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Dan: When you're back? I think my roster is the alternate of yours. Let me know which weekend you're free or post up an event thread. I'll definitely be up for it.

I know a lot of engineers and 80% of them are weirdos. I think it's because they think way too logically to survive. The other 20% are awesome. Like me. :bunny:

You rock my world :P

Dan: When you're back? I think my roster is the alternate of yours. Let me know which weekend you're free or post up an event thread. I'll definitely be up for it.

Im back on wednesday arvo but my cars out of action atm :bunny: Im replacing the clutch slave & master cylinders because one of them is playing up and I cant be f*kt playin tha "which one is it game"

Edit - Besides the cars like 11yrs old and I thought while im f**kin around in that region I may as well do both :P

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And Me! :P

Surely you are used to it by now?

Yeah but I don't enjoy it yet

To lose weight i would need to exercise...when i exercise losing muscle for me doesnt happen, even with just cardio my fat% goes down but weight stays the same...to be 80kg i would have to stop eating and moving until muscle started wasting away.....GOOD ADVICE BMI! stoopid f**king thing it is

Oh and step 3 is "be more awesome than you already are"

If you do cardio now I doubt you would put on muscle mass. Shed fat, lean muscle. PROFIT.

Im back on wednesday arvo but my cars out of action atm :bunny: Im replacing the clutch slave & master cylinders because one of them is playing up and I cant be f*kt playin tha "which one is it game"

Edit - Besides the cars like 11yrs old and I thought while im f**kin around in that region I may as well do both :P

Ok. We're on the same roster then. Let us know when you wanna do it.

If you do cardio now I doubt you would put on muscle mass. Shed fat, lean muscle. PROFIT.

im telling ya it doesnt happen, all i do is cardio have lost some over all weight (3kg) but have lost 6kg of fat, i will get down to 89 or 90 kg and be at 8% or 9% body fat and have no where to go from the point of view of body fat....yet still be 'over weight' Hence my argument that the people who push BMI as a useful indicator are retarded

@ Bunta : All i can say is you have bloody good genetics, i havent been working out coz my diet was shit, and ive lost so much mass, but muscle mass mostly not fat, im 5 foot 6 and have around 17% Bodyfat, i failed miserably at bulking becoz i didnt do cardio and ate like a animal

went from 55KG to 69KG now, 11 inch arms to nearly 13 now, so very good gains compared to skinny old me, but ive always been bulky, even when i was lighter, i still had a high bodyfat percenatge, runs in the family, my dad is the only one who has good genetics but he also suffers from the bodyfat problem, he was an amateur powerlifter and at 57 now he can still put me to shame with one flex of arms and can lift about 5 times as much as me without a drop of sweat.

im telling ya it doesnt happen, all i do is cardio have lost some over all weight (3kg) but have lost 6kg of fat, i will get down to 89 or 90 kg and be at 8% or 9% body fat and have no where to go from the point of view of body fat....yet still be 'over weight' Hence my argument that the people who push BMI as a useful indicator are retarded

BMI isn't very helpful in terms of am I healthy or not I agree. I guess you're lucky since your body doesnt seem to want to eat muscle lol. When I stopped playing soccer/racing bmx everything died in ass and I went from like 63kg and 7/8% body fat to 75kg lol. I grew a fair bit taller as well though but most of it is fat rather than muscle. Now I just cba training to lose it lol.

if you judge your health by BMI then i would technically be healthier when i was 55 and i know theres no way i was healthy back then, i was bullimic or anoerexic or whatever to maintain that weight,

at 69Kg now according to BMI im just over the normal threshold into overweight

i feel healthier stronger etc etc

Bodyfat percentage is a better measure of how much wieght u need to loose imo

And Adam and Colin yep ive always been lucky my body has always been able to get into condition really quickly with minimal training, though its gets a little harder each time the closer i get to 30!

And Adam and Colin yep ive always been lucky my body has always been able to get into condition really quickly with minimal training, though its gets a little harder each time the closer i get to 30!

f**king hate you :P

yep genetics plays a key role in how your body is, ive always wanted to be a professional bodybuilder since i was 5 or 6 years old, i remeber seeing arnold on stage in videos and i knew since then that it what i wanted to be, i trained with my dad for a while, but i was scared it was effecting my growth, i grew sideways instead of growing taller during puberty lol so i stopped training until last year, i dont really care now, i dont think i will grow much more, so i will train and set my diet right for the next couple of years, then you reach a point where you body cant grow anymore, with my height i wont be able to really pack on more than 16 inch arms, thats where you make one of the most important decisions of your life, whther your doing it for fun or you wana devote your life to it, i try not to think about that stage yet coz im nowhere close to it,

but yeah after that if you wana make money and a career out of it, then you have to use roids, i have many mates who used them and still do, i have 2 cousins who are professional bodybuilders in pakistan,

i remeber my dads trainer, he was philpino, 5 foot 3 inches tall and had 23 inch arms, that dude was juicing since he was 14 lol, such a funny sight, he was kinda like lee preist but shorter n looked like a midget but he won many amateur competitions in his time,

anyway back on health, yes eat healthy and stop eating junk and genetics can be overcome to a degree with everyone :rofl:

you're coming to pick me up or if not I'm going to Southport RSL to play APL for shits and giggles since my internet doesn't get connected until tomorrow and I need my poker fix.

since none of you carnts has even asked me if i would like to go for a ride or something, il be going out with Rob to mt. cootha or something, or mayb rockup at the carwash depending on where he wants to go,

il just sit here on my couch while all of youz enjoy your cars and ice cream,

wheres the love between fellow skyline owners :rofl:

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