Good day to you all!

[Musashi1]

Hello everybody,

I'm Musashi and I'm interested in losing weight and gaining fitness. I've been a member of the gym for 2 weeks now and had my fitness review yesterday to tell me exactly how unfit I am and what I should be aiming for. I'm 101kg/16 stone and am wanting to get active again. I was at University for last 3 years and have since studying in 6th form used 'studying' as an excuse not to exercise and I gained weight pretty quickly. I want to get back into martial arts, squash, badminton and swimming, and of course to be healthy. In my final year at University I managed to lose 1 stone because I cut down on my eating and walked faster wherever I went. As in September 2009 I was 17 stone.

This forum looks like a fantastic place to go for talking about weight loss, and it'd be interesting to find what success people have been having and their methods, as well as contributing to the forum myself.

I look forward to joining in.
Cheers.
Musashi

 

[aevans42]

Hey Musashi what martial arts did you train? I train in muay thai i like the conditioning part as well for exercise purposes.

But to show you how good this forum really is just a post i saw couple minutes ago about a man who lost 300pounds! in not much over a year and a half. That post is in the weight loss programs section a great post to get motivation.

Good luck I'm sure you will enjoy it here.

 

[Musashi1]

Yeah, I just saw that thread, I say very well done to the man. It's proof that everybody ought to be able to succeed. It's good to see success from within this community.

I trained in Shotokan Karate, 1st kyu. The discipline I found was amazing, when studying I tried to find Karate dojos in the area, but all were watered down in comparison, even on the discipline front. Naturally, I want to get back into it, but I need to be fitter - I tried a stamina session on my own not so long ago, I could barely last 30 minutes...a session would last for 1hour 30 minutes, and as an advanced grade, an extra hour might be on top of that, so if I walked into a stamina training session, I'd be totally screwed. There's no way I could go back without being fitter.

As for Muay Thai, I keep seeing people getting into that, but I've never actually checked it out myself - I might have a look at it and see why so many people are attracted to it.

Cheers,
Musashi.