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Old Sep 10, 2012 | 09:42 AM
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(hill sprints especially if it's convenient)
Haha! I was just thinking that the only hills on Viper's island are the boat ramps.
Old Sep 10, 2012 | 05:54 PM
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lol techsalvager or one of his buddies downvoted everyone in his build thread. Just found it funny.
Old Sep 10, 2012 | 05:56 PM
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Someone went through and negged my last 17 posts. A fairly impressive effort, I have to admit.
Old Sep 10, 2012 | 08:36 PM
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alright after a bit of searching to no real clear answer, is there a way to compensate for cool nights, i go from 15.5 on the freeway at 70F to 14.3 at like 55-60F. theres a lot of info about heatsoak and warm settings, but can seem to find much about cold.
Old Sep 11, 2012 | 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted by redturbomiata
alright after a bit of searching to no real clear answer, is there a way to compensate for cool nights, i go from 15.5 on the freeway at 70F to 14.3 at like 55-60F. theres a lot of info about heatsoak and warm settings, but can seem to find much about cold.
Something is set wrong. I don't know what, but post your msq and let's see what it might be.



LOL! I just saw a Neiman Marcus advertisement banner on Miataturbo! The world really does believe we are into women's' fall fashions! Too funny!
Old Sep 11, 2012 | 01:17 PM
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**** yes, I missed you collective jackasses in the ~half a week I've been offline. I'm baaack, and my new apartment has internet now!

For all of a few minutes at least before I have to drive across the gorramn state. Lulz. And it looks like I missed a **** ton of stuff while I was gone.
Old Sep 11, 2012 | 02:21 PM
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Originally Posted by sixshooter
LOL! I just saw a Neiman Marcus advertisement banner on Miataturbo! The world really does believe we are into women's' fall fashions! Too funny!

you know they are all cookies driven...

Old Sep 11, 2012 | 02:21 PM
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**** yes, i missed you collective jackasses in the ~half a week i've been offline. I'm baaack, and my new apartment has internet now!ate. Lulz. And it looks like i missed a **** ton of stuff while i was gone.

watts up homey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Old Sep 11, 2012 | 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Braineack
watts up homey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Waiting for it to warm the **** up outside so I can take the Miata across the state!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Old Sep 11, 2012 | 02:30 PM
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its chilly out today. I seriously thought it was October because ive been seeing so much Halloween stuff. I just told my wife today that we need to get candy this soon when we go to the store, and she was like bro, we got like over a month.
Old Sep 11, 2012 | 02:36 PM
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Seriously, it *is* chilly out today, even where I am. I thought it was like 8am looking out the window an hour ago.

I'm hoping it warms up *soon*. Driving a Miata without the top down is sacrilege!
Old Sep 11, 2012 | 02:43 PM
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since my heater works, I'd still do that.
Old Sep 11, 2012 | 02:45 PM
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Yeah, I know I need to get my heater working Brainy, no need to rub it in :(.

Anyways, time to GTFO and head back. I've waited more than long enough and it's not getting any warmer.
Old Sep 11, 2012 | 03:03 PM
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Late to the party as I don't frequent this thread, buuuut...

Originally Posted by Pen2_the_penguin
stepped on a scale today, realized i could do with a 10-15 lb loss. Been lazy the past couple months. Any advice for a busy 9-5 work schedule 5 days a week besides morning runs? seems to me running isnt working anymore. weird.

I have realized I have been eating complete crap the past two weeks,but that will stop immediately.

Besides the past two weeks I have only consumed a strict 1900-2000 calories a day, but I probably have a crap load stored. So I guess I am asking is what is the most reasonable boost in weightloss I can do? What are some good supplements? I have never taken any before, I used to keep a healthy 150-165 lbs. by running, pushups and sit ups, but its not working anymore.
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Do this:

cut ALL refined carbs
add AS MUCH VEGGIES AS POSSIBLE. ridiculous veggies
eat some protein

do crossfit
Originally Posted by mgeoffriau
Screw Insanity, do some sprinting (hill sprints especially if it's convenient), weightlifting (deadlifts, squats, snatches, etc), and some kettlebell work.

But that's for improving your fitness level. If you just want to lose weight, that's 80% diet changes anyway.
See my thread here.

Cliffs: Eat like Faeflora said and either do Mark's style of exercising or some high intensity interval training. I dropped from 165 to 150 in about 10 weeks by cleaning up my diet and doing Insanity, then adding in some running, biking, and swimming for (mini) triathlon training. Six-pack is back and I'm having all of my size 32 slacks taken in a little.

Mark had even more dramatic results with his routine, but I found the Insanity stuff super convenient for my ~50+ hour/week work schedule.
Old Sep 11, 2012 | 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Scrappy Jack
Mark had even more dramatic results with his routine, but I found the Insanity stuff super convenient for my ~50+ hour/week work schedule.
I thought Insanity was like P90x? I found P90x to be extremely inconvenient -- at least an hour every single day, has to be done in front of the TV or computer, way, way, way too much cardio (even on the days supposedly focusing on muscle groups).

My exercise is very unstructured now. There's a "skeleton" of kettlebell workouts 4 days out of the week -- 2 days with 5 minutes of Turkish Get Ups each, and 2 days with 12 minutes of 2-handed and 1-handed swings. Usually I'll finish those workouts with a minute or two of snatches and goblet squats to push my muscles a bit closer to 85-90% exhaustion (but not to failure -- recovery takes too long).

I mix in other stuff based on energy levels, workload, time, and what I feel like doing. I might add an extra day of kettlebell stuff, working on snatches. I might do bodyweight upper body stuff (pull ups, chin ups, push ups, dips, handstands). I might do 2 or 3 long hill sprints. Lately I've been running one lap of my block as fast as I can -- timed myself this week at 4:32 and then a tired 4:37. My aim is crack 4 minutes by the end of the year.

Then, I add a few games per week -- fall softball just started so I'll have a couple softball games each week. It's not an intense workout, but you get warmed up, sprint a few times, keep the body loose. And then Angleball on Saturdays, which is a field sport similar to say, soccer on a smaller field. Lots of sprinting and cutting, off and on for a couple of hours.

All that to say...any time I've tried to pin myself down to a regimented workout plan, I've quickly gotten bored and quit after a few weeks. Variety is what keeps it interesting for me.
Old Sep 11, 2012 | 03:32 PM
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Originally Posted by sixshooter
Something is set wrong. I don't know what, but post your msq and let's see what it might be.
i think i noticed one of the problems, for some reason this moring the iat was reading 34F when it was something like 50ish out . when i set it up a few months back it was working fine and nothing has changed since then. anyway heres my msq as well
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Old Sep 11, 2012 | 03:48 PM
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I just remembered I want to build a slosh pipe on Saturday.
Old Sep 11, 2012 | 04:03 PM
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Originally Posted by redturbomiata
i think i noticed one of the problems, for some reason this moring the iat was reading 34F when it was something like 50ish out . when i set it up a few months back it was working fine and nothing has changed since then. anyway heres my msq as well
nobody will ever want to download and open a megasquirt map named "current tune" FYI.

rename it something useful like your username and the date and what's relevant. dot msq.
Old Sep 11, 2012 | 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by y8s
nobody will ever want to download and open a megasquirt map named "current tune" FYI.

rename it something useful like your username and the date and what's relevant. dot msq.
fixed
Old Sep 11, 2012 | 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by mgeoffriau
I thought Insanity was like P90x? I found P90x to be extremely inconvenient -- at least an hour every single day, has to be done in front of the TV or computer, way, way, way too much cardio (even on the days supposedly focusing on muscle groups).
It's regimented in that you are, initially, supposed to do it 6 days/week for 60 days. The DVDs take between 30 - 90 minutes with 45 minutes being the average.

It's way easier for me to get up at 5:30 AM and walk downstairs, move the coffee table and bust out a yoga mat in front of the living room TV than it is to drive to and from the gym. There is zero equipment required for Insanity, so no need to figure out where to stick a pull-up bar or dumb bells. That also means two people (like my wife and I) can do the workouts together at the same time without having to wait on each other for equipment.

Again, I am out of the house for a good 11 to 13 hours per day due to work and I can't exactly take an afternoon break to go sprint around my parking garage in the afternoon.


Now that we completed the first "cycle" of Insanity, we just incorporate the DVDs in to our weekly routines between jogging, biking and swimming. Once the triathlon is over (this weekend), we would like to start picking up and putting down heavy things.



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