipping/bodyweight training
1/2 yoga sessions
thai-boxing classes, depends really....try and fit one in every week, but doesn't always happen.

I always said you were a lazy fecker...

Me i play 5 a side Monday & Wednesday. Usually 3 road runs a week varying between 5&10 miles each.
Would step up the road running, do a bit of swimming and less of the 5 a side stuff when training for a Marathon toward the end of each year. Give up the football for fear of injury which with me is a regular thing. Cant do weights though at all, I get fierce bored.

[xvis]

Gym twice a week, ..cardio and weights, followed by a swim.


..then ruin it all over the weekend.

[Stuck in Dumpland]

Gym normally 5 times a week(when no matches on the weekend), between 45mins and an hour and 15 mins cardio work with maybe 15-25 mins of weights each time but nothing too strenuous on weights anymore.

A game of 5/6 a side ball with work once a week (very easy session), a game of squash once or twice a week and probably a GAA junior match and a junior soccer match on the weekend (which reduces the gym sessions) for which there's no training.

Also go on the piss twice a week though which limits the effect of the above. Basically i'm a completely different person monday to friday compared to the weekend.

[Rebel Yell]

I've cut down a bit due to my advancing years...

6 days a week in gym now - 2 hr sessions - half cardio/half weights

Over the 6 days - 20K Running , 20K Cross trainer, 20K Stationary Bike and 10K Rowing machine

Weights - Chest/Triceps Mon/Thu, Back/Biceps Tue/Fri and Legs/Shoulders Wed/Sat

I'd do a bit more on Cross Trainer or swim on the Sunday if I'm bored and have nothing else on that day....

[the puerto rican feen]

I've cut down a bit due to my advancing years...

6 days a week in gym now - 2 hr sessions - half cardio/half weights

Over the 6 days - 20K Running , 20K Cross trainer, 20K Stationary Bike and 10K Rowing machine

Weights - Chest/Triceps Mon/Thu, Back/Biceps Tue/Fri and Legs/Shoulders Wed/Sat

I'd do a bit more on Cross Trainer or swim on the Sunday if I'm bored and have nothing else on that day....

the Mr Muscle/Mr Clean image has to be maintained

still single ?

[Rebel Yell]

the Mr Muscle/Mr Clean image has to be maintained

still single ?

Single by choice.....forget the Ironman, Tour De France or a marathon.... Committing oneself to one woman is the hardest and most physically and mentally demanding activity in the world :)

[Bennyton]

4 sessions of 90 mins in the Gym every week,
2/3 hours of astro on a sunday morning with the lads,
Parkour in the summer.

[big man]

hurling training twice a week, plus a match from this weekend on as well as downhill mountian biking (either pushing up or shuttles) twice as well if im not racing that weekend.

also try and fit in 5 a side soccer as well but it fooks me knees up quick

[Bennyton]

Fook, jus got a test result off the doctor after I was sick for the last couple of weeks, I'm after gettin Glandular fever, which apparently means I'm not allowed exercise properly for a few months, this really sucks bollocks.

[KolaKubes]

The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.

Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer.... Maybe self-destruction is the answer?

[POL]

Single by choice.....forget the Ironman, Tour De France or a marathon.... Committing oneself to one woman is the hardest and most physically and mentally demanding activity in the world :)
do you wear those ghey gloves when doing weights

[KolaKubes]

do you wear those ghey gloves when doing weights


What about that funny walk they do after they've successfully lifted the really heavy thing?

[Langer Dan]

The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.

Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer.... Maybe self-destruction is the answer?

Tyler had it right, gyms are pure masturbation.

Other than swimming couldnt be arsed, prefer to do weights at home or head out on the bike.
Did 40 mins of weights this morning , did an hour of cardio this eveing when I got home, happy days....

[POL]

Tyler had it right, gyms are pure masturbation.

Other than swimming couldnt be arsed, prefer to do weights at home or head out on the bike.
Did 40 mins of weights this morning , did an hour of cardio this eveing when I got home, happy days....are you flat out on the bike or just pissing around, fucking around looking around you doesn't do it for me, its INTENSITY all the way

[KolaKubes]

Tyler had it right, gyms are pure masturbation.

Other than swimming couldnt be arsed, prefer to do weights at home or head out on the bike.
Did 40 mins of weights this morning , did an hour of cardio this eveing when I got home, happy days....

I just find it funny when some chubby type goes on about how often they go to the gym.

Do they understand it doesn't compensate for eating chips in itself?

Particularly (with a nod to POL) if they're just tipping away down there more interested in eyeing up the talent.

[Langer Dan]

I just find it funny when some chubby type goes on about how often they go to the gym.

Do they understand it doesn't compensate for eating chips in itself?

Particularly (with a nod to POL) if they're just tipping away down there more interested in eyeing up the talent.

You're not wrong, take it handy on the sauce, watch yer diet, get enough excercise and you'll never be a fattist, its not rocket science like...

[KolaKubes]

You're not wrong, take it handy on the sauce, watch yer diet, get enough excercise and you'll never be a fattist, its not rocket science like...

Nah.

I'd say even Mongo could get his head around it.

[Langer Dan]

Nah.

I'd say even Mongo could get his head around it.

Batter burgers and curry sauce do not a balanced diet make;)

[KolaKubes]

Batter burgers and curry sauce do not a balanced diet make;)

I'm never going to get over that comment about what a boon to Mallow the Pizza Hut is.

[Langer Dan]

I'm never going to get over that comment about what a boon to Mallow the Pizza Hut is.

Tis like a night at the opera for Mongo.

[Professor Piehead]

I've cut down a bit due to my advancing years...

6 days a week in gym now - 2 hr sessions - half cardio/half weights

Over the 6 days - 20K Running , 20K Cross trainer, 20K Stationary Bike and 10K Rowing machine

Weights - Chest/Triceps Mon/Thu, Back/Biceps Tue/Fri and Legs/Shoulders Wed/Sat

I'd do a bit more on Cross Trainer or swim on the Sunday if I'm bored and have nothing else on that day....

Fock off wum.

[Rebel Yell]

do you wear those ghey gloves when doing weights


Of course not...I have rough hands - farmers hands - so don't need gloves like some sissy boys who wear them to keep their moisturised paws all soft and girly...

[POL]

I would agree with the POL man chin ups and pulls are the king of strenght training.I can only manage to do 20 in one go they are an absolute killer.I used to be big into lifting weights but now concentrate on circuit traning pull ups, press ups ,sit us, squats etc.Most weeks I'd run around 50-60k and would run a lot of road races 10k's and the occasional marathon.Thinking of getting into triathlon's but Ive been saying that for a long time.yea, I concentrate on dead lifts, squats and chip ups mainly now, you'd alway laugh at these meatheads benching 200 kilos and then they can't do 4 chins

[April O Neill]

gym and a swim: 3/4 times a week. Horseriding 1/2 a week.

[cit_gym_rat]

i seem to be at the opposite side of the scale as regards weights to most here - two HIT sessions a week consisting of about 3/4 of an hour each, i throw in a few cardio sessions a week too. I do stretch every day

Rest and a clean diet is as important as training!

[tim the trip]

yea, I concentrate on dead lifts, squats and chip ups mainly now, you'd alway laugh at these meatheads benching 200 kilos and then they can't do 4 chins

i laugh at anyone who cant bench 1.5 times their body weight.

chins and pull downs actuall help your bench. agonist+ antagonist muscle groups worked together was a favouite trick of franco columbo to increase his 1rm on the bench.

i always warm up with a few sets of chins b4 the serious stuff.

[tim the trip]

why do you deadlift if you dont bench? are you a runner?

[Del]

I'm looking for a new program, weights 3 times a week. Anyone know a good one?