The Health and Fitness Thread

[Browser Brady]

@Keith Houchen

 

You reckon the DDP Yoga is decent ?

 

What were the main benefits you got from it ?

At home on paternity leave and trying to pick up something i can do at home.

I get a myriad of various app recommendations for at home workouts in my algorithm, what are some of the better at home workout apps or YouTube videos that people have found worked for them ?

 

Thanks in advance ?

[Browser Brady]

4 minutes ago, Browser Brady said:

@Keith Houchen

 

You reckon the DDP Yoga is decent ?

 

What were the main benefits you got from it ?

At home on paternity leave and trying to pick up something i can do at home.

I get a myriad of various app recommendations for at home workouts in my algorithm, what are some of the better at home workout apps or YouTube videos that people have found worked for them ?

 

Thanks in advance 

 

[Keith Houchen]

15 minutes ago, Browser Brady said:

@Keith Houchen

 

You reckon the DDP Yoga is decent ?

 

What were the main benefits you got from it ?

At home on paternity leave and trying to pick up something i can do at home.

I get a myriad of various app recommendations for at home workouts in my algorithm, what are some of the better at home workout apps or YouTube videos that people have found worked for them ?

 

Thanks in advance ?

My partner was looking at healthy options that were compatible with her mobility issues. She tried a few that were medium impact but they ended up hurting her. She asked if I had heard of someone called Diamond Dallas Page as she read his system was zero to low impact. I told her about the Jake The Snake and Scott Hall situations and how he helped so she signed up to a free trial. 
 

She got very quick results, she had more flexibility and lost inches. I joined in where I could, my lungs are toast so I’m very limited when it comes to exercise. I slowly and surely got more flexible, had better stamina, lost weight, and actually had some definition on my body!

Essentially, you decide the program. As he says “If you think you can do it, you’re right. If you think you can’t, you’re right”. One of the people doing the workouts always uses modifications to show what you can do in place of the technique, Stevie Richards is one of them!  You add programs to your weekly workouts depending on what you want to achieve so you’re always in charge  

Theres also recipes and things like that on there, so it’s kind of a lifestyle app as well. My mate ran a metal promotion and management company in the midlands. I think he’s one of the Bloodstock promoters. He is known as Fatboy and has lost a ton of weight thanks to DDPY, in fact he credits it with saving his life. 
 

EDIT - Getting Covid and TB again sidelined me, but I’ve started new medications which are helping me with breathing, they seem to be working so I reckon I’ll get back on the DDPY very soon!  I recently had bollock surgery so I have to wait for that to all heal. The codeine is fucking wicked though, I’ll miss that. However, in UKFF style it meant I hadn’t had a shite in a week. Had one this morning and it was fucking glorious, nearly blocked up the bog!

Edited February 28, 2023 by Keith Houchen
Added dump news.

[organizedkaos]

I've been doing DDP Yoga for about 3.5 years. Noticed masses of increase in flexibility (i couldn't touch my toes at start, I can now put fists knuckle down on the floor with knees locked straight), definitely got more core strength and leg strength.  I've lost fat and am noticeably more well built (I have been doing my own modified routines in the last 2 years to include more things like slow press ups, core crunches and squats which probably helps).  I used to get back pain from bad posture even with work providing Herman Melville chairs, I mostly work from home these days on a 20 quid ikea chair and have no back pains whatsoever. 

Because it's the only exercise I do most of the benefits I can see are related to doing the yoga itself. Increase length of time in certain poses, being able to do more reps of stuff or being able to do poses I could never do when I started (like the crow)

I didn't do very much excercise before DDP Yoga - I was fairly active (i'd say i was easily doing about 7-10 hours of walking a week) and ate healthy but yeah no real proper exerciese. So it's probable that the benefits i've seen are as much from doing exercise as it being specifically DDP Yoga. If you're more serious about your exercise it might not offer as much or might not give the benefits you want.

From what I understand it basically improves useful day to day stuff but it's not exactly giving you the "super fit" thing. As far as I can see I'm doing about 45 min a day where my heartrate is about 70% of max, doing flexibilty exercises/stretches and body weight exercises. That's more than enough for being healthy. It's easy to work around your own routine because you can do it at home (or anywhere really give or take certain things being a bit painful to do without a yoga mat). Having to go to a gym or even get ready and leave the house makes it easier for me to skip exercise, being able to do it from home means there's no excuse (although I know some feel gym membership or the like works as motivation so YMMV)

Edited February 28, 2023 by organizedkaos

[Keith Houchen]

4 minutes ago, organizedkaos said:

I used to get back pain from bad posture even with work providing Herman Melville chairs, I mostly work from home these days on a 20 quid ikea chair and have no back pains whatsoever. 

Sort of related, after a short time I had to readjust the mirrors in my car because I was sitting upright instead of slouched!  My first “Non Scale Victory”!

[Browser Brady]

Fantastic lads, i’ll give it a go so.

 

Thank you very much for the detailed responses.

 

I’ll check back in a few weeks and let you know how i am going. 

[DiscoPistol]

Quick heads up if you happen to work in the NHS (or know anyone that does).

Inspired by the last few post I decided to sign up for DDP Yoga this afternoon.

I decided to try my luck with the Military/First Responders discount and to my surprise it worked. You have to jump through a couple of hoops to prove you work for the NHS but 50% discount!

Hopefully someone can make use of this info.

 

Edited March 1, 2023 by DiscoPistol
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[WyattSheepMask]

I really needed to knuckle down this year to get my weight under control. I’ve had issues with my weight my whole life, and most likely always will, but I asked my wife for a Food Journal for Christmas and we set it up to document everything I eat with a monthly weight in on the first of each month. 
My eating was just out of control. I’d just get the thought of having KFC or Burger King or the local takeaway in my head and couldn’t shift it until I’d had it. I also got a ridiculous amount each time, so it was costing me a fortune, but I never actually enjoyed having it, I was just having it for the sake of it. 
I also live not too far from a Sainsbury’s, and on days/afternoons off work I’d get snacks to have while watching wrestling or stuff on YouTube or whatever. I can’t even bring myself to list what I’d get in one of those trips, because quite frankly it’s embarrassing/shameful.
I’m not saying that I’ll never have something like that ever again, but the journal has really made me take notice of what I’m having and how often.

I also got a new Fitbit to keep track of any exercise I do. I usually try and do the 10,000 steps first thing in a morning, and then everything else I do through the day is a bonus.

I lost 10lbs in January and 13lbs through February, so I’m down 23lbs from the start of the year and down a shirt size just from eating much more responsibly and nowhere near to the excess that I did before.

Edited March 1, 2023 by WyattSheepMask

[Joe Blog]

Over the last few months I have become more and more obsessed with running. I have always ran sporadically but never enjoyed it much, lately however I have started to love it more and more. It has very much become a passion of mine. I started off on shorter runs 5ks and the like but have recently started to really enjoy longer distance 12/17km a run. 
 

My two proudest achievements have been running a 22 minute 5k and a 53 minute 10k. I hope my knees stay attached long enough to continue to enjoy this noble sport. 

[Onyx2]

Fantastic progress @WyattSheepMask. Keep going. 

[WyattSheepMask]

11 hours ago, Onyx2 said:

Fantastic progress @WyattSheepMask. Keep going. 

Thanks mate, and anyone else that has liked that post. I hope it didn’t come across as bragging, I just needed somewhere to share to it and this is (mostly) full of good folk

Edited March 3, 2023 by WyattSheepMask

[BomberPat]

A bit of a health update for me, then - I very rarely go to the doctor; I maybe went two or three times in the last twenty-something years, partly because I was lucky enough to not have any major health scares, partly because I'm a stubborn prick and don't like making appointments anyway, and partly because I lived somewhere where you have to pay to see your GP.

As I've mentioned in the Covid thread, I suffered reasonably badly with Covid - not as bad as some people I know, I wasn't hospitalised or anything like that, but it took it out of me, and I was struggling with fatigue and shortness of breath for about three or four months after the fact. Those symptoms started coming back around October, though never testing positive for Covid, and I started to consider the possibility that I was suffering from Long Covid. Things started getting much worse in January and February, and I had an appointment to see my GP at the end of Jan - that ended up getting rescheduled to February, and then my GP caught Covid so that was a phone appointment, and I finally got to see someone in person on Friday.

I've had blood tests showing slightly high cholesterol, and the doctor's picked up on me having an abnormally fast heart rate - something I've pretty much always suspected anyway; I remember being in a Science class, learning how to take my pulse, and the teacher insisting that I must have got it wrong when I wrote mine down. It's between 100 and 120+ beats per minute, usually settling between 100 and 110 when at risk. I've now discovered that I also have low blood pressure, so the two are likely related.

 

Now on to the part that I'm finding all quite scary and overwhelming - I've been prescribed angina medication. That's not where I expected to be in my mid-30s and, like with high cholesterol, it's doubly unlucky because I don't really have any of the underlying risk factors for either of those things. That's not to say that I have angina, but it's something of an exploratory measure to see if using this spray actually helps the chest pains go away; if it does, then it's an indication that it's a heart problem. Someone at work suggested that it might have been angina - and I'm not looking forward to how smug she'll be when I tell her this - and I just kind of handwaved it away as something unlikely to affect me, and assuming that everything was related to Covid, figured that it was more likely an issue with my lungs than my heart. 

I've only had to use the spray once so far, and it did seem to alleviate the pain, though the side effects are pretty rotten. I'm booked in for an ECG next week, and awaiting referral to another specialist within the next two weeks. It's a lot to take in, and all pretty overwhelming at times.

[Mr_Danger]

Anyone ever dabbled in power lifting? I restarted training in the gym in November after a good  5+ years off when walking up the stairs after work involved more crawling than walking. So I took a month off on the sick and started about getting in to shape to ease the pain I had from plantar fasciitis.  Things kind of snowballed and I’m now a 6 days a week probably doing more harm than good obsessive gym goer. I’ve got a good base knowledge of weight lifting and am pretty competent at training my self, nutrition and making and changing my workouts but I’d quite like to delve a bit deeper in to power lifting. My gym is holding a novice charity event in June and I think I’ll put my name down for it. I’ve no expectations other than beating my own personal bests and having a goal to train toward other than “A round triangular shape and a nice Eddie Hall fat pack” when I go to Greece in October. Any tips and advice would be welcome. 
 

I’ll be back in 6 months to ask for advice on setting up a buff bear only fans page.

[SuperBacon]

46 minutes ago, Mr_Danger said:

Anyone ever dabbled in power lifting? I restarted training in the gym in November after a good  5+ years off when walking up the stairs after work involved more crawling than walking. So I took a month off on the sick and started about getting in to shape to ease the pain I had from plantar fasciitis.  Things kind of snowballed and I’m now a 6 days a week probably doing more harm than good obsessive gym goer. I’ve got a good base knowledge of weight lifting and am pretty competent at training my self, nutrition and making and changing my workouts but I’d quite like to delve a bit deeper in to power lifting. My gym is holding a novice charity event in June and I think I’ll put my name down for it. I’ve no expectations other than beating my own personal bests and having a goal to train toward other than “A round triangular shape and a nice Eddie Hall fat pack” when I go to Greece in October. Any tips and advice would be welcome. 
 

I’ll be back in 6 months to ask for advice on setting up a buff bear only fans page.

My Dad holds world records in his age/weight category (I mean it's fairly limited, there were 4x of them in the entirety of the European Championships) and he loves his power lifting. He's always been an incredibly strong bloke though so it came quite natural.

My brother in law is a serious beast. I can't remember his PBs but they are genuinely weights that I can't even fathom, and every time I see him he has added good amount on.

I have no advice, but the best of luck. They both started off in local comps (one that I went to in Woking where someone tried to chore some weight bars in front of everyone was a highlight) and now are invited to the international tournaments every year.

Let us know how you get on.

[Keith Houchen]

1 hour ago, Mr_Danger said:

Anyone ever dabbled in power lifting

Yes mate, EVERY TIME I HAVE A PISS!!

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