Daily Workouts
- Thread starter CrazedJava
- Start date
The #1 community for Gun Owners in Texas
Member Benefits:
Fewer Ads! Discuss all aspects of firearm ownership Discuss anti-gun legislation Buy, sell, and trade in the classified section Chat with Local gun shops, ranges, trainers & other businesses Discover free outdoor shooting areas View up to date on firearm-related events Share photos & video with other members ...and so much more!
Member Benefits:
TheProphet
Member
- Jan 11, 2015
- 79
- 11
Still struggling to get into the habit of a daily workout. Want to start getting up earlier before work and going for a walk, but just can't seem to drag myself out of bed that early. I need to figure something out though, 355 pounds at 25 just isn't healthy. I just started Weight Watchers but eating right just isn't going to be enough to drop the 200 pounds I need to lose.
Gonna start Whole30 next week and get a membership to Planet Fitness (only gym open when I'm available). Haven't gained any weight since getting out of the reserves two years ago but it has shifted, muscle disappeared from shoulders and legs and became fat around the mid section. I'm looking forward to some cardio.
That's booking it! I took a spill yesterday evening turning too fast on a loose gravel bike path. I was only going 10-13 mph. My knee took the worst of it. I landed on my right knee and rolled to my right shoulder and back. I sopped the blood up with a towel and rode home to clean up my my wound. I felt OK until I woke up this morning and my shoulder was killing me. Life is telling me I'm no young buck anymore.
Hit 24hr Fitness today. I go 3X a week and do my version of HIIT with some pilates stretches thrown in the mix for my back. It is a lifestyle choice. Been doing it since about 16YOA. The gym commented I have one of the lowest membership #'s they have ever seen.
Ole Cowboy
TGT Addict
Gym membership, I don't need no stinkin gym membership...it only goes in 2 directions, STRAIGHT forward, STRAIGHT back, will not turn on its own, its tips the scales wet at 355 lbs and my place is covered in left and right turns aka trees!
Physical work is good for you.
It burns calories and conditions
But it does not exercise the heart like a cardio workout does nor does it offer the muscle building that resistance training does.
It all depends on your body goals
Nice mower BTW
It burns calories and conditions
But it does not exercise the heart like a cardio workout does nor does it offer the muscle building that resistance training does.
It all depends on your body goals
Nice mower BTW
Ole Cowboy
TGT Addict
LOL you wanna bet on that, you are welcome to stop
by and try it, slinging 355 lbs around is one hellva workout. Add in a 16 lb chain saw I used to cut 21 trees the other day, then de-limb, cut trunks in 4 ft pieces or 75-100 lb chunks and do that almost ever day I am in town and its not raining and it will kick you but. Most days (today, I was out from 0800 till 2:30 with that chainsaw, loading a 22 ft trailer 6 ft high X 2, then unloaded it in my burn burn pit, guess I could say I cheated as there were 2 of us. Maybe not maxing in cardio, but being a runner for over 40 years running up to 350 mi per month until my Achilles tendon gave out, was enough to last a lifetime.
Before:
After: Much of this was 8-12 ft tall growth, often taking 4 days to do a piece less than 50x50.
This ain't no lawn I am mowing.
Think about the lumber jacks of America in the early 1900s. Those fellas were strong, but they were not huge muscled , they were thin ,very lean builds with little body fat. They burned a crap ton of calories a day. I have seen pictures of them drinking condensed milk just for the fat and calories.
What I am trying to say, because I think you missed what I said earlier, is that there are different kinds of work the body can do. Hard, physical labor, what the lumberjacks did made them lean and tough and yes they were in shape.
What some of us are talking about in this thread about workouts is different than that. Resistance weight training is NOT what the lumberjacks did and it produces a different body type.
Repetitive lifting and pushing the muscle to failure causes small tears in the fiber and when you combine that with the right amount of protein and rest, the muscle rebuilds itself larger, muscular hypertrophy.
If any type of excercise made your muscles grow, then runners and cyclist would have freaking huge thighs, but they don’t do they?
Nobody is saying that you are not doing hard physical work. I’m happy for you. Knock yourself out man! You just came in here and posted about “who needs workouts” or something similar to that so I wanted to explain why I go to the gym and do the type workouts I do.
Capiche?
What I am trying to say, because I think you missed what I said earlier, is that there are different kinds of work the body can do. Hard, physical labor, what the lumberjacks did made them lean and tough and yes they were in shape.
What some of us are talking about in this thread about workouts is different than that. Resistance weight training is NOT what the lumberjacks did and it produces a different body type.
Repetitive lifting and pushing the muscle to failure causes small tears in the fiber and when you combine that with the right amount of protein and rest, the muscle rebuilds itself larger, muscular hypertrophy.
If any type of excercise made your muscles grow, then runners and cyclist would have freaking huge thighs, but they don’t do they?
Nobody is saying that you are not doing hard physical work. I’m happy for you. Knock yourself out man! You just came in here and posted about “who needs workouts” or something similar to that so I wanted to explain why I go to the gym and do the type workouts I do.
Capiche?
Ole Cowboy
TGT Addict
LOL, I can tell you have never cleared land. See that pile of logs in the "after" pic? I pilled those up, after that I got my John Deere, hooked up my trailer and picked up those logs and took them down to the burn pit, there I unloaded those logs. So down in the burn pit I have a stack about 60 ft wide, 25 ft across and 8-10 ft tall, those are the trees I have cut, de-limbed, cut into logs most weight in around 40-50 lbs but some go up to as much as 100, I PICK those up and either load them into the front end loader or in the trailer then stack them in the burn pit.
Of course there is that 16 lb chain saw at arms length.
As for the lumberjacks, they cut down trees, shout timber and move to the next tree, following them are trucks and tractors that strip limbs off, cut up and load into trucks mechanically. I don't have that option.
Resistance weight training, yes you are 100% right I don't any of that, I do resistance weight WORKING!
You have no freaking clue how much land clearing I have done because you are the undisputed king of obtuseness.
I’ve cut, stacked and hauled plenty of it, also heat with firewood that I cut and stack by hand.
You can’t get past the differences in the two different topics because you want everyone to know how tough you are.
BTW, I own more chainsaws than you do.
I’ve cut, stacked and hauled plenty of it, also heat with firewood that I cut and stack by hand.
You can’t get past the differences in the two different topics because you want everyone to know how tough you are.
BTW, I own more chainsaws than you do.
Ole Cowboy
TGT Addict
LOL so if you have done all that and know all that, not sure why you take such stand or is it in you world the only weight resistance training can be done with a set of weight in a gym. My picking up 100 lb logs does not count, very interesting approach you take.
Our home on the ranch was heated by firewood and I cut and stacked it.
But what you are trying to do is paint me as some lumberjack who cuts down trees and moves on while but big rigs come and clean up my mess and I am cutting another tree down the road.
You have more chainsaws than I do, WOW am I supposed to be impressed??? Do I need to run out and buy more to try and keep up with the king of chainsaws and gyms?
Did I attack you, did I say you or anyone was wasting them time in gym or it was a bad thing, nothing. Instead you throw up a bunch of pics while making a parallel as to how I do next to nothing. I am the king of obtuseness, I will never take that honor from you. Did I tell anyone I was Mr tough, no I think you are King of toughness behind a keyboard, another honor I don't I can steal.
Got a problem with me, suggest you PM me I am sure we can sort it out...
No sir.
I'm very scared of the thought of tangling with such a monster of a man that you must be.
You should write a book on muscle building , I bet with all of your science backed research and your jacked body to prove your theory, it would be a best seller
BTW, I use those 100 lb logs that you lift as toothpicks and I deadlift 450 lbs with 2 running 16 lb chainsaws hanging off each end of the barbell
It gets a little loud in the gym, but nobody is bad enough to say anything to me about it.
Last edited:
Ole Cowboy
TGT Addict
Ohhhh NO, are, are, you the guy they made the movie about...Texas Chainsaw Massacre? Please Mister, don't hurt me...
Ole Cowboy
TGT Addict
LOL I got a kick out of myself, I thought you post was quite humorous as I need some today, as I walked thru the laundry room to find water everywhere...just got it sorted, turns out some rubber hose under and inside the cabinet came off and was spewing the tub water onto the floor. Did save myself a $300 buck call and fix. No chainsaw today, wife has me finishing the upstairs guest bedroom bath. Set a new crapper, new sink, all new plumbing and worst fo all, hang some damn mirror on the wall. Had the bath redone from the studs out, so finishing up.
Just wonder does setting the crapper and sink count as resistance training? Speaking of which, after all that Mac 'n cheese I had for lunch could lead to some resistance tomorrow morning about 8:05...
