your routine at the gym

I haven't gone to the gym in 1.5 weeks.

I need to remedy that shit tonight.

just to clear up what you said above, if im sweating heavily by the end of a cardio session on the bikes then is it right to say that i'll have burned off many more cals than if i'd done the same time on the cross trainer and not ending up sweating?

― s.rose, Thursday, February 26, 2009 8:08 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Probably, but losing carbs is not a logical process, in that 30 mins of cardio != xx number of carbs.

I do wonder sometimes if the cardio is canceling out some of my progress building muscle.

Nah. I used to think that too, but my current nutritionist is telling me to do 40 mins of weights then 20 mins of cardio, and he knows what he's talking about.

I usually do cardio before i lift weights

and then i do cardio (longer) on off days

am i killing my muscles???? i didn't know that? shit i might be doing this all wrong.

― The Notorious B.Y.O.B. (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, February 26, 2009 8:50 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

As will said, yeah, do weights first. If you start with cardio your energy for weights is reduced.

I have been doing this:

http://www.simplefit.org

Lost 4 kg in three weeks! 81.2 to 77.0. That is just insane.

In 3 weeks, I'm gonna weigh more than you, Adam!

GAME ON MOLE

PECTORALS AT DAWN

Five weeks ago body fat was 14.7 %. Today: 11.4 %.

SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK.

how is that measured? do you have to pinch yourself all over with some sort of caliper device??

http://www.gadgets-weblog.com/imgname--tanita_bc558_an_advanced_scale---50226711--images--184549503_l.png.jpg

Apparently those things aren't perfectly accurate so maybe your earlier reading was a little high and the new one is a little low. But you definitely have lost some fat, so.. yay. How tall are you, btw?

Yeah, they're not accurate at all, but a 4 % relative drop is still significant. I'm about 178 cm.

Oh sorry, thought you wanted my cock size. I am 5'11" in height.

Okay, so you're a smidge shorter than me. Looked at some "before" photos of myself from Feb last year. Truly shocking! I look so rub.

PICS NOW

Only if they are drunkenly animated in about 15 minutes.

ILX POSEDOWN

SHIT I CANT USE HYDROXYCUT ANYMORE?

• play bball

new bedroom has mad space for stretchin and shit so

s.rose, how is it going? I just read this entire thread and I want to know how the story ends!

updates

I HAVE A BIG POT BELLY AND CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT THE GYM LOOK LIKE

i have been doing cardio cardio cardio, because I can just hop on a machine and just go. have trouble motivating myself through multiple-exercise routines because the end of every set feels like an opportunity to quit. ugh.

basically using the pullup bar for everything now. throw a towel over it and its like i've got one of them $200 resistance training navy SEAL dealies.

i am live bloggin from the gym('s lobby area)!

gonna go swimming

it's summer so i'm pretty much done with the gym until fall, i'm just running and biking. i feel like i've lost all my arm muscle but who cares, it's nice out. too nice to go to the gym.

Joined a gym last week plus signed up for four trainer sessions/month - if I get down to 180 (from ~230 @ 6') or 10-12% BF (whichever comes first) I'm buying a motorcycle.

Heading up now for rowing/elliptical/swim/sauna. Meet with trainer for the first time tomorrow to figure out a weight plan, as I haven't worked with actual weights since I quit football.

After doing much research (and getting sidetracked by the joy of reading about supplements - some people are funny. My 85-year old grandpa doesn't take as many pills in a month as some Internet strongmen do in a day), I ordered Starting Strength - technique and workouts based around simple barbell lifts (deadlift, squats, etc.).

Until I get that and finish reading it, I've decided to focus on assisted dips and pullups (can't do one on my own :( ), bodyweight exercises and interval cardio.

1st hour - read
2nd hour - talk on the phone and read internet
3rd hour - do stuff for my other job

Prisoner Squats 30
Pushups 30
Hanging Leg Lifts 30
Hanging Trunk Twist 10 each side
Pullups to Failure (this week its 12)
Jumps 10
Close Grip Pushups 20

Repeat.

Lots of milk and egg and a daily dose of protein powder and frozen raspberries & blueberries & chicken & the occassional fish etc

hoos u crossfittin'?

Looks like it? I'm getting on the crossfit train officially starting this week. Finals were not good for my fitness.

Not on purpose? idk I just read a bunch of Men's Health articles and cobbled that together.

i. get swole
ii. repeat

Yeah Hoos that really does look like a crossfit routine, except you'd do that one day and then not again for like a year and a half. The whole concept is really appealing but the shit looks really, REALLY hard.

For example, from Saturday:

Two rounds of:
Right arm barbell push-press 12 reps
Left arm deadlift 12 reps
Run 800 meters
Left arm barbell push-press 12 reps
Right arm deadlift 12 reps
Run 800 meter

all of this is for time btw

I'm still doing simplefit as I linked above, just about to level up again. Shit's awesome! I am feeling better than I have in like 10 years.

The posted workouts for crossfit are always intended for the hardcore. I think you're supposed to pare them to suit your fitness level.

gbx i might actually join this crossfit place in st louis park, its a husband and wife, total DIY gym but decent price and they said they can help you work up and do assist on some of the hardcore shit until you can handle it...

lately though cobbled together something from crossfit type shit:

5 minutes fast rowing machine
20 push-ups (regular until fail, then to 20 on knees)
15 pullup (YWCA has one of those machines that offsets weight for you so i'm not doing my full weight)
15 dips (on same machine)
10 squats (w/45 lb bar)
20 situps

^repeat 3X

The posted workouts for crossfit are always intended for the hardcore. I think you're supposed to pare them to suit your fitness level.

That would make sense. I know that the free weight stuff is supposed to be tailored to your ability, but some of the gymnastic craziness is terrifying.

I've always sort of thought that by the time I get to a higher level of what I'm doing right now, I'd start trying some of the simpler crossfit routines. There's no fucking way I could do even one hand-stand pushup at the moment!

btw - rowing machine was not something i was hip to...daaaaamn...crazy kicks my ass compared to treadmill, eliptical, or exercise bike

The posted workouts for crossfit are always intended for the hardcore. I think you're supposed to pare them to suit your fitness level.

there's a lot of good info in the crossfit FAQ about how to modify moves for beginners and also in the forums under the routine of the day thread they give different reps for beginners

Yeah rowing machines are super dope and I want a better way to approximate one than propping my feet on a chair while I hang from the pullup bar.

just checkin in to find i've never heard "crossfit" before.

info here:

http://www.crossfit.com/

the site is kinda messy but there's lot of good info if you dig through it all

Working like a mad bastard. Gaining weight like a mad bastard. Still on ~10% body fat afaik. Awes shape slowly developing in shoulders and chest.