I went for a long walk at the zoo. Lots of steep inclines and I had to walk fast to keep up with my niece. I wore this mask the whole time it is fitting better but still too tight and will pop open behind the neck if I move or inflate my neck too much. I haven’t felt so upright, tall, and human for a while until I started to feel like an ostrich and even looking like one. It was getting difficult to even guess what animal I was supposedly closest relating to.
I mentioned earlier I bought 5 pairs of shoes all 11 wide. I’m so glad walking was so powerful and I felt like steel. 305 doesn’t seem overweight all around some behemoths. The walk went well lots of good breathing and leg work and keeping a tight upright form. When I got out the vehicle later to buy some groceries it felt like I had cement shoes with metal plates for soles. Painful and slow in the blink of an eye and oh soo much heavier.
African penguins in the same enclosure as a shark. And those vipers are right across the the takins. The leopard was housed between baboons and monkeys separate from a baby leopard. It looked surprised when I made a sound that made it raise its stomach off the rock.
Very good walk but too much ostrich dna. I really took notice of it and not just myself. See that throat bulge and then neck extension? It was uncomfortable walking around like that to keep that beak mask on.
Couldn’t even find any gorillas and I did not photo the giraffes but they looked way bigger from a distance off.
God you are HUGE! Malformed. Barrel chested.
It’s just the proportion of head to breast size in chickens.
I was seriously pushing to leave early as possible when I started noticing it happening. Like ostrich cancer.
2 pound weight drop. It as much exercise as diet.
No, Mark. Exercise is great for you and will make you healthier and make you feel great, but weight loss is 99% food.
Absolutely. I don’t have time for breakfast or lunch at work anymore. I’ve lost 7 lbs in 2 weeks.
Probably only going to do the gym once a week for awhile. I hit upper arms first and did everything else upper body mediocre in terms of weight. I started of with small straight barl curls the whole rack with the short straight fixed bars starting at 20 pounds for 6 and going up to 90 for 6 all good slow controlled reps. Did something similar with the cambered pushdowns for triceps the whole stack at 115. Keeping everything 6 reps.
I did a lot of exercises just gripping a large diameter foam roller. Just as much effort as loading up an olympic bar.
Im going to start with arms first every upper body workout not larger groups like chest and back. I need to break the bangles of the gods.
I left something out. Sleep. The only time I drop any weight is with sleep. I have to get a good deep sleep, and everybody tries to prevent that when I do. People are terrified about unhealthy fat loss when they realize that is them and their health that is being rejected. They start to spin off into mental oblivion.
Then I get the fake worry that “they were concerned that i won’t get up”. It is actually their health they feel bottomed out about.
So I am using weights for upper body only. I am doing legs totally without weight and all on a mat barefoot. I am trying to avoid shuffling around all day like I am clanking with weights I just picked up and put for a few sets. Also this is about properly getting the legs underneath as you might hear when watching boxers. This builds more strength and mass for me at the moment then I would using weights. Eventually I will add some light weight but keep the same program until I change it to more running and a few heavy compound exercises with heavier weights. I have had issues with leg lock up especially where the muscles and connective tissues slide past each other behind the knee and above and slightly below. They get stuck. The lunge has been done so superficially by so many it is a ton of weight to actually do a rep. It does not impress whatsoever if I see somebody lunging 50 feet or so with a bar balancing on their shoulders nor does any barbell squat. You might as well be lifted up with a pool cue after collapsing your legs.
Also the buttocks, I have too tight gluteus muscles that feel like they are going to rip and fly off from the pressure if I do a regular barbell squat. They are just pulled in too tight and will take time to release and deploy without some violent injury.
I do this maybe twice a week. Sometimes with abs sometimes without.
Everything is 6 reps even if I can do more or have to cheat to get 6 except the last exercise.
High Knees for the front hip 6 sets. 3 sets standing 3 sets on back straight up and outside wide. I vary these a lot but always 6 sets total and really knee and roll the gut up.
Side hips I do 6 sets total. side knee lifts from hands and knees 2 sets. Laying on side 2 sets side straight leg lifts and 2 sets side clamshell opener top leg.
Inside hips 6 sets. laying on side 2 sets clamshells with bottom leg and 2 sets straight leg lifts with bottom leg. laying on back 2 sets clamshells simultaneous close/open with bothlegs.
Buttocks 6 sets total. 2 sets heel lifts each leg. from hands and knees. Glute Bridge (shoulders on floor and I really roll back on the shoulders shoving all the organs up) 4 sets.
Hamstrings 8 sets. 2 sets straight leg deadlifts feet close. I don’t use any weight but it would improve the stretch. I use them a warm up stretch to unlock the fibers and connective tissues locked behind the knee that tend to bind. 2 sets single leg deadlifts(each leg). I really go perpendicular and sometimes use a chair to balance. 2 sets standing hamstring curls no weight( i do have ankle weights but they are a detractor to leg development at the moment) I do this fast and hard like butt kicks or butt kickers. 2 sets lying leg curls also done fast and hard, you could say butt kicks or butt kickers. This is to build form for running and other leg function.
Shins and ankles about 6 sets of various toe extensions and toe lifts and side to side and rotational movements. I do the same for the feet and toes.
Calves 6 sets. I do these like all my leg work on a mat barefoot. Feet forward shoulder width calve raises with nothing under the the ball of the foot for extra stretch, flat on the floor feet straight forward.
Quads (some exercises also recruit the glutes as well as hip flexors etc. 8 sets total. 4 sets of air squats (I do 2 close stance like chair pose and these are usually high but I try to get them as low as possible and 2 wide stance where I go deeper and sometimes do them as frog squats these are like warm ups) I do 2 sets of side lunges. 1 set like a regular side lunge but I tilt my body and 1 set very low like sumo style shinkayu. Sometimes I can’t get them as low and sometimes I have to lift the heel. These target the dangerous weakness of the knee and make carrot snapping noises sometimes. Then my #1 exercise for legs right now lunges. I do 2 sets of 4 reps each. 1 Set moving forward step right and then step left, reset and moving backwards step left then right. 1 set the same thing but returning to position and staying stationery. I do these last when I am warmed up and also very fatigued. The weight is ridiculous and when I hit my knee it is a car hitting the floor on tis tires after a fast release of a jack. Eventually more reps, but the gravity is just insane on these and it is like dropping from full height.
Normally that many sets would take forever but I have been resting less and less and less sometimes just 10 seconds. With the workout like that I can still do another activity that requires leg strength without being so depleted and sore. What I am trying to do as far as aesthetics is not caring. I’m just trying to build up a large blob of muscle I can hook up and stretch out to a better frame. I still need more mass to look slimmer, I have to max different frame setups out.
You can’t change your frame.
I don’t know. I have seen guys lose weight and you’d never believe they were using the same set of bones. Your frame sometimes changes when you lose a lot of weight.
I’m looking at some new grippers. Been having a lot of trouble keeping my crush grip strength. It depends how you train the hand which supposedly had more motor plates in ration to muscle fibers to represent the attribute of dexterity. This is a pretty good grip set but I would have got the the rubber accessories even weaker. The adjustable gripper can go up to 60 kg but that is nowhere close to the force required to close the 100lbs of that 3 piece set there 50,100,150.
My hands are not right for me sometimes and I started getting weaker with more grip training so I stopped for a while. I don’t know if I can close the 150 for any goood reps but I can still close the 100 without warmup on demand but not for the same times or duration as before. Sometimes after I use the metal grippers my teeth feel cracked and it is like I had a concussion. Also the fingers feel blown off and so light and dense as just band aids.
This is a good set but sets my hand and grip capacity lower than what is optimal and natural for me. I used a dot of super glue on those pins which pop out with a slight drop.
When you have a powerful grip you don’t fear dog bites and snarls as much.
But that tends to just run away and phase to weakness for me. For ideal long reach dexterous fingers that are all but useless to me.
Hoping I can get rid of a hand without doing a Luke Skywalker.
Gym workouts are o.k. but gym workouts do not make me stronger for gym workouts. Home workouts make me stronger for gym workouts. I can’t set up my bag or my bench or even some of the bars I have. So this is what I get by with and is more than enough weight. I lift alone focus goes up, gravity field increases as well as magnetic. I have probably about 80 pounds of weight here and when I step on that mat it is more than my bodyweight and almost enough to crack my feet and leg bones from picking it up.
Am I always that frail? No. Only when their is a problem bodyweight issue mismatch.
Those are some old spinlock collar dumbbells. That rubber grip slides so I count the threads to center it. Probably weighs about 1-2 pounds with the collars. Two 7.5 pound plates and I have about a 17 pound dumbbell. That’s good for several pre exhaust and warm up sets. I have to be a bit careful with the exposed ends. Thee other weights are and adjustable kettlebell set. The handle is about 15 pounds. The center pin and bottom retainer when in place are bout 20 pounds. Those black plastic spacers weigh almost nothing. They have a pullout plug and I suppose can be filled, I just leave them empty. I started lifting again with the just the handles at first. Yes I can lift more. But it gets pointless to me building strength like that. Using 100 pound dumbbells or 400 to near 600 pound barbells, Leg press loaded up to almost 1000 pounds of weight plates and not really activating a lot of muscles or having a lot of strength to apply away from the weight or machine. I really would notice something missing from those heavy movements. Like a foot or more of missing movement along the path of the bar. But back to the kettlebells. I just focus like that is all the weight I can lift for maybe 4-6 reps. And it actually is. Of course sometimes I get the strength to do dozens of reps but I try not to just focus more and keep the reps down and weight heavy. I was going to workout with just 20 pounds but, I can’t find a spacer so I added a 5 pound plate which makes it 25 pounds. I can load it to 40 pounds each. When I go to workout what I with that I can do with pretty much double the weight of a kettlebell or dumbbell.
I actually do have a 7 foot bar with olympic collars weighing probably 45 pounds and two 45 pound olympic style plates. I can spin the plates like a coin between my palms. I just picked up a case of water 40 bottles at 16.9 ounces each which should be about 42.25 pounds for the case. It takes about the same effort for me to do that as it does to rack about 225 pounds if I carry it at chest level. Just lifting from the back of a vehicle requires the same strength as trying to deadlift 315.
This is an impossible situation for me nobody is making any better.
I’ll talk more about how I am training with weights now to deal with current issues, plateaus, blocks to progress etc.
On some days when the my balance feels like 70 kilos nice and upright and optimal fit for an easy run, I try to pick up a case of water like that and it is so overwhelming it causes the legs to buckle and fold underneath me dangerously if I do not catch my descent fast enough.
Some people just don’t get it. It is not the same load and stress. What works for you optimally is a very dangerous failure to me.