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I know, getting old and fat is not something i suggest.... Your body just says "fuck you" when you try to make it work.

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- Oh, great. You killed the invisible swordsman!
-- He's dead, all right.
--- How was I supposed to know where he was?
- You were supposed to fire up. _We_ both fired _up_.

Yeah you can skip exercises and get credit for it. I won't lie, I do it quite often. I mean really, how many foot fires, jump lunges and mountain biking can you do before your knees are about to blow out? I try not to skip, but sometimes it happens.

Thats crazy about ripping your skin open. I use a yoga mat for stuff like footfires or when I have to lie down since I don't have a carpet in my living room, well aside from an area rug which has no padding. Maybe look into it?

I hear you on the 9 week thing. I think I have the same amount of work outs left. I actually cheated a bit this time around. I fell behind during the week before and after Halloween so the next time I played I just selected my missed workouts and hit "quit workout" the moment it started. I think I still got credit for them. Now I'm back where I should be.

Anyway I think I'm starting to get burnt out on this game as well. Not sure how much I'll continue once this 9 weeker ends.

Yeah guys, that 9 week program was a bitch. haha I still haven't turned my PS3 on, I may as well stick it in the box next to my xbox.

Its the truth, if its not a handheld, I just don't care anymore. That being said, really can't wait for Mario tomorrow.

Man mario is tomorrow? I may have to hold off a bit. I did just buy COD even tho I traded some stuff in. But I had to re-up my xbox live.

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Yeah man if they don't get it in tomorrow I might be really sad. Hahaha.

Yeah dude it's the start of the Nintendo triple threat. Mario this week, Zelda next, then two weeks after that it's Kart. And then thats probably it for months from them.

9 week program DUN!
I think i'm done with the game too. Maybe a few workouts here and there, but i don't think I'll do anymore programs.

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- Oh, great. You killed the invisible swordsman!
-- He's dead, all right.
--- How was I supposed to know where he was?
- You were supposed to fire up. _We_ both fired _up_.

Awesome man, congrats.

I wrapped up my second 9 week last week, but I didn't do a very good job. I'd say I skipped about 8 or 9 of the workouts. I'm pretty burnt out on the game myself. I'm debating if I want to start another program next week. I might only because I still don't have time or money to go to the gym, and if I don't I'll end up doing nothing. Rather be doing this shit than no shit.

i totally slacked off. Starting monday im gonna start doing all the workouts i missed then get back on the 9 week schedule

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Decided to start doing Active again after not doing much of anything for a month a half. I'm not so sure I gained much weight (need to weigh myself) but I've been feeling awful again. I can't believe how far back I've gone after just a few weeks off.

So I started out with a mental issue. It asked if I wanted to start my program on medium or hard. Last time I did it, I chose hard. I wanted to choose hard because I felt like I could still do it, but I decided to go with medium just in case. I'm glad I picked medium, because I was already out of breath not even 10 minutes in the 25 minute routine. I couldn't believe it. Not only that, but my heart rate spiked pretty much instantly. I can't believe how far I've fallen in such a short period of time.

I guess the good thing is that it reminded me that I was getting into decent shape. I could go for a long period of time without getting tired. Sometimes because the progress is so slight, you're not really sure if you've made any real improvements, but now I know for a fact that I did, because I should have been able to smoke my first workout.

Anyway I'm really achy today as a result. Gonna get back in there tonight. The days of doing nothing must come to an end for good.

I ate like a fucking pig tonight. Two huge helpings of the main meal, lots of bread and then a decent sized cake ball and a strawberry cupcake. I felt like a disaster, but I had to do to EA Active tonight. I got a cramp in my side 10 minutes into it, but I prevailed. I still feel like a stuffed pig. I don't know what came over me. I burned 180 calories tonight, which probably doesn't even make up for the cake ball.

you just made me google cake ball..... why have I never heard of this delicious looking treat before?

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- Oh, great. You killed the invisible swordsman!
-- He's dead, all right.
--- How was I supposed to know where he was?
- You were supposed to fire up. _We_ both fired _up_.

I've never heard of it before either. It does look delicious...

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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. "

Yeah they're awesome. My sister has recently gotten into making crazy cupcakes and treats like cake balls. It's so hard to turn down those treats since they're not store bought garbage snacks (though still absolutely awful for you). Dem has also made them before but they were slightly different. She made cake pops, which is kind of the same idea only they were smaller and they have a stick.

you're in the clear, looks like cake balls are around 120-150 calories haha

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- Oh, great. You killed the invisible swordsman!
-- He's dead, all right.
--- How was I supposed to know where he was?
- You were supposed to fire up. _We_ both fired _up_.

Hahaha, good. Still didn't help that cupcake I ate though.

I haven't posted in this thread in forever because I've stopped playing EA Active, for now anyway, I might go back one day. Maybe. Instead I've been doing P90X thanks to some copies that John gave me. I haven't been doing it hardcore and following the schedule like you're supposed to, but I try to do at least 3 or 4 workouts from it a week. It's been really hard, but I think I'm getting better at it. There were some routines I couldn't finish at first that I can now get through. It's crazy how much harder this is than doing EA Active. EA Active was so much harder than Wii Fit.... I don't think I could ever go back to Wii Fit. It's a great beginner tool, and I love using the scale to weigh myself and track it, but yeah, it just doesn't compare.

One reason I loved doing exercise video games was because I loved all the stat tracking. It made me feel like I was accomplishing something. I thought I was really going to miss that stuff moving over to non interactive programs, but I've been enjoying it anyway. It feels much douchier doing these DVDs, but they're really tough and I get way more out of it I think. Tony Horton cracks me up though because he's such an ass, so he's a good trade off for the video game coaches.

So far I've managed to come down to 150 pounds according to Wii Fit, which means I'm realistically about 155, I think Wii Fit is slightly off. It's cool being able to scroll back on the diagram to like three years ago to see when I weighed about 180. It's neat seeing it rise and fall and being able to associate it with what I was doing at that point in time. Like when I was laid off, my weight fell because I wasn't eating delicious lunches at Wegmen's daily, and then see a increase when I got a new job. Then when the babies were born and I wasn't doing any exercises I somehow lost weight, probably from just being that much more busy.

I've actually gained about 7 lbs now. I'm up to 145. It could be the job since I go out to eat pretty much every day for lunch. But I've also been going to the gym 4 times week with some pretty intense cardio on Fridays. So I'm hoping that extra weight is muscle and not fat. I don't look or feel fatter so I'm just going to assume it's muscle. I also upped the amount of weight I bench now to match my weight. I was only doing 135 before but I figured it was time to move up since I've gained weight. Moving up that extra 10lbs actually wasn't that bad. I might try 155 next time. Maybe I will finally reach my target weight of 150 by the end of the year.

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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. "

How tall are you, Russel?

5' 7 1/2. I usually round up and tell people I'm 5'8. I'm probably 5'8 in the mornings. ha

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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. "

How do you have time to go to the gym four days a week with a new born?

I go after work. Then I got home afterwards. It's better that way because there's so much damn traffic. The time I spend in at the gym, half of it would be sitting in traffic if I just went straight home. And sometimes, there still freaking traffic after I get out at around 7:00pm.

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"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. "

Oh okay.

I'd love to take some sort of karate class or something but aside from not having the money, I don't really have the time. I don't know what I want to do though. Maybe not Karate. I don't know what I'd want to learn, I just know I want to learn how to whoop someone if I ever needed to.