Our Physical Fitness

[schneeland]

When I started again, I had some sessions (if we can call them that) of about 20 minutes as my arms just gave out. It is absolutely the worst part of the process when starting, just getting to a point where one even CAN work out.

Yeah, I might need to do the same. Generally, a full home gym would be ideal for me, but with house prices skyrocketing in the past decade and even rents picking up notably, having a separate room for this seems questionable. And maybe a bit of training with resistance bands in the living room will also do, at least to get started.

 

[Scribe]

Yeah, I might need to do the same. Generally, a full home gym would be ideal for me, but with house prices skyrocketing in the past decade and even rents picking up notably, having a separate room for this seems questionable. And maybe a bit of training with resistance bands in the living room will also do, at least to get started.

Yeah I think whatever works for folks, just get the body moving.

Personally, as I work from home, and have some other responsibilities and priorities, I just cannot work out at home I have to leave and be able to be isolated from everything else that can come up and interrupt me. Its a mental thing as well for me to say "OK, you are here, you have committed to this, get to work."

 

[Scribe]

Shoulder day was OK. Quite a bit of discomfort pretty much covering the whole thing from front to back, and down at what I assume is the skeletal level where things are connecting and grinding and being lame. Felt strong enough on most of the exercises, but pretty much every one of them was a bit of a teeth clenching 'this doesnt feel great' at one point or another.

One more day, tomorrow to get a rest before Monday's Chest.

Going to be very light.

Bit of Cardio, my range of motion package, core, MAYBE skipping (I think even that will aggravate the shoulder right now) and then a 45 min sauna and hopefully sleep in Sunday.

Then, SIGH, I cut the crap out of my diet for April.

 

[Guest 85555]

I managed a run after my chest routine. It was a short one, just about twenty minutes or so for my first day out (I never go too crazy anyways with this). But there was a hill involved.

 

[Evaniel]

Shoulder day was OK. Quite a bit of discomfort pretty much covering the whole thing from front to back, and down at what I assume is the skeletal level where things are connecting and grinding and being lame. Felt strong enough on most of the exercises, but pretty much every one of them was a bit of a teeth clenching 'this doesnt feel great' at one point or another.

One more day, tomorrow to get a rest before Monday's Chest.

Going to be very light.

Bit of Cardio, my range of motion package, core, MAYBE skipping (I think even that will aggravate the shoulder right now) and then a 45 min sauna and hopefully sleep in Sunday.

Then, SIGH, I cut the crap out of my diet for April.

From this and your description of your leg day, are you doing the one-part-a-day (or "Bro") split? How do you like it?

 

[Guest 85555]

Did a quick arm and back routine before eating this morning. Not particularly grueling, just 20 minutes of light exercise

 

[Scribe]

From this and your description of your leg day, are you doing the one-part-a-day (or "Bro") split? How do you like it?

Pretty much yes. Its how I've always done it. Currently.

Mon - Chest/Tri
Tue - Legs
Wed - Back/Bicep
Thur - Legs/Core
Fri - Shoulders
Sat or Sun - Cardio and core.

At the direction of the Trainer I've now added the range of motion exercises, every other day which determines if its going to be Saturday or Sunday for the 'extra' work, so there is a bit of back/bicep/shoulder work now most days.

Its how I started when I was training for football, and I dont really change things easily if something is working for me so thats how I've done it for... a long time.

I think it works great BUT, I've also over worked/developed or under developed muscle groups in the past so I dont know that I'm the best source of knowledge, like I never have been a guy focused on huge arms, but the trainer at my gym thinks by just letting the biceps develop naturally by stabilizing other weight, its contributed to my shoulder issues, and when I was a kid I developed the outer quad, to the point it was supposedly pulling my kneecaps out of alignment and caused my knees to destroy my meniscus.

I'm really just too stubborn to stop and think when I should adjust something though to be fair every issue structurally in my body can be laid at the foot of the mighty pigskin, and can I really blame 16/17/18 year old me?

 

[Scribe]

Light session completed, heating up the sauna.

I'm going to have to figure out how to accelerate my core rebuild, without getting bulky. Pre-Covid, I was doing Muay Thai, and as one can imagine had a crazy strong core. Thats all well behind us now lol and I essentially have zero ab strength.

Next milestone is the April diet clean up, but if anyone has some ideas on how to build the core without it getting bulky, essentially building inward? If thats even a thing...

 

[AlexofBarbaria]

Cool, a geek fitness thread!

I'm just getting back into the gym after 5 weeks off (4 weeks vacation, 1 week being lazy and getting over jetlag). Tonight I did workout 3 since coming back.

I feel so out of shape! Especially the cardiovascular aspects. Whatever aspect of fitness handles recovery between sets and how winded you feel after a hard one. I nearly fainted between squat sets the other day. I haven't had that feeling for a LONG time. I take 1-2 week breaks fairly often. 5 weeks seems to have caused a much greater loss of fitness.

My strength training routine is 2 workouts per week, full body. I prefer to go the gym less often for longer sessions; saves time getting dressed, getting there, etc.

I also have a backup workout I do at home, in case I don't feel like or can't make it to the gym. That's what I did today because we had a crazy late March snowstorm here and I didn't feel like getting on the road.

Tonight I did:

Home Workout
Dumbbell Reverse Lunge - 55lb x 15,13
Single-Leg Dumbbell Stiff-Leg Deadlift - 55lb x 15
Chin Up - 12, 8
Weighted Handle Pushup - 20lb x 12, b.w. x 9
Dumbbell Floor Fly - 55lb x 8
Lying Dumbbell Triceps Extension - 55lb x 9,7
Standing Dumbbell Curl - 55lb x 13,7
Side-Lying Lateral Raise - 17.5lb x 8,7
Single-Leg Dumbbell Calf Raise - 27.5lb x 20,15

I use a heart rate monitor with the Polar Beat app to track workout time and heart rate stats.

Duration: 44:15. HR max: 170bpm. HR avg: 138bpm. Calories burned: 638kcal.

 

[Mannahnin]

I failed to get back to the gym last week, but on the plus side my hip and back have been in less and less pain, and I was finally able to sleep on my back and left side again starting Thursday, so that's a definite point in favor of the rest.

That's roughly two weeks off before I went back to the gym on Saturday, just going to PF with my brother on his black card. Did a bit of elliptical, three sets of supine press for chest and front delts, three sets of seated inclined dumbbell curls, each extended with a drop set 5lbs lighter, and just two hard sets of dumbbell (goblet hold) skull crushers before I had to head out for an appointment.

I've had some reassuring muscle soreness in the biceps and triceps, and even a little in my pecs, which are always massively difficult for me to get a good mind/muscle connection on. So that felt like a really productive session.

Planning to go again tonight.