I'm Bored, so Let's Learn More about You

wrigleyville

1. Do you more enjoy weight days or cardio days?   Weight days. I have asthma, so cardio days can be hard on me.

2. What energizes you for a really good workout session?  I can't workout without music. If my iPod dies, it's over. :-P

3. Workout gadget or item you wish you owned?   Pool.

4. Greatest athletic feat to date?  Greatest one you hope to accomplish one day?

It sounds silly, but I'll never forget the first time I was able to run an entire mile without stopping. It took me 11:17, but I did it. I was so proud of myself. I'd like to do a 5k someday. I don't expect to run the entire thing, but it would be great to try.

5. What's one thing (or more) that you have on your bucket list?   I'd love to go on a cruise. Long-term, FI and I are hoping to move (back) to Chicago someday.

6. What's your favorite TV show?   "Big Bang Theory", but I have a soft spot for "Golden Girls".

7. What type of work do you do, or what do you study? (if you feel like sharing)   I'm a psychiatrist at a hospital.

8. Where did you meet your FI or H?   We met online. We both play WoW, and we were both working on a dungeon (it's a team effort thing). You can talk to other players, so we were talking about cooking dinner, music we were listening to, and so on. After we finished playing, we kept chatting. Eventually, we started talking outside of the game, he Facebooked me, etc. We didn't start dating until two years later.

Lobsters25

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[QUOTE]3. Workout gadget or item you wish you owned?   Pool. :) 
Posted by wrigleyville[/QUOTE]

<div>Ah, that'd be nice...</div>

Jaridds68

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[QUOTE]Jaridds- Hey, you're not too far from me!  Do you have a regular bike to take through Pilly? 
Posted by Lobsters25[/QUOTE]

<div>Hey neighbor!! No, I don't bike around the city, just inside on the spin bike. Partly bc I don't have a bike here, but mainly bc I'm scared as shiit to bike here - there ARE bike lanes, but cab drivers (esp) and buses tend to ignore them. I've had several friends get wiped out or crash into a cab as it darted in to pick up a fare, none badly injured, but still, not my game!</div>

JW28

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[QUOTE]Ah! So many posts from when I left work to when I got home.  Time to catch up quickly before feeding the dog. JW- Congrats on the new PR! That's awesome Where in Europe are you going? 
Posted by Lobsters25[/QUOTE]
Thanks! We're not sure yet, but we want to see London and Paris (so we can take the high-speed train between them), and we'll see where else we get to.

Lobsters25

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: I'm Bored, so Let's Learn More about You : Hey neighbor!! No, I don't bike around the city, just inside on the spin bike. Partly bc I don't have a bike here, but mainly bc I'm scared as shiit to bike here - there ARE bike lanes, but cab drivers (esp) and buses tend to ignore them. I've had several friends get wiped out or crash into a cab as it darted in to pick up a fare, none badly injured, but still, not my game!
Posted by Jaridds68[/QUOTE]

<div>Yeah, biking through Philly would be a bit crazy, but there are some great trails you can hop on from the city, as well as the Bike Philly event every year, and then they close part of Boathouse row in the summer for running/blading/cycling. It's worth picking up some graduating kid's bike for dirt cheap before the summer!</div>

Jaridds68

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[QUOTE]8. Where did you meet your FI or H?  At a Phillies game!
Posted by Lobsters25[/QUOTE]

<div>!!!!!!!!!! That's awesome! (I'm also imagining it went down something like he was dressed as the Green Man, you're the Philly Phanatic, you locked eyes across the stadium and the rest was history....buttt I have a vivid imagination).</div>

Lobsters25

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: I'm Bored, so Let's Learn More about You : !!!!!!!!!! That's awesome! (I'm also imagining it went down something like he was dressed as the Green Man, you're the Philly Phanatic, you locked eyes across the stadium and the rest was history....buttt I have a vivid imagination).
Posted by Jaridds68[/QUOTE]

<div>I'm glad to know my brain isn't the only one that functions in such a manner.  That would have been AWESOME, though.</div>

Jaridds68

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: I'm Bored, so Let's Learn More about You : I'm glad to know my brain isn't the only one that functions in such a manner.  That would have been AWESOME, though.
Posted by Lobsters25[/QUOTE]

<div>That's the story I'd be telling if that's where FI and I met :) </div>

anna.oskar

1. Do you more enjoy weight days or cardio days?
      *weight days feel easier and are WAY quicker but i love a good long walk/run

2. What energizes you for a really good workout session?
      *The knowledge that each workout might just be the one that will make me finally feel good about my body.

3. Workout gadget or item you wish you owned?
     *A fancy treadmill.  Like, one of those that projects various marathon runs on the screen and has all the bells and whistles.

4. Greatest athletic feat to date? 
      *State MMA champion a few years ago.
    Greatest one you hope to accomplish one day?
      *Climb the Matterhorn.


And how about some non workout/diet questions?
5. What's one thing (or more) that you have on your bucket list?
    *Be a good mom

6. What's your favorite TV show?
    *It's a toss-up between Big Bang Theory and Hell's Kitchen

7. What type of work do you do, or what do you study? (if you feel like sharing)
    *Biomedical researcher and an art student

8. Where did you meet your FI or H?
    *On match.com

Lobsters25

The Matterhorn, Anna?  There's one I've never heard - awesome!

BosseyBoots

1. Do you more enjoy weight days or cardio days?
     Cardio - I love Cardio
2. What energizes you for a really good workout session?
     Music - Good, upbeat, fast music
3. Workout gadget or item you wish you owned?
     None as of right now - I wished for a HR moniter for the longest time but now own one - never go to the gym without it
4. Greatest athletic feat to date? Greatest one you hope to accomplish one day?
     Mountain biking for a week (7 days) straight (when I was in high school and really didn't care about excersie, but now looking back I think it's cool)  And I would love to do the Warrior Race this summer!
5. What's one thing (or more) that you have on your bucket list?
     Well I'm a dairy farmer and many of you may not understand this but one day I would love to say that I bred and owned a Supreme Champion the World Dairy Expo in Madison, WI.  It may take me my ENTIRE life to do so, but I'm up to the challenge
6. What's your favorite TV show?
     I really don't watch to much TV but I do enjoy Mike and Molly when I remember it's on
7. What type of work do you do, or what do you study? (if you feel like sharing)
     I'm a person of many hats as they say, but mainly I work at the local nursing home as a Nursing Assistant and I also run/Co-Own the family Dairy Farm with my parents and FI
8. Where did you meet your FI or H?
     Many years ago (19 years this summer) we met at the local County Fair showing cattle - as you see we are based around cattle and agriculture

anna.oskar

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[QUOTE]The Matterhorn, Anna?  There's one I've never heard - awesome!
Posted by Lobsters25[/QUOTE]

My niece and I have plans to climb it together once she's 21.  So it's a ways off (she's  about 10 now)

eirwyn

1. Do you more enjoy weight days or cardio days?

Cardio days. It helps burn the stress away.

2. What energizes you for a really good workout session?

I listen to a really upbeat song that makes me want to dance.

3. Workout gadget or item you wish you owned?

I'd love to have a treadmill or exercise bike. Maybe once we move into our new place.

4. Greatest athletic feat to date?  Greatest one you hope to accomplish one day?

It sounds silly, but after so many months of knee pain and not being able to get out of a chair without a struggle and pain, I'm actually climbing stairs and moving around without any pain now. I could barely walk a block several months ago, and now I can walk 1.5 miles before I get tired. I have a long way to go until I'm running, but I'd love to do a 5k someday.

5. What's one thing (or more) that you have on your bucket list?

I've always wanted to go to Vegas.

6. What's your favorite TV show?

Newer: "Big Bang Theory". Older: "Frasier".

7. What type of work do you do, or what do you study? (if you feel like sharing)

I work for an insurance company. I handle auto claims.

8. Where did you meet your FI or H?

I met my BF online. He used to live in NM, but he moved here to be with me after a year and a half of dating long-distance.

Lobsters25

Bossey - The dairy farming sounds like a lot of fun, I would love to spend a day in your shoes

Anna- Okay, 11 years to prep, you got this  Do lots of people climb it?  I guess I don't know too much about it...

Eir - That's a long time to do long-distance, congrats on making it work!

souptin

1. Do you more enjoy weight days or cardio days?
I really like zumba so I vote for cardio, however-whenever I do weights I always feel accomplished, almost smug I guess that I could finally do it (hard to describe)
2. What energizes you for a really good workout session?
Im still out of shape so I guess pushing each workout further then the last
3. Workout gadget or item you wish you owned?
those awesome vibrating chairs at the gym
4. Greatest athletic feat to date?  Greatest one you hope to accomplish one day?
not too many here, I would have to go back to my highschool days when I was in really good shape and won a couple of athletic awards for various things.

5. What's one thing (or more) that you have on your bucket list?
traveling-everywhere. Go to a Green bay Packers game in Green Bay (Im a Canadian Obsessed with the Pack)
6. What's your favorite TV show?
Drama: Mad men, Walking dead
Comedy: Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Wilfred, South Park
7. What type of work do you do, or what do you study? (if you feel like sharing)
I work with the director of Education at a college
8. Where did you meet your FI or H?
we met during our undergrads-at a skeezy bar, professionally we just say we met through mutual friends....which is technically true, we just omit the part about the skeezy bar haha

Lobsters25

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[QUOTE]3. Workout gadget or item you wish you owned? those awesome <strong>vibrating chairs</strong> at the gym Posted by souptin[/QUOTE]

Say what?  Massage chairs at the gym?  I'm at the wrong gym.

firsttimersluck

I'm so late to this... Stupid first day of classes after spring break -__- 

1. Do you more enjoy weight days or cardio days?

Cardio because I LOVE Step class... then my second fave is working arms. :)maybe because arms are my insecurity so I like the feeling of them being sore. It means they are changing for the better!  

2. What energizes you for a really good workout session?

Awesome music and awesome people. Walking into my gym classes to fun music and chatting with the instructors or a couple people I've met there is great motivation to keep coming back. 

3. Workout gadget or item you wish you owned?

A HR monitor or one of those things that "dings" on the intervals you set so that my Tabata intervals are more accurate. 

4. Greatest athletic feat to date?  Greatest one you hope to accomplish one day?

Oh gosh.. Probably completing my black belt back in high school. 

Now, do a couple 5ks.... 

So... I'm considering doing two different 5ks!!! A couple of you KNOW I don't run. I don't do it.. but.. It's time. I want to do the Color Run and a Mud Run. One is in May and one is in June. If I can find at least one person to do it, I'm doing it.  O.o !!!!


And how about some non workout/diet questions?
5. What's one thing (or more) that you have on your bucket list?

Visit Australia. I have a lot of long lost family there from WW2/Cold War (I'm Latvian by heritage, and during that time only the US and Au would take Latvian refugees so my family was split in half, not knowing that they would end up on different continents because they were spread out among concentration/refugee camps) 

6. What's your favorite TV show?

Oh goodness... There are too many to name.. So the top ones are 

The Office

Bones

Walking Dead

7. What type of work do you do, or what do you study? (if you feel like sharing)

I'm finishing up my BS in Mathematics. I will be looking at Engineering positions with Boeing or Microsoft after I get it. ultimate goal would be Stem Cell research. 

8. Where did you meet your FI or H?

We met at a Starbucks   We kinda "preyed" on each other and ended up chatting for over 3 hours that night. He was the first "stranger" I have ever given my number to, and it was because he was sooo cute and awkward when asking.. it was obvious he didn't do that kinda thing often  

firsttimersluck

Anna- mma champ?!!? bada**.... 

OMG WHY DID I NOT THINK OF A POOL?!?!!? O.o Heaven... 

eiwrn- I have always wanted to do Vegas as well! My H and I have both never been so it's on our bucket list as well  

It's hard for him to get time off with his job though He doesn't actually find out what hours he works until the NIGHT BEFORE.. Like... no joke. He comes home and checks his schedule for the next day then.. boo. 

reggiesmommy

Love this thread!  I'm late too, but oh well.  I want in on the fun!  

1. Do you more enjoy weight days or cardio days?  I enjoy the days when I do a combo of both.  If I lift upper body & then take a spin class, that is the ultimate for me.  

2. What energizes you for a really good workout session?  Knowing that I'm meeting my workout partner, who has become my best friend over the last year or so.  That and knowing that on spin class days, the instructors know me by name, and expect to see my butt there!  Seriously - I missed Sunday's class and my instructor posted on my FB page that she missed me.  That's the kind of accountability I need!  

3. Workout gadget or item you wish you owned?  I want hot workout clothes.  I'm way too cheap to shop at Lululemen or Lucy but that's my dream.  

4. Greatest athletic feat to date?  Greatest one you hope to accomplish one day?  Well, I have several from my teenage athletic years, but if I'm thinking about what I'm most proud of it's that I can make it through an entire spin class, not cheat with the resistance, and keep up pace with the instructor.  In fact, last week the instructor told me & my friend that we inspire her!  It may not be an "athletic feat," but it was pretty darn awesome.  As for what I'd like to do someday, I think I'd like to get into outdoor cycling.  When I was younger, I had a bad spill on my bike and ever since I have been very unconfident on a bike.  I think that's why I like spinning so much - 'cause the bike doesn't go anywhere!  I really would like to try to conquer my fear and do more outside riding.  


And how about some non workout/diet questions?

5. What's one thing (or more) that you have on your bucket list?  Staying at one of those private "shacks" in Bora Bora that you can see the ocean through.  

6. What's your favorite TV show?  True Blood!  

7. What type of work do you do, or what do you study? (if you feel like sharing) Marketing 

8. Where did you meet your FI or H?  Through work!  We used to work in the same industry & met at an event.  He was chicken to introduce himself but I had no problem doing so!  

lls31

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[QUOTE]5. What's one thing (or more) that you have on your bucket list?  Staying at one of those private "shacks" in Bora Bora that you can see the ocean through.   6. What's your favorite TV show?  True Blood!    
Posted by reggiesmommy[/QUOTE]

<div>My dream honeymoon would've been one of those huts in Bora Bora!  Instead, we're doing something <em>slightly</em> different - a cruise.  lol.</div><div>
</div><div>I want to love True Blood, I really do.  It really bugs me how far they've strayed away from the books.  I'll stick with it, though!</div>

firsttimersluck

Reggiesmommy- I'm too cheap to buy lulu at full price.. Almost all of my workout stuff is lulu but that's only because I have a lulu outlet in my town

Lobsters25

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[QUOTE]When I was younger, I had a bad spill on my bike and ever since I have been very unconfident on a bike.  I think that's why I like spinning so much - 'cause the bike doesn't go anywhere!  I really would like to try to conquer my fear and do more outside riding. 
Posted by reggiesmommy[/QUOTE]

You have so many great (and flat) places to ride in South Jersey!  I think you really need to get your butt out there.  I may head down that way for a few rides this summer myself.

reggiesmommy

lls - Ha!  We're doing a cruise too.  Bora Bora was a bit above our budget, but someday...

I love the books too!  I feel like some of the changes the show has made have been okay (like, for instance, not killing Lafayette since his character is so awesome!), but all in all, you're right, I would like the storylines to be more in line with the books.  

firstimers - Lulu outlet?  Oh Lord have mercy you would have to take my credit card away from me!  

My friend/workout partner has a lot of Lucy stuff, and she gets it on eBay!  I just upgraded from stuff from Target/Kohls to stuff like UnderArmour.  When I hit a size 10 (I just started fitting into 12s) I'll reward myself with Lucy or Lulu : ) 

firsttimersluck

that's a great way to reward yourself! 

I do love some Nike stuff (also an outlet here in my town so it works out) but Nike I definitely have to try on to make sure it moves right for me, whereas lulu is just a given haha

Underarmor is fantastic stuff! The military uses it for everything now so it's cheap to buy at our local NEX (a military shop kinda like a miliary Target hah). 

yeah... lulu has definitely done damage to my bank account... but my lulu yoga pants were only 20 bucks!! Some deals are just okay, but when you find a deal, SCORE! 

reggiesmommy

Lobsters, you are so right!  I took a ride down the shore last summer on the boardwalk, really early, and I did okay until people started walking and I had to weave.  That made me way too nervous!  I think I'm going to have to suck it up.  My ultimate dream would be to bike ride with my dog, but I think that's a little ways away : )  

Firsttimers, I do love UA, but Lulu is just HOT!  $20 yoga pants is a huge score!!!  That is awesome!