Seems like you would not want to buy too much stuff until you have reached a reasonably stable size.
I thought that I would be stable at M. Right now I’m a bit smaller than M. I may just live with M whichever way things go. Wearing XL and XXL while an M is a problem. One size isn’t as bad.
<p>Purple potato research:</p>
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<p>I need to buy new clothes as I lose weight. Need to see that I have made progress, because when I look in the mirror, the only thing that I can tell is different is that my double chin has turned into a turkey wattle. Hiding in my fat clothes (even if they are baggy) does not motivate me.</p>
<p>80 minutes of tennis, 6-4, 4-1 and then we lost the court. It was a decent workout but not the kind where you feel like you’ve been in a boxing ring. My left knee was not in very good shape and I didn’t have good mobility. I let several shots go that I normally would have gone after in the past. I was serving quite well, though, which kept me in the match in the first set. I was amazed that my opponent didn’t take advantage of my limited mobility - I suspect that he might have had some mobility problems too.</p>
<p>So I never made it on to the Airdyne yesterday. I’m at the stage of actually sweeping the basement floor. 3/4 of it are completely cleared and swept, the remaining quarter was where all my exercise stuff is. So, after moving some boxes of books and wine to what is now the “storage” area at the far other end, I had to move all the exercise stuff so I could sweep that area. That includes picking up and moving 700 pounds of weights so I could sweep, then moving them back. By the time I got done with that, I figured I really didn’t need any more workout! </p>
<p>I did farmer’s walks with the trap bar (140 lbs). That’s actually a pretty nice little exercise if you have room to maneuver without killing yourself. </p>
<p>Now that’s it’s all sweep out and organized, I’d kinda like to do a workout down there. But, house showings this morning and again this afternoon, so I’m off to dispose of set of old snow tires/rims at the salvage yard this morning and then to workout at the Worlds Worst Gym this afternoon. Man, Saturday afternoon at Planet Fitness. Those cardio machines are gonna be whirring!</p>
Just printed out my second Planet Fitness workout, so I’m ready to go this afternoon. At least I’ll figure out what can and can’t be done in the world’s worst gym! Something tells me that they wouldn’t go for box jumps up on top of the weight benches! I am going to have try step ups at some point though and see if that gets me a lunk alarm!
Tryng to figure out some deadlift options. Going to do dumbbell deadlifts today…
<p>Maybe you can get your own Boyle franchise in town.</p>
<p>Are you moving out of the Boston area or is this just a local move?</p>
<p>6 mile run on the trail per the 10K training plan.
Beautiful, sunny, cold morning, should have worn gloves but other than that, it all felt good. Not going to break any speed records, but it’s good to know that I could run a 10K at this point, no problem.
I will look around to see if there are any races coming up around here, but I won’t register until day of-- no more “donations”! If I can’t find anything, I will continue my “fake” training.
Tomorrow back in the gym, new class, new time, back to the awesome instructor, who, no doubt, will be kicking things up a notch.</p>
Sounds like things are going really well for you.
Did home weights and just got back from the YMCA doing the weight machines. I tried doing split squats in one of the fitness rooms. They were fine on one leg - the other leg registered pain when I tried to go down. So no split squats on that leg for a while. I went to the stock barbells, selected the 30 pound barbell and just did regular squats. My normal barbell weight on regular squats is 55-65 pounds so 30 pounds isn’t stressful.
BTW, I did have my knee sleeve on while attempting the split squat and it didn’t do enough or maybe it can’t help there. I’m meeting someone for tennis shortly and hope that we can get a court.
<p>Back from the worlds worst gym. More later!</p>
<p>For now, I’ll just comment that, if you are an ol’ fat guy, with more than 40 inch waist, you should not be sitting down to exercise (unless it’s doing intervals on an Airdyne bike).</p>
<p>idad, it sounds like you should get on the “How’s the House Selling Season Going?” thread.</p>
<p>Today’s run: 6.3 miles in 1:04:25. I had to walk a part of it, because the 3rd mile was entirely uphill, and I gave up after 3/4 of that mile. Started running again after walking for .2, ran another mile, walked .3, then ran the rest. I really want to be able to run the whole 10k. I still have another month to work on it though.</p>
<p>My brother is in town to run the Surf City Marathon tomorrow. I guess insanity runs in my family.</p>
<p>**WARMUP **
Quadruped thoracic rotation
Squat to stand
Ankle mobility
Quadruped hip extension
Curtsy lunge
Elbow pushups with walkout
Spiderman
Cook hip lift
Split squat
Hip hinge
Heel to butt walk</p>
<p>**CORE (2 sets) **
Tall Kneeling chop
Pallof Press
Upright dead bug
Farmers Walk (1 40lb DB overhead )</p>
<p>**POWER (3 sets) **<br>
DB jump Squat (2 x 30lb DB)</p>
<p>**STRENGTH 1 (3 sets) **<br>
Alternating Bench Press (2 x 35 lb DB)
Split Squat (2 x 35 lb DB)</p>
<p>**STRENGTH 2 (3 sets) **
Dumbbell Romanian Deadlift (2 x 70lb DBs)
Neutral grip chin ups (4 reps + 2 reps)</p>
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<p>Pretty good workout. The gym was only about half full and hardly anyone working in the weight area. Loved the kneeling chops with the cable column.</p>
<p>Jump squats were fine, although I may have to work them into the core set, just because I don’t have a second power exercise to go with them.</p>
<p>Split squats were tough without my Airex pad 
I had to back off on the weight for the third set.</p>
<p>Dumbbell deadlifts were tough with two 70 pound DBs. The actual deadlift part was OK, but it was right at the limit of my grip strength. The chinups were good. It’s a Cybex and I just flipped the foot thingie up out of the way and used it unassisted. I did four good reps, stopped, and did 2 more, in each set.</p>
blankmind, you and I were doing the same thing today. I have now fully embraced the “Gallo-walk” method and feel no shame in breaking up my run with a 3-5 minute run, followed by 1 minute power walk, back to 3-5 minute run pattern. I never trained for my half marathons and marathon like that, so initially it felt weird, but now I really like the method.
idad- way to make that gym work for you. I think I would just brazenly bring in my Airex pad and use it. What’s it to them? My gym has the pads and bands etc. all for general use, but I can’t imagine they would object to people bringing in their own stuff, if you weren’t in the way. (And my place considers itself to be quite tony. Chalk is verboten)
I don’t think Planet Fitness will let you bring in any equipment. They likely consider it a liability which I could see to some degree.
<p>Got in an hour of tennis. I was up two breaks when we got kicked off. We were spoiled being able to play two to three hours last year. Seems like there are many more tennis players this year.</p>
<p>Would a towel work?</p>
<p>About gyms: I have learned a lot from watching other people do things with various pieces of equipment that I never would have thought of. So it might not be all bad.</p>
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<p>I’ve never seen so many bicep curls in my life. I think the drill is that the treadmills and ellipticals “work the legs” and then the weights “work the arms”.</p>
<p>Of course, I’m one to talk. I’m on injured reserve tonight. I whacked my knee pretty good doing the split squats. I’m hoping it’s one of those things that clears up by itself. Feels like a bruise of some sort.</p>
<p>It better clear up. I’ve got buffalo chicken wings and blue cheese dip to cook tomorrow!</p>