The Official Gym & Fitness Thread

I felt really good when I was running, legs would be sore but it was almost always a good sore, and I’m not light to be running either.
To me it’s not mindless, I have to concentrate on zoning out to run any sort of distance, on the treadmill at the gym I’ll fixate on the far wall and just run.

On another note, I haven’t worked out (other than my pushups) in 1 month and 3 days with this renovation we’ve been working on, work my 10 hours at work and then go to the house and work on it for 2-4 hours and then go home 4x/week and fri-sun work 12+ hours/day on it.
I’m going to start taking a little time off of the house and get back to the gym, I felt so much better, my head was clearer, and I’m just overall happier when I get to the gym 2-3x/week.

 

@zacharypaul89 ?

 

Balance is key. Always. You got this

 

First night shift for the week. Starving. All we have to eat is donuts. I need energy. Fuck it lol

 

Last year that was me. Work all day drive to the house work a bit but we didn’t live in the house, so I had to drive home eat and go to bed.
Yeah not doing that again lol.

Take a few days off each week and hit the gym

It seems like you need to plan better with food haha.

 

Hahah how can you plan food with fucked up hours?! It’s like waking up for a normal day. But not sleeping. So you eat at 5pm Then a little snack. Then again at midnight. Then a snack to hold you off until 6am when you get off work.

The day before getting used to this (whenever you stay away 24+ hours) always jacks me up cause I feel like I eat so much I thought I had enough food but I was wrong

 

You can plan anything with any hours.
How do you not plan?

I have a lot of stuff premeasured everywhere. In my pantry I’ve got premeasured containers of nuts. In my fridge all my meals are premeasured and thrown in there so if I need shit I grab it and throw it in my bag.

At the drop of a hat I can throw a days worth of food into my lunch box in 60 seconds.

Its just a matter of having food with you so when you need it, its there.

 

Yea negative. Fridge is empty lol

 

Exactly.
Plan better LOL

Back in the day when I was busy AF working jobs left and right with grad school, I would bulk cook meat like chicken and pork and put it in individual ziplocks and then put those in a big freezer bag.
If I had little time to prepare and I didn’t want food to go bad it was a way to have emergency food.
You can bulk cook rice and do the same thing.

Because sometimes it can be hard to tell when you may or may not be available to cook and the freezer food is there in case all else fails.

 

Yep, balance is one thing i suck at, i typically go full tilt into everything.
Thanks.

Congrats that y’all got it done! Thankfully we don’t live in the remodel either, it’s a 6 minute drive from the new house to the old house and we don’t really have any furniture in the new house except a dresser, chairs and a dining room table. Luckily it has power, water, sewer, and internet so we can do pretty much everything but sleep there.

 

Week 5 of dieting. I'm around 181 lbs here. I started at around 190. I was under 200 carbs yesterday. That lower ab fat is persistent though .-.

 

Oh its not done... a home is never done. There is always something to add or improve.

The kitchen needs redoing and now we’re wanting to add something to get our patio covered.
Oh and we’ve determined the backdoor is fucking rotting from the inside out (I’m sure you’ve seen my posts in home improvement). Spring were cutting the door out and figuring out how much rotting there is behind all the siding and we’ll put a new sliding glass door in.
Shit never ends with a house.

Thats why I have to workout so much. Maintains what little sanity I have.

 

Oh yeah, when I say “done” I mean no major projects and livable, our current house still has some projects to do before we sell it.

I’ve seen some, I haven’t paid too much attention to that thread since I’ve been so busy.
That sucks about the back door, is that related to the trim above the garage door being rotted?

 

Its related in the sense that the builders didn’t know how to flash to save their lives and the previous owners had their head shoved so far up their ass they didn’t recaulk over 12 years (but I’m not bitter ).

The backdoor is a result of water getting somewhere behind the siding and door flashing and is leaking inside the wall. I have no drywall issues but its clear the inner door casing is rotting on the interior wall



Water has got to be coming down into the wall. Probably more failing flashing above the door.

I’m hoping when the house was built a subcontractor did the windows. They seem solid and no signs of water issues. Its just all of the doors (front, back, and garage) are showing signs of poor construction

 

Well shit, that sucks

 

The joys of homeownership

 

This post will be unpopular but it was a speed work day. 1 mile warm up, 10 x 400m repeats with 400m jog in between, half mile cool down.

 

Sprints are ok. Long running is not ok.

 

Hey @weldertaco what type of shoes do you wear when mountain biking? I may be getting in to it now with a few buddies. I've already got a decent bike, but need to get some gear, mainly a helmet. Probably can use most of my old dirtbike gear, at least the jersey, knee/elbow pads, gloves. But I don't really have any good shoes for biking.

 

Flats. But I wear flats 24/7 anyway. But flats with a good pedal or some people like clip in pedals and shoes but those are really your best options