The Official Gym & Fitness Thread

Yeah I don't have any real running injuries.

Broke my left foot playing HORSE with my nieces and nephews, that required surgery. Hurt my shoulder in a car accident that required surgery. Hurt my knee that required surgery bending down to pick something up off the floor all because of a soft tissue genetic defect.

This time don't even know what happened. I killed off my entire lawn to reseed it with a particular seed type. Rented no equipment and did it by hand. 2 days after I finished seeding I had a pain in my foot and couldn't walk without a limp. Figured soft tissue injury I'll do some toe yoga, ice, and compress. Didn't get better. Finally went and saw my old foot surgeon because I was worried I had a neuroma and found out I was walking on a completely snapped bone for 6 weeks. Did some crutches, luckily just have to be mostly in a boot, and I still get to do some lifting and biking. Don't ask me how it happened or when it happened, I don't know. Lawn looks great though. Totally worth it.

It's never a cool story. It's never I tripped on a trail run and had to army crawl 10 miles fighting off a bear and a mountain lion to get back to my car and call 911.

I will say this, better to brake a bone than a soft tissue injury because they heal better and faster.

 

Someone in the near vicinity to me keeps farting!
It’s difficult to get through a complete set….

 

My BP since I was 25 has been 130-140/80-100. Its been highest at 30 at 150lbs, 10% body fat at 130-140/90-100.
I gained 50lbs (fuck all the judgments), diet went to shit, drank all the booze, stopped lifting, stopped running.
BP around 130/80.

Cleaned up the diet, started exercising, losing some weight. BP is 140/100 today.

Im now trying BP meds. Showed my doc my old med charts with dates and weight to show her when I’m fittest my BP goes up lol

I will stop these drugs if they interfere with energy or my exercise performance but lets see how they do.

 

BP. Don't get me started. My Dad drank 6-12 beers a day, literally every day, until he was 77. He also dipped snuff, smoked cigars, and ate high fat, high sodium foods all the while. He quit only the drinking and cigars at 77 and he is now 88. Never done a cardio exercise event in his life. His BP has been lower than mine for years while I did pretty much the opposite.

 

My family has heart defects and high BP
as a theme across both sides.

My thyroid has been high most of my adult life with periods of crashing. Now its leveling out. I will likely have to have a thyroid ultrasound and maybe biopsy coming up.

High thyroid will feed BP, high thyroid also can mean calcium leached from your bones into your blood which high BP and calcium = arteriosclerosis.

My family whos passed killed themselves with drinking and smoking. I think I know only one family member thats lived past 80 and that was apparently my great grandpa who died in his 90s.

I actually have a family history of primarily everyone dying before 70. Creepy when you think about it.

 

I'm getting back on it today.



Dropped about 50lbs over the summer, holidays and then cold has not been friendly to keeping it off. Had a fat weekend to enjoy the food this past weekend, but starting today I'm back on the train.

Need the accountability so I'll be joining this thread (of course, Tacomaworld has a thread for that).

 

Feel like much of us are on the downhill slide and not much motivation

 

It might be because I'm more about skipping dinner/OMAD right now...It's hard to get out there when it's 20 degrees out to run 2 miles and steal 450 calories, go for a 2 hour bike ride after work and steal another 750. But we're on the right track now, at least. ±100ish calories, some of those are guesstimates. (I had dinner last night, Wednesday and Friday are days where I'll be eating dinners).

I also did laugh - that weigh in from Monday was definitely artificially high, Tuesday AM was 5.5lbs lower

 

Winter does that to me

 

Motivation is unreliable and impossible to maintain forever. Learn to love the process, and embrace the power of habit. Oh, and have something go horribly wrong in your life which requires rehab lol.

Still hitting the gym and hiked my first mountain since the injury a couple weeks ago. Progress baby.

 

it's a marathon not a Sprint is what I tell myself.

 

We got snow yesterday so I got to shovel that before work.
I love being outside and snow

Winter doesn’t bother me too much. The -11F we have been at bothers me if its more than a week.

 

What happened?!

 

Lol...only poor sentence structure. I hiked a mountain a few weeks ago, which was the fist time I had done such since the injury.

 

Not the same time scale, sorry! Friday was net zero for all intents and purposes (+50). For the week being cold as balls, and not able to run/walk much, I'll take it! Net negative is what I'm after!

 

Haha good
I was like lawd what happened now.

 

DEXA scan scheduled for this weekend. First “real” body scan since college 15+ years ago. Can’t wait to see how fat I really am

 

$350 Omron HBF-306C Handheld Body Fat Loss Monitor

https://www.amazon.com/Omron-HBF-30...mzn1.fos.c3015c4a-46bb-44b9-81a4-dc28e6d374b3

We had one of these when I was in 7th/8th grade. No idea if it was reliable.

It brings to one of my "crotchety old man" rants though. Not necessarily a rant but....

Right now, on my wrist, for 250$, I have an apple watch. Actually I think it was a little less than 250. Either way, you get the idea. This little thing, paired with Strava, can give me heart rate zones, tell me to speed up or slow down for effective training, resting heart beat, sleep tracking, (going into strava now) relative efforts, power curves, segments, pacing, you name it.

All of this stuff, all of this data that is used by the average joe, just 10 years ago (2014) was the realm of basically professional athletes only. The first apple watch is from 2014, before that there were a couple pedometers here and there, that's about it. 15 years ago (2009) it was for sure just professional athletes and olympians. Now, Sandra from down the block is tracking her heartbeat on her "evening wine walks" (Sandra, that's just public intoxication....)


What heart rate zone were you in? How fast did you go down to the tenth of a second? What was your power curve? What was the vertical gain? This is all just readily available, and just normal for everyone to know nowadays. It just blows my mind how casual these things have become so quickly.

 

Meh. I don't hold much weight (no pun intended) in short window weight movements like this. I'd consider that pretty steady. This week's going to be back to pretty cold again

 

Put this together yesterday with my father in law! Stoked I don’t have to go to the gym any more!