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    What do you do to compensate for not hitting the gym? ideas please? I am going insane!
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    Default Re: when you can't hit the gym

    You could do Piles. Very good for your legs/butt.

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    workout at home. there is a chick on YouTube who does videos of home workouts. i think her screen name is like charliejames1975 her website is www.bodyrock.tv I know somebody posted her video on here before I just can't remember where. I've never tried her workouts but one day I might.

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    Default Re: when you can't hit the gym

    Easy! Go for a run.
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    i am losing my fucking mind and i really just want this chloroform dream because i think that would just get me right with jesus.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DesuvsDeath View Post
    Easy! Go for a run.
    Yeap! I'm a runner. Best workout there is!

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    Default Re: when you can't hit the gym

    i HATE running. But it's good if there's nothing else.

    Workout videos/dvds. I used to do these when I couldn't afford a gym membership. Some are really cheesy but they get the job done. Youtube also has a few, and if your cable comes with it, there is FitTV. And shape.com has some at-home exercises and workouts on their website.

    You can do body-weight exercises. Squats, plies, lunges, pushups, tricep dips, planks and variances of planks. In between those you can add cardio such as running up stairs, jumping jacks, jump rope, box jumps, toe-touches on a pillow or couch cushion, jumps across a rolled up towel. Hop-scotch too works lol.

    Good luck!
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    ^You just haven't done it enough to start craving it yet.
    Running burns itself into your soul if you give it enough time... then you NEED to do it. LOL
    Quote Originally Posted by camille27 View Post
    i am losing my fucking mind and i really just want this chloroform dream because i think that would just get me right with jesus.

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    jumprope! pole if you have one? jumping jacks, ashtanga/power yoga (watch youtube videos), bicycle everywhere instead of driving

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    Quote Originally Posted by Odette View Post
    jumprope! pole if you have one? jumping jacks, ashtanga/power yoga (watch youtube videos), bicycle everywhere instead of driving
    I've been walking everywhere since my car is busted
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    Quote Originally Posted by tempest666 View Post
    I've been walking everywhere since my car is busted
    That's good! It'll help!

    I just realized, DUH, you've BEEN going to the gym... so just do what you did there at home.
    Run instead of the elliptical... and do body-weight exercises the equivalent of whatever free weights you'd typically do at the gym!
    Quote Originally Posted by camille27 View Post
    i am losing my fucking mind and i really just want this chloroform dream because i think that would just get me right with jesus.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DesuvsDeath View Post
    ^You just haven't done it enough to start craving it yet.
    Running burns itself into your soul if you give it enough time... then you NEED to do it. LOL
    Word. I am a straight up BITCH if I don't get my run. I have to force myself to take a day "off" which is actually power walking enough to trick myself into thinking I ran. ha.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tempest666 View Post
    I've been walking everywhere since my car is busted
    Yeah but walking takes FOREVER. I love my bike and I live downtown so its way faster than driving or subwaying always. And now im officially one of those nerds with a milk crate strapped to the back so I can carry tons of my crap with me too!!! Oh yeah, and no gas, no parking tickets, and no blisters!

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    The spartacus workout. JD posted it somehwere on here a while back but i will repost the video.. havent done it in a while but it is effective and takes about 45 min and you can do it at home. you just need a pair of dumbells (probably 10lbs is a good weight unless you are very weak or already lift a lot). and i have a yoga mat that i do it on.

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    Kegals! Granted, you'll have to do a lot, but you get to sit on your ass and reap the rewards when it comes to sex.

    And when you're ready for a real challenge, alternate between vaginal and anal kegals.

    Feel the burn!

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    A girl like you needs a pole, if at all possible.

    But if you can't have one at home, there's a lot of other stuff you can do.

    The truth of the matter is, I would never go to the gym if I could hang a bag in my house. But even though there is no one sleeping on the floor below, there could easily be on the floor below that, and the live-in manager who has the old servant's quarters halfway to the other end (it's a huge old house divided into apartments, as is common right down in Oldtown) would freak the fuck out at the kind of vibrations a 100 lb bag would get going in an old wooden house.

    Anyway, everything else I do I could do easily at home, handstand pushups, chinups, dips, and so forth. And even if you prefer equipment, if you spent the same money you pay in gym fees on exercise equipment, you could easily build up a nice home gym. Buy it used for sure, you'll save so much.

    Until then, maybe ride a bike (get a good one like a used Trek so you will enjoy it, it makes a difference!), go swimming? Is there rock climbing where you live, I love that! Oh also those resistance band techniques are amazing, and they are really cheap.
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    I strap on my shape-ups and put leashes on the dogs and off we go hiking through the neighbourhood! This is actually my favourite way to work out! I also use resistance bands, weight balls and do some yoga. I'm also learning t'ai chi.
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    jillian michaels has some great DVDs

    P90x, power walking, running are some of the things I do. I don't have a gym membership at the mo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Djoser View Post
    A girl like you needs a pole, if at all possible.

    and they are really cheap.


    Oh I have a pole 7 3/4 inches long and I ride it daily
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    ^you are so dirty lmao
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    Get the TRX system. You can set it up literally anywhere, and it folds into a pouch the size of a makeup bag. The system was designed and used by Navy SEALs who use it while on deployment to forward bases. The workouts will kick your butt, and will exercise every tiny little muscle you have in your body. I cannot say enough good stuff about the TRX system.

    http://www.trxtraining.com/category/TRX

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