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Exercise enthusiasts and wannabees only !!!

#361
Hit another big milestone yesterday! (for a skinny old guy anyway).

A few months ago I set a (Barbell back) squat goal of 315 pounds (143 kg) for December 13th. I've been steadily climbing. Last week I did 3 sets of 2 with 275 (125 kg), and one set of 2 with 295 (134 kg).

Well, yesterday I did 4 sets of 2 with 300 pounds! (136 kg) That's the first time I had ever thrown 300 pounds on my back amd I got it up 8 times! According to my trainer, I should blow 315 out of the water on the 13th! He wouldn't speculate as to what he thinks I'll get. But he said it should be higher than my goal for sure.

For a 51 year old dude with skinny legs and a 34" waist I'm pretty pumped about throwing 300 pounds around!
 
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#362
Chris Fitzgerald said:
Adding a fifth to your fourth, all of which I agree with: Mental health.

I believe mental and physical health are inexorably intertwined. Sure, a person can be physically ill and still generally upbeat, or in great shape and still depressed, but in general they go hand in hand and one trends with the other.

I used to think of my 6 day a week morning circuit training/hydration routine as “VHS”, for “Vanity-Health-Sanity”, but as I’ve gotten older the order has shifted from left/right to right/left and it’s now definitely “SHV”. While the acronym isn’t as memorable, it’s a better representation of what’s actually important as I approach 60 and beyond.
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Of all of my health/wellness/nutrition/fitness practices, mindfulness, breathing exercises, meditation, and mobility/stretching ripped me out of my comfort zone the most. But they have been even more fruitful for me than lifting (and that's saying something).

Gotta take care of your mind and soul. Being able to lift the rear end of a '74 Buick Deuce 'n a Quarter is useless if you're miserable.
 
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#363
Chris Fitzgerald said:
Adding a fifth to your fourth, all of which I agree with: Mental health.

I believe mental and physical health are inexorably intertwined. Sure, a person can be physically ill and still generally upbeat, or in great shape and still depressed, but in general they go hand in hand and one trends with the other.

I used to think of my 6 day a week morning circuit training/hydration routine as “VHS”, for “Vanity-Health-Sanity”, but as I’ve gotten older the order has shifted from left/right to right/left and it’s now definitely “SHV”. While the acronym isn’t as memorable, it’s a better representation of what’s actually important as I approach 60 and beyond.
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Great post. Totally agree with the mental/sanity aspect of exercising and training. Nothing makes me feel more alive than a good workout, and conversely nothing ruins my day more than when I can't work out. I won't even mention how cranky I get when I have a minor injury and can't work out for a day or two. I know that resting is beneficial on occasion but it's hard for me to take a day off.
 
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dwm74 said:
Great post. Totally agree with the mental/sanity aspect of exercising and training. Nothing makes me feel more alive than a good workout, and conversely nothing ruins my day more than when I can't work out. I won't even mention how cranky I get when I have a minor injury and can't work out for a day or two. I know that resting is beneficial on occasion but it's hard for me to take a day off.
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Me too, although I take Sundays off from mandatory exercise and practicing. I may choose to take a walk or a bike ride on Sunday, but it’s not a “requirement” if I’d rather just loaf and rest. Lately have been enjoying watching NFL games with my 20 year old son on Sundays. Bonding time with your kid is also pretty good for mental health when you are an empty nester.:bassist:
 
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We just had a baby, which threw me off my routine for a while! Getting back into it with alternating arm/leg M-Sa then Su is kind of a free day. The bulk of it is push-up/squat, but I’ll add in other body weight and dumbbell stuff too. Plus lots of cardio jumping jacks, burpees etc.

Then I’ve got about an hour of walking built into my day, and really enjoying my stationary bike and rower in the late fall/winter. My energy is benefiting so much. Great to be able yo keep up with my older son (6) again! :D
 
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I just had an interesting workout on Wednesday. If you can call it that. It was electrical muscle stimulation. I think that is what EMS stands for. You strip down and put on this skin tight neoprene suit with some kind of electrical pads in it. The person you are working with then hooks up a controller that is operated wirelessly by a tablet of some kind. It takes a bit to get an electrical connection. She sprayed me with warm water off and on to get a connection and keep it. Then you do simple exercises while this suit zaps you somehow. It feels like a buzzer or intense vibration. Lifting five pounds in each hand is really hard while the impulse is happening, as an example. At one point, I glanced down and my quads were doing some kind of crazy rippling dance. The whole session was about a half hour in the suit, and I was really sore the next couple days. It seems to work muscles that don't get used much. The sore was good. All muscle, no joints.

It is expensive, but I will probably incorporate this into my routine a couple times a month. It doesn't hurt that the person with the equipment is a beautiful Persian woman. My wife has been doing this for a while and told me I would enjoy that aspect of it.

I was still feeling a little wrung out from it when I got to the gym again today, but the muscle fibers it works are apparently different from the ones I use to lift, do evil burgers, and that kind of thing.
 
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For the past year or so, I have replaced my Wed/Sat push-ups with McKenzie stretches in the circuit training ritual. The two I focus on are the back stretches - the ones I learned to keep a bulging disc in place after a recurrence of that old injury - and the figure 4 piriformis stretches. They really make a big difference and I need to make time o do them more often.

McKenzie Press Up and Other Back and Leg Pain Stretches | Mind Body Spine

 
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So really pushing myself hard in the gym recently force reps and alike staying on my diet and up the cardio
on the Elliptical machine rolled into my bi annual physical yesterday and I weighed in at 176! I was 175 when I wrestled in high school so wow that was a surprise because I was never able to get down lower than in the 180's. Dr said I'm in great shape so yea that is always good to hear.
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dwm74 said:
Thanks for clearing that up. Spent the past few days driving around, stopping at all the fast-food places asking if they had evil burgers. ;)
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For people who are strict about eating healthy, they're all "evil burgers"!;):laugh:

I'm not one of the people, though...I chow down on Carl's Jr. and Wendy's burgers occasionally.:drool:
 
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For me, food was never the problem. It was my unhealthy relationship with food. I incorrectly demonized various types of food believing inside myself that the problem was external. It wasn't until I broke that barrier and realized the problem was internal. I stopped punishing myself for eating the wrong foods and stopped rewarding myself with food when I did something right.
That's then I turned the corner on my journey to better health.

-Mike
 
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roccobass said:
3 guesses on if I had my way, it’d be…:woot:

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…and yes. I do hit my gym 4 times a week! :thumbsup:
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Bah. This is the only place to get a real evil burger. When the boy and the girl come into town, we stop at Dick's Drive-In before getting to the house. It's a tradition.

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You order outside, you eat outside, or you take it home. We can walk there if we want to. It's the only evil burger that truly rates.
 
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