Workout: What did you do today?

[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.

[DJChameleon]

This evening's workout:

That's rough.

On Fridays I have started doing shoulders and back but I still bench because I want to try to hit that goal of mines. So I stopped doing chest twice a week but I still bench twice a week.

3 sets of my max weight that I can make of 12 reps.

[jimmy jazz]

That's rough.

On Fridays I have started doing shoulders and back but I still bench because I want to try to hit that goal of mines. So I stopped doing chest twice a week but I still bench twice a week.

3 sets of my max weight that I can make of 12 reps.

Where are you with that now? Journey to 100kg bench.

[jimmy jazz]

This was tonight's workout.

Lasted 47 mins.

First time I've done it this year. Very good. If any of you try it report back please thanks.

[jimmy jazz]

https://m.youtube.com/@scooby1961/videos

Gonna post this just in case anyone wants it. Arrange videos by most views and have a look through them.

When I started in 2007 I was basically winging it and when I got the Internet and found his channel he genuinely changed my life.