Getting serious.
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can be good to roll your foot out with a hardball or even a golf ball. Easy to forget all the muscles and stuff in your feet and that they can benefit from a bit of loving. Great to hear you are seeing the body change - pretty sure ass and thigh thicc-ness is similar to belly and love handles, areas we tend to bulk in! keep the momentum running bro and that weight will start to shift soon!!
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@raznomore said in Getting serious.:
Going to the gym 5 times a week. While I have no intention of doing a Mr & Mrs. Bartman it has become mine and my wife's thing.
Inspiring bro, I need to start doing the same.
Incidentally, what is Barts story, when I first joined here he was still running the show, cutting DVD's for us overseas posters and posting otherworldly erg times!
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@Paekakboyz I never really got man boobs or let my gut get really out of control but there's a difference there and the workmates can see it now. I went shopping for clothes over the weekend. I actually go against the grain and like shopping - when it's for me - but it's crazy that I have gone down 3 sizes in a short amount of time.
the mrs has all those muscle ball/roll things and I tried it but hasn't seemed to work.
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@raznomore I meant more what's the fitness reference? You made it sound like they're a tandem bodybuilding crew or something now?
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@raznomore said in Getting serious.:
@voodoo they were :). They were doing nz masters events
Ha, v impressive!
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So going on a month now with a sore foot and it seems like it may be early-onset arthritis but get this, brought about by overconsumption of chili.
I read about this because I noticed after 2 cheat meals of hot n spicy kfc the pain came back. Its not gout and my dr has all but confirmed that. but when I had a chat with him on monday he said have you been eating much in the way of spicy food, I said every second meal. So I have to knock back the spicy food for a while to test it out. A month to be exact.
Once upon a time I'd never had a curry in my life or chili of any kind. I'd never even had capsicum aside from on the odd pizza and I'd usually pick it off. That was up until I was 17yo. Now at 41 we have chili in fucken everything. This is going to be tough.
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wtf? foot inflammation via chili? that is something new to me! Did the doc explain exactly how that works?
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He said that it was a commonly held belief that chili help reduce inflammation but excessive amount sand the but of some shit I can't remember can have an adverse effect. I put hot sauce on everything and eat jalapenos like popcorn. It might not be this but he based it on what I'd eaten in an around the times it was most sore and when it flared up.
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dude you must have a cast iron gut and heat shielding on your ass!! I love me some chili but you've taken it to a whole 'nother level!
Will be interesting to see what impact dialing back the heat has, and what level of consumption you (hopefully) can manage without symptoms.
This cracks me up as I'm just watching the Paul Rudd episode on Hot Ones
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fell out of the rhythm for a wee bit due to consecutive weekends of piss ups and the charge towards the EOY with work projects. Ive been waking at 4am due to stress and going to bed at 8pm through exhaustion.
Only been getting to the gym 2 times a week and it's not enough to maintain muscle mass for me. Im still at a healthy weight and I am still eating well(stress hasn't gotten to my appetite) so thats good. But I need that motivation back. Tomorrow is the last day of real work for me and im looking forward to having some clear headspace and energy to go and work out.
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I'm a lazy shit. Haven't put on the pounds just yet but there is a lot of lost definition and lost muscle mass.
I am going for the 3rd time this week and feeling better for it. I just let the holiday period get the better of me and I'm angry at myself. This week Im punishing myself with cardio. Also (safely) minimising the break times between sets. More circuit training too.
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@raznomore said in Getting serious.:
Also (safely) minimising the break times between sets
i do that too keep my heart rate up. i cut 10 minutes of a 52 minute work out by being disciplined on my "rest" times. The Garmin is perfect for it on the weight training mode.
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@mariner4life the Mrs has a Fenix thing that cost me a new set of golf clubs. I just use my phone
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@raznomore @mariner4life I can't do any form of exercise without the Garmin on. If it's not recorded and measured, it didn't happen. The idea of going out for a run or ride or swim without knowing how shit I was, is now insane to me.
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@voodoo said in Getting serious.:
@raznomore @mariner4life I can't do any form of exercise without the Garmin on. If it's not recorded and measured, it didn't happen. The idea of going out for a run or ride or swim without knowing how shit I was, is now insane to me.
Seconded .... I'd probably rather not exercise than not record it.
How shit is that?!?!?
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@MajorRage said in Getting serious.:
@voodoo said in Getting serious.:
@raznomore @mariner4life I can't do any form of exercise without the Garmin on. If it's not recorded and measured, it didn't happen. The idea of going out for a run or ride or swim without knowing how shit I was, is now insane to me.
Seconded .... is probably rather not exercise than no record it.
How shit is that?!?!?
Products of our time
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I'm off the grog until May (after tonight) and going to give the "plant-based" diet a go. Not for ethical reasons. Just to see if it works for me if I give it a real go. I did it for a month last year and lost a bit of weight in a short time but felt shit. I watched Game Changers months ago and thought it was mostly selective in its delivery of truths vs fallacies. So I'm not on that bandwagon. I'm talking to a couple of guys at my gym who go vegan most of the time. They are my age, been training for about 2 years and both were in worse shape than me when they started. these guys look fucken fantastic and they reckon it all started when they gave up, mostly, the meat.
Look you can say what you like about the vegan thing. I know I've said my fair share but I'm down to try anything to see if I get results.
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114kg - No injuries and I had access to a gym when no one else did, through the Mrs. I wasn't feeling bad or depressed about anything. I just enjoyed myself too much during the lockdown.
Im doing an extreme 8 weeker. 5x a week training. A completely unsustainable diet of 7 meals a day and about $60 worth of supplements a week.
