The Get in Shape, Eat Healthy, Better, Etc... 2010 Thread!!! :) :) :) :)

This morning was kinda different, because the trainer wasn't there, so we had to make our own class. Sometimes he has the men and women do different exercises, so I asked to try the "lunge and butt" stuff that the ladies do (while the men are usually blasting the upper body). So we did three sets of this:

• "Circle lunges" - doing lunges front, front angle, side, back angle and back (right leg), then back, back angle, side, front angle, front (left leg). Work your way from one rep to five reps (five mini sets)
• Backward leg extensions
• Backward straight leg raises
• Backward leg "pulses"

The last three are all on your knees and work the glutes. Fifteen reps for each exercise.

Then we did three sets of three ab exercises, 10 reps each: V-Ups, Toe touchers and bicycles.

I feel like a got a good workout and it was something that I hadn't done before, so that was good. Also, the circle lunges: HOLY SHITE. Those are KILLER.

MudGuts

KirksNoseHair

You do now.  And I could introduce you to, oh, I dunno, 250 people at my gym (including me), who work out every single day, quite intensely I might add, all while watching that little TV on the treadmill.

Most people don't know what true intensity is.  It isn't something that can be explained very well.  It needs to be experienced.  True intensity makes your body and mind feel so overwhelmingly uncomfortable that it's only natural that most people don't want to go into that zone.  It's a dark and scary place!  So when you say that 250 people are working intensely while wathing TV, that just tells me that those people are in the majority of those who don't know what intensity is.
 
Come on over to the WOD-January thread.  When you look at those workouts it is of primary importance that you realize that most of them are done with a stopwatch.  If I was coaching you through those workouts I wouldn't expect you to be able to go straight through without a rest.  I would let you rest.  But I would let you rest 5 or 10 seconds at the most.  Your body would feel like shit and you'd be sucking wind and I would say, "Go!"  You would not feel ready to go, but you would do it anyway.  There is a puke bucket in the corner and it's taunting you, but you keep plugging away.  In the end you would just lay down on the floor for a couple minutes because that's all your body has left.  After a few sessions like that you would begin to understand intensity.  And if you were a willing enough self-motivator with the requisite masochistic streak, you would be able to maintain that level of intensity without further coaching.
 
How many of those 250 people are yelling and grunting on the treadmill?  How many of them finish their session and just lay down on the floor?  None.  I know.  I've seen the treadmill crowd at many gyms for many years.  I know exactly what they are all about. 

OK, never mind, no one works out as hard as you.  Have a nice day.

I would not suggest that I am doing high intensity most of the time

I do a lot of work at Threshold, but that is not the same thing

Threshold? Que?

KirksNoseHair

OK, never mind, no one works out as hard as you.  Have a nice day.

 
heh heh...Quitter!  Typical of someone who thinks they know intensity...
No, but seriously.  You're being melodramatic.  Anyone reading this stuff can clearly see that I never made such a claim.  My claims were pretty specific. 
 
I have an uncommonly lengthy fitness and athletic resume for someone who was never a pro at anything.  Sparing you my resume I'll just say that I have learned and experienced, and observed, a lot over the years.
 
Is it impossible to have true intensity while looking at the glowing box?  No, I suppose it isn't impossible.  Improbable, yes.  I stand behind my previous claims that most people do not know what true intensity is.  They've never been pushed that hard, or had a reason to push themselves that hard.  And they've never learned how to push that hard.  And perhaps most significant, most people don't have the specific mental fortitude to push that hard.  *Not to mention the physical preparedness and genetics to recover well.  Maybe once or twice a trainer will push them beyond anything they've ever experienced, and it will leave an impression on them, and they may not want to  explore that zone again.       
 
*The physical preparedness and genetics plays a big role.  If someone pushed way beyond their comfort zone and they have a hard time recovering, they are less likely to try it again.
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SO...KirksNoseHair... I detect that you think I sounded arrogant and condescending in my messages.  (I'm so perceptive!)  Well, I suppose I probably did.  I do tend to be that way.  But I don't mean any ill will.  I talk a little smack in person with my friends as well.  But I'm old enough to know better, i.e. I'd better be able to back up my smack most of the time!  And I can.  And I do.  And if we were close, geographically, I would gladly train with you for a few sessions.  It would be good for both of us.    Kirk, do you have a comfortable income?  If so, I can probably recommend a new gym for you that is different than anything you've done before.  It's more expensive than other gyms, but you will get the best, most stimulating, most interesting, most intense workouts you've ever had.  I qualify it with a probably because I don't know where you live.  But if you give me a city or a zip code I'd be happy to send you some linkage.  If nothing else you can just look at the linky out of morbid curiosity. 

You're intense Madguts, lol. But not everyone feels the need to become He-man.

I heart Mudguts - fabulous reading! I think you have a flair for the dramatic as well! Of course this does not mean that I do not also heart KNH - because I do. But as I've expressed in this thread, MudGuts' opinions on intensity are something that hits home with me, based on recent personal experience. This is also NOT to say that I claim to be in the level of shape he does - very far from it, actually. OK, anyway...

MudGuts: I live in the Chicago area. Please send the link to this gym alternative you speak of. PM is fine. Thanks!

MudGuts

KirksNoseHair

OK, never mind, no one works out as hard as you.  Have a nice day.

 
heh heh...Quitter!  Typical of someone who thinks they know intensity...
No, but seriously.  You're being melodramatic.  Anyone reading this stuff can clearly see that I never made such a claim.  My claims were pretty specific. 
 
I have an uncommonly lengthy fitness and athletic resume for someone who was never a pro at anything.  Sparing you my resume I'll just say that I have learned and experienced, and observed, a lot over the years.
 
Is it impossible to have true intensity while looking at the glowing box?  No, I suppose it isn't impossible.  Improbable, yes.  I stand behind my previous claims that most people do not know what true intensity is.  They've never been pushed that hard, or had a reason to push themselves that hard.  And they've never learned how to push that hard.  And perhaps most significant, most people don't have the specific mental fortitude to push that hard.  *Not to mention the physical preparedness and genetics to recover well.  Maybe once or twice a trainer will push them beyond anything they've ever experienced, and it will leave an impression on them, and they may not want to  explore that zone again.       
 
*The physical preparedness and genetics plays a big role.  If someone pushed way beyond their comfort zone and they have a hard time recovering, they are less likely to try it again.
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SO...KirksNoseHair... I detect that you think I sounded arrogant and condescending in my messages.  (I'm so perceptive!)  Well, I suppose I probably did.  I do tend to be that way.  But I don't mean any ill will.  I talk a little smack in person with my friends as well.  But I'm old enough to know better, i.e. I'd better be able to back up my smack most of the time!  And I can.  And I do.  And if we were close, geographically, I would gladly train with you for a few sessions.  It would be good for both of us.    Kirk, do you have a comfortable income?  If so, I can probably recommend a new gym for you that is different than anything you've done before.  It's more expensive than other gyms, but you will get the best, most stimulating, most interesting, most intense workouts you've ever had.  I qualify it with a probably because I don't know where you live.  But if you give me a city or a zip code I'd be happy to send you some linkage.  If nothing else you can just look at the linky out of morbid curiosity. 

I have an extremely comfortable income (more comfortable than most) and chronic Hepatitis C.  I have nothing to prove to anyone.  I'm pushing 50 years old and I'll be lucky to live to to be 60 with my disease.  Bottom line, I'm very sick.

I was once a champion power lifter and held the dead lift record in the 198lb weight class for a short while.  I know plenty about working out, I don't need any help or advice in that area, all I'm trying to do now is outlive my mother so I can support her until she dies.

I exercise under the extremely close supervision of my doctors.

You go on with your bad self, man.  It's all good.  When I was a young, healthy man, I was just as gung-ho as you are.  But times have changed for me.   I'm not the droid you're looking for.

KirksNoseHair


I have an extremely comfortable income (more comfortable than most) and chronic Hepatitis C. I'm pushing 50 years old and I'll be lucky to live to to be 60 with my disease.  Bottom line, I'm very sick.

Oh no.

... Kirk...

It really saddens me to read that.

KirksNoseHair

I have an extremely comfortable income (more comfortable than most) and chronic Hepatitis C.  I have nothing to prove to anyone.  I'm pushing 50 years old and I'll be lucky to live to to be 60 with my disease.  Bottom line, I'm very sick.
I was once a champion power lifter and held the dead lift record in the 198lb weight class for a short while.  I know plenty about working out, I don't need any help or advice in that area, all I'm trying to do now is outlive my mother so I can support her until she dies.
I exercise under the extremely close supervision of my doctors.
You go on with your bad self, man.  It's all good.  When I was a young, healthy man, I was just as gung-ho as you are.  But times have changed for me.   I'm not the droid you're looking for.

 
Yeah, candidly speaking I really am pretty badass for a 41-year-old.  I routinely embarrass guys that are 10 even 20 years younger than me.  But I've never been a champion power lifter, so YOU go on with YOUR bad self, MAN!

Hey Nose Hair,

You pulled a 768.25# deadlift?!?!  What did you do on the other two lifts?

P90X has arrived!!! Time to read the fitness and nutrition manuals, watch a couple of workouts to start mentally getting my mind wrapped around this thing and prepare for monday. BRING THE PAIN!!! I'm so ready to do this!

Did not work out today, will be tomorrow and take Sunday off and then come Monday, it's P90X for at least the next 90 days then re-evaluate at the end of that. If it does what everyone has told me it does, then I'm sure I'll repeat it a couple of times until I do something else.

I did plan on working out today but I sprained my ankle this morning, ugh it freaking hurt.

MudGuts


Hey Nose Hair,

You pulled a 768.25# deadlift?!?!  What did you do on the other two lifts?

580 Squat
295 Bench Press

Good 40 minute elliptical session this morning. My quads were pretty blown from those lunges yesterday, so I took it easy at first, but ended up at a decent cardio level (level 8). I didn't do any intervals as I hadn't done a straight cardio workout for a while. I'll do more intervals next week. I'll take tomorrow off (and sleep in!) and get back at it with my training class on Monday. There will be some diet challenges later today as we have a couple parties to go to, but I plan to weather the storm!

KirksNoseHair

580 Squat
295 Bench Press

Interesting numbers.  You were all legs and core. 
 

 

aredore, definately let us know how the p90x treats you. would actually love to try it myself, but i cant afford to buy the dvd's, and cant find the exercises on the internet, but if its really all that worth it, i might get it in the future, or 'find' it at least. 

I just ate a slice of pie and 3 barbeque ribs. Looking forward to more barbeque tonight with some soda!

In other words, I'm a fat failure.

Soulforged


aredore, definately let us know how the p90x treats you. would actually love to try it myself, but i cant afford to buy the dvd's, and cant find the exercises on the internet, but if its really all that worth it, i might get it in the future, or 'find' it at least. 

I've talked to a few friends that did it and said it's worth it. 2 things that really sold me on it...

1. They showed a guy that has done it 3 times. 1 time = 90 days, so 270 days basically. But they showed him where he started at 275 lbs (I weight a bit more than that at the moment) but they showed him at 90, 180 and 270 day intervals. It blew me away. Yes I know it's an infomerical but I'm buying in to the pics I saw.

2. I actually asked a couple of trainers and they said quietly to me that they've heard nothing but positive things and that it was the real deal.

Of course the key to it is changing your eating habits as with any lifestyle change.

I spent a couple of hours yesterday figuring out my new eating plan because working out is not really a problem for me once I commit fully to something. I just have the problem of 8-9 months down the road hitting a wall. But that has always been because of lack of support from others. But I have to find a way to not let that beat me. That's why I failed in 2009, I did great for like 8 months and then I just fell flat on my face basically. I was down 30 something lbs and of course like the stories go, I put it all back on plus some.

I did something I've never done before this time though. I actually wrote down my goals on a piece of paper and I'm going to put it up somewhere that I can see it all the time. Somewhere that I see it everyday, so either at my desk at work or in the room where I'm doing P90X everyday, or maybe both.

One of the things in the P90X dvd you're supposed to watch before you start the program is they talk about and show during the workouts that between every set, there is a water break and write down your reps. They give you a sheet and encourage you to write down each set of reps at every short break. I'm buying into everything they say on this program and I'm going full force for the next 90 days, starting tomorrow. So we'll see what happens.

Trust me, I'll be updating here very often to keep everyone updated on it all because I know several people have told me they really want to know if it's worth it.

2010 is the year I will BRING IT damnit :)

So out of curiosity and since I'm starting the p90x tomorrow, I went ahead and did the X-Stretch today (it's an every sunday thing) ... wow even the stretch is intense to me. Because I'm a big guy currently and I am not as limber as one would want to be. But either way, I did all 52:27 of it and as close to form as possible.

Tomorrow the real pain begins! heh

This weather sucks, I have not been able to get to the gym since Tuesday although I have done some at home

I guess, I should treat it as a marathon not a sprint
 
This weather will pass and normality will resume

More snow overnight so sanity ruled

At least I am still eating sensibly

aredore

2010 is the year I will BRING IT damnit :)

Well I got this too on the weekend, I'm starting the lean program tonight. Can't wait!!

Total body training class this morning, with no cardio at all, so I survived without the threat of regurgitation. We did chest, back, shoulders, legs and abs. We also did bicep and tricep supersets between all exercises except for abs. Pretty good burn, but I feel like I didn't go quite hard enough.

I'm going to do the elliptical with intervals again tomorrow. The soreness in my quads is almost gone.

I jogged 3.5 miles Saturday. I haven't jogged at all since high school. My legs are so sore, I can't even walk down the stairs!!
Thank goodness for IcyHot and Biofreeze gel

My Story...

I'll preface this by saying I'm about 5'8".  I was around 148 and did a several month long "bulk".  Got up to around 180.  Since then I've lost about 20 lbs slowly.  A week ago I started a cut that will hopefully get me to around 145 and around 10% BF I'm hoping.

I'm on a carb cycling diet.  I basically get all my carbs in my first two meals of the day and then cut them out the rest of the day eating only fats and protein.  I do get protein with my carb meals as well.  I have two "refueling" days of the week where I eat carbs with every meal.  I do weight workouts 4 times a week and do 20-30 minutes of PWO cardio after.  I also have 2 HIIT sessions a week.  LET'S GO!!!

Oh yea, I only eat very low GI carbs such as oatmeal, brown rice, and quinoa.  I generally get my fats from stuff like almonds, avocado, and olive oil.

Day 1 of P90X today, it sucks but in a good way! It's very intense and hard just like it should be and I loved it as well!

BRING IT!

Played racquetball for an hour and a half. Feels good to be testing weight on my knee!

Casein protein shake made with ice cold milk. Mmmmmmm.....

Well, I didn't hit my goal in 2009, but I did loose a shit-load of weight.

Got 15 more pounds to loose to hit my goal, then maintain.

And, no MudGuts! I'm not looking to be He-man! LMAO! I'm just looking to be toned and fit. nothing more.

Bubs

Mudguts: What's the name of that gym you were talking about?

Progator

aredore

2010 is the year I will BRING IT damnit :)

Well I got this too on the weekend, I'm starting the lean program tonight. Can't wait!!

I'm on the fat shredder program cuz... well I'm fat! heh

back to normal today

Hit the gym at 5am and did 90 minutes

Warm up, weights, bike, stretch

Did my shoulder workout today at 50-60% of my pre-injury weight so going to build it back without hurting anything, I hope

P90X Day 2 - PLYOMETRICS.

Ugh!!! That is super freaking intense. Probably the most intense workout I've *ever* done in my entire life. You want to know how good or bad of shape you're in? Heh, find someone who has that disc and go through it, 58 mins of pure cardio, whew!!!

Of course I have to still modify a few of the moves but I burned 759 calories with an avg heartbeat of 138 and a max of 160.

MudGuts

KirksNoseHair

580 Squat
295 Bench Press

Interesting numbers.  You were all legs and core. 
 

 

Yeah, I have a strong back and legs, my bench was always a bit weak, and it prevented me from winning a lot of events.  Don't forget, this stuff is with a full suit and wraps, and we're talking 10+ years ago, long before I got sick.  I couldn't touch anything like that now.

When I do benches these days I'm doing sets of 8 reps with 205lbs, I don't do swats or dead lifts any more, except for stiff-leg dead lifts (with very light weight) for hamstrings.

These days I'm focused more on cardio, especially now, since I'll be going on some fairly challenging hikes in the rockies in June.  We're climbing at least one 14,000 peak, maybe two.

aredore


P90X Day 2 - PLYOMETRICS.

Ugh!!! That is super freaking intense. Probably the most intense workout I've *ever* done in my entire life. You want to know how good or bad of shape you're in? Heh, find someone who has that disc and go through it, 58 mins of pure cardio, whew!!!

Of course I have to still modify a few of the moves but I burned 759 calories with an avg heartbeat of 138 and a max of 160.

Dude I know, me it was day one though, I feel like super sore today!!! tonight is Cario X, I'm doing the Lean program. Let's update this thread with our progress, I actually googled it when I saw your thread, did tons of research about it and now I don't regret my purchase at all.

I'm 219 and 6'1", I'm fat as well, do you think doing the Lean is a little too intense, I tell ya that workout yesterday was psycho, I loved it though, I feel sore today.

Superman...Banana.. Superman lol

Gary

I went to renew my gym membership for the university gym a couple of days ago. I haven't been back since because I've been burdened with an assignment in for the end of this week. I might find some time later this evening to go, but I'm not really looking forward to it as I haven't been in a month. 

Wish me luck.

Progator

aredore


P90X Day 2 - PLYOMETRICS.

Ugh!!! That is super freaking intense. Probably the most intense workout I've *ever* done in my entire life. You want to know how good or bad of shape you're in? Heh, find someone who has that disc and go through it, 58 mins of pure cardio, whew!!!

Of course I have to still modify a few of the moves but I burned 759 calories with an avg heartbeat of 138 and a max of 160.

Dude I know, me it was day one though, I feel like super sore today!!! tonight is Cario X, I'm doing the Lean program. Let's update this thread with our progress, I actually googled it when I saw your thread, did tons of research about it and now I don't regret my purchase at all.

I'm 219 and 6'1", I'm fat as well, do you think doing the Lean is a little too intense, I tell ya that workout yesterday was psycho, I loved it though, I feel sore today.

Superman...Banana.. Superman lol

Gary

Sorry correction here, what I did yesterday was Core Synergistics! Still kicked my ass to Texas though (no pun intended)

I think you guys amy be selling me on the P90X...always looking for something else to add into my training.

^^ Although I cannot personally vouch for it, I've met a lot of people in a different Forum who swear P90X can make wonders to you, regardless of what's your current fitness level.