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Hoarach · « **Reply #15 on:** February 19, 2006, 10:05:25 PM »

Then the best thing can do is aerobic work if trying to lose fat. Go running, set a goal length and dont stop and walk. Keep running doesnt matter how slow your going. Pushups wont do much except build muscle in the upper body if thats what you want.

Doing heavy lifting though can help lose weight but wont see it on a scale as muscle weights twice as much as fat. If your sweating a lot while lifting heavy weights you are burning fat.

If you want to go cheap though and avoid those expensive machines just by a bench. You can many excercises with just that and work many different muscles as I listed in my post above.

SirLoin · « **Reply #16 on:** February 20, 2006, 05:40:06 AM »

Check the used mechandise in buy & sell...always lots people sellin that sorta stuff cheap.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #17 on:** February 20, 2006, 10:42:39 AM »

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Originally posted by eskimo2
I also have a rowboat and a kayak

Hey eskimo, you have one of these:

or one of these:

I have the latter, a cedar single shell I bought new in '87, and one of these that I row in the winter.

When weight training is on the menu, I go to the gym. It seems that the act of going somewhere to weight train is a motivation in and of itself to actually get the circuit done.

Monk · « **Reply #18 on:** February 20, 2006, 10:57:46 AM »

100 crunchies
100 push-ups
a day

and get one of these

I have one and love it.

Take a bike out or run a bit. Clubs are a waste of money.........something for the muckies.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #19 on:** February 20, 2006, 11:05:06 AM »

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Originally posted by Monk
100 crunchies
100 push-ups
a day

and get one of these

I have one and love it.

Take a bike out or run a bit. Clubs are a waste of money.........something for the muckies.

I would argue that, we have a family membership at the YMCA and we all use it 364 days a year, either swimming lessons for the kids, basketball, my son lifts weights and runs on the treadmill with me (he's 10, so his weight lifting is light weight, lots of reps) and the wife takes advantage of the aerobics at the club. They even have this "Parents NIght Out" program where you drop your kids off, while you and your spouse can go out and enjoy a night until 11pm without the kids. They feed the kids, take them to the pool, other fun activities.

Speaking of excercise, gotta go, the family is heading up to the pass to get some skiing/snowboarding in. Ciao!

eskimo2 · « **Reply #20 on:** February 20, 2006, 11:06:39 AM »

I have a POS flat bottomed, square nosed, 11.5’ x 3.5’, aluminum skiff and wooden oars. The only good thing about it is that I can put it on my car’s roof rack by myself and it will hold my daughters and enough toys, food and junk to entertain them for a couple of hours. I typically row from two to six miles whenever I take them out. I also have a POS $35 garage sale two-hole kayak that I re-glassed; it can hold my wife, two oldest daughters and I but usually just I put both kids in the front hole. The hull is canoe shaped, so it’s not very fast but is pretty stable. Lastly I have two POS whitewater kayaks that I’ve had forever and have hauled from Alaska to Colorado and now to Ohio. I would love to get a sculling boat or an efficient family-sized row boat, but I am poor so I just use the heck out of what I have. I think I’d paddle an old log if it’s all I had.
When I lived in Hawaii I had a skinny 19’ sit-on-top ocean racing kayak. That was the best paddling experience ever. I cruised all over Oahu, surfed, chased turtles, dolphins, cargo ships and even participated in ocean racing (I sucked though).

eskimo

eagl · « **Reply #21 on:** February 20, 2006, 11:17:29 AM »

Eskimo,

Make sure you get the girls used to the idea of hopping out of the boat and swimming occasionally. Get some masks, snorkels, and kiddie size fins and get them in the water whenever you find something interesting underwater. They're the perfect age to start getting them comfortable with skindiving equipment in a swimming pool.

I've found being comfortable in any water environment has been a huge benefit in my life, and it's funny/sad how so many people are terrified by the thought of swimming in the ocean. If kids are introduced to it when they're young, they'll benefit from that extra comfort level for their entire life. Few things are as cool as rowing/paddling a kayak out into the ocean, seeing a huge flock of manta rays swimming underneath, and being able to jump in and dive down for a closer look. Been there as a kid at scout camp out on catalina island, and it's one of my favorite growing-up memories. But it wouldn't have happened if my parent's weren't proactive in making sure I got into the water.

The same goes for camping and outdoor skills, but this thread semi-hijack is about boats

Thrawn · « **Reply #22 on:** February 20, 2006, 11:17:56 AM »

I work out twice a day by carrying a cow up a mountain.

eskimo2 · « **Reply #23 on:** February 20, 2006, 12:02:36 PM »

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Originally posted by eagl
Eskimo,

Make sure you get the girls used to the idea of hopping out of the boat and swimming occasionally. Get some masks, snorkels, and kiddie size fins and get them in the water whenever you find something interesting underwater. They're the perfect age to start getting them comfortable with skindiving equipment in a swimming pool.

I've found being comfortable in any water environment has been a huge benefit in my life, and it's funny/sad how so many people are terrified by the thought of swimming in the ocean. If kids are introduced to it when they're young, they'll benefit from that extra comfort level for their entire life. Few things are as cool as rowing/paddling a kayak out into the ocean, seeing a huge flock of manta rays swimming underneath, and being able to jump in and dive down for a closer look. Been there as a kid at scout camp out on catalina island, and it's one of my favorite growing-up memories. But it wouldn't have happened if my parent's weren't proactive in making sure I got into the water.

The same goes for camping and outdoor skills, but this thread semi-hijack is about boats

That’s good advice. We take them to swimming lessons in the summers. The six year old is naturally a wimp and wouldn’t put her head under water until she was 5 last summer. The four year old is pretty much the opposite and would spend most of her time under water last year when she was three. We have one more who turns one in a couple of weeks; no Idea how she will turn out. The lakes in my part of Ohio are not great for swimming; lots of little creatures that can make you sick. The summer before last the entire family (from age 2 to 85) got sick from swimming at a designated swimming lake. Our doctors advised that they saw lots of cases like ours all summer long.

I actually have a fear of water and can’t swim worth a damn. I’m religious about wearing a life jacket though. In Hawaii I got my butt kicked in the surf a few times. After whipping out in the surf I’d have to get back on my boat, point it into the next wave, paddle into it, put my head and chest down and knife the paddle so that I could punch through it. Usually I couldn’t make it all happen quickly enough and the wave would eat me up again. Several minutes of this would just wear me out. Without a life jacket on I don’t think I would have survived some of those episodes.

Since this thread has been totally hijacked to boating, here are a few kayak clips from my family web site:

Kayaking on Ice - 1-28-06
http://www.wwiirt.com/halls/movies/kayak_1_28_2006.wmv
Windows Media Video - 66 seconds, 4.7 MB

Kayaking in January - 1-25-06
http://www.wwiirt.com/halls/movies/kayak_jan.wmv
Windows Media Video - 34 seconds, 2.7 MB

David, Svea & Brigitta in the two hole Kayak - 3-29-05
http://www.wwiirt.com/halls/movies/kayaking_2005.wmv
Windows Media Video - 25 seconds, 1.2 MB

eskimo

eagl · « **Reply #24 on:** February 20, 2006, 12:30:45 PM »

Surf swimming is an art... Takes practice in low surf conditions before you figure it out. In many cases, you're best off hugging your gear and diving for the bottom under the wave. If you have a kayak or whatever that you have to drag with you, either throw it over the wave ahead of you and dive under, or just tie it to your ankle and go under the waves with the kayak/board/whatever smashing through/over the wave up top.

Snorkeling is fun though. Get the kids some mask/snorkel/fin sets for the pool. Go cheap since you don't need expensive gear as a kid and they'll outgrow it in a year anyhow. If possible, get fins that have adjustable straps so at least those will last a year or two. Then if/when you get to a nice snorkeling location, buy some newer gear and let the kids enjoy the underwater sights instead of having to first learn how to get comfortable diving down before they can enjoy what they see.

Heck, put on a mask and some fins yourself, and un-learn your water aversion

Thrash about in a pool until you can swim for about 30 min without much rest, and then take scuba lessons. If you can get that first scuba certificate, you won't regret it.

In that second vid, I thought the swan was gonna come over and kick your butt

gofaster · « **Reply #25 on:** February 20, 2006, 02:04:37 PM »

Cargo magazine has a pretty good workout program going on; combo of Pilates, free weight, and cardio. Starts out with 15 minutes of Pilates and some jumprope. No gym membership, no big equipment required. Even has an online log to track your progress and keep you motivated, along with diet and training tips.