Fitness and prepardness.. but im tired today

[GOPerfect]

So, I have been using the Elliptical for quite some time. Knees are beyond decrepit. About two weeks ago, I decided to switch over to the treadmill. After building up to it, I ran today for six miles. I did an average of an 8.5 min mile. Not too bad

 

[Automan21]

Well went back to the gym half of last week since I still felt like crap but today I’m all good and had a great workout. What I don’t get it how do people use these machines the wrong way. Like it’s supposed to make their workout better. Like using a lay pull down machine for triceps while standing up???? There’s a tricep machine right next to it wtf?
Sorry I just hate waiting to use something someone has no idea to use and is wasting both our time. I guess they’ve seen that kinda stuff online and thinks it’s cool, whatever.

 

[GOPerfect]

I was bored tonight, went to the gym and ran for 56 minutes. Sat in the steam room and just chilled, Played Angry Birds as I soaked up the steam.

 

[masterswimmer]

I was bored tonight, went to the gym and ran for 56 minutes. Sat in the steam room and just chilled, Played Angry Birds as I soaked up the steam.

How far did you run? Did you finally 'get there'?

Our gym has a no cell phones policy in the locker room, steam, sauna. Privacy issues.

 

[Celt]

Well went back to the gym half of last week since I still felt like crap but today I’m all good and had a great workout. What I don’t get it how do people use these machines the wrong way. Like it’s supposed to make their workout better. Like using a lay pull down machine for triceps while standing up???? There’s a tricep machine right next to it wtf?
Sorry I just hate waiting to use something someone has no idea to use and is wasting both our time. I guess they’ve seen that kinda stuff online and thinks it’s cool, whatever.

This is one of the main reasons why I've built up my own home gym. I don't have to wait for anybody.


And as for my own fitness journey, my shoulder still is not quite right. This tendonitis is taking a very long time to heal. I am still doing back workouts as that does not seem to aggravate my shoulder, and I am doing leg workouts. Right now I'm getting 3 days a week in. Then Im helping to coach my boys at wrestling three nights a week which is a lot of fun. I also got my treadmill fixed so I might start incorporating some running again myself.

When the time comes that my shoulder finally feels good enough to allow me to properly work out my entire upper body I will be posting about it like a madman on here. It's really been extremely frustrating for me as I've been a weightlifter for more than 25 years, and this has been very debilitating.

 

[Automan21]

Damn hopefully it heals up soon. I can do most of my workout at home but don’t have anything for legs.

 

[Celt]

Damn hopefully it heals up soon. I can do most of my workout at home but don’t have anything for legs.

There are tons of things you can do at home for legs. Of course having some good machines does make it easier but you could get really inventive at home. That's how I did it before I bought a power rack. I would do a lot of one-legged stuff. I would find something heavy enough to hold in my hand and do one legged stand-ups using a chair. You can do walking lunges while holding something heavy even a bucket full of water can work for resistance.
Get yourself one of the Swiss balls, and you can use that for doing leg curls, and calf raises can be done off of anything.

 

[Celt]

Ok, another update.

It's been many months now since I hurt my shoulder, was actually back on June 1st. So it's about 8 months. It has showed signs of getting better but it is not completely there yet. I was speaking to a fellow wrestling coach last night who happens to be a Physician Assistant and an expert in Orthopedics that said it may require surgery and removal of a portion of the bad tendon if it's been going on so long, but without seeing my MRI and doing a proper diagnosis he couldn't say for sure. I intend to go see my orthopedic doctor next week to discuss options.

In spite of this, I've still been making gains in the gym. Considering I can't do any real shoulder or chest work I've only been able to do back and legs, along with all the typical rotator cuff strengthening exercises for tendonitis. I also had to take a break from doing arms because of the golfer's elbow tendonitis. But considering I've been doing very heavy back work my arms have still grown in size, and my back is feeling like a rock again. I've also put on about 10 lb of muscle.

The body is like a balloon, once you blow it up to a certain size the first time it's easier to fill with air the second and third times. So my body weight is back up to 209 pounds currently which I feel much better at.

Although, if I will in fact need surgery on the bicep tendon where it connects in the shoulder, it will be a minimum of three months out of the gym for upper body.

Typically I've only been doing legs once a week as when I was doing it twice a week it started aggravating my knees, but I might have to split my leg workouts up to 2 days a week for push days and pull days.

 

[Automan21]

Omg golfers elbow is the worst. It seems to never go away. A 2 minute massage usually gets me through a workout but damn it’s annoying. Glad to hear you are still hitting the gym.

 

[Bananabandit]

Im still on a fitness diet...

fitness whole pizza in my mouth, which national pizza day was yesterday!

 

[SomeSoldier]

So, I have been using the Elliptical for quite some time. Knees are beyond decrepit. About two weeks ago, I decided to switch over to the treadmill. After building up to it, I ran today for six miles. I did an average of an 8.5 min mile. Not too bad

Nice that is AFPT standards for males ages 26.

 

[SomeSoldier]

So my wife and I bought a bow-flex max trainer. I like it because it was elliptical plus compact. So I have been able to use it twice because 4 weeks ago I fell on black ice and now I need an MRI.
But my diet has been going well, I slowly been removing any foods that are high in sugar. My goal has been to consume less than 30g of sugar per day. Meaning no pop, no sweets. I went to the Dr. yesterday for my knee and happy when weighed. I was 248lbs 5 months ago last weighted. I am down to about 242lbs now. So really I am attempting to make a lifestyle change over a long period to help remove and keep off the weight, so that it just doesn't all come back like in the past.
I really hope my knee isn't too serious as I would like to start my cardio training soon. My goal is to get back down to 200lbs but really I would love to be in the 190lbs range.

 

[GOPerfect]

So my wife and I bought a bow-flex max trainer. I like it because it was elliptical plus compact. So I have been able to use it twice because 4 weeks ago I fell on black ice and now I need an MRI.
But my diet has been going well, I slowly been removing any foods that are high in sugar. My goal has been to consume less than 30g of sugar per day. Meaning no pop, no sweets. I went to the Dr. yesterday for my knee and happy when weighed. I was 248lbs 5 months ago last weighted. I am down to about 242lbs now. So really I am attempting to make a lifestyle change over a long period to help remove and keep off the weight, so that it just doesn't all come back like in the past.
I really hope my knee isn't too serious as I would like to start my cardio training soon. My goal is to get back down to 200lbs but really I would love to be in the 190lbs range.

We are getting older each day. It gets tougher to lose the weight. Slow and small gains. Patience is important. I have lost a bunch of fat/bad weight and have made some really great muscle gains. Diet is more important than exercise. Both though are needed.

 

[Celt]

My goal is to be between 200 and 210 with my body fat below 12% ideally but I'll be happy if I can maintain below 15%. Im probably around 18% now.

And it sure is tougher being limited by age. Recovery time is slower. Whether it's cardio or strength training that you're doing it's better to do smaller increments more frequently during the week then to overdo it only a couple of days per week

 

[Celt]

Oh yeah, one more thing I wish I learned 25 years ago, every five or six weeks you need to take a deload week. That basically means that you either take the week off completely or you just reduce the workload of your exercise program at least 50%. This allows your body a chance to heal better. By doing this it will prolong your fitness program and help keep injuries away.

 

[Patriot]

Diet is more important than exercise. Both though are needed.

This is 100% spot on. I have been lifting since I was 13 years old, I’m 41 now and this is something I wished I would have learned early on. I used to think I could eat anything because I workout so much, but then would get frustrated that I couldn’t lose the last of the belly fat, or my chest wouldn’t get cut. Diet, diet, diet is the key. I can’t tell you how much my results improve when I’m careful about my diet. If you stuff your face with garbage, your results will be garbage and you will probably feel like garbage, regardless of how much you’re working out.

 

[Bananabandit]

We are getting older each day. It gets tougher to lose the weight. Slow and small gains. Patience is important. I have lost a bunch of fat/bad weight and have made some really great muscle gains. Diet is more important than exercise. Both though are needed.

I would hope so. Cant be having flabby cops around here.

 

[Celt]

Surgery this Friday to perform a subacromial decompression on my right shoulder. I went to the orthopedist yesterday and he put me through a series of range of motion movements to see where I was feeling pain. Then he gave me an injection of a numbing agent and repeated the movements to find the pain was gone. Based on that we established that the main source of pain now is the bone spur on the bottom of my acromium, so he's going in to remove it.

I had it done on the left shoulder years ago and it took about 6 to 8 weeks so I'm going to lose a lot of what I've recently gained, but hopefully I'll get it back quickly once the shoulder is healed, and then hopefully I can also start going to town on chest and shoulders again.

 

[camper4lyfe]

Short term loss for a long term gain. It may suck now but you’ll be glad you did it when you’re healed up.

 

[Automan21]

Damn Celt sorry. You will be back to it soon enough.

 

[masterswimmer]

Short term loss for a long term gain. It may suck now but you’ll be glad you did it when you’re healed up.

^^ This

 

[masterswimmer]

Good luck with the procedure. You'll be back bigger and better long haul.

 

[Patriot]

Sorry brother. Good luck with the surgery. Shoulder problems are a bitch. I had a minor tear in my labrum about a year ago. Haven’t been able to do any type of over head presses in over a year, but it doesn’t interfere with anything else, so I just avoid them altogether. Not a great plan, I should probably get it repaired. Good luck and remember to to do whatever PT they prescribe.

 

[Robin]

Best to you Celt!!!!
Robin

 

[Celt]

In hospital, nerve block and anesthesia kicking in. Be back later.

 

[GOPerfect]

In hospital, nerve block and anesthesia kicking in. Be back later.

Good luck my friend!

 

[masterswimmer]

Good lucky buddy. You must be under the knife by now or even in recovery. Hope you had a restful sleep.

 

[JaguarJaguarGolf]

#Celt. Praying all goes well and you're back on track by summer.

I've mostly been hiking about 4 miles 5x a week with the pup, some light lifting and swimming just about every weekday night. A sauna to finish up.

Rough start to the new year. My brother and 3 good friends died between December 30th and the first week of February. My brother and my longest friend from heart attacks that I think were related to the flu, one slipped on the ice in his driveway,hit his head and died of a cranial bleed 2 days later(had a cat-scan at ER), the last from cancer 4 months after it was diagnosed.

My wife told me she filed for divorce the end of January. We have a sitdown with the lawyers next week.

The eye doctor told me I have cataracts and glaucoma.

I'm OK, I'm not squirrelly about any of it. My wife is nuts and if she doesn't want to be with me, well, bye. The eye issues can be handled by medicine and surgery. What bothers me is my brother and my friends all were under a Doctor's care in the weeks and days before they died. The flu deaths went to the Doctor because they were short of breath. The head injury went to the ER and had a cat-scan, the cancer death had an annual medical. He didn't drink to excess, non-smoker, athlete. I guess when your time is up, it's up.

 

[Robin]

Thoughts are with you Pard!
Robin

 

[Celt]

Home now, right arm had a nerve block so I have absolutely no feeling. Feels like somebody else's arm attached to my body. Here is a picture on the left you can see the pointy bone spur and below that is my tendon where it was digging in. Right picture shows it all cleaned up.