Fitness Bump

i thought the only thing one could dread was hair? how does one dread sweat?

 

Been swimming for the past week.
Aquafit and shit.
Me and the geriatrics.

I did an aquafit this morning but I may go back for open swim later.

I want to try their cardio equipment but I don't have the right clothes for the gym, yet.

 

How is the water in the pit of ultimate darkness, Hecubus?

 

Taught two yoga classes back to back. It was a good day.

 

Nice and warm.

Went back for another hour in the pool. Those floatation belts are awesome for working out in the water.

 

My arms are so sore from my Wednesday workout that even wiping my ass hurts.

 

I just spent the last 3 hours at the mall helping my friend in and out of lingerie for a photoshoot. That has to count for something. I'm sure I burned some calories tucking everything into where it's supposed to go and hooking all of those hooks.

 

Thats cool you are a yoga teacher, i did not know that.

I went for a walk while wearing a 25 lb baby and being constantly pulled by an 80 lb labrador. It was actually pretty strenuous lol, my legs were burning.

 

I skipped what was supposed to be my return to circuit training this evening. I was looking forward to it but the arms are just not there today. I jumped back in after an injury and went as hard as I used to before I got injured. I am paying for that right now.

If anyone cares....I'm pretty sure my drop set on the preacher bench with the curling bar did me in. In addition to all of your other arm stuff....you load the bar with what you can max out on in a few reps....then drop 5 lbs....do as many reps as you can....drop 5 more lbs...repeat...etc. I usually shoot for 100 reps. That's a nice way to round out biceps for the week.

 

Did my halfass workout last night. Rows bench leg press bicycle crunches. Works pretty much whole body and doesn't take three hours like my usual seventeen exercise workout

 

Those are brutal. Always called em tear downs

 

Hoping to hit Deep Aquafit at 3pm today.

 

They are brutal but effective. I finish biceps with them every week. Another thing I like to do that is similar is crunches on the decline bench holding a weight over my chest. I'll do 30 and sit all the way up on the last one, hold the weight over my head and lower it behind my head 30 times (not sure what those are called). Then 25 crunches...25 reps with the weight...20 crunches...20 reps...15, 10, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. If you want to make it harder you can reverse the process after that and count back up to 30. That would probably be pretty tough for a lot of people but I have a pretty solid core from years of doing crunches, etc.

 

30 minutes of HIIT this evening.

 

Rock climbing.
Not so cool with 2 herniated disks, but fuck it.
Cant wait to have time and funds for physio.

 

squats, strict overhead press, circuit (2 rouinds - 2 minutes each station: 1. box jumps; 2. kb swings and farmers walk carries; 3. bear hug sandbag carry), pull ups

 

What do you think about doing 2 minutes at each station? I think it's impressive but it must be a lot different. We do 45 seconds but we do 13-16 stations (7 or 8 seconds between each station, I think), 3 rounds and most of the stations change each round.

 

we had 3 people at each station, so it wasn't a full 2 minutes each person - especially with the box jumps and the sandbag carry. there was some rest

the only station that was constant was the kbs/farmer carry as there were enough KBs for all 3 of us to do the swings and 1 person do the farmers carry

it was tough though - really showed me that i've slacked in my conditioning work lately...i can put up big numbers on the squat...but i was huffing and puffing on the circuit.

 

Ah...I see. We've done something like that a few times. We had fewer stations for longer and we did teams of 3. So for instance...at one station one person might do box jumps for 45 seconds while another person is doing squats with weights and the third person is taking a break but we rotate so everyone has to do all three positions. As I'm thinking about this right now...I think it actually worked out to be a little easier for us because you go for one and a half minutes but get a 45 second break at each station instead of only a 7-8 second break. And maybe the break falls between your two exercises. In any case...I thought it was a fun way to change things up a bit. Our trainer at the time was really great and tried to think of lots of different ways to challenge what was honestly a fairly elite group. He put us through some brutal shit. He once took us to the track and had us do 400 meters of lunges with a bar on our shoulders. 400 meters is such a long distance for that kind of thing. Maybe I already mentioned that in this thread. But I miss that guy. I wish he was still our trainer.

 

do you train for a specific sport?

i've done 400m lunges before. brutal

this was our first team training for spring and only had an hour at the gym. i'm looking to get back and play rugby again after some time off.

in comparison, my normal squat workout takes me about an hour to get through - then i do some other excercises...so i definitely have my work cut out for me to be in better condition