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Health, Good Practises, and Exercise
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Pretty, I’ve always wanted a place on the lake, but many lakes are on the soupy, slimey side for swimming, although there are exceptions, but those are usually cold spring fed.
The lake photoed is naturally spring fed, very little algae and weed growth. Its primarily a Skiing lake, but’s its also not very big. Quite a few people will swim the entire lake, which is approximately 2.5 miles long. I enjoy swimming, Which if I could on a daily basis, I would rather do more so over running.
It means The gym I attend, the Max weight capacity offered for some of the machines I use (I.e Lat Pull-down/Seated row/Upper Shoulder press) I can ‘rep Out’, which isn’t enough of a challenge for me [As already mentioned, I’m in body-building]. And there are at least two more machines I’m on the verge of encountering the same thing. I Can’t execute some of the isolation excerises with dumb-bells that I can with machines, which Is what I prefer as Zenithal mentioned. But fortunately having all new machines with higher weight capacities is coming in December.
The cable ‘360’ machines are by far my favorite. I train chest three times a week, and a few of the isolation measures I use is crossover cable flies, benched cable flies and upward cable flies. The best part about the cable machines, you can control the contractions and squeeze with the muscles, which increases more blood flow, where as it’s more difficult to do that with ‘One direction’ machines at times. At least half of my workouts evolve around the cable machines on my five day workout week, its a substantial part to my training.
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If you’re repping out on lat pull downs (a true lat exercise) then two thoughts come to mind:
Astonishingly underweighted machine for a gym.
Poor lat form; not working the lats but recruiting the traps; shifted to a rhomboid.
It’s your program though.
It’s the only cardio exercise I can still do, so it’s a winner.
There are two ‘Lat machines’ offered:
1.) One that is built into the cable ‘360’ machine, With different attachments where your knees are tucked under and you pull the bar towards your chest, this has a much higher weight capacity, but only allows for one type of grip.
2.) The Second Lat machine I am repping out on, is an isolated machine that only offers 230lbs as a max weight. I can start at 170 for four sets, with each set increasing the weight (Which, you should be doing for muscle Confusion), ending with Max at 230 and a full competed 14-15 cycle rep range. But this lat machine offers three types of grips with the handles to manage effectiveness, but still achieve the same Targeted muscles Grouped.
Definitely not. I’m well versed in lifting. However, I think my explanation above should clarify this. In fairness, most lifters are not training the way I do. Its an entirely
Different spectrum. But I agree poor form can shift the weight where others muscles are ‘over-taking’ the Target muscles if the weight is unmanageable. But one direction machines are also difficult to use ‘Poor form.’
And its working at that. Lifting is a huge passion for me. The results are easily showing for me early on in my BB stages, and more importantly, when I’m not in the gym, I’m studying from some of the *best* bodybuilders in the world with their form, technique and intensity measures in the gym. It’s a serious commitment for me right now and I’m executing fairly well.
It’s the only cardio exercise I can still do, so it’s a winner.
It’s low impact and a great whole body exercise. It’s refreshing to see someone who knows what they’re doing. The gym brings out a lot of hot air. Good luck!
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Yep, if I had to recommend one single upper body exercise it’d be weighted dips.
Bent over barbell rows are great for back strengthening. Its both a solid powerlifting/Bodybuilding excerise. I personally don’t use barbell rows in my routine, however, T-Bar rows is what I would prefer and with the use of a weight belt for added support with alignment. The back is the one area you have to be careful with when lifting with this exercise, go to heavy *and* poor form, and you will be out of commission indefinitely. The biggest mistake I see with those using barbell rows is some ‘jerk’ the weights and don’t have their elbows close to their body, which it should be a slow, consecutive movement. If you’re jerking the weights, it throws off your form because its to high of A Weight. The ‘Smith machine’ helps (If its Offered in your gym) with form alignment.
If someone wanted a safer alternative, a low pulley row is also good.
If someone wanted a safer alternative, a low pulley row is also good.
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Not my usual routine today, but I was using ‘triple set rotation’ for the core: Started off with ‘Pec Deck’ (Six sets/weight increase each set).
1.) Dumbbell press & fly (Ten sets each/weight increase each set)
2.) Ab incline bench (Seven sets/80)
3.) Curl bar (Five sets)
Not bad, went hard before the recovery day.
1.) Dumbbell press & fly (Ten sets each/weight increase each set)
2.) Ab incline bench (Seven sets/80)
3.) Curl bar (Five sets)
Not bad, went hard before the recovery day.
I'm happy to report I've lost 8 lbs in 7 weeks by just closing the kitchen after dinner and eliminating potato chips and similar snacks. Otherwise I eat just as I normally did before, minus the nighttime snacking, and am NOT hungry at all. This is going to be really easy to maintain.
I am stuck at 252ish. I went from 315 to that amount in months with exercise and no carbs/sugar. And now its been a month of 249 than 257 than 255 etc etc. ARGHHHH!
We're continuing a great work, life, fun mix, we seriously dial it back Mon - Fri, even keep it in check on the weekend, but still do things like wings, hummus, cheeses, and whatnot (especially on Sunday for football), also keep it to no booze Mon - Thu, never feel deprived, having a great time, really have to balance things, we kind of have too much going on to be a slave to __nothing__ but working out / diet management
Awesome, yeah, there are definitely some simple, but high impact changes you can make.
Maybe you need to change up your eating, go bigger with protein, maybe lift heavy (especially if you're just doing cardio type workouts). I mean, you will hit plateaus where you stay about the same for a few weeks, then have another notable drop. Hang in there!
Awesome, yeah, there are definitely some simple, but high impact changes you can make.
Maybe you need to change up your eating, go bigger with protein, maybe lift heavy (especially if you're just doing cardio type workouts). I mean, you will hit plateaus where you stay about the same for a few weeks, then have another notable drop. Hang in there!
Thank you. I will try to get to add more lifting and will keep up with the no carbs all protein.We're continuing a great work, life, fun mix, we seriously dial it back Mon - Fri, even keep it in check on the weekend, but still do things like wings, hummus, cheeses, and whatnot (especially on Sunday for football), also keep it to no booze Mon - Thu, never feel deprived, having a great time, really have to balance things, we kind of have too much going on to be a slave to __nothing__ but working out / diet management
Awesome, yeah, there are definitely some simple, but high impact changes you can make.
Maybe you need to change up your eating, go bigger with protein, maybe lift heavy (especially if you're just doing cardio type workouts). I mean, you will hit plateaus where you stay about the same for a few weeks, then have another notable drop. Hang in there!
You might also try a "cheat day", once a week, mix it up a bit (I mean, don't eat like 2 large pizzas by yourself ...), but a nice carb intake, maybe a few "junky" things, bodies tend to get bio-memory pretty quickly, whether it's food, a workout, etc., and a sudden change can kind of push the reset button.
If you don't me me asking / sharing, how old are you? I seem to recall you're in your 50s?
That definitely works if you let it work and don't kid yourself about what a closed kitchen means... I almost bought potato chips the other day, figuring hey I can find a bag of them on the countertop even after I shut the lights...
Uh, no. Caught myself just in time. Now I'm hyper-vigilant when I shop for groceries because I was setting myself up for a real slide there. I like having dropped the pounds that are gone and don't want them back. For me and potato chips, it has to be point of purchase control or game over.
Yeah, don't have it in the house, and you can't eat it
Alcohol isn't even that bad, particular non-carb, alcohol sugar only options like vodka, mixed with a flavored bubbly water, but the __munchies__ that develop out of a drink (or several), can be devastating Keep up the good work with the weight loss. I can relate to your post, as I work irregular hours in my profession and I tend to eat usually late at night and into the morning at Times, but I try to substitute that with healthy fats and carbs, such as [Almonds, avocados, oatmeal, plain turkey, I even make my own trail mix with dried cranberries/Cherries, sunflower seeds, chopped nuts, ect]. I Think this is where a lot of individuals struggle, is in the kitchen too late at night eating the wrong types of foods and the digestive system slows down, where the body stores this is fat. Moderation and substitution are two keys in the kitchen.
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Yeah, don't have it in the house, and you can't eat it
Well I have a little different take on the booze since as you may know, I elected (with help from some friends and an employee assistance program) to consider my drinking card punched out while I was in my late 30s.
It eventually dawned on me that my friends who were actually social drinkers did sometimes forget where they set a half-full wineglass, did sometimes run out of beer or wine, etc. It didn't occur to me that my pals had no clue if they had a Heineken in the fridge or not. I always had one left in the door of the refrigerator. It was my talisman, my proof I wasn't some kind of runaway drunk couldn't leave it alone. Duh... it also didn't occur to me that my routine was to go walk the dog and pick up a sixpack before coming back home to have that "one in the door"... so I could leave one in the door again....
Somehow though I've never been able to translate my eventual awareness of me and alcohol to me and potato chips. Try to scare me off snacks heavy on fat and salt, potato chips especially, and I'm all like "hah yeah I don't care." Hey what's the harm in a snack-sized bag. Or just a couple chips off a pal's plate in a restaurant. I'm incorrigible. I blame the chips thing on incomplete evolution. Ever see critters at a salt lick?
I am 48. I did have a few cheat days and I thought maybe that’s what stopped the weight loss. Now I try to eat no carbs at all to get back into Keto. Are you saying that I should have like an all out cheat day instead of what I did....a slice of pizza here, some fries there....
Argh!!! All my data is gone. I haven’t updated anything since iOS update and now my data is missing!!!
lol. I forgot that I also had to switch phones. Maybe the health data isn’t saved to the cloud? Should be if that’s it.
Ahh, I was about to ask you if you changed devices: if you restore from iCloud, it should be automagically encrypted (but I believe you have to specify health data as a backup source, I think the default toggle is off) - if you restore from a local backup, it has to be encrypted (when the backup occurs ...), and that includes Apple Watch data (that's synced to that specific phone).