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Get Fit, Stay Fit, Feel Good - 2026

Sharxfan said:
Man I have it down to 2 hours a day at the gym and it is hard to do anything else. by the time I get off work at 5pm throw down some grub then do some work around the house it's time to head to the gym. then I get home and its pretty much straight to bed and rinse and repeat all week. gets hard to find time to spend with the wife other than at dinner time.
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I finally realized my HRV is all kinds of fucked up cause I don't do much zone 2 workouts...so, guess those get added in on off days. Everything I've been running has been zone 3/4 with resistance training for an hour. Oops....
 
So yesterday was fun. For some reason I was just not feeling well at the gym. I managed to push through it but am not sure if I was just drained from this weekend or if something else was going on with my. I got some good reps in but god it was a pain. I am now within 10 lbs of my previous for reps max on the bench so excited by that but feel I am lagging in some other areas so may need to push myself in some other exercises to see some gains there.
 
I took 4 days off to ride two weekends ago. Then I missed two more because of work which drove me nuts.
Back at it since then.

Today I am just going to ride the bike / stretch and do stepping coordination stuff (think PT) because my leg needs another day to recoup.

I decided to give a new max bench (machine) a go yesterday. It was a fail but it was a 15lb jump. Not even close really. However at 265 on the way up I hit 4 reps, which was one more than normal. The bench is one exercise I give a little time to do, stretching and doing a minute or so of PT stuff in between sets. I am finding more weight in other exercises too. Curls, triceps, shoulder flies (restricted).

I did a few pull downs yesterday and those hurt like hell. Stretches the bad shoulder while engaging the muscle. Very light weight though. 70lbs.. just enough to help me off the seat when done really. I bet I am making some funny faces on that one.

The weight is dipping again. I have been super carb careful except Sunday where I ate spaghetti. had a beer and two pieces of garlic bread. :drool

Zero potato chips which was my cheat at lunch. Now the spinach tortilla wrap is about it. Other than that it is protein, blue & blackberries, carrot / veggies here and there and an apple before the gym.
 
@budman

I think that feeling of being "off" when you can't move or get your exercise in is positive tell man. I think it means the work you put in when it was completely miserable to do is paying off in the form of momentum. Your new default is to GET IT DONE.

Getting back after it (gently) after a little break is a great sign you made positive lasting changes in your lifestyle Bud. Fuck yeah. :thumbup
 
Back from road trip, I stuck to my diet and am feeling great :teeth looking forward to lifting tomorrow

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Sharxfan said:
Damn I haven't seen that weight since I was like 18. :laughing
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:laughing can you guess where my weekends are? those peaks are after eating one serving of carbs once a week. i'll put on 5lbs of water weight just to lose it throughout the week. after just a couple of weeks of not cheating i'm noticing my lower belly fat and lovehandles getting looser and i can see it in the mirror. i don't necessarily need to get lighter than this but i'm going to keep this up until i can see my lack of abs :rofl

i hope that the diet and moderate weight lifting will let me slowly recomp. seems to be working :thumbup
 
My final lift-heavier session of this block was yesterday. I can now squat 3x10 135#. I think in early spring I was only managing 3x4 at that weight. So that’s a good improvement. Maybe next week I’ll take my squat shoes and try a 1RM. Surely it’s finally greater than my bodyweight lol. I’m 147# most mornings.

Also, I can now leg curl without feeling like my hammies will cramp. 3x8 50# for single leg so far.
 
@budman : 265lb bench 4 rep? Dayem...son! That's legit.

FWIW, the (kinda) new health rangers are all using various length of fasts and steering clear of seed oils, enriched anything, 8 hour daily eating windows, Protein priority /focused on insulin spike reduction/ cortisol spike reduction etc.
 
Just got home from leg day and fuuuucccckkkkkk I am wiped out. I don't remember feeling this fatigued for a while now and wonder if I am coming down with something as I really feel like warmed over shit. I managed to eke out all the sets and reps and actually feel like I need to move up in weight for everything but god damn it was a hassle to grind it out today.
 
Sharxfan said:
Just got home from leg day and fuuuucccckkkkkk I am wiped out. I don't remember feeling this fatigued for a while now and wonder if I am coming down with something as I really feel like warmed over shit. I managed to eke out all the sets and reps and actually feel like I need to move up in weight for everything but god damn it was a hassle to grind it out today.
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I had a cough for 10 days that turned into a chest cold / sinus infection. I could feel myself coming down with something, wonder if there is a way to stop it at that point before it progresses? Something that doesn't involve ingesting anything that's not beef :laughing
 
High levels of Ascorbic acid and D3+K2. Don't forget the potassium/ magnesium....
 
Mike95060 said:
^ FUCK YEAH!!!
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I have a new buddy and allwe do together is pedal. he is quick. I set multiple PRs chasing him through GGP. That will help ramp up the mileage for sure.
 
130 minutes of upper body work.. hard work for an OG.
I am quite exhausted eating my turkey and avocado wrap, carrot, banana, walnuts and blue and blackberries. Oh drinking coconut water just to seal the deal.

Even my grip is tired. Those wrist curls ,reverse curls, regular curls and hammer curls to pound out the last bit were certainly effective. I could use a nap!

Also... Way to go TWT!! :thumbup
 
The coach changed yesterday’s lifting to another lift-heavier day. So I took my lifting shoes and tested my squat 1RM. Monday's sets were 3x8-10 @ 135#. Last year’s PR was maybe 145#. Goal was >150lbs.

My sets:
115# x8 (warmup)
155# x4
175# x2
185# x1
185# x1

My form went to shit for that repeat of 185# - definitely my limit.

I’m pretty stoked on the gains. Lifting normal-ish weights make me feel like a more well-rounded & more functional human being. I’m finally a novice lifter and not a newb.

Also now my 95# Bulgarian split squat makes way more sense now. 95x2=190 😅
 
@stangmx13, hard work is paying off.

When I was a gym rat and playing soccer it was so much more fun to be on the field. I could do things that weren’t possible before. Quicker to the ball, extremely hard to get knocked off a ball and my overall speed and ball control was better. And injuries didn’t happen. I wish I had been smarter about being in the gym before I blew out both ACLs.
 
Ridley said:
@stangmx13, hard work is paying off.

When I was a gym rat and playing soccer it was so much more fun to be on the field. I could do things that weren’t possible before. Quicker to the ball, extremely hard to get knocked off a ball and my overall speed and ball control was better. And injuries didn’t happen. I wish I had been smarter about being in the gym before I blew out both ACLs.
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I blew out my ACL by playing a pickup game of basketball the day after a hard leg day. That and the sticky court.
 
Tales of ACL’s. I did mine chasing a quarterback. He faked and my knee followed. Sucked. Major tear was not fixed so it set me on a path to a life long bad knee journey that led to a knee replacement at 56.

It is looking like I will live long enough to have to replace the replacement. Sucks.

Light leg day today. Just physically tired.
Quite a bit of the stepping coordination, balancing with about 3/4 of my normal legs stuff just light and 3 sets instead of 6.
 
was out all weekend in the brutal heat trying to get some stuff done before the rains. sore as shit and seriously wondering if something is wrong with me as I just feel off. Don't think its dehydration as I chug a lot of water when out in the heat and have been taking cool down breaks every 2 hours just feel way more wiped out than normal. This morning lower back was screaming so bad it took a bit to stand up straight which was weird but I did do a lot of moving retaining wall block around due to cement dudes messing it up putting in the forms for the concrete slab. Didn't hit the gym but did do some workout in the yard.
 
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