thread of getting sw0le

when i did the loop in prospect part i wld stop at the chin up bar each lap

ideally u wld get to the point where u just run then when you are feeling very powerful u punch a tree

in bangkok in the park they have these huge weights stations that are open to the public and u can just go lift in the park for free i guess its pretty chill

Cool ways to do cardio: swim

swimming is very cool, i love how relaxed it makes yr body feel after, getting dece technique takes some work tho

swimming then sit in sauna for a while after my lord beautiful

I never learned to properly swim so the only way I can go for forward without causing giant splashes everywhere is a leisurely backstroke. :(

take a swimming lesson if u want to

im not good at swimming but a swimming coach told me, just in casual convo, that the key to the crawl is that yr abdomen generates most of yr propulsion and the idea is to kinda knife through the water, what that means is you want yr torso to be alternating between posistions perpendicular to the bottom of the pool, you dont want to be lying on yr belly at all, you are basically flipping yr torso back and forth and that torque is where ur moving from

I'm with g∞le,in that I hate most cardio, the only other cardio I like is basketball

But that goes against the phiosohpy "youodn't play basketball to get in shape you get in shape to play bball"

O well

i have a love hate relationship with the rower but that's where i get most my cardio.

basketball is great exercise! only downside is its kinda easy to coast when u get tired, but if u go out there and give it 110% its ideal

yeah if it's full court you could definitely count that as some serious cardio

like hundreds of shuttle sprints

even half court, its more the jumping quick movements than the running per say, the running is good tho

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 .

It's like a mini interval workout, playing bball

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.

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.

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.

pop it imo

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.

Wear some gloves and go at it

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.

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

fuiud dynamics

http://aaronbleyaert.tumblr.com/post/109959086957

lol otm

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

I'm enjoying https://twitter.com/ididmorepushups/with_replies

so i bought this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001K4OPY2/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

having fun i have to admit

just the bar?

now now

haha, ya, just the bar.

got some rubber plates and these collars as well

I'm enjoying https://twitter.com/ididmorepushups/with_replies

― 龜, Wednesday, February 4, 2015 4:57 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://storify.com/PierreMenard/workouts

aha, ya, just the bar.

got some rubber plates and these collars as well

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, February 4, 2015 5:56 PM (Yesterday)

so youre doing OLY lifts ? it is fun ime

https://storify.com/PierreMenard/workouts

― lag∞n, Wednesday, February 4, 2015 6:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

:)

aha, ya, just the bar.

got some rubber plates and these collars as well

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, February 4, 2015 5:56 PM (Yesterday)

so youre doing OLY lifts ? it is fun ime

― (•̪●) (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

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 :/

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"

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.
:/

awesome

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

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

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

HBP

hey squat guy

hey dude (: