The Core

>>>Anyone else training for anything in 2011

yeah.....can i take someone out with one swing of my baseball bat rather than 2

Wife wants to ski Mount Shasta this year. I've done it before and could probably do it without training, but we're trying to get out skiing a bunch so she can do it without wishing she would die.

It's not particularly technical skiing, it's the skiing up 7,000 vertical feet and then having the legs to enjoy the ski back down that's the killer.

>I'm pushing 40

Yeah, me too.  I'm just continuing with my weight training while working on slimming down.  I'm at 207 now from 272 at my high.  I don't know about your body at 39, but I'm finding that I need to respect my body a lot more than I use to to prevent injuries.  I have to warm up more, do lighter weight with more reps to take it easy on the joints, that kind of thing.  I don't think my joints would respond well to getting yanked on and put into locks,

don't need to train really...

this was a kids party yesterday with the men playing musical chairs, the guy on the floor had 22 kick boxing fights is twice the size of me and is f###ing rock hard but the champ who is 12 years older than him is throwing him around like i was mopping the floor

http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=10150347077800247

men play to win

Weight loss and fitness here, since August.  My high this summer was 239.9, I guess I should just call it 240 eh.

Down to 213.X so far, my goal for holidays was 210, and I tend to set barely realistic goals so I'm  happy.

Total goal is 200 (target optimum healthy weight per my doc), and I know the last 5 will take the longest. I plan to hit that by the end of summer, hopefully on the front end.

Aside from age, if I'm not already my best overall shape ever, I'm close.

Mick, for me its not a question of being tough, I mean, I think I'm past that stage in my life where I have to size myself up against a group of guys and think about who I could take and who I'd have to worry about. 

Getting in shape for me is more about battling against life.  Basically I want to max out the productive years, stay healthy so I could be a good provider for my family and enjoy myself after my kids are grown.  Also, everything feels much better now that I'm nearly 5 stones lighter. 

Drastic, good job, keep at it.  What are you doing/eating to get there?

>207 now from 272
damn! you're trim, now.

>half marathon
didn't you have shin splints a while ago?

>Going skiing
I love them both but if I had it all over to do, I'd just snowboard instead.