Fit programmer
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What do you do to keep yourself fit and healthy. I am talking from the point of view of a programmer who works round the clock rarely finding time to relax. Recently our project leader gave a friendly spanking related to taking care of one'e health and family life too. How do you relax yourself on work and off work. I do go for a walk early in the morning. But still I do have frequent back aches that too real painful ones. What kind of exercises do you do. Will be interesting to know. Since you all are experienced in this regard you can give me better ideas. Recently I read this from one mail
"First people sacrifice health to earn money and then they sacrifice money get back to health". Sounded funny to me. :)
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me and my wife do jiu-jitsu. It's excellent for your health and a good relationship-therapy. Now we argue a whole lot less :-D oh and ps: to avoid back pains I never ever sit straight. I move about every ten minutes, then left, then right, then I lean backwards, etc...
V. I found a living worth working for, but haven't found work worth living for.
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swinglish wrote:
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What has this "strong colorless alcoholic liquor made from distilled rye and juniper berries" got to do with back pain. ;P
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http://www.codefrog.com/fatboy/inspiration.htm[^] I'm lighter now and totally fired up to keep on going.:rose:
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What do you do to keep yourself fit and healthy. I am talking from the point of view of a programmer who works round the clock rarely finding time to relax. Recently our project leader gave a friendly spanking related to taking care of one'e health and family life too. How do you relax yourself on work and off work. I do go for a walk early in the morning. But still I do have frequent back aches that too real painful ones. What kind of exercises do you do. Will be interesting to know. Since you all are experienced in this regard you can give me better ideas. Recently I read this from one mail
"First people sacrifice health to earn money and then they sacrifice money get back to health". Sounded funny to me. :)
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Nibu babu thomas wrote:
"First people sacrifice health to earn money and then they sacrifice money get back to health".
:omg: Now I sense the need to earn more money! I'm hardly doing any exercise :sigh:. I used to do a lot of push-ups but now after doing 4, I'm leaving myself lie down the floor and take a nap :rolleyes: :doh:.
Code-Frog:So if this is Pumpkinhead. Time for him to run and hide. It's an interesting thought really.
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http://www.codefrog.com/fatboy/inspiration.htm[^] I'm lighter now and totally fired up to keep on going.:rose:
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Nibu babu thomas wrote:
"First people sacrifice health to earn money and then they sacrifice money get back to health".
:omg: Now I sense the need to earn more money! I'm hardly doing any exercise :sigh:. I used to do a lot of push-ups but now after doing 4, I'm leaving myself lie down the floor and take a nap :rolleyes: :doh:.
Code-Frog:So if this is Pumpkinhead. Time for him to run and hide. It's an interesting thought really.
VuNic wrote:
I used to do a lot of push-ups but now after doing 4, I'm leaving myself lie down the floor and take a nap .
I can't even do one. I normally leave my downside on the floor and lift my upper portion. That's the best that I can do. He he. :laugh:
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Rex!,On the second snap you look like Shane Warne !! :-D
Code-Frog:So if this is Pumpkinhead. Time for him to run and hide. It's an interesting thought really.
VuNic wrote:
Rex!,On the second snap you look like Shane Warne !!
Lol. :laugh:
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VuNic wrote:
I used to do a lot of push-ups but now after doing 4, I'm leaving myself lie down the floor and take a nap .
I can't even do one. I normally leave my downside on the floor and lift my upper portion. That's the best that I can do. He he. :laugh:
Nibu thomas A Developer Programming tips[^] My site[^]
Nibu babu thomas wrote:
I normally leave my downside on the floor and lift my upper portion
:laugh::laugh:. ROTFL! That's the way to start with. When I first started doing it, (may be when I was 12 years old) I did the same way. It looks so funny! :laugh:
Code-Frog:So if this is Pumpkinhead. Time for him to run and hide. It's an interesting thought really.
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A friend of mine passed away last year aged 24 1/2 (he had a massive heart attack). While no one knows exactly what could have caused it (poor fellow was a teetotaller), some think it might have been due to extreme stress at work. He worked for USTRI, Trivandrum by the way.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. (*Sample chapter available online*)Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
A friend of mine passed away last year aged 24 1/2 ... poor fellow was a teetotaller
I'm wondering if I should start drinking. :~
Cheers, Vikram.
"...we are disempowered to cultivate in their communities an inclination to assimilate to our culture." - Stan Shannon.
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http://www.codefrog.com/fatboy/inspiration.htm[^] I'm lighter now and totally fired up to keep on going.:rose:
:sigh:
Cheers, Vikram.
"...we are disempowered to cultivate in their communities an inclination to assimilate to our culture." - Stan Shannon.
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What do you do to keep yourself fit and healthy. I am talking from the point of view of a programmer who works round the clock rarely finding time to relax. Recently our project leader gave a friendly spanking related to taking care of one'e health and family life too. How do you relax yourself on work and off work. I do go for a walk early in the morning. But still I do have frequent back aches that too real painful ones. What kind of exercises do you do. Will be interesting to know. Since you all are experienced in this regard you can give me better ideas. Recently I read this from one mail
"First people sacrifice health to earn money and then they sacrifice money get back to health". Sounded funny to me. :)
Nibu thomas A Developer Programming tips[^] My site[^]
Nibu babu thomas wrote:
Since you all are experienced in this regard you can give me better ideas.
How did you work this out? From my experience, developers fall into the following: Single developer: Sit at a desk for 8 hours developing, drive to and from work. Get home and a) Play on a PC/Mac at home, b) Play on a console, c) watch tv/dvds Married/Partnered developer: Sit at a desk for 8 hours developing, drive to and from work. Get home and get nagged by partner. Both stressfull and very bad :-( I've just signed up with a gym and plan to go three times a week to try and lose some of my 17st10lb weight. (I'm 6foot1) My goal: get down to 15st!
Never argue with an imbecile; they bring you down to their level, and beat you with experience.
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Muammar© wrote:
I like biking, but it's sorta dangerous, a car almost hit me twice! So I turned into boxing until I broke my wrist now I'm jogging, the safest, cheapest and best exercise
Given that history of (almost) injuries, it isn't going to take long until a guard dog will see you and think you are a bad guy and bite you -_-
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What do you do to keep yourself fit and healthy. I am talking from the point of view of a programmer who works round the clock rarely finding time to relax. Recently our project leader gave a friendly spanking related to taking care of one'e health and family life too. How do you relax yourself on work and off work. I do go for a walk early in the morning. But still I do have frequent back aches that too real painful ones. What kind of exercises do you do. Will be interesting to know. Since you all are experienced in this regard you can give me better ideas. Recently I read this from one mail
"First people sacrifice health to earn money and then they sacrifice money get back to health". Sounded funny to me. :)
Nibu thomas A Developer Programming tips[^] My site[^]
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What do you do to keep yourself fit and healthy. I am talking from the point of view of a programmer who works round the clock rarely finding time to relax. Recently our project leader gave a friendly spanking related to taking care of one'e health and family life too. How do you relax yourself on work and off work. I do go for a walk early in the morning. But still I do have frequent back aches that too real painful ones. What kind of exercises do you do. Will be interesting to know. Since you all are experienced in this regard you can give me better ideas. Recently I read this from one mail
"First people sacrifice health to earn money and then they sacrifice money get back to health". Sounded funny to me. :)
Nibu thomas A Developer Programming tips[^] My site[^]
Finding time to fit in breaks is the difficult part; I work away from home so I also tend to stay in hotels and eat in restaurants a lot. I try to go swimming in the hotel pool when I can, and I always use the stairs rather than the lift. I walk at least 30 minutes/day and I have an exercise machine in my office at home which I occassionally use. When I'm not working I spend a lot of time with my 3 year old son - now that's exercise!
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What do you do to keep yourself fit and healthy. I am talking from the point of view of a programmer who works round the clock rarely finding time to relax. Recently our project leader gave a friendly spanking related to taking care of one'e health and family life too. How do you relax yourself on work and off work. I do go for a walk early in the morning. But still I do have frequent back aches that too real painful ones. What kind of exercises do you do. Will be interesting to know. Since you all are experienced in this regard you can give me better ideas. Recently I read this from one mail
"First people sacrifice health to earn money and then they sacrifice money get back to health". Sounded funny to me. :)
Nibu thomas A Developer Programming tips[^] My site[^]
Nibu babu thomas wrote:
What do you do to keep yourself fit and healthy
Swimming one hour a day when it is possible (in Spain or in the tropics) the rest of the time renovating or building houses. Doing useful work is best exercise! jhaga
It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work. I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents. A[man], seeing me making a minute in the fields, took it for granted that I was calculating my wages. — business! - I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business. Henry David Thoreau
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What do you do to keep yourself fit and healthy. I am talking from the point of view of a programmer who works round the clock rarely finding time to relax. Recently our project leader gave a friendly spanking related to taking care of one'e health and family life too. How do you relax yourself on work and off work. I do go for a walk early in the morning. But still I do have frequent back aches that too real painful ones. What kind of exercises do you do. Will be interesting to know. Since you all are experienced in this regard you can give me better ideas. Recently I read this from one mail
"First people sacrifice health to earn money and then they sacrifice money get back to health". Sounded funny to me. :)
Nibu thomas A Developer Programming tips[^] My site[^]
Being fit physically will help you mentally and therefore make you a better programmer. I run to keep fit. I train three times a week and compete in half marathons, 10K's etc. I'm never going to win a race but not only does running keep me fitter it gives me time and space to clear my mind, mull things over etc. It's amazing how many coding issues have been solved whilst on a 10 mile run ! :)
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What do you do to keep yourself fit and healthy. I am talking from the point of view of a programmer who works round the clock rarely finding time to relax. Recently our project leader gave a friendly spanking related to taking care of one'e health and family life too. How do you relax yourself on work and off work. I do go for a walk early in the morning. But still I do have frequent back aches that too real painful ones. What kind of exercises do you do. Will be interesting to know. Since you all are experienced in this regard you can give me better ideas. Recently I read this from one mail
"First people sacrifice health to earn money and then they sacrifice money get back to health". Sounded funny to me. :)
Nibu thomas A Developer Programming tips[^] My site[^]
Nibu babu thomas wrote:
Recently our project leader gave a friendly spanking
Well at least that helped to keep your project leader fit...
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I have turned our games room into a gym, there's a few exercise machines in there. I also bought some special straps so I can go swimming at the local pool. I use none of it. I really need to, but I have a lot on, and I just keep putting it off.
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Christian Graus wrote:
I have turned our games room into a gym, there's a few exercise machines in there.
Ah I see you set up the advanced dust collection system.
Christian Graus wrote:
I also bought some special straps so I can go swimming at the local pool.
:confused: special straps for what?
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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Where's the :pea-green-with-envy: emoticon when you need it?
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I used to weigh 260 pounds and I'm just barely~maybe 6' tall in shoes but 5'11" by most accounts. I was terribly fat I thought given I used to race mountain bikes and play soccer at the national level and a few other rather remarkable things in my younger days. Then I remembered something I'd learned. "The only easy day was yesterday." I remembered what that means. You always look at yesterday and learn from it. Apply what you've learned from yesterday in the form of work and make sure today is better than yesterday was. Hence, "The only easy day was yesterday." I'm in the habit of going to the gym every other day whether I have time or not. I make sure I go, PERIOD. If I have clients waiting one thing I've learned is that 2 hours every other day and 6 hours a week really doesn't take much away. I had to admit the reason I wasn't working out had nothing to do with time it just had to do with priorities. Working out wasn't a priority or I'd be doing it. Just about everyone here who says they are too busy to work out really means to say, "Working out just isn't a priority." So my answer to you, make it a priority. I've lost 50 pounds and still have pounds to go but I'm enjoying the change and I doubt I'll ever make working out a low priority again. There's just too much good that comes from it. So shift your priorities and move fitness up. You'll be glad you did. You'll just feel better. You'll never have the time so just do it. Then you'll be surprised to learn how much time you really have when something is important. - Rex:rose:
I basically did the same. I was about the same weight and decided to use my programming talent to come up with a database to track my calories. Since April, I've lost 35 pounds and take a walk around our office building for a half hour each work day with a co-worker. Life is too short. For those of you who say you don't have time, just take a half hour each day and take a walk. Watch what you eat and you'll be surprised how good you feel. I'm a 41 year old programmer who feels more fit now than I did when I was 20. Make living a healthy life a priority and work can be second. ;)
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