Here is me at 307.2. I have been working my 6 day split with a 10! minute cardio session added in sometimes more. I was training for stamina on cardio but now I try more endurance.
Stamina i would run at near or maximum intensity for short bursts or as long as I could and then slow down to recovery pace. Now I just elevate treadmill or similar and keep going for strong steady pace
I developed a terrifying walking style that looks like pig trotters faster than most run. Instead of breaking into a run or jog at 3 mph I walk even past 5 mph I do not have to break walking and gain acceleration. Need better shoes.
Honestly Reggie, you are proposing a 160 pound weight loss? You want me to lose 160 pounds off that photo and stop adding muscle? I’ll drop fat and add way more muscle.
I might just do classes at gym or Zumba for a while tom lower fat and hopefully not compromise muscle mass. Better conditioning and less fat my body will allow for more muscle weight.
This is 307.2 and probably 310+ after breakfast with clothes and shoes.
Reggie is giving advice to drop down to half this bodyweight and mass.
Damn your comments hurt Reggie. I take a lot of hurt. What do you want me to lose my legs and arms or are you just projecting your own feelings about your body?
What do you think? lose fat yes but lose 160 pounds and no muscle mass and conditioning?
I don’t “want” you to do anything. Your life is yours to live as you see fit. I think you would be much healthier if you stopped eating crap and lost 160 lb, but that’s your decision.
Your a real embarrassing restriction on my weightlifting Reggie. I mean really embarrassing. Especially with your height/weight framing.
And when you tell me with urgency to drop weight it’s not like dumping a bar from a barbell squat or sliding off plates from a failed bench press attempt. It’s more like your suggesting to drop off a child on your shoulders so you can take it’s place.
Why do you want to feel power and weight and gravity and then behave so disrespectfully and ungratefully?
Something is sick about you. You can fact check and get scientific but it always shows up the foundation of your mind.
It’s obvious your health is failing and you need urgently to put it off on someone.
Why the concern with mine? Because you care about me? Or you just care about extending your own overindulgent existence?
Yes, it’s understood you are ordering me. You are a diabetic with and A1C of 9.0 and often higher and you drink a bottle of wine. Now it’s okay to get behind the wheel of your new convertible or even fly a plane?
It’s not just sleeping it off. 3 months In lowered my level by .5 .
I don’t take orders from you. And you shouldn’t be driving at all.
You can’t even keep your head up at the meal table or talking ham radio.
I used to do wrestlers bridges both face down and belly up for sets of 20+ full bodyweight no hands arms folded all on the head.
I don’t want you on my lap. Not F1 I mean literally. You know the terms.
I changed my training split to hopefully target muscle groups better.
Mon: Chest, Back, & Rear Delts
Tue: Side Delts, Front Delts, Traps, Lower Back, Calves
Wed: Abs
Thurs: Biceps, Triceps, Forearms, & Neck
Fri: Legs (Quads & Hams), Glutes, & Calves
Sat: Abs
I want to do more chest pressing movements and getting the back pumped up first provides a better base. Doing front and side delts with lower back allows me to throw in kettlebell cleans every now and then. Arm day alone allows me hit them first with more energy and not take away from push/pull movements. Want to prioritize arm development over all other body parts currently. I might switch my leg day with arm day depending on recovery. I use do squats with deadlifts but that was too draining and I had to cut back severely on one or the other. It made sense because of the ham and glute involvement with the low back pulls, but this just works better for me. Abd day 3 and 6 let’s me switch between front and side abs.
I’m also doing physcial therapy for bladder control/release issues and I am seeing great results. I’ll talk about it in another post but that is wed and fri and takes it toll on hips glutes and legs but those are absolutly no focus of intent. its a different set of muscles and attachments and breathing pattern.
It’s not like there weren’t bigger, heavier boned and muscled men around back then.
But this is what the size and aesthetic was back then.
There are still physiques like this today. Mine isn’t one of them.
Just hitting upper and lower body on different days now. Throwing in a class every now and then and some cardio daily. Yoga too.
My gym location is closing but there are are others locations. So I’m just trying to master all the machines right now. I hit legs today and really wanted the truth so instead of playing it safe I worked up quick to the full stack on every machine I hit. Felt like I was displacing people from my hollow self. But it felt like truth more than anything. I managed to get several smooth higher rep sets with power and speed and good contraction and eccentric. I was backing off at less than half feeling I had lost strength connection and was sure going to injure something.
My bodyweight and body mass feel more justified to me. I needed a good dose of truth was all. I needed to accept myself better and that means more accepting more strength beyond others.
I weigh 190 lbs. People would be surprised by that. I used to weigh 153 lbs, 7 years ago. People would also be surprised by that. My physical is in 3 weeks. Despite being the heaviest I’ve ever been, I actually seem to be the strongest I’ve ever been. I have never had this much strength or endurance in certain ways. It’s odd. I don’t think my doctor will care about that, lol.
Maybe we can talk training sometime. I just bought a tub of protein powder from my closing gym. I foam rolled the hell out of my body yesterday and despite the stiffness and pain still went to 2 back back classes for top and bottom.
Although I have a membership that allows for several locations in a chain, I’m trying to do everything possible at this location until end of month. Might do Zumba despite it being hard to keep up.
I do still so my own dancing as well as martial arts. Easing off the martial arts/boxing. Fitness is a mess right now. Transition is coming soon.
Oh after the foam roll and gird ball for the chest armpits,.rear delts the left arm feels like it slid out farther and shoulder span was much wider. I don’t like it when my body het cramped into too small 2 dimensional frame.
Don’t trust anyone who advocates losing weight targeting muscle loss ,.bone mass,.tendons etc
You might have to stop strength only focused training if body fat and conditioning are issues, but somebody insisting on an immediate weight loss of specifically muscle mass has issues.
If you’re a prejudiced distance runner whatever works for you. Just hope you don’t get tackled or double legged and slammed on the mat.
Don’t see Reggie here, strange. I wanted to hit arms after seeing this shirt but I’ll have to do it another day . Might go back to my other split. Arms are so painful right now and I had my last blood draw for the study. Im going to gym. Was going to buy new shoes first but tomorrow. I did hit abs yesterday and bike with arm levers as well as pelvic exercises.
Maybe just cardio. I’ll try for legs on one of the several different machines. Hack squats and glute ham raises. Deadlifts possibly ..
Can’t wait to train arms again, might go light on presses and back just to do so more intense and with volume.
Reggie doesn’t do big guns. No respect…
What a wimp in comparison.
Maybe change my mind again focusing on basic powerlifts. Going to drop all the classes for now.
I’m hoping with my old gym closing my lifts start going up again. It’s like too many people want to block me from training or keep trying to show me as weak.
Treadmill and elliptical and stationary bike work fine for cardio.
These are my goals and what matters most to me right now, I don’t care how it wrecks anyone stopping that.
My body building split worked well but I’m really getting muscle bound. I was experiencing frailty and weakness to the point it was like a wimpy taller person fell out of me of a shelf causing me loose my balance. I anticipate this happening again and I can’t even use the really heavier weights I should be.
What worked well was just full impact brutal heavy bag training. My calves and shins were looking and feeling very weak and lacking. Some heavy load work for a couple weeks and few low kicks ( I try to avoid these as the potential for knee issues) and they are back to a pair of oversized baseball bats. I’m still anticipating the knee issue returning with the height issues.
Even if you are doing lifts with 500 lbs, 50 pounds of stress on any limb, or joint will cause a break/tear/failure/energy on me if you are given any place or foothold. And i need to be able to support more than 50 pounds.
You can see the rise where inflex the tendon knee attachment. Right now it’s about 2 fingers wide, it should be at least 4 for my genetics and connectivity. That’s what I need as a minimum to function.
