Forgot to put my gym bag into my car again today. I think that at the beginning, that’s going to be the toughest part of getting back into the swing of things. I can walk to my HOA’s fitness center, but when I get home after working, it’s tough to get back out.
Go Bkitty go! When I first started plank and side-plank, it was a study in #fail. I was inspired by a girl in a class I was doing that did one-leg fully extended side plank. Insanity:D
I love plank now 
(and yeah, that’s not me btw)
Totally agree with you Flik! Hope you had a blast at the gym!!!
Darth is your man for videos Uh, not that kind, Sean’s your guy there 
Seriously, Darth’s our resident PX90 guru.
…and Chuck, thanks for the shout out for the fitness club thread and cookbook thread at the end of the last cast! OSSIM!
Just got back from the gym, did shoulders, chest and back…I think I need to do more of my capoeira exercises again, so do exercises like
it got me so fit so quickly
If you want your shoulders and tris to blow up, cartwheels into handstands, handstand pushups are the way to go…I used to be able to do a cartwheel at such a speed that I could literally stop in the middle of the motion in a handstand, then lower my legs so I was in a pike position and then back up again - Sigh those were the days
so I did the P90X yoga tonight
and HOLY FRAK did I forget how hard this is, I’ve been having neck issues lately (slept on it bad one night last week and its been healing but very slowly) which made things harder
I’m not a flexible guy by nature which makes it extra tough
at the start of the video Tony Horton (the guy who leads you through all the P90X videos) says that doing the Yoga will help you in all other areas of fitness, I can truly believe it, as I sit here relaxing I can feel all the ‘in between’ muscles you don’t really use much or at all being tired in a good way
can’t wait to see how this will help me in other ways
overall I’d say Yoga is the hardest exercise I’ve done, because you have to collect yourself, its much harder having to hold awkward poses than just blast your way through a weight routine or a jogging session
oh I’m with you there Starsaber, I’m really burnt out at the end of the work day, I have to force myself to instantly get the exercise going (I work out at home) because I know if I sit there for more than 5 minutes you can forget about me wanting to do anything physical for the rest of the night
Heya Starsaber. Funny story, when I was first getting into working out in the morning, I would sometimes forget my towel. I was that guy in the showers with yards of paper towel from the dispenser.:eek: That is the sound of Gaia weeping. Thankfully it hasn’t happened in a long while tho.
What I normally do, at the risk of infuriating the I hate people who wear their pyjamas in public thread, is to throw my gym bag and work clothes in the trunk of my car the night before. Its forced me to develop an evening ritual of packing, prepping protein, making a healthy lunch etc. Then, the last thing I do is take it out to the carport; usually in my pj’s This really gives me one less excuse for not working out in the morning (i.e. “I only own one belt, and it’s in the car”.)
Stretching is my kryptonite, but my wife is a yoga fan and can mock me into doing it with her on weekends. I am sooooooo not flexible. Good on 'ya for powering through the yoga workouts!! I actually think that’s what Toby Maguire did when he got in shape for Spiderman 1!
so I got done with work today and there was just NO WAY it was going to happen, really long/tough day at work to the point that I was a zombie at the end
opted to rest tonight, I did the AB Ripper X in the morning so its not like I’ve done nothing today
tomorrow is half marathon day then another rest on Sunday, going to try for the full 6 days of workouts next week instead of 5
went out to eat tonight, I THINK I didn’t do too bad eating wise got broiled walleye with a baked potato on the side but didn’t put any butter or sour cream in the potato just light on the salt
course now I’m having a couple light beers to wind down what has been the longest week in a few months 
It was chest day today, and I killed it good. Right shoulder hurts like hell.
So I’ve started keeping track of my eating on mynetdiary on my iPhone. I have never tracked or even thought about calories at any time before now so it’s definitely enlightening to think about what i’m eating. I didn’t realize how much it let you track with food, water intake and exercise, but I think I might still try to hang a calendar on the wall with my workout schedule so that I make myself more aware of how often I should go and how regularly I’m doing which sorts of workout (cardio vs weight lifting vs yoga etc). Hopefully it’ll keep me going regularly!
I have the same problem that’s been talked about recently, the motivation to get to the gym is tough, especially when it’s cold outside or at the end of an unnecessarily long work day. I started taking my clothes for a couple days in a row and leaving them in my office. Changing at the end of the day and going straight to the gym from work. Any detour or stop at home I have to make means I’m not going back out.
When it’s warm out again i’ll be able to wake up and go in the morning or run around the park near my apartment instead of on treadmills. Just waiting for summer!
Do these exercises strain or hurt your wrists at all? And if it does put pressure, have you ever taped or wrapped your wrist for it?
Thinking about it, I don’t think it did, the only pressure you feel is on your palms for handstands. Your core, shoulders and tris are taking the load (I would think its the same princeple as your ankles).
It might hurt at first when you learn how not to slam onto the ground but it takes time.
Try this book out
Jumped on the treadmill last night and just for the heck of it grabbed a couple of 5 lb dumbells, and proceeded to do curls, etc. as I walked for awhile. Wow! Definitely expended alot more energy. I think I’ll be adding them to my walking from now on.
On the downside, went to eat dinner with chopsticks about 20 minutes after workout, and could barely make my arms/wrists work! They were played-out!
I know what you mean, TG. I still have all kinda of grip-strength problems. Often I’ll be ready for a weight increase muscle-group-wise, but it’ll take extra weeks to build up enough grip strength to hold on to 'em. Deadlifts and bent-over dumbbell rows in particular kill my hands and forearms–leading to some embarrassing (but pretty funny really) moments afterward, like shaking hands and an inability to grip things like doorknobs.
So I’m starting week two of my new routine. I go to the gym Monday through Saturday, with Sundays off. So today I’m gearing up, getting myself motivated for the coming week. Thanks so much Bishop, Chuck, and others for sharing your stories, it’s just incredible how much it helps me stay on track.
I feel like I’m heading towards this goal and the cool thing is that there are all these other people with me who are on the same ride I’m on.
I used to go home after work for about an hour and a half before going to the gym and it was so hard to leave the house (especially during the winter) but now I go straight to the gym after my shift is over and it’s great. I don’t even have to think about it, I just put my gym bag in the trunk the night before and go.
I’m going to check out the Bodybugg and other stuff people have recommended eventually, but I think I’ll wait a few weeks. There’s so much information out there and so many products that sometimes it can be overwhelming. I think sometimes I got in my own way trying to read up on everything before getting started; I had all these fitness and healthy diet books but I wasn’t doing anything. So now my motto is: one step at a time.
Bishop, how awesome is it that you have an Excel chart tracking your weight loss? That’s just the GWC community in a nutshell.
Nike, if you’re at the meetup Audra and I both have Bodybuggs. Just ask and you can see what they’re like/how they work.
Re: Spreadsheets, you’re so right. I dump my data from MND/Apex and compile it into a spreadsheets and graphs to help our trainer keep me on track when I see him every two weeks. I’ll see if I can dredge one up.
Best things for forearm strength in my opinion are
Farmers walks
Waiter walks
Helping the gf with the shopping
and holding all the grocery bags in one hand while you fiddle with your home keys! :eek:
On a serious note, I went walking with my son a couple of weekends ago, he can walk but considering that we were on a 2 mile walk, he wanted me to carry him for 90% of the way… Talk about bicep/forearm burning. I was feeling it for the next two days.
Nike and Galaxy_Rising, awesome with the new after work routines! Committing to a new routine is the hard part - it definitely becomes easier as you get used to it and it becomes part of your lifestyle
Topgun - awesome with the weights! I use weighted gloves and wrist weights on my elliptical and treadmill days. The downside is that most gloves max out a 1 lb per hand, and most wrist weights max out at 2.5 lbs. The nice thing is that you gon’t have to focus as much on holding weights as doing things with them. It sounds like dumbbells are working for you, so keep it up dude!
OSSIM workout on Friday, including bkitty’s burpee challenge. Moved up from 100 to 107, but I still had something in the tank at the end. Know I can do 115 this week at least! Played around with drop sets this morning at the gym for my biceps/triceps day. Kinda had the same problem that Chuck and Bishop were talking about - the casual onlooker would have been laughing at me trying to shampoo my hair…
also stands for KILL ME NOW.
lotsa ladders, jump rope, side shuffles, jump squats, push-ups, push-ups, push-ups, planks- prone, side, extensions, and a buncha craaap that has me going
FWUMP!