mike lowrey

That's a myth, exercising an area does not reduce the amount of fat in the specific area.

You'll need to reduce overall fat bodymass, if you tone your muscles together in conjunction it'll make your muscles more pronounced.

I cant fully agree, from my personal experience losing overall weight doesnt necessarily get rid of it on all areas. I had a bit of a gut and even though I lost weight I still had it, the weight came of from other areas. after excercising the target area I got rid of it too.

hehe, I just got new trucks and wheels for my old board. last time I used it was about 7 years ago

2. I'm 5'5 115 lbs and realatively in shape. I have a little bit of a gut. Any suggestions on how to lose that besides crunches, push ups and cardio?

if you'd go on a diet you'd probably get thinner all over and only lose some of the gut, so losing actual weight is not that useful. so basically different kind of ab excercises are probably the best way. I think regular crunches are ok but they stress the upper abdominals more when you should focus on the lower ones. a couple of ones I have found useful:

1. lie on your back, hands behind your head. lift your legs up and bring one knee at a time towards your head while moving your opposite elbow towards the knee. you can touch your knee with the elbow but you dont have to stretch that far.

2. lie on your back and lift your legs straight up simultaneosly, when going back down leave your feet just above the ground, has much more effect that way. this is a really basic move that targets the lower abs. takes a little practise but you'll notice when it works. you can hold your hands under something if you need to hold your upper body down or hold them at your sides.

3. if you can hang somewhere, you can do a similar excercise to the above one by hanging from a bar and lifting your legs upwards, knees to stomach.

I didnt read all the replies through yet so I might be repeating a lot what has been said, but here goes anyways. I gained some weight a few years back but managed to lose it after a while. the obvious advice is of course good, eat less and excersise. but here are some other tips from my experience, this is just random advice for normal life, if you want to lose weight more intensively you might wanna try a real diet of some sort.

- try to maintain some kind of a timetable and regularity with eating, eat a certain amount of meals per day and at certain times. doesnt have to be up to minute each day but some sort of regularity is good.

- figure out whats your most important meal and eat lighter on other meals. this differs depending on people, I seem to need more food in the evening (I'm not that hungry earlier), so I usually dont eat breakfast and very lightly at lunch time. for lunch I can eat a yoghurt and a sandwich, that plus dinner and maybe another sandwich in the evening is quite light already.

- snacking is deceitful, you can eat a lot of extra during a day without noticing. dont buy candy, cookies, sodas or stuff like that. it may sound childish but buy cucumber, carrots and stuff like that. especially if you feel like you have a problem with snacking. drink sparkling water sometimes, it can fill your stomach a bit better sometimes.

- diet soda in my opinion is ok, I myself couldnt stop drinking everything but water so I drink diet coke a lot, I dont see a problem with that.

- you dont have to take insane jogs every day, it will just burn you out. walk more, go jogging a few times a week, excersise in other ways. but whatever you do make a timetable/plan you can make yourself stick to. dont over-do it, then you'll just start skipping stuff.

- just cut fast food. if you need to eat fastfood for lunch etc. switch to sandwiches or salads.

- in addition to these you of course need to look at what you eat. its no use eating lightly at lunch if you eat 2 pizzas for dinner.

good luck!

I guess I just like throwing money away.

haha, imagine if that actually became popular

is wayne brady gonna have to choke a bitch??

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Talib Kweli & DJ Hi-tek.Reflection Eternal

Kweli's best shit he ever has and ever will put out, and i'm not eve gonna start on Hi-Tek's production...Rah Digga, Kweli, Xzibit on the same track...amazing

"1,2,3,4, rock the whole worl dlike the rolling stone tour, AHHH AHHHH!"

--- Original message by obscura on May 3, 2006 12:18 AM

agreed, probably in my book probably the best hiphop album ever. though the track you mentioned is IMO far from the best on the album..

I think AZ overall is one of the most underrated artists, for example 9 Lives was totally slept on and I think its a surprisingly good album. I never heard anything about and bought it very randomly.

I also agree on Jay's vol. 1, very good album and rarely mentioned. not up to par with blueprint or reasonable but still very good.

http://superfuture.com/city/supertalk/index.cfm?page=topic&topicID=138&start=1

only €uro countries...?

99 S4, oil pan asassin

its just a problem some people have and others dont. I never had a problem but a friend of mine has to change his insoles once a month, sometimes we need to throw his shoes in the hallway or otherwise the whole crib stinks. and the shoes arent necessarily old.

oh and burn the freezer.

^ agreed

dont wear them too many days in a row especially in the summer, when its warm take them off for a while when possible (at school, work or just when sitting somewhere). if you have a serious problem wash your feet once a day in addition to the shower which I hope you take daily

change the insoles every once in a while or wash them, also as england said above the anti-bacterials might be a good idea, plus there are some others too that reduce smell.

well this is pretty much for preventing the shoes from getting killed, but since you already did it just wash them, throw them in the sink and use a brush and normal detergant. I've washed even leather shoes ones and normal detergant didnt ruined them even though I thought it would. dont use too much though, more on the inside and rinse thoroughly. leave outside to dry.

this with some lederhosen and youre right on point!

you need to pull those down a bit man, IMO the fit is too loose around the upper leg to be worn that high

but then again who am I to say, I drag my pants so that if I didnt have boxers my balls would have a tan

Edited by mike lowrey on May 31, 2006 at 12:45 PM

Hi teknology is allright but IMO not as complete as talibs albums (and of course blackstar). I actually thought Quality was f'in sick too even though it wasn't generally as liked as reflection. Beautiful struggle was allright but not close to the others.

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dont you almost always have to get your suit tailored after purchasing one?

--- Original message by international on May 28, 2006 03:56 PM

no, if you buy one with a correct fit. I'd guess the inseam of the pants is the most usual thing that needs to be altered, other than that you dont have to do anything if you find a good fit.

I have two Hugo suits and one Corneliani, I had one the Hugos slimmed down a bit and the pants on the Corneliani were shortened. apart from that I like the fits.

Lupe Fiasco - a bunch of mixtapes etc..

Murs and 9th - Murrays revenge

The Kooks - inside in, inside out

Youth Group - Skeleton Jar

KT Tunstall - Eye to The Telescope

Ghostface - Fishscale

Little Brother / DJ Drama - Seperate but Equal

The Redwalls - De Nova

Soul Position - Things go better with RJ and Al

Augustana - All the Stars and Boulevards

its funny.. I usually agree when its said that hiphop hasn't been as good as it used to be,

but still some of my all time favorite albums are from 2001 onwards. I got mad love for Reasonable

doubt, but I just have to pick blueprint because to me it feels even more complete.

Reflection Eternal is just simply my favorite hiphop album of all time, period. amazing production,

Kweli's precense couldnt be replaced by anyone.. all together the closest to a perfect album ever.

top 2:

Talib Kweli & Hitek: reflection eternal - train of thought

Jay-Z - Blueprint

I just cant pick a 3rd album with these, there are so many good ones but out of various reasons these stand out.

runners up: Illmatic, reasonable doubt, resurrection, Be, Ready To Die, College Dropout (yes I said it..), Like Water for Chocolate, Beats Rhymes and Life, Blackstar..

also known as Stone Island, not sure if theyre different lines or something but same company anyways, they use both names. they make awesome jackets and some cool sweaters too, expensive as hell.

oh and I wouldn't boil it, not sure if it works but if it has any prints they might get f'ed up.

I've had a ton of shirts that were too big, mostly because I cant get decent stuff locally so when I'm not travelling I buy a lot online = occasionally wrong sizes / fit

start by washing it (or just get it wet in the sink) and then tumbledrying it. if you dont have access to a tumbledryer you can wash it in hot water.

if that doesnt help, you can always make it smaller by sewing. I've taken many t-shirts to a sewer (is that a word? anyways someone who fixes clothes) who charged like $10 and made it a couple of centimeters slimmer. they can also modify the sleeves (slimmer or shorter).

I've even sewn a couple t-shirts and sweaters myself, doesn't take too much skills.

^judging by what I've seen when been to the UK I agree, but then again I wouldn't say the same about WE, its not underground but its still considered a really hip brand.

Carhartt isnt too hot here (scandinavia, again), people mostly buy their jackets which are pretty good but I dont think I've seen their jeans for example anywhere in years. I think the skateboarding etc connection is strong elsewhere in europe though as you said.

it has been around here (scandinavia) for a long time but has recently gotten more popular in other countries too.

all kind of people here wear WE, mostly the basic trendy young people, its not that popular among skaters. but anyways yea its worn a lot here, and to be honest isn't considered that exotic, but I guess it will become atleast somewhat of a hit in the States

they do make pretty good quality stuff, I have a couple of sweaters and t-shirts.

about the supreme/alife/etc comparison, over here every young person knows the brand but I'd say 1% max know what supreme or alife is. but its of course a bit different elsewhere since its not that well known yet, but their image at least is not "underground" at all.

Edited by mike lowrey on May 11, 2006 at 02:09 PM