like hundreds of shuttle sprints
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 15 January 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link
even half court, its more the jumping quick movements than the running per say, the running is good tho
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 January 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
btw americans approach to fitness is so classically dysfunctionally american, 90% of people get none then the other 10% are obsessed with the technicality of it, compulisvely plan and become psudeo experts, completely buy into false binaries like cardio/strength, pick sides, say things like "i hate cardio", drive to the gym
true i just need to move back to a better climate so i can do stuff outside year around .
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 15 January 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link
It's like a mini interval workout, playing bball
― 龜, Thursday, 15 January 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link
Love jogging, I'm happy to say, though I'm always in that squeeze of wondering if I should focus more on one and the other. Running cuts into my gainz, but lifting makes it harder to run a lot. Distance running + squatz = ;_;(Mind, I came to lifting from running. I joined a gym in the winter, because I found running on slippery roads to be too difficult. Found spinning & treadmills too gruesome to stick to, so started lifting.)
I only live 2 km from my gym, so jogging there is a decent warmup.
― Øystein, Thursday, 15 January 2015 18:31 (nine years ago) link
i took the day off to go to the dentist. i haven't been to the gym in 2015. i don't feel bad about it. i'm going to go today. i agree with that guy goole c&ped. i am often too tired to be always improving (i mean not improving generally, but improving on like one metric) and doing the same thing. it makes me more stressed. i do better to do more random stuff. partially. i mean i always love deadlifts.
― kola superdeep borehole (harbl), Thursday, 15 January 2015 18:51 (nine years ago) link
running is great btw. i never go in the winter though. never home when it's light out and i have a problem with tripping and falling on sidewalks. so i can't really run at night.
My favorite exercise lately has been hitting a giant tire with a sledgehammer. It feels great and makes a satisfying sound and hits all the muscle groups. But this week my gym filled the tire with some sort of balloon-like inflated tarp. Now all the force that used to go into the tire shoots straight back through my body, and kills my lower back.
I kinda wanna pop that balloon? I miss the old tire.
― Evan R, Thursday, 15 January 2015 19:00 (nine years ago) link
pop it imo
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 January 2015 20:01 (nine years ago) link
That's all the go ahead I need. I'm sure it's there to reduce noise, but to my ears it makes the noise sound even worse, kind of like a sickly thump. I miss the big, resounding boom.
― Evan R, Thursday, 15 January 2015 20:30 (nine years ago) link
Wear some gloves and go at it
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 15 January 2015 20:56 (nine years ago) link
I could see if gloves help, but the pain goes through my whole body, not really the hands.
I do wanna figure something out, because the tire is my favorite exercise. Seven months ago I got an AC joint shoulder injury, and it's been slow recovery. I had to cut out most of the exercises I liked (bench presses, push ups, planks, dips, etc.) and in addition to finding exercises that I can do pain free it's been a challenge just finding exercises that keep the gym interesting, since so much is off limits.
― Evan R, Thursday, 15 January 2015 22:05 (nine years ago) link
Cool ways to do cardio: swim
― 龜, Thursday, January 15, 2015 10:25 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
love swimming now, i had horrible technique and then i watched some youtube videos my tech is perfect fuiud
― gbx, Friday, 16 January 2015 03:31 (nine years ago) link
fuiud dynamics
― goole, Friday, 16 January 2015 03:53 (nine years ago) link
http://aaronbleyaert.tumblr.com/post/109959086957
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 04:12 (nine years ago) link
lol otm
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 06:50 (nine years ago) link
i would be in so much better shape if i didn't drink a bunch of kind beer all the time .fuck that though , i just work out so that i can drink beers and not be double obese
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 20:48 (nine years ago) link
I'm enjoying https://twitter.com/ididmorepushups/with_replies
― 龜, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 21:57 (nine years ago) link
so i bought this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001K4OPY2/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00
having fun i have to admit
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 22:35 (nine years ago) link
just the bar?
― goole, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 22:41 (nine years ago) link
now now
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 22:54 (nine years ago) link
haha, ya, just the bar.
got some rubber plates and these collars as well
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 22:56 (nine years ago) link
― 龜, Wednesday, February 4, 2015 4:57 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
https://storify.com/PierreMenard/workouts
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 23:23 (nine years ago) link
aha, ya, just the bar.
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, February 4, 2015 5:56 PM (Yesterday)
so youre doing OLY lifts ? it is fun ime
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:09 (nine years ago) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, February 4, 2015 6:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
:)
― 龜, Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:15 (nine years ago) link
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, February 5, 2015 4:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
nah, i have a rack and a bench. the rest of the stuff is cheapo stuff, except the lock jaw collars
my local gym sucks ass and i can't take it anymore. i'm not looking to even do more than 500lbs ever. so this suits me fine for now
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 6 February 2015 18:07 (nine years ago) link
moar gym tales~
i assume it's part of it's community engagement mission but my Y occasionally host to groups of dudes who i am reasonably certain are in one of the last steps of incarceration. they usually have one dude in charge of them, both getting in and out of the space and helping them with working out. it's kind of fun honestly because they're louder and funnier and generally just more psyched to be doing whatever than your average citizen. some of these guys were around last night. (this partic set of dudes was way more shameless and gross about ogling the women in the building tho)
i legit heard one guy try out the "do you guys want some tickets? TO THE GUN SHOW?" joke. one older guy said the first time he was in prison he was young and hit a bench of 405. i couldn't tell if any of them believed him. i don't think i do.
we're in a temporary space due to renovation so things were more cramped than usual. with an extra 8 or so dudes in there it got to be a little cramped. so of course their arguments about how to do the different lifts right were basically inescapable. i started doing deadlifts, and suddenly i'm getting running commentary on what i'm doing, kind of half encouragement, half commentary, like "yeah now that's real shit. you can't cheat that. you just gotta muscle it up. that's just weight right there. ain't nothing else." i only hit 7 out of 8 :/
― goole, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 22:21 (nine years ago) link
this was a couple months ago:
there's a really corny and overly-loud and too-personal dude whose name is iirc joe (jim maybe?) who i had a few conversations with when i first started (p sure he tried to give me the nickname "squat guy" cos he saw me doing them more than once) but now i just pretend i don't know him at all. i do remember he's divorced, he told me about that, as much as he could get away with. he loudly breathe-counts each rep, he sings along to the radio. basically the worst.
i was doing something with earshot (which is far) when he struck up a conversation with an east african guy at the water fountain. i think they were mostly shooting the shit about working out, how joe learned to lift, what the guy could do to get started, etc. joe introduces himself, HI I'M JOE. the guy says, "hi, i'm abdulkaldir" (iirc). ABDULKALDIR, DO I HAVE THAT RIGHT? "yes, yes." NICE TO MEET YOU.
then there's a beat and joe just says cheefully I HAVE A SOMALI GIRLFRIEND.
the other guy, super cool, just says "ahh, you could be my brother in law"
― goole, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 22:40 (nine years ago) link
New employee at the gym started shouting words of encouragement while I was squatting. Argh. I'd like to take me own sweet time without someone going "c'mon! You got it!" at my back and stressing me out.Then on the last rep he went in for a full spot. Dammit, dude, don't just do shit like that without warning me.He mentioned he'd hang around and spot me, but after a bit of awkward conversation I got him to go help someone else. (I have safety bars, so I don't worry about failing a rep. And I absolutely hate it when people try to encourage me.)
Then I went to do Pendlay rows and farted on someone.:/
― …. wow – the power of words ! (Øystein), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 14:16 (nine years ago) link
awesome
― goole, Wednesday, 18 February 2015 16:15 (nine years ago) link
had some annoying hypertension issues the last few days, which i remedied quickly by changing my diet
if anyone is taking note, i posted on the coffee thread that i'd been drinking lots of it. plus wanted to put a few more pounds so i figured hey a few weekends of eating junk won't hurt me. well i was wrong. that and i need to start running, probably a few miles every two weeks, just to keep my blood pressure at a healthy level. i've never had heart/blood pressure problems (or any health problems), as i've always been pretty fit, but i think weight lifting is pushing my body to its limits
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 17:36 (nine years ago) link
just as a heads up --- hypertension isn't really all that related to "being fit"
like, you can run hell of marathons and deadlift three other deadlifters and it wont ~necessarily~ do shit to lower your BP
― gbx, Thursday, 19 February 2015 00:21 (nine years ago) link
i'm sure for many people that is the case.
but there is also a handful of people where the causes of it were probably bad eating habits. luckily i have no serious health issues and this happened just as i was eating really poorly. but more importantly, i think it's a good indication that the symptoms have gone away as a result of changing my eating habits and the fact that i was eating poorly at times while running (up until a year ago) and nothing of this sort had happened.
i do understand for other people BP was caused by other things, though.
good reminder, nonetheless
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 19 February 2015 04:43 (nine years ago) link
HBP
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 19 February 2015 04:44 (nine years ago) link
hey squat guy
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 February 2015 04:50 (nine years ago) link
hey dude (:
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 19 February 2015 05:40 (nine years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 February 2015 05:51 (nine years ago) link
(sorry just had to) haha
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 19 February 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link
There's a guy at my gym who twice now has come into the locker room when I'm the only other person there, ripped a loud fart while peeing, then walked out without washing his hands. The first time I thought it was rude and gross; by the second time I took it as a personal insult.
― Evan R, Thursday, 19 February 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
Is there a thread somewhere for bad locker room behavior?
― Eric H., Thursday, 19 February 2015 17:49 (nine years ago) link
oh man, I've seen some things. By far the funniest is the large, naked old guy who airs down his genitals using the hand driers
― Evan R, Thursday, 19 February 2015 18:14 (nine years ago) link
super-hairy 30s-ish dude was doing the hair dryer nutfluff last night. weirds me out but i'm not super hairy so what do i know i guess.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 19 February 2015 18:16 (nine years ago) link
eeep! someone should reverse the wiring on that thing just for a laugh
― let me be your fan taytay (NickB), Thursday, 19 February 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
i started this thread because i love being sw0le but i struggle so much with consistency. i got the flu a few weeks ago, after i had been going to the gym regularly for a couple weeks (this now qualifies as an accomplishment). so today again after i dig out my car i am going to start my cycle of *go to gym --> get too sore to move for a few days --> go regularly for 2 weeks --> get too tired/busy from work & commuting to keep going --> stop --> repeat from *
― computer champion (harbl), Sunday, 22 February 2015 18:11 (nine years ago) link
Haven't been to the gym in over a week now thanks to the cold. Should've been doing at least yoga or something, but apparently if rather atrophy.
― Eric H., Sunday, 22 February 2015 19:11 (nine years ago) link
just did some pull ups and planks in the park post run, sw0le
― lag∞n, Sunday, 22 February 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link
I reduced my gym days from 4 to 3 a week because of an AC joint shoulder injury, which doesn't sound like a bit drop but definitely is. I've been back up to 4 days for the last few weeks and it's crazy how much of a difference that extra day makes. I feel so much better when I can make that fourth day—it's the difference between feeling like a stick figure and a normal guy.
It's just so hard to find 4 days worth of exercises that keep me engaged though, especially since so much (including planks and pushups) is off limits to me.
― Evan R, Monday, 23 February 2015 20:05 (nine years ago) link
Worked out too hard and too fast today and now I am all shakey :/
― Evan R, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link
i sympathize harbl, i've never been consistent past 8-9 weeks top. i'm back on after two weeks of being a slug. it takes so much energy to start. then i get sw0le for a few weeks, feel kinda weird and high, spring in my step, etc. then the tedium / tiredness / distaste for the gym settles in. then i crawl in my hole and eat safety blanket food for x weeks until i snap out of it. not sure how to break it really.
― hammer smashed nagls (mattresslessness), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 00:20 (nine years ago) link