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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?
I've put my 1k club plans on hold at the moment after topping out at 960 combined pounds a couple of weeks ago :( Went on a couple of vacations and hurt my back on my return to deadlifting so I feel like I need to take a break so I can walk after my 30th birthday without pain.
That being said I've asked amongst my friends who have been doing bodybuilding and I've been switching to that, it's my first week for that. It feels weird going lower than my usual rep weight, but going higher reps with slower movements has definitely been more tiring tbh, but hopefully with less long lasting damage haha.
I'll get back to powerlifting eventually but I just need a change of pace!
I am at 205lbs, down from 260 this time last year. Its been wild, im finally seeing veins in my forearms after a climbing workout.
On the topic of climbing im now accessing V3's though not necessarily finishing them. V2's are now a regular completion, even late into a workout. Today i did a V2 where i skipped half of the climb and had a cool little jump and dangle type of thing. It felt great, really dynamic movements. For the rock walls 5.10-/+ are all doable though 5.11- are rough. I have managed to get most of the way up on one before my pinch lost strength. Still, these are climbs i never thought i could do. Very exciting. Looking forward to losing more weight and completing harder climbs.
Hell yea!
That's basically my trial, currently down between 10~15 pounds. Twelve years ago, I lost 140~ pounds (started at 330~ I think, I never measured til much later), but have regained a majority of it after health issues and over the years but back to climbing now over the last two years even at a high weight and still getting thru more difficult stuff, some 11a routes as projects, but I can onsite by top-rope most 5.10a/b and might take a few runs on the c/d and that's at 285~ pounds. I've lead a few of them too, but have been really trying to refocus diet overall rather than yo-yo myself with anything extreme. Outside is a different beast though.
Bummer about gaining it back, sounds like you're still quite the proficient climber though. You must be pretty damn jacked. Glhf on your journey!
Congrats on the climbing! I've been rehabbing my body and life for a couple years now and recently got into a climbing gym (I grew up trad climbing so the gym is new for me). Happy to see someone else here chasing the pursuit as well :)
Nice, the climbing gym is such a fun way to exercise compared to picking stuff up and putting it back down again (i do still like that too though, no shade), especially if the gym switches up routes regularly. Have fun and learn to fall properly if you boulder :)
Last week was my highest running mileage week ever. I was aiming for 55 and hit 53. I ended the week with a 20-mile long run and I didn't feel great during the second half of the run and was straight-up dead after, but I felt great the next morning.
This week I was aiming for 49 but I'll only end up around 40 because it was also the playoffs for my work's softball team. (We did pretty well, lost our second game last night to a team that just kept hitting seeing eye singles over and over and over. Nothing we could have really done to change the outcome.) Tomorrow, I have a 7.45 mile tune-up race (there's no way they can measure a trail race that accurately) and then a 17 mile long run on Sunday, which will be exactly four weeks out from my marathon.
What will be fun next weekend is that there's another local marathon, and rather than just throwing their hands up and saying "we have no way to compete with one of the world's largest races in three weeks," they have basically set up a group training run for our last long run before the Big Marathon. I know that was a run-on sentence. So I'll have my last big long run (20 miles) in a "race" that is 20 miles long, so that should be much more fun that running 20 miles back and forth in a straight line on a paved trail nearby.
Otherwise, I won't exactly say I'm getting excited for my marathon, but I'm getting excited for how much my fitness is improving on these runs. Not sure what I'll aim for after the marathon next month, so I'm a little concerned that without "needing" to run, I'll kind of let it fall by the wayside. Not sure how to motivate myself to do anything other than just sit around without having an external motivation.
I finally got a bike after not having one for years. I'm so excited.
I have already used it for my commute to work a few times, and plan on continuing until conditions force me to stop. It's ~40min, and a total of 11km, each direction.
I wish the tires were a little wider, because of some of the areas I ride on, but for getting it as a refurbished piece, and for only $165, I couldn't be happier.
Unfortunately, my strength training has fallen off a cliff, I really haven't done much of anything for well over a month. My last achievement was 1 strict pull-up, and I probably have to earn that back again at this point. It comes in cycles for me, and I'm trying to get the habbit to stick.
I need to kick whatever cold I seem to have picked up first, but soon! (I hope)
Nice. I went through the same experience with a bike i had bought. Its now a regular habit and genuinely useful mode of transportation. I hope you get a lot of use out of it.
I joined a gym! I hate it. Not even the working out part, the smell. Apparently all LA Fitnesses smell the same LOL
But I have a friend to go with, so we're keeping each other accountable. We're starting light right now, just learning machines and such. I would really appreciate any advice to help us narrow our search to come up with a gym friendly schedule/ routine, or app recommendations.
I'm excited to get strong! And I'm glad I have that mentality to keep me going
Congratulations!
Definitely start light weight and focus on form as much as you can.
Starting light also helps you get in the routine and not hate yourself after because you can't walk up a flight of steps without your legs shaking lol
How much time do you want to spend in the gym per session? 1 hour? 1.5?
And do you have a number of days per week in mind?
If you're going directly to the gym after work, I would do a 5 day routine, just so you do it every day and get in that habit. A 5 day will work different muscle groups at different times so you aren't blasting just one and getting burnt out.
There are plenty of strength training routines out there focused on whichever number of days per week you want to workout and time per session. Again, if the gym habit is associated with the work habit, keeping that association 100% will help you stick to it.
nSuns 5 day LP is simple (relatively) and will work you Monday through Friday for an hour without any warmup or bicep curls/rows/face pulls that I would recommend as add-ons. With those might be closer to 1.5, but not necessary.
If you don't want to use a barbell right now, you can adapt it to machine supported everything if your gym is good.
I've been trying and struggling to gain muscle and weight for awhile now just guessing at my calorie intake daily, thinking eh it's probably enough. I decided to finally get a calorie tracking app, and man was I way under what I needed.
I'm finally starting to see some improvements on the scale and physically. If any of you other skinny folks are struggling too, give it a shot. Personally I'm using Macro Factor, but I have heard great things about others as well like MyFitnessPal.
I started a running program 2 months ago through Garmin's coaching to be able to run a 5k.
Being on stimulant meds and not exercising as much due to foot surgeries and then a shoulder injury took a big hit to my blood pressure, so I've been pretty motivated to lower it. My feet and shoulder have healed, so I've eased into my regular workouts again (pole and flexibility training, archery), then added running to help my blood pressure. My doctors and psychiatrist are very happy with my progress, and I've been over the moon about it. It's definitely motivated me to continue running after this program ends in 2 weeks. I think I'm going to try a time goal next to get my 5k time down to 30 minutes.