Workout: What did you do today?

[DJChameleon]

Here they are 😯 the first one is literally the day I decided to start lifting again, would have been the first week of January 2020. The other two were taken within the past few months:

https://ibb.co/bKwYyYK
https://ibb.co/WGvRJX6

If you can make a small change or commitment, stick to that for one month, you are more likely to succeed. Could be going for a walk three times a week, cutting out soft drinks or not skipping breakfast etc. Once you start to see some progress and your body changing you will find it easier imo.

Enjoy the journey and not just the end destination. Looking forward to seeing how you get on mate

damn bro you are yoked. I had no clue that you looked like a bodybuilder. I guess I should have expected that but looking good sir.

I don't feel confident enough to post a pic yet but maybe in the next two weeks or so. Not like I'm going to add so much muscle in that time but yeah I just need some time.

[Lexi Darling]

Here they are 😯 the first one is literally the day I decided to start lifting again, would have been the first week of January 2020. The other two were taken within the past few months:

https://ibb.co/bKwYyYK
https://ibb.co/WGvRJX6

If you can make a small change or commitment, stick to that for one month, you are more likely to succeed. Could be going for a walk three times a week, cutting out soft drinks or not skipping breakfast etc. Once you start to see some progress and your body changing you will find it easier imo.

Enjoy the journey and not just the end destination. Looking forward to seeing how you get on mate

Looking great! I'm sure it feels so wonderful to see how far you've come. 

I don't think if I were to track my body changes it would make a lick of linear sense, haha. Hormones be weird like that. It does remind me that I've always wanted to put together a transition timeline, might do that soon.

[Guybrush]

Today's cardio day and I took my bike to work today. My bike's got an electric motor, which is handy because we live on a hillside and it's all upwards slopes going back home. So I just turned the electric motor off (so it's like a regular bike, only heavier) and pedaled all the way home. Man, there's this one slope which is way too steep, but it was really good and a great time saver too. I might repeat that next Monday.

Then I got the rest of the Monday program in once I got home. Nothing special, just some situps / reverse situps and biceps crunch.

[DJChameleon]

I skipped the gym today. I stayed up all night and by the time 5am rolled around. I was feeling delirious.

I wouldn't have made it to the gym.

[jadis]

Looking proper jacked, JJ! Good job.

I skipped the gym today. I stayed up all night and by the time 5am rolled around. I was feeling delirious.

I wouldn't have made it to the gym.

Yep. Sleep is more important for your health than working out. Can't work out without sleep

[jimmy jazz]

Thanks for all the nice comments, fellow forumistas. Not quite a face reveal but first pics I've posted of myself.

No sleep = no gainz. IMO always take the extra rest over squeezing a workout in.

[DJChameleon]

So I felt fully rested and wanted to get my chest day in at the gym. Once I got to the gym I realized that I was a bit weaker than normal. I think I'm getting sick because I was also sweating super easily and harder without doing as much. I didn't even bother doing cardio because I had a lot on my mind. I ended up taking my kitty to never never land right after the gym.

Anyone else experience that? You end up feeling weaker/more sweats when sick and are at the gym?

All year this is the first time that me being sick has lined up with a gym day. Every time I have gotten sick this year it has only been on the weekend and I'm fine by Monday to be back in the gym. So I had no days off from the gym due to illness.

[Guybrush]

Compound day again today. Everything is pretty much like last session.. except squats which, according to my notes, I seem to have gotten a tiny bit stronger. Maybe. Or it was just a better day? Nah. Must be the beef getting bigger. And bigger.

Aww yeeh, thigh master in the making!! Thiiighs!!!!

[jimmy jazz]

So I felt fully rested and wanted to get my chest day in at the gym. Once I got to the gym I realized that I was a bit weaker than normal. I think I'm getting sick because I was also sweating super easily and harder without doing as much. I didn't even bother doing cardio because I had a lot on my mind. I ended up taking my kitty to never never land right after the gym.

Anyone else experience that? You end up feeling weaker/more sweats when sick and are at the gym?

All year this is the first time that me being sick has lined up with a gym day. Every time I have gotten sick this year it has only been on the weekend and I'm fine by Monday to be back in the gym. So I had no days off from the gym due to illness.

Did you eat properly before you went? Lack of hydration? Maybe something to do with diabetes.

Don't think I've ever had what you describe, unless I did literally nothing for two weeks or so then I would feel like how you said but that would be down to losing a bit of fitness.

Compound day again today. Everything is pretty much like last session.. except squats which, according to my notes, I seem to have gotten a tiny bit stronger. Maybe. Or it was just a better day? Nah. Must be the beef getting bigger. And bigger.

Aww yeeh, thigh master in the making!! Thiiighs!!!!

Nice mate how many squats did you do?

[Guybrush]

Did you eat properly before you went? Lack of hydration? Maybe something to do with diabetes.

Don't think I've ever had what you describe, unless I did literally nothing for two weeks or so then I would feel like how you said but that would be down to losing a bit of fitness.

Nice mate how many squats did you do?

On Sunday, I think I did 8/8/8 with 30 kgs weights and another 9 for the bar, so that's 39. My kid jumped on my back later in the day because she thought that was fun, so I did 10 x 4 with her on me and that wasn't bad at all (she's roughly 25 kg).

Today, I thought I'd up the amount of reps to 9/9/9 with the same weight, but ended up doing 9/9/12 because I had a bit more to go on. So I figure maybe 10/10/10 on friday 🤔

I know it's not much, but hey.. it feels like progress 🙂

[jimmy jazz]

It is progress. If you go too hard early on DOMS can stop you moving about and it isn't fun. It doesn't do long term harm it's just very painful so best to ease your way in.

Keep going mate 💪

[DJChameleon]

Did you eat properly before you went? Lack of hydration? Maybe something to do with diabetes. 

I usually exercise on a deficit meaning I don't eat prior to working out especially since I work out between 5am to 7am.

It might be a combination of lack of hydration and possibly the beginnings of coming down with a cold or fever.


Progress is progress Guybrush keep up the good work.

[Guybrush]

Today's technically a rest day, but I thought I'd start this pull-up program as a side quest where, at first, you do one pull-up every minute. Day one, you do it for four minutes (so four pullups). Day two is six. Day three should be eight. You do three days each week, so let's say Monday, Wednesday, Friday. When it's too easy, you do two pullups every minute instead, etc.

It's from a fitness youtuber, so maybe some of you know it already.

I was only going to do 6 minutes today, but it was too easy so I thought I'd just see how long I could keep doing it. I ended on 19. Nearly had the 20th, but couldn't quite get my chin over the bar.

So now I gotta adjust my goal for day 3 🤔

Tomorrow is mobility day, so looking forward to some yoga time. I can't touch my toes with straight legs, but just wait and see. I'll be sucking my own dick come christmas 💦

[jadis]

I usually exercise on a deficit meaning I don't eat prior to working out especially since I work out between 5am to 7am.

It might be a combination of lack of hydration and possibly the beginnings of coming down with a cold or fever.


Progress is progress Guybrush keep up the good work.

I worked on an empty stomach only once in my entire life and it was awful. Didn't have the strength to do anything.

[jimmy jazz]

Years ago I did Serge Nubret's pump training for a few months and the first time I did it I had to stop early to eat a very large pizza.

Its a good program BTW if anyone wants to look it up - https://everphysique.com/serge-nubret-training/

Tonight I just did pullups. (15 x 20)