I haven't formally joined this round because I miss way too many workouts.

But I want to report that I passed a milestone:  this morning my scales reported that I've lost seventy pounds now.

How much is that in stone?

5! Congrats!

buckworks, awesome, well done!

Its not about what you miss its what you do do    Come on.... join in.

set you target to what you think you can do (not like me at the moment, whose plans and reality are not meeting)

Good job Bucky!

Friday motivational question:
What keeps you at it?

For me, I feel like I have to keep improving or I'm going to revert right back to where I was before.  I may still die before I am old, but at least it won't be from my making.  It is also nice to look better and be healthier in my forties than in my twenties.

Quote from: littleman on November 10, 2014, 07:13:53 PM
Good job guys.  Collectively we did 15 out of 19 workouts, that's pretty good!  Dras, you are like 6' 4"?

Ye and i'm the crap guy that dropped the stats

This week i've done 3/5, 2 were normal home bodyweight and 1 was going to the over-50s session in Market Harborough.

I'm 49 next Feb and i look a few years younger (so i'm told, but they haven't seen me in the mornings), so lo and behold, i'm with my two mates, one of whom has had a vertebrae op from a car-crash 4 years ago, and the other who is an arsehole drink-driver and killed two trees recently and broke eight ribs and punctured a lung. Yes - the company i keep ... (i used to have intellectual friends, or at least, ones with half a brain).

So there we are, the two walking-wounded (both 44) and me, when this silver-haired lady swims toward me with a threatening breast-stroke and asks in my face "How old are you?".

I couldn't (totally) lie and said "I'm 49".

To which she replied "Well, they shouldn't have let you in!"

I then mumbled something about my painful left-shoulder, in reply to which she swam off with a Dickensian expression of disdain on her face.

After that was fun, though. We then went into the jacuzzi (spelling? drunk, can't be arsed spell-checking), and the steam room then the sauna.

The flipping steam-room! I haven't been in a steam room before and i'm from Glasgow, it WAS NOT PLEASANT! It hurt my nose to breathe !

It took me a few minutes to slow my mouth-breathing down enough for that not to scold!

The sauna was bliss after the steam room, and the jacuzzi was just sheer fun (bubbles on yer balls - lovely!).

The swimming was annoying though, simply because i had to slalom through people who weren't just over 50 but over 65 in msot cases so a little bit slow.

I won't go back again, because my two mates use it as an excuse to have a pub lunch, and we all know what that means after the fish and chips have been wolfed down.

I've been crap at the home bodyweight exercises, i'm fighting my tobacco addiction (about 30 rollups this month but i still ahte myelf), but i'm trying, and i guess that's the point!

"Friday motivational question:
What keeps you at it?"

What keeps me at it is stepping out of the shower every morning and having to witness the purulent flesh around my gut and chest - vanity, and health concerns of course.


Peace & Fitness,

G.

We should also ask "What keeps you from it?".

Bloody friends whon want you to drink every day (i'm not a down the pub every day man).

Bloody friends who cajole you into smoking !

Friends who want you to die early along with them!!!

As the old saying goes, "With friends like that .."

>Friends who want you to die early along with them!!!

You trying to improve yourself makes them feel bad about not doing it themselves.   Eventually they will have to come to except it or you will have to get new friends.  Oddly enough it goes both ways.  Some people I know have started to take their health seriously after watching me keep at it for years.  My dad is down like 50 pounds, he still has a long way to go, but he isn't living on the plus side of 300 anymore.

>What keeps you at it?

1) it's short, my actual workout is only 35 mins
2) I love the endorphin buzz.
3) I feel better overall plus much more agile/effective at volleyball and dirt biking
4) sometimes it keeps me sane. It's a great refresher when you've been slaving away at the desk.
5) how I look in the mirror immediately after a workout, is how I will look normally, if I keep it up for another 2/3 months (I dub this the hanz/franz effect)

I'm at the point now if I miss a workout I'd feel like I missed out on a positive aspect of my day, instead of feeling guilty.

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gm66>"the jacuzzi was just sheer fun (bubbles on yer balls - lovely!)"

ok, I think we need a core quote of the week section. I vote gm for this week.

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and 5/5 all gym this week.

Week 4 - 4/4

>I'm at the point now if I miss a workout I'd feel like I missed out on a positive aspect of my day

Me too. I really hate missing a workout.

As of yesterday I was down another pound and scraping 13% body fat.  Workout wise I am still going four days a week but I am upping the amount of times I hit each body part each week.  I had been training each part of my body once a week spread over four workouts, but now I am doing the entire body every two workout -- hitting everything twice a week.  I am doing this as an attempt to hang on to as much muscle as possible while working on fat loss.

Good stuff guys.

I'm still battling a lower back issue and can't seem to break from it.

Tried the chiropractor with no solution at all.
Training with a cool and very good physiotherapist now and it helps, however some days the pain is just too nasty and I've go to reside on ibuprofen in a rather high dose. It gets me by, but not a long term solution. Everyone incl the doc thinks I just need to keep pushing training, eating right and it will get better.

I'm not so sure at the moment and fear an operation might be the way out. We'll see - I f-ing hate not being able to give it all I got in the gym and often come home with a dull feeling. Sucks.

Bummer raz, keep at it man.

Sorry Raz, how did you hurt your back?

3/5 last week including two swims so bda week for me.

Starting running tonight, plan to do M/W/F and bodyweight stuff T/T.

Can't wait to see how crap my lungs or calves are.

Running was harder than i thought, i only did 3/4 of a mile but still had to stop 3/4 of the way through.

Disappointed in lung capacity, but i've only stopped smoking for a month (5 weeks this Thursday).

Bloody legs are stiff this morning, hope i can do the bodyweights tonight.