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How did YOU work out today?? Yes..YOU!

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Woke up at 4:00am
Began the morning doing some serious stretching. Pretty much every muscle im my body was ready for some action.
Ran in formation, ran seven miles, every quarter mile we would sprint about 100 yards, and get back to running. I was lucky to buy a "Camel" (one of those portable water tanks back packs).
I staid in the first 3 row's for the first 3 miles, after that I started slipping after I puked.
I fucking made it tho, and I wasn't in last!
I've got a semi-marathon to run tomorrow at 6:30pm, along with PT bright and early at 4:00am.
 
WOOHOO! Just joined the gym in the city I moved to - will be able to put on myuscle/weight again :)
Work in a 3 day cycle- 1 day of chest/pecs, 1 day of biceps & triceps, 1 day of shoulders and lats (or abs)...then occasionally if I can be bothered a day of just leg exercises.

Today:
6 x 6 chest presses
4 x 4 bench presses (starting at 40kg AGAIN :( )
6 x 6 dumbell bench presses (alternating for 3)
4 x 6 dumbell flys
buncha press ups
ending with as many seated chest presses as possible...
 
The waves were overhead this morning and should keep getting bigger until tomorrow afternoon. After a pretty small summer, its damn impressive seeing something with that much power. I tried to paddle out and catch a few but was handedly rebuffed. Hopefully I'll have time to try a channel tomorrow (It acts as a permanent rip current where waves don't break with any force). I'm a little nervous though, the reports say it will be up to 10' in some places.
 
KStoner6tb said:
yesterday morning, a friend dragged me to one these little "boot camp" style 5am workout sessions with some ex-military hoss teacher.

Ran about a mile to warm up

then we would do these little spurts non stop from pushups, to deltoid raises, pushups, lateral raises and repeat over and over and over with no break. 10 reps each. Probably 6-8 times through I couldn't even keep track I had to concentrate on making it.

Quick abb blast with lying leg raises, bicycle kicks and situps.

Then we go over to these little park benches and switch off doing incline pushups and dips. 10s back and forth with no break. I thought my shoulders were literally on fire.

Then we do these seemingly effortless circles with our fists while holding our arms straight out from our bodies. I couldn't even do these for more than a couple seconds at a time my shoulders were killing me so bad.

Ended it off running suicides which before my last one, I had to fight the urge to keep down the orange I'd eaten beforehand.

The front of my delts have never been so sore in my life as they are today :X and it's not a 'good' sore feeling that I like..it freakin sucks.

There's my story hope you like
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LOL nice dude. I bet as the day went on you felt like you were the cool kid on campus! I swear everytime that I survive a Army PT class later in the day I feel like I am so fucking badass. People are like "Damn D you quit smoking, and all you eat is broclie n cheese?!" Yeah, it's nice to go from the fat fuck that playd video games to a skiny fuck that wakes up at 4:30am and exercises.

I had sex this morning, it was nice. I'm really tired for some reason.
 
^KStoner, i know exactly what you mean. i've been to classes like that, kinda thinking that i'm in really good shape and can handle it, and then just get completely destroyed. you also learn that all you really need to get ripped is yourself and the floor, and maybe a bench.

for better or worse, i've run the last few days. was up in the mountains, and just couldn't help it. did about 5 miles each morning the past two days, with some hills and tempo runs throw in. cautiously optimistic about my legs feeling better.
 
^ KStoner that sounded like a great boot camp for the boys. Did you have to call your trainer Sarge?

My training has taken a detour - thanks to damage to my right shoulder :(....but took part in group session in the morning and then cycled later that day. Have had a fun week in training topping it with a nice 80 min run on Thursday morning....booyah!
 
Breecamb said:
^ KStoner that sounded like a great boot camp for the boys. Did you have to call your trainer Sarge?
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hahah no, he made us call him CAP. jk i don't even rememeber his name but yah, there were actually girls there, which made me hold down the puke. It really wanted to come up, but I fought it and said "no sir you stay down" cuz if these girls were suckin it up and finishing strong, hell I was goin to. :D No offense <3

I love when there are girls there, because as sexist as this may seem to some ladies, you never wanna let a girl beat you at something physical. It's just a fact. Yall are bigger motivators than you'll ever know. Take it as a compliment though!!
 
Ha ha - no offense taken :)

The level of fitness for the other members of my group training session isn't that spectacular, which is an ego boost for me being the stronger/fitter one.....there is this one guy who tries to beat me (or equal me) all the time. He used to be a sprinter in his younger days, so when we do sprints he's just ahead but when it comes to the longer runs no such luck....I do have a little giggle about it at times.

It is a nice change to be fitter than the others, in my former training groups I was one of the slowest ones. It'd be little trouble for the others to do an olympic distance tri in under 2hr 30mins, which is my goal time since I started the sport.
 
Early this morning (god I'm addicted, I broke the Sunday off-day rule)

Deadlift 12x135, 8x185, 6x225, 4x285, 2x315, 1x335, 135x12
Back Extension Machine 12x250, 12x250

16 hours later, my back is in PAIN. And I really need to buy some straps, or somehow strengthen my grip, because I think it's going to limit my DL from increasing much more.
 
yesterday chest work-out with my hubby and 20 minutes running hills on the treadmill
today 30 min intervals on the treadmill before getting ready for my big interview.

I miss my fitness studio group classes but the gym at my hotel will do just fine.
 
RedLeader said:
Early this morning (god I'm addicted, I broke the Sunday off-day rule)

Deadlift 12x135, 8x185, 6x225, 4x285, 2x315, 1x335, 135x12
Back Extension Machine 12x250, 12x250

16 hours later, my back is in PAIN. And I really need to buy some straps, or somehow strengthen my grip, because I think it's going to limit my DL from increasing much more.
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Try 10 x 12 @ 135.

...IF you've got the balls, that is.
 
lat pull down (behind the head) 3 x 10 (65, 70, 70kgs)
seated row 3 x 10 (65, 70, 70kgs)
bench press 3 x 10 (70, 75, 85kgs)

stoked i pressed my own fatass weight x ten. :D granted, the machine was set to lift from a couple inches above my chest. this makes a world of difference on how much i can lift.


to all the srs gym folk, from a gymlayman, what are the benefits of deadlifts and free weight squats (the one where you hold the weight on your chest). i mean, aside from legs, what benefit is in doing such work?
tbh, i couldn't give a rats about working my legs. i used to pump them hard on the curl and lift machines, but they're conditioned plenty by the amount of powerwalking i do, as well as my previous sword and kickboxing work.
 
normal squat has the bar resting on your traps actually. front squat it rests on your front deltoids.

to me the benefits of doing squats / deadlift were that I finally felt like I fully developed muscularly. i feel a cohesiveness in my body now and a full body strength that i couldn't have got from doing isolation lifts and machines and such. deadlifting heavy really put it all together for me. it also increased my testosterone levels. i feel bigger, stronger, more sexual, etc. since starting to deadlift heavy about 2.5 yrs ago.



as an aside..

i tried to do 10x12 @ 315 and .. jesus christ.. i managed..

12 x 135
12 x 225
12 x 315
12 x 315
12 x 315

had to call it a day. i think i will train for this specifically though. i am also going to stop taking all supplements for atleast a month and go back to just food/water for awhile. i haven't felt that great lately and i think caffeine intake is the problem. i definitely did NOT feel good after that last set and know that if i hadn't had any caffeine i would have felt fine. :|

considering that 1.5 yrs ago i did 495x9 i shoulda been able to do atleast 2-3 more sets. not very pleased with myself right now.
 
aanallein said:
normal squat has the bar resting on your traps actually. front squat it rests on your front deltoids.
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Yeah, those ones!

to me the benefits of doing squats / deadlift were that I finally felt like I fully developed muscularly. i feel a cohesiveness in my body now and a full body strength that i couldn't have got from doing isolation lifts and machines and such. deadlifting heavy really put it all together for me. it also increased my testosterone levels. i feel bigger, stronger, more sexual, etc. since starting to deadlift heavy about 2.5 yrs ago..
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you mean around your midsection? or all over?
 
Everywhere but yes the midsection (core) especially. When I bench, I get more power out of more core and lower body than I did before. Benching is actually a full body lift if you do it right. I'm still learning the form though. With proper form you drive your heels into the floor, generating power that goes through your legs (hamstrings mostly), through your core, and then extends through your upper body to generate power to drive the bar. I find that just overall I feel way more powerful on every lift I do.

You know when you see a football player and you know they have incredible muscular power they can generate to push another human or turn quickly and deliver a powerful hit in seconds? That's the kind of power I feel deadlifting gives me. =)
 
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