The Official Gym & Fitness Thread

Sounds like you're right on track for the half. Used to be into running and triathlon before I got more serious about weightlifting.

I would always ease off training about 5-7 days out from the race and eat tons of carbs 2-3 days out to maximize my stored glycogen for the event.

My best time for the half is 1:38:40, but I was probably 25 lbs lighter then...

Nothing like running for getting lean!

Good luck MJP!

 

good job mike... my marathon is 4 weeks away... ugh.

been nursing a toe/foot injury for the last few weeks...havent ran much since my half marathon earlier this month. needless to say i have ALOT of training in need to do

 

I've been sick, and eating like shit, along with 6.66 coffee and donuts. Oh well...if you're gonna cheat, cheat on your diet. lol

 

It's a mix of whey concentrate, whey isolate, egg albumin, milk isolate, and whey hydrolysate giving a well rounded release of protein.

25g protein, 5g carbs, 3g fat per scoop.

I just wondered if I'm eating every 2.5-3 hours anyway, would the ISO 100 last long enough till my next meal. That way I wouldn't need to have 3 different kinds of protein on my kitchen counter!

 

yup... doing a full. heading out to DC to run the USMC marathon. aside from the running 26.2 miles part....should be a great time.

the half went well. my injury prevented from wearing my running shoes...hurt too bad. had to run in my vibram five fingers, which i had never ran more than a mile in before. it was not fun... i'm 205 lbs... i need some cushion under my feet.

my wife and i stuck together and finished in 1 hour 56 min... which was pretty good because we started towards the back of the crowd. after running the first 30 min we had not even gone 3 miles... i was quite mad... but it turned out fine.

 

No shit, I just picked up a pair of Vibram KomodoSports, and love lifting in them! Haven't tried running in them yet though, I'll have to give it a shot.

 

haha, I remember doing that... weaving through the crowd to try to get some open space to break through the madness. Very frustrating!!

 

ever since i got my five fingers i cant lift in anything else. they are great!

 

been a while since i have been in this thread but heres some of my latest progress. i had been the heaviest/leanest ever about 218 and im guessing 15%ish bodyfat. but two weeks ago the shoulder gave and i have tendonitis in the right one, so its been time off work and rehab. ive been able to maintain most of my mass which surprised me cause i have had no heavy lifting or really no lifting in over two weeks. im slowly getting back into the gym and hopefully in a few weeks will be fully recovered. these were taken at the end of aug.


i would like to be around 225 and around 12% as an everyday walk around weight.

 

What gf? I'd rather cheat on my diet, cuz it takes me back when I'm done cheating lol

 

I hear ya, I was out for a few months when I dislocated my shoulder and put it back in myself a few years back. Broke 2 of the 3 ligaments that keep the shoulder in place, along with a piece of my shoulder blade bone.

The surgeon sewed it back up and now my shoulder's stronger than ever!!

Take the time to let it heal proper, don't let it become a chronic injury.

 

^^^ So uh....is that The Ghost and The Darkness? Sweet lions yo.

 

Mon-friday= drink beer
sat-sun = drink beer

Excellent for biceps

 

12 oz curls? If you want to go heavy, I hear the 40's are the way to go

 

I go up in weight ever other day

 

LOL, if they were, I wouldn't be sitting here!! They were brothers though, about a year old.

That was taken in Zimbabwe, Africa a couple of years ago. Had a blast there.

A few minutes after that photo was taken, I got to watch them stalk and take down a baby water buffalo from a herd that was wandering through. They had it pinned down until its mother rammed one of them in the face and knocked out his tooth. I've got another picture of him bleeding from where his tooth was a minute before!!