Current Skill You Are Developing

[kidcolin]

How big are you? Do they mock you if your small? Right now I'm reshaping my diet and doing HIIT 3 times a week and working out, so in two months or so I should be ~160-165 (I'm 5'9").

How much does it cost?

Do you work with a trainer much? Or do you just go in when you feel like it? Do you do non-boxing drill workouts there too?

[daryn]

i'm big as in thick, i am 5'10" and weigh about 250, although nobody would estimate my weight at 250, maybe not even 225

i pay like $700 a year, i guess it's expensive? i don't know, to me $700 is a drop in the bucket for a whole year of unlimited classes. they have regular gym stuff too obv like weights, bikes, treadmill, but also things like a ton of heavy bags, different punching bags like speed bags, uppercut bags, this weird hanging round bag.. also a huge boxing ring, mats.. just a great place.


there's this one guy there who teaches a few of the kickboxing classes, he had me on a weight program for a while, i'm looking to get back on it. i try to go once a day to a kickboxing class and sometimes i'll pull a double and stay for the boxing class afterwards.

[Howard Treesong]

Six Sigma: a Motorola-developed and GE-popularized systematized process analysis for improving efficiency of industrial processes.

[kidcolin]

$700 a year is awesome. I thought it'd be a $100/mo which I'm a bit hesitant to drop.

I'll have to do some research around the sacto area and see what I can find. Thanks for the info.

[TimM]

I'm planning to join a pool league that plays in various local bars, so I should probably try to get better at that.

I'm mostly joining for social reasons but it would be nice to be good at it too.

[Alobar]

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alobar, book name?

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"Bodyweight Exercises for Extraordinary Strength" by brad johnson

[keikiwai]

For nerdbombers planning on learning nerdy stuff (i'm working on my programming skills) -

MIT has put some of their classes online for free and they are planning on putting all of them online soon.

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

[gumpzilla]

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So far I think the dude who is going to thailand and learning how to pick up guys is the coolest, and then second coolest is me. BTW for chess I will make my number one recommendation Tal's book becuase he is a great writer.

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Tal's book (I assume we mean Life and Games of Mikhail Tal and not the Tal-Botvinnik 1960 one) is a very entertaining book in itself, even neglecting the chess content. For beginning/mediocre chess players (of which I am one, too) the games are likely to be thoroughly mystifying, if occasionally inspiring.

[zPro]

Competitive eating.
Not really serious, but I can get 10 hotdogs and buns down in 5 minutes.

[TyFuji]

Trying to learn how to play Othello really well.

It's an awesome game.