How many of you climb everyday & go to the Gym/workout?

[outofmytree]

as somebody who climbs fulltime everyday doing every aspect of treework, im generally exausted most day of the week and in bed by 9.30-10 most night of the week. I would like to loose my beer gut, I find climbing isn't a highly cardio activity so it's hard to get your heart rate up. How many of you guys have the energy to workout everyday before or after work? I personally am to burnt out to hit the gym.

Fitness and body shape are not the same things. If you want to lose your gut then working harder is less than 30% of the job. Your biggest problem is and will always be diet. The human body stores carbs and sugars that it doesn't use. So reduce your carb intake and replace those foods with green vegatables and protein. Any thing containing sugar, including fruit, (sorry girls, there is no such thing as good sugar) should be eaten with protein and is best consumed before the middle of your day. Want a late night snack? Eat protein again.

Diet is a tough thing to handle because it is a massive industry and everyone seems to have a product to sell. The most sensible approach I have ever heard to controlling your weight is to consider that humans were hunter gatherers for hundreds of thousands of years and crop growers for less than five thousand. Our bodies are simply unable to handle the massive quantities of processed carbohydrates,fats and sugars that the modern diet contains.

The trouble we have in this industry is that we have swallowed the myth that a "hard working man" can eat any crap and still look like a greek god. If anything, the exact opposite is true. If you run a performance motor car, you put top grade oil in it and run it on premium fuel right?

 

[HolmenTree]

Metabolism in a working man in his late teens and twenties is the complete opposite of the same guy in his forties.Also look at some of the olympic swimmers, some can sit down and eat a whole pan of lasagne and total 10,000 calories a day and stay in their best shape for competition.
Now comparing a performance motor car's oil and fuel to a human body's food doesn't make sense. The motor car is constantly wearing out, a human body regenerates itself. A person can consume the finest proteins or carbs, but if your metabolism is not burning off the excess calories then that fine food will be stored as fat.

 

[Ed Roland]

After work try riding this machine for 8-10 miles 3 or 4 times a week on some of the sweetest single track known to man. I ride it like i stole it!

Because...

 

[TreeTopKid]

After work try riding this machine for 8-10 miles 3 or 4 times a week on some of the sweetest single track known to man. I ride it like i stole it!

Because...

Nice bike! I do the same there's a footpath around a pond here and no one is walking after dark. I go round it like hell for leather for thirty minutes. Theres some great whoops, and bends. As a rule I manage 4.5-6 miles in the time.

 

[outofmytree]

Metabolism in a working man in his late teens and twenties is the complete opposite of the same guy in his forties.Also look at some of the olympic swimmers, some can sit down and eat a whole pan of lasagne and total 10,000 calories a day and stay in their best shape for competition.
Now comparing a performance motor car's oil and fuel to a human body's food doesn't make sense. The motor car is constantly wearing out, a human body regenerates itself. A person can consume the finest proteins or carbs, but if your metabolism is not burning off the excess calories then that fine food will be stored as fat.

Holmen you misunderstood the analogy but I forgive because you live in Manitoba and will post some more snow photo's if I am polite. What I meant was simply that, just like a performance motor car, the body of a person who works at hard physical labour requires a high quality of fuel/food. By high quality I refer not to the price tag but to the nutritional content.

Age does play a significant role in your diet and exercise regime. When I was twenty I could plow through that pasta no problem, now at forty plus I cannot without paying the price. So I have done what must be done and changed my consumption to suit my age and lifestyle exactly as I suggested to summit.

 

[HolmenTree]

Holmen you misunderstood the analogy but I forgive because you live in Manitoba and will post some more snow photo's if I am polite. What I meant was simply that, just like a performance motor car, the body of a person who works at hard physical labour requires a high quality of fuel/food. By high quality I refer not to the price tag but to the nutritional content.

Age does play a significant role in your diet and exercise regime. When I was twenty I could plow through that pasta no problem, now at forty plus I cannot without paying the price. So I have done what must be done and changed my consumption to suit my age and lifestyle exactly as I suggested to summit.

Good post there. I see what your getting at. I agree high quality diet all the way. Long before margarine, preservatives and what else is out there today, I looked at some old photos of my parents on our Saskatchewan family farm in the early 1940s. My dad and his brothers were ripped and bulked up like they have been pumping iron on steriods. Just good old fashioned physical work and a natural hearty diet of grains,fish, dairy and home grown meats. Yes we can't compare todays working mans lifestyle to theirs. But I still use ideas from that era, for example I fry up some farmer eggs in a light coating of butter in a cast iron pan. Baked fish 3 times a week[yes our pike and lake trout are high in omegas] I drink farmers skim milk, the cows I milked on our farm gave better then store pasterized skim after I ran it through the cream seperator. Skinless chicken,we always skinned our chicken rather then pluck it unless it was used for roasting. I buy local farm meats which have no steriods,dyes and anti-biotics in them. I gotta stop here to keep this short.
Speaking of snow yes we in Manitoba are blessed with it. Now in my winter off season I try and get a few hours of cross country skiing in every day. I usually ski our nearby trail with a retired Finnish papermill worker. He is 76 yrs old and I at 51 have a hard time keeping up to him. I'm told cross country skiing in the cold is a perfect cardio workout. My sister inlaw is a naturopathic doctor and she says its about the only exercise that burns your bodies [hard to burn] brown fat from exerting in the cold air.