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

rgambs said:

Thoughts_Arrive said:

Waiting to get me knee looked at by a physio, no running or any gym until then. There goes my gym membership, expired.

Push-ups, pull-ups, and dips.
You can get shredded and lose weight and be in good cardiovascular shape with just those three bodyweight exercises.

rgambs said:

Thoughts_Arrive said:

rgambs said:

Thoughts_Arrive said:

Waiting to get me knee looked at by a physio, no running or any gym until then. There goes my gym membership, expired.

Push-ups, pull-ups, and dips.
You can get shredded and lose weight and be in good cardiovascular shape with just those three bodyweight exercises.

Thanks. Got nowhere to do pull-ups here at home. What are dips?

Yeah, I use a tree because I don't have a bar.  You can buy pull-up bars that hang in doorways without installation.
Google bodyweight dips, there are several different ways to do them.  They work your triceps, shoulders, and pecs depending on how you do them.

curmudgeoness said:

markymark550 said:

A couple of questions for y'all:

1. Do you track your workouts?
2. If yes, do you use pen and paper or use an app?
3. What features would you find important for an app to have?

I'm tracking my workouts with pen and paper, but have been toying around with developing something. While I could tailor one to just what I want, I want to make it useful enough for others to use. Just looking for some feedback and suggestions on this idea.

1.yes, but (I used to track my strength workouts; now my trainer does that. I just note the time spent on the workout. I track my runs -- route used, duration, which shoes I wore. I track the shoes so I can toss them after 400 miles.)

2. Both. When I tracked my own strength workouts, I used a notebook and pen. App-wise, I use My Fitness Pal, which lets me keep a food diary as well (so food intake and calories burned are linked). MFP links with Runtastic, where I map and record my runs.

3. Good mapping features for run/bike/hike routes are essential as far as I am concerned. I quit using a FitBit because its inaccuracy drove me crazy (nothing like running a certified half-marathon course and having your FitBit tell you you are ALMOST at twelve miles for the day to make you question its utility). I like being able to link a food diary and a workout log. I disable the social media aspects, because I don't really need to tell all of Facebook that I lost half a pound or where I like to run each morning.

I've never used an app to record strength workouts (specific exercises, weight, reps, sets) because it felt as if logging the exercises took almost as long as the actual workout did. Now, it's entirely possible that I''m just not being smart about how I use those apps, but suffice to say that I found that approach off-putting (so I recorded my workouts using pen and paper and just enter/ed "Upper Body Weight Training, 1 hour" in the app. If it felt like less of a time sink to track specific exercises in an app, I would be more likely to use it.  

markymark550 said:

curmudgeoness said:

markymark550 said:

A couple of questions for y'all:

Thanks for the feedback! I knew there were a few running apps that had good mapping features, so I wasn't really looking to reinvent the wheel there. For the strength workouts, did it feel cumbersome because of having to search the exercises or was it the actual data entry? Sounds like it was just the entire experience, but it would be beneficial to know if a certain aspect was more frustrating.