I'm in decent-ish shape, although there's always room for improvement.
Still can't do a single pull-up. Never could.
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Interesting stuff on backgroundI'm worried that I will be very much like your dad to my kids because I didn't cotton to sports growing up- mom tried, but she was rather passive agressive with her encouragement/mixed signals, and what she started, the meatheaded jocks in my junior high finished. I still consider most jocks to be drooling idiots, even when they aren't- unfair, I know, but still. I greatly enjoy martial arts and strange game-like sports like badminton and bike riding, however. My wife wants children who go outside and play football in good weather, I would prefer they read a book and learned something actually useful.
I see what's happened (esp. on my father's side) in the see-sawing from one extreme to the other over the generations. In some ways my dad completely rejected his parents' preferences - such as with sports and respecting the power of education - and in other ways he's embraced it. His sisters have embraced other areas of his parents' teaching, and rejected others. It's...well, it's a good cautionary tale for me to remember. Some of the things my parents have taught me, I have also rejected. Some I have embraced. I need to make sure my disagreements don't veer me off into extreme territory where I will regret the eventual fallout.
One thing I see a lot with parents that I think I will struggle with is assuming my children will be just like me in their skills, abilities, likes and dislikes. If my father doesn't like something, it's not just something he ignores. It's somehow evil, anethema. My brothers and I have this running joke where we will occasionally turn to each other after a ringing denouncement of something or other from Dad and say "Your preferences are wrong!"
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I've always been the stereotypical skinny nerd. In the last decade I've added a little pot belly that really makes me laugh at myself. I look like an Order of the Stick character now. So by the charts my weight isn't bad.
But I am way out of shape. No where near enough exercise. I constantly resolve to exercise more but ....
Pretty much exactly my scenario. Wrestled in High School at 145 lbs. and was 6'3". Same height, but 24 years later I'm closer to 210 lbs. I'm at a good weight, but I am sorely out of shape. Looking forward to the summer -- lots of hiking oportunities around here to help with it.
I don't know if it really has to do with "typical gamers". I think that typically gamers are more intelligent and therefore have jobs that don't have a lot of physical labor involved.
I'm another "skinny fat man" (i.e. ectomorph with a spare tire), but with every year that passes I get closer to just plain "fat man".
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I am 180cm tall and right on 70kg for weight (that is 5 foot 11 inches and 154 pounds in American). I think that’s about average. Visually, I’m not really skinny (I used to be) but I look by no means overweight. I’ve got a flat stomach but a little bit of flab around the sides (love handles I guess you’d say).
I tend to eat healthy meals with average portions, but my weakness is chocolate and other sweet, sugary food – I probably snack on that sort of stuff way too much (like, as I am typing this). I have a desk job and two young children. I never go to the gym, play organised sports, jog, or otherwise go out of my way to exercise, but I do tend to walk a lot (I often to choose to walk for short trips where other people I know might drive or catch the bus) and I walk up and down the three flights of steps in my building several times each day rather than take the lift.
While my weight and shape are pretty good, I’m probably not as healthy as I could be. I can walk for long distances and time periods without any ill effect, but a short stint of running usually leaves me puffing and out of breath. I could certainly stand to be fitter, but weight-wise and shape-wise I’m fairly ok.
Of the guys in my current gaming group, some are on the larger size, one or two are average and at least one is quite skinny. In my old gaming group I was really the only ‘average’ one weight-wise. Of the various regulars, we had two guys and a girl who were overweight, two guys and a girl who were really skinny, and two guys who were super-fit looking.
Not me either.
Not allowed to be fat in the Army, and besides, 'field' activities have a tendency to strip you down pretty fast.
I am a bit out of condition after the Christmas break, but am back in training etc so that is already disappearing.
I also fight competitively - so its all about the Cardio.
That said I am a 'meat head' cro-magnon type... 180cm/94kg.
(My ideal fight weight is 91kg ~ 200lb)
Didn't really get out of shape until this recession when working two sedentary jobs has nearly killed me. Trying to get back in shape, but I hit 40 in 2 weeks, so it's a bit harder to lose the fat. And funny, I don't have much time to game currently...at least not face to face.
I started struggling with my weight when I hit 35. Before that I was skinny and active enough to eat 50lbs of food a week and not gain a pound.
I love to eat, mainly due to that fact so now it is a real struggle. I vary my weight each year 10-20 lbs going from decent shape to starting to get overweight. Yep I am back on trying to loose weight again, from 196lbs at the holidays trying to get back down to about 180-185 by May.
I hate getting old. I like to geek but equally like to run, play tennis so I am in-between slightly fat vs. normal....I have lived in both England and the US, we both eat WAY too much, but it tastes soo good when it hits your lips :)
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I've always been built along the lines of a stripped-down semi truck, but I go back and forth between in shape and out of shape. When I was younger, I was a stereotypical mean, fat bully with no friends. Around age fifteen, I'd had enough, started working out, and dropped about forty pounds. I lifted weights and did track all through high school, and by graduation, I was 6'0" and 170 pounds of pretty solid muscle. After I graduated and went... nowhere, I started slowly losing my muscles and going back to fat. I tried to get back into lifting weights a few times, but I kept having other things (like jobs) get in the way. When I was 22, I finally went off to college, and everything went to s**~. In the last two years, I've lost about three inches off my biceps, and half an inch off my chest and shoulders (no joke--one of my chest tattoos is distorted from loss of muscle). Right now, I don't look bad, per se, but my middle has expanded (I'm up to 185, last I checked), and I'm still in some of the worst shape of my life. If things continue the way they're going, I'm going to look like this guy by next year.
When I was young I was the too damn skinny and short bunch, like a non-tolken elf. I was on the wrestling team for one year, during which I stepped on the scales with my backpack on, with my books in it and made weight, the lowest class.
Now I'm still short, but I'm built a little more like a dwarf, I'm 5'5" or so and 150 lbs. About two years ago i was at 165 or so. i'm still not fat, though i qualify for over weight (BMI is complete Bull) and compared to my wrestling days i'm way out of shape (i was a soccer player for years).
Jocks are like most people, some winners with a whole lot of losers.
Yeah, that's me.
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In my primary gaming group, i would say no one is in great shape. Two are overweight, one is a little heavy(by that I mean like 15 pounds are so over, he has a very slight pooch of a belly) 3 are avg weight(including me) and one guy is a bit skinny. Now as far as in decent shape, me and one of the avg guys and the slightly over weight guys are the only ones I say where in decent shape. The other guys who are not over weight are not in shape and still get tired easy.
For me unless it is raining i walk for a hour a day, and then do pushups and situps in the morning either way. Really just going for a walk every day helps a lot, helps keep the weight off and helps stay in slightly better shape.
I am out of shape, though still pretty healthy according to my last checkup. Need a touch more good cholesterol.
I am a bit tubby, yes.
I'm sorry....I was distracted by the cheesecake wonder woman figurine to your right (photo's left). =)
I've always been thin. At 34 I can still fit in the leather jeans I bought when I graduated college. While I'm generally in better shape when its warm enough to ride my mountain bike, the doc says my cholesterol, blood sugar, blood pressure, and resting pulse are all great. So long as I can keep cosplaying svelte animé and elvish characters that's good enough by me. :)
After I stopped playing hockey 6 years ago (wow, been that long already?) I've put on 15 lbs. so now I'm 5'9" and 185 lbs. I've found that all the injuries have made working out more difficult. I've blown out my left knee, dislocated both shoulders, torn tricep on both arms, torn thigh muscle and a broken hand. Some of those occured when I was reffing games, not playing. The group I play in is about 60/40 on the heavy side.
I'm definitely out of shape, but I wouldn't consider myself all that big. I've always been a bit husky, but I come from a family of men built like lumberjacks and woodsmen(hence my fondness for rangers), so I'm blaming genetics(nah, couldn't be my horrible diet and lack of exercise or anything). I'm 6'0, 250 lbs, if that says anything.
Here's my facebook with some pics, although it's set to private(long story) so I'm not sure how many you can see.
me; am working hard to improve my circulation; seems like my leg or arm or such is always falling asleep and ahem; correct my manly issues; that is my goal; wouldnt mind loosing maybe 8 lbs; so I have been working on it and things are getting better.
Bearing in mind that I am not a medical expert, just a layperson speaking from experience:
Some of this may be a neurological issue, not an issue of circulation. A simple example, if you lean on the back of your arm toward your elbows, the sides of your hands will feel like they've "fallen asleep." This is because of pressure on your ulnar nerve, near your elbow, not a circulation issue. This is a common "geek" problem if you do not have a good ergonomic setup for your keyboard (leaning your arms on the wrong part of a desk or chair will lead to this).
Losing weight and exercising will help because of course you're improving your neuromuscular strength and flexibility--but if you keep getting random numbness, you may want to consult with a neurologist or chiropractor (personally, I prefer the latter). You may have bones or ligaments out of whack contributing to the problem. If the numbness gets WORSE, definitely see a doctor and/or specialist of some kind, as it could in fact be indicative of a serious problem.
As for losing weight, the biggest thing helping me is eating out less. Which as a single person is harder than it sounds--very easy to get meals out, and/or that's often when I see/get to spend time with friends. When I cook for myself, I cook pretty healthy (and tasty) meals but I make far poorer decisions when eating out (or are presented with fewer healthy options, and restaurateurs tend to douse any and everything in butter to enhance the flavor, even if you don't realize it).
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RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32, 2010 Top 8
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Bad shoulder (been putting off surgery), and yeah I'm fat.
I do walk when it's warm enough, take Rocky around the complex. Allows me to see what condos are for rent, which ones are empty, and meet the neighbors. Also good for fuzzbut of course.
Can't go to the beach anymore
Those bastards from Greenpeace keep trying to push me back into the ocean
But like I told my overly PC English professor once. "I'm not a vertically gifted, horizontally challenged folically endowed pigmentally impared individual."
Don't take this personally... but that's not a sign of "decent-ish" shape.I'm in decent-ish shape, although there's always room for improvement.
Still can't do a single pull-up. Never could.
What can I say, I'm cursed with scrawny arms.
(Also, to be honest, I haven't actually tried to do a pull-up since I was 10. But I am still pretty sure I would fail at it. Oh well.)
6'4 228lbs, mostly bone density and muscle,it's funny because I consider myself out of shape even though most people don't.
6'4 228lbs, mostly bone density and muscle,it's funny because I consider myself out of shape even though most people don't.
You are out of the shape you USED to be in- not at all the same thing as being out of shape.
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All of my hobbies (except a recently attempted one I hope to stick with) are sedentary. I like to cook and bake. I hate pointless excercise and my parents actively discouranged sports from a young age. All of this means...yup! I"m the typical overweight out of shape gamer. Trying to take more than cursory steps to fix that now...wish I hadn't waited so long. Ah well.Why did they discourage sports?My guess: She's a girl and this is America. Extrapolating from that, I'd assume her parents are probably a bit on the conservative side, too.
Jess will, of course, correct me if I'm mistaken. :)
Hmm. Well, Dad grew up with parents that didn't hold much with "book larnin'", and he's always been a nerd. His dad made him help with the family business as a kid, and they tried to stop him from going to college (they did successfully prevent his sisters from getting any education). He grew up in an area with lots of jocks too, I'm guessing that may be part of his problem - but he hates sports of all kinds.
Mom was the town basketball star - she often wishes she'd been born 20 years later when she could have tried to join the WNBA. :) But Dad said he didn't want her to "force" us kids into sports. And encouragement counted as "force". Add in Dad's constant negative comments about any sports activity and his comment about how stupid jocks are, and after about 4th grade (I loved soccer as a kid), sports really weren't an option. On the plus side, Dad didn't have his parents' attitude about academic excellence - it was important enough to him that he even thought girls could be smart and do something other than marry and make babies. So there's good...and bad.
So, basically, he hated jocks so much there was no way his children were becoming jocks.
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Oh, and 6'1", 185, ex-military and a three sport letterman in high school (cross, track and basketball, 5A, pretty competitive, wouldn't have been on any of the teams if I didn't have the skill to compete).
My post-athletics lifestyle caused me to lose twenty pounds, I blew up to 215 in prison (some muscle from lifting weights, some fat from binging on honey buns when I'd get depressed), but I'm back down to 185 now and holding steady.
A little bit of a gut from not doing much cardio and abs work, but, overall, pretty much where I should be (I could stand to gain five, ten pounds of muscle, but I'm not sweating it).
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I am 188 cm and 105 kg, that's 6'3'' and 210 lbs. I could loose a few pounds, but my main problem is Pepsi addiction. I don't eat that much, but I tend to drink at least a litre of Pepsi or similar drinks per day. And since this is Serbia, our food is pretty much meat oriented, so I eat a lot of protein and very little carbohydrates. That helps a bit.
Round is a shape. Thus I do not fit in your description.
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I am 188 cm and 105 kg, that's 6'3'' and 210 lbs. I could loose a few pounds, but my main problem is Pepsi addiction. I don't eat that much, but I tend to drink at least a litre of Pepsi or similar drinks per day. And since this is Serbia, our food is pretty much meat oriented, so I eat a lot of protein and very little carbohydrates. That helps a bit.
I stopped drinking sodas except for during our game, and I dropped ten pounds in about sex months, no other changes in diet or exercise.
Those things are evil.
I stopped drinking sodas except for during our game, and I dropped ten pounds in about sex months, no other changes in diet or exercise.Those things are evil.
Wow, so you have sex months? Lucky guy :-)
That soda stuff in really evil - most of the time, I´m drinking mineral water or even tap water these days. I don´t like all that sweet stuff like coke anyway.
When I first heard of p90, I was wondering why people were exercising with Belgian assault rifles...Not out of shape..... Two reasons..
1) Was a Marine over 20 years ago and it taught me the importance of self discipline and exercise2)More importnatly...P90X Look it up - it's awesome.
Isn't the better question why aren't people exercising with Belgian assault rifles?
I am 188 cm and 105 kg, that's 6'3'' and 210 lbs. I could loose a few pounds, but my main problem is Pepsi addiction. I don't eat that much, but I tend to drink at least a litre of Pepsi or similar drinks per day. And since this is Serbia, our food is pretty much meat oriented, so I eat a lot of protein and very little carbohydrates. That helps a bit.I stopped drinking sodas except for during our game, and I dropped ten pounds in about sex months, no other changes in diet or exercise.
Those things are evil.
SEX months? Wow. Good work man.
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SEX months? Wow. Good work man.I am 188 cm and 105 kg, that's 6'3'' and 210 lbs. I could loose a few pounds, but my main problem is Pepsi addiction. I don't eat that much, but I tend to drink at least a litre of Pepsi or similar drinks per day. And since this is Serbia, our food is pretty much meat oriented, so I eat a lot of protein and very little carbohydrates. That helps a bit.I stopped drinking sodas except for during our game, and I dropped ten pounds in about sex months, no other changes in diet or exercise.
Those things are evil.
You have no idea...
I'm the exact same weight I was 20 years ago! Sadly, about 20 lbs of muscle have converted to fat during that time, but still...
6'10" and over 350lbs. Used to be 330 and all muscle, as I was able to lift two grown men as a bouncer in my college days. Then I got hit with the worst grade of ulcerous colitis, and almost died. After several bouts of surgery and keeping up my diet out of habit, I became rather rotund, and adding fat to muscle made for a rather high total.
Just turned 40 - gotta say I'm in the best shape of my life... am 5'9 210 lbs and a major gym rat... built like a chimpmanzee :)
Been lifting as long as I've been gaming [20+ years] and am feel stronger and fitter than I've been for years
Man Kamelguru you sound like a half ogre character I once had - 6'10 and 350 - total beast! :)