your routine at the gym

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.

I started doing VibroGym a couple of weeks ago and my thighs are well smooth now. Also, it only takes 20 minutes, which is my kind of workout. And it feels vaguely pervy.

And it *only* feels vaguely pervy, I mean.

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

thanks! still going strong. from the start: in the first 6 months i lost about 2.5 stone and looked much better, felt great too. since then i've dropped about another half a stone, and that's without being so strict on the eating front.

i've not reached my goal of 10st yet but i'm slowly working towards it - a big problem has been putting on muscle from the weights, and obv muscle weighs quite a bit. i took a break of a couple of weeks recently and just started again regularly and it's good to remind myself how good i feel physically and mentally after 3x gym a week. was also good to drop some of the muscle, esp from my chest - starting again has helped my posture though.

thing is, my main goal from the start has been to lose weight - not to get muscly or toned, so all these health and fitness benefits are a nice bonus. i think almanac says above that the key to losing weight is 90% about the diet, so i'm not gonna kill myself by doing an hours cardio and expecting miracles, i prefer to do weights & cardio i feel ok with and just eat better overall. main lifestyle change has been eating much healthier, which again has worked wonders for physical and mental well-being. still have the odd blowout once a month or so, for kicks but they don't do any real damage.

my basic routine at the moment is:
cycle to gym
35 mins on various weights, 3 sets of 15 reps on each
cross-trainer, varies from 35mins to 50mins depending on how keen i am / how engrossed i am in the magazine im reading
cycle home

my goal now is to move from my current weight of 10st 6 to 10st by xmas (at which point i'll undoubtedly put on a few pounds then just have to work on them in the new year). if it happens, great, if not i'm not gonna beat myself up about it as i'm still getting the 'wow you've lost weight, you look great' comments even now, a year after the main hump. a lot of the credit for this has to go to people on this thread and the other diet one, esp almanac, for some top-notch advice, thanks guys!

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.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, June 15, 2009 6:23 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

I spent http://kbatoday.com/homemade-equipment/trx-straps5 at Home Depot and made myself one of them one of them $200 resistance training Navy SEAL dealies.00 resistance training Navy SEAL dealies.

I felt like I was spinning my wheels with the routine I posted upthread so I started this today. Sore as all hell and totally looking forward to the variety this thing promises. Plus the rows give me an excuse to use my suspension thing. Shit is fun!

Finally decided to give the rowing machine a try, but I don't think I'm doing it right- it hardly felt like I needed to put forth any effort with my arms and legs, but my lower back is sore as hell.

http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do?site=MensHealth&channel=fitness&category=cardio.activities&conitem=ca7a148caed56110VgnVCM10000013281eac____

^^^ proved v helpful to me when i first started fuckin w/rowing machines

I bought a 16KG kettlebell and Enter The Kettlebell (book by the Russian guy who's done a lot to repopularize them in the US). I'm thinking about taking a month off doing anything else and challenging myself with x-thousand (3k? 5k?) kettlebell swings if I can get the form down.

I wish I could afford a few more of these (this one was $100 w/ shipping, about normal). I'm trying to clean it and do five overhead presses with each arm every time I walk by - it would be fun to have one stashed in the office, in my truck, another part of my apt..

I don't get why they're so fuckin expensive. I mean I guess they're basically cannonballs with handles, right?

Shipping is the worst part - I don't have anyone local selling KBs (except for a few GoFit lightweight ones) and that was $35 of the cost.

They come out about $2/pound, about the same as nicer dumbbells (the ones with knurled handles and coated ends) even though they're just painted iron, which I guess is a manufacturing cost thing - low demand, etc..

i got a foam roller

Can I just like--I really aint mean to be all braggin 09 style or w/e w/e but I was scrolling through some photos this evening and stumbled on Exhibit A taken at xmas 08 and Exhibit B immediately afterward which was taken a few days ago. V v pleasantly surprised and kinda proud of my progress.

ps can we all lol together at how ~~v serious~~ i am in exhibit B cause that's the only way i can forgive myself for showing it to ppl.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2431/3790931503_3bfae6477c.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3539/3791632624_33aa4d0977.jpg

shirt off plz (j/k)

good goin! kiu

altho the 1st pic kinda makes comparison difficult, looks like ur face has def thinned out