Finally upgraded my rack. Bells of Steel Hydra. True 3x3. Added the Lat Pull Down and Sliding Lever arms. This thing is like a tank.
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Ive never really done any dedicated arm stuff. This week Im going to add a dedicate arm day each week. Arms are 17" right now and have been stalled there for quite some time. Forearms are 13-1/2" with my arm extended straight out. Ill report back in occasionally with updates and we'll see how this goes.
Make the board stationary. With it unstable like that you’re asking for a major catastrophe.
Its good. Even if you were to slip off the weight cant come back on you.
The angle changes as you push out. The stationary boards are tough on the ankles so it needs to adjust as you push out. I have rubber diamond plate treads on that board so it grabs the feet very well.
I have a plan for V2 of the board to limit the travel.
As it is it works very well and feels great.
The angle changes as you push out. The stationary boards are tough on the ankles so it needs to adjust as you push out. I have rubber diamond plate treads on that board so it grabs the feet very well.
I have a plan for V2 of the board to limit the travel.
As it is it works very well and feels great.
I've had a Concept2 RowErg since last year, but I recently also bough the Concept2 BikeErg. Loving it so far, I've had some great workouts with it in the few weeks since it arrived.
I've been to a gym before.
I had a shake and left.
I had a shake and left.
The Rock swears by one time-saving exercise — and scientists just showed it can help you build muscle super fast
Eccentric exercise like negative reps is key to Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's training, and new research suggests it builds more muscle in less time.
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Been understood for a very long time that the contraction phase builds the muscle while the extension phase creates the strength. Interesting to read the study linked at the gains being on par with less reps with no contraction phase extension. There’s a piece of equipment called plate releases that does what they’re discussing using single arm to lower etc.
The Rock swears by one time-saving exercise — and scientists just showed it can help you build muscle super fast
Eccentric exercise like negative reps is key to Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's training, and new research suggests it builds more muscle in less time.
Been a long time coming but finally bought an indoor cycle. With the broken finger in mid August screwing me out of a couple months of biking, and the fact I'm way too lazy in the winter and lose my stamina, I decided to finally pull the trigger. Ended up going with the Schwinn IC4 as it's well reviewed and super quiet which will help being in an apartment. Was also half off at Best Buy.
Comes with a year of JRNY so we'll see how good that is, otherwise might go with Rouvy for routes and what not. Also bought the Samsung Tab S8 to run the apps.
Comes with a year of JRNY so we'll see how good that is, otherwise might go with Rouvy for routes and what not. Also bought the Samsung Tab S8 to run the apps.
Got some cash for Christmas, decided to splurge on an Adjustable Competition Kettlebell (12-32 kgs), a steel club, and steel mace. I've never done any club or mace work, but they were cheap and looked like something fun to keep the weekly routine fresh.
Biceps are up to 17-1/4" Puts me back to what I was before I paused lifting to move a year and a half ago. Forearms remain the same. Im doing these measurements cold on a non workout day also.
Sitting down all day? Doing 30-40 minutes of physical activity is enough to undo the damage
Moderate-to-vigorous activities such as gardening, house chores, or cycling count towards these 40 minutes.
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I had to get my gall bladder removed on Wednesday. Gonna have to take a few weeks off.
Woah there, I’m sorry for your loss, but in all seriousness, I hope it’s a speedy and well recovery. Dang, that means you can’t lift weights? Enjoy the free time tho
cheers good sir
I wasnt expecting any major discomfort. Boy was I wrong...The major mistake we made was that we travelled from Tennessee to Tampa to have this done. My wife still works for Tampa General Hospital so her insurance made the surgery basically free at that hospital. The mistake we made was to travel back to Tennessee the day after the surgery. We landed in Knoxville and made it to the car. Once I hit the seat my abdominals started to spasm/cramp ,one feeding off of the next. I literally thought my incisions were gonna split open and spill my guts out. I was thinking it wouldnt stop until I either passed out or died right there. Ive never felt something so painful... I was finally able to slow my breathing and get my abdominals to relax after a few minutes.I've had my gall bladder removed that really sucks.
You think youre tough until you abdominals start convulsing with fresh incisions in them. That brought me down quite a few notches.. We should have waiting a couple more days to travel back...
Hope you get well soon.
Anyway, I have a gym member but never step into the gym for the past 4 years or so...Lol, the gym must love me. Literally donation to them.
I have decided to cut the gym membership because it was near my workplace & I could go there after work. But since I started working from home, it doesn't make sense to waste 30min travel to another town for the gym, when I can get a gym it nearer to my home.
Anyway, sidetrack. At start of the year, I have the resolution to lose weight, like 75% of people....but I decide I will do that by monitor my intake. They key is to keep it simple without confusing & complicate calorie counting. The idea is if something is too complicated & chore, you will resist doing.
So I use a simple relative scale. 2 points for a portion meal (e.g pasta with coffee), I will add or subtract based on that. A extra dessert will add like 0.3
The idea is to have 5.5 score or lower a day on average (in a week).
Why it works (for me), is that its easy to monitor how much you eat, it makes me more conscious of eating too much, as it add to the score, & it allows me to compensate with less intake the next days.
I also control they type of food. Less process, FAR fewer takeaways & eat out. less carbs, more fruits & veg.
I have done this religiously for one month, & I am seeing results.
Another thing that help me, is to turn something you want to do regularly into a habit, a drill, like they said in the army. By drill, it means to keep doing something until it comes naturally, & you do not have to think, you just do it. Like waking up & going to work at 8.00 am every workday (you do not ask, should I go to work, you just do it). For me, & I guess most people, this isn't hard, as we learned from young (going to school), & there are real consequences for not doing so.
The hard ones for me, are the volunteering ones, like working out, even harder is to maintain. But if I made it like working or going to school, it's much easier. Don't ask, just do it.
Different people have different ways to motivate themselves. I can say this helps me.
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I stayed in the hospital 2 days afterward.
When the nurse was setting up some kind of fluid drain thing with a tube the pressure came on to quick and I had pain dropping F-bombs in my hospital room. It felt like something inside was being 'Sawed' through.
It sounds like yours was removed in an emergency situation. You probably had it much rougher than I did. I would have been fine if we had rested a couple days after instead of flying less than 24 hr afterwards.
It came on while truck driving. I dropped the trailer at a company yard and said I was sick then bobtailed the semi to the ER. It was a mess they said mine gall bladder was really full of gall stones.
Yeah, your bloods probably showed an infection. They will go in right away and get it in that situation.