The MT shape-up 2010 - General Discussion

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There was one at the end of last summer, then this one - so chances are there will be another before the year is out.

When this SUC is all done I will announce a date for the next one.  We hope to run two a year if it remains popular, (and I don't loose the plot sorting it all out )

Will this take into account your mental state when you start though ?

My progess in SUC2010#1 has frankly not been very good so i've got a change of attack plan for the rest of the year, including any other SUC that may come along.

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The final week
Is it just me or has that gone really, really fast?

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The last few weeks have positively disappeared, the start seemed a lot slower...

I've got a mental list of things that I should of done - all too few are ticked

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What's the deal with the final shots - do you stick them together for the comparison side of things??

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Has gone pretty quick but everything in my life has the past 3-6 months anyway.

Tony, I would presume it is in your interest to put the photos together for direct comparison to give you the best chance!

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Tony you send them to me to be photoshopped and then i post them on MT

Awesome pic, but Tony you're not doing yourself many favours posting up tips on preventing the gag reflex and then a picture of a guy touching his toes - Ak

Probably 1MR, meh, will see how much time I have on my hands!

Oooh - will go look AWG

Shhh, keep quiet Chris, i said no mentioning that on here....

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I seem to remember reading that the competition ends on 4 April - am I dreaming?!  What is the date pics need to go up by?

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29th is when pics need to be taken by, up by the 4th

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up by the 4th??

so there would definitely NEED to be some form of proof that he pics were taken on the 29th then.

im looking to finish on the 28th, with a carb up during the saturday. sundays my feed me day.

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up by the 4th??

so there would definitely NEED to be some form of proof that he pics were taken on the 29th then.

im looking to finish on the 28th, with a carb up during the saturday. sundays my feed me day.

Or, buy a newspaper on the 29th, and then take them and upload them on the 4th

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hmm, yeah. theres too many ways around it.

i think the 4th is a bit late. why is it the 4th anyway? thats another week!

a week! and a lot can.. (has) to be done in a week!

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Doing longer hours at work 12-14 plus travel so im only going to the gym twice a week and the boxing for cardio has gone out the window,bad timing really,but hey no excuses just stick to the plan

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hmm, yeah. theres too many ways around it.

i think the 4th is a bit late. why is it the 4th anyway? thats another week!

a week! and a lot can.. (has) to be done in a week!

As I have said before, we allow a few days for people to post the photos up!
If I said you have to take the photos on the 29th and post them up the same day, people would complain as not everyone has 24hr access to the internet.

The end of the 12 week shape-up is Monday 29th, I'm sure you will all be honest and take the photos when they should be taken.  The sooner the photos are posted or emailed to me the better as I can work on the voting polls!  The 4th is the latest deadline, not the day to put them up!

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Tony Barnes


What's the deal with the final shots - do you stick them together for the comparison side of things??

If you want to do comparison shots at the beginning of your thread then please do.  Otherwise I will put it all together as comparisons for the members to vote!

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Eeeeek I'm getting nervous now!  I will take my photos on the right day, but I'm thinking of hanging on to them so as to maximise the anticipation!

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im going to be childish and say i actually dont care anymore...lol 1mr can you take that comparrison pic out my thread please bud. Will put some up on the clsing day, recon i can eat a bit more before then.

 

1ManRiot


Eeeeek I'm getting nervous now!  I will take my photos on the right day, but I'm thinking of hanging on to them so as to maximise the anticipation!

Will be taking mine on Monday, probably put up on tuesday or wednesday - want to do proper side by side comparisons for them all from the get go

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And of course I have ways of knowing when the photo was taken so beware

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I may take mine whilst eating a kebab so people understand why i look no different... lol

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I may take mine whilst eating a kebab so people understand why i look no different... lol

doner with chilli....anything else you lose votes!

 

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im going to be childish and say i actually dont care anymore...lol 1mr can you take that comparrison pic out my thread please bud. Will put some up on the clsing day, recon i can eat a bit more before then.

Sorry mate I missed this, of course, I'll remove it now.

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Love this part, watching everyone reveal person by person!  Can't wait to see what people have done!

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Just to ask members please don't post up your own shape-up finals photos in other forums apart from the shape-up.  The main reason is it will get confusing  and messy when the members start voting.

Thanks!!

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Are we allowed to PM people to prompt them to vote Hazel? 

A couple of well-wishers at the start of my journal may well wish to revisit on voting day but forget about it without me reminding them!!

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I've seen a couple of people make gifs of pictures so they flick between the two (Tony Barnes IIRC and the female in the MuscleMag thread in General)
Anyone care to give me a simple guide how to do this. Cheers.

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Do you have photoshop?

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Yep. And GIMP and PaintShopPro.

And MSPaint

"They are quite possibly the most sorry bunch of socially challenged and boarderline mentally ill reprobates to have ever attracted such a like-minded following of keyboard warrior wannabes." Unknown

Ok, in photoshop simply open both images, copy/paste one of them into the other as a new layer, set it's opacity to 50% so you can then adjust the size/position so that relevant things are the right size - do this by hitting CTRL+T and make sure to hold SHIFT when adjusting the bounding box to keep aspect correct. When happy with placement reset opacity to 100%, crop image so that both layers are showing correctly with no gaps, then the next step depends on age of PS:

OLD PS - at the bottom of the tools panel on the left there is a button that sends to Imageready, click this, then do a 2 frame animation, just add a frame basically, then in the 2nd frame turn the top layers visibility off. Then check the optimised version, and save as a gif

NEW PS - open up the animation toolbar, and do the same as above

Simples....

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I tend to just edit and crop the pictures down, then do a quick google for "free online animated gif creator" and use whatever pops up.

Being an IT geek i really should remember a better way of doing it, but it works and is quick.

Awesome pic, but Tony you're not doing yourself many favours posting up tips on preventing the gag reflex and then a picture of a guy touching his toes - Ak

Oh, you'll want to adjust the time for each frame to about 1 second

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I'll post mine up tomorrow night as I will probably end up forgetting otherwise and miss it al together.

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Yipe, I thought there was another week! Lucky I checked in. I'd better do my roots. ;)

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Cheers for the explanation Tony but I got as far as opening ImageReady and couldn't get it to do a animated gif of the two images. So I did what essex_chris says and tried one of the numerous free apps available to download. It didn't work as well as yours though:


 

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That's not me in one of the images btw - I was just testing the app. I haven't got round to doing my After photos yet.

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!!! Thank buggery it isn't!!

Yeah, the alignment needs to be right or it doesn't look right

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little bit of shat just seeped out then seeing that, thinking it was your entry LMC

thank god for that!

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Yeah definitely the alignment needs to be right.

I do all that sort of cropping in a given proportion using ACDSee - it handily divides the cropped area into a 3x3 grid so you can line up say on the collar bone, or the knee, and then you end up with a pretty good lineup.

Except for the photos of Tony in the dam selling his body. For that i just used a telephoto lens

Awesome pic, but Tony you're not doing yourself many favours posting up tips on preventing the gag reflex and then a picture of a guy touching his toes - Ak