Glad to hear the knee is improving. As for me, got into the gym today for my FBW....too tired to list all of the exercises and weights but felt good in there today. Went up in weight for my dumbell flat bench, and went up a significant amount of weight when doing hammer strength high rows...was using 230lbs and repping it for 8. did 30 minutes of ss cardio afterwards...mixed it up a bit on the treadmill...5 minute warmup...then 10 minutes at a semi fast pace, then 10 minutes on an incline..had it up to level 8.5...then 5 minute warmdown. Felt good and I was beat at the end of it. Tomorrow will be a cardio/HIIT day.
Joker's Journal of Change
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Good work!
My knee is really feeling much better. I can walk almost normal and go up stairs....but going down is a bit tough. All things considered, I think I may be able to get back to spinning by the weeks end! There are some strange pains and noises from in there...kinda wondering if the meniscus is trashed...time will tell.
I'm gonna try for some upper-body & core workout tmrw and later some swimming.
My knee is really feeling much better. I can walk almost normal and go up stairs....but going down is a bit tough. All things considered, I think I may be able to get back to spinning by the weeks end! There are some strange pains and noises from in there...kinda wondering if the meniscus is trashed...time will tell.
I'm gonna try for some upper-body & core workout tmrw and later some swimming.
Tonight was a cardio night. 30 Minutes of HIIT on the bike...got 10 miles in. Then did 20 minutes on the elliptical...which for some reason is a tough workout.
Kept calories low today, runnin' lean....
Swam 64 laps across & back; 2 miles in the pool, all swam at an earnest pace, took about 1 hour & 30 minutes...calorie-counter on HR-monitor said 975 calories, which makes sense based on about 650 calories per hour.
Most notably, I had to share the lane with some gal named Melissa and she was wearing this black racing 1-piece suit that fit her like nuts-mad!!! OMG she had such a smoking-hot body; marriage ring throbbing in pain!!!
Great news, did my 2nd session of physical therapy today. The guy was very impressed with the range of motion I'd gained since last week...excellent progress. I can pretty much walk almost like normal. He put me on the stationary bike and it was a wee bit uncomfortable, but afterwards if felt awesome; he said the blood-flow does that. And right now, I'm feeling VERY good. He's optimistic this was just a really bad sprain. He couldn't detect any significant problems with the Meniscus, so it may have healed or is healing.
Apparently the mensicus is like your skin: if you get a cut, it may heal right up, but if you get a tear and it doesn't lay-down, then it came become like a flap and surgery is req'd. It may be too soon to say, but I'm coming out of this really fast. I'm so happy.......
Dude...you sure you're okay with me posting in your journal? I really don't think anyone else see's this and with each new page everything we write is pretty much history. Your call. Just wanna make sure you're cool. I could start my own journal, but nobody's gonna read it...and Chillen just makes-up rhymes and bounces to each journal changing the name a bit to fool you into thinking it's all personalized. Opps, did I ruin that for ya?
Swam 64 laps across & back; 2 miles in the pool, all swam at an earnest pace, took about 1 hour & 30 minutes...calorie-counter on HR-monitor said 975 calories, which makes sense based on about 650 calories per hour.
Most notably, I had to share the lane with some gal named Melissa and she was wearing this black racing 1-piece suit that fit her like nuts-mad!!! OMG she had such a smoking-hot body; marriage ring throbbing in pain!!!
Great news, did my 2nd session of physical therapy today. The guy was very impressed with the range of motion I'd gained since last week...excellent progress. I can pretty much walk almost like normal. He put me on the stationary bike and it was a wee bit uncomfortable, but afterwards if felt awesome; he said the blood-flow does that. And right now, I'm feeling VERY good. He's optimistic this was just a really bad sprain. He couldn't detect any significant problems with the Meniscus, so it may have healed or is healing.
Apparently the mensicus is like your skin: if you get a cut, it may heal right up, but if you get a tear and it doesn't lay-down, then it came become like a flap and surgery is req'd. It may be too soon to say, but I'm coming out of this really fast. I'm so happy.......
Dude...you sure you're okay with me posting in your journal? I really don't think anyone else see's this and with each new page everything we write is pretty much history. Your call. Just wanna make sure you're cool. I could start my own journal, but nobody's gonna read it...and Chillen just makes-up rhymes and bounces to each journal changing the name a bit to fool you into thinking it's all personalized. Opps, did I ruin that for ya?
I dont mind at all sharing the journal buddy. Just promise to keep your clothes on in any pics that you post in here..
Legs are feeling sore from the workout last night. Deadlifts tonight are going to hurt.
Legs are feeling sore from the workout last night. Deadlifts tonight are going to hurt.
I dont mind at all sharing the journal buddy. Just promise to keep your clothes on in any pics that you post in here..
Legs are feeling sore from the workout last night. Deadlifts tonight are going to hurt.
Did someone say something about removing cloths and having a threesome! I will join the journal party........Lets ROCK! BSL Ppppppleeeease use deoderant and shave your arm pits.
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Ah-HA! Thus proving my theory that Chillen knows all. I was wondering if that'd bring him out of the woodwork!!!
Hit my FBW tonight then spent some time in the pool. Cardio was moderate to say the least tonight. I spent most of the time providing some swimming lessons to a woman I know at the gym. Before you ask BSL...she is married.
Your point being???
Oh, forgot to mention; if you work your arms/back really hard with weights, it's rather tough to get in a good swimming workout. You'll have to avoid swimming & upper-body at the same time, it's a conflict of muscle interest.
The thing I love about swimming is that it's cardio and burns a lot of fat...even though it feels like it's just your arms, swimming apparently is a FULL BODY CARDIO and many trainers say it's "the best". It's also low-impact and you can learn different strokes to work different muscles.
Other benefits strongly include that it will build the heck out of your chest, arms and back. Dude, the bigger your upper-body, the smaller (by contrast) your waist will appear. Swimming helps you get thinner AND makes you look thinner!!!
It's also very refreshing. Be sure to drink while you swim. It's very easy to not sense your thirst because you're surrounded by water and your mouth tends to stay wet.
Oh, interesting enough, on my longer swims the muscles that fail first are my legs! Hard to believe, but they'll cramp and get weird on me. You don't think you're using the legs much, but you'd be surprised. It's important to hydrate.
Wanna build some bigger chest & upper body, check out these gloves you wear.
It's exactly like going to a higher gear on a bike: you get more from each stroke, BUT it's harder to pull each stroke. It'll load your muscles up with tension and really help you build some upper-body. Remember, your body isn't used to doing upper-body cardio, so this will very quickly stack some more lean muscle on your frame...this will do 2 things, the process will escalate your metabolism AND each pound of muscle requires about 20-35 calories per day just to exist on your body. We're taking you from a V8 to a V10: more engine, more fuel it needs...that means you can eat more OR you can eat the same and increase your loss of fat.
You also want to get yourself some good goggles, NOT the racing kind, those sink into your eye sockets and are annoying. Get yourself some larger goggles that have soft rubber that rest on your bone.
And if you really get into it, check out the assortment of ipods that you can listen to with under-water headphones!!! Swimming with music rocks!!!
Seriously JW, discover swimming...it'll burn the fat, build the muscle and really help you develop a great physique: woman LOVE a swimmers body! I swear, I'm like having to beat the puntang off with a stick, they just keep coming at me!
Besides, any self-respecting former-fatty has built legs developed by carrying around all the weight. Check out the spin class, discover the pool and see if you dont' find some awesome results.
I dont know if I mentioned it before...but I was on a swim team my entire youth including my high school team and also used to be a lifeguard. Its more about Re-Discovering swimming, then the initial discovery.
Egg-Salad!!! I mean, excellent
Good workout tonight at the gym. Finished with cardio on the treadmill. I have been switching up the cardio depending on the day and also have been mixing up the work on the treadmill itself. I will do a total of 30 minutes; 5 min warmup then 10 min at 4mph, then 10 min on an incline working up to level 9, then a 5 minute warmdown. Really has me pretty beat at the end of it. On to the weights...
Bent rows: 135, 155, 155, (10,8,8)
Barbell shoulder press: 95, 105, 110 (10,8,8) up 5lbs on this one.
Squats: 135, 155, 185, 185 (10,10,8,8) this one hurt in a good way tonight.
Flat Barbell Bench: 135, 185, 185 (10,8,8) I could go heavier here but no spotter makes me cautious.
Cable High rows: 120, 140, 100 (10,8,10) up 10lbs on this exercise.
Dips: 8, 7, 5 I was feeling strong and for the 1st time did these without any weight assistance. Now that I know I can do without...not going back to it. Next step is to do the same with pullups and chins.
Bent rows: 135, 155, 155, (10,8,8)
Barbell shoulder press: 95, 105, 110 (10,8,8) up 5lbs on this one.
Squats: 135, 155, 185, 185 (10,10,8,8) this one hurt in a good way tonight.
Flat Barbell Bench: 135, 185, 185 (10,8,8) I could go heavier here but no spotter makes me cautious.
Cable High rows: 120, 140, 100 (10,8,10) up 10lbs on this exercise.
Dips: 8, 7, 5 I was feeling strong and for the 1st time did these without any weight assistance. Now that I know I can do without...not going back to it. Next step is to do the same with pullups and chins.
Went completely off the diet and exercise routines this weekend. Was out of town visiting some good friends...ate crap food, drank, ate more bad food, drank some more...my buddy has also been dieting and exercising as well...turned into a cheat weekend for the 2 of us. Back in the saddle tomorrow tho and working off this weekend's excess.
Dude...Fu(k it, don't let it get to you. Think of it this way: now your body thinks lots of food is coming in so it'll bring the metabolism back up on account of regular-higher calories coming in....so now when you hit it again, it'll really burn some fat.
Lots of weird diets support this notion, dieting for a period and then having a couple days or short period of elevated eating. But who knows, it is what it is....been there, ate that...move on.
Hey, for what it's worth....I've been struggling like a mother-fu(ker to lose weight for a year now. I've got my calories down, nutrition great and you know how stupid-much I'm exercising with both weights & cardio. I'll easily go a whole month and just see 1.5-2.5 pounds of loss on the scale. My body-fat keeps going down, but people have seen pics of me and say there is no way in hell I'm 11.8%. I feel your frustratin & pain. Some people are naturally lean & slender, and then there's guys like us who have to fight like nuts against a crazy-strong head-wind to make any forward progress.
I'm bummed about the knee...I don't think it's going to get better on it's own, I'm pretty sure surgery is in my future. At least today it's just 3 small insertions whereas 23 years ago (when I first had my accident) it was a 16"-long gash where they totally opened-up the whole leg!
I just miss the spinning/biking so much...it just makes you realize how our bodies are aging, breaking-down and inevitably we die. Without my riding, racquetball and spinning...that's like 4,500 calories of exercise I'm not getting each week...and I can't cut that many calories out of my diet, and at the rate I was going, I was barely losing weight as it was. Dismal, black & depressing.
And you just ate a bit too much over the weekend. Let it go bro....tomorrow is another day.
Lots of weird diets support this notion, dieting for a period and then having a couple days or short period of elevated eating. But who knows, it is what it is....been there, ate that...move on.
Hey, for what it's worth....I've been struggling like a mother-fu(ker to lose weight for a year now. I've got my calories down, nutrition great and you know how stupid-much I'm exercising with both weights & cardio. I'll easily go a whole month and just see 1.5-2.5 pounds of loss on the scale. My body-fat keeps going down, but people have seen pics of me and say there is no way in hell I'm 11.8%. I feel your frustratin & pain. Some people are naturally lean & slender, and then there's guys like us who have to fight like nuts against a crazy-strong head-wind to make any forward progress.
I'm bummed about the knee...I don't think it's going to get better on it's own, I'm pretty sure surgery is in my future. At least today it's just 3 small insertions whereas 23 years ago (when I first had my accident) it was a 16"-long gash where they totally opened-up the whole leg!
I just miss the spinning/biking so much...it just makes you realize how our bodies are aging, breaking-down and inevitably we die. Without my riding, racquetball and spinning...that's like 4,500 calories of exercise I'm not getting each week...and I can't cut that many calories out of my diet, and at the rate I was going, I was barely losing weight as it was. Dismal, black & depressing.
And you just ate a bit too much over the weekend. Let it go bro....tomorrow is another day.
Oh I wasnt stressed about it at all. :yelrotflmao: I enjoyed myself...didnt enjoy the hangover on Saturday so much tho...Cant believe I used to get drunk on a regular basis and deal with that. Actually looking forward to getting back into some healthy food...Gotta hit the gym tonight and get back into the swing of things.
Good. I know a lot of people who psychologically fall off the deep-end the moment they feel the least bit off-track. We all have our meals/days/weekends that we realize weren't diet-productive.
I'm getting a little burned-out on this forum. I've been on other forums and there's just something not-quite-right about the people here. There are a handful of good guys, but too many unwholesome weird people too. Not sure if you caught that flavor yet, but it's there.
My problem is that I look for any diversion while on the phone with customers!
Just dont get caught up in any drama and use the site for the solid information that plenty of people in here have. Dont stress it man I guess is what I am saying.
Great workout last night. I think I def benefited from taking 3 days off from the gym during my weekend of gluttony since I felt fresh and stronger last night. I was even able to do chins with no weight assistance for the 1st time.:biggrinsanta: Here is the workout:
deadlifts: 135, 185, 185, 185 10,8,8,8,
Chins: 8,8,8 (a new 1st...no assistance)
Hammer Incline Bench: 90, 180, 200, 200 12,10,8,8 (heavier then normal)
Leg Press: 180, 270, 360, 360 10,10,10,10
Seated Rows: 150, 150, 150 10,10,8 (heavier then normal)
seated cable shoulder press: 80, 100, 120 10,10,10 (prefer db's but the gym was packed.)
30 minutes on the elliptical...hiking and lowering the intensity...I was exhausted and drenched in sweat by the end of it. Kept my rpms around 50 the whole time.
deadlifts: 135, 185, 185, 185 10,8,8,8,
Chins: 8,8,8 (a new 1st...no assistance)
Hammer Incline Bench: 90, 180, 200, 200 12,10,8,8 (heavier then normal)
Leg Press: 180, 270, 360, 360 10,10,10,10
Seated Rows: 150, 150, 150 10,10,8 (heavier then normal)
seated cable shoulder press: 80, 100, 120 10,10,10 (prefer db's but the gym was packed.)
30 minutes on the elliptical...hiking and lowering the intensity...I was exhausted and drenched in sweat by the end of it. Kept my rpms around 50 the whole time.
You da man!!!!!!
Knee is feeling a whole lot better. The Physical Therapist says working it & exercise is GOOD for it and it won't cause damage or set-back healing at this point. Time to light it up and see what happens.....planning to do my 1st visit back to the spinning class this Friday.
I also get to pick-out a knee brace...with all the colors, choices & selection....oh I'm just sooo excited!
Knee is feeling a whole lot better. The Physical Therapist says working it & exercise is GOOD for it and it won't cause damage or set-back healing at this point. Time to light it up and see what happens.....planning to do my 1st visit back to the spinning class this Friday.
I also get to pick-out a knee brace...with all the colors, choices & selection....oh I'm just sooo excited!