Current Events > How are your fitness goals coming along, ce? Rejuvenated

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I learned today that one armed bench press is an excellent ab workout because im sore af. I think i am going to keep them in my routine. It's giving my core a nice workout.

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Today was chest/arm day. I had to reduce my work weight on several lifts since I missed a lot of sessions. Regardless, it feels good to get back into the gym.
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Im now deadlifting and benching 5 times a week in my efforts to try and make my body respond to something.

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Turtlebread posted...

Im now deadlifting and benching 5 times a week in my efforts to try and make my body respond to something.

My best ever gains I went to the gym and did nothing but work up to a single max set of bench and deads 5x a week

It was really hard but damn I looked good


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I'm just doing an inconsistent number of push-ups, planks, jogging, and jumping jacks on a semi-regular basis. I also go for a lot of walks.

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Took the weekend off.... Ate my normal stuff but I ate alot of dark chocolate covered almonds. But even with those calories I stayed under maintenence both days.

Weight is 178 this morning.
Back to grinding this morning.
Doing reddit ppl in my 50 degree garage. Start every morning with a warmup run which I ramp up every week by 0.050 miles. Started at 0.5 mile jog, now I'm at 0.7 mile jog. Once I get to 1 mile a day I will probably go up on my incline or speed. Current speed is 7.5 and incline is 2.0.

Because I started off somewhat low weights I'm making progress both in weights and anesthetics. But again it's only been about 4 weeks.


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Turtlebread posted...

Im now deadlifting and benching 5 times a week in my efforts to try and make my body respond to something.

I did that during quarantine time. I lack the ability to push myself by upping weight often without injury so I went pure volume. It worked pretty well in my case but I didn't really notice the results until after I got on a more traditional routine. Its probably not the optimal path but whatever lets you advance is cool. Good luck, man.

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Not sure if I'm gonna take the day off or do my bike today

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Balrog0 posted...

Not sure if I'm gonna take the day off or do my bike today

Gotta work hard this week and fast.
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I just wanna chillax I think. My legs are sore af from yesterday


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rest days are beneficial tbh

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I would have done a low intense bike ride

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I would have run 10 miles, biked 50 miles, and swam 5 miles
if I were you
if I were me (which incidentally I am) I would have just sat around and refreshed CE

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Did my 45 min jog. Feeling better after all I ate this weekend..
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Aw yeah weights got here today. Got 2x each of 10s, 15s and 25s olympic bumper plates. And Amazon already shipped another set of 25s

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Gonna get some sort of rubber tiles or flooring so I dont ruin the floor. Pretty sure my gf got me some for xmas

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Awesome! Trying to learn the Snatch and Clean and Jerk?

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Dathrowed1 posted...

Awesome! Trying to learn the Snatch and Clean and Jerk?

I'm probably not gonna do any oly lifts until I can set up a real home gym. Too worried about ruining the floors. The mats are for deadlifts atm.

But yeah I hope to some day. Getting bumper plates for that reason

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Dieting is hard.

Had a bowl of plain oatmeal for breakfast.
Lunch I had 2 hardboiled eggs.
Dinner I had a idaho baked potato

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Yeah I suck at eating less and at eating more. That sounds like way too little food though man

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Balrog0 posted...

Yeah I suck at eating less and at eating more. That sounds like way too little food though man

It's like 80 carbs. I'm trying to reduce those

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I do just not every day. Yesterday was plain nonfat yogurt for breakfast, a salad for lunch, and tofu and cauliflower for dinner.

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CHM_Punk posted...

Took five olive oil shots earlier alongside a tin of sardines

I'd rather have the potatoes and oatmeal lmao.

Nah I wish I had some sort of dietary discipline


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I'm 178, same as last week. But theres much less variations now and I'm consistently below 180. So thats some sort of progress. Curious where my weight will be in a month from now. I think I've hit a good stride where I have a set diet and I'm not struggling with it.

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if that's what i have to do to eat enough to gain muscle, i am content with being weak
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CHM_Punk posted...

Dude, where is the protein?

Tofu and the yogurt?

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I like how CHM_Punk has this perfect diet according to numbers but it just sounds so gross to actually eat it. Youve got a lot of dedication man.

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Speaking of which not a great day for me. Haven't eaten much at all

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DuranOfForcena posted...

my dad's recovering from a health scare a couple months ago that's left him bedridden and weak and barely able to eat anything, and he's wasted away down to about 130 pounds. he had us pick up some whey protein today to start doing shakes in order to get his weight back up quick. we've never done anything with whey protein before. i'm sure you guys have here. what are some of your favorite shakes to make, or other things to use it in? he tried a banana peanut butter shake today, with the chocolate flavored powdered. i had a little, it was not bad.

I like getting Booster Juice shakes with whey protein. Normally get the orangsicle.

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DuranOfForcena posted...

my dad's recovering from a health scare a couple months ago that's left him bedridden and weak and barely able to eat anything, and he's wasted away down to about 130 pounds. he had us pick up some whey protein today to start doing shakes in order to get his weight back up quick. we've never done anything with whey protein before. i'm sure you guys have here. what are some of your favorite shakes to make, or other things to use it in? he tried a banana peanut butter shake today, with the chocolate flavored powdered. i had a little, it was not bad.

John Berardi has a pdf called gourmet nutrition, it has a section dedicated to making shakes and most of them are good.

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DuranOfForcena posted...

my dad's recovering from a health scare a couple months ago that's left him bedridden and weak and barely able to eat anything, and he's wasted away down to about 130 pounds. he had us pick up some whey protein today to start doing shakes in order to get his weight back up quick. we've never done anything with whey protein before. i'm sure you guys have here. what are some of your favorite shakes to make, or other things to use it in? he tried a banana peanut butter shake today, with the chocolate flavored powdered. i had a little, it was not bad.

Dang that's all, hopefully everything is okay now.

Only thing I can suggest is using whole milk for the shakes instead of water. It's an easy way to add calories, and it's basically chocolate milk

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I'm starting to get back on track after recovering the last 2 months from broken ribs. I walk several miles each day and just recently got back into lifting, planks, etc.

-5F this morning, it's nice running on the snow. Very quiet and soft, listening to a good book

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Colorahdo posted...

-5F this morning, it's nice running on the snow. Very quiet and soft, listening to a good book

Got to hit my jogging later. Doing laundry right now. <__<
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Yeah I actually tried that as a bulking strategy when I was working out about a decade ago. I couldn't do it

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I'm on Christmas break starting today. Slept in and had an excellent chest day. Managed to not fall into any cheat reps despite upping my weight on a couple lifts.

Overall I'm seeing a lot of progress in strength this year. Im actually really interested to go into a real gym and see what my bench is at. Ive been doing dumbells for so long that I have no clue at this point.

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Just did my 45 min jog. Feeling good
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I just got done lifting. Bench, pendlay rows, lateral raises and tricep extensions. Drinking my pwo shake now

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Gonna get my free replacement set of 25 lb bumper plates Jan 6 to Jan 12

If it's like the last shipment that means it'll get here about 4 days after that

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