Workout: What did you do today?

[jimmy jazz]

Rest day today.

Stating the obvious but my tip for the day: drink more water!

Tomorrow, chest and tris. High reps low weights this week.

[grindy]

Push day today. Overhead barbell press, then horizontal pressing. Switched from paused barbell bench press to dumbbells last week. Really milked the stretch at the bottom, even more than last time, and actually did two reps less on the third set but whatever. I'm done chasing progress at the price of execution. Finished with my usual rest pause set of fifty push downs, felt great.

[Guybrush]

Pasting from my log, I did:

• Dips
• Push-Ups
• Inverted Rows
• Kneeling Ab Wheel Roll-Outs
• Overhead Press
• Curls
• Standing Calf Raises

Despite doing a lot to failure, I still don't feel much DOMS from these sessions, but the soreness from Tuesday's squat session is pretty gnarly. I've been hobbling around like a geriatric.

[Lexi Darling]

@jimmy jazz @grindy I'm probably going to feel like a very silly goose, but what is the "h word"? I'm lost, haha.

[grindy]

Hypertrophy. Jj once said, he hates the word, so now I'm censoring it.

[Lexi Darling]

Ah, gotcha. Thanks!

[Guybrush]

It's a little ironic as he seems to be the most hypertrophied of anyone here.

But I guess it may also represent a common obsession of arguable value.

[FETCHER.]

Ran my 4th ever 5km today and I set a PB of 33 mins 27 seconds. It's not the quickest but one of my goals for this year was to run a 5km in under 35 minutes and with how inconsistent I've been throughout February I didn't think I'd be ticking it off my list any time soon. I'm delighted!!

[Guybrush]

Ran my 4th ever 5km today and I set a PB of 33 mins 27 seconds. It's not the quickest but one of my goals for this year was to run a 5km in under 35 minutes and with how inconsistent I've been throughout February I didn't think I'd be ticking it off my list any time soon. I'm delighted!!

Nice! Congratulations @FETCHER. 😊

[Guybrush]

Had my CrossFit onboarding today, finally.

The guy who was supposed to do it, his wife fell and hit her head. I may have mentioned it already. Today, I learned her hitting her head wasn't her biggest problem. Instead, it was the flesh eating bacteria that had infected her hand after she got a small cut from her fall. So that's what might happen if you scratch yourself in a danish aquapark 😱

Apparently it nearly killed her. Hope it turns alright.

For onboarding, I went through some common exercises with the superman who runs the gym. My squat form was good, but he suggested a wider stance. My deadlift was perfect, no corrections (Thanks, Nippard). We also did some pull-ups, situps, Overhead press, front squat and some other stuff. Finally, it was all thrown together as a workout.

He seemed to think I was in good shape. I think I'm relatively strong now for a beginner - like I can do a few pull-ups etc. BUT I have no stamina, so my cardio is pitiful.

So now I'm considering doing some jump rope interval training 😄 and perhaps do more of my TV watching on the treadmill.

[jimmy jazz]

Have you done any high rep workouts? That will help too. It's also a nice change.

I want someone to try that workout I posted of Scooby. And get back to me how you found it.

[Guybrush]

Have you done any high rep workouts? That will help too. It's also a nice change.

I want someone to try that workout I posted of Scooby. And get back to me how you found it.

I haven't done much high rep, but I'll look into it. An upside is I can keep using the weights I have a little longer 😄

I'll try the scooby thing!

[DJChameleon]

You should be able to do more than 100lbs if you can press 50lbs with dumbbells.

Probs a fair bit more.

So update on this, I tried it out to see how much I can bench. I'm just under 200. 190 lbs(includes the bar weight) I can bench 3 times but 100 plus the bar I did a full set of 10 reps.

[grindy]

So update on this, I tried it out to see how much I can bench. I'm just under 200. 190 lbs(includes the bar weight) I can bench 3 times but 100 plus the bar I did a full set of 10 reps.

Well done!

[Guybrush]

Nice, @DJChameleon 🙂 those sound like strong numbers! 💪