Where do our exercisers work out and what do you do?
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Horace's thread about his progress made me wonder a bit.
Me, I go to good old Planet Fitness. $10 a month. Immaculately clean, close to home with by the door parking, open 24 hours. Great selection of equipment and plenty of it no matter what you want to do. Not a social club.
Aside from that I do cardio at home with a stationary bike that I can use with arms or feet. 30 minutes a day on days off from weights. Once we get the basement refinished we'll put up my elliptical and my AIrdyne to bump up the cardio.
Three days a week I do 3 sets each on 13 machines, full body workout. First set is the most weight I can do, about 10% down from one rep max, for three or four reps. Next is about 30 lbs down from that for 8-12, next 30 more lbs down for 15-20. All sets to within one or two reps of failure. Strength, mass and endurance in one workout.
Today I plan on doing all the machines that I don't normally do just to get some variation. I'm also adding some new machines to the normal workout to take it up to at least 45 sets, about two hours. I've kind of hit a plateau so I need to shake it up.
"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil
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As an added note, I'm pretty convinced that Planet Fitness is a national money laundering operation. I just don't see how you can support a club with all that overhead with the amount of people I see there, even factoring in four times that amount of people who pay but don't go. Fitness chains have frequently had ties to organized crime.
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I just use the stationary bike in the garage, and I have some small weights and an ab-wheel in the basement. I don't really have time to do anything else. We do have a free gym at work, but I never use it.
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That's a huge amount of lifting volume, Mik. It's impressive if you can do that 3x/week and not feel run down.
I use my incline treadmill every morning for 30 minutes. Haven't missed a day in 8 months or so, as long as I'm home.
I lift weights at home and at the gym (EOS fitness) every three days, several hours after the treadmill. It's nice to be able to stagger the cardio and the weights. I wouldn't be able to do both with one trip to the gym.
I'm still ramping up my lifting routine. An elbow issue is keeping me from bench press, but I do 2 sets each of several different chest and back and shoulder and bicep exercises. Each set to failure at 7-10 reps, second set usually slightly less weight. I think I can do a pullup again, but not enough to make a set out of. Adding in deadlift just recently, as my knees allow. I want to do something for my glutes and quads. I may never lift hamstrings or calves. The final frontier.
The EOS Fitness I go to is about 10 minutes away, but they're building another one that'll be about 3 minutes away. They are $15/month.
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That's a huge amount of lifting volume, Mik. It's impressive if you can do that 3x/week and not feel run down.
I use my incline treadmill every morning for 30 minutes. Haven't missed a day in 8 months or so, as long as I'm home.
I lift weights at home and at the gym (EOS fitness) every three days, several hours after the treadmill. It's nice to be able to stagger the cardio and the weights. I wouldn't be able to do both with one trip to the gym.
I'm still ramping up my lifting routine. An elbow issue is keeping me from bench press, but I do 2 sets each of several different chest and back and shoulder and bicep exercises. Each set to failure at 7-10 reps, second set usually slightly less weight. I think I can do a pullup again, but not enough to make a set out of. Adding in deadlift just recently, as my knees allow. I want to do something for my glutes and quads. I may never lift hamstrings or calves. The final frontier.
The EOS Fitness I go to is about 10 minutes away, but they're building another one that'll be about 3 minutes away. They are $15/month.
@Horace said in Where do our exercisers work out and what do you do?:
That's a huge amount of lifting volume, Mik. It's impressive if you can do that 3x/week and not feel run down.
Someone in a weightlifting group told me that was impossible. I guess I just never knew that, so I did it. I'm tired afterward but recover quickly.
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Horace's thread about his progress made me wonder a bit.
Me, I go to good old Planet Fitness. $10 a month. Immaculately clean, close to home with by the door parking, open 24 hours. Great selection of equipment and plenty of it no matter what you want to do. Not a social club.
Aside from that I do cardio at home with a stationary bike that I can use with arms or feet. 30 minutes a day on days off from weights. Once we get the basement refinished we'll put up my elliptical and my AIrdyne to bump up the cardio.
Three days a week I do 3 sets each on 13 machines, full body workout. First set is the most weight I can do, about 10% down from one rep max, for three or four reps. Next is about 30 lbs down from that for 8-12, next 30 more lbs down for 15-20. All sets to within one or two reps of failure. Strength, mass and endurance in one workout.
Today I plan on doing all the machines that I don't normally do just to get some variation. I'm also adding some new machines to the normal workout to take it up to at least 45 sets, about two hours. I've kind of hit a plateau so I need to shake it up.
@Mik said in Where do our exercisers work out and what do you do?:
Three days a week I do 3 sets each on 13 machines, full body workout. First set is the most weight I can do, about 10% down from one rep max, for three or four reps. Next is about 30 lbs down from that for 8-12, next 30 more lbs down for 15-20. All sets to within one or two reps of failure. Strength, mass and endurance in one workout.
I did the single rep max lift when I was younger, but I messed up my shoulders not doing enough of a warm-up. Now, I don't do any weight I can't do a minimum of 10 reps - less risk to the joint involved. For most of my lifting life, I did full body 3-4x a week. Now I've moved to Monday (Pilates, bicep/tricep, tempo run), Tuesday (Pilates, back, chest, shoulders, erg-rower), Wednesday (Pilates, bicep/tricep, track workout), Thursday (Pilates, leg), Friday (full body), Saturday (long run), Sunday (rest).
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Just renewed a membership at the local community center. Beautiful indoor pool and even an indoor waterpark for Finley… Plus they have classes and childcare. I can bring Finley in in the morning , drop him off for an hour while I spend a little time on weights and cardio, then 30 minutes in the pool. Dry off but stay in my swimming stuff, retrieve Finley and let him play in the pool for a while.
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LD that is awesome. Love swimming, child care is the main reason why I don’t work out as much as I should.
When I do, it’s usually a jog around the neighborhood or indoor treadmill (12 degree incline if walking, otherwise slow run). I do have weights at home but haven’t been in a good routine yet. At the start of this year I did follow a day calisthenics program for about 25 min a day which really helped me get moving and stretching.
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I do a lot of walking and have an indoor rowing machine that I use a lot.
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I go to the gym every day schedule permitting.
3 day rotation - push, pull, legs.
In the summer I bike for cardio. This winter I’m thinking about getting an indoor setup for my bike. If not I’ll bike at the gym, it k don’t like the bikes there. Your posture in these bikes is closer to a recumbent bike than a road bike.
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I have a basic gym in my basement: rack, bench, dumbbell set and barbell set. And there's a janky, but functional, gym at work that I go to in the mornings. At this stage in my life, with young kids, I find it hard to work in another commute to a gym on top of everything else.
Jon's rotation is pretty similar to mine, except my legs are split into squat days and deadlift days.
I bike to work a few days a week and have a peloton at home for hiit classes.
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I should add more detail.
I work out at NYSC, the ‘New York Sports Club’. It’s a regional chain that includes the Boston Sports Club, the Philadelphia Sports Club, etc. it’s decent. There are things I don’t like about it but the fact that it’s 500m from my house wins out.
I split pretty evenly between free weights and machines. A typical workout is 40-60m.
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From what I understand, rowing machines give an excellent workout. I've tried the various machines and didn't like any! Nor gyms. Nor running. Skipping is OK.
The only way I've found to lose weight is by eating less, cutting out snacks, and cutting down on potatoes and bread.
So over the last three weeks I lost 10lb. Another 2 stone would be ideal
My daily exercise is walking dogs, and going up and down stairs 5-10times until breathless. Not enough tbh.
But I do juggle, 5 balls for maybe 5 minutes,
And bash my home made makiwara (leather punchbag for striking, with motorbike tyres for jo & bokken).
Gets the cardio up but it's really for tanren-uchi rather than fitness
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From what I understand, rowing machines give an excellent workout. I've tried the various machines and didn't like any! Nor gyms. Nor running. Skipping is OK.
The only way I've found to lose weight is by eating less, cutting out snacks, and cutting down on potatoes and bread.
So over the last three weeks I lost 10lb. Another 2 stone would be idealMy daily exercise is walking dogs, and going up and down stairs 5-10times until breathless. Not enough tbh.
But I do juggle, 5 balls for maybe 5 minutes,
And bash my home made makiwara (leather punchbag for striking, with motorbike tyres for jo & bokken).
Gets the cardio up but it's really for tanren-uchi rather than fitness
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Tanren-uchi
Literally translates as
forge the spirit-strikeRepetitive striking, forging your body and spirit.
Link to video
Motorbike tyres (softer than car tyres) replace traditional bundles of bamboo:
