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3 hours ago, Technico Support said:

I don’t even know what a seal row is.  I’m going to assume it’s a regular row, but you sing “Kiss From a Rose” while you do it.

"Crazy", actually!

So, you take a bench and elevate one end higher by putting blocks under it. You place the barbell under the bench (you need the elevation for reasonable range of motion). You lie on your stomach on the bench (like a seal, I'd assume?) And start rowing (and singing "Crazy", obviously) trying to connect the bar to the bottom of the bench to indicate a full rep. Repeat until the ROM becomes so sad that the barbell hardly leaves the ground. Use padding where necessary (under the plates, on top of the bench and on the bar where it connects with the bottom of the bench) so you won't break stuff.

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Ok, so the actual workout tonight was volume Trapbar off the blocks. No deficit lifts this week, since I don't want any more places on me feeling "not okay".

Warm up from the floor level, 5x253, 5x363 then 5x458 off the half blocks (no Versas) and then inside 30 minutes, with Versas 75x564 (3 reps off the half blocks, 9 off the 3/4 blocks and the other 63 off the full blocks), then 4 sets of shrugs with 469, 374, 264 and 154.

Friday afternoon, I have the sports massage appointment yeah, I definitely need it.

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The massage appointment went like it was supposed to, but I was having some trouble with my left leg, calf and ankle which were seriously swollen for a couple of days. The calf was twitching after the massage and I was getting a bit worried about it, but it seems a lot better now, after a couple of days of rest and elevation, compression and icing. This really makes me feel like my age is finally catching up to me, but at least I have enough tricks up my sleeve to make myself functional again, if it's nothing really serious.

On another interesting note, there is a brand new obstacle course near the steps I always go running up during the diet. Right now, I don't feel like my lower body is ready for something like that, but you know I have to give it a try before the winter. If that doesn't sound like a disaster waiting to happen, I don't know what is?

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My project to work out a little lighter but still lose weight is working so far.  Yesterday I finally passed the 70 pounds milestone.  I don’t believe in “starvation mode” but I do think the body is less efficient w/r/t how it uses food when it’s just thoroughly exhausted.  Anyway, onward and upward as I try to figure out a good weight to stop losing and start maintaining.  I’ve been aiming for 235 and I’m 239 now, but I may go a little lower.  Thanks for reading!

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9 hours ago, Technico Support said:

My project to work out a little lighter but still lose weight is working so far.  Yesterday I finally passed the 70 pounds milestone.  I don’t believe in “starvation mode” but I do think the body is less efficient w/r/t how it uses food when it’s just thoroughly exhausted.  Anyway, onward and upward as I try to figure out a good weight to stop losing and start maintaining.  I’ve been aiming for 235 and I’m 239 now, but I may go a little lower.  Thanks for reading!

Great work! Let's see (without any pressure) how close to each other's weights we can get by the end of the year! I had an evening weight of 195 last night, looking promisingly lean. I'm aiming for 215, but hoping to do it as slowly as possible.

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7 hours ago, Shartnado said:

Great work! Let's see (without any pressure) how close to each other's weights we can get by the end of the year! I had an evening weight of 195 last night, looking promisingly lean. I'm aiming for 215, but hoping to do it as slowly as possible.

I've always been overweight; the lowest I ever managed to get in my life was around 190, but that was like 20 years ago and I actually looked a little too gaunt.

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I think that the universe is trying to tell me something. I hurt my right shoulder yesterday while going for 88lb dumbell overhead press. Actually, I only got the dumbell to the starting position, felt a jolt of pain and stopped right there. This was at the very beginning of the workout.

So the rest of the workout was me testing how badly it was messed up and what can and can't I do with it. No serious effect on pulling movement, as I did a set of hammer curls with 88's at the end. I'm also able to do pushing movements, but obviously with a lot less weight but raising my arm to the side does hurt, although I do have full range of motion to every direction that the arm is supposed to go, but not painlessly.

Today I continued to see what I can still do and things like shrugs and curls, flies, pushdowns, lat pull downs can still be performed without problem but obviously this really sucks.

So, I guess it's hypertrophy time for a while now, as any record weights are not happening until further notice.

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Meadows Row pyramid today in a super quick workout due to lack of time. Top set was 6x190,5 with both arms. On the way back down I did a few sets in a drop-set fashion, as I just took weight off and continued with the next set without interruption.

On the way over to gym/work I felt really tired. So, it's definitely possible that this was the last workout for this week.

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Ok, so this was the last workout of the week, as there's a slight change in schedule, where I will arrive and leave work earlier, so no time for a workout on Friday.

Had to get a leg day in, tired or not. I put ALL the resistance bands to the squat machine, along with 140, 234, 278, 372, 423 and 467 of weights. Top set was 6x467, not super deep, but decent enough, I guess? Didn't go down the pyramid, since I was just happy I didn't break anything further with the heaviest set.

Did calf raises starting from 328 and downwards. Some lat pull downs and light shrugs with 154 plus a good ab work at the end.

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I had to do some leg work at the office gym Tuesday, ended up slightly straining my lower back on the shitty leg press.  I’m probably too tall for it, being forced into an unnatural position.  Didn’t stop me from running yesterday or back and biceps today.  One more workout to go for the week — chest, tris, and shoulders tomorrow!

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Week starts with usual upper body stuff, albeit a lot lighter due to the right shoulder. After the usual warm-up, I did single arm dumbell press with the right arm starting very light, doing 10 reps and changing to a bigger dumbell. 13, 17,5, 22, 26,5, (after thits, it was less than 10 reps) 31 , 35, 39,5 and one rep with 44. That started to hurt. With the left arm, I started at ten reps with 53 and ended with 70,5 for two reps.

4 sets of resistance band lat pull downs with 3 bands, instead of 2. Some push downs and chest flies as well.

Couple of sets of incline dumbell bench with 39,5's and 44's, followed by sitting dumbell curls and hammer curls.

One set of shrugs with 154 and two sets of standing hammer curls with a pair of 88's.

Complete ab work set at the end.

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Going to try counting calories for the first time in my life. Also maybe I should work out in some form for the first time in a couple years.

I'm tired of being a tired fat fuck.

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The BEEP scheme gets you reduced Gym, Swimming and all classes cheaper. Tried booking my classes online as you do 8 days in advance but I couldn't as it said I had debts. Like fuck I did as I cancel well in advance so others can take my spot. It was even more surprising as the new system was introduced months earlier and never had that issue. Rang up and they waived them. Turned out others were experiencing the same troubles.

Had my fourth Spirals class last Wednesday, it's a mixture of Pilates/Yoga/Tai-Chi. Funny moment when Christine the instructor said twice: "Ok, ladies" and "Alright, girls" then she saw me saying "I'm going to have to stop saying that". Started to make mates there which is what I was missing from the Pilates class, I the people but the instructor gets above his station like questioning doctor's advice. Haven't been in four months. It's funny how I'm the only guy in both. Doesn't bother me.

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3 hours ago, Death From Above said:

Going to try counting calories for the first time in my life. Also maybe I should work out in some form for the first time in a couple years.

I'm tired of being a tired fat fuck.

Go for it, man!  I recommend using an app.  I use Calory myself, but there are plenty of them out there.  All the best to you.  It's a tough road, but rewarding.  90% of weight loss happens in the kitchen, you can't outrun your fork, etc.  Obviously check in to this thread or PM for advice and all that! 

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19 hours ago, Technico Support said:

Go for it, man!  I recommend using an app.  I use Calory myself, but there are plenty of them out there.  All the best to you.  It's a tough road, but rewarding.  90% of weight loss happens in the kitchen, you can't outrun your fork, etc.  Obviously check in to this thread or PM for advice and all that! 

Yeah I have a friend that is a hardcore vegan and fitness freak. Listen, I'm not quitting meat anytime soon. But they know their shit. They are 39 and look maybe 25, it's crazy. They pointed me to the My Fitness Pal app which seems pretty comprehensive for being able to (at least roughly, brand specifics and all that) track what your food is putting in your body and that's definitely a big thing for me. On top of starting some manageable amount of excercise for me I'm trying to cut back to 2 meals a day and eliminate a lot of the junk food snacking that's been fucking me over for years between (relatively) alright meals. It's very early days but getting under the "recommended" daily intake of 2500 calories into a deficit that should help me burn fat hasn't been nearly as backbreaking as I feared for years. it helps that I actually like fruits to begin with, and I've been eating a salad with dinner anyway for ever.

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2 hours ago, Death From Above said:

Yeah I have a friend that is a hardcore vegan and fitness freak. Listen, I'm not quitting meat anytime soon. But they know their shit. They are 39 and look maybe 25, it's crazy. They pointed me to the My Fitness Pal app which seems pretty comprehensive for being able to (at least roughly, brand specifics and all that) track what your food is putting in your body and that's definitely a big thing for me. On top of starting some manageable amount of excercise for me I'm trying to cut back to 2 meals a day and eliminate a lot of the junk food snacking that's been fucking me over for years between (relatively) alright meals. It's very early days but getting under the "recommended" daily intake of 2500 calories into a deficit that should help me burn fat hasn't been nearly as backbreaking as I feared for years. it helps that I actually like fruits to begin with, and I've been eating a salad with dinner anyway for ever.

Sounds good.  Best of luck to you and, as always, again, please feel free to ask questions.  Please remember, small changes at first, and the best diet plan (or workout plan, or almost anything in life) is the one that you can stick to.

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3 hours ago, Death From Above said:

Yeah I have a friend that is a hardcore vegan and fitness freak. Listen, I'm not quitting meat anytime soon. But they know their shit. They are 39 and look maybe 25, it's crazy. They pointed me to the My Fitness Pal app which seems pretty comprehensive for being able to (at least roughly, brand specifics and all that) track what your food is putting in your body and that's definitely a big thing for me. On top of starting some manageable amount of excercise for me I'm trying to cut back to 2 meals a day and eliminate a lot of the junk food snacking that's been fucking me over for years between (relatively) alright meals. It's very early days but getting under the "recommended" daily intake of 2500 calories into a deficit that should help me burn fat hasn't been nearly as backbreaking as I feared for years. it helps that I actually like fruits to begin with, and I've been eating a salad with dinner anyway for ever.

An app is only as good as the info you feed it. Get a digital scale and measure things. I had both for the longest time and still fooled myself on some things by not being diligent. Granted, it was primarily Greek yogurt, so hard to overdo that. 

If the rest of this thread and its usual suspects are any indicator, the #1 slogan around here is, "Find a way to fall in love with doing hard things." Comparatively, the food intake is still harder than the exercise.

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Yeah in terms of doing the hard things, I honestly figure it can't be much harder than what I was already putting my body and mind through to be honest. I've never had an alcohol or drug problem, but I do have a junk food problem. And in true junkie behaviour a few nights ago I was sitting there eating a family sized bag of Cheetos by myself and about 80% of the way through the thing, I just asked myself what the fuck am I even doing? I felt like shit physically, I felt like shit mentally. Even putting aside the long term effects that kind of behaviour has had on me as my junk food eating has gotten worse, the short term effect on me is awful. Like I was doing all the addict shit where you sneak your product when no one is around because you know full well you're behaving shamefully but you just want more.

Dusty Rhodes, hard times, ect etc etc

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Hey hey.

Still training an' ting. 

Not skinny by any means, but got the weight down to 110kg for my bro's wedding. Currently walking around between 113-114kg but I started back on the creatine.

Dealing with some left elbow issues though, have had to rein the arm work in.

I bit the bullet and bought a Ninja Creami. Tbh it's amazing - we now eat a lot of protein ice-cream with really pretty excellent macros. For Europeans, I can say that the Amfit protein is not the best for mixing into shakes, but the flavours I have tried taste great and it works really well for ice-cream.

I've actually got quite a lot of video footage, so I'll do a montage or something lol. But today's workout was

Leg Curls (I'm a rep or two off my previous at 60kg, but at much lowerbody weight)

Angles90 (fake Temu version) Grip Smith Machine Rows (first time, these are v. nice if I do say so myself)

Barbell Rows (2 x 10 90kg - PR)

20 rep Leg Press sets with superset calves
Leg Raises (I've been better at getting some ab work in)

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@deathfromabove - I generally found on my recent diet phase that the thing to do is to try to find things that are small and supersweet to satiate cravings. I ate quite a lot of rice krispie squares - they're quite tricky to binge on. I also sucked boiled sweets - obviously you shouldn't do that all day but 2-3 a day won't really kill your macros if you're dieting as opposed to cutting.

For me, if I mess up it tends to be right at the end of the day - that's largely what the protein ice-cream is for, but sometimes I'll mix yoghurt with flavoured whey protein.

Ultimately popcorn is probably the best option in terms of salty treats. I actually have never tried mixing with flavoured whey but there are plenty of recipes for 'anabolic popcorn' out there.
 

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Holy shit! The one week I don't feel like writing shit down, the thread sees more action than in months. Probably a sign that I should seriously ease up on the reporting...

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I got a couple 10 pound dumbells from Walmart and my friend linked me to this. Did it for the first time yesterday, except for the one excercise that requires an angled bench. It was hard but goddamn that's a solid workout with like under $40 of Walmart investment. That overhead tricep thing was a bitch so late in the routine. My quads are feeling it today too lol. 

https://youtu.be/HDb1rhqVRxk?si=v_WRWlTjgk79i2tI

No complaints. I haven't been at this long but I honestly already feel better physically than I have in ages, presumably because in the first few days I'm flushing a lot of bad shit I had built up in my system. I also haven't had a single snack between meals since I started and that hasn't been nearly as backbreaking as I feared. I think it really is just a case that I am tired of living that way.

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Ok, so there were 4 workouts this week, nothing too noteworthy until today, but I did do Meadow's Row with top set of 6x205 with both arms and squat machine with top set of 6x359 (plus all the resistance bands and going deep) in the same workout.

Today, I did Trapbar off the blocks. Best stuff was 4x753, 2x848, 1x861 and 7x742 and a bunch off stuff on the way down. Nice to see that at least Meadows Row, hammer curls, squat machine and trapbar haven't suffered any due to the messed up right shoulder. That one seems like another forever injury that I'll just have to work around and rehab on my own, until it gets better or seriously worse.

Either way, it sucks that most of the press movements will be nothing special at best or really bad at worst for the rest of the year at least (if my past clavical/ ac-joint injury is any indication, although this is nowhere that bad).

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Just a few notes n my recent training:

For the last 6 weeks I have trained almost exclusively with my gf, sometimes I get in a bit earlier but not so much recently. There is a degree of compromise in turns of the workouts, but I generally try to make it stuff we both want to do. I *mostly* pick the exercises.

Roughly speaking the breakdown has been:

Tues - Chins & Dips until recently, though this has become more of a push + high-rep bicep day now.

Weds - Hamstring & (Upper) Back. This was deadlifts & RDLs, then leg curls and barbell rows mostly. Some Quad work towards the end.

Sat - General Upper Body. Recently this has meant close-grip Smith Machine 45 degree Incline & wide mag grip pulldowns as primaries. Top sets on each today sets of 8 for 88kg & 75kg respectively. Yes I actually walk into the gym with the mag grip handle.

Sun - Quads & Rear Delts (Cable Reverse-Flyes mostly). Sounds like a funny combo, but it works. We have been doing Hyperextensions on this day too. The quad work is mostly high-rep & not too serious - we grind but it's more an athletic/mobility thing. I mean yeah we do leg extensions too but actually my gf wanted them in.

The point is I suppose is that I've tried to slightly specialise on upper back, chest & to an extent delts. I think it has lead to a somewhat more aesthetic appearance in a t-shirt.

There's a big bodybuilding show in town this weekend, and there were 2 female competitors in doing some pumping and in 1 case posing - she had the clear heels and everything. My gf was staring a lot.

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