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Where everybody at? Speak up nerds!
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Today's workout was fighting with my too short jack and tire to replace an ABS sensor. Debating if I want to lift weights tomorrow or do the water aerobics workout.... Or both. Either way, I'm replacing the blend door actuator on my truck afterwards. (I'd do it tonight but some idiot(me) told the store the wrong part number....)
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Oct 17, 2018 00:20
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I'm back doing keto, ate a decent lunch at about noon, but got wrecked with the opening cardio and nearly passed out. Still finished strong. However, I need to work on some sort of pre-workout prep around 2pm.
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Oct 17, 2018 00:37
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I had too little sleep this weekend and too many events at breweries, so I had to resort to using DMAA (that "expired" in 2013) to get through my workouts, and everything just felt heavy. I'm already dieting, but I cut food calories down even more to allow for beer, which apparently is not ideal for holding onto muscle/strength.
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Oct 17, 2018 00:45
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I've yogaed my way to a less sore back and clutch knee and a touch of flexibility. I still look like an imbecile tumbling in or out, but I'm just grateful I can.
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Oct 17, 2018 01:58
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Still biking to and from work. Been dealing with migraines lately, which is not good for my motivation.
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Oct 17, 2018 08:14
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Gonna hit the gym tonight. More stretching and body weight stuff and then bike, hopefully.
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Oct 17, 2018 12:55
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Been 20 days sober now. It has SERIOUSLY helped on the belly fat and seeing a general dropping of body fat % across the board. SHOULDER DAY BEST DAY OBVS 
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Oct 17, 2018 21:06
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Water aerobics bitches. What.
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Oct 18, 2018 06:04
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Curled up in a ball of depression and pain thanks to the weather. Getting absolutely nothing done, might try to go swim in the morning and see if it makes my knees stop screaming.
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Oct 18, 2018 06:49
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My workout plan starts me at 15 rep sets and gradually lowers the reps to a minimum of 4. This week is the second cycle of minimums and I've definitely gotten stronger! 185x5x3, and a 195x5x1 on Bench. I can finally do multiple reps of 225 now! 130x5x3 on incline dumbell press. 70x5x1 80x5x1 90x5x1 on incline flyes. When I started 3 months ago I think I was doing 20. 70x5x3 on cable crossover! I remember struggling to do 30x5. 77x5x2 82.5x5x2 on tricep pushdown. Started around 40? I feel STRONK.
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Oct 22, 2018 13:23
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I skipped both my weekend workouts to go to the Juggernaut Training Systems performance summit. Had some big names like Mike Israetel and Chad Wesley Smith, along with people I didn't recognize but who gave interesting talks. Judging from the show of hands, I felt like I was the only person in attendance who wasn't a personal trainer of some sort, but it was still interesting. I've been trying to work on my sleep hygiene, but I'm going to try harder after hearing James Hoffmann's talk. Chad's wife, Marissa Inda, and another Juggernaut power lifter, Kristen Dunsmore, were there selling various books, and have to be the most jacked girls I've seen in person. Pretty impressive, but Marissa said she'd been lifting since she was 17 and she's now 42, so plenty of time to get ripped. AdiaBOOtic posted:185x5x3, and a 195x5x1 on Bench. I can finally do multiple reps of 225 now! I've been doing incline bench, then flys, then bench for a long time now, just because that's whats in my workout template I paid for, but I'm really tempted to start benching first just to get it up higher. Maybe it's not ideal for hypertrophy, but I'd like to be hitting 225x10, whereas right now I'm doing 150 to 165, depending on the week. MomJeans420 fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Oct 23, 2018 |
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Oct 23, 2018 02:09
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MomJeans420 posted:I'd like to be hitting 225x10 Race ya to it.
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Oct 23, 2018 12:44
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I'll race you bitches. Soon as I get over this fever. I'm already at 3x225 and 5@200, so it won't be long.
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Oct 23, 2018 15:14
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I never feel like I make any progress getting stronger when I lift. Probably a three part problem with one part being consistency  , and one part stale routine (not mixing it up and changing up the exercises and sets and reps often enough), and lastly diet. I don't know that I eat enough to get bigger/stronger, but I don't really lose weight either when I try to focus on lifting. I tried 5x5 for awhile but my back and hips are saying "gently caress no" to doing squats or deadlift again. I can't seem to get my hips flexible enough (not OEM hips, either...) to do either well enough to not hurt myself rounding my back, so it ain't worth it anymore. Any advice or suggested reading/routines? I'll have to wait a bit til I'm healed up but maybe this is something I can focus on over winter before bike season starts back up.
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Oct 23, 2018 15:42
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Every weight routine is going to have squats and deadlifts, so work on learning how to do those properly would be where I'd start. Both lifts have the hip hinge as part of their movement, and learning how to do that really helped me a lot. It'll be necessary for other things, too, like Can you get by without doing those? Yeah... But then you may be spending way too much time doing other exercises to make up for them.
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Oct 23, 2018 16:02
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Suburban Dad posted:I never feel like I make any progress getting stronger when I lift. Probably a three part problem with one part being consistency If you're not aware of Squat University, now you are. The advice in here is loving fantastic and there's SO MANY VIDEOS about a million and one different niggles and techniques. Maybe give them a try? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-_I2WZK8IY His channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyPYQTT20IgzVw92LDvtClw/videos
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Oct 23, 2018 16:53
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Maybe you guys both missed that I have two hip replacements and maybe those are out of the question... Still, I'll check out the links.
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Oct 23, 2018 17:01
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Yeah I caught it. I guess you'd want to speak to a physiotherapist in your case then.
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Oct 23, 2018 17:05
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AdiaBOOtic posted:Race ya to it. I'm dropping weight and while I'm down 3 lbs from bench day last week, I'm was one rep short on my 2nd and 3rd sets of incline BP today compared to last week. At this rate I'm not going to hit 10x225 until I can bulk next year.
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Oct 23, 2018 17:12
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Have less that 2 more weeks of bike racing left and 3 or 4 races. Have two more wednesday nights, there's one in Helena this weekend, and then the regional series final is nov 3rd here in town at a brewery. cat 1/2/3 race at night and everyone else has been drinking all day so it's a pretty fun time. Goal is to get on the podium in cat 3.Olympic Mathlete posted:If you're not aware of Squat University, now you are. The advice in here is loving fantastic and there's SO MANY VIDEOS about a million and one different niggles and techniques. Maybe give them a try? Cool. I am always pretty worried I'm doing things wrong. But managed to not hurt myself this spring so there's that. I found the descriptions on stronglifts 5x5 to be really good so that was essentially the workouts I was doing. https://stronglifts.com/squat/
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Oct 23, 2018 17:27
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Suburban Dad posted:I never feel like I make any progress getting stronger when I lift. Probably a three part problem with one part being consistency Bodyspace app has some awesome workouts that change up minimally every week. Once you learn the eccentricities of the app it's pretty great. You could do the 12 weeks to shredded or whatever that Im doing and just skip leg day (THE HORROR)
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Oct 23, 2018 17:56
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QuarkMartial posted:I'll race you bitches. Ok fine race YOU to it. I am literally right there at 225x3 and 195x5 but I'm gonna go for max reps on 225 tonight with the Mrs' balls in my face to see where I really am.
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Oct 23, 2018 17:57
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Yeah I caught it. I guess you'd want to speak to a physiotherapist in your case then. Doc said I wouldn't be limited in any activity, but in practice I can't get my hips to loosen up. Not sure if it's the hardware or the software at this point, but after tons of stretching I didn't get anywhere. AdiaBOOtic posted:Bodyspace app has some awesome workouts that change up minimally every week. Once you learn the eccentricities of the app it's pretty great. You could do the 12 weeks to shredded or whatever that Im doing and just skip leg day (THE HORROR) I'll look into it, thanks.
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Oct 23, 2018 18:24
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Suburban Dad posted:Maybe you guys both missed that I have two hip replacements and maybe those are out of the question... No, I missed that, but now that I look again I see it. So, yeah, I don't know. Definitely talk to a physio first. AdiaBOOtic posted:Ok fine race YOU to it. I am literally right there at 225x3 and 195x5 but I'm gonna go for max reps on 225 tonight with the Mrs' balls in my face to see where I really am. Go for it. It'll be a minute before I am on bench day, but I might do it earlier just out of spite.
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Oct 23, 2018 20:12
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QuarkMartial posted:Go for it. It'll be a minute before I am on bench day, but I might do it earlier just out of spite. Spite is an EXCELLENT motivator!
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Oct 23, 2018 22:42
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The best, even.
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Oct 23, 2018 23:35
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Suburban Dad posted:Doc said I wouldn't be limited in any activity, but in practice I can't get my hips to loosen up. Not sure if it's the hardware or the software at this point, but after tons of stretching I didn't get anywhere. That's where a physio comes in. Might be worth getting a session or two to see what's up.
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Oct 23, 2018 23:38
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Suburban Dad posted:Doc said I wouldn't be limited in any activity, but in practice I can't get my hips to loosen up. Not sure if it's the hardware or the software at this point, but after tons of stretching I didn't get anywhere. Check out CARS/MoveWellDurham/Kinstretch. I know a person who could help 1:1 (for a reasonable$) if you want. It helped a lot with some stuff i just couldn't get to loosen up thru stretching or gentle work. aka: physio, but slightly different.
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Oct 24, 2018 19:55
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toplitzin posted:Check out CARS/MoveWellDurham/Kinstretch. I know a person who could help 1:1 (for a reasonable$) if you want. It helped a lot with some stuff i just couldn't get to loosen up thru stretching or gentle work. Thanks, I'll have a look.
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Oct 24, 2018 21:51
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AdiaBOOtic posted:Ok fine race YOU to it. I am literally right there at 225x3 and 195x5 but I'm gonna go for max reps on 225 tonight with the Mrs' balls in my face to see where I really am. Where ya at, sucka?
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Oct 24, 2018 23:25
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225x3 lmao It was right after a workout. Gonna try again tonight! You?
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Oct 25, 2018 00:15
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I did our group workout tonight and managed fine. I might go tomorrow and just bench to see what I can manage. Just depends if I feel well and if this fever is gone for good.
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Oct 25, 2018 02:47
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Tuesday was my big chest + tri day, but I did 185x11 on the bench press this morning and it felt heavy. Probably nothing to do with the fact we had a bunch of mai tais and IPAs last night. Signed up for another DXA scan in two weeks, I'd like to be another four pounds down by then so I can see how my fat loss vs muscle loss is doing.
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Oct 25, 2018 18:09
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Weight still dropping and I'm starting to actually notice changes, like shirts drape just a little looser than they used to. A little more of this and I might be able to get away with wearing the L-T sizes that actually look good on my frame!
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Oct 26, 2018 17:35
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It's a game changer when you yourself start to notice results. Made me work that much harder.
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Oct 26, 2018 18:15
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drat right. I'm starting to feel and see more definition in places, so now I want to work harder to make that definition clearer.
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Oct 26, 2018 19:24
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AdiaBOOtic posted:It's a game changer when you yourself start to notice results. Made me work that much harder. For sure. When I dropped under 200 I was happy, when I hit 169 I sat on the floor and cried.
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Oct 27, 2018 11:33
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Rhyno posted:For sure. When I dropped under 200 I was happy, when I hit 169 I sat on the floor and cried. Pussy.
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I did a deadlift today.
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