Just curious if any other unicyclist takes lifting seriously as a hobby or activity you enjoy doing. Jason Auld need not reply. lol. With my ankle i’ve been doing more of this lately for the past month or so. However i’m really close to getting back on the uni as 100%. Just a few days left. I feel it. lol
-Shaun Johanneson
I was gona mention jason, didnt stop him running away at BUC everytime he got tricked into 10 press ups lol
LIES! I do press ups in my sleep as well as sit ups, occasionally.
I enjoy lifting weights and working out, I guess I would call it a hobbie because it takes up a lot of my time and I wouldn’t be happy if I gave it up completely. I enjoy changing my program, trying new things and pushing myself as far as I can, similar to my views on unicycling. Recently I’ve tried to fuse the two together, by trying to train areas that might help my unicycling.
Shaun, you’re far to kind in mentioning my name but Kevin McMullin is the guy with the real guns, he was complaining at BUC that his Bedford shirt didn’t show off his definition enough, haha, that guy cracks me up.
Jas
I can’t really do push-ups or pull-ups. I’m lucky if I can do 10 push-ups or 5 pull-ups.
Sit-ups, on the other hand…I can whip out ~70 in a minute.
I need to work on building my upper-body strength. I’ve got the definition/toned muscles, but only because I’m so skinny. Surfing is the only thing that I do that really works out my upper body, everything else is legs & abs.
You’re doing them too fast.
its not realy fun
The last time that I timed myself doing crunches was about 4 months ago, and the person timing me (for 60 seconds) counted them as worthy.
I can benchpress about 100lbs twice - maybe 3-4 times on a good day. I haven’t benchpressed anything in a long time though, so I’m not sure of what I’m currently capable of doing.
I have nothing against “lifters”, but I hate them.:o It’s just because every lifter/ workout’r I know are the same type. They think their so kewl, and have their arms puckered out, even when they aren’t muscular enouph to really make there arms come out. They are just stupid, and piss me off.
On the postitive side. I hope all “lifters” aren’t like the ones I know. Lifting can be a good thing to get into. It builds muscle, relieves stress, and…stuff.
The dead lift and squat
I started out with 200 in the deadlift. I squat 140 now for 15 reps ( at 190 bw) and I’m fat.
What I liked was how by just doing deadlifts a bit here and there, I can now lift 250 for a few reps .
It’s not , for me, or most long time lifters, about being a comic book hero. I’m 49 and have been lifting 9 years.
It takes almost zero time. I spend less then 5 minutes/ a week doing serious squats or deadlifts. From this I maintain a lot of extra muscle and bone strength.
My only advice is to own your own weights. What an extreme waste of time and cash to belong to a club. It would be like renting a uni for 100$/ month, so you could drive across town to ride it. Weights are super cheap.
I lift weights , i bench 23K in reps of 12 every day , no more for fear of srunting my growth
Isn’t 23,000 pounds a bit much for someone your age?
im too lazy to work out…
but im sure it helps out your riding alot…
i have a very rigorous workout routine for skiing it includes unicyling though
I lift weights 1-4 times a week depending on how busy I am with school. Can’t really say I get bigger muscles or anything. But it’s still fun 
23 kilgrams,remember we are metric over her(god damn it switch to damn metric america,)
I don’t lift. My arms are noodles, and I’m proud of it. 
I know all about metric. It was a joke.
k can also mean thousand.
ya u need them ur a street punk
amen