Today's Workout Thread

[MickR]

How come everyone's stopped working out all of a sudden?...

In all seriousness, I need to get a workout programme of some sort happening. At the moment, I'm on a strict programme of diet to shed the kilo's. Cycling is my only form of exercise, but it's intermittent and only as time allows.


Mick

[Jimbo]

Good on you Mick! All in steps mate. But yeah, diet + exercise is the ticket. Even just a quiet 1/2 hour walk in the early am or late pm is a good thing. It's all about building a habit, and building habits is just about regular repetition.

Yesterdays workout:

AM:
45 minutes on the elliptical cross-trainer. Katas (forms) in pool.

In the pm:
25 minutes of interval training: Pushups: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 with a 30m sprint up the driveway and back between, no rest; Same for crunches, then squats (10, 20, ..., 60), then back to 5, 10, ..., 30 for burpees. Repeat from pushups until 25 minutes reached.

Kicks on bag: 25 each side of: turning for power, triple turning, side for power, front (toes back!) for power, reverse punch for power, jump spinning back kick (power), jump spinning outside crescent (these last two I do in sets of 10, 10, 5 alternating sides so I don't get too dizzy), front leg outside crescent into spinning rear leg hook, flying side kick for power.

Finish with kata (forms) and hand drills X 2.

Evening:
MA training.

I'm trying to build up stamina and mental conditioning for my second dan grading. I don't do this all the time - I ain't getting any younger and overtraining is an issue. Usually I only do elliptical in the mornings of MA training, and when I don't have training I'll do the intervals and bag work. But I just felt like pushing it to see how I'd recover yesterday.

James.

[DarthLord]

Today's workout:

15min eliptical "warm up" - 2.5mi at slight incline
2 supersets:
5 seated shoulder press @ 150#
8 pull-downs @190#
15 crunches (some sort of crunch machine of unknown weight)
5 tricep extension (each arm) @35#
5 concentration curl @50#

Not my best, by far, but considering I haven't seriously worked out for over a year?
And tonight I do a 3mi jog in the freezing air with my girl

[edhewitt]

In all seriousness, I need to get a workout programme of some sort happening. At the moment, I'm on a strict programme of diet to shed the kilo's. Cycling is my only form of exercise, but it's intermittent and only as time allows.


Mick

Are you sure you aren't actually me, come back from my future and moved to thr other side of oz. I actively dislike most exercise, but do enjoy riding my bike but that is rare.
Recently I have been going for an evening walk whilst away for work, I go with a friend called Mick (no not an imaginary you, that would be odd) and we will Salk for between 45 mins and 1.5 hours. The longer walks involve stopping for a pint halfway round.

[edhewitt]

That is some hard core training right there...See what I did there?!


Mick

If you looked at me you would say I was soft (in the) core. But I am really a powerhouse of energy waiting to be released. From a lazers body

[onimaru55]

We graded one of my private students on Tuesday night to San Kyu. That's 4th level up for students. He is so keen we practiced 2 hours Monday morn then 2 hours Tuesday arvo before the 2 hour night class. At least I got to sit & watch for 45 mins while we graded him. The humidity is high everyday here atm so that you sweat just sitting still so I'm calling it 6 hours exercise in 24 hours.

[MickR]

Are you sure you aren't actually me, come back from my future and moved to thr other side of oz. I actively dislike most exercise, but do enjoy riding my bike but that is rare.
Recently I have been going for an evening walk whilst away for work, I go with a friend called Mick (no not an imaginary you, that would be odd) and we will Salk for between 45 mins and 1.5 hours. The longer walks involve stopping for a pint halfway round.

If the imaginary me is the same as the real me, he wouldn't go for a walk with you, because he would rather go for a ride, hit the weights or the bag or a sparring/fencing partner...Anything, but not a walk. Him hating walking as much as the real me does.
I don't doubt you are odd though, Ed .


Mick

[souschefdude]

24 miles on a stationary bike in 1 hour.
Heart rate 138.
Season 1 episode 5 of SOA on Netflix.

[1OldGI]

As I am old and retired,my workouts are always the same day in day out.
Out of bed at 4 A.M,go pee,make coffee,go ck email,have a smoke or 3,drink coffee,go pee.
Check a glue joint,drill some holes,more coffee,go pee.
Pack up some stuff to be shipped,more coffee, go pee.
Shower, shave, read paper in the shave den whilst trying to get things to move.
Is now late in the day (8A.M) have a beer to steady the hands,go pee.
Turn some wood,have another beer,go pee
at about 10 AM, is time for my nap,get up, go pee, go to the post office.
get home,go pee.
Life is a bitch but everyone needs a workout regimen,mine works

You Sir, are a god! At 51 years old, I'm still not sure what I want to be when I grow up but being you just made the list of possibilities.

[carlmaloschneider]

In all seriousness, I need to get a workout programme of some sort happening. At the moment, I'm on a strict programme of diet to shed the kilo's. Cycling is my only form of exercise, but it's intermittent and only as time allows.


Mick

Hi Mick,
Exercise is important, esp to build muscle and strength, however, from what I've read of late, diet IS the most important aspect of losing weight. I may have posted it above somewhere, but I read that one needs to run something in the vicinity of 80 kilometres in a month to lose 1 kilo of fat in a month.