Looking for a nice motivating team

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Looking for a nice motivating team

Post by fleed » March 2nd, 2015, 6:24 am

Hi, my name is Martin and I am from germany. I am looking for a team. My goal is to lose weight. For the sport component I use a concept 2 rower. Is there a team or group which I can join? Important for me is the motivation effect of the team and if possible some people who are also fighting to lose weight. Thank you in advance for your proposals.

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Martin

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Re: Looking for a nice motivating team

Post by meerkats » March 2nd, 2015, 6:43 am

Martin,

All the virtual teams are brilliant and all motivating, but I'm biased so join the Forum Flyers and you will get all the motivation and advice and more.

Don't make the wgt loss a fight, its stressful enough make it an experience. Wgt loss is a very personal and individual thing, also quite hard to advice on without some solid food diaries to go with but the more you divulge the more advice (often conflicting) you'll get.

PM me if you want to join. No fees no strings, its all virtual and you can always leave if you think we are all mad :D

Kind Regards

Chris

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Re: Looking for a nice motivating team

Post by lindsayh » March 3rd, 2015, 9:18 pm

Hi Martin
I see you did the challenge - well done and welcome to the Flyers!
The CTC is a really good way of competing against yourself and others as you make progress.
The fastest man in our team is also German but lives in Norway - you will see when he posts his CTC as Dirk Moeller.

You will also see us talking on the UK Forum
http://indoorsportservices.co.uk/forum/ ... 66#p633366
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Re: Looking for a nice motivating team

Post by fleed » March 4th, 2015, 1:57 pm

Dear lindsayh,

thank you for this warm welcome. After I finished the mud challange of 5.000 m yesterday, I did the CTC challange. Puhhhh...not fast but finally I did it B) .
You have now one fast German and one slowly German on the Team.

I will do my best to improve. I must also thank you merkaats because he supported me how to join and how to participate at CTC.
In advance...sorry for my lausy english. Please ask when something is not clear.

Best Regards

Martin (fleed)

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Re: Looking for a nice motivating team

Post by jackarabit » March 4th, 2015, 2:29 pm

Willkommen Martin. JackG.
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Post by fleed » March 4th, 2015, 3:30 pm

Vielen Dank JackG. :)

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Post by lindsayh » March 5th, 2015, 11:05 pm

fleed wrote:I will do my best to improve. I must also thank you merkaats because he supported me how to join and how to participate at CTC.
In advance...sorry for my lausy english. Please ask when something is not clear.
Best Regards
Your English is fine Martin - we are used to Henry (hjs) - way ahead of his!! (Just kidding Henry)
good luck with the training
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PBs (65y+) 1 min 349m, 500m 1:29.8, 1k 3:11.7 2k 6:47.4, 5km 18:07.9, 30' 7928m, 10k 37:57.2, 60' 15368m

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Re: Looking for a nice motivating team

Post by jackarabit » March 5th, 2015, 11:39 pm

Henry is bilingual, maybe multi- for all I know. I never question a man's use of my native language for fear he might want me to converse in his. Then I'd really be in dutch. :oops: Jack
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Post by hjs » March 6th, 2015, 5:08 am

lindsayh wrote:
fleed wrote:I will do my best to improve. I must also thank you merkaats because he supported me how to join and how to participate at CTC.
In advance...sorry for my lausy english. Please ask when something is not clear.
Best Regards
Your English is fine Martin - we are used to Henry (hjs) - way ahead of his!! (Just kidding Henry)
good luck with the training
Those English speakers are a cocky bunch :D , like Jack says, let them try to speak an other language.

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Re: Looking for a nice motivating team

Post by Citroen » March 6th, 2015, 5:39 am

hjs wrote:
Those English speakers are a cocky bunch :D , like Jack says, let them try to speak an other language.
Je zult niet van mijn Nederlands als het is al gegenereerd door https://translate.google.com voor u.

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Re: Looking for a nice motivating team

Post by hjs » March 6th, 2015, 7:54 am

Citroen wrote:
hjs wrote:
Those English speakers are a cocky bunch :D , like Jack says, let them try to speak an other language.
Je zult niet van mijn Nederlands als het is al gegenereerd door https://translate.google.com voor u.
A utter f**k up Doug. That makes no sence at all. :D those guys a google need to step up a bit more.

I should read:

Je kunt dat niet zeggen van mijn Nederlands, ook al is het gegenereerd door google translate voor u.

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Re: Looking for a nice motivating team

Post by Citroen » March 6th, 2015, 9:54 am

We all know that Google translate turns everything into 'My hovercraft is replete with eels' in whatever target language you choose. They programmed it using Monty Python's dirty Hungarian phrase book. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Hungarian_Phrasebook


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Re: Looking for a nice motivating team

Post by hjs » March 6th, 2015, 10:12 am

Indeed, it does show that imitating something living is still very hard for a machine. But the machines are catching up rapidly.

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