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Workout Thread IV (pg. 448)
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| bluE_Neon |
| quote: | Originally posted by chimera66
what is this about drinking olive oil? that makes no sense |
One of my girlfriends read in a magazine, that ancient Greek woman took 1 tablespoon on a empty stomach & 1 tablespoon before bedtime. Through time this contributed to healthy looking skin, hair and proper functionality of the large intenstine. They say that all Greek woman use this method till this day.
You can't just drink olive oil alone and think it will do wonders. She did have a healthy lifestyle but noticeable changes were witnessed after a while. :) |
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| iclone |
today: 30 min biking + 45 min pilates + 60 min psycho cardio class
it's GO time. |
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| iammesol |
Feels great afterward doesn't it? |
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| chimera66 |
| i kicked my own ass yesterday and again today. i win. |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by chimera66
i kicked my own ass yesterday and again today. i win. |
Flexible! |
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| KiNeTiC ENeRgY |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
Flexible! |
and persistent |
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| chimera66 |
so what's everyone up to? haven't done upper body in about two weeks hurt my shoulder and gonna take this week off again.
anyway so at the gym today and not sure why this bothered me because it didn't really affect me but some young dude is pretty much on the perimeter of my space bubble while i'm doing my lunge-deadlift-calf raises circuit. he clearly could go to another bench 4ft way but decides to sit right next to me and didn't even move the bench an inch. anyway some little dude comes to that bench between the young guys's set and the young guy straight up let the other guy take his bench then ran away to the bench without saying a single word. not gonna lie, the first thing i thought was "" then i was like hey he let this little dude steal his bench yet he had no qualms about impeding in my area and forcing me to miss out on prime mirror space. anyway at the gym if you are using something you are using it, there is no running away. i liked the little guy better though because he clearly noticed he would crowd me and moved the bench, no in way i'd move since i got there first. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| Been visiting my parents and I really like using the exercise bike at their house. |
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| Silky Johnson |
I'm still doing pretty much the same routine @ increased weight. I switch up between the same handful of exercises for each body group though. I keep forgetting to ask my bf to show me the proper technique for deadlifts...I mean I guess I could Youtube it, but meh.
Oh, I also changed the positioning of the back pad on the leg press so it works my hips more...and I've totally noticed a change in my body shape. So weird. Good, but weird. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| I'm doing free weights at home and I'm making good strength gains. In fact, I'm deliberately holding back from switching up some weights simply because I'm too lazy to have to completely reload the dumbells/barbell. That's the one disadvantage of free weights - you can waste a lot of time mid-routine switching your weights. |
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| Q5echo |
it's been a month since anyone has posted here? put down the Doritos, get off the f**kin couch and go beat the crap out of yourselves somewhere:p
alright, whatever. Ive been doing a new workout for the last 30 days. it's super simple. reasonably quik (about 1 hr - 1 1/2 hr) and just incorporates old school, large muscle group free-weight exercises in a push/pull daily routine. IOW i push free-weights out one day to stress the front upper-body and the following day i pull weight to balance my back with the front. in between these upper body sets i work in my legs i.e. leg press, leg extentions, leg curls, calf exercises ect..
like said, none of this is new or complicated. what i like about this routine is that it quick and because i get bored easily doing the same exercises day after day i can substitute many different exercises/machines that work the same general muscle group. IOW if one day i don't want to do a bench presses with a straight-bar i'll do dumbells or Hammer-Strength, anything really that works out chest laterally. same thing with incline bench, military press, curls, rows, legs and it's good to confuse the muscles every so often and make them work in ways they're not used to. you'll notice too it's just repeating the same routines every other day with one day of rest at the end of the week so yeah, im gonna get bored iwth this as well eventually.
the focus here is upper body but you can't ignore the legs so i make sure i incorporate a leg exercise btween upper body sets everyday since i hated going to the gym just to do legs. also consolidating upper and lower body in one day gets me out of the gym faster htroughout the week it seems like.
granted, in order to have all these execises to switch up whenever you want requires a decent size gym but i'm far from rich.
day 1 :
1 1/2 mile warm-up treadmill.
leg press - 4 sets, 8-12 reps.
bench press - ***
sitting calf raises - ***
incline bench press - ***
curls - ***
military press - ***
day 2 :
1 1/2 mile warm-up treadmill
Leg extensions - 4 sets, 8-12 reps
overhead cable pull-downs - ***
leg curls - ***
lateral rows - ***
standing calf raises - ***
shoulder shrugs - ***
-take about 90 sec between sets and no longer than 3 minutes between exercises.
-fail on the 7-8th rep on the last set
-stack or not stack weight between sets (personal preference)
-if youre pressed for time that day but still want to hit it do a three set workout - maybe even up the weight with slightly lower reps.
-form is everything.
again, all of these exercises have multiple ways to hit their targets given the right equipment available. switching up different equipment is key not only keep interested but also keeping the muscles on their toes.
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| DJ Damerchi |
| but ur supposed to look like dick cheney:whip: :whip: |
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