Working Out....

[borrowed]

Badman.

And thanks Noam for the translation! Don't think I can do some of them things though since I just had an operation and it'll take like 6 months for my stomach muscles to be kinda repaired.

Anyone recommend anything that doesn't work the stomach muscles too hard?? I need to start getting fit man.

I thank thee.

Are you looking to work the whole body? http://stronglifts.com/stronglifts-5x5- ... g-program/ ? I'm not too good on how all the muscles are "put together" but I think that none of those should work the stomach too much.

Deep squats and deadlifts definitely require core stabilization, if not contraction. The best thing for someone with an injury to do is cycle or swim. Both are non-impact and you can go at your own pace. For the record, I hate both of them, so its not like I'm trying to sell anyone on what works for me.

Edit: not to say SL5x5 isnt an awesome program; it is. It just isn't the right thing for someone with a major surgery to rehab. About this time last year I used sl5x5 and starting strength to get to a 1000 lb total, so I can vouch for both. Not that a 1k total is crazy, but they definitely work.

[borrowed]

Again, it's the being in one place for ages that does my head in, I can tolerate the bikes, but rowing/treadmill/cross trainer just really bores me Saying that, I think I'm the only non-middle aged woman at my gym that uses that little stepper machine that's like running up stairs.

You're an picky bastard You can't steal a boat and row either? I guess I'm too used to having the beach 200meters from my house then and having 3 boats

I know I'll go on the treadmill, set say, 15 minutes, about 3 minutes I'll think "This is so boring, I'll just do 10 minutes", by the time 5 minutes comes, I'm like "Ok, I'm stopping now".

My gym has just got a couple of those Spinning Class bikes, with some guy on a video display telling me to "feel the vibe" constantly. Come off sweating like a beast after one of those sessions, people getting out of your way and shit, I must look like I've experienced some real sexual abuse at the back of the gym.

If you get bored quick like I do, try cutting down on your time on the bike with the tabata method.

[apmje]

Badman.

And thanks Noam for the translation! Don't think I can do some of them things though since I just had an operation and it'll take like 6 months for my stomach muscles to be kinda repaired.

Anyone recommend anything that doesn't work the stomach muscles too hard?? I need to start getting fit man.

I thank thee.

Are you looking to work the whole body? http://stronglifts.com/stronglifts-5x5- ... g-program/ ? I'm not too good on how all the muscles are "put together" but I think that none of those should work the stomach too much.

Thanks for this link.

I might start swimming soon as the scars healing pretty well.

[Neptune]

swimming is sick

[dubloke]

i used to use the X-trainer... pretty girly

i always thought they felt likethe most unnatural movement for me though. I did used to like to drop the resistance down until it was really easy and go really fast and then just stand on one side and bop up and down

swimming is sick

yeah if i had my way i would swim everyday

[autobot]

used to go to the gym everyday in NZ, but since moving here too lazy / povo to join a gym yet. So I run and then homeless people yell at me..well thats happened twice, but good motivator to go faster.

Nevertheless I miss the gym and going to classes, cos im less likely to quit early when theres a room full of people watching me leave.

[Neptune]

Since uni, I actually have been exercising more (It was the shock of the first-year-one stone-weight-gain), but I never really saw much improvement to my body. I was definitely fitter, but I think I just maintained my weight. So a month ago I upped exercise to every day. Swimming 4 times a week, and running the rest of the days, and I've have seen improvement now. It was my routine sorta thing, but now I'm going back home, I don't think I'll be able to carry on. No free pool anymore I think I'll have to go running 4 times a week instead, which I know I won't stick to.

[Icey]

Personally I hate swimming. It's an great excersise since it trains your whole body. You probably are gonna get better breathing rhythm too(which was the hardest thing for me when I started lifting weights). Both my mum and dad used to swim a lot when they were younger, but I dislike water to be honest

Also, sorry, I didn't think about the core with squats etc.

[test_recordings]

Swimming is such a tougher work out that weights and it does your whole body!

[borrowed]

Swimming is such a tougher work out that weights and it does your whole body!

I'd like to see you do a set of burpees and then tell me that X is harder than Y

[noam]

yo borrowed whats the right technique for doin barbell rows??

im finding that im not feeling my back working, only my legs due to the bent leg position.... pretty sure that aint right!

[dubloke]

going back to the gym has made me realise how weak i am

the worst thing is that I look really strong but i'm actually pretty weak, can only bench about 60

[kingGhost]

going back to the gym has made me realise how weak i am

the worst thing is that I look really strong but i'm actually pretty weak, can only bench about 60

??? the bar alone is 45. how do you look strong? lol

[dubloke]

going back to the gym has made me realise how weak i am

the worst thing is that I look really strong but i'm actually pretty weak, can only bench about 60

??? the bar alone is 45. how do you look strong? lol

oh right i thought the bar was 20. so 85 then.

I'm proper tall and really broad shouldered and have some muscle definition. I would put a picture up but i know what the photoshop gang are like on here

[noam]

my legs are still hurtin ffrom the other day

reckon they'll vbe good to go by next week, and after that they'll be used to the work = success!!

rest of me is doin alright, just really need to go gym to do cardio and in about a year i'll be healthy lol

and jackie we measure in kilo's here

so its probably 130 lb's he's benchin

[dubloke]

my legs are still hurtin ffrom the other day

reckon they'll vbe good to go by next week, and after that they'll be used to the work = success!!

rest of me is doin alright, just really need to go gym to do cardio and in about a year i'll be healthy lol

and jackie we measure in kilo's here

so its probably 130 lb's he's benchin

yeah im doing a muscle group a day, did legs yesterday and when i got back from the gym i was thinking "that was fucking easy?" tried to get on my bike today and thought i'd torn my groin muscles

[dubmatters]

going back to the gym has made me realise how weak i am

the worst thing is that I look really strong but i'm actually pretty weak, can only bench about 60

Aslong as your technique is good 60kg aint bad at all.

Edit: bar is 20kg.

45kg just for the bar!

http://www.fitness-superstore.co.uk/oly ... 009_p.html

Wt 20Kg - 320Kg Capacity.

[noam]

im not lyin when i say i walked around like i'd lost my horse for 2days after doing some deadlifts...

im doin 3 types of exercise, PULL, PUSH, CORE

i've done my Pull and Pushes, got the core left to do on sunday.... its gona murder me... if im still fucked from this week though i'll just wait till im better, no point damagin myself to keep the routine, otherwise i'll never get started lol

im like you in that i look strong, but thats all lol i used to be hench when i was between 17-20 but now i've got a ghost of the muscle and pretty much none of the strength!

[dubloke]

im not lyin when i say i walked around like i'd lost my horse for 2days after doing some deadlifts...

im doin 3 types of exercise, PULL, PUSH, CORE

i've done my Pull and Pushes, got the core left to do on sunday.... its gona murder me... if im still fucked from this week though i'll just wait till im better, no point damagin myself to keep the routine, otherwise i'll never get started lol

im like you in that i look strong, but thats all lol i used to be hench when i was between 17-20 but now i've got a ghost of the muscle and pretty much none of the strength!

yeah same, when i was 18 I was a proper unit, now i'm just riding on the fact everyone thinks im strong got beaten by my 16 year old cousin in an armwrestle the other day! he is the same size as me and drinks bare protein shakes but he's still only 16!!

Also by core do you mean core stability and that, like the plank? The plank seems like the easiest exercise in the world but after about a minute and a half im a shaking wreck!!

going back to the gym has made me realise how weak i am

the worst thing is that I look really strong but i'm actually pretty weak, can only bench about 60

Aslong as your technique is good 60kg aint bad at all.

Edit: bar is 20kg.

45kg just for the bar!

hopefully over time it will get better

edit: the weight that is, got the technique down

[dubmatters]

, got the core left to do on sunday.... !

Been doing these(a variation on them) along with my regular shoulder shoulder exercise today.



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