Workout: What did you do today?

[FETCHER.]

How did you hurt your back if you don't mind me asking?

Not at all. I hurt it at the gym, I didn't go to the gym for about 4 weeks over the Christmas period and when I returned I don't think I had warmed up or stretched properly and pulled it doing Romanian deadlifts 😭. It's an exercise I'm really comfortable and confident with so I can only put it down to not being warmed up properly. I dropped my weights down to test the waters because I have had a break. I think it was just unlucky tbh. It's mostly better but it's still niggling sometimes.


I done my full 25 min run without stopping 🎉. I feel quite accomplished doing that because I had quite a negative mindset, it is pissing down outside so that made me worse. I went out and just ran as slow as I could without stopping, chasing flat pavements and downhills 😂. Easy peasy. A faster pace and hills can be worked on another day.

[jimmy jazz]

Pulling a muscle is my worst nightmare.

I've seen some of those videos of pec tears and I feel like crying.

How do you warm up for RDLs @FETCHER.?

[FETCHER.]

It's really not too bad thankfully!

I usually do an incline walk for 5-10mins then do a few stretches, normally I do RDL's after a few cable/machine assisted back exercises but tbh with the January rush I never stretched as much as I usually do that day and didn't do as much before I jumped in to them because the gym was so busy and I paid the price 😭😂

[grindy]

Pulling a muscle is my worst nightmare.

I've seen some of those videos of pec tears and I feel like crying.

How do you warm up for RDLs @FETCHER.?

Pec tears etc. usually happen to roided guys who egolift. You'll be fine.

[jimmy jazz]

Pec tears etc. usually happen to roided guys who egolift. You'll be fine.

I know mate but still terrible to see.

Fainting on a squat or deadlight is another one that worries me.

[grindy]

I know mate but still terrible to see.

Fainting on a squat or deadlight is another one that worries me.

Do you have a squat rack? Not a big issue for DLs immo but fainting on squats would indeed suck.

[jimmy jazz]

I have stands 😯

[Guybrush]

Fainting on squats was my biggest worry too after possibly choking myself to death with the barbell when doing declined bench presses.

I've been holding off on the exercise for a few days now in the hopes that it help me with my inflamed sinuses and chronic cough. So last exercise was sunday, so basically took a de-load week. I feel like it might've helped a little bit.

Tomorrow I'll get back in it going to a CrossFit class with a buddy and then I'll probably get back to my usual regime on Sunday.

[DJChameleon]

If you guys do cutting like for the summer, when do you guys start the process?

I mean like changing diet and doing only certain exercises to get to the point of cutting. I feel like cutting season is starting soon. Maybe end of March or beginning of April but who knows. 

I'm switching my diet to brown rice, chicken and broccoli and meal prepping it.

[jimmy jazz]

I don't understand what you mean by only doing certain exercises?

I won't be cutting but if I wanted to be ripped for summer I'd start cutting earlier than now. I wouldn't expect to be lean for summer if I started cutting for a few weeks.

[grindy]

If you guys do cutting like for the summer, when do you guys start the process?

I mean like changing diet and doing only certain exercises to get to the point of cutting. I feel like cutting season is starting soon. Maybe end of March or beginning of April but who knows. 

I'm switching my diet to brown rice, chicken and broccoli and meal prepping it.

You can lose around 0,5 to 1kg a week. Depending on how much you want to lose you time accordingly.

[Guybrush]

Did CrossFit today. It was alright, pretty fun. The stuff I've done the two times I've gone feels very cardio-based, yet the people are jacked, so I assume they must be doing more hypertrophy-focused stuff as well.

Today was rowing, power cleans (barbell exercise), air squats (just no weights) and toe-to-bar (swing from a bar and get your feet up to the bar). I couldn't figure out a consistent technique for that last one (swinging all over the place), so did another stomach exercise instead.

[Guybrush]

Started a workout yesterday doing sissy squats and something weird kinda happened. I was coming up from the kneeling position, trying to lean back a bit to increase resistance when I felt this weird ache just below the left rib. So I stopped exercising and went to bed.

I still have some pain, but it's located in this point right underneath the rib edge. It doesn't feel like it affects a lot of muscle. Also, the exercise doesn't target stomach that much so kinda weird that this happened.. Very unexpected.

[Guybrush]

Did push-ups, pull-ups, standing Calf raises, leg extensions (I think?) with the leg developer on my bench, dumbbell chest press/ bench presses and curls.

Should've been a great exercise as I've had a break for most of those muscle groups since Saturday, but felt like I was reaching failure a little faster. So slightly off day, but happy to be exercising anyways 🙂

[jimmy jazz]

RDLs.

My arse is BURNING.