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Yesterday and today

Jun 21, 2006 09:23

The gym offered an introductory 1 hour training session with a trainer so I took it... Seriously this guy was retarded, like really the only thing he could understand is gym equipment, telling a hairdresser exactly how to do his hair, and how to set the timer on his personal tanning bed ( Read more... )

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puk_the_lovable June 21 2006, 15:33:16 UTC

It works 'cause that's your personality - you don't need positive reenforcement and discomfort doesn't bother you or really act as a deterent for that matter.

As for the workout, I think it's a bit cardio heavy for you, stylistically, I figure you prefer a bit more muscle and moderate cardio. This seems to me set up for moderate lifting and heavy cardio. I'd cut ddown the warm ups and cool down to 5 minutes and take like 5-10 minutes off the cardio. If you're aiming for weiht loss, then keep the cardio the same. In exchange I'd throw in some more upper body lifting because I think there's muscle groups you're not working out in that routine you may want to pay attention to.

Hmm... rook_the_roach June 21 2006, 15:47:46 UTC

Allright, I'll change it up I'll take the advice of a friend who knows what he's doing over a trained professional anyday.

I'll add in some triceps, I did notice he was missing that, and pulldowns for the lats. What else do you suggest?

Re: Hmm... puk_the_lovable June 21 2006, 16:50:28 UTC

When I get home I'll email you a link to a website which outlines all the muscle groups and examples of what exercises you can do to work them - that should point you in the right direction ( ... )

Re: Hmm... puk_the_lovable June 21 2006, 16:55:18 UTC

Oh yeah, before I forget, I do hope you're stretching prior to this. The extended warm up is probably to take into account if you don't do any stretching, but I'm sure you already know it's very useful if you're doing heavy lifting. I would stretch for a half hour prior to hitting the gym, so I started running as soon as I got there without warm up. Also, I posted my routine in the order I did it in at the gym - you'll note that the order is designed to give certain muscle groups a rest while others are worked, for the ones worked multiple times.

As far as power sets go - I'm guessing that's referring to sets where you lift more than normal sets - all of my sets were power sets, I always did my max at any lifting - can't say it ever made sense to me to do it any other way.

Re: Hmm... rook_the_roach June 21 2006, 17:53:41 UTC

He used the term didn't make much sense but the way he descrived powersets was that you do one excersise for one muscle group, and instead of resting between the next set, you work a different muscle group, to keep your heart rate up, and constantly use energy. So bench, and instead of resting for 3-5 mins, work out something else and come back to it.

Re: Hmm... puk_the_lovable June 21 2006, 18:11:41 UTC

I've done that too, but only for the purpose of saving time during as work out - doing 9 exercises and 3 sets of each with a minute or to rest can get tedious and time consuming.

You can power set most of your routine if you feel so inclined. I find it only works when the gym is empty enough to have the machines free or else you're constantly waiting and/or bothering people to work a set in inbetween theirs.

I recommend doing cardio prior to lifting because 1) it's what I hate doing the most so I want it out of the way, 2) it's the hardest thing for me so I want to do it while my stamina is at max and so is my will to do it, and 3) non-power set type lifting after cardio will keep your heart rate up for pretty much the whole time.

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