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Ah ha! Gotcha! They just run for short bursts. The rest of the time they walk, looking for the food. Inbetween they lie around resting.... and stretching!

Anyway, stop arguing with me now, and get back to the Topic!

Did YOU ever give up on your contract? ..Never? Do you keep renewing it?
What about one of those dirty little gyms where you just pay a monthly fee, and go box punch bags, lift weights, skip .... Would any of you go to one of those? .. Its cheaper, and not many females there.... Or is That the reason everyone likes the G-string/tights brigade at the Super Bodies?

Problem solved!!! Supermarket shelves should be set on runners that whiz around the supermarket and all the customers have to run to grab their food!!!!! Now if they had really high sided trolleys and also put the really heavy stuff high up the running shelves that would cover the weight lifting side of things ...

Oh ... like a "SUPERBODIES SUPERMARKET" ....Where only the FIT do their shopping!

Well if they're not fit when they start they sure will be when they've finished!!

No Smokey, it closed and became a martial arts centre. So now I,m gonna learn to kick the shit out of any lion or tiger that so much as looks at me in a hungry way.

There is a trendy gym here where I think a lot of women go just to look fetching in lycra and the men go to get fetched by the lycra.

Now then, sawdust floor,sweaty hucksters,punchbags....my kinda place.

In reality, although I am not perfect,I,m so bloody close it is scarey. So I don,t need a gym.

[quote=Elley]In reality, although I am not perfect,I,m so bloody close it is scarey. So I don,t need a gym.[/quote
Yeah .... me too...............................................

I don't mind gyms really....what I do mind is having to shower with 20 other males...every time I ask, when I join a new gym, if, in my case they could make an exception, and allow me to shower with the girls.....but outside of one time, I don't seem to receive a positive reaction to that request....

Bummer!!!

wow, I was wrong then right and back to maybe. Of course I'm right. If you wanna get slim, go to a gym. Good ol' grandmother. Hope I live as long. She didn't live in today's world tho', did she?

What you were saying made sense for people who are inactive and don't have good diets (modern lifestyles)...

I am 48, have had 2 kids and I AM SLIM and toned!!! ... BUT I don't go to the gym, never have and never been on a "get slim diet" either, what I do is eat a balance diet of minimum 3 meals a day + the occasional snack in between ...

And you get to feast on Gongman actually being in love/getting divorced are both great ways to lose weight. I think in both cases it is because your body is making sure you are up to the job of.....the conquest you are about consumate and the ones you want to, astwer.

I am not recommending anyone go on a 'get slim diet'. I agree that a 'little but often' nutritious diet is one of the major keys to healthy living. I am not suggesting either that anyone and everyone who doesn't go to a gym will lack all forms of physical fitness and will, by necessity, be a jelly-like blob. Why do some people always drag out arguments to such a ridiculous degree?

I am stating that everyone who goes to a gym, and who follows a sensible fitness plan when there, will feel the benefits of doing so. A modern lifestyle is unhealthy not only because of processed food but also lack of space. This lack, together with an all-too-often overuse of private or public transport, leads to a level of unhealthy inactivity that can be best combatted by a regular visit to the local gym. Moreover, people tend to follow structured fitness plans much better than any unstructured attempts they might make alone. And, no matter how fit and toned you might be, even you would find benefits from following a formal healthy exercise plan.


Life is just so much more complicated than munching a carrot and pushing your kids around the park.

Yeah!!! and Nah!!!

When I'm happy I put on a bit of weight which is more than welcome as I'm usually on the skinny side of slim even though I don't have to watch what I eat ... or rather I do ... I have to make sure I eat loads or I get skinny ...

I've never joined a gym in my life although I've been to some for fun


I've done tai-chi and yoga (the only times I've followed orders) and done swimming but I have never joined a gym..

oooohhh hang on... I did once "have" to join a gym where I did weights after a bike crash.... I had to build one of my legs back to normal.

apart from that, I've never needed a gym till perhaps now... and now that I wouldn't really mind going to one there are two factors that make it difficult

1 - no one to go with
2 - lack of time (I know... I could be at the gym instead of here!) but as usual, thjere's always something better to to than self inflicted pain just for the fun of it.. and alone on top of that!

You did when you stated that anyone who doesn't go to the gym is not looking after their body (or words to that effect) ... you also stated "if you want to get slim, go to the gym"

As for this statement:

"Life is just so much more complicated than munching a carrot and pushing your kids around the park"

Why do you have to sound so down putting and generalising? Some of us don't "munch carrots" or "push kids around the park" some of us eat slow carbohydrates at every meal AS WELL AS other vegetables and meat (I am not vegetarian) and or raw veg/fruit /cereals etc. My kids are both over 20 soooooooooooo it's a long time since I "pushed them around the park" although I have been known to run around a park with my grandchildren recently!!! And btw I recently started a formal healthy exercise plan: salsa dancing although I am sure that a more "traditional gym one" would reach some parts that salsa doesn't ... Salsa is sooooooooooooo much more fun!!!

I didn't say that you eat carrots or push your children around the park, did I? And salsa dancing is a wonderful form of cardiovascular exercise for the older lady. There comes a time in life when you naturally need to slow down anyway. And Salsa is loads of fun for everyone, young or old.

When somebody says, "if you want to be slim, go to a gym", it means that going to a gym is a good way to keep in shape. Can you really formulate an argument against this statement?

Anyone who doesn't take regular exercise is doing his/ her body a diservice. A body should be considered a machine and, just like a machine, needs maintaining properly.

For me, this maintainance involves not smoking, drinking only in moderation, eating well and taking structured exercise.

The ommission of any one of these four factors is a sign of not respecting yourself as fully as you might. This is a water-tight obvious fact that really cannot be argued with sensibly, I believe.

Good luck with the dancing. Don't over do it. el guiri

I'll make sure I'm still doing it when I'm older!!! There is a couple of other things that are also good cardiovascular exercise for the older lady ... and I fully intend to still be doing that too when I'm older!!

Your argument is defenately water-tight ... just as well coz I don't swim that well!! although I still don't like the sound of the "structure bit"...

maybe it's just your reaction to the word 'structure'. Perhaps brings back memories of an overstrict formal education and being whipped by nuns savagely without mercy until you were too sore to sit. Who knows?

I only mean by 'structured' an organised systematic approach to exercise as opposed to, say, buying a pair of running shoes and jogging around the nearest park. There is nothing wrong with jogging, except it kills some people's knees, but, based on my experience, someone is more likely to continue with the gym and get better results than going it alone.

Nothing that drastic!! Only just got out of a very structure way of life in UK and enjoying every second of pretty much not knowing what I am going to do from one day to the next!!! apart from the salsa class!!! hahahaha! But pretty much always been a bit of a rebel, sometimes in small ways but always

Now Guiri ... loosen up a bit says the kettle to the pot!!!