Dud3s Thread: Basketball as exercise

Basketball as exercise

cdevroe — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 07:42:59

Played some basketball tonight after not playing for well over a week. Felt really good. But I should have jogged afterwards because I don't feel like I got a great workout.

Basketball as exercise

weisheng — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 01:36:04

Well, I can never take the strain of a full field soccer game. I prefer playing in smaller cage matches.

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eddie — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 01:32:45

Any sport that lasts for more than 20 minutes and gets your heart rate up is good for you. Just don't over work yourself. Being over 20 minutes is the important part otherwise your only burning your sugar reserves not the fat reserves.

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cdevroe — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:24:19

I can't play Soccer. Perhaps when I get to 190lbs. I'll be able to, but Soccer is a hella tough sport on the old cardio. Basketball, while almost as tough, requires far less running. Soccer to me, seems like a never ending sprint.

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ismith — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:34:15

Baseball. Damn practices are tiring, running 10 miles "warmup laps" then 100 pushups, 200 situps, up-downs for 20 minutes, and god forbid it being a rainy indoors practice, suicides... once it's game time the whole thing is cake. But for game exercise, football (soccer) is the way to go. Street basketball is good too.

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weisheng — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 07:49:43

Soccer is the best exercise there is! Scrivs, I assume you play field soccer? I only ever play street soccer in a cage, it can get pretty draining when the ball never stops!

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Griffin — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 07:38:33

For about five months I'd go to the local YMCA twice a week early in the morning and shot baskets by myself. It was the dumpy Y, there's like four of them in Birmingham, so nobody really went there. It was rundown and scary if you looked at it from a certain perspective. I loved it. I ran up and down the court. Dribbled around. Force myself to make 15 out of 20 threes. Stuff like that. Ocassionaly a dude or two would drop in and we'd play some taps or two on two.

I lost around five pounds and then stopped doing it. The dumpy Y closed about a month later. No one missed it much. I did. Place was great.

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Scrivs — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:18:35

Oh and Kyle, anytime you want a racquetball game come and bring it.

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Scrivs — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:09:31

Nothing beats soccer if you want to really get some exercise in. Of course there is always the risk of having a heart attack from running too much, but either way you are going to lose some weight.

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Andrew — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:36:47

BTW just been checking out The Diet, congratulations on that mile stone man, that's real progress.

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Andrew — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:24:43

I wish I could, but I played way too much basketball in my teens and it messed with my knees...sadly my dunkin' days (*shifts eyes left and right*) are over. So it goes.

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Kyle — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:36:45

Dude, excercise is for squares.

... Actually, it's all about Raquetball for real.

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cdevroe — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:22:17

I've been on a diet for seven weeks, have lost about 20 pounds, and have used Basketball as my major form of exercise. Anyone else play basketball to lose pounds?