Smoker Fitness

[Robb]

This cracked me up, so I have to share. :) My smokin' neighbor told me of his new fitness plan: every time he wants a ciggie, he gets on his machine and does 20 reps of something. THEN he has one!

He claims he's smoking a little less, and exercising more. :shrug:

[Superfly]

1. When I was at airborne school back in 1995

we would start every day at 4:00 in the morning with a 4 or 5 mile run in BDU pants. It always amazed me that some soldiers would preface the run with a few cigarettes, saying the resultant coughing actually clears their lungs and makes them run better. Scientists, soldiers are not.

[demsrule4life]

7. During Air Force PT tests

(Yes they do have them) I remember the old Msgt's smoking and doing their 1.5 mile run at the same time.

[Superfly]

8. 1.5 mile run...ha!

Try doing 2 miles sometime! (Ha, ha, ha)

That 600 yard shuttle run you guys have is a pain in the ass.

[demsrule4life]

9. It has changed since I retired

Same test as the Army.

[Sir_Shrek]

2. You know....

...my uncle had a doctor who told him to do a similar thing way back when...either get a set of handweights and pump for five minutes, run around the block, do as many pushups as he could in two minutes. He did eventually quit and became a regular jogger.

[Whitacre D_WI]

3. I've always said...

that I would exercise more if the gyms had ashtrays on the treadmills and stationary bikes.

[Rabbit of Caerbannog]

4. In the way-early days...

of the Tour de France - cyclists also beleived smoking a few cigs cleared their lungs.

[henslee]

5. There actually is some merit to this.....

The deepest breath most smokers take is when they drag on a ciggie.... If they ever breathed that deep without a ciggie, the dark recesses of their lungs that only ever see cig. smoke can finally be touched by air.

[underpants]

6. I was in the best shape I have ever been in when I used to do this

Brew a pot of coffee and every half hour I did

30 pushups
30 situps
5-10 "Diamond" push-ups
20 crunches
3-5 chinups
3-5 pullups

Drink coffee smoke a cigarette. 5 setups over a two hour period. Sort of a Herschel Walker meets Henry Rollins work out.

[xchrom]

10. i smoke and exercise

but i wouldn't say there is anything sane about it.
i just have a very hard staying free of smokes -- wish i didn't.

[Skittles]

11. I think he is on to something

he's changing his cig habits which is a very good thing to do before trying to quit.

[4dsc]

12. I use to jog 3 miles or more a day

and smoke a pack of Marlborro's reds.

The red's won though and now I don't smoke at all..