Nice job Jesse Keep it up!

I know the ab excerise you mentioned. Google dying ****roach. That's another good one.

 

Well I guess its time to get to my fat **** back into the gym because to be honest with you I feel like total crap lately. When I changed jobs from sales/truck driver I weighed in at 185 and was going to the gym 4 days a week and now I am sitting behind a desk for about 10 hours a day and I am at 258 and not going to the gym at all. So next week when I get paid I am going to the gym and sign me and my wife up and start going again so I can stop feeling like a fat blob with no energy.

 

No slacking allowed in here Dave...

 

I dont intend to. I might even provide a little amusement with my commentary of going back to the gym.

 

This should be good

 

Day 17

Bleh, so I totally fell off the wagon today. Skipped out on going to the gym this morning, just didn't feel motivated to get out of bed. It might have had something to do with that new bar that just opened up across the street.

To make matters worse, I went to Chipotle for lunch and had one of their huge burritos, which by itself is around 1,000 calories. On top of that, when I got back to the office somebody had set out some home made chocolate chip cookies. Of course I just had to have 2. Ugh.

As punishment, I'm going to force myself to go to the gym after work and do 45 minutes on the bike (either hills or cardio setting) before doing the work out I should have done this AM. We'll see how it goes.

- NCSU

 

Anyone here tried floor wipers? I saw it mentioned in the 300 workout.. basically, you lay on the floor holding a barbell with 135 lbs total straight above your head. Then, raise your right leg and try and touch the weight on your left side, and alternate..50 reps.. anyone game? I might try it tonight with just the bar for starters...

 

Got back myself about an hour ago. 2 hours again. 30 min run with a bit of fast walking. 30 min bike... then weights and some stretching and abs. Trying to get pretty cut over break.

 

Day 19

So I did manage to force myself into the gym after work on Wednesday. I rode the bike for 30 minutes to help burn off those cookies, then moved on to my back/bicep work out: pull ups, lat pull downs, dumbbell shoulder press, machine shoulder press, dumbbell raises, and bicep curls. I forget the number of sets and reps.

This morning I went in for leg day. Did my usual 10 minute warmup on the bike, then on to the workout:
- 2 sets of 20 hyper extensions
- 1 set of 20 dumbbell half squats
- 4 sets of 6 narrow grip squats
- 4 sets of 6 standard grip squats
- 3 sets of 6 leg curls
- 3 sets of 6 leg extensions

I'm going to move next weeks workouts forward a day, so I'll go Sun, Tues and Thurs since the gym will be closed on Christmas and I'll be travelling anyways. I'll probably take the following week off and rest since I'll be out of town some days and celebrating the others. Then starting Jan 4th, back to the grind!

- NCSU

 

Day 36

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Now that we've got another year in the books, it's time for another fresh start. I was pretty slack the past two weeks, I went twice the week of Christmas, but today was my first day back since the 23rd.

Same routine as usual, only I've decided to bump up my biking to 30 minutes now. Today was biking followed by:
- 3 sets of 10 shoulder rotations
- 3 sets of 6 bench press on the smith machine (wide grip)
- 3 sets of 6 bench press on the smith machine (narrow grip)
- 3 sets of 8 chest fly
- 3 sets of 10 dips
- 3 sets of tricep pulldowns

Weighed in today at 164½. So I didn't gain any weight over the holidays, I'll count that as a win!

How are the rest of y'all coming along? If you haven't been doing anything up to this point, now's a great time to start. Most every gym is offering some kind of special this week.

- NCSU

 

My gym was closed so I couldn't make it since Dec 17. But I will begin again tomorrow

My weight stayed the same as well.

 

What, nothing for 3 days? You slackers!

Day 38
Started off with 30 minutes on the bike, then moved on to:

3 sets of 8 high rows
2 sets of 8 barbell pullovers
3 sets of 6 one armed dumbbell shoulder presses
2 sets of 6 seated shoulder presses
3 sets of 6 wide gripe T-bar rows
3 sets of 6 dumbbell preacher curls


Day 40
Today's workout started with only 20 minutes on the bike since it was lower body day.

2 sets of 20 hyperextensions
1 set of 20 hack squats
4 sets of 6 squats
3 sets of 6 leg presses
3 sets of 6 leg curls
3 sets of 6 one-leg leg extensions

As it turns out, on Tuesday my Dr. prescribed me some new medication I'll be taking for the next 3 months and one of the unfortunate side effects is similar to Antabuse, the anti-drinking pill. It prohibits the body's ability to completely break down alcohol which results in "highly unpleasant symptoms", even when small amounts of alcohol are consumed. So basically, no more booze for me during the next 100 days. While it will suck not to be able to drink any beer until April, it should help with the whole getting in shape thing.

- NCSU

 

That may play into your favor man even tho it does suck.

Well I made it wednesday and thursday. I can't make it today because at work they played with my schedule and I usually work at no earlier than 5pm during the week and I am at 3pm today. By the time I drive over, get there, Ill have no time and be late to work. I should be able to get back into my routine this coming monday. I couldn't believe how the 2 weeks the gym was closed hurt my stamina. I was doing so well running and it has been not hard, but not as easy and good feeling as it usually is.

 

So I started back up monday and today after taking the whole christmas break offQ I gotta say Im pretty sore. Its amazing how much muscle you lose in a little less than a months time. Like I was benching 275 twice as my last set. Well I only made it up to 245 for a my set of 2. But I wasn't trying to push it too much, but it did feel like my limit. I didn't want to push myself too hard and causing an injury.

Anyway I was taking my contacts out tonight and was looking at myself in the mirror. Ya ya I look in the mirror. Anyway I noticed I'm starting to get a 4 pack of abs when I flex my abs. But my question is what excercise can I do to work the lower abs. I know you can't have abs unless you remove the fat layer above the abs but I think I'm pretty well there. I need to find a workout that I can do here at the house on my off days from the gym to tone my abs. Abs have never been a very strong point for me as sit-up pop my hips and hurt my hips more than they were hard for me. Well I mean I could always do a fair amount of sit-ups but thats all upper abs. So what is there to do to work the lower abs?

 

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