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Mooant
41 / male
New Britain, Connecticut, US
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Weight Loss Idea?
I'm still debating this, mostly waiting on if the woman I'm interested in wouldn't mind me doing this...
I'm thinking of shaving my head bald (like Bic Razor bald!) but not getting a haircut until I get my weight down to my target level. I'll be taking a picture everyday, usually after my exercise routine to track the progress of my weight loss and hair growth. I have an exercise routine in mind, based on martial arts training I received many years ago.
Although I might just do it anyways without waiting on what she might think... (she's cute and worth it!)
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| October 4, 2009, 05:32 |
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Re: Weight Loss Idea?
Shaving your head bald will make you lose weight too, a good start lol. Good luck.
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| October 4, 2009, 10:53 |
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Re: Weight Loss Idea?
Maybe first just kinda check, research a bit...I have heard that some men's hair does not grow back too well or the same after shaving their head? I think its the longer you sport the bald hear, the more you keep it shaved, the less chance of it growing back and looking like it did before? (Also if male baldness runs in your family, and your age can be a factor too? You're only 26, but...)
So, if a close buzz cut is an option?
I'm sure gonna be keeping an eye here to see how things go for ya!
(I like the shaved head look and a very close buzz cut)
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| October 4, 2009, 12:36 |
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Mooant
41 / male
New Britain, Connecticut, US
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Re: Weight Loss Idea?
No male pattern baldness in my family, in fact we tend to get rather hairy...
Also the act of a razor scrapping the skin actually induces hair growth. The skin reacts by releasing a form of human growth hormone that basically requests additional resources for repairing the damaged skin, but that also gives the hair follicles additional resources for growing hair. In male pattern baldness, this signal is damaged, which leads to a responding signal to shut down the follicle, thus no hair growth.
I'm only going to shave it the one time (and it will only be the third time in my life, the two previous ones were for the swim team in high school). After that I'm not going to get any haircuts until I'm all muscle.
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| October 4, 2009, 14:21 |
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Re: Weight Loss Idea?
I would trust you to know these things! (That's why all the ??? in my reply, it's just stuff I've heard or read over the years, which I don't doubt might be outdated info)
I guess the shaving thing works on scalps ? After years/decades of shaving my legs, they hardly grow any hair at all now.
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| October 4, 2009, 21:36 |
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Re: Weight Loss Idea?
BTW...Wishing you the very best in reaching your goal!
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| October 4, 2009, 21:40 |
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slowpoke2
52 / male
aberdeen, Scotland, UK
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Re: Weight Loss Idea?
good luck buddy
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| October 5, 2009, 11:37 |
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slowpoke2
52 / male
aberdeen, Scotland, UK
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Re: Weight Loss Idea?
how much are you planing to lose if you don't mind me asking?
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| October 5, 2009, 19:14 |
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Mooant
41 / male
New Britain, Connecticut, US
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Re: Weight Loss Idea?
Its ok, I've never really been offended by my weight issues. I currently weigh about 250 Lbs, and ideally I would like to drop down to at least below 180 Lbs, but I also want to build up my muscle, which is more dense than fat is, so I might not reach that target weight.
My exercise program is designed after a martial arts training I received a long time ago, but I still have the movements ingrained into my brain.
The unique quality of this exercise plan is that its a self resistance muscle training program. Most people, when they throw a punch or make any other ordinary movement, simply use the muscles in the most energy efficient means (as in they just push their arm out with only the energy required for the movement). In a self resistance method, you push out with the maximum force possible, but also pull back with the amount of force needed to keep the movement under the same control as someone that is just using the most efficient energy use as described above.
I was taught this method while undergoing my original training because the damage from a punch is not the energy that goes into the punch, but the energy used to retract the punch. When you punch someone, you displace their muscles and organs (depending on where you connect), and it does do damage with just that hit, but if you retract your fist correctly, you also cause the muscles and organs to return to their original placement more violently than they were displaced, which can cause an ordinary punch to turn into a life threatening punch.
This is why I never fight, because if I do end up in a fight I'll likely kill someone with my former training and my knowledge of the human body from my education. God help the person that finds a way to push my buttons... (I'm a VERY patient guy, really!)
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| October 6, 2009, 03:48 |
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Re: Re: Weight Loss Idea?
QUOTE (Mooant @ October 6, 2009, 03:48)
I was taught this method while undergoing my original training because the damage from a punch is not the energy that goes into the punch, but the energy used to retract the punch. When you punch someone, you displace their muscles and organs (depending on where you connect), and it does do damage with just that hit, but if you retract your fist correctly, you also cause the muscles and organs to return to their original placement more violently than they were displaced, which can cause an ordinary punch to turn into a life threatening punch.
Oh oh oh...yep...I think I may have seen this on some science program, they show the martial art movement is slow motion footage and compared the damage from different movements and different other types of impacts, like the punch from a boxer and getting hit by a moving object like a car.
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| October 6, 2009, 12:15 |
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Mooant
41 / male
New Britain, Connecticut, US
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Re: Weight Loss Idea?
Yea, its like jumping off a building, its not the fall that kills you, its the sudden stop... 
But the whole idea is to have all muscles active at the same time, rather than the typical push and then pull...
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| October 6, 2009, 16:04 |
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