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Permalink Reply by Aaron S. (USA) on August 11, 2009 at 11:52am

I'm still trying to lose weight after being fat half my teenage years, so I'm mostly focusing on diet and cardio-type stuff. I do about 4 miles or so of running/interval training around the neighborhood 6 days a week, then I come home and do some weights: core training 3 days a week, upper body twice, and lower body once per week. Mostly it's not heavy weight stuff, just pushups, pullups, dumbbell squats (no more than 60 lbs per bell), bicep curls, shoulder lifts, etc. Sunday is my day off and I just walk for a few miles.

For dieting, I've been calorie counting off and on the past several months and it's worked well for me. Just cut back 500 calories a day and you're losing a pound every week; if you're doing decent weightlifting, you're not losing muscle mass, either, just fat. Not doing it this month, though, since the workout I have planned has a few too many intense exercises, and I work up such an appetite that I can't really cut back very well :P

Permalink Reply by Not important on September 4, 2009 at 3:07pm

I never even used free weights until I started my Exercise Science degree in college. Prior I did all my work outs in the gymnastics center. Millions of varieties of pull ups, push ups, sit ups, legs exercises etc exist in the gymnastics world.
I also used to play tennis w/ my sister, did ballet and Kenpo for a stint, and I taught a step aerobics and a toning class at my gym in college. I also did Hot Yoga for a year, and took a session of "Extreme Strength and Flexibility" at a circus place.
I enjoyed every physical activity I've been involved in, however nothing ever measured up to the exhausting work out I'd get from a 4 hr practice at the gymnastics center.

Permalink Reply by Nathan on September 8, 2009 at 7:44am

I wear nike Free's often. I train in them a lot as well. For most of my heavy lifting I use my Chuck taylors', flat hard sole, but all my cardio is done in my Nike Free's and I have looked into a pair of Vibram's. I tried a pair on they are super comfy.

Permalink Reply by Nathan on September 10, 2009 at 12:41pm

I don't run much (basketball, typically wear my basketball shoes). But, I walk in them, and i do some training in them. I have the Nike Free Everyday (more shoe-like) and I have the 5.0 (more middle of the road between show and barefoot).

The Free3.0 is supposedly the most barefoot-like. I don't have those. Not sure how they would hold up to daily or frequent long distance running.

Permalink Reply by Double Standards??? on December 23, 2009 at 11:28am

I weight train for strength. I lift weights 3 days a week focusing on the Big 3 SQ, DL, Jerk. Benching is boring. I throw in some bodyweight stuff ocassionally knuckle push-ups, dips, pull-ups/chin-ups.

Permalink Reply by Nathan on December 23, 2009 at 11:37am

Sounds good man! I agree Benching is boring, and I've never had a strong bench, but it is necessary if I would ever want to compete in powerlifting.

Good on you, man.

Permalink Reply by Double Standards??? on December 23, 2009 at 12:13pm

I think benching is an over emphasized exercise unless a person is a powerlifter, a linemen, or does a lot of pushing in their daily activities. Big chesticles are for attracting women.

Permalink Reply by Nathan on December 23, 2009 at 12:22pm

And, bench pressing isn't the most effective chest builder either.

But, attracting the ladies isn't a bad thing either.

Permalink Reply by Double Standards??? on December 23, 2009 at 12:42pm

I'm an intermediate. I haven't been consistant because of college and insomnia so my numbers aren't that impressive right now. My goals by the end of 2010 are Squat: 375lbs, Deadlift: 450lbs, DB Power Jerk 110lbs. I weight 200lbs @ 6' 1" but I need to lose bodyfat. My powerbelly has got to go.

Permalink Reply by Rick Fredley on February 2, 2010 at 3:01am

I started weight lifting with a friend who knew what he was doing (I was completely clueless) about a year ago. We separate our lifting days either by arms/shoulders, chest/back, legs or we do push one day and then pull the next. I've always been pretty scrawny, but I've gained a descent amount of muscle (6ft, practically no body fat, weighed 165 lbs when we started, 185 last summer, and now I'm about 175).

The problem now is that I'm also training for a marathon (The Flying Pig Marathon in Cincinnati, OH on May 2nd)... A lot of running plus weight lifting... Don't really go together... But I'm trying my best. I can't lift as much as I could last summer, but last summer I couldn't run 10 miles in one go like I did this past Sunday...

Permalink Reply by Edward Teach on February 24, 2010 at 7:37am

I lift every other day and do 30 minutes of cardio every workout. I hit each muscle group once and work abs every work out:

1: Chest and shoulders
2: Back and arms
3: Legs

I have a stretching routine, but get real slack about doing it consistently.

Permalink Reply by Nathan on February 24, 2010 at 8:10am

Stretching is something that I am streak-y on too...sometimes i'm on the ball and do it everyday, sometimes not. haha

I do warmup properly every session, but the post training stretching for health and general well being is hit or miss.

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