I'll echo the sentiments about this thread-excellent discussion. (
Anyone listen to the Beatles and/or The Rolling Stones and/or The Who while carrying a firearm while they work out? )
I'm a fairly simple (minded) work-out/diet person. A bit of history.
Kinda/sorta fat kid growing up (think husky clothes) and really didn't exercise much until I reached a point my first semester of medical school where I couldn't climb 2 flights of stairs without getting short of breath (no tobacco history) and reached my maximum weight of 175 pounds (I'm about 69.5 inches tall barefoot with about the same wingspan or less, can run about a 5 minute 40 yard dash and have a 3-4" vertical. No cinder block measurements available.) I started running at the beginning of 2nd semester, lost 15-20 pounds in the next 8 months and ran my first 10K, finishing in 48:00 on an 85 degree day in early September. There were about 10-12 of us who became "competitive" runners and ran races regularly for the next 3.5 year. Best achievements? An 89 minute half-marathon and three sub- 40 minute 10K races. Probably averaged 20-25 miles/week, maxing out at 30-35 miles/week training for 8-10 weeks for the 13.1 miler. Fun stuff. My wife beat me once in about 20-25 races
. Hit my low weight of 147 pounds when I graduated from medical school. I looked like I was malnourished.
Continued running 20-25 miles/week but no racing until 2009 when I had minor hernia surgery and my wife had her knee scoped for a minor meniscus tear. The devildeacs walking era begins. My wife has a FitBit and I simply keep track of steps on my iPhone, averaging about 20.5K steps or 9.4 miles daily over the last ~2.5 years. That step count also includes day-to-day activities and ballroom dancing, sometimes reaching 6-7K steps with 2 hours or more of dancing once or twice weekly. No gyms. We used to walk at about a 4 MPH pace but now it's more like 3.5 MPH, some flats/some neighborhood hills. Rarely miss a day of walking, even when it's a repulsive 90 degrees and 80% humidity in the summer or 7 degrees in the winter like last month, rain or shine, clear sidewalks or snow-covered.
Try to keep my weight under 160 pounds now. Weaknesses? Snacks (sometimes mid-morning, mid-afternoon, evening but rarely all 3
. Sometimes healthy: fruits, nuts, whole grain crackers. Sometimes not so healthy: cheese, ice cream, other desserts and peanut M&Ms) and
http://forums.dukebasketballreport.c...?3840-Ymm-Beer, averaging 1-2 beers/day. Lots of whole grain cereals (try to stay gluten-free on DBR however
), breads, yogurt, veggies, fish, poultry with occasional beef and pork in the diet but rarely meat-free. Could we be more disciplined? Sure, but we both like food. A lot.
Sorry so long. We both try to set examples for our patients, family and friends and think we do reasonably well.
Great discussion.