The Official Gym & Fitness Thread

Welcome - may your gainz come quick and be substantial

 

How tall are you?

 

5'10"

 

Dang boy you lanky af! Lol. I weighed that much in HS. Buuuuuuut, that just means you can get swoll like most of these fuggers here. And welcome!

These guys have good tips...heh heh...tips...
So feel free to ask questions. They canz halp!

 

Also, wife wanted to know which proteins to buy at the costyco, I told her which one.

 

Ha lanky as hell is right. What type of program would y'all suggest? I was thinking 5x5 stronglifts or something of that style.

 

Do it. That's good for anyone just starting out, coming back from a hiatus, or just switching things up. They've got an easy to use app that tracks it all for you too...

 

Should I start with just the bar only for every lift?

 

Def. 5x5 and eat a shit ton of carbs. I thought I was lanky at 6'1 175lbs. I was super super skinny until college though. Like 6'0 140-150 range

 

Yeah I'll use my fitness pal for my food

 

I'm sure you can do more than that. I'd spend a day testing weight and reps. See what you can do x10 on bench and then go to 65-70% of that and see if you can get 5 and tweak from there. Do similar for deads and squats...

 

Dude...you're about to make allllll kiiiiinds of gainz.

 

Just spent 45 minutes doing squats. I haven't gone past 245 but a few times since I hurt my ass. Preworkout (and probably rest) had me feeling decent today.

3x10 at 135
3x10 at 185
3x8 at 205
3x4-6 at 225
2x2 at 245
2x1 at 275
3x10 at 185

Now some leg press (quad focused...hurts my pec to do front squats - I guess the weight resting on it )

 

What's a squat?

 

@ThunderCookies you get this tank?!?!

 

I don't have that one. Looks better on you than it would me though

 

Damn not bad at all for free/99.00. I gotta find a deal like that.

 

The pink padding on the bar adds like 5 lbs to your squats

 

Hey Gang. I commented on this thread a long while ago, when I was getting ready for an Ironman race. Something I was able to finally complete a month ago. Needless to say, endurance racing isn’t the main point of this thread. However, striving for your athletic dreams certainly seems within the spirit of it. So here is my Ironman MD race report:

The week leading up to the race I was traveling for work in Clearwater Beach Florida. Cambridge got slammed with storms while I was there, leading to serious flooding in the region. Race day the weather was terrible as well. It was very windy and cold with rain on and off. The swim was delayed, then canceled due to unsafe conditions. That was disappointing, but the right call given the storm. It'san outdoor sport, so these things happen. Around 100 people quit right then, which in my opinion is totally lame considering the investment you put in to get to that starting line. Sore losers!

There was a brutal “time trial” bike start. Racers were released sequentially by race number. I say “brutal” because, I was number 1204, and many of the people between 1 and 1203 were slower than me. It was also brutal since it was wet and windy while we were waiting to start, and we didn’t have access to our morning clothes anymore. I was shivering by the time I got on my bike. I passed over 500 racers on the bike, which was difficult given the stormy conditions. I guess all my wet and winter weather riding paid off. I saw several crashes, bloodied riders still pushing on, and one guy being loaded into an ambulance on a stretcher.

By the time the run was starting, the tide had rolled in flooding the three sections of the course with some spots nearly knee deep in water. It was a three loop course, so you had to run through the flooded portions a total of nine times!

All that to say, I crushed my anticipated times – ending with a 5-hour bike split and just under 4-hour marathon. I finished 23rd in my age group and 241 out of 2500 overall. Top 10% - not bad for my first Ironman distance race.

I’m very pleased despite the weather challenges. I will do another one, both so I can do one with a swim and because I learned a lot pushing myself past my limits. Maybe I'll shoot for a Kona slot next year! The other thing I’m pleased about is I felt great. No stress fractures, no toenails falling off, not even a blister! Way better than the Marine Corp Marathon last year.

And lastly here is my reflection on it all:

Triathlon came to me unexpectedly. Where some see obsession, sinking and time wasted, I experience dedication, buoyancy, and freedom. We all have to work; we have to do chores and taxes; we all spend a lot of time getting from A to B. The distance in between should be filled with what you love. Dreams don’t need to make sense, but you do need to dream them. And if you're going to have dreams that take up 10-15 hours a week for six months, you need a very patient and supportive wife. Now back to truck projects, camping, and eating bacon - at least for a few months.

 

Hell yea man that's awesome, congrats