LMAO!!!!
LMAO!!!!
Diligent workout!
Bed at 1a.
Up at 9:15a
Good BM.
Morning weight: 139.7
That's a new pre-workout low!
10:35a Brite/ Epitome / Ammo
B Complex
Ultimate Omega
Wow, must be a more extreme diet than you were letting on! (typo haha)
Are you doubting my ability to lose 100 pounds in one week?
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Wait wait wait. You went from almost 250 to 140?!?!
I went on a brisk 1.5 mile walk early afternoon.
Then around 2p, I applied SN to core and chest.
Around 2:30p, I headed to the gym for a non standard (for me) workout. (fasted)
5 mins brisk paced rowing machine warmup.
I don't know what order I did stuff, but I did
Rope pulls vertical
Rope pulls relatively horizontal.
weighted sled pull
half tire 180 toss
medicine ball tosses against a trampoline
about 15 mins shoulder rehab
10 mins hydrabed
13 mins incline treadmill
post workout weight: 236!!!
That's 3 pounds lower than my previous post workout record (on 9/3)!
That's 31 pounds lost since my high from about 4 months ago.
and 15 pounds list since starting the EvoMuse log on 8/9.
I'm exhausted. But in a good way!
PS: HIT4ME, HarryGrandpa, I believe that makes me the only one who's keeping up in your contest, so far!
:booty:
I went on a brisk 1.5 mile walk early afternoon.
Then around 2p, I applied SN to core and chest.
Around 2:30p, I headed to the gym for a non standard (for me) workout. (fasted)
5 mins brisk paced rowing machine warmup.
I don't know what order I did stuff, but I did
Rope pulls vertical
Rope pulls relatively horizontal.
weighted sled pull
half tire 180 toss
medicine ball tosses against a trampoline
about 15 mins shoulder rehab
10 mins hydrabed
13 mins incline treadmill
post workout weight: 236!!!
That's 3 pounds lower than my previous post workout record (on 9/3)!
That's 31 pounds lost since my high from about 4 months ago.
and 15 pounds list since starting the EvoMuse log on 8/9.
I'm exhausted. But in a good way!
PS: HIT4ME, HarryGrandpa, I believe that makes me the only one who's keeping up in your contest, so far!
:booty:
Congrats Kaprice!! You'll be getting down close to 200 by 2017!
Here's the equipment I used in today's workout.
Weighted sled. I pushed this around a bunch. Sometimes straight armed, sometimes arms to chest, and once doing a push up motion.
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Here's the rope pull. It's on a continuous loop and getting to 50 pulls (25 each arm) was actually quite exhausting.
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I took a 6 pound medicine ball and then an 8 pound one and threw it at this trampoline at about 9 feet away. First from the chest, then from overhead. Also exhausting. But, kinda fun.
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This tractor tire is medium heavy (whatever THAT means). It's on an axle and you go to one side, go down like doing squats, grab the bottom of the tire and toss it to the other side. You go to the other side and do it again. Over and over again. (exhausting!)
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OH! I also did farmers walk with 65 pound dumbbells. (Guess what? EXHAUSTING!)
These inclines are really disappointing to look at. But, walking on them is... EXHAUSSSSSTING!!)
Here's L7
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and L8
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PS: I REALLY dislike the Picture loading feature of this forum. Too many clicks per picture. (sigh)
I'm cranky tonight because... I'm EXHAUSTED!
:crying:
Nice variety of equipment. I'm jelly...which is...wait for it...exhausting!
I went on a brisk 1.5 mile walk early afternoon.
Then around 2p, I applied SN to core and chest.
Around 2:30p, I headed to the gym for a non standard (for me) workout. (fasted)
5 mins brisk paced rowing machine warmup.
I don't know what order I did stuff, but I did
Rope pulls vertical
Rope pulls relatively horizontal.
weighted sled pull
half tire 180 toss
medicine ball tosses against a trampoline
about 15 mins shoulder rehab
10 mins hydrabed
13 mins incline treadmill
post workout weight: 236!!!
That's 3 pounds lower than my previous post workout record (on 9/3)!
That's 31 pounds lost since my high from about 4 months ago.
and 15 pounds list since starting the EvoMuse log on 8/9.
I'm exhausted. But in a good way!
PS: HIT4ME, hairygrandpa, I believe that makes me the only one who's keeping up in your contest, so far!
:booty:
weighted sled pull
half tire 180 toss
medicine ball tosses against a trampoline
Really? You're depressed? Look at the change since the beginning brother. You're becoming a new you. I went back and looked at your last group of photos and, I see a change in those pics, but I am more impressed with this new group. I see progress. It's REALLY hard to see a visual change in 1-2 weeks. This is a FIGHT. But it becomes habit over time, and you become better at bringing the fight constantly.
I have a question for you, if this isn't too personal, what is your big WHY for wanting to get in shape? And are you enjoying this?
Depressed was too strong a word. But my impression during this last couple of weeks was that I was growing in shoulders, arms and chest, and shrinking in gut. I was EXPECTING to see some bin body comp changes and didn't. So, it was a bit discouraging.
But, yeah, I know it's a long term game. And I AM quite excited about the change from the beginning.
I don't have a BIG WHY. I have more of a KINDA WHY.
I'm just tired of looking fat. I'm tired of huffing when I walk up a single flight of stairs. I'm tired of not being able to play frisbee without being afraid of pulling a hamstring.
I want to be able to enjoy the outdoors -- hiking, kayaking, maybe even some rock climbing. And, I can't do that at 250 pounds, 40% BF.
I want to take my shirt off and have people either think I'm 40 (I'm celebrating my 55th, today) or that I look amazing for a 55 year old.
So, those are good WHYs, but not like Scarlet O'Hara standing in the rain yelling, "With God as my witness, I shall NEVER go hungry again!"
But, it's what I've got.
And, I'm no where near the point of throwing in the towel. Still highly motivated. Just really disappointed in today's measurements and pics, that's all.
Thanks for the encouragement!
Really? You're depressed? Look at the change since the beginning brother. You're becoming a new you. I went back and looked at your last group of photos and, I see a change in those pics, but I am more impressed with this new group. I see progress. It's REALLY hard to see a visual change in 1-2 weeks. This is a FIGHT. But it becomes habit over time, and you become better at bringing the fight constantly.
I have a question for you, if this isn't too personal, what is your big WHY for wanting to get in shape? And are you enjoying this?
For me, I had an epiphany over time a few years back. I saw my grandmother loose her ability to stand and get out of a chair on her own. She has bad knees and they wouldn't operate because "she was too old" but I really knew that was just the doctors avoiding liability because at the time she was 78-80 years old and I know plenty of other people that age who have had surgeries much worse. They wouldn't operate because she was lazy, didn't take care of herself, and would never recover and they knew it. And I knew she was becoming confined to a chair because she wouldn't fight to change anything.
Then I looked at my dad, who is in his 60's and over 300 pounds and has been all my life. And his knees are shot and he hobbles around in pain and is losing his ability to do the most simple of tasks - in his 60s!!!
And then I looked in the mirror and saw myself on that same path. And I realized, it only gets harder to turn this ship around.
And over time I realized, being in shape isn't about living or dying like everyone pretends. You can be really obese and lazy and weak and live a LONG time. The real question isn't whether you live. It's how much suffering do you really want to put up with while you live? Do you want to be stuck in a chair, unable to move, for the last 10 years of your life? When my grandmother started becoming confined my mom and my aunt were acting like it was the end, and one day I said, "She's out of shape, but not ready to die from old age yet. This could go on for 10 years." And my mom and aunt didn't agree. And that was 3 years ago and she is showing no new issues at all.
And, this came on slowly for me. I started slowly, didn't even change my diet and just started lifting weights. But I started to enjoy it, and started to see that I could suddenly do a little more, and do things I couldn't before. Now, I'm starting to be able to do things that other people look at in my life and they make comments because they can't believe it - like doing weighted pull ups, or just picking something up and moving it when they think it is "so heavy it can't be moved".
So, what is your story? Do you have your "why"? Are you actually having fun? I hope so, cause you're doing great and you should be proud of what you're doing. I see huge progress.
Last night I enjoyed birthday trappings: cake, pizza, pop, chips, dip
Bed at 2a
Up at 9:30a
BM
Weight: 242.4
Today is a jogging day.
There were chips, dip, pizza, cake, and pop sitting around the kitchen all day today.
I partook of none of it.
Today's run:
Down:
0.76 miles in 6:08
That's a couple seconds faster than my record -- which surprised me because I felt sluggish. My legs were still somewhat sore/tired from Saturday's workout.
Up:
0.84 miles in 14:00
Looks like I paid for my record DOWN with a much slower time going UP.
I think my record UP is 12:37.
But in fairness, I didn't take as long a rest before starting back up. Normally, I at least wait for my breathing to return to normal. And I stretch. But I was still breathing heavy and no stretching when I started back up.
Post workout weight: 239.8
I know I pushed my run plenty hard because I was still coughing periodically, 2 hours later.
Dinner around 6p. I took Defuse right before.
1 Polish Dog on a deluxe white bun
w/ condiments.
A couple hours later, I had 2 more polish dogs, plain.
and a root beer float consisting two cans of root bear and 4 or 5 scoops of ice creme.
The ice creme all by itself did the big damage. 1450 calories!
Macros for the day:
Cal: 2795
Fat: 147
C: 279
P: 93
10:30p
Brite / Ammo
Upper body:
BB Bench:
Bar x 12
135 x 10
175 x 5
175 x 2
175 x 2....
Upper body:
BB Bench:
Bar x 12
135 x 10
175 x 5
175 x 2
175 x 2
175 x 2
155 x 4
135 x 8
95 x 12
DB Bench
35s x 15
DB Standing Curl
20 x 12
25 x 10
30 x 8
35 x 6 (last 2 or 3 reps with bad form -- to failure)
Standing Angled Bar Bell Curl
30 x 12
50 x 10
60 x 8
Kneeling tri pushbacks (whatever it's formally called)
15 x 12
15 x 10
15 x 8
20 x 6
Angle bar cable tri pulldowns
27.5 x 12
37.5 x 10
47.5 x 8
62.5 x 6
Bench kneeling 1 arm row
25 x 12
Exhausted. Wobbly.
7 mins on hydrabed.
Upper body:
BB Bench:
Bar x 12
135 x 10
175 x 5
175 x 2
175 x 2
175 x 2
155 x 4
135 x 8
95 x 12
DB Bench
35s x 15
DB Standing Curl
20 x 12
25 x 10
30 x 8
35 x 6 (last 2 or 3 reps with bad form -- to failure)
Standing Angled Bar Bell Curl
30 x 12
50 x 10
60 x 8
Kneeling tri pushbacks (whatever it's formally called)
15 x 12
15 x 10
15 x 8
20 x 6
Angle bar cable tri pulldowns
27.5 x 12
37.5 x 10
47.5 x 8
62.5 x 6
Bench kneeling 1 arm row
25 x 12
Exhausted. Wobbly.
7 mins on hydrabed.
175. Nice!
I want to know if, after your first set of 5, you racked it and yelled, "Take THAT Hit4me"? Or am I just being egotistical?
(Cuz I yell take that KAPrice after I bench a new PR)
No, because I'm not hitting 185 x 10. But, I intend to when I get there -- unless you've gotten to 200 x 10 by then!
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Yes, not benching 185 x 10....YET!
I think you said you hit 185 x 8, right?
Bluetooth beats. Cables piss me off. If you can get them discounted it is worth it. Got mine on ali for around $100My BT headset died (Sport66).
Who's got a BlueTooth headset you love working out with?