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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
My primary fitness activity as per normal has just been "eat less, mostly plants", but I've also started in on doing some pushups each evening. I'm still planning on picking up some dumbbells for some bicep / lats / chest exercises, and hopefully by the time spring rolls around I'll get into some light jogging / running. There's a lovely path just behind my house.
I would like to get back to the same weight / width that I was at 18, so I can wear my kilt again. Hopefully by the time I'm 45. I'm currently 43.
I've started going to the gym in the last couple of months. I already have a good cardio routine but want to branch out into weights. There is a great gym at work I can go to and I'm going to see a personal trainer tomorrow for the first time. He's expensive so I'll hopefully just do enough with him to learn how not to injure myself.
I’m following a 30-day yoga thing with a handful of internet friends. I used to have a pretty solid daily practice, but I let it fall by the wayside when the lockdowns started. It’s been really nice! But wow, I am so out of practice.
Yoga with Adriene?
That’s the one!
Nice! I'm doing one of her 30 days series as well, though I'm doing it weekly instead of daily. It's the only yoga I've done but I really like it.
Her stuff is all very approachable. Not to mention I love her dog, haha.
Introduction
This week didn't go as well as I had planned, but that's okay, just means I have next week to work better towards it. Part of it was not planning out my Wednesday correctly, plus my car's dash lighting up with every error. I let that frustration dictate the next three evenings for me. Monday and Tuesday went swimmingly, so I just have to keep it up next week and apply that discipline harder.
Fitness
As I noted earlier, Monday and Tuesday went incredibly well. Monday was my first weightlifting day in a couple of weeks, and I didn't experience any issues during or in the following days (i.e. no DOMS). My Monday lifting days are Overhead Press, Bench Press, Squat for my compound movements, and then Triceps Press, Leg Press, and Calf Raises as my accessory exercises. However, I did not do Leg Press as I was finding my Squats to be a bit more taxing than expected. For Tuesday, it was my first martial arts practice day of the week, and specifically my first martial arts practice day in many years. It was really great to do those stretches again, as I hadn't done them in quite some time. Practice for my blocks went alright, though I'm questioning one of them so I'll have to do some more reading, as I don't entirely remember if I'm doing the movement right or not. My punches are fine, as they're fairly simple, but I did forget to do my kicks haha. I started working on my form but when it came to the second movement, I couldn't get into/hold the one position (a kneeling crouch but the back knee doesn't touch the floor), which is a residual issue due to strength, pain, and flexibility issues. So in the meantime, I'm resigning myself to Bulgarian Split Squats in place of forms. I finished off with stance work, and that went great as well.
The plan for Wednesday is a calisthenic and mobility day, so ideally I'd be working on my flexibility, mobility, and bodyweight control. While I had started it, I just couldn't really get into it past 10 minutes, if that. Thursday would have been another martial arts day, and Friday would have been the second half of my weightlifting, doing Deadlifts, Straight Leg or Romanian Deadlifts, Pull-ups or Lat Pull-downs, and Bent-over or Seated Rows as my compound movements, and then Bicep Curls and Lateral and Posterior Delt Raises as my accessories. Finally, Saturday and Sunday come in as my rest days (despite just having had two rest days haha).
Nutrition
Nothing really changed here, though I should be focusing on controlling this more in the future. This includes having more veggies in my diet and less processed snacks. So far though I'm 33 days into no energy drinks. Upon hitting 45 days, I will then be removing coffee for 45 days, and the final 45 day stretch will be all fizzy beverages. Small steps and all that.
Conclusion
I hope to do better next week and hit all my days proper. School is Tuesday to Friday for me, so hopefully the parts will be in on Monday to fix my car, and I won't have to keep taking my dad's truck. That stress off my shoulders will be nice.
I’m still pretty new to running and don’t feel comfortable running on snow and ice. We had some mild weather this past week that melted everything, so I took advantage and got a few runs in this week. It felt really great and despite not running for almost a month I found that I hadn’t lost any conditioning.
With the snow and ice inevitably coming back, I’ve been thinking of a rough plan to get me ready to really start running again come spring and hopefully not lose too much conditioning. I’m going to start doing aerobics/HIIT 2-3 times a week for cardio, and keep doing the core/leg work I already do to build the muscles I’ll need to support me with running.
A friend gave me their login to Beachbody on Demand, and I tried the T25 Cardio routine. I had to take a 30 second break a few times but was able to get through it. So I think this could scratch my cardio itch for the next two months until I can start running again on a regular basis.
I’ve had a lot of energy the last two weeks for some reason. It’s great, but I have to remember I also need to rest (especially my knees). I’ve been doing a lot of walking on my rest days as well as yoga.