Powershift posted:

do you have a couch? lift your couch.

Yawgmoth posted:

That sounds like a good idea except I can't wrap my head around how I would do that without loving my back up.

mostlygray posted:

I had excess fat that let me not die. I was 6' 260, definitely too fat. But the fat reserve saved me.

mostlygray posted:

The managing cleaner at our office is from Egypt. She always says, "fat is good". She's right. Due to stress and a stomach disorder, I lost 35 lbs in one month. I had excess fat that let me not die. I was 6' 260, definitely too fat. But the fat reserve saved me.

If I was 170 lbs, I would have possibly died. My brother has been hospitalized several times for minor stomach bugs. But I'm fine. I can not eat for a week and stay alive. My brother has to have IV fluids if he gets very sick. I just have to lay down and rest.

Jerry Cotton posted:

You'll be amazed to find the heart and blood vessels are completely different organs.

Powershift posted:

Well, fine, if you're going to be that combative. i'll just tell you what you want to hear then.

zedprime posted:

A set of free weights packs down into a briefcase size and opens up all sorts of bulking exercises you can do in a closet let alone any normal living space. You won't be a swole lord with one set of free weights but you can tone enough to not be a noodle man.

Bonus OSHA I just leave mine sitting around willy nilly and a friend broke his toe when he stubbed it on one once.

Synthbuttrange posted:

That's why you have to do it fast.

Which has its own problems:
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/10/time-me-gentlemen-the-fastest-surgeon-of-the-19th-century/264065/

quote:

Liston's most famous case
Amputated the leg in under 2 1⁄2 minutes (the patient died afterwards in the ward from hospital gangrene; they usually did in those pre-Listerian days). He amputated in addition the fingers of his young assistant (who died afterwards in the ward from hospital gangrene). He also slashed through the coat tails of a distinguished surgical spectator, who was so terrified that the knife had pierced his vitals he dropped dead from fright.

That was the only operation in history with a 300 percent mortality.

— Richard Gordon[23]

Olothreutes posted:

I got a terrible case of mono in high school and couldn't eat for weeks, I dropped probably 12-15 pounds, but was only 6'1" and maybe 135 pounds at the time. If you have less to lose, you just lose less. Although to be fair they did worry that I was going to die.

GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

or just wait until you're 30 and your body gives up on you.

Johnny Aztec posted:

I thought I had mono for a year, turns out I was just really bored.

Jesus Christ posted:

That's what people said when I was in my teens and 20s but I'm 30 now and no different except more retarded

Synthbuttrange posted:

That's why you have to do it fast.

Which has its own problems:
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/10/time-me-gentlemen-the-fastest-surgeon-of-the-19th-century/264065/

Jesus Christ posted:

That's what people said when I was in my teens and 20s but I'm 30 now and no different except more retarded

Yawgmoth posted:

I genuinely do not know how I would lift a couch

ekuNNN posted:

C.M. Kruger posted:

Good marks for the ear protection and highvis vest, but this could have been avoided if he had been wearing a hard hat and reflective belt.

Yawgmoth posted:

Okay fine Captain Pedantry, all of my everything is fine. Of everything that a doctor checks in a set of routine labs, 100% of it came back within acceptable parameters for a 32 year old white male. I am suffering no ill effects from my diet of ungodly amounts of food, except for the constant hunger that comes from having the metabolism of a 16 year old runner.

I am, and I should but I have no room in my apartment and there's no decent gym nearby.

Jerry Cotton posted:

a rugsack

Jerry Cotton posted:

If you have a rugsack or some kind of bag you can put stuff in, you can lift a weight without getting actual weights. There's a pretty good book about exercising at home without exercise equipment floating around on the internet but I'm sure there's also bad ones so (It was maybe a goon who wrote it?)

e: I mean your muscles don't know or care what you're lifting.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Jerry Cotton posted:

evil_bunnY posted:

Brain vs Brawn

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

The etymology of rucksack is from the German alpine dialect rücken (the back) + sack. I guess a rugsack would be rügen ( to reprimand or reprehend) + sack which would be this:



Or a bag you keep your rugs in idk

Yawgmoth posted:

I genuinely do not know how I would lift a couch

PostNouveau posted:

The key is to lift with your legs

Jerry Cotton posted:

Remember: always lift with your back. Otherwise your back muscles will atrophy!

Humphreys posted:

OSHA, I'm a 6'2 noodle man that lifts weights (a lot of food) each day and is 100kg no matter what. I do however have the classic aussie beer gut that can hold my beer while lighting a smoke.

Doc Hawkins posted:

Brain over Brawn. Changed my life for the better.

The author does have an account, but I don't think they've posted since well before they went to jail.

Poldarn posted:

Wait, Brain over Brawn guy went to jail?

Volcott posted:

Everyone on the internet is either fat or a hungry skeleton.