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How did you get off your butt today?

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10 miles on proform exerise bike incline 3-7, hills course. 16.8-19.0 mph

will do calisthenics / total gym tonight.
 
Did another 7 miles on the bicycle today. My goal is to enable myself to ride 24-25 miles, a third of it being uphill. This is the ride my 62 year old father does twice a week and I'd like to join him within 2 months time. Although, this is unlikely b/c I plan on taking a biking hiatus when I start the Insanity workout in a few weeks; I'm very afraid of the Insanity and already am convinced it will defeat me on my first go. Has anyone here tried it?

I was supposed to do a 4-5 mile steep mountain hike w/ my brother, but he bailed on me and I'm too much a jerk to undertake it on my lonesome.
 
if a 7mile is "sizable" ride to you then i would HIGHLY recommend against p90x/insanity type stuff (not that they're ineffective programs, qutie the opposite actually. but they're NOT for newbs and it pisses me off seeing them pushed like that. Going hard in HIIT style training is effective but it is difficult, and i don't just mean muscularly/mentally, but your joints and other stuff you may not be thinking of. You'd be capable of doing it, i imagine, but it won't be as effective or safe as other approaches if you're still very much a beginner)
 
bmxxx said:
if a 7mile is "sizable" ride to you then i would HIGHLY recommend against p90x/insanity type stuff (not that they're ineffective programs, qutie the opposite actually. but they're NOT for newbs and it pisses me off seeing them pushed like that. Going hard in HIIT style training is effective but it is difficult, and i don't just mean muscularly/mentally, but your joints and other stuff you may not be thinking of. You'd be capable of doing it, i imagine, but it won't be as effective or safe as other approaches if you're still very much a beginner)
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I usually run about 4 miles a day, but I've fallen off recently, so I'm working myself back up. However, I am completely new to intensive cardio and pliometric (sp?) workouts.
 
Between my cold and a neck pull I got trying to do deadlifts with a cold, I spent that last two weeks or so mostly inactive, before today:

30 lunges (45lbs)
100 calf raises
30 squats (45lbs)

I was supposed to lift 55lbs on my leg workout today but I lost so much muscle mass in such a short period of time that I decided to take it easy for a little bit and go down in weight, do 50 pounds next time, 55 after that, 60 after that, etc..

It felt sooooo good to work out again.
 
^how much weight did you lose? Make sure to pump fluid/calories up; after a week or two on the couch, a lot of the 'shrinkage' comes back right away, just gotta get fluid + glucose where it likes being when you're active (you didn't lose much actual muscle fiber in that period is my point)
 
bmxxx said:
^how much weight did you lose? Make sure to pump fluid/calories up; after a week or two on the couch, a lot of the 'shrinkage' comes back right away, just gotta get fluid + glucose where it likes being when you're active (you didn't lose much actual muscle fiber in that period is my point)
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Good to know.


I lost three pounds during that couple week period where I wasn't particularly eating well, either. My primary goal is still to lose weight, but I feel like I have a feel for what kind of weight I'm losing. After I hit my target weight (or rather, my target body shape i.e. flat stomach) I plan to bulk up again with a high protein diet. Going too high on the protein now seems like a bad idea, considering my goal is still to lose the last little bit of this weight and therefore I should remain calorie negative.

Seriously good to know that I didn't lose as much actual muscle as I look and feel like I've lost.
 
It's just more comfortable for my body type. I also want more emphasis on quad development as opposed to glute development right now. I'm resuming serious weight training again in order to put on all the weight I've lost in the last 20 months. This time around the focus will be on volume rather than the weight on the bar; I'm just barely getting back into it so the workouts are still "easy."

I'm sorry for being a jerk to you earlier about the farts thing.
 
do you ever hold the bar on your chest and do 'front squats'? Wayy more quad recruitment (hell, the closer in you take your feet you can make hams/glutes wayyy less in the picture w/ heavy emphasis on quads, lower back and basically whole posterior chain to keep bar there) Very highly reco'd stance, just be careful taking in your feet too close when getting used to form, because it can get awkward til you're comfortable.
for back squats tho, catching the bar high on my back makes me uneasy, it feels way less steady than getting it "normal" or even deep/low.

/farts?
 
I like front squats just as much, if not more than back squats! They rock. I started doing them when I was 18, about a year after I discovered lifting (I'm 24 now). I prefer the olympic grip, but started off using the bb style. My favorite squat workout used to be 4x6 or 4x5 back squats followed by a burnout front squat set with 70-75% of the weight. These days I'll probably augment my more voluminous sets with pistols and lunges. Probably one of the few things I'll miss about lifting in a gym will be the stares I got from people when I did front squats. It's like everyone's thinking "Hey! Isn't the bar supposed to go on your back, airhead? Ya gonna choke yaself!" Ahahaha. But for 99/100 things, I like my basement more.
 
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does christmas shopping for like 5 hours count? I braved crazy moms with shopping carts, screaming kids, and long lines. DOESNT THAT COUNT FOR SOMETHING? my body hurts after all that, lol. i am exhausted.
 
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