Anyone want to shape up in 2018? A continuing journey.......
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rgambs said:tempo_n_groove said:Joined a gym last week.
Started doing more home workouts too. Doing these Grokker videos. High intensity lower body. My ass and quads are burning from all the damn squats the gal Sarah Kusch has me doing.
I'm sweating and tired after 20 min. I love her...
Still no bread in the diet. Doing well with that.
Get at it @rgambs !!!my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf0 -
Oh please let it rain today.
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Why did I think it was a good idea to run and do legs on the same day? My god I am sore!I'll ride the wave where it takes me......0
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mcgruff10 said:Why did I think it was a good idea to run and do legs on the same day? My god I am sore!
Hmm. I guess how you handle this depends on whether your priority is running or lifting.
I've found that lifting legs immediately after running is just about impossible. I tried and nearly fell over sideways doing squats.
So I run in the morning and lift mid-day.
I often do a brisk walk after lifting, or if I'm feeling particularly well-rested I will run a few (three?) slow miles.
The really tough runs come the morning after leg day. Those are brutal --- and, last week, when the lifts were three sets of 15, I couldn't run at all the next day. That was the first time in quite a while that my legs were really sore.
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.0 -
I hate exercise so if I win the lottery I will hire a drill sergeant type personal trainer who will take no shit from me and beat me into submission and force me to get in shape. That's probably the only way I'd get to where I'd like to be. Besides, I'm 66 going on 67 and still working. Who has time or energy for working out?
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Well, I read an article about exercise a few weeks ago -- I might even have shared it up-thread -- in which one of the researchers said we should think about exercise as we think about brushing our teeth. That is, as a basic part of taking care of oneself.
So not everyone has as much time as I have to dedicate to exercise, true. But we're all getting older all the time, and for me it's a question of how do I want to age, and would I like to have a bit of control over the process?
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Weighed 200lbs on the scale new year's eve and got to my low for this year today of 170!
Little to no exercise, 1500 calories a day at most, and long stressful days at the office 7 days a week. The weight less has helped a ton on my mood during busy season at work. I now hope to start exercising and build more muscle.
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bootlegger10 said:
Weighed 200lbs on the scale new year's eve and got to my low for this year today of 170!
Little to no exercise, 1500 calories a day at most, and long stressful days at the office 7 days a week. The weight less has helped a ton on my mood during busy season at work. I now hope to start exercising and build more muscle.
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Yesterday was core day.
Welcome to the world of "planking"!
Ran/fast walk for 20 min on the treadmill too.
Go me.
Today its upper body and some gratuitous arm curls to boot.0 -
I ate pizza for dinner yesterday because the kitchen was too busy to use.
My lesson from that is to make more at lunch time when everyone is out, so I have food for later. Meal prep seems to be the way to go!
And I am trying to treat exercise like curmudgeoness said. A regular part of my day - just like brushing teeth and so I have been exercising three days in a row now. Whoop whoop!0 -
You get to a certain point where working out is fun. I enjoy it.
Is there such a thing as getting to a point where not eating pizza and cake is fun?
No way.Monkey Driven, Call this Living?0 -
My tastes have changed. Many meals or this or that I find I don't like anymore. I always enjoy my fresh lunches. But my dinner is killin my progress. As well as chocolate covered peanuts. But I'm keeping the weight off so that's exciting in itself. I can be taught!!Oh please let it rain today.
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So things have been going well, my diet isn't strict enough to shed pounds quickly, but I'm ticking downward steadily at a rate that should preserve some hard-won muscle.
March was a leg focus month, I hit 9 leg days for the month even though I took a week's vacation. I have been sore practically all month and I've seen a 4 rep increase on the top weight that I squat. I only averaged about 10 miles a week running, but i did enough that I haven't lost any conditioning.
I don't have a focus for April but I've been hitting 4 or 5 miles a day instead of 2 or 3 and watching my diet and trying to lift as intensely as I can.
In May I am going to set a big goal for pull-ups, not sure what yet.
Keep up the good work fokkf.Monkey Driven, Call this Living?0 -
rgambs said:So things have been going well, my diet isn't strict enough to shed pounds quickly, but I'm ticking downward steadily at a rate that should preserve some hard-won muscle.
March was a leg focus month, I hit 9 leg days for the month even though I took a week's vacation. I have been sore practically all month and I've seen a 4 rep increase on the top weight that I squat. I only averaged about 10 miles a week running, but i did enough that I haven't lost any conditioning.
I don't have a focus for April but I've been hitting 4 or 5 miles a day instead of 2 or 3 and watching my diet and trying to lift as intensely as I can.
In May I am going to set a big goal for pull-ups, not sure what yet.
Keep up the good work fokkf.0 -
So I've been to the gym regularly now for 2-1/2 weeks. Ran into a buddy of mine whom I haven't seen in a bit and we gave each other a hug. He replied to me "you fell like a rock!"
So yeah. It's working.
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FoxyRedLa said:My tastes have changed. Many meals or this or that I find I don't like anymore. I always enjoy my fresh lunches. But my dinner is killin my progress. As well as chocolate covered peanuts. But I'm keeping the weight off so that's exciting in itself. I can be taught!!
More squats today for my misbehavior last night...0 -
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Weight cutting isn't going well, but workouts have been great and I look and feel better than ever.
Today is 15 straight, Im definitely due for a rest day this weekend. It's finally starting to tentatively resemble spring so it's the to bust out the backpack on the stairmill and get some funky side-eyes from the people who weren't working out on the morning crew last year.Monkey Driven, Call this Living?0 -
I looked at the calendar, today was actually 18th straight workout day and 4am wake-up and I was actually on fucking fire! 2.5 miles in 18 minutes to start and then 1.5 hours of back and bicep work, ALL done in supersets and dropsets. 6 sets of pull-ups/barbell row, 6 sets of pulldowns/horizontal cable rows, 6 sets of rope cable curls/lat pulldowns, and 6 biceps dropsets in various manners... hammer, reverse, incline, and drag included.
Tomorrow I'm going to sleep in and feel awesome!Monkey Driven, Call this Living?0 -
I've been on my normal training schedule since my last post, but I feel that I haven't had any good workouts the last couple of weeks. Just kind of half-heartedly slogging my way through them. I suspect that it's because I haven't been sleeping well/enough lately. Could be that the last doctor appt I had my thyroid was off (with my family history it was only a matter of time) and it's taking me longer than I thought to adjust to the medicine. Or better yet, could be the combination or cause and effect thing going on. It's kind of disheartening because I was making some good strength gains earlier.0
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