General fitness

I just realised ever since I got my new work mobile phone that it has been spying on me. Apple knows that on my usual days in the city I walk 6-8km. On my busy days when I'm going out or running an errand, it's 10-12km.

I don't take it with me when I work out so that's not in those statistics.
 
I've been working out in the morning (530 or so) and it's taking me forever to cool off. Lunch time workouts are even more time constrained. How do you folks do it? Cold showers? Air dry? Lots of cold water just makes me want to go to the bathroom more.

Or is this where I accept I'm old?
 
Fwiffo said:
I've been working out in the morning (530 or so) and it's taking me forever to cool off. Lunch time workouts are even more time constrained. How do you folks do it? Cold showers? Air dry? Lots of cold water just makes me want to go to the bathroom more.

Or is this where I accept I'm old?
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I prefer working out after work, not that cooling off is much of an issue. Is there no AC at your gym?
 
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Had to skip a week in my build phase on the bike, which is a pain. Regatta in the middle got in the way and I still have zero free time. Back to the plan tomorrow at 0430, Vo2Max intervals, yuck.

Amazingly only gained two pounds last week.
 
I have done a couple of Vo2Max running test at the national test center, mask and all, back when I was in elite sports. 5 minuttes blasted me all day. Good times.
 
Monkeyface said:
I prefer working out after work, not that cooling off is much of an issue. Is there no AC at your gym?
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I work out after work. When I do weightlifting, it takes me at least half an hour to cool off and all evening with worn muscles. Could not see myself do that before work. A run for sure or light BB. But much more than that is a no go.
 
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I prefer working out after work, not that cooling off is much of an issue. Is there no AC at your gym?
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There is, but since I never mope around to cool down - I run to get changed (can't let anyone see me disheveled). Okay so others have the same issue as me. I just thought I was getting old.
 
Just bought my first kettlebell today. Just wanted to try something different--a little break from the barbells and dumbbells with which I have been training most of my life. In light of my age and novice status with these devices, I bought a 12 kg. I just tried it out with a few exercises. Overhead swing was challenging but do-able. High repetition squats were probably too easy, as was the upright row (or "high pull up" as I think it's sometimes called by kettlebell enthusiasts. Overhead presses (one-handed) were very challenging. This is interesting because I could handle a considerably heaver weight in a dumbbell with ease. Curls, both seated and standing, were, like the overhead swing, a bit challenging but do-able. I may buy a heavier bell in the not-too-distant. Any training tips would be welcome.
 
FTP assessment tonight. Feel like vomiting is imminent.

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doggie - or anyone - doing that short time - high intensity stuff?
 
Today; Hang Cleans, Millitary Press, Dead Lift, Pull Ups, Back Extensions 45°, Seated External Rotations.

Have been going too light on basic stuff, for the past few months, so my back and legs have been getting even more weak than normal. Getting fat too.
Trying to get back into it, by going harder on squat, front squat and deadlift. Also pull ups have fallen way way down, so have to start over, before I can get some volume in. Emberrasing really.
Would be nice, if I can keep up this weeks rythm of going to the gym every other day, and walking for at least one hour every day. Feels good.
 
I've been on The Shooman's sprout diet for the last 2 months and thankfully I've finally found a gym with the kind of metal I need for my chest flys.

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Actually got in trouble the other day - apparently you aren't supposed to lift the entire bench press machine, just the weights... pttth.
 
Rambo said:
doghouse doghouse i was looking at a bike for the house to start getting back into morning cardio. You know anything about the Spinner brand?

http://www.costco.com/Spinner-S7-Spinning-Bike.product.100293633.html

these things don't have onboard computers like an upright bike, right? so how do you control the resistance? there's no incline or push back outside of the relative speed at which I'm pedaling??

http://www.schwinnfitness.com/schwi.../prdcdovr~100336/Schwinn+170+Upright+Bike.jsp
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I honestly don't know much about spin bikes, I've always used my road bike hooked to a trainer.

That one does appear to have a computer though unless I'm reading it wrong? Looks like the resistance is manual however, the red knob on the top tube.
 
doghouse said:
I honestly don't know much about spin bikes, I've always used my road bike hooked to a trainer.

That one does appear to have a computer though unless I'm reading it wrong? Looks like the resistance is manual however, the red knob on the top tube.
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Thanks. It's through Costco so I'll probably give it a shot.
 
Just a little update on my training: I have mentioned using Indian clubs in the past, and a couple of months ago I mentioned getting a kettlebell. I have really gotten more into old-timey methods: I can now do all my Indian club swings with the heaviest clubs I've got (3.5 pounds). I swing the clubs daily. Since getting my first (12 kg) kettlebell two months ago, I have acquired two more: the one-pood (36.11 pound) chimpanzee head from Onnit (rather expensive) and a 45-pounder from Wal-Mart. The latter was dirt cheap ($32 and change, shipping included). I have been doing all my serious kettlebell work with it for the past few weeks. I suspect a 1.5 pood kettlebell may be in my future by early next month. I still use dumbbells for some chest and arm work. Another form of exercise I have taken up for my "off" (non-resistance) days is sledgehammer training--bashing a tire from various positions with the hammer. I started out with a 10-pound maul we had in our toolshed, but it seemed kind of wimpy, so I upgraded to a 16-pounder. Now I kind of wish I had gone all the way to a 20-pounder.

I do "floor" exercises--stretching, abs, core--every day and the elliptical on my light days. Anyway, I'm just trying to make the best of this Indian summer of my life to fight the good fight and stave off the worst effects of old age and decrepitude for as long as possible.

Today I took a break from my usual training to take a swim of about 1,100 yards in the lagoon near my house, braving the sharks, barracuda, string rays and jellyfish therein.

A postscript (Saturday): Well, I got stung a couple of times by the jellyfish, it turns out. However, it sure beats getting stung by a stingray, slashed by a barracuda or bitten by a shark.

I also went ahead and ordered a 1.5-pood kettlebell from an outfit called Ironskull Kettlebells. It has a bulldog face on it.
 
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Finally back on the bike after about three weeks of forced sabbatical due to heat.
 
So, 40 miles running this week, though I had a seven-day stretch between the last two weeks where I ran 57 miles.
 
Fwiffo said:
I've been working out in the morning (530 or so) and it's taking me forever to cool off. Lunch time workouts are even more time constrained. How do you folks do it? Cold showers? Air dry? Lots of cold water just makes me want to go to the bathroom more.

Or is this where I accept I'm old?
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I run in the early mornings and cold showers more or less do it for me. That and a ceiling fan in the bathroom
 
This is the first time during golf I felt something in my lower back on 18. As in, it was uncomfortable enough (not hurting, just tired) that I couldn't complete my wood swing off the teebox. I shook it up a bit after shanking the next shot until I got around the 200 yard marker and my short irons came back to save me. It feels okay now after I got home.

I used to play 27 holes (3x9) without issue. I hope I'm not getting old.
 
Fwiffo said:
This is the first time during golf I felt something in my lower back on 18. As in, it was uncomfortable enough (not hurting, just tired) that I couldn't complete my wood swing off the teebox. I shook it up a bit after shanking the next shot until I got around the 200 yard marker and my short irons came back to save me. It feels okay now after I got home.

I used to play 27 holes (3x9) without issue. I hope I'm not getting old.
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You're getting old
 
I was doing my work out today, when a bro come up to rack next to me. He loads up the bar with 90kg and starts doing 1/3 squats. No warm up, no nothing. Just going out from the rack, standing unsecurely in his sneakers and go 1/3 way down. The tool continued like that for 5 sets.
Next he places the bar on the floor, loads it with 60kg and starts deadlifting all closed up and with a raised round back. It looked like shit.
Finally he grabs some dumbells, and do some swinging half assed curls while huffin and puffin like he was getting the reacharound in the Kiton basement.

I know I should have stopped him. But it was simply so stupid, that I was lost for words.
 
^I'm not sure how much of a "tool" the guy was. Aren't partial squats and cheat curls legitimate training methods?

As for the dead lifts, it sounds like he might have been trying to do stiff legged dead lifts, in which case the rounded back is quite appropriate.
 
^well, partial squats kind of, cheat curls not so much. Rounded back I don't recall that being good for any exercise. Even if you are pulling from the hamstrings you still want your erector spinae tensed and supporting a straight back.

Bonus points if he had leg warmers, or grunted
 
Jan Libourel said:
^I'm not sure how much of a "tool" the guy was. Aren't partial squats and cheat curls legitimate training methods?

As for the dead lifts, it sounds like he might have been trying to do stiff legged dead lifts, in which case the rounded back is quite appropriate.
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Nope. Wish it was so. Everything was bad bad form, that could end up hurting him in the long run.
 
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