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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?
So I recently joined a boxing gym. Im doing their basic boxing intro for a month and so far im really enjoying it. I am also sore in various parts of my body that have been neglected exercise-wise. Im not sure how long I will be able to stay on after the beginner month but as long as I get some basics of boxing down I will be happy.
The fitness classes they offer are fairly intense as they are designed for boxing fitness, which is crazy fit haha. All in all I think I made the right call to do this as I will be able to defend myself and be fit which is a win win.
That's really cool. Win-win for sure.
I've been using Apple Fitness+ lately and it's been pretty good. But the last few days I felt like re-visiting this app called Seven, which I used years ago to get back into a regular exercise habit. While its core feature is the 7-minute workout, you can do multiple circuits. So I set it to 3 circuits, chose "Strength". I did this for 4 days, and it's pretty good. Since it's focused on body-weight exercises, I ended up doing lots of pushups and core exercises. I felt some sore muscles Iin spots I usually don't get sore, so I was pleasantly surprised. The pace is go go go, so that 21-ish minutes works up a sweat pretty fast. On the technical side I was pleased to see it's fully functional on the Apple watch, independent of an iPhone or iPad. So, that's a plus! No need for any device fiddling. Just tap go on the watch and do what it says. It also has really good scalability. Getting too easy? Add another circuit, increase the duration of each exercise, decrease the breaks between exercises. Will I switch to this full-time? Unlikely, but I might mix it up when I get annoyed with Fitness+.
I've started going back to the gym. My ankle is still healing so I'm still skipping a lot of leg exercises, but it really makes me feel better to go for many reasons.
I've still been eating kind of bad so I haven't been on the scale for a while but I have started to notice that there are some new parts of my body where I can feel hard muscle underneath the many layers of fat on my body. I might just have hips under there somewhere! I'm not trying to do a bulk and cut cycle because weight loss is still my goal, so I guess you could say that I've been aiming for "recomp" for the few months that I've been working out.
I've also made it a point for the few times I've exercised after the injury to do it in the morning, and while it does leave me feeling kind of tired afterwards and unwilling to do things, it's a much better experience in the gym. The machines aren't under constant demand so I can usually get to any particular one I want. I've also switched from the Matrix chest press machines to the Hammer Fitness MTS chest press machines. The weight has to go down significantly on it, but it feels like it's activating some muscles that I've been having a hard time growing with the shoulder press or something like that, so I think it's a good move.