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Our new ERE exercise goal? https://youtu.be/Ji3-EzkOCtg

Watch the whole thing. It's ... humbling. He's barely breaking a sweat.

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jennypenny wrote:
Thu Apr 20, 2017 8:54 pm
Our new ERE exercise goal? https://youtu.be/Ji3-EzkOCtg

Watch the whole thing. It's ... humbling. He's barely breaking a sweat.
Saw it a couple of days ago. Dude moves like he's running on hydraulics rather than bone and muscle!

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jennypenny wrote:
Thu Apr 20, 2017 8:54 pm
Our new ERE exercise goal? https://youtu.be/Ji3-EzkOCtg

Watch the whole thing. It's ... humbling. He's barely breaking a sweat.
Extremely impressive and very inspiring, but not directly because of how in shape or strong he is currently. More so because of the impressive efficiency of movement and iron clad control of those movements. It's why I follow certain people on Instagram like some of the Crossfitters and one woman out of Seattle (@KaisaFit) who is extremely impressive.

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I agree, the movements are impressive. When he does that double-tap on the top of the dumbbells during pushups ... sweet.

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Yeah, I liked the double tap and when he was climbing all over the cable machine pull-up area. Very impressive.

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"The US didn't launch those Tomahawks at Syria, this guy threw them"

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I don't think that sort of fitness is ere. I'm leaning on longevity rather than strength or endurance. Absent years of body mechanics training and physical training, it's highly likely that I will injure myself attempting to imitate. I know too many former military people that are hobbled by the experience. No thanks.


As for my current fitness. (5'9" 160lbs)
20" three step jump vertical
8 minute mile for 5 miles, climbing and descending1200'
50 push ups nonstop
Leg press 450lbs (can't do more because pressure on lower back)
40+ second handstands
Can curl up from "Crow" to headstand but lowering is shaky.


I'm working on core next. My yoga teachers are laughing when they get to "rowing the boat" (legs up , chest up, body in a v; now lower both to 6" above the ground & repeat)

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The only exercise he does that has a chance of causing lasting damage is when he slides his arms way out in front of him from the push up position. That might put enough stress on the shoulder joints to be an issue, but even then as long as you don't train through any pain it's probably not long-term detrimental.

The hobbled military people are probably hobbled because they had to/were forced to work through injuries, obvious overuse, etc., as opposed to the actual workout. It would seem to be the nature of the job, more than the workouts. Kind of like if a construction worker who works out develops arthritis or some other hobbling ailment. It was probably the work not the workout, as discomfort, bad form, etc. can be removed from the workout but not the work.

The same can be said of former NFL players. The workouts that cause future health issues it was the practices and games they played through with injuries. They have almost constant low level injuries that don't get to properly heal for months due to the practices and games.

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I've made a lot of progress just by doing this aesthetics-focused routine twice a week:

3 incline bench
3 chinups
3 overhead press
4-5 lateral raises
4-5 suspension band face pulls
3 bicep curls
3 tricep pushdowns

The raises, face pulls, and pushdowns are all done rest pause style. Everything else is done reverse pyramid, with long rest periods and low-medium reps.

I might add some some minor ab and leg work down the line, but right now all I care about is reaching my genetic potential on those muscles that have a real visual impact (delts, upper pecs, lats, and arms).

Call me vain, but let's be honest here: the vast majority of people lift in order to attract the opposite sex. And last time I checked, no woman has ever slept with a man for his squat numbers.

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FrugalFred wrote:
Sun May 28, 2017 2:12 pm
...Call me vain, but let's be honest here: the vast majority of people lift in order to attract the opposite sex. And last time I checked, no woman has ever slept with a man for his squat numbers.
If you're looking to please superficial people, you're going to get what superficial people have to offer. ;)

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So...I fractured my wrist. (I know, don't say it.) I'm having trouble running because my hand swells while I run and the cast gets really tight. Any idea how to avoid that without having to run with my arm in the air like I have a question?

Also, any ideas on how to do upper body workouts without using my wrist? I thought maybe I could attach ankle weights to my biceps somehow? It hasn't been an issue up to now because I also hurt my rotator cuff when I hurt my wrist, but that's healing nicely and I think my ortho will lift restrictions on that tomorrow.

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Do you do MMA fights on the side? How do you get hurt so much? :) Maybe exercise bands would be helpful if you have some place to anchor them. They aren't super expensive either.

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Haha ... I'm like the anti-wolverine.

Got a removable cast today, so that solves the swelling problem. I asked the ortho about modified upper body exercises. He kinda yelled at me and then said I could do any yoga that didn't involve putting pressure on the arm. That's something, I guess.

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Doctors always seem to be ultra conservative with stuff like this. So many seem to treat everyone like they are about to die and all you have is a broken wrist.

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Wow, I'm a little rusty at the yoga thing. And as soon as you tell yourself "don't put your arm down" you can't help but do so. Multiple times. :roll: I found a 'chair' yoga thing online for people who are barely mobile but it reminded me of the days when I *was* one of those people so I turned it off. Too depressing. I'm back to air boxing and those stupid arm circles they make you do in grade school. I'm lifting with the other arm a little, but I don't want to look like that guy in Lady in the Water.

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After much hesitation, I acquired some rubber coated dumbbells so I could start on Insanity Asylum (I've been sitting on the DVDs for two years). I'm prone to acquiring sporting equipment that's too esoteric to unload easily, clubbells, kettlebells, rings, swords, running backpacks, ... and my strategy was that this has gotta stop. But I was getting bored with regular Insanity, so it was time.

Asylum is even harder than the other two. Unlike Insanity which is based on three sets of 4x30-45 second exercises with 30 second breaks between the sets where you're supposed to take a break whenever you need it; or Max30 which is typically three sets of 30 seconds with very few breaks and you're supposed to push yourself being your previous best, Asylum is closer to set after set of 1 minute without breaks. Compare it to the "pure cardio" workouts of Insanity as far as the format goes.

While the other two have a fairly low footprint and no requirement for equipment (although you'd be highly advised to wear shoes!), Asylum is $@#$@#$! larger. It uses a agility ladder. First I made my own out of duct tape and paint sticks only to find that I had to move it around constantly depending on whether I had to do a plank along the ladder or perpendicular to it to the left or to the right or in the middle or in the end. If you use a ladder which never moves like in the DVDs, you need a floor space of 12x18 ft plus a safety buffer to avoid jumping into furniture. If you don't have that much space, you'll be moving the thing around constantly trying to figure out how to about drop-kicking the couch when you do a plan :? However, I realized that the tiling in our living room is exactly the same dimensions as the ladder, so now I just lay out some paint sticks to simulate a ladder and guide the eye. You'll also be on the floor a lot, so sweat and slipperiness is an issue. I started wearing gloves just to contain it! :shock:

(Doing it in 80F and 60% humidity doesn't help either I suppose.)

TL;DR - You need much more space. If you're in a 1bd/1ba apartment or something ... it's probably not going to happen .. or you'll need to figure something out. I'm pretty sure there would have been no way in our old apartment least the entire living room had been turned into a dedicated gym .. and that would have been a hard sell to DW.

The ladder is useful because it makes it a lot harder to slack or cheat. E.g. on in-out abs ... previously you could just do whatever .. now there are zones so 18", 36" or 54" inches. I like that. I noticed in particular that the different incentives between Insanity and Max30 lead to a much slackier form in Max30. If you wanna do jumping jacks at 80rpm, form is inevitably going to suffer as range gets limited. Limbs simply can't move that fast. Also contrast and compare power jumps.

Also requires a jump rope for the warmup. As part of the warmup, it's presumed that you can do double-swings for 1 minute straight(*) as a matter of course, just to illustrate the level. While I find myself yawning during Insanity warmups, Asylum warm-ups are enough to send me out for the count a few times.

(*) Standard warmup is something like 5 minute straight of jump roping .. Not the regular stuff, but high knees, double swings, criss-cross, hop squats, ...

Also required are dumbbells (As mentioned), bands, lines/cords, and a pull-up station. It's possible to substitute lines for the DBs and pull-up station and exercises are given for that ... but it's certainly not the same effect. BTW, I got 25lbs dumbbells. I figured that would be light enough w/o being shameful. Nope ... 20 or even 15 would probably have been better. You're not doing silly biceps curls as much as you're doing Insanity moves with weight, at Insanity speeds.

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My Mon-Fri routine:
6-10 miles total on my bike (commute + errands).

45 minutes of either ultimate frisbee or pushups, pullups & sprints (currently I get in 100 of each + 4x400m).

Either a kettlebell workout (farmer carry, snatches, goblet squats, swings, farmer carry back) or I go to the climbing gym.

I try to do yoga too. I'm very un-flexible.

I'm 6 feet 2 inches, 160 lb.

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If you didn't see FBeyer's journal, he recommended a book called Move Your DNA. I read it last night and it was worth a read. I'm still mulling it over but I wonder if I should cut back on the exercise time and build in more purposeful movement like Bowman describes in the book.


I added VSL #3 to my regimen. Wow, what a difference ... mental as well as physical. I have celiac with constant stomach issues and persistent anemia, so maybe it's making more of a difference for me than it would for someone else? Not sure, but I'm very happy I tried it. I only need 2/day in a small cup of yogurt to feel the effects. I read that taking it with yogurt 'feeds' it, making it more effective.

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https://www.livestrong.com/stronger/ Free 8 week program (haven't done/tried it)

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