C25K...it works Seaside 5K...........40:45(2012) Turkey Trot..........41:30(2012)/37:08(2013)/37:40(2014) St Pat's 5K..........39:27(2013)/38:48(2014)/35:12(2015) Belair Town Run......38:09(2013)/36:27(2014) Back To Football 5K..37:36(2013)/43:44(2015) Balt Run Fest 5K.....34:59(2013)/41:50(2014)/35:54(2015)
I am ready for fall. I want fall weather, fall clothes, apples, pumpkins, my birthday!! Regina Philange and I feel the love for Halloween (also my birthday) I want august to be over.
@thadsrad I have never thought of it that way. Isn't body shape/size more fluid though? Like in my life I have been thin and overweight but your ethnicity and/or sexuality doesn't change. I certainly think if fat yoga empowers people like a gay bar does then go for it but as someone who has practices yoga at different sizes it doesn't seem necessary to draw a line there. Keep in mind I am not as intellectual as you so if I am completely missing the point please forgive me.
I am ready for fall. I want fall weather, fall clothes, apples, pumpkins, my birthday!! Regina Philange and I feel the love for Halloween (also my birthday) I want august to be over.
C25K...it works Seaside 5K...........40:45(2012) Turkey Trot..........41:30(2012)/37:08(2013)/37:40(2014) St Pat's 5K..........39:27(2013)/38:48(2014)/35:12(2015) Belair Town Run......38:09(2013)/36:27(2014) Back To Football 5K..37:36(2013)/43:44(2015) Balt Run Fest 5K.....34:59(2013)/41:50(2014)/35:54(2015)
I guess my UO is I wish there was more marketing for programs for pregnant women. I really want to work out more but I've never been very good at it not pregnant. I can't do the beachbody stuff right now and the only prenatal work out videos I've found are yoga (which there's nothing wrong with I just want more options). I kind of want to look into a trainer for awhile so that I can learn the best way to exercise for my growing body, but at the same time I'm hesitant to do it (partly because I'd feel guilty spending the money) and I'm not even sure if any of the trainers would work with a pregnant woman. Most of my gym apprehension comes from not knowing what the hell I'm doing more than what my body looks like. Yes, I can operate most of the machines but I'm clueless as far as what weights would be best for my goals/current state and what kind of reps I should be doing. I'd go to the gym WAY more if I didn't feel like an idiot and knew I was actually doing some good.
My gym does have a prenatal class once a week that I fully intend on attending now that I have my own vehicle again, but I want to do more than just a Saturday morning workout.
I didn't read past this, but what were you doing before you were pregnant? I did zero workouts labeled prenatal when I was pregnant.
Most of the time, you can keep doing what you were doing as long as it feels okay.
Do you go to a gym with trainers? Most will be willing to show you around if you have questions.
@thadsrad I have never thought of it that way. Isn't body shape/size more fluid though? Like in my life I have been thin and overweight but your ethnicity and/or sexuality doesn't change. I certainly think if fat yoga empowers people like a gay bar does then go for it but as someone who has practices yoga at different sizes it doesn't seem necessary to draw a line there. Keep in mind I am not as intellectual as you so if I am completely missing the point please forgive me.
Well, some people are never going to be size 10 even if they are in shape. So they will always be "fat" to the general public. And some people do change sexual orientation and change the ethnicity they identify with.
@thadsrad I have never thought of it that way. Isn't body shape/size more fluid though? Like in my life I have been thin and overweight but your ethnicity and/or sexuality doesn't change. I certainly think if fat yoga empowers people like a gay bar does then go for it but as someone who has practices yoga at different sizes it doesn't seem necessary to draw a line there. Keep in mind I am not as intellectual as you so if I am completely missing the point please forgive me.
Well, some people are never going to be size 10 even if they are in shape. So they will always be "fat" to the general public. And some people do change sexual orientation and change the ethnicity they identify with.
Perhaps it's the "general public" perception that being fat is a choice. That the person who is overweight got that way because of their choices.
I don't think this, but I am saying a lot of people do and that is what is hard to change about it being categorized the same as race and sexuality.
My "at home" workouts are non-existent now but I used to be a BEAST at Dance Dance Revolution.
oh I loved DDR until I went to college. Engineering college, 4:1 male to female ratio. The smell of the all-male first floor dorm after DDR marathons in late August attended by 18-year old men who hadn't quite learned proper hygiene left me traumatized.
This is a school where they actually had a DDR club, and tournaments where you could play for money. These guys were amazing to watch.
I don't understand why everyone takes pictures of their legs at the beach/pool/whatever. Like, I can grasp that you are at one of those places without seeing your legs. It seems AWish? I guess my UO is I don't really care about seeing your legs.
@thadsrad I have never thought of it that way. Isn't body shape/size more fluid though? Like in my life I have been thin and overweight but your ethnicity and/or sexuality doesn't change. I certainly think if fat yoga empowers people like a gay bar does then go for it but as someone who has practices yoga at different sizes it doesn't seem necessary to draw a line there. Keep in mind I am not as intellectual as you so if I am completely missing the point please forgive me.
Well, some people are never going to be size 10 even if they are in shape. So they will always be "fat" to the general public. And some people do change sexual orientation and change the ethnicity they identify with.
I don't understand why everyone takes pictures of their legs at the beach/pool/whatever. Like, I can grasp that you are at one of those places without seeing your legs. It seems AWish? I guess my UO is I don't really care about seeing your legs.
The whole idea of fat culture is super interesting to me because it forces two liberal* American cultures to come into conflict; the health and safety culture and the multicultural movement. Fat culture says that the Western world should embrace fat people* as an oppressed minority with a distinct culture in much the same way that my college has a Latino Association, a Black Student organization, and college republicans. Modern Americans have been incredibly hesitant to accept this movement because it comes in direct conflict with our body-oriented cult of health.
Yet, we have spend threads and threads talking about oppressed groups, dismissed cultures, and accepting new people and ideas.
How is fat yoga different from a gay bar? Or rappers who choose to identify themselves as a word I won't write? I'm not saying I think they are equivalent, but I think we should have some serious thoughts about whether there is oppression outside of race and sexuality.
**liberal does not refer to the democratic party here, ok? **fat people refers to those who choose to participate in fat culture. I'm not being a jerk.
The acceptance of 'fat culture' would involve an entire reshaping of the general public's view that being overweight is unattractive and slovenly and that overweight people want to be that way. I am not sure there will exist a time in which a majority of people ever find overweight people to be attractive. Since it is most definitely possible to be overweight and still be healthy and strong, if the focus could shift from fat shaming to becoming healthy instead, then maybe we could get somewhere.
I've definitely been saying this the whole thread, so...
C25K...it works Seaside 5K...........40:45(2012) Turkey Trot..........41:30(2012)/37:08(2013)/37:40(2014) St Pat's 5K..........39:27(2013)/38:48(2014)/35:12(2015) Belair Town Run......38:09(2013)/36:27(2014) Back To Football 5K..37:36(2013)/43:44(2015) Balt Run Fest 5K.....34:59(2013)/41:50(2014)/35:54(2015)
C25K...it works Seaside 5K...........40:45(2012) Turkey Trot..........41:30(2012)/37:08(2013)/37:40(2014) St Pat's 5K..........39:27(2013)/38:48(2014)/35:12(2015) Belair Town Run......38:09(2013)/36:27(2014) Back To Football 5K..37:36(2013)/43:44(2015) Balt Run Fest 5K.....34:59(2013)/41:50(2014)/35:54(2015)
I get the sense that some folks think dixeedeluxe is the only person in this thread with slightly contradictory logic....
I get the sense that her "logic" is always this way.
whose logic?
there is some cryptic-ness going on here
are you talking about me? if you are you are going to be SO sorry once I get really strong and fast from couch to ironman interspersed with 150F 3 hour yoga classes. REALLY SORRY