Workout: What did you do today?

[jadis]

Do you ever just hit the gym every single day? Usually I'm fine with three times a week but I'm having a strange week mentally and feel a deep need to lift to get out of my fucking head. My program is put together very well so that I work different muscle groups on different days and so far it's working. Dreading tomorrow because everything over here shuts down on Saturday, gyms included 

[Lexi Darling]

I don't go to the gym, but I work out at home every weekday for 25-35 minutes plus a 20+ minute walk. Once I got into the groove of that it and started seeing results I got a lot more passionate about sticking with that routine. So I feel you on that drive to just get that good workout in.

[jimmy jazz]

4 days on 1 day off for me.

So that's 5 or 6 days a week depending on how it goes.

If I don't do anything my mental health is noticeably worse.

Is some at home bodyweight exercise an option while you can't get to the gym @jadis

[DJChameleon]

yeah I'm the same. I do four days a week at the gym. Two days on 1 day off in the middle of the week then two days again. I usually take the weekends off from the gym.

That's not to say I don't do anything, I'm just not in the gym. I do my lose weight in 30 days app that has a mixture of different calesthethic type exercises for me to do. I also walk 20 mins daily. No days off on that activity.


Today I did another cardio session.

I did 18 minutes of weight jump roping. 3 minutes doing it then 30 second rest then back to it.

I also did 10 mins punching bag and moving around it in a circle to keep my heart rate up.

[jadis]

4 days on 1 day off for me.

So that's 5 or 6 days a week depending on how it goes.

If I don't do anything my mental health is noticeably worse.

Is some at home bodyweight exercise an option while you can't get to the gym @jadis

I still have the adjustable dumbbell set I bought during the pandemic (right now I'm just piling books on top of them tbh) but I don't really like exercising at home at the best of times and right now for reasons I'll explain in some other thread is not the best of times

 

 

[jimmy jazz]

Fit bros and sisters, what is your ideal physique? I'd probably say this:



Its Mariusz Pudzianowski. One of the greatest strength athletes of all time. I'll obviously never get the height or size but that's what I'd say is ideal.

Tom Stoltman too:



I think strongmen look better than bodybuilders who imo are too low fat and look like bloated lobsters.

What about you?

[jadis]

Man that's too much...

[jimmy jazz]

Really? I don't think Stoltman is crazy big.

[jadis]

Just not my aesthetic I guess

[jadis]

Like, my whole thing with exercise is that I enjoy looking fit while pretending there's no effort behind it. As though I'm above thinking about something as trivial as physical fitness. Or at least not making it a central part of my self-presentation.

With these guys, you know right away that getting yoked is their whole deal.

A few years ago I saw some insanely buff Asian guy have his Russian gf (who looked like a model trying to date oligarchs or something, very garish) come as a spectator so she could stare at him lift and be strong and masculine and all that. Looked kinda sad tbh

[jimmy jazz]

Suppose I understand that.

Russian girls BTW 

[jadis]

Had a Russian gf once, when we were seven or thereabouts and she lived in my building and went to the same school... I'm pretty sure her name was Natasha. She loved telling everyone about one occasion where it was her who protected me. No idea what or who from. But I remember how embarrassed that made me feel and how I was trying to make her shut up.

That was the peak of my success with Russian women.

[Lexi Darling]

Fit bros and sisters, what is your ideal physique?

An excellent question! The mister actually personally designed my workout routine, which focuses largely on cardio, also emphasizing a particular balance of exercises in order to help me burn off fat while not focusing as much on building muscle. My hormone therapy has already caused my muscles to atrophy considerably and spending time heavily working specific muscles is not helpful beyond doing a basic group of general body workout exercises. It's something he's still tweaking and figuring out based on my own limitations and analysis of my current progress.

My ideal physique? I dunno, whatever makes me look good I guess. I obviously don't have a body type that is 100% akin to a cis woman, and even then my body is still shifting after two years of hormones, but I guess the closest I can get to a body type that is perceived as feminine would be my answer. The mister has to make adjustments to my routine to account for my ever-changing body, and those changes are often not totally predictable so a lot of this really is kind of a crapshoot, haha.

[Guybrush]

I wouldn't want to be anything approximating beefcake territory. A slim-ish body with some muscle definition / tone would be nice.

Btw, working out as much as you do.. don't you guys have kids?

[Lexi Darling]

I wouldn't want to be anything approximating beefcake territory. A slim-ish body with some muscle definition / tone would be nice.

Btw, working out as much as you do.. don't you guys have kids?

Us? Oh, we don't. Not really planning on it either, we would have to pretty much completely restructure our lives and it's just not a responsibility we can realistically take on at this point. Not out of the question for the future though!