Training logs

[Patchouli]

Wow, @Spikedriver
Like this?


One of my sons has friends (they are twins) who lift like crazy. They're late 20s so they can do that. I saw a video of the one recently, he was lifting 700 some pounds. Not Romanian lift, higher. He was very proud of that.

 

[Spikedriver]

@Patchouli lol yeah, it's the same lift, but with only a little bit of weight because I've got a bad back. But even with just a little weight, if you do it real slow and really contract your butt muscles and hamstrings while you do it, you'll feel it the next day. If I tried to do what that guy was doing my spine would probably fall out...

 

[Spikedriver]

Cardio day:

4 miles on the recumbent bike in 18.06
17 minute walk on the treadmill at 4mph

35 minutes total...

 

[Spikedriver]

Took Christmas Eve day off from the gym. Today was back & biceps day with a little legs thrown in...

Leg press x3
Barbell hip thrusts x3
Bent over row x3
Lat pulldowns x3
Barbell curls x3
Rear delt flyes x3
Concentration curls x2
Resistance band pull apart x2
Preacher curl machine dropsets x4

 

[Spikedriver]

Chest/shoulder/triceps day. Light weight/high volume...

Bench press x3
Dumbbell shoulder press x3
Shrugs x3
Cable chest flyes x3
Skullcrushers x3
Lateral delt raise x3
Dumbbell chest flyes x3
Overhead triceps extension x3

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Chasing grand daughter for the last few days.
Walking slow and steady
Leg lifts, squats, knee bends, stretches.
Barbells weights above head slowly, stretches.

 

[Meerkat]

Gald to see yall are still at it.
I did some legstretches for knee, dancing little mopping. I neeed to do some upper body soon. Covid panny makes me like ice cream and cake.

 

[Spikedriver]

Back/biceps/legs day. All lifts with low weight/high reps...

Romanian deadlift x3
Bent over row x3
Dumbbell rear delt flyes x3
Leg press x3
Lat pulldowns x3
Glute kickbacks x2
EZ bar curls x3
Resistance band pull apart x3
Weighted hip thrusts x2
Preacher curl machine 3 dropsets

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Walking, shoveling snow and ice off sidewalk for 15 minutes x 3.
Stretches with dumb bells over my head.
Tip toe stretches, squats, deep knee bends.

 

[Spikedriver]

Chest/shoulder/triceps day. Couldn't get back to sleep so I decided to come to the gym at 0445. Too many people here, probably won't repeat...

All exercises done with light weight and high reps:

Bench press 3x15
Shrugs 3x15
DB military press 2x15, 1x12
Cable machine pec flyes 2x12
DB lateral raises 1.5 rep, 3x13
Skullcrushers 2x15, 1x13
Overhead tricep extension 3x15

I'm sure I'm forgetting 1 or 2. It's too damn early in the morning to remember what I'm doing...

 

[Spikedriver]

Back/biceps/legs day. Low weight/high reps.

Romanian deadlift 3x15
Bent over rows 3x15
Barbell hip thrust 3x15
Lat pulldowns 3x15
Barbell curls 2 dropsets
Rear delt flyes x3
DB concentration curls x2
DB hammer curls x2
Band pull aparts x3
Preacher curl machine 3 dropsets

Totally wiped out...

 

[Spikedriver]

Resistance band workout at the hotel. All exercises done for 3 sets of at least 15...

Chest press
Rows
Lat pulldowns
Triceps extension
Bicep Curls
Band pull aparts
Delt lateral raise
Shrugs

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Moving furniture.
Chasing Strawberry, because she has my sock.
Strawberry and I walked about 1500 steps inside my place while moving furniture.
Just in living room alone.

 

[Spikedriver]

More resistance band exercises...

Face pulls x3
Chest press x3
Lat pulldowns x3
Band pull apart x3

 

[Spikedriver]

More band exercises tonight...all with low resistance and 15-20 reps.

Chest press x3
Lat pulldowns x3
Tricep extension x3
Shrugs x3
Curls x3
Lateral delt raise x3

 

[Meerkat]

I'm getting back into it slowly,again.

 

[Spikedriver]

Back in the gym...

Romanian deadlift x3
Bench press x3
Lat pulldowns x3

35 minutes cardio - 20 on treadmill, 15 on recumbent bike...

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Weight training-check(not your normal)
Walking- again check(not your normal.)
Leg exercises-check
Back exercises-check
Arm exercises-check.

 

[Spikedriver]

The week didn't go as planned, but I was able to get one more gym session in before I fly back to Arizona...

Romanian deadlift x3
Bench press x3
Dumbbell shoulder press x3
Bent over rows x3
Skullcrushers x3
EZ bar curls x3

 

[Spikedriver]

Resistance band exercises at the hotel room. The hotel (Quality Inn) has closed their exercise room so no cardio for me this week...

Chest press x3
Rows x3
Curls x2
Triceps extension x2
Shrugs x3
Band pull aparts x3
Lateral delt raise x3

 

[Spikedriver]

Fell asleep early and woke up early, so I hit the hotel gym at 0400...

20 minutes on treadmill, walked 10 minutes at 4 mph, then alternated running for 60 seconds at 6.8 mph with walking for 90 seconds at 4 mph.

17 minutes on the recumbent bike, rode 4 miles in 16:57, average speed just over 14 mph...

 

[Spikedriver]

Back at home, back at the gym...

2 miles on the exercise bike in 6:20 for a warm-up... Back, biceps, and legs day.

Romanian deadlift 3x15
Bent over rows 3x17
Leg press 3x15
Band pull apart 2x15
Rear delt flyes 3x15
EZ bar curls 2x15
Concentration curls 2x10
Hammer concentration curls 2x10

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Walking, weight training arms, back, legs.

 

[musketjim]

Haven't posted in awhile, joined a new gym. Lifting heavy again since my 100 mile race was cancelled this year. I'm hitting the smith press machine for heavy squats. Using some of the strongman gear such as axle bars and the dumbbell apparatus.The farmer carry bars are fun. I still use my old gym for their indoor football field to push and pull sleds. I've been using an altitude mask quite a bit and new weighted vest for my bodyweight work. Haven't felt this strong and full in 15-20 years. Normally I'm dropping a lot of weight this time of year for my race. Joints are holding up well. Starting to push my limits, feels good.

 

[Spikedriver]

@musketjim keep it up! Life is kind of getting in the way of my gym work right now. I need to find a way to step it up...

 

[musketjim]

@musketjim keep it up! Life is kind of getting in the way of my gym work right now. I need to find a way to step it up...

Life surely interferes, but every day in the gym beats a day wasted. You're hanging and banging brother and it isn't easy. If it was everyone would be doing it and they aren't.

 

[Spikedriver]

Life surely interferes, but every day in the gym beats a day wasted. You're hanging and banging brother and it isn't easy. If it was everyone would be doing it and they aren't.

Life on the road is the problem. 8 days out and 6 home. Most hotels don't have much for weights, only cardio. We often work in small towns that don't have nationwide chain gyms like Anytime or Snap. I bring bands on the road with me but bands are limited.

I have a gym less than a block from home, but right after Christmas life got nuts. Seems like there's always something going on. Plus there's Covid, I won't go into the gym during the busy times.

So, I'll keep slogging along, trying to get my workouts 2-3 times a week, and cardio most other days since I'm trying to lose weight. Struggling now but it will get better.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Walking today into the wind at a gradual incline for 30 minutes today.
Then will have to walk back down that hill with the wind behind me.
Seriously looking at recumbent bikes to help with stiffness of knees.
Rubber bands, wall exercises to strenghten left arm before surgery.

 

[Spikedriver]

Cardio day at the hotel gym.

43 minutes, 25 seconds total.

9.22 miles in 30 minutes on the bike
1 mile in 13:25 on the treadmill

 

[Meerkat]

I can't wait for my knee to heal up so I can get busy doing things and exercising again. It is almost well so don't want to push it or do more damage like if it goes out and I fall.

But I do move around in place, for now.Do stretches.