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Continued the routine today. Pushups (three variations), sit-ups (three variations), Reverse Flies, Squats, Lunges, shrugs, overhead presses, lateral raises, front raises, upright row, shadow boxing with 2 pound weights, shadow boxing with 3 pound weights, line drills, running three laps around the block.
 
BedrockBrendan said:
That sucks. Do you know what you did to it?
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Feel like it is just the soft tissue but it hurts like a mother, making standing up painful but once I'm standing it isn't too bad. A heat pad relieves the pain most of the time but it is taking a while to heal.
 
Voros said:
Feel like it is just the soft tissue but it hurts like a mother, making standing up painful but once I'm standing it isn't too bad. A heat pad relieves the pain most of the time but it is taking a while to heal.
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Take it easy. I've been learning to take it slow on areas that are injured
 
Keep in the routine today. I did chest presses at 3 angles, three laps and rounds of shadow boxing with weights in the sun. These days I can only manage about 30-45 minutes of exercise and have to pace myself. I find it is a balance between exercising enough to build up the conditioning (particularly in my lungs) for my health conditions, while not going too hard so that I end up getting sicker.
 
Missed this thread.

I had a pretty good swimming routine until 2017. I was dealing with my mother's dementia through 2017-18 which completely destroyed any routine in my life (exercise or other). She passed in late 2018, and by late 2019 I was starting to get back to swimming, and then Covid... Gym opened last spring and I signed up in July, and then worked consistently away from home until November. I also retired at the end of 2017 losing my hour a day for working out (mostly hiking) as well as a lot of physical work. I'm pretty active with projects around the house, yard work, carpentry etc but that doesn't compare to several hours of physical labor a couple times a week.

I'm a large guy with decent muscle mass, particularly in my legs from years of hiking so I've never been a lightweight. 220-230lbs (100kg) was my perfect weight in my 20s, 240-250 has been where I spent most of my 30-40s. At 6'2" BMI says I should weigh 145-195, but BMI is a joke. I was was sickly at 160 and even at 200 I was a twig. Horrified last summer when I had to get my gall bladder out and weighed in at 305. I don't eat terribly, lots of vegetables, but working away from home my options are often limited to something from a clowns head. Started watching what I'm eating much more carefully, and more so how much.

Started seriously trying to get back to the swimming in Feb/March, I spent most of April working in Texas but this month I've been pretty good about doing 40 laps (hair over 1/2 mile (1km) 2-4 times a week, and I can feel the difference. 40 laps is taking me 20-25 minutes, so if I can keep on track I'll start adding 10, but I'm gone for work a lot during the summer so reluctant to add and then get back after no swimming for a couple weeks and feel like I'm back sliding. My goal is to get back to 70 laps / 1 mile 2-3 times a week but have a way to go yet.
 
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I think I'm getting back in rhythm. Rolled on Sunday and Monday, planning to go for conditioning today and maybe, if I have the energy, another BJJ tonight. It's my day off work:thumbsup:.
Also, I'm slowly returning to keto, kinda. It's a hard process:shade:.
 
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AsenRG said:
I think I'm getting back in rhythm. Rolled on Sunday and Monday, planning to go for conditioning today and maybe, if I have the energy, another BJJ tonight. It's my day off work:thumbsup:.
Also, I'm slowly returning to keto, kinda. It's a hard process:shade:.
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Update to that: went for conditioning, felt better, skipped the BJJ practice and instead got a couple hours of sleep in the early evening. Planning to maybe do some stretching, but more likely to just watch a movie and go to sleep.
Of course, the point of that was to avoid overtraining and go for more practice tomorrow, because Thursday looks set to become my day off training.
 
Week 9 of 12 for half-marathon training. Still going okay. Average weight has been about 181 lately, so that's a little bit of progress, and my body fat percentage, while still in the unhealthy range, is down about 1.5% from when it was last measured a couple months ago. And my grip has recovered enough that I was able to do my first bench presses in about 3 months yesterday.
 
E-Rocker said:
Week 9 of 12 for half-marathon training. Still going okay. Average weight has been about 181 lately, so that's a little bit of progress, and my body fat percentage, while still in the unhealthy range, is down about 1.5% from when it was last measured a couple months ago. And my grip has recovered enough that I was able to do my first bench presses in about 3 months yesterday.
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That's great, especially the last part:thumbsup:!
 
E-Rocker said:
Thanks!
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You're welcome:smile:!

Myself, I got to my third practice this week (2 BJJ sessions and one pilates...although the local variant is heavier than some free weight sessions I've done in fitness gyms).
Tomorrow: yogalates (yoga&pilates combo), which is the lightest of the exercise routines I do, but I like it because of the stretching.

Tomorrow I shall weigh myself. But remembering last year when I started, there's marked improvement in my fitness levels regardless of weight. Like, last year the same set of exercises left me totally out of breath. This year I'm doing the harder variants of the exercises, with more reps, and am not out of breath. Maybe I should switch them to even harder variants, there's at least two levels I am keeping in reserve....but I'm following the advice to not jump to harder variants while the easier ones are still giving you a workout:wink:!
I'm still not in the shape I was at 24, which was probably my best, but I'm close to or better than my shape when I was, say, 32 years old. And that's nearly 10 years ago.
My current objective is to surpass my own fitness levels from when I was 24 years old. I am probably close to the same strength already. I should really go and check with some free weights, they have the advantage of being measurable.

Fun fact, I have already surpassed my fitness levels from 18 years old. Of course, that's because I started actually training that same year...but that was nearly a quarter century ago, and "when I was 18" is the benchmark many people use:grin:!
 
Voros said:
Recovered from my injury, back to low-impact excercises like swimming.

Oh, and this...

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Speaking of two-ounce free weights…. My sister works as a volunteer assistant in the cardio-pulmonary outpatients clinic at the local hospital. She tells me that there is an elderly patient with emphysema who works out using two 68-ml spice jars filled with sand. Mass: 100 g each.
 
Agemegos said:
Speaking of two-ounce free weights…. My sister works as a volunteer assistant in the cardio-pulmonary outpatients clinic at the local hospital. She tells me that there is an elderly patient with emphysema who works out using two 68-ml spice jars filled with sand. Mass: 100 g each.
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Beats not training!

AsenRG said:
Tomorrow I shall weigh myself.
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Update: the weighing scale is broken, unless I'm really 22kgs today:grin:!
If I thought I was, I should have patented my diet...:shade:

Anyway, I'm going to yogalates in half an hour. I'll measure myself there, though it won't be before breakfast. But then that ship had sailed before I remembered to weigh myself, so no big deal:thumbsup:!
 
AsenRG said:
Beats not training!


Update: the weighing scale is broken, unless I'm really 22kgs today:grin:!
If I thought I was, I should have patented my diet...:shade:

Anyway, I'm going to yogalates in half an hour. I'll measure myself there, though it won't be before breakfast. But then that ship had sailed before I remembered to weigh myself, so no big deal:thumbsup:!
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It was nice when I thought I'm only 22 kgs...but the reality was something more like 102,2 kgs.
Still, that is an improvement, I was nearly 105 kgs the previous week.
 
I'd bought a new bike right before I got Covid, and finally got a chance to ride it yesterday. Only went a mile, but that took the wind right out of me. I'll be glad when I get my energy back.

On the plus side, I like this bike a lot better than the one I bought on a whim before and lost $300 on.
 
Had a couple of days off. Then did some light weights yesterday (mostly arms, back, light shadow boxing with weights, push-ups etc). Today I did chest at 3 variations, traps, legs, pushups, line drills, sit ups, shadow boxing and running (today was two laps, with sprints in the drive way to end it followed by shadowboxing).
 
I kept at it semi-successfully, meaning I got another BJJ session in. So it seems my current "recommended speed" is two practice sessions, one day of rest, roughly...:thumbsup:
I look forward to improving that, but for now, it's what I've got to work with.
Thing is, I'm going on a holiday this week. So I shall get 3 rest days, unless I manage to find a martial arts club or a fitness gym in a relatively small resort city. Probably possible, but we'll see how it goes:grin:!
 
I had suspended my karate membership back in January when I started my new job, as I knew I would be extra busy for the first few months. I had no idea how much crisis communications I would need to do when I accepted it, so I ended up not going back to karate until two days ago.

Naturally, I went to class with one of the Senseis who has a super-strong cardio workout at the beginning to warm up. Why not, right?

Yesterday, literally everything hurt. Today is a bit better, but I’m still feeling it.

So I’m going back tonight. Same Sensei. Yes, I’m a fool, why do you ask?
 
Andrew J. Luther said:
I had suspended my karate membership back in January when I started my new job, as I knew I would be extra busy for the first few months. I had no idea how much crisis communications I would need to do when I accepted it, so I ended up not going back to karate until two days ago.

Naturally, I went to class with one of the Senseis who has a super-strong cardio workout at the beginning to warm up. Why not, right?

Yesterday, literally everything hurt. Today is a bit better, but I’m still feeling it.

So I’m going back tonight. Same Sensei. Yes, I’m a fool, why do you ask?
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You're not a fool, you're one of us:thumbsup:!
 
Took off wednesday. Started light on Thursday with light weights in between things. Did chest today, legs, setups, pushups, back, forearms and shadow with weights. Did line drills then went running with 5 pound weights (much harder than 2 or 3 pound weights so had to do just 2 laps and then shadow with weights in the drive way, followed by shadow with no weights, then stretching). Instead of brewed coffee I have been drinking protein shake coffee (basically has a cup of coffee in it)
 
I should be returning to practice today, after a "holidays-related stop":grin:!
 
Alas, I'm now sick, so no training for today. I guess I've either caught a cold when going to a concert with the daughter (guess who got the umbrella when we had only one) or I've snatched some bug while on holiday. I'm betting on the third option, though: both being true:thumbsup:.
 
Sunday did chest presses at four different elevations, push ups, sit ups, did back exercises for posture, lunges, squats with 40 pound dumbbells, then three laps around the block with 2 pound hand weights. Also did punching line drills with 15 pound weights (which I really liked the effect of)
 
Did my 2 mile walk today- the weather cleared up enough for me to do it and I made it, humidity and all! I was exhausted and sweaty afterwards, but it feels good to have done it.
 
When January 23rd, 2020 hit, I kind of got sealed into a personal Hell for two months and withdrew. All the activities I used to do that kept me reasonably fit and healthy fell by the wayside, and I made up for them by eating.

In October of 2021 I finally had enough and talked to a former student of mine who runs a small private gym. I started on a training program (weights, chiefly, with cardio finish) going to his gym three times a week under his direct guidance.

Last night was "pull night" (a.k.a. "back day") and I smashed all my records in reps and/or weight in all my motions. (This despite being at the tail end of my first cold since November 2019.) My weight is back to my 2019 levels and dropping still (I was a little bit overweight in 2019), I have more energy, better moods, and better balance than I've ever had since my teenaged years (i.e. back in the early '80s). I look amazing and feel amazing.

And all because of an activity I once derided as "I pick up heavy things and put them back down".
 
I will agree with Z ZDL , weights, while seemingly kinda dumb, really do the trick, especially as I've gotten older. Thankfully, my son, who deals with pretty bad depression, was convinced by a guy he plays LoL with to start lifting, and he is coming out of his depression and feeling better.

Todays workout: 25 pound curls, crunches, deadlifts, Arnolds (a sort of overhead lift where you twist your arms) and then 10 pound arm raises at the sides, and then 10/2 oclock. Then 20 minutes on the exercise bike ramping the resistance up every 5 minutes, then repeat everything 3 times.

And then (my weakness): a couple after workout beers :-)
 
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