First off the ridiculousness of these things never gets old for me.
A while back I was up to 4 sets of 10 with 205lbs deadlifting. Not amazing but I was proud of it. Then I pulled a glute muscle and generally my joints aren’t great so I took time to heal and to physically therapy. Been starting back slow and keep getting delayed cause work and life but I’m slowly working back up to it. Everything took a hit and weights been reduced across the board but I’m not gonna let myself get discouraged. Some progress better than no progress.
What are you all working towards? Have a strategy? Want to boast on your gains or vent your frustrations?
I just bought a workout bench from a friend for half of what it’s worth. I’m not overweight but I’ve not cared to take care of myself until recently so I want my flabby tummy and tits to get flattened, my arms and legs are already getting how I want because I have some weights and a exercise bike. I’m not sure what regiment I should do exactly but I want to end up toned so I can wear my pink cutoff shirt with the word “Ouch!” on it.
I do bench presses, overhead presses, deadlifts, squats, weighted lunges, and curls. Trying to work towards pull ups as well. These will hit over 80% of your muscle groups. I do one full set per week of each lift.working towards 3-4 sets of 10 reps. I find this works best for me for general gains. I alternate weeks for squats and lunges cause my old man knees. Usually do deadlifts and benches on the same day and OHP and lunge/squat when I’m feeling healed. Usually a Monday and Thursday thing. Then curls I just do a few sets on each day. My heaviest dumbbells are some 35lbs I made myself. I need to make some 40s but these have been fine to keep my biceps at a good size. Also throw pull up attempts when I’m deadlifting cause the bar is out of the way if my rack. I’m slowing getting close to doing more than one. Lmao.
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Squats are the bane of my existence. My hip joints just don’t like bending that way and I’m there no way I’ll ever be able to do a deep squat. I’ve been doing weighted lunges to to try and work the muscles I can’t get low enough in a squat to hit. I’ve found my knees and glutes like the lunges more than squats to boot.
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I AM going to cut some wedges out of some 4X6 blocks I have and try those eventually. I just have to get off my butt and out to the barn to cut some. lol.
I can get just low enough without to get to proper squat but it seems like there always a risk of pissing off something. My ankle mobility is fine when you measure how far I can bend them. I know it’s my hip joints. The physical therapist even said I should talk to my Dr about either x-rays or MRIs of them based on the pain I have and how my mobility is with them.
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I have like 30-45 minutes of stretches I try to do 5 days a week. Most from the physical therapist. It takes priority over lifting. Does get kind of old but got to keep at it. Getting old sucks. lol
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I’ve done the time overflow on my elliptical a few times. 1hr 40 minutes isn’t so bad though time wise. I just watch a shit load of anime or some other show and loose track of time. 5 hours though I’m pretty sure my knees would go out before that lol. My legs were usually rubber by the time I got off for anything over an hour. Unfortunately my elliptical died a while back. I had bolted parts back in and replaced the rollers on it several times before I just couldn’t put it back together no more. Now I got fancy treadmill and can say walking/jogging is much more energy intensive than ellipticalling ever was. Even when I turned up the resistance. it gets my heart rate up way more than the elliptical ever could. Good luck with the pedaling comrade.
