The Exercise Thread
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Tysonhunter
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I am going on a little over two years of attempting 5 times a week gym workouts. It varies depending on work and work travel but mostly consistent. I focus on cardio but really need to integrate weights. I typically work on inclined treadmill for 45, eliptical for 10, & rower for 5 all keeping heart rate 120+ as a goal. Four years ago I shattered my left leg doing tree work and I haven't been quite the same since. I tend to consistently lose .25 - .5 lbs a week with some variation. Particularly holidays, turkey camp, and deer camp, and vacations undoing months of work a week at a time. LOL
at1010
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I got a little setup in the basement, but mostly, I do cardio. Once the weather gets better, I have been enjoying running outside.
Looking forward to February to get here so I can get after some sheds. I typically walk 16-17K steps give or take 5K steps depending on the amount of time I have or property I’m walking. Great way to exercise those lungs too.
spencer rifle
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I have no exercise equipment except two bicycles:
1984 Cannondale ST400 aluminum road bike with about 25,000 miles on it, built frame-up with equipment I selected in 1985 (back when we ordered by mail from paper catalogs) and updated periodically.
1996 Litespeed Vortex titanium road bike that I just got last year, all Dura Ace 7700 equipment, originally custom built for their road racing team.
Most of my activity comes from cycling, backpacking, and (several times a week, around 8 hours) volleyball, playing against folks much younger than me. My advantage - I'm old, so they usually underestimate me. Too short and not enough vertical to be a hitter, so I usually set, though I recently picked up the nickname "The Backhand of Death." I long ago gave up trying to be better than players 1/3 my age. Now I just go for being better than I was last year.
1984 Cannondale ST400 aluminum road bike with about 25,000 miles on it, built frame-up with equipment I selected in 1985 (back when we ordered by mail from paper catalogs) and updated periodically.
1996 Litespeed Vortex titanium road bike that I just got last year, all Dura Ace 7700 equipment, originally custom built for their road racing team.
Most of my activity comes from cycling, backpacking, and (several times a week, around 8 hours) volleyball, playing against folks much younger than me. My advantage - I'm old, so they usually underestimate me. Too short and not enough vertical to be a hitter, so I usually set, though I recently picked up the nickname "The Backhand of Death." I long ago gave up trying to be better than players 1/3 my age. Now I just go for being better than I was last year.
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The last time I ran was the day I retired. I ran for 20+ years and I always said I’m not running anymore the day I retire.
Now I walk 30-40 minutes a day at a brisk pace and keep moving throughout the day.
I did pushup’s, crunches and planks daily as well.
That went to the wayside with the running.
Who knows, you mudderfuggers might motivate me back into the pushups and crunches
But if you ever see me running/hobbling by you better get moving as well!
Now I walk 30-40 minutes a day at a brisk pace and keep moving throughout the day.
I did pushup’s, crunches and planks daily as well.
That went to the wayside with the running.
Who knows, you mudderfuggers might motivate me back into the pushups and crunches
But if you ever see me running/hobbling by you better get moving as well!
Bighoun52
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For some reason my pics aren’t working. I’ll get a pic of the sauna up.
My wife and kids use a treadmill and have some dumbbells and an exercise bike. I use them if I haven't been lifting heavy things at work and feel weak. I generally burn enough calories working to keep my weight in check and arms shoulders and back in decent shape. Push ups and sit ups daily, split a lot of wood with mauls wedges and sledges in the winters.
I don't want anything to do with pumping iron anymore. Although Ive been thinking about the benefits of some squats here and there(yuck!). I'll start running if I feel shitty and out of running shape. I do enjoy the feeling burning your lungs and getting your heart pumping outside in some cold air. 2026, only live once let's get after it!
I don't want anything to do with pumping iron anymore. Although Ive been thinking about the benefits of some squats here and there(yuck!). I'll start running if I feel shitty and out of running shape. I do enjoy the feeling burning your lungs and getting your heart pumping outside in some cold air. 2026, only live once let's get after it!
Changed it up a bit. I jog up the stairs and do 10 at a time. Every few minutes I just get up and go. Wife laughs, dont care. She thinks im being stupid but I like adding the steps/stairs. Current count is 110 which also means 11 stories. Way easier than pushing until I can't. I just felt like such a pussy yesterday. Completely mentally threw me for a loop. Headed for 10 more now.
I use our stairs a good bit. Carry both 20#s kettlebells in each hand and do 10 at a time. All you flatlanders could stand to do this before you come hang out with me
Tysonhunter
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I need to start getting after pushups and crunches stop making me feel guiltY bro
I doubt i keep going once I prove to myself I can do this. I dont see me buying weights or anything either. Just working with what I have. Never really been into working out or anything. Maybe if I worked a desk job I would but for damn sure dont see that in my future! LolI use our stairs a good bit. Carry both 20#s kettlebells in each hand and do 10 at a time. All you flatlanders could stand to do this before you come hang out with me
Calling it @120 for today.
If you knew me, you would know this is only temporary. This stuff is for turkey hunters! Gaeh
I have a Universal gym, Exerpeutic exercise bike and an Ab lounge. Pushups are 45° angle for now. Starting to like it all again. May even be getting the bicycle out... who knows yet.
We have an adjustable bench (flat, incline, decline) that also has a preacher curl / leg extension attachment. The back side has storage for dumbbells and the ability to do squats. Not quite a squat rack but it provides some functionality.
There’s a standard 300 lb set of plates and extra 45’s. Dumbbells run from 2.5 through 45 lbs. it would be nice to add up to 60 lbs. There’s assorted resistance bands, a pull-up bar, and a kettlebell adapter that turns a dumbbell into a kettlebell.
My typical week is M, W, F weight training and T, TR jogging a few miles with a weighted vest or doing yoga. I make sure I do something almost every morning and “rest” on the weekends… although most weekends aren’t too restful.
There’s a standard 300 lb set of plates and extra 45’s. Dumbbells run from 2.5 through 45 lbs. it would be nice to add up to 60 lbs. There’s assorted resistance bands, a pull-up bar, and a kettlebell adapter that turns a dumbbell into a kettlebell.
My typical week is M, W, F weight training and T, TR jogging a few miles with a weighted vest or doing yoga. I make sure I do something almost every morning and “rest” on the weekends… although most weekends aren’t too restful.
I have nothing to add to this other than "Good work, men." I am impressed.
My days are active. Lots of stairs in the house. Today I carried ten bags of softener salt down into the basement. Ran 2.5 tanks of gas out of my 462 chainsaw. Then spilt a crap ton of firewood (with the bobcat not an axe), but I go like mad stacking it. Believe it or not, it gets me huffing and puffing a bit. I do stretching daily but not a regimented thing. More of a "my neck and back hurt so I better stretch a little" sort of thing. If I lack anything (besides motivation because I lack a ton of that) it is cardio. I really could use some cardio but my knees would not like it. I've never been able to get winded too bad on a bike. Not going to the Y to swim. Maybe I could figure out a way to increase my cardio.
My days are active. Lots of stairs in the house. Today I carried ten bags of softener salt down into the basement. Ran 2.5 tanks of gas out of my 462 chainsaw. Then spilt a crap ton of firewood (with the bobcat not an axe), but I go like mad stacking it. Believe it or not, it gets me huffing and puffing a bit. I do stretching daily but not a regimented thing. More of a "my neck and back hurt so I better stretch a little" sort of thing. If I lack anything (besides motivation because I lack a ton of that) it is cardio. I really could use some cardio but my knees would not like it. I've never been able to get winded too bad on a bike. Not going to the Y to swim. Maybe I could figure out a way to increase my cardio.
Have a Universal and free weights in the basement, lift Monday through Friday. When I was working, I got up at 0350 to lift before work, don't have to do that now that I'm retired but still hit the weights first thing in the morning. Bicycle outside daily, have an air bike when the weather doesn't cooperate.
spencer rifle
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I have no Stairmaster, but use the stairs to advantage. Over the last 45 years I have habitually gone up all stairs two at a time. If carrying a heavy load I will only do one 2-stair jump in each flight. Otherwise it's 2 all the way up, with exceptions (like the Washington Monument). If the handrails are close enough together and I'm not carrying anything, I will parallel-bar down. Sometimes with a stop halfway and sometimes all the way, depending on the flight.