Daily:
Run a few miles
Flip a tire in my back yard, not sure of the weight
Sledge hammer the hell out of the tire
Crunches and flutter kicks if i'm not lazy
Deadlift and military presses every other day
Stay between 225 and 315 till i total 100 reps on DL
Stay between 100 and 150 till i total 100 reps
On alternate days it's
Chest and tri's-flat bench, different tri exercises depending what i want that day
Back and bi's-t bar rows, super set curls and db curls
Bench and rows i go heavy as i can reps from 3-8
Tri's and bi's light to medium weight for high reps, 7-14
No rest days per say, i just rest when i feel it, or when i have stuff going on that day...
Originally posted by riv6672
Daily:
Run a few miles
Flip a tire in my back yard, not sure of the weight
Sledge hammer the hell out of the tire
Crunches and flutter kicks if i'm not lazyDeadlift and military presses every other day
Stay between 225 and 315 till i total 100 reps on DL
Stay between 100 and 150 till i total 100 repsOn alternate days it's
Chest and tri's-flat bench, different tri exercises depending what i want that day
Back and bi's-t bar rows, super set curls and db curlsBench and rows i go heavy as i can reps from 3-8
Tri's and bi's light to medium weight for high reps, 7-14No rest days per say, i just rest when i feel it, or when i have stuff going on that day...
Sledgehammer.. Is that with an actual hammer or is that some workout slang I don't know?
How long does all that take?
Originally posted by riv6672Throw in pull/chinups and I'll expect to see you on American Ninja Warrior.
Daily:
Run a few miles
Flip a tire in my back yard, not sure of the weight
Sledge hammer the hell out of the tire
Crunches and flutter kicks if i'm not lazyDeadlift and military presses every other day
Stay between 225 and 315 till i total 100 reps on DL
Stay between 100 and 150 till i total 100 repsOn alternate days it's
Chest and tri's-flat bench, different tri exercises depending what i want that day
Back and bi's-t bar rows, super set curls and db curlsBench and rows i go heavy as i can reps from 3-8
Tri's and bi's light to medium weight for high reps, 7-14No rest days per say, i just rest when i feel it, or when i have stuff going on that day...
Originally posted by riv6672They recently had a 52-yr old complete the course, salmon ladder, warped wall, spider-walk, the whole shebang. But I hear ya. For me, it was 40 yrs of heavy lifting and heavybag that made my joints cry uncle. Now I keep things in the "optimal effort" / "comfortably difficult" range.
Not hardly.
I'm an old man with 20+ years of wear and tear on my joints courtesy of the US Army.
Originally posted by Mindship
Now I keep things in the "optimal effort" / "comfortably difficult" range.
The biggest and most muscular non-steroided person I have ever seen is this 67 year old guy at a gym I used to workout at.
He always does very high reps because of his joints. He does 20-50 reps.
Obviously, his diet and all that free-time he has contributed to his amazing physique, but there is something to be said about "doing work" in the exact way you described.
My personal method of dropping weight weight fast is cardio after fasting (i do intermittent fasting when i want to drop weight). Of course the usual low carb high protein routine to try and lean up.
I do have one problem area, freakin chest! I can seem to focus in chest muscle contraction for some reason. I end up feeling more at the shoulders instead.
Originally posted by dadudemonIt was a forced realization. For decades I swallowed all that BS of no pain, no gain, give 110%, yada yada yada. My training logs (when I kept them) were full of entries on overtraining -- some pages are nearly shredded because I was so frustrated. Now, I coax, not force. I keep a couple of reps in the tank with each set, and I never push to where my workouts exhaust me (back in the day, sometimes I'd push to where I'd almost throw-up or pass out).
The biggest and most muscular non-steroided person I have ever seen is this 67 year old guy at a gym I used to workout at.He always does very high reps because of his joints. He does 20-50 reps.
Obviously, his diet and all that free-time he has contributed to his amazing physique, but there is something to be said about "doing work" in the exact way you described.
In short: If I only knew then what I know now.
Originally posted by Scoobless58. I was 48 when my joints finally protested. I was trying for a military-press bodyweight @ age 50, but my rotator cuffs had other ideas. Thus, last bodyweight MP was when I was 42. Did 160.
All of a sudden I don't feel like the old guy in the room🙂
How old are you guys?
I start with cardio, I go about 4 days a week, and alternate between the gym...and at home. Weights and bodyweight, respectively.
Gym:
8.8 speed on tread then till up to 12 after I hit .75 miles up to a six minute mile. Good cardio to get blood flowing back to upper body.
Bench, 8x4
Machines, starting with chest as a super set, alternate between a chest group machine to a machine that works another group 15x2 on each alternating each set
Alternating sets like this for like a dozen machines, slowly reducing weight. High reps beats power in many aspects, better testosterone, endurance strength, volume, etc
Finish off machines alternating between rows and lat pull-downs still at 15x2 for each machine
Go do arms, chin-ups, db curls, and super 8's with the curly bar
Then I go to get some heavy ass dbs for shoulder shrugs, then I finish off with abs: starting with like 20 weighted reps, then finishing with like 125 stomach crunches all on the decline bar, last 25 reps would be abdominal twists to get those obliques targeted
That's a 2-3 hour day
At home bodyweight:
Start out for about 10 minutes non-stop of jump rope
super 8's for pull-ups
super 8's for climbing up and down a rail, that's for forearms, wrists and grip strength
50 or more pushups
Same ab routine as at the gym
Then I finish off with arcs for 15 minutes, last 5 is rolling my neck
Originally posted by riv6672This is some of the manliest shit I've ever read.
Daily:
Run a few miles
Flip a tire in my back yard, not sure of the weight
Sledge hammer the hell out of the tire
Crunches and flutter kicks if i'm not lazy
Like, it's the type of workout I could visualize Arnold Schwarzenegger's character doing as a montage during the opening credits of an action flick with synth-pop playing in the background.