fitness freaks

i thought we'd established all exercising is gay anyway? depending on what you're doing you should stretch before (but after a brief warm up) and after your warm-down (which apparently helps recovery)

wot GDID said. stretching (rather than warming up) is only really applicable if you're doing exercise that would need it. however, it's often useful to gently stretch after exercise because it can reduce the muscle aching you'll feel the following day.

Could be doms? Not a bad thing, just your muscles growing.

Have you been under a rock? Me and conor staged a coup.

Yea, i know they say that, but not being a retard, i'm not going to do it, and want to know how long until my body works properly and i don't have to.

no, in the gym. training every day at the moment but didn't want to come out

my calves don't ache when i run now, can't remember when they stopped though. a bit of light stretching afterwards will help recovery though, and therefore allow you to do it more without walking like a retard, and therefore get to the point where it doesn't ache any more quicker. probably.

A few things

JoeK - don't be afraid, we're here for you
Jack - good you're running, fairplay
Table tennis is what you play in caravan parks when it's raining - NOT SPORT
Squash is a game for estate agents and people who don't like sport and insurance salespeople

Stretch for fuck sake! You don't have to do big gay stretches like me and like the others said a light warmup is more important than a stretch. So always start slowly with a light warm up, just enough to make you feel warm/sweat very lightly, and then a light stretch - you don't have to look like a gymnast, but stretch the parts you'll be hitting hardest. In squash you'd probably need a light quad, calf and hamstring stretch.

Anyway there's nothing wrong with gaining a bit of flexibility. Plus you'll avoid DOMS like they said. Serious, just stretch there's nothing wrong with it, no one's looking. Except if you're a girl and gdid is there.

i'm not fucking stretching. Exercise is bad enough, but that's a step too far.

Conor, i hate sport, hence the table tennis and squash. I am so unbelievably bad at squash, it's amazing. I started playing because they play in the wire.

Gdid, we got a punchbag in our house, also directly as a result of the wire. Next, i'm going to rob local drug gangs. That will be amazing. My wrists really hurt from last night tho (add wanking joke). If i eat lots of meat surely i don't need extra protein? Stopping being veggie has put me on the de facto atkins diet.

He's not lifting, he doesn't need to supplement unless he's playing 6 times a week really mad.

That would have been fantastic.

It will fuck up your kidneys probably.

It would mostly be water retention at first, if you 'load' it at least. Results not funny but it might make a man out of you.

You wont put protein on as fat at all, if you exercise even just two days a week (weights) and keep a low fat diet. You need carbs to get the protein to your muscles though.

i got lost after the word water. If i do weights, how long would it take me to be the most ripped in my house?

doing how much? In time terms per week like?

you know how fat i am- fatter than mara, thinner than revol.

I'm going to get ripped so i can just sit around in no shirt and annoy everyone else.

can you explain that as you would a child?