There is always room for improvement! šŸ’ŖšŸ¼

klee94404 said:
Dropping 50 LB is nothing to sneeze at. That's awesome and keep it up!
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Yeah. Doc put me on all sorts of Blood pressure meds cholesterol, now that Iā€™m dropped 50 and combined with the meds, BP runs a cool 117-127/77-81, chol dropped from 243 to 75-103! Hopefully I can drop another 40 and quit them entirely.

Iā€™m really hoping to get my gym built soon, Gravel Cub just 16 and thinks heā€™s strongā€¦..canā€™t wait to smash his ass lifting.
 
bluemax_1 said:
Coworker told me to Google ā€œHobby Horsingā€. I was a little concerned about what that might do to my Search history.


I suppose exercise, is exercise, right?

Maybe they can try for Nike sponsorship, and one of those ā€œJust Do Itā€ ads šŸ˜…
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SwissHeritageCo said:
This can't be real... right?
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I hope yā€™all ready for these folks, Louisiana always takes $hit to another level

Ponies on the Delta ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦

 
Well, after figuring out how to add 40lbs for my calf raises, I just checked:
On 4/2, I did 270 reps in 4 sets with 180lbs.
100
70
60
40

Took 2 months to add 30 reps
100
80
70
50.

Also hit a new PR for pull-ups, doing 26 consecutive reps with just bodyweight, going all the way down and up.

I alternate weeks with weighted pull-ups using the lighter 40lb weighted vest, currently at 7 reps x 5 sets. When I can get to 10x5, I'll add another 10lbs to the vest.
 
dericdesmond said:
Just did 35 mins on the arc after gettin my
Pump on. Watching UFC fights while doing cardio really helps kill the time.

26 pull ups is beast mode blue hell yea. I did a total of 19 between 3 sets today šŸ˜‚ Could do 30 straight dips not long ago but prolly around 20 if lucky these days.
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Thanks!

Going to give myself a year to prep for the Murph Challenge next year. I figure I'm already training all the different parts of it. I'll give myself a year to see how well I can put it all together.

For anyone who hasn't heard of it, the 'Murph' is a workout created by late Navy SEAL Lt. Michael Murphy, to stay fit on base (he's one of the servicemen in the movie Lone Survivor who was KIA).

The workout consists of donning a 20lb plate carrier or weighted vest, then doing the following while wearing the PC/weighted vest:
1 mile run
100 pullups
200 pushups
300 squats
1 mile run.

***(common practice/recommendation, is to cycle the exercises to mitigate lactic acid buildup in a particular muscle group. Eg. The typical practice is to do 5 pullups, 10 pushups and 15 squats, for 20 rounds to hit those totals. Someone stronger can potentially double the reps or more, to hit the totals in fewer rounds/sets).

Anyone else in?

Good metric for fitness, as it combines functional strength and cardio.
 
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bluemax_1 said:
Thanks!

Going to give myself a year to prep for the Murph Challenge next year. I figure I'm already training all the different parts of it. I'll give myself a year to see how well I can put it all together.

For anyone who hasn't heard of it, the 'Murph' is a workout created by late Navy SEAL Lt. Michael Murphy, to stay fit on base (he's one of the servicemen in the movie Lone Survivor who was KIA).

The workout consists of donning a 20lb plate carrier or weighted vest, then doing the following while wearing the PC/weighted vest:
1 mile run
100 pullups
200 pushups
300 squats
1 mile run.

***(common practice/recommendation, is to cycle the exercises to mitigate lactic acid buildup in a particular muscle group. Eg. The typical practice is to do 5 pullups, 10 pushups and 15 squats, for 20 rounds to hit those totals. Someone stronger can potentially double the reps or more, to hit the totals in fewer rounds/sets).

Anyone else in?

Good metric for fitness, as it combines functional strength and cardio.
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Hold my beerā€¦
 
Fonedork said:
What in the dragonball kind of shit is this
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Do you mean the post by Gravelface Gravelface or the Crossfit challenge posted by B bluemax_1 ?

As far as Gravelface Gravelface 's post, all I can say is to each his own but definitely not for me.

For B bluemax_1 's post, the person who dies with the most reps wins! Just reading what the challenge requires is enough to make me exhausted.
 
Fonedork said:
Weighted high rep calisthenics
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For anyone not familiar with Crossfit.

Greg Glassman founded CrossFit. It's a fitness regimen that focuses on high intensity, high rep movements, utilizing both free weights & body weight only exercises (for example: Olympic lifts, gymnastics & running in one session). Each Workout Of The Day (WOD) is usually given a person's name (like the "Murph").

Some people (especially the young) love it, other people might consider it an accident waiting to happen since the empasis is on completing the reps versus stopping when your form breaks down.
Using the muscle-up on gymnastic rings as an example, a CrossFit enthusiast would perform a "kipping" movement to help propel themself over the rings to achieve more repetitions. The normal gymnastic muscle-up is a controlled movement up and over the rings not a seizure mimicing movement to get above the rings.

I'm too old and too tired for CrossFit and was never a Goku when I was younger.
 
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klee94404 said:
For anyone not familiar with Crossfit.

Greg Glassman founded CrossFit. It's a fitness regimen that focuses on high intensity, high rep movements, utilizing both free weights & body weight only exercises (for example: Olympic lifts, gymnastics & running in one session). Each Workout Of The Day (WOD) is usually given a person's name (like the "Murph").

Some people (especially the young) love it, other people might consider it an accident waiting to happen since the empasis is on completing the reps versus stopping when your form breaks down.

I'm too old and too tired for CrossFit.
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Yeah, I hate CrossFit.

For anyone not familiar with dragonball, it is a cartoon where the heroes routinely train for fights by wearing comically heavy weights and/or training in enhanced gravity fields, which in real life would destroy your joints etc.
 
klee94404 said:
For anyone not familiar with Crossfit.

Greg Glassman founded CrossFit. It's a fitness regimen that focuses on high intensity, high rep movements, utilizing both free weights & body weight only exercises (for example: Olympic lifts, gymnastics & running in one session). Each Workout Of The Day (WOD) is usually given a person's name (like the "Murph").

Some people (especially the young) love it, other people might consider it an accident waiting to happen since the empasis is on completing the reps versus stopping when your form breaks down.
Using the muscle-up on gymnastic rings as an example, a CrossFit enthusiast would perform a "kipping" movement to help propel themself over the rings to achieve more repetitions. The normal gymnastic muscle-up is a controlled movement up and over the rings not a seizure mimicing movement to get above the rings.

I'm too old and too tired for CrossFit and was never a Goku when I was younger.
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Yeah, I'm not a Crossfitter either, although I do respect the physicality and abilities displayed by the Elite level competitors.

The whole kipping with muscle-ups and even pullups, is rather amusing, though. At my age, and with prior shoulder injuries, I'm not even going to attempt a muscle-up on rings, controlled or kipping.

The Murph isn't easy, but the components aren't that hard individually. It's the cardio to do them all in one go, that makes it a real challenge (for me).

Most folks could stand to lose ~20lbs, and losing 20lbs in a year is absolutely doable. Lose 20lbs, and add it back while training doesn't seem too bad (but as always, honestly assess your abilities, and do things gradually).

I can do 70 bodyweight pushups in a row, going all the way down to briefly touch my chest to the ground. I also train with weights on the bench. The 20lb vest isn't that much added resistance for me, for pushups.

Likewise, my total reps for bodyweight pullups this past week, was 78 reps in 5 sets (10 to warm up. 26, 15, 14, 13. In 2 weeks, I'll see if 20x5 is doable. A Max reps set basically wipes me out, so every set after will be significantly lower reps than if I don't push for those last few). Doing 10x10 bodyweight wouldn't be an issue.

Currently doing 7x5 pullups with the 40lb vest, makes 5x20 with a 20lb vest feel OK (First 10 sets were easy. Gets harder by ~round 17 onwards, and that's without doing pushups and squats between the pullups).

Same goes with the squats. I do way more weight than 20lbs. Granted 300 reps with just bodyweight is a lot, especially with a mile run before and after, but the 20lbs of added weight, while a factor, isn't as big of a factor for someone who regularly squats as part of regular weight training.

It's putting everything together in one go, that I plan to carefully work up to. The plan over the year, will be to gradually increase the number of reps, to approach the total (i.e. the mile run before and after, with the 20lb vest, isn't an issue, so I'll try doing the mile run, then 1/5 of the exercise reps and the 2nd mile and see how that feels, and slowly work up).

FWIW, people also do partial Murphs, either without the extra 20lbs, or halving all the metrics (half mile run, and half as many reps etc.).
 
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David Mary said:
With how slow this thread is:

I was starting to think the BFs community was overall not interested in fitness stuff. I am looking forward to reading over this thread in full when I have time.

B bluemax_1 that's some pretty real deal stuff you're into!
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Cool thread.

Never really been a regular logs, type. My posts in this thread have mostly been progress reports (i.e. no/minimal progress = no point posting).

Nice work with the kettlebells!

Some of the Oly lifts in Crossfit (like the Snatch), are simply a display of athleticism, with coordination and technique being a huge part of it, but to me, there's no real world practicality, as I wouldn't ever try lifting anything remotely heavy that way.

The Clean and Jerk, I get. The way the muscles are used, I can see the application for the Clean, for getting something heavy into a high truck bed etc., and the Jerk is useful for getting something heavy up overhead.

Those kettlebell exercises you're doing also help build practical strength that helps with movements that can actually be of use IRL, not to mention building core strength and stability.
 
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