<p>Well, I normally work out and swim daily, so it takes care of staying in shape....</p>
<p>Latest mile time: 5:54 ~95% percentile for age...</p>
<p>My mile time was slightly over 7:30, not bad considering I'm pretty out of shape.</p>
<p>Invoy, your 1rm calculations fail. Your 1rm isn't anywhere near 230, let alone 265. It's probably 215 max (which is still really good.)</p>
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Invoy, your 1rm calculations fail. Your 1rm isn't anywhere near 230, let alone 265. It's probably 215 max (which is still really good.)
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I don't know how you calculated it, but you, **sir,<a href="buffer%20than%20I">/B</a> forgot the # of reps. You fail. And both are two different categories, just to let you know - where one is much higher than another.</p>
<p>It's only awkward because as I've already said, I've started at low weight, high reps, and that was a couple weeks ago also, so I'm actually well above 12+ reps, which is very unusual to calculate 1rm, thus I had to sort of extrapolate.</p>
<p>With lower reps my average numbers will be significantly higher. Even at 12 reps 1rm becomes 230, so it's much higher.</p>
<p>youfail. and just to tell you, 215 isn't that good for 1rm..</p>
<p>OMGSSSH so happy beat my best mile time today!!!!! 5:40 FTW alrite, I'm done :D
(I know it's probably slower than a lot of you, but I'm feeling very elated right now =D)</p>
<p>Do you have PE? I thought you're in lifting? You run miles?</p>
<p>Ah well, I ran a mile yesterday too and I got 5:55...somehow I broke the 6 mark.</p>
<p>I'm pretty happy about that too, since I'm pretty slow in running anyways.</p>
<p>Congrats DataBox! I think I ran my mile back in freshman year in... I want to say 6:something, lol. Granted I was 13 at the time and wasn't really trying, as I only needed for it to be under ten and so didn't care to really exert myself, haha.</p>
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Do you have PE? I thought you're in lifting? You run miles?
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I have PE the whole year, and had a zero period lifting until about two weeks ago...stopped once the polo season was over, I'll probably join again during swim season...</p>
<p>for me: 3+ meals a day, lifting 3x/week, 3 seasons of varsity sports, conditioning every weekday morning over the summer. plus additional activities like ultimate frisbee (note: if you're competitive and have some athletic and competitive friends, regularly playing frisbee can keep you in great shape. our games get intense)
i consider myself to be relatively in shape. i'm no health freak, but i'm content with myself and my physical fitness.</p>
<p>also, consider getting into punk rock and hardcore. mosh pits can be a ****ing workout, depending on the show/crowd. no lie. haha
to generalize this suggestion, find something physical that you like to do. sports are good, but it doesnt have to be a sport.</p>
<p>Does it matter...? we're in a body destined to break down after a certain number of years... probably encoded genetically. </p>
<p>A few pounds here and there don't matter too much... </p>
<p>Get in a sport. It's a nice EC and there is definite workout (too much in some cases...)</p>
<p>Wow you guys consider under 6 mins "OK"?? F*** me. I was at 6:30 in August!</p>
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<p>You know what they say: life is a terminal disease. May as well kill yourself now.</p>
<p>HIIT</p>
<p>^ read about it. It burns fat and it only requires about 5-15 mins of it. 15 mins of HIIT (done correctly) is equivalent to an hour of jogging. </p>
<p>But if you're only eating 2 meals a day then you're not helping yourself. Believe it or not but the less you eat the more vulnerable you become to gain weight. </p>
<p>either 3 meals a day or 5 small meals a day.</p>
<p>as someone who ran a 4:43 mile, I will make this statement: HIIT IS BOGUS. It is the favored exercise regime of nerds everywhere, but unfortunately, there is no substitute for an hour of steady running.</p>
<p>A 4:43 mile is good.</p>
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+1...the fastest kid at my school's top record was 4:15 on a really really good day, so I'd say that's pretty damn baller.</p>
<p>Lucky, lol, I was never born a runner so I can't break the 5:30 barrier yet. I never get any practice too; I'm 100% sure now that you're in XC or track.</p>
<p>yay owned the PE final today!! 2 miles: 11:59 (1st Mile: 5:35, 2nd mile 6:24) yay :D</p>
<p>I've heard wonderful things about HIIT, so ChoklitRain, what are you basing your "statement" off of?</p>
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yay owned the PE final today!! 2 miles: 11:59 (1st Mile: 5:35, 2nd mile 6:24) yay
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Lol, your 2nd mile's an epic fail. ;)</p>
<p>And my stats should be updated, it seems. I thought that I couldn't break 6 minutes, but that was a long time ago. Now I'm around 5:30~5:45, which isn't bad for a non-XC/track runner.</p>
<p>I'm more of a sports/lift person than running, although this involves running sometimes..</p>
<p>^lol I know, it was horrible D: I didn't pace myself well at all...lol</p>