Workout: What did you do today?

[grindy]

I'm so glad that I taught myself to work out immediately after coming home from work, no matter how tired I feel.
Usually it really clears my head and I feel so good after it.
Pull day today. Progressing nicely on barbell rows and really enjoying doing lat prayers as a bit of a down set after that. Pull ups after that and I'm struggling to progress in reps, but that kinda makes sense because the lat prayers really stretch my lats to hell and have an overall big overlap with pull ups. Also switched from dumbbell hammer curls to cable curls and really enjoyed it.

[Guybrush]

I just did Romanian Deadlifts and curls. Had a little longer sesh yesterday with dips, rows, Push-ups  and modified Candlesticks I guess is the name.

The funk that affected me so on Monday seems to have let me go for the time being. Feels good to function again.

I'm thinking of doing interval training with a jump rope and the only thing I do t like about that idea is it's not gonna go well with me destroying my legs with DOMS doing squats 😅 so I'm gonna put the leg stuff on hold and try to run and jump a bit the coming days.

[FETCHER.]

Glad you're feeling better!!

I'm feeling a bit out of mines too, ran another 3.5km in the heaviest pissing rain of my life 🥲 it was great though. I quite like running in the rain.

[Guybrush]

Glad you're feeling better!!

I'm feeling a bit out of mines too, ran another 3.5km in the heaviest pissing rain of my life 🥲 it was great though. I quite like running in the rain.

Nice @FETCHER. Well done 😊

I wanna start running too, in the rain or elsewhere. Most of the snow is gone now, so its finally possible without significant risk of slipping and falling.

So happy we're finally coming out of this winter.

[DJChameleon]

I'm doing a leprechaun run this Sunday. It's only a mile. Normally this brewery does a 5k and at the end you get a free beer but I think for this specific run you dress in green and only get like a percentage off the first beer.

[FETCHER.]

Nice @FETCHER. Well done 😊

I wanna start running too, in the rain or elsewhere. Most of the snow is gone now, so its finally possible without significant risk of slipping and falling.

So happy we're finally coming out of this winter.

Yeah must be tough when it's so icy/snowy, I hate treadmills so if I was in Norway I'd need to retire all winter 😆. You should try one!

Luckily where I am we get the snow but it doesn't get in the way of anything.

[jimmy jazz]

Doing light weight high rep for a week or two.

Did dips and pushups for this evening.

Really enjoyed it.

[Guybrush]

Instead of cardio (which I haven't started doing), I just supersetted some stuff yesterday.

I like to superset with push-ups, so have been doing that with ring rows and yesterday it was air squats. It's the first time I did them as an exercise that was meant to be in the ballpark of feeling demanding.

Did curls too and seeing some progress there having done lighter weights for a little while. Yesterday was 4 X 17 reps with 10kg dumbbells. Almost reached failure on left arm.

[jimmy jazz]

If you're doing 4 lots of 17 I'd say it's time to increase the weight to about 15kg.

I sometimes do sets of 20 for my arms but that's when I'm doing light weights with very high reps. Sounds like you weren't doing that when you did four sets of 17 and were back to doing heavier shit.

[Guybrush]

I used to do 15kg before in the h-word rep range. I'll go back to it next time and see what the improvements are like 😊

I also think I'm progressing some on ring dips. Last sesh was 4 X 5 with no resistance bands to aid me. Wasn't to failure, but it was the last rep I could do.

[grindy]

If I use light weights (above 15 reps) I usually do some intensity techniques (rest pause, drop set, myoreps etc.) to make sure I go close to failure, since it's more difficult to get there with higher reps and fatigue or the burn can be the reason you stop a set early.

[Guybrush]

Did a 20 minutes run, about 3,5ish km.

It was fine, although I felt real heavy. But then I also put on a lot of weight since my last run, so I guess that's alright.

My cardio shape ain't great, though. It'll be a little while until I can run a metric mile, something I didn't really think of as a challenge the last time I was in reasonable shape 😬

If I use light weights (above 15 reps) I usually do some intensity techniques (rest pause, drop set, myoreps etc.) to make sure I go close to failure, since it's more difficult to get there with higher reps and fatigue or the burn can be the reason you stop a set early.

Yes, the burn is awful. High rep workouts are so much more of a pain 😄

[jimmy jazz]

This evening's workout:

[Guybrush]

Hey.. he's the same age as me!

That's crazy volume, though. How was it, @jimmy jazz ?

[jimmy jazz]

Great. It's tough obviously but it is a great workout.