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Time to get Fit thread

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It was :boobies

And it's been gone about a year now.

Kim, awesome work! I did one of those scans back in February, with the intention of following up on my birthday in June, but a new job, moving out of state, and buying a house kept me a bit busy for a few months. Feels good to be back at it now.
 
They have the tank at my gym so I can test as often as I want. Thinking every 6mos to make sure I stay on track.
 
Keep up the nice work, Kim.


I'm sticking with it so far-I'm down to 209 lbs from a high of 235.

I don't have an end goal as I find that gets intimidating for me-I basically shoot for current weight minus a pound. Working so far.
 
lizard said:
I hit 19. Fuck yeah, bro!

I was going to try 20 but didn’t want the hot chick see my face turn purple. Actually not sure if I had enough left in the tank. Haha! Enjoy the weekend! And thanks to all for inspiration. This thread is like a spotter in the weight room.
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Tonight:

21 nonstop, dead-hang pull-ups. Fuck yeah, bro! And thanks to Kim, sharky, open water swimming Mike, Holey, Beau etc for inspiration.

BTW, no. 21 required grimacing, purple face and a slight grunt.

Tip: tighten glutes, legs, core, which will reduce the amount of energy you need to pull up.
 
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lizard said:
Tonight:

21 nonstop, dead-hang pull-ups. Fuck yeah, bro! And thanks to Kim, sharky, open water swimming Mike, Holey, Beau etc for inspiration.

BTW, no. 21 required grimacing, purple face and a slight grunt.

Tip: tighten glutes, legs, core, which will reduce the amount of energy you need to pull up.
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Great job Lizard. You got a month or two to breeze past my high of 30. I can't do anything with my hand in a cast until sometime in November. The upside it all of those nagging little strains and pains have time to heal and I will have sick gains while getting back to pre-injury status!
 
lizard said:
Tonight:

21 nonstop, dead-hang pull-ups. Fuck yeah, bro! And thanks to Kim, sharky, open water swimming Mike, Holey, Beau etc for inspiration.

BTW, no. 21 required grimacing, purple face and a slight grunt.

Tip: tighten glutes, legs, core, which will reduce the amount of energy you need to pull up.
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Outstanding!

I did 28, out of curiosity when I was a competitive rock climber years ago. There was one guy who did a baby-finger one arm pull-up (put his baby finger in a strap and did a pull-up on it), total mutant.
 
If all goes according to plan I will be hitting the salt water gym with a flotation device today.
 
Promising....
 

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6'8" with a ton of float. Old man short board. :laughing
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Is it easier, with greater flotation to paddle out or harder?

I remember the first time I tried surfing in Hawaii and how much my lats hurt for days afterwards form the unfamiliar exercise even though I was in really good shape for most activities. Same thing after taking a capoeira class. :laughing
 
Climber said:
Is it easier, with greater flotation to paddle out or harder?

I remember the first time I tried surfing in Hawaii and how much my lats hurt for days afterwards form the unfamiliar exercise even though I was in really good shape for most activities. Same thing after taking a capoeira class. :laughing
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Bigger boards with more float paddle and catch waves easier. That's why you long board when its small. When the juice shows up all that float can become a liability as you can't get under waves breaking in front of you. When is consistent head high and better I prefer a board I can duck dive well. Once you step into the world of BIG waves, 3 to 4 times over head is getting there, the rules change again and the Guns come out. That isn't my world, yet.


Proper Hawaiian Gun right here. (not me pictured)

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Restarted workouts on a trainer after two and a half week vacation and eating whatever. That hurt.

What hurt more is going climbing. The 10d climbs pumped arms and were super painful. :laughing My climbing partner was jumping on 11d climbs. Normally I would be jumping on those too, but I was like "have with that, I'll do that 10*".
 
UDRider said:
Restarted workouts on a trainer after two and a half week vacation and eating whatever. That hurt.

What hurt more is going climbing. The 10d climbs pumped arms and were super painful. :laughing My climbing partner was jumping on 11d climbs. Normally I would be jumping on those too, but I was like "have with that, I'll do that 10*".
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You'll be back up to 11d's in 2 weeks, and probably a bit stronger in 3 weeks.

When I used to get pulley injuries I'd have to take 6 weeks off, within 2 weeks I'd be stronger than I had been before, those micro-fractures and micro-tears in your fingers, hands and arms accumulate in climbing, the stresses an upper tier climber puts on their fingers and hands are enormous.
 
Mike95060 said:
Bigger boards with more float paddle and catch waves easier. That's why you long board when its small. When the juice shows up all that float can become a liability as you can't get under waves breaking in front of you. When is consistent head high and better I prefer a board I can duck dive well. Once you step into the world of BIG waves, 3 to 4 times over head is getting there, the rules change again and the Guns come out. That isn't my world, yet.


Proper Hawaiian Gun right here. (not me pictured)

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It seems your timing is excellent as Two-story waves headed to Bay Area beaches, which you probably already heard about.
 
Sharky said:
Great job Lizard. You got a month or two to breeze past my high of 30. I can't do anything with my hand in a cast until sometime in November. The upside it all of those nagging little strains and pains have time to heal and I will have sick gains while getting back to pre-injury status!
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30?!?!! Fuck me. You are a strong mutha

Climber said:
Outstanding!

I did 28, out of curiosity when I was a competitive rock climber years ago. There was one guy who did a baby-finger one arm pull-up (put his baby finger in a strap and did a pull-up on it), total mutant.
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Thanks!

And props to you for 28 :thumbup
 
Climber said:
You'll be back up to 11d's in 2 weeks, and probably a bit stronger in 3 weeks.

When I used to get pulley injuries I'd have to take 6 weeks off, within 2 weeks I'd be stronger than I had been before, those micro-fractures and micro-tears in your fingers, hands and arms accumulate in climbing, the stresses an upper tier climber puts on their fingers and hands are enormous.
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:thumbup
 
No "proper" work outs this weekend. I got to surf twice and yesterday was outrigger. Even though it was a newbie day the steer person pushed us hard and I got my heart rate up quite a bit. I like it. The coast was fogged in thick so we did hot laps around the harbor, a few race starts and even syked the bow of the canoe on a breaker peeling off the jetty at the harbor mouth. Seats 1 and 2 got air and the looks from the sailboat next to us were priceless. I was in seat 5 and just got told to DIG, HARD. Good times.
 
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