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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?
Getting back into regular gymming still.
I'm in Koh Phangan, Thailand and at least at my gym, there's basically no gym etiquette. It is also a bummer we only have one squat rack and one bench press. People don't put their weights back.
I'm pretty happy with my results of one month of consistent lifting. But I am thinking of doing more calisthenics instead of isolation exercises since I want to kind of train my whole body and be able to learn new skills. I used to be able to do the human flag and I want to do be able to do that again.
Other than that, running still, but not as much as when I didn't lift.
One big focus for me as is that I have to eat a lot.
Had an on-site day on Monday and it was not possible to get to the gym on time unless I skipped out on another obligation (have an ongoing 2-hour weekly "study together" accountability buddy session on Monday evenings)... and the gym got the boot.
Was able to show up today! I thought the highlight of today was going to be the fact that I got to do my first exercise using a barbell (albeit with no weights, just a ~35 lb bar). Previously any exercises meant to be done with a barbell, the coach had me do with just dumbells or kettlebells. Alas, the actual highlight was me discovering that I just physically had a LOT of trouble executing on the single leg hip thrust... none of the exercises I've done so far have actually felt "wrong" to do, and certainly not impossible to do a single clean rep of, but this one got me. It might be my muscle imbalances being particularly prominent in this exercise? The Monday coach happened to be around and he had me try a bunch of little adjustments to see if I could get those hip thrusts, but eventually we had to go with a whole different standing exercise that would still target similar muscles in a way that I could actually, you know, do them.
Anyways today was:
Warmup:
Workout: