Our Physical Fitness

[Evaniel]

Missed yesterday, went today.

Bike
Curls
Face Pulls
Bench (200, 230, 250) Tweaked a bit on the last reps. I think its fine but its too heavy for me. Shoulder's are hot currently.
Dips 75
Pull ups.
Fly Machine
Barbell Row (Bent over)
Incline 70, 80, 80 (was feeling very sad at this point and sweating)
Light Delt Fly/Dumbell Curl (20s 10 x 10) x 3

Protein and Collagen shake now, then I need to clean up some things and continue efforts at downsizing so I can move somewhere cheaper.

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[Mannahnin]

Between the double Epley maneuver yesterday, getting off the meclizine (which is great for vertigo-induced nausea, but muffles the neural response from the non-impaired vestibular organ as well and creates its own weird floaty sensation), and the intervening hours for my brain and vestibular system to get recalibrated to each other... I might be ok to go to the gym after work.

I did wind up going after work on Friday. Only did two circuits of my baseline regular exercises (dumbbell bench, dumbbell inclined curls, dumbbell behind the head skull crushers, and dumbbell lateral raises) instead of 3, and I drank two or three times as much water as usual while I was doing it, which was interesting given that it wasn't that hot. But it still felt good to get back in, and my vertigo didn't seem to be aggravated. So that was positive.

On Sunday morning I tried out my morning floor/core/calisthenics routine from my Spring PT, but unfortunately the switching sides back and forth left to right to do the leg raises and clamshells DID seem to mess me up. :/ My vertigo acted up a bit and I was discouraged from going to the gym for a full workout.

Thankfully that seems to have subsided; by the end of the day I was feeling almost none of the vertigo, and this morning I seem 90% normal. I did ONLY the standing portions of my morning routine, and as expected those had no ill effects. I may need to replace the lying floor routine parts with exercises which keep my head upright, like using a machine at the gym for hip adductor work.

Weight-wise, despite having only been back to the gym once since the 3rd, I've kept dropping a little. I hit 165 at one point last week, and I'm back around 167 this morning. I suspect I've been down a bit of water weight and just not eating as much as well. Even with meclizine controlling the nausea, my appetite hasn't been huge during this whole thing.

 

[Scribe]

OK, starting my 'upper body stuff' day.

First, my session started late, boo. Work was hilariously dumb.

Bike (I've been increasing resistance as it gets too easy.)
Curls - Barbell. Increased.
Facepull - Too easy, will increase Wednesday.
Bench - Little warmup 90 x 10, 200 x 10, 230 x 15 (went till I could not)
Dips - 75s x 10 x 3
Pullups - Body x 8 x 3
Barbell Rows - 140 x 10 x 3
Flys - 130, 145, 160 x 10
Incline Dumbbell - 70, 80, 80 x 10
Lat Pulldown - 160 x 8 x 3
Dumbbell raise/curl - 20 x 10 x 3

All told, feels pretty good. Pumping in the protein as I type and hopefully to bed early.

The list of things I want to do in life is very short right now, if I could train and sleep and train and sleep like when I was a kid?

 

[Mannahnin]

Made it back to the gym last night, in part because I was disappointed at missing Sunday and not doing my leg press and calf raises.

Did two circuits of my four "usual suspects", then the leg press and hack squat were both busy, but I pivoted and did leg extensions, which I hadn't for a while. Three good sets and was reasonably wobbly/limpy on the way out, so that was pretty satisfying.

Did just the upright parts of my morning exercises today and those felt good. My head still isn't 100% when I'm moving around. I wonder if maybe I've got another tiny crystal on the other side. I have a another vestibular PT appointment for Thursday, which I'll attend if I don't feel 100% by EoD Wednesday.

 

[Evaniel]

Did two circuits of my four "usual suspects", then the leg press and hack squat were both busy, but I pivoted and did leg extensions, which I hadn't for a while. Three good sets and was reasonably wobbly/limpy on the way out, so that was pretty satisfying.

I feel like leg extensions are unfairly pilloried in the Terminally Online Fitness Community. I mean, you have to have a machine that gives you a good range of motion and a decent stretch, but I always feel far more of a burn/pump doing extensions than I ever have squats or presses.

I hope things work out with the PT!

 

[Scribe]

Same Legs as usual. Numbers still going up so no need to switch anything I guess.

300 Squats by end of September it feels like. Knees are a bit shakey at 280 but I think we fet there.

 

[Scribe]

My second mixed upper body day.

Bike
Curl Barbell
Face Pull
Dips 75s
Pull Ups Body
Pull Down, 140, 160, 160
Incline Bench, 200x10x3. New to rotation.
Cable Pull, 140, 160, 180
Fly, 160x10x3
Dumbbell Row, 75x10x3
Tri Extension Cable, 50, 65, 65
Delt Raise into Curls thing to end.

Seemed really good.

 

[Mannahnin]

Got in for a moderate upper body session last night. Benches were all busy so I did machine work. Four sets of overhead press, four of bicep curls with drop sets, and four of tricep extensions with drop sets. Thought about adding a pulling exercise or two but I got a late start. Hopefully this weekend.

Vertigo continues to feel better; I'm having a hard time judging whether I'm 100%, but I think I'm going to my appointment today, to see if we can check the left side.

 

[TiQuinn]

Well, my physical fitness for the past week has consisted of trying to “fit ness whole pizza in my mouth” but now that I’m done traveling with 12 hour car rides and eating out every night, I’m ready for some sustained work.