Re: Getting fit with SwordsMaster
The Total War Workout: I have a set of handweights that I keep in the same room as the computer. Whenever I play Total War I usually have several agents moving about the map. Whenever I hit end turn I use the weights while I'm waiting instead of sitting there constantly clicking. It works great.Monday I was a little sore after playing for a while on Sunday.
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Re: Getting fit with SwordsMaster
The Total War Workout: I have a set of handweights that I keep in the same room as the computer. Whenever I play Total War I usually have several agents moving about the map. Whenever I hit end turn I use the weights while I'm waiting instead of sitting there constantly clicking. It works great.Nice one
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Re: Getting fit with SwordsMaster
I would like to point out DOMS is not necceraly and indacator of a good workout.
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Re: Getting fit with SwordsMaster
Well, well, and so holidays end.
Time to start a new training season. I have to reconsider my goals this time, as this summer I went from 95kg in April to the current measly 79. I attribute the loss to lack of weightlifting, excess of surfing, and lack of good sleep and good eating over the last couple of months.
But hey, that's what summer is for, right? Now, though, it is the time to take up that responsibility and get ourselves back into shape (so we can do it all over again next summer). So no more steaks with fries and bechamel, witha fried egg on top and some mayo. And we're hitting the gym again.
So I've spent a couple of days thinking about a good workout to put some muscle back on.
I'll show you my plan for the week:
Mon, Wed, Sat:
Warmup: 25 min on the bike (interval setting, resistance between 7-12) and 10 min on the rower (at least 2000m)
Then:
25 pullups (weighted if possible), usually in 2-3 sets
50 deadlifts (4-5 sets)
50 benchpress (5 sets)
30 squats (usually 50, but since I've spent the first 35 min working out the legs, I can drop the warmup sets)
50 one arm clean&press (that is 50 with each arm, usually in 5 sets)
25 pullups (usually at this stage, i drop the weight)
This whole thing takes about 2 hours, if you superset the exercises properly. Since 2 consecutive exercises don't work the same muscles, you can superset the first 3 together, then do squats, and then superset the last 2.
Tues, Thurs:
30 min swimming, usually in 10 min "sprints". I'm a strong swimmer, but can't stick to proper technique for longer...
And I'm picking up some recipes too, but that's material for the next installment. Maybe. If you're good.
In the Soviet army they had a pullup bar at the door of the cantina. So before lunch or dinner they lined up the men, and made them do 10 pullups. Whoever couldn't do them would keep trying until the time for the meal ran out. If they still couldn't do them, they didn't eat.
This is first-hand info by the way, so don't take it as a joke. I'm thinking of putting one up in my kitchen...
Well, i'll let you "digest" this.
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Back about fourteen or fifteen years ago, me and my buddy across spent the summer cutting trees on his property and selling the firewood, we did 100 - 200 cords each season. Near where we bucked up the wood there was a tree with a good sized branch coming straight out about seven feet off the ground. A couple of times a week we'd use it for pull ups (just to test each other or people who came by) and anyone who couldn't do ten in a row was deemed "unable to pleasure a woman".
I don't know if that's worse than missing lunch or not.
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Summer's over indeed. This time, need to get up from 62 kg to nearer the 70. First two weeks I'll be running on mondays, lifting weights on tuesdays and fridays (don't know the regime yet), one hour on the rower on thursday, and in the meantime learning the skiff and 2-. After that, a month of endurance training in twos and skiffs, with the occasional move to the 4+; trainings will build up to seven a week. And finally, after the first few trial races, the definite boatplaces will be announced, and it's on to more endurance training in the winter (8-9 a week). Fun!
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Sounds fun. Remember though that to put on weight, the most important thing is to eat right.
Nice. I had a thing in that fashion once. I was working packing trucks in a flour factory. Note that each truck can hold about 400 bags of flour, and each bag weights 50kg.and anyone who couldn't do ten in a row was deemed "unable to pleasure a woman".
I don't know if that's worse than missing lunch or not.
So we were unpacking 150 bags at one of the delivery places, which was on the beach, so we got the odd beach muscle man walking past. when we were some 50 bags into it, one of these muscle men and his girlfriend stopped to look, and were there for a few trips. So eventually i invited him to grab a bag and give us a hand since he was pointing at us and making some comment to the girl. He looked at us, at the bags, at the bakery, and then refused. The girlfriend looked appalled.
Last edited by SwordsMaster; 09-01-2007 at 21:09.
Managing perceptions goes hand in hand with managing expectations - Masamune
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Re: Getting fit with SwordsMaster
Urgent advice needed.
I need to start workouts quickly. I feel like a daisylord thinking about things over and over and wasting the rest of my time in front of PC while looking for a job. Therefore I've started to feel even more hopeless, lethargic and stupid.
Terms: I'll not attend gyms. I'll be moving in a near future. I'll purchase one set of tool (such as weight-lifting bar or dumbbells).
Back in the summer days when I was working out, I had dropped by here and asked for suggestions. Still, I want to improve my dorsal and triceps.
I don't have much to spend on the tools so which one would be a wiser choice? A weight-lifting bar or dumbbells ?
If it will be bench press (therefore a weight-lifting bar), how much weight should I start with ? I was able to get 50 reps of 9.5 kgs back with dumbbells when I was training every day (that was my peak before I had to quit).
Regarding my apparent capacity for my current condition, what's your reps and weight suggestion ?
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by LeftEyeNine; 03-23-2008 at 15:02.
Re: Getting fit with SwordsMaster
If cash is an issue, get a pullup bar and put it somewhere spacious where you can move your legs around without breaking furniture (or toes) If it is a place with a high ceiling so you can have some room above the bar too, then that'd be perfect.
The cheapest workout ever:
Pullups (hands facing in to focus on the biceps, hands facing out to focuson the back) as many as you can. Do it 4 times, and repeat every day.
Pushups. Give me 50. Nonstop. When that is easy, put your fists on the floor. Then start raising your feet. use a chair,whatever.
Situps. Whatever ones you fancy until you can't do anymore.
Squats. If on both legs is easy, try on one. Hold on to the wall for balance.
@Askthepizzaguy. Haha
Managing perceptions goes hand in hand with managing expectations - Masamune
Pie is merely the power of the state intruding into the private lives of the working class. - Beirut
Re: Getting fit with SwordsMaster
hi i have a question. im am 15 yrs old and am already got some muscle and quite fit. i want to get more muscle but as i am a teenager i dont want to over-exercise. the reason i dont want to over-exercise is because over-exercise often contributes to pimples and acne and studies have proven this. any advice on how i get quite a bit of muscle without over-excersing. i am currently doing pushups and sit-ups in the morning and night. i do 2-4-6-8-10-8-6-4-2 sets for pushups and sit ups. any advice would be appreciate
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Man, you'll get pimples no matter what. So stop worrying about it, and do your thing. Any of the workouts recommended above except the heavy lifting will work for you. You can join the marines with 17, so you can easily do 300+ pushups a day with no problems whatsoever.
Also, get a pullup bar, and work up to 20 pullups in 1 set.
Managing perceptions goes hand in hand with managing expectations - Masamune
Pie is merely the power of the state intruding into the private lives of the working class. - Beirut
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