What training are you doing/have you done today? Vol.2

[didelydoo]

chris watton said:

I couldn't get away with wearing something like that, I'd just look like an old camp tyranny mincing about!

I wear anything to the gym nowadays, I've reached a zen of not caring! Put the leggings on as my shorts that stretch have disappeared, and my others tend to tear when squatting- leggings were the only thing left. It worked out a fancy colour combo with my belt and top though

[chris watton]

didelydoo said:

I wear anything to the gym nowadays, I've reached a zen of not caring! Put the leggings on as my shorts that stretch have disappeared, and my others tend to tear when squatting- leggings were the only thing left. It worked out a fancy colour combo with my belt and top though

Am thinking an ABBA soundtrack would be better background music to go with your colour combos!

But then, when you look as good as you do, I think you can get away with wearing almost anything! (Not a pick up line, you understand.....)

[ORD]

Get a room!

Nailed a short workout today. Felt awful in the warm up (because it was before midday and my body doesn't wake up until mid-afternoon). But then it went well.

Squats:
5 x 5 @ 100kg with 60 secs rest

Bench:
8 x 95kg (equals a rep PR, I think)
S/S with a few easy pull ups

Face-pull, tricep push downs and press up circuit to finish.
Less than 40 mins.

[Burwood]

chris watton said:

didelydoo said:

I wear anything to the gym nowadays, I've reached a zen of not caring! Put the leggings on as my shorts that stretch have disappeared, and my others tend to tear when squatting- leggings were the only thing left. It worked out a fancy colour combo with my belt and top though

Am thinking an ABBA soundtrack would be better background music to go with your colour combos!

But then, when you look as good as you do, I think you can get away with wearing almost anything! (Not a pick up line, you understand.....)

DD def needs one of those 80s style sweat head bands to go with the hot pants

What do you think

[Regiment]

Morning workout started a bit crappy. I forgot my skippy rope at the gym last night and no one said they'd seen it this morning so someone's pinched it. The gym skipping rope is a pile of rubbish so couldn't fluffing it so just skipped my warm up.

HIIT involving a mix of battle ropes and body weight stuff.
3x20 landmine squats with just the bar
70reps 16kg kettle bell swings
3x10 plyometric push-ups (exploding onto a small platform each side and then down)

[Halb]

Parkrun!
I think my joints are rusting

[chris watton]

Tried a new gym this morning which was great! Some serious lifters there. They have chains, battleropes and some great machines as well as plenty of racks.

Did a chest and back routine:

Push Ups - 2x25

Bench Press - 6x12-5 reps (not used to the height and distance of the supports, I missed placing the BB on my second warm up set and drop the one end of the bar on my neck, which was a good start - luckily, it was a warm up set so not too heavy..idiot.)

Cable Crossover Fly's - 5x20-10 reps
DB Cross-Bench Pullovers - 4x12-10 reps
Machine Fly's - 6x20-10 reps (that was a great machine)
Chest Dips - 4x16-9 reps (doing the Pullovers really has an adverse effect on doing these)

Wide Grip Pull Ups - 4x12-6 reps
T-Bar Rows - 4x12-10 reps
Power Clean - 7x2 reps
BB BOR (Reverse Grip) - 4x12-10 reps
Seated Pulley Row - 4x20-10 reps (another great machine)
GHR - 2x20

They even had Didely's metal music playing!

Edited by chris watton on Sunday 16th July 12:53

[Halb]

chris watton said:

Bench Press - 6x12-5 reps (not used to the height and distance of the supports, I misses placing the BB on my second warm up set and drop the one end of the bar on my neck, which was a good start - luckily, it was a warm up set so not too heavy..idiot.)

I know that!

[chris watton]

Halb said:

I know that!

Thank you, Halb!

[chris watton]

Today, legs, shoulders and arms.

Squat - 5x12-5 reps

BB O/H Press - 5x12-5 reps
Low Pulley Lat raises 4x20-12 reps
High Pull - 4x10-5 reps
Face Pull - 4x14-10 reps

CG Bench Press - 4x14-8 reps
Cable Preacher Curls - 4x14-10 reps
EZ Seated Triceps Extensions - 4x12-8 reps
Incline DB Curls - 4x12-8 reps
Dips - 3x20-15 reps

Leg Press - 5x20-7 reps - I did these because I felt guilty of not trying hard enough on Squats, doing 5 reps when I could have quite easily have done 10. This bothered me throughout my session, so decided to do these as penance...

[ORD]

Light deadlifts and heavy pull ups today.

Deadlifts: 5 x 3 @ 120kg. Going reasonably fast so better than recently. Still crap.

Neutral grip pull ups:
5 x 0,8,12,16,18kg
That last set is definitely a PR. Chuffed with that.

Landmine one hand press:
35kg x 8 (maybe had a rep or two in the tank so will go heavier next time)

Band pull aparts - 100 total reps. Curls.

I think going back to 5/3/1 for a while is the right idea. I respond better to low volume, I think. I tend to do too much if left to my own devices (I would have done RDLs and rows today, for example, but stuck to the programme so left).

[ambuletz]

I wonder, is there anyone here that does cardio daily in the gym? contemplating doing LISS or medium intensity on a daily basis as a means of raising ones daily calorie expenditure as part of a calorie deficit diet (aka weight loss). I know last time i tried to do it daily (this was years ago) i did start to feel rather fatigued/wrecked after maybe 3-4 days.

[ORD]

Bonkers in my view.

Cardio is a very inefficient way to generate a calorie deficit. Eating less is surely easier!

Also, why not do your cardio outside - walking, jogging, whatever? Gyms are fairly dull and unpleasant places.

[ambuletz]

ORD said:

Bonkers in my view.

Cardio is a very inefficient way to generate a calorie deficit. Eating less is surely easier!

Also, why not do your cardio outside - walking, jogging, whatever? Gyms are fairly dull and unpleasant places.

I would much rather exercise and eat more then do no exercise and eat less.

I go gym anyway (just not often enough, but i plan to). I rather enjoy it lifting and cardio, it's just dragging yourself there that's the thing). A typical cardio trip to the gym is 5-10min of rowing (depending on how I feel) and a remainder of 40-45min on a elliptical/cross trainer for a total of 50min.

walking? boring. i cycle pretty much everywhere I go. walking does feel good, but if I can cycle somewhere quicker I will.
jogging? too fat for that, it won't be kind to my knees. I hate running.

I quite like my gym. the cardio equipment has a tv so makes passing time alot easier.

[Halb]

Today ws my hard circuit, took 76 minutes, shattered.

ambuletz said:

I wonder, is there anyone here that does cardio daily in the gym? contemplating doing LISS or medium intensity on a daily basis as a means of raising ones daily calorie expenditure as part of a calorie deficit diet (aka weight loss). I know last time i tried to do it daily (this was years ago) i did start to feel rather fatigued/wrecked after maybe 3-4 days.

Might be betetr.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12468415
https://breakingmuscle.com/fitness/its-not-your-me...

[Animal]

This morning:

Overhead Press x 2
Push Press x 2
Jerk x 2
Starting at 35kg and increasing by 2.5kg per round until failure (OHP), then drop that exercise until complete failure.

[Johnny]

22 slow and steady miles on the road bike yesterday.

My arse hurts

[Jamie VTS]

Fun little workout yesterday.

5 x 3 Push press @ 60kg

Then a little workout.

4 rounds

25 x box jumps
10 x barbell movement
5 x bar muscle up

with 2 minutes rest in between each round

Movements were

round 1) squat cleans
round 2) clean and jerk
round 3) thrusters
round 4) clusters

barbell weight 50kg.

[didelydoo]

Off work for a few days but training as normal. To much hassle to type on my mobe though.....

I also went swimming, I sink like a stone nowadays! 10 times harder than it used to be!

[Burwood]

is that cardio (swimming)? I used to do a lot of swimming