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Uric acid came back a little high from my annual health exam at 7.8 mg/dl. In terms of diet, I do eat a lot of red meat, not so much protein powder lately. I eat pretty much entirely "real food" at home, for lunches, it's the typical Japanese restaurant food, and I focus mostly on rice rather than processed wheat.
I'm pretty active with lifting three times a week, and random jogs, hikes and swims.
Anything I should be concerned about, or should I do something to lower that reading?
I spoke to my physician immediately after the exam, and she told me that I needed to exercise more, my BMI was too high, and my waist size was too large. Did tell me to eat less fat and red meat, which I'm kind of on the fence about, especially since I've done paleo for a good while.
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Hey guys, I have a quick question. I recently started working out/weightlifting after 6 months of inactivity. My feet seem to hurt worse than they normally do. Am I doing something wrong? Do I need new shoes? Or is it just normal? Thanks.
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What kind of shoes are you wearing and what lifts? Feel free to give a little more context but it could be your feet are just used to having you seated so activity will make them sore for a time.
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I'm wearing an Adidas running shoe. I do hang cleans, squats, and the like that involve feet.
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On May 14 2014 16:00 Cambium wrote: Uric acid came back a little high from my annual health exam at 7.8 mg/dl. In terms of diet, I do eat a lot of red meat, not so much protein powder lately. I eat pretty much entirely "real food" at home, for lunches, it's the typical Japanese restaurant food, and I focus mostly on rice rather than processed wheat.
I'm pretty active with lifting three times a week, and random jogs, hikes and swims.
Anything I should be concerned about, or should I do something to lower that reading?
I spoke to my physician immediately after the exam, and she told me that I needed to exercise more, my BMI was too high, and my waist size was too large. Did tell me to eat less fat and red meat, which I'm kind of on the fence about, especially since I've done paleo for a good while.
BMI is stupid. Blanket stating you to eat less fat is also stupid.
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On May 14 2014 23:47 decafchicken wrote:Show nested quote +On May 14 2014 16:00 Cambium wrote: Uric acid came back a little high from my annual health exam at 7.8 mg/dl. In terms of diet, I do eat a lot of red meat, not so much protein powder lately. I eat pretty much entirely "real food" at home, for lunches, it's the typical Japanese restaurant food, and I focus mostly on rice rather than processed wheat.
I'm pretty active with lifting three times a week, and random jogs, hikes and swims.
Anything I should be concerned about, or should I do something to lower that reading?
I spoke to my physician immediately after the exam, and she told me that I needed to exercise more, my BMI was too high, and my waist size was too large. Did tell me to eat less fat and red meat, which I'm kind of on the fence about, especially since I've done paleo for a good while. BMI is stupid. Blanket stating you to eat less fat is also stupid.
I'm pretty sure she was forced to say that by some Japanese doctor law, or she's just operating on really outdated information, like most people/things are here in Japan.
I'm still curious about the uric acid reading.
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On May 14 2014 23:47 decafchicken wrote:Show nested quote +On May 14 2014 16:00 Cambium wrote: Uric acid came back a little high from my annual health exam at 7.8 mg/dl. In terms of diet, I do eat a lot of red meat, not so much protein powder lately. I eat pretty much entirely "real food" at home, for lunches, it's the typical Japanese restaurant food, and I focus mostly on rice rather than processed wheat.
I'm pretty active with lifting three times a week, and random jogs, hikes and swims.
Anything I should be concerned about, or should I do something to lower that reading?
I spoke to my physician immediately after the exam, and she told me that I needed to exercise more, my BMI was too high, and my waist size was too large. Did tell me to eat less fat and red meat, which I'm kind of on the fence about, especially since I've done paleo for a good while. BMI is stupid. Blanket stating you to eat less fat is also stupid. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2589794/Female-bodybuilder-told-diet-exercise-branded-obese-NHS-nurse.html
BMI!!!!11111 :D
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Maybe if she wasn't such a fatty she would have placed better than 6th at miss universe lololol
But yeah I picked my doctor cause she has an interest in sports and told me at my phsyical "Your BMI says you're obese but i think 99% of people would be lucky to be as 'obese' as you, eat whatever you want"
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i am a skinny person and my stomach is like getting bigger fatter, how do i get rid of it? I rarely exercise...
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On May 18 2014 20:55 justiceknight wrote: i am a skinny person and my stomach is like getting bigger fatter, how do i get rid of it? I rarely exercise... Sooo....?
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i mean what type of exercise could get rid of those fats lol
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You cannot spot reduce, so there are no specific exercises that will help you get rid of that fat specifically.
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On May 18 2014 22:24 justiceknight wrote: i mean what type of exercise could get rid of those fats lol
Generic question gets generic answer. Eat less move more.
Longer answer is that where your body stores fat is genetically determined. There are no exercises you can do to lose fat from your stomach, you can only lose fat, period. It will come off from all over (some of it fat you didn't realize you had) including your stomach.
As far as ways to lose fat in general, there are two. Eat less, or move more (but doing both to a lesser extent is probably easiest). Count your calories. There's a thousand and one smartphone apps out there to do it with. Eat less than you're currently eating, and you'll stop putting on weight. Eat less than that, and you'll start dropping fat. Lift weights to help with body composition (how much of your body weight is muscle and how much is fat) and do cardio both because there are a bunch of health benefits, and to raise the number of calories your body is burning per day.
That's the overview. If you have a more specific question, we can do specific answers.
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If you want to lose weight and are not physically active, the first thing to do is to get your diet under control.
Do NOT start with sports if you don't have your diet under control! Otherwise you will start compensating for the lost calories with the wrong kinds of food.
A good diet means a LOT of vegetables, some fruit, nuts, seeds, eggs and lean meat/fish every other day. Avoid any kind of processed food, or in other words: Avoid 80% of the supermarket!
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I've had the ultimate goal of doing an Iron Man for years now. Decided to finally start working towards that goal. I've done a lot of cycling on and off over the years (did a 250km bike race 2 years ago), and a tiny bit of running. (I think around 2 years ago I was really proud of running 10k in an hour without resting). I pretty much can't swim though. I mean I can swim well enough to not drown in a pool, but I've never learned anything other than a very sloppy almost doglike breast stroke/paddle.
How do I get started on working towards that goal? I haven't moved pretty much at all and I've gained a fair bit of weight since my active period 2 years ago (so I'm now 100kg at 1.93m / 220 lbs at 6 ft 4). I mention this not because I want advice on how to lose weight, because that should happen automatically once I start getting active again and shore up my diet a bit. I mention it because it might impact the amount of running I could do without risking injury in my knees, hips, ankles.
I pretty much exercised for the first team in ages today, did a 35km bike ride and considering how easy that went I think I should have my biking back to close to where it was 2 years ago in no time.
There's a lot of practice schedules online, and I found a book online on how to get started training for a triathlon, complete with general tips and practice schedules. Should I just order that and get started on a beginner's schedule, while finding somebody to teach me a decent front crawl? Anything you guys think I should or shouldn't do?
edit: put it here because I didn't think this warranted it's own thread. edit2: I just wanted to mention that the Iron Man would be a multi year, long term goal. I'm still thinking about a challenging but attainable short term goal. There's a 1/4 triathlon in september around where I live, but I have no idea how realistic of a goal that would be. For now I just want to start training.
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@Mikau Tim Ferriss put on a ted talk about how to learn anything and one of his examples he used was swimming, and he references what he used to learn. Worth checking out imo. As for training for triathalons, I'd just search out what other succesful people did to train and copy that.
Do you know the qualification process for the iron man? I was interested in it once but can't remember if you have to qualify through open half iron mans or if you have to qualify for those as well.
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Thanks for the tip on Tim Ferriss. Was a great Ted talk and I ordered the method he mentioned using for learning how to swim (Total Immersion bij Terry Laughlin). If it works for somebody who's terrified of water it should be good enough to get me doing a decent enough free stroke. As for the training, I guess I'll just find some good or popular training schedules and stick with that for a while.
I have no idea how and if you have to qualify. Most of the (non iron man) triathlons in the Netherlands are rather casual, so you can just signup to whatever. By the time I get good enough to even think about doing an actual Iron Man I'll look into potential qualification routes.
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whats your opinion on fish oil?
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The omega-3 fatty acids docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) are orthomolecular, conditionally essential nutrients that enhance quality of life and lower the risk of premature death.
I'd say fish oil is pretty neat.
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On June 03 2014 00:59 decafchicken wrote:Show nested quote +The omega-3 fatty acids docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) are orthomolecular, conditionally essential nutrients that enhance quality of life and lower the risk of premature death. I'd fish oil is pretty neat.
fuk yeh
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