05-26-2001, 08:10 PM
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#1 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2000 Location: Madison Heights, Mi
Posts: 141
| Weight Lost
Fencer X stated that they have lost 84lbs since taking up fencing - I myself lost 50 (unfortunatley I've gained some back!!) Just out of curiosity has anyone else had a big weight loss they can attribute to fencing?
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Renaissance Fencing Club
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05-26-2001, 09:41 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2000 Location: South Africa
Posts: 351
| Hi
Yes, when I started, I lost around 10 kgs (mostly fat), but as I got stronger and put on muscle (my legs and right arm: looking a bit like a single guy with way too much time on his... ahem hand/s lol) anyway where was I oh yes since I started training hard I have put on about 5 kgs from what I lost originally. I was never overweight and was always quite slim but even so fencing was excellent for toning and replacing fat with muscle!
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05-27-2001, 04:30 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: USA
Posts: 143
| YES! 45 pounds and still losing! as well as toning.
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05-27-2001, 04:42 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Pennsylvania
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| I didn't lose any weight as a result of beginning fencing. I've always been physically active. Fencing *helps* me maintain my weight, but mostly the non-fencing exercise does the trick - walking burns off calories, while weight-lifting makes my metabolism faster and reduces my dress size.
I did lose some weight a few years after I started, but that was because I went back to Weight Watchers.
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05-27-2001, 06:28 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: NY
Posts: 360
| Since returning to fencing last October, I've dropped 15 pounds and simultaneously built muscle, through a combination of fencing activities and calorie restriction. Now I'm just maintaining as I'm at my college weight! The big motivation (ah- hah) hit me the night I returned to fencing and felt so out of breath after doing footwork warm-up! (Thank goodness for stretch knickers!)
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05-27-2001, 06:46 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Ypsilanti, Mi USA
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| I've lost 35 pounds.
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05-28-2001, 05:24 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2000 Location: Michigan
Posts: 1,261
| After my pregnancy I started fencing competitively. Lost that annoying last ten (or was it 20?) pounds & I'm now back to where I started.
Gosh, I hope I can get out to fence after baby # 2...oops...let that slip!
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05-28-2001, 08:24 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: USA
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| Hey Moonatic, are expecting NOW!
Are crongratulations in order?
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05-28-2001, 11:42 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Michigan
Posts: 93
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Is the Moon expecting another -satellite-? 
If so congratulations!
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As for the topic of this thread. I havent lost any weight yet, as I just started fencing a couple weeks ago, but I hope it will help me lose this 15-20 extra pounds that I have to carry around!
Joel 
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05-28-2001, 05:02 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2000 Location: Michigan
Posts: 1,261
| Wait...hold it...put on the breaks, kids!
Before I'm the main rumor in the Michigan Division, let me just say that no, the Moon is not expecting! But by August, that could be another story.
Because I'd be a "high risk pregnancy", I have to get my body prepared for it now. Not to mention easing out of competition mode (to save money).
Stay tuned to this channel for more developing information!
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05-28-2001, 05:42 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: USA
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| AW, Shucks! Moonitic. Got us all excited there for a minute.
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05-28-2001, 07:02 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Colorado
Posts: 40
| Lost??????
I've gained 8 pounds!!!!!!
Moonatic ... you stinker you!
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05-28-2001, 07:34 PM
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#13 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2000
Posts: 213
| I had already lost about 35 unnecessary pounds before I started fencing. Then I gained 5-10 once my muscles started firming up the way they were supposed to.
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05-28-2001, 08:54 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: North Highlands, CA
Posts: 176
| heh.. gained 25 pounds to put me at 5'6... 140 lb... we have a russain coach who works us harder than ppl should be worked, because of him, i'v gained 25 pounds of muscle.. yeah, im happy... indurence to the max!
we do somewhere around 500-700 push-up's 900-100 sit up's 100 V-up's 4 miles of running... 100 lung 100 advance lung 100 jump lung 100 jump advance lung.... all this and MUCH MUCH MORE 3 days a week.... we work hard
i kinda got off topic there, but i like to brag :-) sorry...
Chris
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05-29-2001, 11:21 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Summit, NJ, USA
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| It really depends on what weapon I'm concentrating on... if I've spent the last 3 months preparing for a foil tournament, I'm going to look a tad different than if I'd been preparing for a longsword tourney. When I started fencing at age 13, I was 5'11" and 115lbs. It's only in the last few years (when I began concentrating more on historical weapons) that I reached my current 6' 135lbs. | |
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