How physically active are you?

[Flylkorean]

How physically active are you?

Do you do anything else besides kendo? such as go to the gym?
Tell us how much you physically participate in a week.

[drizzt]

Just got back from a 4 1/2 hour shift workin on fightin texas aggie bonfire does that count?

[KAKUSEI]

moutain bike 2x/wk if possible.

Basketball pickup games on the weekends.

[Greger]

How physically active are you?

Do you do anything else besides kendo? such as go to the gym?
Tell us how much you physically participate in a week.

well, i do kendo thrice-four times(3, can you say that??) a week, and i train some at home, as well as doing push ups etc, stretching and such. Overall, im quite lazy though-at least when im doing homework.....=)

[Sinta]

My bf goes to Karate on Wednesday evenings straight from work, and because we go home together, it was either watch and wait for 2 hours or join in. So I did. I really like the first hour of hard fitness and body conditioning.

On weekends or sometimes during lunchtimes I like to play squash. Keeps the stamina up :)

[LarsCW]

Twice a week 2 hour keiko and then I've started running doing 2km runs now 2 or 3 times a week depending on how my heal is healing from my bad fumikomi

[Chook]

Kendo 1-2 times a week, running every 2 days, walking long distance everyday, weights every second day.

[Anjin-san]

Program C++ four hours per week, Java 8 hours per week, PHP/XHTML 2 hours per week. Go to loud, packed,smokey clubs every so often, live off of left over barbeque/pizza. My doctor gives me two weeks to live.

[Ipp-on Ipp-off]

Program C++ four hours per week, Java 8 hours per week, PHP/XHTML 2 hours per week.
Lucky Bastard currently doing 40 hours a week of Pascal on Open Vms. Must be some kind of medevil training scheme.

Chook: You beast do you even have time to drink beer?

Oh yeah and for me, besides my "medevil training scheme", 2x 1:30 hour of keiko.

[Anjin-san]

All the C++ is OpenGL. Cries into glass of flat diet pepsi.

[shred_lord]

Very :cool:



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Oh..... physically active, yeah kendo 2-3 times a week iai once a week.

[runsyi]

run 30-40 miles a week
3 hours biking on Sundays unless I have a race
2-3 hours of lap swimming
2-3 hours in the gym
2 days training Kendo

[runsyi]

I forgot to add 1 hour-long pilates class once a week.

[Lloromannic]

15 minutes of stair stepper everyday when I wake up
2 hours of kendo twice a week and 3.5 hours once a week
40 minutes fast walking three times a week at least
i hour pilates when I have time (usually once a week)
3-4 hours a day of intensive arm and finger workout (homework, internet and "others")
4-5 weekly hours running around in circles while panicking about the need to do any of the above.

[samurai999]

run 30-40 miles a week
3 hours biking on Sundays unless I have a race
2-3 hours of lap swimming
2-3 hours in the gym
2 days training Kendo

Geez! What a health nut! j/k

Anyways, I usually run if I get the chance. But I am sitting in front of a computer all day doing stress analysis.

Kendo itself, (and this is the most I have done):

I practice 1-3x a week depending on time and which dojo i feel like going to...

On off days (and this is also the most I have done),

some running, but not too much. Maybe the length of 2-3 laps of a track.
300-500 total suburi. (not straight thru)
20 situps
20 pushups (if there is no room in the apt, then I lean up against a countertop edge and do twice as many as i would do if i were doing regular pushups)


Suburi menu (again this is the most i will do):

100 men straight thru
rest
100 total katate men (now with improved grip!)
rest
100 total kote
rest
100 total do from both sides
rest
100 total yoko men.

I usually do this sitting since I have no room to swing my shinai since great damage to apt will happen if I did (and great anger will come to apt manager).

Tim

[runsyi]

3-4 hours a day of intensive arm and finger workout (homework, internet and "others")

I like that "and 'others.'" Hahaha.

Samurai999, that's some suburi menu. I'll take an order of the katate men. You and Lloromannic must have some handshake (although I wouldn't shake Lloromannic's hand after his arm and finger workout).

[Paikea]

I like that "and 'others.'" Hahaha.

Samurai999, that's some suburi menu. I'll take an order of the katate men. You and Lloromannic must have some handshake (although I wouldn't shake Lloromannic's hand after his arm and finger workout).Weren't we just recently working on that "impure thoughts" tendency?

[runsyi]

Weren't we just recently working on that "impure thoughts" tendency?

You are absolutely right. I guess tonight I'll have to tell my ji-geiko partners, "I've been naughty, wanna beat it out of me?" I don't think that'll get a good reception from the senseis though, and the Japanese kenshi won't understand anyway.

[Andou]

I hear lots of pros and cons about walking v. running. I hear that a good amount of walking every day can get you worked out as much as running does and it's less stress on the knees...any input? I've found myself trying to walk for a while but always end up jogging in the end...whatever.

[drizzt]

walking seems to help me more bsimply because it forces my cardiatic system to work better. i always seem to have more energy when im running(i used to run 2 miles a day....then i screwed my foot up)

[SkippyDaStudent]

I walk around so much because of school, and recently, I began after I get home from classes. I'm trying to take better care of myself to develop better kikentai-ichi.

[piggy]

I walk on average and hour and a half everyday. I can't run anymore because its absolutely terrible on my lungs. The exercise that i've gotten from walking shows itself in other activities too.

[Paikea]

You are absolutely right. I guess tonight I'll have to tell my ji-geiko partners, "I've been naughty, wanna beat it out of me?" I don't think that'll get a good reception from the senseis though, and the Japanese kenshi won't understand anyway.Likely not, but it is interesting reading, nonetheless.

[Neil Gendzwill]

I hear lots of pros and cons about walking v. running. I hear that a good amount of walking every day can get you worked out as much as running does and it's less stress on the knees...any input? I've found myself trying to walk for a while but always end up jogging in the end...whatever.
You can burn just as many calories walking (it just takes longer), so it's OK that way for losing weight. But you won't get your heart rate up high enough to improve your cardio fitness. If you're worried about your knees, ride a bike or swim or row or whatever.

FWIW in addition to kendo I also play judo, run and lift weights. In a good week I'm in the dojo, gym or on the road for 10-12 hours.

[Lloromannic]

15 minutes of stair stepper everyday when I wake up
2 hours of kendo twice a week and 3.5 hours once a week
40 minutes fast walking three times a week at least
i hour pilates when I have time (usually once a week)
3-4 hours a day of intensive arm and finger workout (homework, internet and "others")
4-5 weekly hours running around in circles while panicking about the need to do any of the above.

It's also important to say that I undercut all that with a heathy dose of pie, pasties and other unhealthy food. For example, a staple of the mexican diet is Torta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torta) de Tamal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamal) with atole. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atole) That consists of lardy dough between two loaves of dough with liquid lardy dough for drinking. Yummy.

[Sepiraph]

Beside Kendo, I drive on the road/highway for about 3 hours every day.

[Toaster]

This looks fun! well.... i do something different everday generally, so here's the weekly plan:
Monday: 40 mins horseriding 30 push-ups, 30 armbends, 30 sit-ups
Tuesday: 1 hour hockey, 2 1/4 hours fencing 30 push-ups, 30 sit-ups, 30-arm bends
Wednesday: 30 push-ups, 30 sit-ups, 30 arm-bends
Thursday: 1 hour trampolining 30 push ups 30 sit ups 30 arm bends
Friday: 2 hours KENDO! (:)woot:) )
Saturday: 30 push ups 30 sit ups 30 arm bends
Sunday: 3+ hours shopping!:ko:
all fitted in around school, coursework, homework, more homework, and- I nearly forgot this one- homework!

[mingshi]

... About 800m running uphill (inc. 2 flight of stairs) going to work, and then 800m again running downhill off work. Both during rush hour in the busiest district in town, and with a 4kg laptop on my shoulder.

My right index finger is the fittest part of my body - clicking 214,349 times on the mouse button... The muscles in my eye socket only came 2nd :D

[Hai_hai]

How physically active are you?
I am somewhat physically active.


Do you do anything else besides kendo?
Yes.


such as go to the gym?
I go to the gym.


Tell us how much you physically participate in a week.
None of your business. That's totally top secret.

[kaltek]

Running for 6 hours a week
Dumbell lifting for 1/2 hour per day
press-ups for 1/2 hour per day
weapons training for 5 hours every sunday :evil:

[samurai999]

I guess tonight I'll have to tell my ji-geiko partners, "I've been naughty, wanna beat it out of me?"

Whoa... Holy swords whips and chains, Batman!!
Tim

[ScottUK]

Monday - Kendo
Tuesday - Iaido
Thursday - Kenjutsu

The rest of the time I spend doing DIY and energetic DVD viewing... :D

[kaltek]

Monday - Kendo
Tuesday - Iaido
Thursday - Kenjutsu

The rest of the time I spend doing DIY and energetic DVD viewing... :D

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[emitbrownne]

How physically active are you?

Do you do anything else besides kendo? such as go to the gym?
Tell us how much you physically participate in a week.

I train twice a week.

I do nothing other than kendo.

Participate physically in what? life? not much....:)

[schiedsrichter]

How active I am?

Well:
Monday: Diving (6.30PM-8PM)
Tuesday: Kendo (7PM-10PM)
Wednesday: Golf (9-hole game)
Thursday: Kendo (5PM-6.30PM)
Friday: Kendo (5.45PM-7.45PM)
Saturday+Sunday: eventually Umpiring (Field-/Hall-Hockey)

Crazy, isn't it? ;)

P.S. Forget about to mention several Kendo tournaments ;)

[Yiu Fai]

Keiko 4 nights a week
Cardio 2 mornings a week
Weights 2 mornings a week
Squash once a week
Bartending 2 nights a week
Mouse clicking, numbercrunching and brain stressing 40 hours a week

Partying usually twice a week but sometimes rears its beautiful head more during a week.

I'm thinking about only going to keiko 3 times a week, I love Kendo but I really need sometime to myself and my loved ones in order to enjoy the fruits and benefits of what I'm doing. Oh the decisions...