Share your work out and eating routines

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#41

My gf is going mad with the amount of tme I spend at the gym now - ends up close to 2-2.5 hrs every day after work.

Start with 10 mins cardio then 20x3 pushups to warm up or 200 steppers

I do a lot of different exercises, don’t have the card in front of me but here’s the summary

Monday - Chest and triceps

Tuesday - Biceps and back

Wednesday - Legs and shoulder

Thursday - what I did on Monday

Friday - What I did on Tuesday

Saturday - what I did on Wednesday

After this, 100 leg raises without any weights(will have to replace it with something else now coz it’s killing my lower back for some reason), then stretching and 20 mins cross trainer with alternating high-low resistance

Before shower, I use either sauna or steam (which is a must for me) and if I bump into a colleague or a client, then I end up spending a bit more hanging out in the cafe.

Diet: Very low carb, only protein and healthy fats, lots and lots of yoghurt and milk (1.5% fat). I might reconsider this now coz I recently read long term low carb diet impacts your baseline testosterone levels

PS: My favourite, LEG DAY - love this.

#42

This. I try to do something similar. Lots of compound exercises to work the whole muscle group, then 2 days of rest.

#43

Woh! 300 burpees and 200 pull ups in one session! Are you serious? If so, then wow! that’s some serious accomplishment.

#44

yes if I recall correctly it took about 1 1/2 hours. The program is set up to train you on long sustained efforts. The biggest benefit though is that it helps build mental toughness. Nothing like finding a way to get through the last 100 burpees and 50 pull ups when you’re already completely gassed and your hands are ripped to shit.

#45

My goal is to get to 2 pull ups. I did one once, in middle school. Getting through these last 199 could be tough.

#46

Getting one is the hardest. Once you do first, building up on it is much easier… Until you stall… Sigh

#47

Pull-ups are a hard thing to quantify, though. When I think of pull-ups, I think of the old Marine-Corps style pull-ups.

You have to come to a dead hang, pull up until your chin is over the bar, and lower yourself back down until your arms are fully extended. No kipping, kicking, swinging, or bicycle-pedaling allowed.

I see some guys in the gym who don’t move up or down by more than six inches, and they have to kick to get themself up. They might be able to do 200 gym-style pull ups, but probably couldn’t break 20 Marine-Corps pull ups.

I’m not saying that any way is necessarily morally preferable to the other, but Turd’s 200 pull-ups may be significantly different from my 200 pull-ups.

#48

girls always be stressing for time

No one does strongman lifts? To be the best lift is atlas stones, works your entire body and hits groups you could never touch with normal weigh lifting

also do some form of combat sports 1 or twice a week. Usually in the form or boxing or wrestling.

#49

Haha yes, on my last one I get stuck midway and have to kick through it.

I also used to raise the legs to 90 degrees, thinking I’ll work the abs at the same time. Big no no apparently

#50

In the Marines, yes. If you bring your knees up above your waist, the pull-up does not count.

#51

Yeah, I keep the legs straight behind me now, but I can’t do as many repetitions this way. I found that keeping the whole body very tight together helps a lot. A lot!

#52

But you’re a trapeze artist, so you have an inherent (and, I dare say, unfair) advantage.

#53

it’s cheating if your legs go less than 180 degrees

#54

Maybe only from a perspective that I had no choice but to learn how to do pull ups. It was the only way to get permission to register for more advanced classes…

Otherwise I had a zero upper body strength at the beginning like everybody else…

#55

I’ll do strongman lifts in about 40 days when I’m done with this schedule - get the basics right first.

About women, I think with time they all come to appreciate its worth.

As for combat sports, I used to do Tae-kwon-do at national level until I was 17 years old. Then my grandpa accidentally heard the conversation b/w my coach and dad that next step is to go for world tournament in Australia - and that was it! I have not fought on a stage that big since. He wanted me to focus only on studies and given the close knit family I come from, it’s not as if I could’ve left home and done it anyway.

Anyway, boxing is quite popular in my gym and I will give it a try next week. What surprises me though is that there are more women in boxing classes than men.

Forgot to mention, Sunday afternoon is dedicated to Squash with colleagues - I doubt there’s anyother indoor game which burns more calories than 3x45 minute games of squash

#56

This, my friend, is the ONLY correct way of doing pullups - everything else is just a shortcut and with fitness, there are no shortcuts.

#57

Strong lifts 5x5 three times a week, hockey 2-3 times a week, running or bike if not a hockey night. Couple days off. My diet is first class though, tons of veggies and such. Everything from raw, no packaged crap. No junk food or soda. Only bad thing I eat or drink is beer.

#58

Drinking bad beer is stupid.

Drink good beer.

#59

I think the more your workout or do active sports, the less likely you are to eat junk food. You just don’t get enough energy from packaged or junk stuff - I for one feel like throwing up in the gym when I haven’t eaten properly

#60

I think he is getting at the only thing he does that may adversely affect his health is drink beer, not that he drinks poor quality beer.