The Official Gym & Fitness Thread

This was me in January. Keep at it man. I pushed 225 2 weeks ago.

 

I started working out with a buddy and he's been pushing me harder than I would push myself. Plus it helps having a spot now

 

Good work! Don't get discouraged when weight stops shooting up as quickly. The stronger you get, the longer it takes to get stronger. I maxed 225 for the first time 7-8 years ago. I just now got to 350. I'm sure I'd do better if I had more time, but who has time for anything these days?

 

Oh yeah I understand. My goal is 225 for 3x3. I have a heart condition so I have to watch how much I lift and how fast I go up.

 

https://ast-ss.com/max-ot/week-1/
Seems like some of you would enjoy this program. I followed it to a T, 10 years ago and still incorporate some of the principles.

 

Instead of my usual Friday morning 5mile run I ran 2 then did sprints the 2 back. I know a lot of you live in NC like I do or GA, but holy fuckin tits this heat wave is kickin my ass. 84 degrees out when I started at 5:45. Doesn't help that Fayetteville is NCs filthy butthole

 

I just got back from OC Tuesday. Worlds Gym there is a shit hole (in an endearing type of way), but you can still get your lift in.

 

I hate going outside right now. I went out in my garage last night for like 5min and had to shower again bc I broke out into such a sweat...

I'll be in Fayetteville in September for the Spartan Race

 

Weighed in at 191 this morning...not sure if that's a good thing, as I was 194 Mon. I'm gonna keep with the current calories right now, but if I keep losing this fast, I'm gonna have to add some in to slow it down a little. Might just be water weight though.

My lifting has been slow this week, too. Did legs Mon and backnbis Tues, but had to cut grass Wed and Thurs after work, so no gym. Gonna go in for chest/tris after work today and then do shoulders/legs tomorrow morning.

I'm with y'all. I cut grass the past 2 days from like 6pm-9pm and sweat my ass off the whole time. I'm ready for football weather

 

There is a girl wearing a Westside barbell shirt that only uses machines...

 

Ya normally I like summer but this years bullshit, even my dog hates going outside now.

@ThunderCookies are you doing the full race? I thought about doing it so my wife could try something fun but she hates running completely and doesn't want to "embarrass herself." The last race here was only like 5 miles from my house and they did it where I like to take the truck wheeling

 

Yeah my dog looks at me like I am crazy when I suggest a walk now. But he is also on to the fact that his walks have become an hour+ long pokemon hunts

I am doing the sprint, which is 3-5 miles but still has 20-23 obstacles. I have been wanting to do a race like this for a while but I also hate running so I always talked myself out of it. They had a groupon the other day for the sprint part of the race (I think it begins around 11:30 when all the legit competitors are done already). I figure with that many obstacles in such a short distance the max run length would be like .25miles at a time.

 

There was a kid wearing a west side barbell cutoff in the gym the other day, he was about 5'10 maybe 120 pounds and his dad was forcing him to workout. He was doing dec flyes wrong and his dad yelled "you're fucking pissing me off! Do you not listen to what I tell you?"

 

Those are the kids that end up despising the gym and never working out because it gets ruined for them. Can't force the gainz. Either you hungry...or you starve forever small...

 

I told my dad I wanted to pack on mass. We went and picked up muscle milk, a muscle and fitness mag, and showed me where the gym was. Probably the best choice he could have made because if it was forced, I wouldn't have continued until the later years.

 

I think I've found a few of my next gym shirts.

http://fat-bar-apparel.myshopify.com/collections/mens

This one's for @zacharypaul89

 

I just downloaded the Pokemon Go app. I was OBSESSED with Pokemon growing up....even more so than 'rasslin

Pops gettin dat roid rage.

 

I'll get Pokemon go soon. Just deciding on which phone I should get. Still waiting for the craze to die down so I can just enjoy it though.

Been playing red on the gbc and soul silver on the DS until the time comes.

 

It's fun but the servers are still a little overwhelmed so some days it's tough to get on. I need another phone so I can use one to run the add-on apps (pokevision, etc) to maximize my game

Well that was nerdy...

I'm going to go lift heavy things repetitively to make up for that