Fitness Thread

PantherProud said:
lol actually I do laps around the house mostly. I don’t love using a treadmill just because I don’t always do a consistent stride, so I don’t use it much.

Eventually I’ll go around the neighborhood.
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Treadmills can be hit or miss with people for various reasons. I like them because of the heart rate monitoring aspect, but you certainly can do that on your own.

As it gets colder outside, a treadmill might be an option for you. Just don’t neglect the cardio— keep the work going.

Just a note, in case you did not know…Fat burn is said to between 65%-85% max heart rate. Cardio rate is a bit higher. Both are important and vary depending on your goals.
 
RE treadmills.....never hold on and put it on a min of 1 incline, preferably 2-3, to simulate the friction of the ground, etc...
 
Thavoice said:
RE treadmills.....never hold on and put it on a min of 1 incline, preferably 2-3, to simulate the friction of the ground, etc...
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I took a cardiac stress test a few years back and the nurses made me hold on. They said it was ‘policy’ and for liability purposes. I almost stopped the test because of it, but finished. It is not the easiest or safest thing to do—nor as trainer do I recommend it.

Classic—when the nurses did not look like they had seen a treadmill (or gym) in quite awhile. 🤔
 
boothmark77 said:
Treadmills can be hit or miss with people for various reasons. I like them because of the heart rate monitoring aspect, but you certainly can do that on your own.

As it gets colder outside, a treadmill might be an option for you. Just don’t neglect the cardio— keep the work going.

Just a note, in case you did not know…Fat burn is said to between 65%-85% max heart rate. Cardio rate is a bit higher. Both are important and vary depending on your goals.
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Yea I’m sure I will do the treadmill at some point. We also have an elliptical and an excercise bike (which I like to use).
 
Last time I got exercise doing laps around a house there was a women with a gun involved.

Big girl.
Had wheels but not so good on corners.
Took me a couple times around before I could get enough lead to make it to the car without a straight shot.

sigh,

memories..
 
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One week into creatine supplement and I can tell a difference. My workouts are with fewer time in between sets which is getting my heart rate up. I’m down 3lbs, and that’s with minimum cardio. I do have a day of playing flag football on Thanksgiving so I need to step my game up to be ready for that. I’m 42 so dropping g pounds isn’t as easy but seeing results is addicting. I’ve been doing my pushups everyday outside of days indo chest, and my max went from 16 to 23 in one week. Last time I was doing this good I ended up breaking two bones in my foot which put me in the situation I’m in now. Keep up the good work everyone.
 
Been busting it for a yr now and at work we have a fitness test and I rocked it with a 555 and the max is 600.
Came withinn2 pts of maxing half of the events and I think next yr that 570 is well within reach, God Willing, if I can stay healthy.

To another yr of fitness and proving the doubters wrong....
 
What has worked for me, but everyone is different.

Start 2017- 215-220lbs
2024- 170lbs

1. Purchased a food scale, got as precise as humanely possible to know exactly how many calories I’m in taking.

2. Intermittent fasting on non-work out days, I chose a 8 hour window and dwindled it down to 4 as I got my comfortable. Caloric intake on non-workout days 1200-1500 calories.

3. Workout days, no fasting 2500-3000 calories, with specifically setting aside 200-225 gram protein into that caloric range. Macro numbers not exact, but in the ball park of 50-40-10 protein-carbs-fat.

4. Workout, (use to lift, exercise for 2-2.5 hours). Shortened to 1-1.5 and decrease time between sets, lots of time under tension reps and lower weight to ensure form was focus #1. Between cycles of sets (shoulders, triceps, chest) 1 min HIT intensity on elliptical, trying to get my heart rate in the 170-190 range by the end.

5. Meals every 2.5-3 after workout. Clean diet, very clean.

6. Creatine and gallon of water every day.

7. I found I like the AG1 powder mix, so that once a day. Also multi vitamin, triflex for the joint, I’m 37 but joints feel 57.

8. Sauna if available. It has health benefits, but I think the mental aspect of it did the most for me. Sitting in that heat, sweating, eventually starting to feel like your working out, gave me a feeling of accomplishment.

Finally, we are all different. I’ve done all the diets and found what worked best for me. I read about it a million times, but I didn’t start losing stomach fat until I made a very conscious effort to count calories and ensure I was putting my body in a fat burning mode. Worst and best part is for me I seem to lose belly fat last, that would be my luck. I also do 3-4 day fast 4 times a year and set that up specifically to go with diet and workout routine.

When I found my self begin to plateau I took a week off and adjusted diet, a little. Strength wise losing all that weight I was able to increase strength and over the time of years, lost the fat, but replaced it with muscle. I was somewhere around 30% body fat, got down to 10-12%. Size difference wasn’t a vast difference, I went for weight lost, muscle maintaining. Just did 6 month of muscle building and my caloric intake has been vastly different. Like many I also found I would gain fat back eating 3500 calories in a day, to build muscle up. Sadly for me that’s the give and take. If you haven’t and are able have your testosterone levels checked. Surprising at least for me what low test levels can do.
 
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Great job. I’m on week 4 of creatine with my Regular diet. I’ve been lifting 4-5 days a week and i do around 100 sit ups a day on the decline bench. I am getting stronger for sure, my push up max went from 18 to 28 since last week, but I’m not losing the weight as fast as I thought I would. I should be at the point in the creatine phase where I start to drop the water weight. I drink almost a gallon of water everyday and I can tell my cardio has improved greatly. If I don’t start dropping the lbs by this time next week I’m going to stop on the creatine. My pants are fitting any looser..
 
JackEd said:
Great job. I’m on week 4 of creatine with my Regular diet. I’ve been lifting 4-5 days a week and i do around 100 sit ups a day on the decline bench. I am getting stronger for sure, my push up max went from 18 to 28 since last week, but I’m not losing the weight as fast as I thought I would. I should be at the point in the creatine phase where I start to drop the water weight. I drink almost a gallon of water everyday and I can tell my cardio has improved greatly. If I don’t start dropping the lbs by this time next week I’m going to stop on the creatine. My pants are fitting any looser..
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IMO you sound like you’re going through a yo-yo effect. Water weight, fat loss, and muscle gaining. I got in the mindset of not losing weight, but losing fat. If you’re feeling good keep at it, maybe adjust some things, but you sound like you’re on the right track.
 
Great hearing everyone’s successes.

For my self, I’m just under the 57lb mark since June 1st.

Started plateauing around the 45lb mark. I knew that dieting and walking was only going to take me so far. I had been losing at nearly 2.8lbs per week, which isn’t realistic long term. I got away with it longer than I could have expected. Last 4 weeks has been more like 2.2lbs, which while a let down is still pretty solid. That sort of coincides with the weather turning colder, as I’ve been doing more inside and I don’t know that the tracking indoor is as accurate as being out and about.

I’m already 12lbs over my initial goal with still more than a month to go. Should beat it by nearly 25lbs.

Need to start focusing more on muscle building to go with the cardio to help maintain long term success.
 
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PantherProud said:
Great hearing everyone’s successes.

For my self, I’m just under the 57lb mark since June 1st.

Started plateauing around the 45lb mark. I knew that dieting and walking was only going to take me so far. I had been losing at nearly 2.8lbs per week, which isn’t realistic long term. I got away with it longer than I could have expected. Last 4 weeks has been more like 2.2lbs, which while a let down is still pretty solid. That sort of coincides with the weather turning colder, as I’ve been doing more inside and I don’t know that the tracking indoor is as accurate as being out and about.

I’m already 12lbs over my initial goal with still more than a month to go. Should beat it by nearly 25lbs.

Need to start focusing more on muscle building to go with the cardio to help maintain long term success.
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I've done the full cardio thing in yrs past...losing alot.of weight...running 12-25 miles a week dependant on my training cycle but all I did was lose fat..no tone whatsoever and now that I've dedicated to lifting 5x a week I've not only lost lb but now feel so incredibly much better and strength...is a wonderful thing. I am just.now starting to dial in the specifics and mixing the weights with better nutrition and feel and look much better now than wien I was running sub 8 min mile pace Half.marathons.
 
PantherProud said:
Today marks the 6 month mark for me in my weight loss journey.

My initial goal was 45lbs in 6 months.


Checked in this morning down 72lbs.


Still a ways to go to my ultimate goal of 120lbs. Getting there, but not done yet.
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Awesome.

I'm still.hittin it hard 6x a week.
Last couple days had to slow up a little as I gots the cough due to cold but at least I got some PT in as in yrs past I woulds skipped and let to just giving up.
 
Thavoice said:
Awesome.

I'm still.hittin it hard 6x a week.
Last couple days had to slow up a little as I gots the cough due to cold but at least I got some PT in as in yrs past I woulds skipped and let to just giving up.
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If the cold gets to your chest, that’s when it’s time to rest completely. Otherwise, just a scale back is fine. Hate the cold and flu season.
 
boothmark77 said:
If the cold gets to your chest, that’s when it’s time to rest completely. Otherwise, just a scale back is fine. Hate the cold and flu season.
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Rest is good but there us always that fear it leads to stopping.
I'd hope my routine of the last 21 months though has me passed that.
 
Thavoice said:
Rest is good but there us always that fear it leads to stopping.
I'd hope my routine of the last 21 months though has me passed that.
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I rested last weekend because I was feeling run down and thought I was getting sick. It actually helped in the long run, because it made my body adjust and I subsequently lost more than usual in the following days when I started working out again.
 
Since i stress fractures my foot the last week of June I’ve put on 15lbs. I’ve been lifting weights regularly but my cardio routine of jogging hit a huge hiccup. I hate being on a stationary cardio machine, it’s to boring. I started walking more the past two weeks, but popped my hamstring Thursday night.
 
That time of year when many start up again.

Local gym had some stupid hours in Christmas.Eve and Today and I hope this isn't an indication of what's to come as it was.balls to the wall.

All the memes about gyms starting 2 Jan..some are funny but not a fan...no.need to belittle people who are trying to.better themselves.

I'm am fully ingrained in lifting now with nearly 22 straight months of consistency of 5+ days.

2025 will be dialing in more of the nutrition but have been working that pretty good that my usual downfalls don't even tempt or sound good.

Learned the value of a deload week this yr and has been a game changer.

Hope everyone is still on the path and for those who fell off, or want to join the path, don't let anyone discourage you in doing so.

2024 was great, 2025 will be even better.

God Bless yall
 
Got in a solid lift to start the year. Hope the resolutioner crowd isn’t too bad this month.
 
Omar said:
Got in a solid lift to start the year. Hope the resolutioner crowd isn’t too bad this month.
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I usually see.them go in the evenings so the early morning crowd is.not affected quite as much.

Or so I hope.

With school out and college kids home and a local factory on shutdown the last 10.or so days of the year are usually busier than normal where I go



Will see how it looks at 0530 tomorrow however many even push it off until the first.monday of the new year.
 
Thavoice said:
I usually see.them go in the evenings so the early morning crowd is.not affected quite as much.

Or so I hope.

With school out and college kids home and a local factory on shutdown the last 10.or so days of the year are usually busier than normal where I go



Will see how it looks at 0530 tomorrow however many even push it off until the first.monday of the new year.
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It’s usually the evening where it’s packed. I’ll go in the mornings to avoid the rush but I much prefer the evening.
 
Omar said:
It’s usually the evening where it’s packed. I’ll go in the mornings to avoid the rush but I much prefer the evening.
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I can't do evenings. Too much goes on during the day to possibly derail it. Gimme my 0600 session....had to do 1000 twice over the holidays and hated that late
 
Thavoice said:
I can't do evenings. Too much goes on during the day to possibly derail it. Gimme my 0600 session....had to do 1000 twice over the holidays and hated that late
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It’s weird but I have trouble cooling down after am workouts. I usually go into work feeling a bit flush for the first few hours.
 
I kept track for the first time of all my workouts for 2024. Only counting classes or personal training sessions that I did at the gym we belong to. 114 total for 2024 (a little less than half were training sessions - my wife and I go to our trainer generally once a week, usually early morning Wed or Thurs). Hoping to beat that for this year. We did just find a gym really close to our lake house where we usually are much of the summer, so that will help. Last summer, we hardly ever worked out over the weekends because we didn't have a place to go.

First training (lifting) session done this morning. (y)
 
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