Anyone want to shape up in 2018? A continuing journey.......

2-feign-reluctance

Legs & abs/core today. Ugh. Really felt my lack of overall strength today. Dumbbell lunges were KILLER.

rr165892

2-feign-reluctance said:

Legs & abs/core today. Ugh. Really felt my lack of overall strength today. Dumbbell lunges were KILLER.

Stationary or walking on those dumbbell lunges?

rr165892

Ms. Haiku said:

A very good shake for a pick-me-up is

1 banana
3 dates
3/4 cup soy milk

Put it all in a food processor or blender and enjoy!

It is sweet with all sorts of things that are good for you.

3 miles running in segments today. Time to celebrate National Donut Day!

Guys watch the soy milk.
But sounds good otherwise,maybe beef up the protein a bit for a balanced delivery.Add a scoop of protein powder,or powdered peanut butter.Some nice sustained energy.

2-feign-reluctance

rr165892 said:

2-feign-reluctance said:

Legs & abs/core today. Ugh. Really felt my lack of overall strength today. Dumbbell lunges were KILLER.

Stationary or walking on those dumbbell lunges?

Stationary all 3 sets. Not ready for walking yet!
Legs and core sore this morning, but not bad so I think I've got the right amount of weights for now. Biceps, back & cardio today. Diet is going along nice. Scale says I dropped 3 lbs last week. Which seems like a lot for a week, but I'll take it! Wife, daughter and I celebrated 11 year wedding anniversary at our favorite restaurant last night. Normally I pig out on smoked ribs, beer and etc etc. It wasn't tough ordering the blackened chicken salad & skipping ice cream afterwards! Blood sugars definitely noticed the difference overnight - typically high fat dinner I'll be up a few times a night peeing from elevated sugars & wake up the same. That's how fat tends to impact me. Up to 10 hours later. Same thing with pizza for dinner. Keep up the great work everyone!

2-feign-reluctance

Rocking end to my first week. Got a great schedule going. Thanks for all the comments! I'll keep you all posted in a few months on how things are.

markymark550

Great job 2fr! Imo, the first week of actually getting started was the hardest part. Becomes a lot easier after that. Keep up the good work!


I've been getting some good lifting sessions the past week. Getting closer to some of goals.

guacamolejoe

Was able to get to the gym 5 days this week. 3rd week in, worked all body parts except arms. Just don't believe in having guns, lol. Will start pushing some heavier weight soon. More important to be consistent in just going now.

markymark550

guacamolejoe said:

Was able to get to the gym 5 days this week. 3rd week in, worked all body parts except arms. Just don't believe in having guns, lol. Will start pushing some heavier weight soon. More important to be consistent in just going now.

So you're going for the T-Rex look? Kidding, kind of.

guacamolejoe

markymark550 said:

So you're going for the T-Rex look? Kidding, kind of.

No. Just have my priorities in(the right)order(for me).

1) Life : Heart = cardio
2) Things I really enjoy doing; snowboarding, biking, hiking, concerts : Legs,back,abs & shoulders
3) Looking good . I'm already married, no one else to impress, lol: chest & arms

Ms. Haiku

3 miles in segments on a treadmill. I'm starting to feel the work pay off as part of the run felt comfortable and graceful. I'm pretty excited about that.

markymark550

guacamolejoe said:

markymark550 said:

So you're going for the T-Rex look? Kidding, kind of.

No. Just have my priorities in(the right)order(for me).

1) Life Heart = cardio
2) Things I really enjoy doing; snowboarding, biking, hiking, concerts : Legs,back,abs & shoulders
3) Looking good . I'm already married, no one else to impress, lol chest & arms

I understand man. I really was just kidding. Your post just made me think of a guy at my gym that I never see work on arms and it shows too. He's got a very muscular torso, but nothing at all for arms. Very odd looking because of not being all in proportion. And I say that as someone who finds it difficult to build arm muscle. Mine isn't for lack of trying, but his is.

markymark550

Ms. Haiku said:

3 miles in segments on a treadmill. I'm starting to feel the work pay off as part of the run felt comfortable and graceful. I'm pretty excited about that.

Good job

guacamolejoe

markymark550 said:

So you're going for the T-Rex look? Kidding, kind of.

I understand man. I really was just kidding. Your post just made me think of a guy at my gym that I never see work on arms and it shows too. He's got a very muscular torso, but nothing at all for arms. Very odd looking because of not being all in proportion. And I say that as someone who finds it difficult to build arm muscle. Mine isn't for lack of trying, but his is.

No worries, I got it, no offense was taken.
Use to be in real good shape for work, retired NYC fireman. 190-195lbs with less than 10% body fat. That was until a major injury(15years ago) dropped me down to 145 in 3 months. Had 3+ years of physical therapy, then off & on pt & gym for the last 12years. Now I'm at my HS graduation(1977)weight(without most of the muscle, lol). Lower weight allows me to be in less pain. At my age, just trying to maintain what I have left.

rr165892

guacamolejoe said:

markymark550 said:

So you're going for the T-Rex look? Kidding, kind of.

I understand man. I really was just kidding. Your post just made me think of a guy at my gym that I never see work on arms and it shows too. He's got a very muscular torso, but nothing at all for arms. Very odd looking because of not being all in proportion. And I say that as someone who finds it difficult to build arm muscle. Mine isn't for lack of trying, but his is.

No worries, I got it, no offense was taken.
Use to be in real good shape for work, retired NYC fireman. 190-195lbs with less than 10% body fat. That was until a major injury(15years ago) dropped me down to 145 in 3 months. Had 3+ years of physical therapy, then off & on pt & gym for the last 12years. Now I'm at my HS graduation(1977)weight(without most of the muscle, lol). Lower weight allows me to be in less pain. At my age, just trying to maintain what I have left.




I'd say that is an expectable reason.

Rehabbing is a bitch.
I pulled something in my trap during rear shrugs about 3 weeks ago.Getting trigger point headaches from it,that's a nice added bonus.Chiro and PT hasn't been able to reset it.Cortazone injections Monday afternoon is next.Getting older sucks.Still worked thru a nice heavy chest/Tri session today.

Anyone see the story of the twin yoga instructors and the murder case in Hawaii? They used to live here in south Florida .My wife used to do her yoga classes with them.She said they were weird years ago.i guess she was right.

dankind

Weighed myself yesterday, and I'm officially over a deuce (and this was after dropping a deuce).

I just want to say thank you. I couldn't have done it without your support. Oh, and Massachusetts. Massachusetts helped a lot, too.

Next stop: diabetes.

Yay!

guacamolejoe

rr165892 said:

Anyone see the story of the twin yoga instructors and the murder case in Hawaii? They used to live here in south Florida .My wife used to do her yoga classes with them.She said they were weird years ago.i guess she was right.

Didn't hear of it.

I'm in Deerfield Beach. Where are you living down here?

Ms. Haiku

dankind said:

Weighed myself yesterday, and I'm officially over a deuce (and this was after dropping a deuce).

I just want to say thank you. I couldn't have done it without your support. Oh, and Massachusetts. Massachusetts helped a lot, too.

Next stop: diabetes.

Yay!

Congratulations!

markymark550

Before my training session yesterday, my trainer asked what I had recently worked on this week. Told him what I did Monday and Tuesday and he grins and says "That means leg day today, but we're going to test you today." Immediately I think "oh, f***" Started with leg press supersetted with dead lifts. Worked the leg press up until it was about 450lbs. Followed all that with about 100 weighted squats, 50 lunges per leg, and 25 single leg squats per leg. Holy crap my legs are on fire.

Tldr: thank God I'm sitting at my desk all day today

guacamolejoe

markymark550 said:

Before my training session yesterday, my trainer asked what I had recently worked on this week. Told him what I did Monday and Tuesday and he grins and says "That means leg day today, but we're going to test you today." Immediately I think "oh, f***" Started with leg press supersetted with dead lifts. Worked the leg press up until it was about 450lbs. Followed all that with about 100 weighted squats, 50 lunges per leg, and 25 single leg squats per leg. Holy crap my legs are on fire.

Tldr: thank God I'm sitting at my desk all day today

Way to push it. Wish I could work out like that again.

Ms. Haiku

markymark550 said:

Before my training session yesterday, my trainer asked what I had recently worked on this week. Told him what I did Monday and Tuesday and he grins and says "That means leg day today, but we're going to test you today." Immediately I think "oh, f***" Started with leg press supersetted with dead lifts. Worked the leg press up until it was about 450lbs. Followed all that with about 100 weighted squats, 50 lunges per leg, and 25 single leg squats per leg. Holy crap my legs are on fire.

Tldr: thank God I'm sitting at my desk all day today

Wow! You go!