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  • Belly35
    friendfromlowry;1650988 wrote:No one gives a shit.
    not yet, in the coming months with additional data, and proven stats, ever athlete, trainers, sport teams and coaches will be interested and mentality like yours will keep you at status quo.... Hope this helps
  • friendfromlowry
    Belly35;1650995 wrote:not yet, in the coming months with additional data, and proven stats, ever athlete, trainers, sport teams and coaches will be interested and mentality like yours will keep you at status quo.... Hope this helps
    What about your current business strategy of recruiting strangers on the internet in broken English? Will that go away?
  • HelloAgain
    Glad Belly has decided to drop the successful entrepreneur character and is now resorting to selling snake oil on an internet forum.

  • jmog
    Benched 325lb the other day. Only about 40-50 below what I was doing in HS. Also, that is up from the 210 I could do just 3-4 months ago when I started out.

    Have lost 12 lbs but lost 3 inches on my waist and have a six pack again. Just some love handles to go.

    Ran a 5k last night and I hate running. Had been running 5k's in under 30 min around town but last night twisted my ankle half way through...ended at 34 min. I wasn't happy.
  • ernest_t_bass
    jmog;1651054 wrote:Benched 325lb the other day. Only about 40-50 below what I was doing in HS. Also, that is up from the 210 I could do just 3-4 months ago when I started out.

    Have lost 12 lbs but lost 3 inches on my waist and have a six pack again. Just some love handles to go.

    Ran a 5k last night and I hate running. Had been running 5k's in under 30 min around town but last night twisted my ankle half way through...ended at 34 min. I wasn't happy.
    Sweet bro
  • BR1986FB
    [h=1]LIFT-RUN-BANG.com[/h]
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    Why kids are fatter
    Posted: 08 Sep 2014 07:28 AM PDT


    When I was in my youth, I'm pretty positive we ate all the junk and drank all the coke that most kids eat and drink today.

    During summer, I can remember breakfast being cinnamon rolls, then lunch being some gas station sandwich, a snickers, a bag of chips, and a Dr. Pepper. When it got late, I'd go home and eat dinner. Possibly staying up late eating more potato chips and junk as well.

    Now don't get me wrong, my mom cooked plenty of healthy meals too. In fact, looking back I realize just how healthy my mom did cook most of the time. Baked chicken, lean cuts of red meat, vegetables, and garden raised vegetables were usually the norm. But my diet was full of junk too.

    In the school year, we ate the same shitty cafeteria food that I think most kids get today. That god damn square pizza or hamburgers that surely couldn't have been beef (I believe it was soy burgers). Loaded down with mayo and then an assortment of diabeetus and heart clenching side foods.

    Yet, I don't remember having many fat friends. Yeah, we had a fatty here or there in class, but it was few and far between.


    The common thinking, from what I have seen fairly often in regards to all of this, is that we need to feed our kids healthier meals. And I agree with that for the most part. However, there is probably a bigger culprit here.


    Its really as simple as this, in my opinion. Kids just aren't very active these days.


    See, during those summers when I was shoveling down snickers bars and root beer and Dr. Pepper and staying up late at night eating whole bags of Oreo cookies, I had also spent the entire day riding my bike, climbing trees and water towers (yes, water towers). Often times, I had rode my bike somewhere to do some other activity. Like play baseball with my friends, or tackle football (in the South we played tackle without pads all summer because two-hand-touch or flag football was for pussies).


    I also had a trampoline and sometimes we'd jump on that god damn thing for hours on end. When school rolled around, we played football, and baseball, and basketball. We still had "PE" (physical education class) where we had to run, and do sit ups, and chin ups, and play dodge ball. We had long recesses where we'd play kick ball, or see who could swing down the monkey bars the most times without falling off.


    Then when we got out of school, we'd still get on our bikes and go climb shit all day again. Instead of riding the bus, Barry Poole and I used to walk to school. It was probably only a mile and a half but add it up. After a whole day of activity at school, that's three miles of walking. Sometimes after school you might have been challenged to a good ol fist fight. And that would burn some calories too because you'd wrestle around and perform some WWE style shit for 10 or 15 minutes before someone FINALLY threw a punch that landed and then the recipient of said punch would be like "ok, bro you win." And you'd shake hands and be buddies after that.


    We needed that junk and those extra calories to grow. We needed it because our days were very energy demanding.


    We had video games too. And when a buddy would stay over, we'd stay up most of the night playing and of course, eating more junk. But we didn't sit around for 6 hours the next day kicking ass at Mario Brothers. We were out causing trouble somewhere.


    Listen, this isn't just me having revisionist history about my youth. This study showed that kids nowadays, on average, are fatter and slower now than my generation was in our youth.


    My own thoughts in this article are backed up in this study.


    "Kids aren't getting enough opportunities to build up that activity over the course of the day," Daniels said. "Many schools, for economic reasons, don't have any physical education at all. Some rely on recess" to provide exercise.


    That's right, some school don't have PE AT ALL. Think about that for a minute. So kids go to school, sit in class all fucking day, and really don't get to move very much at all. Then when most of these kids leave school, they go home, play some gaming console for hours on end, or get on social networking sites, or play on their smart phones, and literally don't move most of the day. Unfortunately, a lot of these kids aren't as lucky as I was in that their parents aren't cooking "healthy meals" either. I know because my kids tell me about what is served in other houses when they go stay the night with friends.


    Most homes now, if both parents are present (which is another topic all together), both work and often order pizza or grab some fast food for dinner. If they do cook, it's generally a high fat and high carbohydrate laden meal because hey, that shit tastes good and "that's what my kids like to eat."


    We as a society have changed monumentally since my youth. And from a health standpoint, not in a good way. Technology is a fine thing but it's most certainly played a part in "baby sitting" our youth and with an ever increasing pressure to up academic standards, things like "PE" have fallen to the wayside.


    These trend for many continues on into college.


    http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20090728/freshman-15-college-weight-gain-is-real



    Those who gained at least 5% of their body weight reported less physical activity during their first semester at college than in high school and were more likely to eat breakfast and slept more than those who didn’t gain as much.


    LESS PHYSICAL ACTIVITY?


    LESS?!?!?


    Just taking a guess here, what this may mean is, the kids who were required to perform in physical education class in high school, got to college, did no physical activities, and gained more fat.


    Awesome.


    So what's the remedy here?


    Obviously there needs to be a bigger emphasis on physical education in schools again. There has to be a way to take advantage of all this new technology to get kids more interested in being active again. Or at least being more active in school. The problem is, as noted, because of budget issues and funding many schools can't even afford a god damn physical education instructor. Once again, back full circle, because all of the money goes into academics.


    Schools would have to have a paradigm shift in order to change a lot of this. They would have to put a bigger emphasis on making sure that these programs do not fall to the wayside due to budget or funding constraints. And I do believe if they wanted to do that, it would be possible. Fund raising and finding sponsors for such things are viable options. The problem is, we also have a generation of adults that are fatter than ever, and often don't see a need for pouring money into such programs. So they don't get involved. After all, the obese parents are a part of why the child is obese as well.


    Not only that, the parents themselves would need to grasp the importance of having physically active kids, by simply becoming more active as well. Taking a walk to the park with their kids, or playing kick ball not only provides for fun family time, but makes being active a lot more enjoyable. And if the kids enjoy doing something, they will likely want to do it more often. My Captain Obvious quote in full glory with that last sentence.


    Until we decide that physical fitness and simply "moving more" constantly gets applied to that "eating less" mantra, things won't change a whole lot. It's not that we are just fatter as a nation, but we are instilling habits in our kids to ensure that their kids will be fatter, and the cycle will continue. I'm all for education, but our health doesn't and SHOULDN'T take a backseat to it at every turn.


    If you're an adult that has slacking in the physical activity department, then go buy a bike with your kid and ride bikes together. Buy a football and baseballs and play catch together. Get involved with your school if there is no physical education program. I'm lucky enough to live in an area where not only do they emphasize it, but so much so that the kids have options for physical education classes.


    If you're not that lucky then become a part of the solution in some way. I can't tell you how many stories I've heard from people who lost weight as adults, and talked about how miserable it was to be a fat kid.

  • vdubb96
    Love it BR!!! Good shit!
  • Belly35
    BR great post but you forgot the fact that in your youth and mine, we and the guys where able to "organize" a game of football, construct a baseball field from hub cap, bricks and shingles, dig a fort, build a tree house from scrap and fix a wobbly bike rim by standing on it…. Organization skills, creative ambition and common senses mechanics lost…
  • BR1986FB
    Belly35;1652295 wrote:BR great post but you forgot the fact that in your youth and mine, we and the guys where able to "organize" a game of football, construct a baseball field from hub cap, bricks and shingles, dig a fort, build a tree house from scrap and fix a wobbly bike rim by standing on it…. Organization skills, creative ambition and common senses mechanics lost…
    I don't see a lot of today's kids taking the time to separate their hands from an electronic gadget to actually do these things....it's a shame because I see a lot of fatties who are more concerned with their Call of Duty score than getting outside and getting some exercise.
  • Zoltan
    I just got back at it last night with a circuit workout. Took July/Aug off and was basically super lazy and ate junk.
  • Sonofanump
    [video=youtube;zG7iY01dxpI][/video]
  • DeyDurkie5
    Belly35;1652295 wrote:BR great post but you forgot the fact that in your youth and mine, we and the guys where able to "organize" a game of football, construct a baseball field from hub cap, bricks and shingles, dig a fort, build a tree house from scrap and fix a wobbly bike rim by standing on it…. Organization skills, creative ambition and common senses mechanics lost…
    Oh shut the fuck up old man
  • Belly35
    DeyDurkie5;1652517 wrote:Oh shut the fuck up old man
    for a guy hiding behind a computer keyboard you're a brave and brash individual, next time you visit your mom in ohio let me know. I will meet with you any time or place. You'll have two options we can talk and understand each more and I will by lunch or you can take your best shot at kicking a 65 year old guys ass and we will get to meet your mom the nurse.
  • BR1986FB
    Shit's getting real.....
  • Sonofanump
    I'll put my money on belly and his miracle water.
  • Raw Dawgin' it
    Sonofanump;1652503 wrote:[video=youtube;zG7iY01dxpI][/video]
    what a bunch of queers
  • slcoach
    Sonofanump;1652503 wrote:[video=youtube;zG7iY01dxpI][/video]

    I believe I seen about 22 pounds of muscle in that entire video.
  • DeyDurkie5
    Belly35;1652530 wrote:for a guy hiding behind a computer keyboard you're a brave and brash individual, next time you visit your mom in ohio let me know. I will meet with you any time or place. You'll have two options we can talk and understand each more and I will by lunch or you can take your best shot at kicking a 65 year old guys ass and we will get to meet your mom the nurse.
    I'm sure if we met in real life we would get along just fine. But your "my generation rules this generation sucks" thing you've got going on on this site is fucking retarded. Your generation raised our generation so what does that say about you?
  • Belly35
    DeyDurkie5;1652579 wrote:I'm sure if we met in real life we would get along just fine. But your "my generation rules this generation sucks" thing you've got going on on this site is fucking retarded. Your generation raised our generation so what does that say about you?
    Didn’t understand the first part of your comments but please explain and I will be more than willing to reply

    The second part .. I didn’t raise you. Your beliefs and attitude are that of your own perception (you built yourself nobody else), your parents and their moral and value structure of the family is what has influenced you or the part that you cared to understand. Your peers has set a believe standard that has also filtrated into your mental process at you wished to accept. To blame one generation for your generation action is weak. What are you a mouse in a running cage.
    If what your life is now and you’re not happy, fulfilled and comfortable do something more that just point blame. Change what you do and how you do it, alter your friends, create new relationship, clean up your act, read, lesson and learn for all walks of life and most of all find the position around you and use it to your advantage to be more.
  • like_that
    Stfu belly.
  • Commander of Awesome
    I thought this thread was about health and working out ? Smh
  • ernest_t_bass
    I'll probably be starting the 21 Day Fix workouts tomorrow.
  • Automatik
    Nah, it's now about a 65 year old man straining to type while expressing his "get off my lawn" logic.
  • Belly35
    Commander of Awesome;1652606 wrote:I thought this thread was about health and working out ? Smh
    You're right
    I don't workout and I'm in the best of health I’ve been in years with a few injuries.
    Working with a doctor friend on a device that seems to have positive tests results in the area of sport medicine. I do have a back ground in Sport Medicine and Kinesiology from Bowling Green University.
    More testing is required for statically data for marketing, documentation and reports. FDA approval is confusing because they can’t understand the technology, but we are working with them.
    What I’m looking for is additional feed back to those I can demonstrate, getting their opinion of the results within minutes.
    Friends and family are never good for feed back…
  • Automatik
    I'm listening, go on...