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. :)
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.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
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. ;)
Lost in the vast sea of .NET
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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*)Stress at work can deteriorate your health. I was on a very stressful contract. The job itself wasn't that stressful, we had a Project Manager that made everyone's life a living hell. I started bringing the stress home with me, which I never did before. Other consultants, from other departments who sat near our team, told us that they didn't know how anyone worked for this guy. He was obviously trying to bully people because he was in over his head. My health started to go downhill. I was really beginning to worry that I was going to have a heart attack. I went to the doctor and was prescribed tranquilizers. They just masked the real problem. It all came to a head when the PM accused me of wrongfully stating my time on my time sheets. I went ballistic. I told them to please release me from my contract. I was escorted off the premises around noon. I went to a local fast food drive-through, and I could literally feel the stress begin to leave my body. It took another 2-3 weeks to get myself back to normal. I can sympathize with the loss of your friend. There are people that strive in a stressful work environment. But for the rest of us, start looking for a new job as soon as you feel your work taking over your life.
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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. ;)
Lost in the vast sea of .NET
KreativeKai wrote:
I'm a 41 year old programmer who feels more fit now than I did when I was 20.
:cool: That's real cool. I am 27 years old not fit at all. What were the things that you did. I can't do heavy stuff cause of back problem.
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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 !!
Come on man I dare you provide a snap of yours. ;p Prove that you are a man of guts. ;p ;p
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VuNic wrote:
Rex!,On the second snap you look like Shane Warne !!
Come on man I dare you provide a snap of yours. ;p Prove that you are a man of guts. ;p ;p
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KreativeKai wrote:
I'm a 41 year old programmer who feels more fit now than I did when I was 20.
:cool: That's real cool. I am 27 years old not fit at all. What were the things that you did. I can't do heavy stuff cause of back problem.
Nibu thomas A Developer Programming tips[^] My site[^]
I have dislocated both knees at two different times in my life. My problem prior to April was weight and arthritis pain in the knees. I created a database in Access to track my calories. Using the website www.calorie-count.com, I have built a database of foods that I regularly eat. I pick the items from the database daily into a form which calculates my total for the day. This helps me to stay within my recommended calorie intake for my height. As far as exercise , I simply walk with a co-worker every weekday for a half hour around the block close to our office building. My knees no longer hurt at all, unless the weather doesn't permit us to walk for a couple days, and I've lost about 3.5 pounds per month since April. For you, I'd recommend keeping work a high priority if that is what you want in life, but don't put work at a higher priority than your health or your family. Like I said before, life is too short. You'll be surprised how just a half hour per day of some kind of physical exercise will clear your mind and help you focus more on your job with a clearer mind, while feeling more pain free. Hope these ideas help. Good luck! :)
Lost in the vast sea of .NET
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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[^]
My history of exercise goes way back. I think I'm very atypical of many programmers from an exercise perspective. Around 1979-80, I went on a few bike trips on Vancouver island with my dad and brother. These gentler (~500 mile) trips prepared me for one of my prouder athletic achievements. In 1981, just after I learned basic on the trs-80, I cycled across Canada from Vancouver, BC to Kingston, Ontario. This was ~3000 km, it took us about 40 days. I cycled with 4 other guys, we had a driver to drive the camper, and raised about $20K for Easter Seals. Around 1986, when I was at college in Vancouver, I started hacking around with a squash racquet. I moved to Toronto in 1987 and joined a squash club. I continued playing squash quite a bit until I got married in 1994. Somewhere in those years, I also discovered long distance running. As far as I can recall correctly, from 1994 - 2002, I didn't do any type of exercise. I gained 40 pounds. In 2002, I was living in the country and started running. The running was great. My highest mileage weeks got me to over 80 km/week. I did two 30K races, two full marathons, several 1/2 marathons and multiple 10K races. As I hit 40 years old, I was in my best endurance shape ever. As of 2006, I've moved back to the city, from the country, and running is nowhere near as enjoyable. My family and I joined a great exercise club where I have picked up squash again, and am slowly working my way up the Tuesday night ladder. I'm not as thin as I was during the running years, but I would venture to say that my vo2max is better. The next 10K race I enter (May 2007) will prove me right/wrong. In my opinion, practitioners of Software Development seems more prone to lethargic, non-active lifestyles than other professions. I certainly like electronic games, beer and pizza, and chocolate. I recently read an article on how one soft. dev. company gets its workers away from the remote: http://tinyurl.com/38ahoz Here's to our vo2max and long lives! Richard
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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've used John Stone Fitness[^] as motivation. He's a sysadmin, and seems to be reasonably successful now that he's turned his mental-health around--potentially due to his fitness website. I originally found his site after looking for calorie:weight correlations--he used to have an excel sheet showing direct correlation between the 2-day trailing calorie input and current weight--I thought that was quite an eye-opener. Motivation is one thing, making time is another. Paying for the equipment--or Gym membership--is one thing, ensuring you've put away the time to use it is another. My motivation was hitting 205lbs when my "mental" weight is closer to 180lbs--for reference I was a very fit 6'1"; past-tense on my activity and not my stature. Christmas was cruel to me, but otherwise over the course of three months, I've lost 15lbs without much effort. Fitness training is about more than weight though. It's about total life health!
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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[^]
I drink heavily every night, but always walk to and from the bar. I smoke heavily all day and night, too, but always do so in the great, clean outdoors. For relaxation I play darts at the bar, lift weights at the gym, and kick butt at karate class. In my free time, when the weather is agreeable, I like to hike, fish, and kayak. Somewhere in that mix I'm doing something right, as my doctor keeps telling me to gain weight and get more cholesterol.
"...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9
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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[^]
Well, everyone here is answering this question with statements about death and stress and not actually answering the question at all. I guess I am lucky that I don't live in a world of overtime (although I could use the cash again) because when my day is done, and it can be stressful, I resort to working out at the fitness center in my apartment complex or attending night classes. There's almost nothing more relieving (within an evenings reach), than working out stresses on a treadmill, cross-trainer, or weight machine. Pushing out stress on the chest press or swearing out the evils of the day completing a workout. A great but time efficient workout and stress reliever is my lunchtime routine that I keep to 30/45 minutes. This includes 15-20 minutes of cardio and the rest of the time upper and lower body exercises (weights). Plug this URL into your browser: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=lunchtime+workout+routine+30+minutes&btnG=Search[^] Here's also a good reference for good beginner workouts: http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/bbinfo.php?page=BeginnerWorkoutPrograms[^] Good luck! Keith
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http://www.codefrog.com/fatboy/inspiration.htm[^] I'm lighter now and totally fired up to keep on going.:rose:
Hmmmm. Hot babe, cute kids. That should be enough to motivate anyone to get in shape and stay healthy as long as possible. Good for you, and keep up the good work!:-D
"...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9
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I drink heavily every night, but always walk to and from the bar. I smoke heavily all day and night, too, but always do so in the great, clean outdoors. For relaxation I play darts at the bar, lift weights at the gym, and kick butt at karate class. In my free time, when the weather is agreeable, I like to hike, fish, and kayak. Somewhere in that mix I'm doing something right, as my doctor keeps telling me to gain weight and get more cholesterol.
"...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9
Sounds like your heart is in good shape... That will give you more time/money to spend on your future lung and liver problems!
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Cheers, Vikram.
"...we are disempowered to cultivate in their communities an inclination to assimilate to our culture." - Stan Shannon.
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