Nutrition, Diet, and Exercise: Notes, Goals, and Resources (these people just keep talking about crossfit)

[Road Guy]

Sometimes I will grab the womens bar for snatches & overhead squats if its something where were doing moderate weight but a higher number of reps, where my hands hit the inside of the collar just seems to fit and make them more stable.

If I am just doing heavy singles then Ill use the 45 lb bar

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

...as for steps...do you have a fitbit?  Do you want to join the crowd source I have going to beat @squaretaper LIT AF PE?

What the heck did I do???

 

[JayKay PE]

What the heck did I do???

YOU WALK TO MUCH.  YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID.

 

[Road Guy]

went to the early 5 am workout - normally Fridyas are upper boddy but lots of leg shit today..

I have had this annoying factory recall on my jeep I had been meaning to take care of scheduled for today, then I remembered its day before Labor Day Weekend and there is not many people here I know well enough to bum a ride so I check the ride and see its not a bad 7 mile ride from the Stealership to my office - 3 miles of sidewalk, then 3+ miles of a trail - so I threw the mountain bike on the back this morning... didt feel like dealing with uber.

Theres not really any bikelanes in this part of Denver so I figured I would just ride mostly on the sidewalk and deal with gaps on the sidewalk with the mtn bike versus the road bike

Fuck - nearly all uphill back to the office.. ended up riding on the road since it was early and no one is really out today it seems.. Sidewalk had lots of gaps from Denver letting some developers off the hook it seems, Legs are pretty fried after working out.. drenched, luckily no in person meetings today cause I am sure I stink.. wish I had just brought the road bike..

At least the ride back will be all downhill

and Double Fuck I didnt bring anything for lunch

 

[csb]

1. Grabbed the ladies bar at the gym this morning and thought, "Well, you're never going to be JayKay strong, csb, but your 41-year-old body will live to see another day." 

2. Can you DoorDash lunch? 

 

[Road Guy]

There is a little sandwich place about a mile walk from here may just do that - 

Were building a new building on the other side of the interstate, wont be open till Summer 21 but it will be nice there is a decent amount of stuff you can walk to - were kind of in a weird area where there are just office buildings and golf courses. 

 

[JayKay PE]

1. Grabbed the ladies bar at the gym this morning and thought, "Well, you're never going to be JayKay strong, csb, but your 41-year-old body will live to see another day." 

I'LL NEVER BE CSB CARDIO STRONG.  YOU'RE SO AMAZING AND MY INST-IDOL.  

 

[leggo PE]

I'LL NEVER BE CSB CARDIO STRONG.  YOU'RE SO AMAZING AND MY INST-IDOL.  

I mean, @csb is seriously gaining traction as the all EB girls' idol. I mean, she is your cardio idol, my sewing idol, what else? She's part of the boobs on head thing, too.

 

[csb]

I'm also fairly decent at traffic engineering! 

 

[JayKay PE]

A random fitness update. I had been on a monthly membership of 3x per week, which really worked out to 14 visits per month (so technically I was getting 2 free visits, assuming it should be around 4 weeks a month, so 12 visits). Upgraded to a yearly membership, because the gym is really working out for me and I’ve been going for three months straight, but stayed at the 3x per week level. Now I’m paying $15 less a month and get 15 visits (!!) a month (I have no idea why it went up). So it’s cheaper and I’m required to go more often, which I’ll do because I’m cheap and don’t like wasting money. I know my gym membership is prob way more expensive than most people’s, but the fitness program is working really well with my work schedule and my general cardio (I’ve always been more of a Clydesdale vs a thoroughbred now that I’ve started to workout and figure out my general fitness), so I don’t mind paying more if I actually use it. Plus lifting weights is kinda fun? And the people who are also in the workout classes are super nice, so it’s a good social thing for me too?

I’m actually disappointed it took so long for me to get into fitness. I feel like I’ve been missing out. I’ll never be super fit, but I like the fact that the flab is kinda going away and I can eat a few more bites of bad stuff (as long as I track it!). 

 

[Road Guy]

I also wish I had found the weight lifting part years ago-

i spent all my 30’s thinking running was the easiest bang for your buck to lose weight but it was never consistent- id sign up and run a race - lose some weight - gain it all back - hurt knees in the process / repeat!

I really look forward to the time in the gym- ours is going through a weird period with covid / losing members / owners wife just had a new baby/ some new coaches - trying to stick it out but it’s Defin not the same as it was before all this rona..

so if you enjoy it and are seeing results then in my book it’s worth the money!

 

[JayKay PE]

i spent all my 30’s thinking running was the easiest bang for your buck to lose weight but it was never consistent- id sign up and run a race - lose some weight - gain it all back - hurt knees in the process / repeat!

I could never run, so fitness always seemed like it had this huge barrier because so many fitness 'routines' involve running in some type of form (which would kill my knees as well).

Monday update: getting the hang of back press.  Did 65kg, up from the 33kg I did last time.  I think I'm slowly figuring out how to stack it and not be top heavy.  Strict presses, of course, brought me straight back to earth.  Literally ended that with doing the bar (15kg) and no weights.  We were doing them in a super quick 2-minute round of 10-chin ups (I did TRX), 10 straight presses, and then deadbug reaches for 5 rounds.  By round 5 I wanted to die and wish I had more weight on the bar so I could crush myself with it.  All of this was, of course, followed by thrusters and sled sprints.

 

[csb]

Nice! I would have thrown up during the thrusters and sled sprints part. 

So the workout called for muscle ups again and my scaled version is pushing up on a stacked box. They felt way better than before, so after class I went over to the adjustable bar. I dropped it to the same level as the box hits and I was able to jump up for two. It's a big step for me because part of the issue for me is mental about jumping and pushing up on the bar, so I'm pretty happy with today. 

 

[Road Guy]

its cool you at least work on them.  We dont even work on progressions  -

We do spend a decent amount of time on toes 2 bar progressions and the kip so maybe that is sort of a progression to muscle ups?

JK - are you working out in Canada? what is with all his kg talk??  USA  

 

[csb]

its cool you at least work on them.  We dont even work on progressions  -

We do spend a decent amount of time on toes 2 bar progressions and the kip so maybe that is sort of a progression to muscle ups?

JK - are you working out in Canada? what is with all his kg talk??  USA  

For sure that's all progression as well. You gotta figure a muscle up is a pull up with some pretty intense dip action at the top, so the kipping it helping with the chest to bar to get up and over. 

 

[JayKay PE]

JK - are you working out in Canada? what is with all his kg talk??  USA  

Everything is in kg in oly lifting.  Which is super confusing to me, since we also use weights that are lbs (like 10 lb) and I get so caught up in the converting that I forget how much I actually lift?  

CSB - YOU'RE IMPROVING AND I'M SO HAPPY FOR YOU.  My goals have been modified so by end of the year I want to be able to do 'real' push ups and next year I want to be able to do one pull-up WITHOUT bands.  These are very lofty goals for myself.  I think I might try to start doing pushups at home.  Maybe 10 a day, when I don't go to the gym?

 

[csb]

Everything is in kg in oly lifting.  Which is super confusing to me, since we also use weights that are lbs (like 10 lb) and I get so caught up in the converting that I forget how much I actually lift?  

CSB - YOU'RE IMPROVING AND I'M SO HAPPY FOR YOU.  My goals have been modified so by end of the year I want to be able to do 'real' push ups and next year I want to be able to do one pull-up WITHOUT bands.  These are very lofty goals for myself.  I think I might try to start doing pushups at home.  Maybe 10 a day, when I don't go to the gym?

I have switched from knee push ups to elevated push ups and it's made such a huge difference in my progression. The bonus is you can bust out elevated push ups in the office pretty easily. When I stand up, I rack out a few on my desk and then go on with whatever I need to do. 

 

[Road Guy]

Wife has been going pretty regular to gym for about a year and a half and she can crank out 3-4 strict push ups, she is pretty proud of herself as that took a while - 

I do think the elevated push ups are the way to go.

I just found if you go to the gym regularly and are working your arms and shoudlers and add in some extra push ups here and there it (for me) does more harm than good...

 

[Orchid PE]

I added a few sets of hanging L-sits to my workout today. I'm gonna feel it tomorrow!

 

[Dothracki PE]

I actually went jogging today for the first day in a long time thanks to @JayKay PE I forgot that my town has too many hills though and and I found myself jogging up part of the way and jogging back down. Then walking over to another parallel street and doing the same.