Reply To: I Crunch Everything: The Onboard Fitness Thread
Well, you’d have to eat and digest 3,500 extra calories a day if you wanted to gain a whole pound every day! (If I did that, I’d probably explode like Mr. Creosote.) But to gain a pound a week, you only need 500 extra calories a day.
BTW, I’m a chocoholic too. Even though I’ve been losing a little weight lately (climbing roofs and radio towers does that to you), I still have chocolate every day. It’s my reward to myself for going out to work in cold weather. I also used to do theater tech and climb up into the “grid” above stages to hang light bars. (Guess I never got over my childhood passion for climbing anything in sight, including trees.) Today, I installed an Internet antenna at the peak of a roof with a better-than-45-degree slope, then spelunked through the attic to run a cable.
P.S. — Speaking of geeks and exercise: Last night, in Loveland, Colorado, Adam Savage and Liz Smith plucked me from the audience and put me on a bicycle rigged to pump water — one of the gadgets in the Mythbusters “Behind the Myths” stage show. I had to race, in front of an arena containing at least 10,000 people, to fill a tall column with water faster than an energetic, athletic-looking teenage girl in a sweatshirt. Fortunately, I discovered — and she didn’t — that the gearshift levers on the bikes worked and I could shift to maximize my power output. Otherwise, she probably would have drenched me when the water she was pumping overflowed her column and filled a huge water balloon suspended directly above my head. If the show comes to your town, I highly recommend it.