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Internaut! posted:turns out it's way harder to lose weight as a dad with 2 kids who need to eat 5 times a day while getting you sick with their kindergarten germs on the reg and demanding all your free time from sunup to sundown I feel like I’m on the edge of fatness right now. trying to reverse course
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did some deadlifts today at 315lbs. felt good.
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Was doing some 45degree bench dumbell presses yesterday, I got distracted in the middle of set 4 and the left drifted backwards past arms vertical, had to struggle to get it back upright and ouch my shoulder is complaining today. Concentration!
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Was doing some 45degree bench dumbell presses yesterday, I got distracted in the middle of set 4 and the left drifted backwards past arms vertical, had to struggle to get it back upright and ouch my shoulder is complaining today. Concentration! Yikes. I got tired at the end of a set of squats and I think I rounded my back a little at the bottom of my last rep and it’s been bothering me all week
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akadajet posted:did some deadlifts today at 315lbs. felt good. 
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akadajet posted:did some deadlifts today at 315lbs. felt good.
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i got a lat pulldown bar and oh boy is it nice to get in that 8rep failure range rather than trying to bang out 5 chinups but only being able to do 2 and 3/4
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I’ve recovered from my birthday/vacation weight gain. down 21 lbs now. my pants fit worse and worse all the time now to try and get through 3 weeks where I can’t lift anything or sit on a bike.
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Silver Alicorn posted:I’ve recovered from my birthday/vacation weight gain. down 21 lbs now. my pants fit worse and worse all the time Down a similar amount of weight, and right now I'm basically living in denial that my jeans don't fit anymore. Having a belt without holes definitely helps maintain the illusion, but I know that eventually I'm going to have to actually get a new wardrobe.
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Mar 15, 2023 15:29
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I had just bought myself pants in January too. gonna have to get out the needle and thread.
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Just had A1C results come back. I am no longer in the “pre-diabetes“ range like I was in December. It’s back to normal. Phew
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KoRMaK posted:i got a lat pulldown bar and oh boy is it nice to get in that 8rep failure range rather than trying to bang out 5 chinups but only being able to do 2 and 3/4 I love the assisted pull-up machine. Before I gained some weight I could maybe bang out 5 to 8 reps but with the machine I can really focus on going all the way down and engaging the right muscles with each rep
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akadajet posted:Just had A1C results come back. I am no longer in the “pre-diabetes“ range like I was in December. It’s back to normal. Phew Silver Alicorn posted:I had just bought myself pants in January too. gonna have to get out the needle and thread. Congrats to both of y’all
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Mar 15, 2023 18:58
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ADINSX posted:I love the assisted pull-up machine. Before I gained some weight I could maybe bang out 5 to 8 reps but with the machine I can really focus on going all the way down and engaging the right muscles with each rep I used the one at the gym before i was able to do non assisted pull-ups. worked as advertised, would recommend
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akadajet posted:I used the one at the gym before i was able to do non assisted pull-ups. worked as advertised, would recommend Some people use rubber bands but that seems so clumsy to me, plus what if they snapped right near my face 
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ADINSX posted:Some people use rubber bands but that seems so clumsy to me, plus what if they snapped right near my face I’ve seen enough videos of people getting slapped in the nuts with bands to try that.
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I ran across an old FB post of mine where I was bragging about finally hitting 16 pull ups in a row, and how I was shooting for 20. Nowadays, getting in 2 solid pull-ups in a row is a rare feat. Granted, even after all my weight loss this year I'm still 42 pounds heaver than I was back then, but I don't know if I'll ever get back to that level...
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im getting fat from beer again
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akadajet posted:I’ve seen enough videos of people getting slapped in the nuts with bands to try that. Oh god I didn’t even consider that I did a light set of 3x10 squats last night, along with some incline bench and rows. My strength is down after losing about 10 pounds and my stress and sleep has been horrible with the baby, so I’m just trying to maintain right now and put gains on pause
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don't stand on the bands, rest your knees/shins on them and the chances of nut damage are greatly reduced
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ADINSX posted:Oh god I didn’t even consider that maintenance workouts are still just as good as regular workouts for mental health if not necessarily phyiscal, keep it up i really want to get back to 3x a week (for gains and also staving off feeling down) but my (regular, cheap) gym is just far enough walking where that's inconvenient. i am at 1-2 times a week rn and i feel great each time when the weather's nicer i can bike and itll be fine
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started jumping rope again. my calves are very pissed at this development but already they are less pissed than after day 1. working out is good friends.
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PokeJoe posted:don't stand on the bands, rest your knees/shins on them and the chances of nut damage are greatly reduced or just use the machine most gyms have. It’s right over there.
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Sure, the machine is obviously better but if you don't have one, or are at home, you can use resistance bands on a pull-up bar with your knees and there's little risk of testicular destruction
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PokeJoe posted:Sure, the machine is obviously better but if you don't have one, or are at home, you can use resistance bands on a pull-up bar with your knees and there's little risk of testicular destruction fair enough
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akadajet posted:I’ve seen enough videos of people getting slapped in the nuts with bands to try that. i've been using this style of band several times a week for a couple of years and haven't ever wrecked my nuts with them: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07K1823XB/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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back riding to work for about a month and now back at the gym finallyInternaut! posted:turns out it's way harder to lose weight as a dad with 2 kids who need to eat 5 times a day while getting you sick with their kindergarten germs on the reg and demanding all your free time from sunup to sundown agreed it's really hard
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weigh-in at the doctor's office today has me under 210 for the first time since the pandemic, and that includes putting on a bunch of muscle too  Only 30 more to go and I'll be back at my ~2016-era weight, oof
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Yeah the weight loss is an uphill struggle the older you get. 2019 pre-lockdown I'd got down to 217lbs at 6ft3, trimmest I'd looked in ages - lots of jogger/skier/rower machines at the gym. Then two years of not moving from my chair at home basically and up to 260lbs. Hit the gym again June last year and did a bunch of weights (and very little cardio tbh) and I'm now sitting at 230lbs and absolutely stuck there. Like Dijk here^^ I reckon I've put a good amount of muscle on that I didn't have pre-lockdown fitness, but still I have a half-inch layer of fat on the chest and stomach and especially the 'above the hips / lower back chunk region' that is proving impossible to shift. I know if I hit the treadmill and rower again as well as the weights I could probably move the needle a bit, but just keeping up with two or three 80min sessions a week of lifting is all my willpower.
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NoneMoreNegative rocking the 6 pack and the drip
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had a volleyball double header last night and did deadlifts today, my legs are useless right now lmao
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i had to carry a pitching machine today. it was heavy
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hosed my back up earlier in the week trying some new fangled deadlift bar, turns out i should have started with lower weight who could have guessed. back was feeling good this weekend and the snows gone and the weathers nice again so got the first trail run in for the season today  goal is to do a half marathon in fall here's hoping i dont gently caress it up biking again
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I’m almost back to the weight I was before I started getting it down last year, this sucks haha I think I can get back to exercising now if I’m careful, time to get on the bike
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i gained a lot of weight during covid, probably like 50lbs or so. started a diet, and already lost a decent amount of weight (that was mostly because i wasn't eating due anxiety but now i'm probably at a pound a week). i'm working out too. any good books i should read about home resistance training? i started doing a basic workout with some dumbbells, just 5 lbs for now. i've got 8 lb weights too but i'm not sure what to do after that and i also want to make sure i'm not missing anything.
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For home stuff anything by Pavel is probably good, https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=Tsatsouline&qid=PGblmWdH17
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My quest to hit a sub-10 minute one-mile run continues with weekly runs on Sunday. I basically do my normal 4-mile walk around the lake, but pick 1 mile out of it to run. I've clearly hit the end of the easy gains, where the simple fact that I was actually running at all was making my body less-terrible at it. This week was the first time since I started doing this regularly that my run was slower than the week before. My poor performance was exacerbated by missing all of my training the week before. That said, the weight loss is still chugging along heartily. One side-effect is that my pull-ups are significantly better. I was struggling to get in a single good rep before, but now I am up to 3 in a row without issue. Still a long way to go there as well, but it's nice to have these very visible kind of improvements every now and then.
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