Why you should exercise.

[Daniel Krispin]

So am I the only one here that excersises and works out because I like the way it makes my body look and cuz it gets you more girls??

nah i  spend about 6 hours a week lifting and 3-4 hours a week doing cardio.  also that ranger comment earlier....sigh.  i have always wondered why people think te rangers are such badasses.  the rangers are about the equivilant to the marines infantry.  the tough guys are the special forces, recon, and para-rescue.  rangers pt 2 hours a day and do alot of land nav.  thats not impressive.  ive seen alot of fat ass rangers.

And the toughest of all, more so than any Recon, SEALS, or Delta Force: British SAS, and Canadian JTF II, the best and most highly trained special forces in the world.

youd have to elaborate, i dont know much about the sas or the jtf

SAS is generally regarded as the best special forces in the world, so they're tops. I guess I left out Mossad, who are usually considered second, so I guess that puts JTFII third. However, Mossad tends to be more anti-terrorist. JTFII is Canadian special forces. But... no one knows much of anything about them. No one knows where they train, or what they do, only that they're near the top.

[Hadriel]

So am I the only one here that excersises and works out because I like the way it makes my body look and cuz it gets you more girls??

That's part of my reasoning for wanting to be healthier.  But it isn't to get girls, since I'm attached.  It's to please her.  The other half is for me.

But I don't have a lot of time these days; I rarely get actual exercise time in.  But you don't have to train like Rocky to be healthy.  Just walking more places and being more active in general plus watching what you eat goes a long way.  Of course, if you want an ideal physique, you're going to have to either put in the gym time or join some activity that gets you a lot of exercise regularly.

[Burning Zeppelin]

Mossad and Canada don't have a great relationship though.
Well, Mossad and most countries don't have a great relationship.

The Australian SAS is pretty highly regarded too.

[Radical_Dreamer]

So am I the only one here that excersises and works out because I like the way it makes my body look and cuz it gets you more girls??

That's part of my reasoning for wanting to be healthier.  But it isn't to get girls, since I'm attached.  It's to please her.  The other half is for me.

But I don't have a lot of time these days; I rarely get actual exercise time in.  But you don't have to train like Rocky to be healthy.  Just walking more places and being more active in general plus watching what you eat goes a long way.  Of course, if you want an ideal physique, you're going to have to either put in the gym time or join some activity that gets you a lot of exercise regularly.

Keep up the aerobics and you will. It improves the quality of your vascular system. I'll leave it to you to come to the obvious conclusion.

[Hadriel]

Exercising is a recursive process; the more you do it, the easier it gets.

[V_Translanka]

I just came across this quote while beginning to read L. Ron Hubbard's The Invaders Plan from his Mission Earth series of books...

So, you be sure to exercise every day. Otherwise, in that low gravity, your muscles and tendons will get flabby. And oxygenate yourself. And eat hamburgers and drink beer and you'll be fine.

[Daid]

Exercising is a recursive process; the more you do it, the easier it gets.

Yeah I agree. Recently I have started exerciseing more, since then I have found it easier to go for longer on the exercise bike without being tired out and I can run for much longer now

i agree with you.  it doesnt matter what people say, being healthy is a lifestyle choice.  i was at a japanese restaurant  a few months ago and i watched as a morbidly obese couple slurped down a gargantuan meal.  rice, sweet tea, and dessert, the whole works.  then at the table after they finished, the man injected his wife with insulin.  i havent eaten there in almost a year because of that image.

  That post gave me nightmares...

[Lord J Esq]

And yet in your sig you have a picture of Crono guzzling down soda (or something harder, if you prefer) for a sports contest. That makes no sense. Does an act of overindulgence only disgust you when those who are indulging are obese? That's prejudice, which is where this entire topic has been heading for a while now.

Good grief, you fools! Think before you hate.

[V_Translanka]

Maybe it's different because Crono is a fictional character.

[Hadriel]

Does an act of overindulgence only disgust you when those who are indulging are obese?

Pretty much, yeah.  And I'm speaking as someone who's overweight myself.  When my 120-pound Asian girlfriend eats a slice of pizza bigger than her head, it's cute because she's the one doing it.  When a 350-pound fatass eats a slice of pizza bigger than their head, it's fucking disgusting.

Anti-fat behavior isn't just a matter of personal preference.  It's hard-coded into our genes, and to try to ignore it like it doesn't matter is just as idiotic as depriving yourself of sex because some Bible-thumping fucktard says to.  Physicality matters, perhaps more than anything else, and the sooner people get over that, the better off all of us will be.  This is not the 1860s, fat people are not black slaves, and you are not in some shitty, overcorporatized cyberpunk future on a crusade to save the poor downtrodden fat people from oppression by people who are actually worth interacting with. 

You know what else pisses me off?  Fat people who are like "but I have a good personality wah wah waaaahh!"  You know why?  Because most of the time they DON'T.  If they did, they'd be honest with themselves that they don't have any self-control, and either stop eating 14 Ho-Hos per day or develop some overwhelmingly compelling reason to talk to them in spite of their repulsive appearance, like being funny as hell or contributing immense amounts of new scientific knowledge to the human race.  Otherwise, they can fuck right off.

I ain't talking about people who are 10 or 15 pounds overweight; the Hollywood image of hotness doesn't turn me on, anyway.  Half the time I look at their models and I'm like "goddamn, bitch, eat a fucking burger."  I'm talking about people who are 100 pounds overweight and continue to display this kind of behavior.

[Lord J Esq]

What a grotesque display of projected self-loathing. Your argument is the stereotypical foundation of all anti-fat prejudice. You're lucky the rest of us here don't hold you to your own standard.

As for the rest of your verbal dump, I can only say that human instincts are seldom the gold standard by which we ought to judge our behavior. Whatever our genes "tell" us to feel is insignificant compared to the power of a rational worldview. If you allow yourself to be disgusted by the act of fat people overeating, yet experience a contrary emotion when thin people overeat, then you are abandoning your credibility as a thinking person--which, really, is the major distinction between humans and most other animals.

So shut the fuck up, fattie. You're fat and have no right to an opinion on this. You don't know what you're talking about anyway, because you're so fat all you can think about is what a loser you are.

[V_Translanka]

But when a fat person eats it's unnecessary overendulgence, when a skinny person eats it's just like "catching up"...

Or binge eating I guess...*shrugs* But that's equally disgusting...

[Radical_Dreamer]

I don't quite agree V_T, but you are on to something. The reason it's comical when an especially skinny person over indulges in food, but not when an obese person does, is not part of some deep seated prejudice. It's because it goes against our notions of how the world works. Obesity is a consequence of over indulgence in food, so to see the two together is not humors or repulsive, you see it and think "Well...yeah." It's funny to see someone tiny overindulge in food because it appears wildly out of character. It'd be like hearing a dog meow. It would be funny, but not because of some hatred for dogs.

[Burning Zeppelin]

As usual, RD is spot on.
*sigh*, I'm gonna go now and eat 47 packets of Smith chips.

[Radical_Dreamer]

What's your BMI? I want to know if I should find that funny or not.