From: whare@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: misc.fitness
Subject: Fitnes Thoughts is Back! With Avengence!
Date: 3 Oct 92 01:12:02 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada


	O.K. I have held back from posting for a while now but
I have so many new "Fitness Thoughts" that I just have to list
them. First of all, I have some exercises that I would like to 
improve IMMENSELY.
1.) My vertical leap is pathetic at best.15-20 inches tops.
A guy in my class who is the same height as me can touch the
rim on a 10 foot basket ball net.( I'm 5feet 8 inches )I can
touch a little bit of the mesh.
2.)PULL UPS. I can do five maybe six. My mass is 123 pounds so
that isn't a factor.
3.)PUSH UPS. My peak was 150 about two weeks ago but I have no
idea how many I can do now. Probably 80. I'd like to be able to
do a thousand or more. Heck, Hershel Walker can.

	Now for my thoughts.
	First of all, I am wondering if someone who can run say
a 4:20 mile but can't bike faster than 30 Miles a clip, could 
he maintain his running speed but bring up his biking? What I'm
wondering is is that could someone be extremely good at rowing, 
cross-country skiing, running and biking etc.? Or is it that the 
better you get in one sport the worse you get in another?
	Second of all, someone who is extremely fat, say 300 
pounds at 45% fat, could he get he start walking and just conti-
nuously walk during the day, sleep at night and only stop for
low fat meals and basically become thin man in a month? Or does
his metabolism etc. get messed up?
	Thirdly, if someone my age( 14 ) eat a healthy diet and
train properly( aerobic and weight, which is what I'm doing ) 
have a constant lead on someone who starts at age twenty and does
the same routine? What I'm saying is is that apart from the benefits
right now of being fit will I always have some advantage or is it 
just for the time being? This leads into my next point. If we took
eating into a mathematical point of view and counted all the grams
of fat someone atefor ten years or so and it averaged to about 200
a day.( I know this is a lot but let's say the person is a chow 
hounder )If they then cut down to 180 a day would they lose mass or
would they gain at a slower rate?( I mean body fat ) Then let's say
they get on a fitness kick and start eating the exact same diet as 
a physically fit person training hard who is the ideal mass of the 
fat person. Eventually, even if it takes a long time, the fat person 
is going to look similar and have similar results. So has all the 
training and strict dieting helped the person who's been that way 
all his life add up? It must! At least mathematically speaking.
If he takes in a hundred less grams of fat a day for a year even
then that's 36 POUNDS off fat over ten years! Where does it go
off the fat person? What does the guy in shape use to supplement
energy from fat? Carbohydrates? Then where does all the fat person's
carbohydrates go? To sum it up in one nice question I will put it 
this way. Will the bag of Doritios I eat tonight matter five years
from now?( Hypothtically speaking )

			Stephen Hare, brother of man who is 
			considered about image. Most of the time.

	P.S.-Any he or guy references I do apologize. I try to 
	     say he/she or person, sometimes it slips my mind
	     Thanks in advance for any posts or e-mail.
	     More fitness thoughts to come. I just forgot them
             right now. -- 
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