Good to see you back in the gym Tachyon, I bet you were finding it frustrating not to be able to exercise for a while…
So what’s been happening in Foxy’s world I hear you ask…
Following last Sundays nine and a half miles I seemed to recover well and Tuesday’s five miler was about average…
I seemed to have a stiff neck on Wednesday and was wondering what I could have done to strain it. It was only as I woke on Thursday morning with a blocked nose sneezing that I realised that the stiff neck was actually swollen glands.
I went off for my usual five mile run and felt heavy legged and short of energy, I was surprised that I completed the last two miles without having to walk such was the tiredness. Fortunately the time came out reasonable.
Friday was even worse, after the first two miles the feeling of lethargy was almost overpowering, and again, how I managed to struggle round and finish the five mile course without a walk is surprising…I did manage to walk the three miles over the Humber Bridge and visit our favourite cafe’ later though, and the Jacket Potato must have done the trick as we just beat the rain back to the car…
Here’s the bridge taken in better weather…
Sorry to hear you’ve not been too well, Bob. Wet and windy on the bridge at the moment isn’t it? You should have called round tho’ 
Tachyon - well done on that pec dec and your results in general. Some nice progress going on there bud. As with you though, hope that chest complaint clears up soon
Gym for me in a few minutes time. No time limits, not going out today so it should be a decent session
It seems you are bouncing back very well, Tachyon. You must be pleased with the surprise of being able to do more than expected. It doesn’t sound like you chickened out to me!
Thanks Floydy, and I wish you an enjoyable time with your sister, and hope that your little guilty pleasure of watching Homeland was worth a day off. 
OGF, I am so sorry you’ve been under the weather 
and in the weather 
, but you sound like you are having a time of it. That’s a very nice bridge. Other than hills, they make for spectacular and challenging running! Isn’t 9.5 the longest run you have done in a long while? You never cease to amaze 
I’ve been going nonstop since I arrived late last night getting things sorted out for my parents, but I did manage to do a round of step. Tomorrow I’ll be doing a nice long prairie run if the rain holds off. Right now the winter wheat fields are vast carpets of emerald green. It should make a nice backdrop for a well-needed outing.
Happy Sunday, recovery day, or workout, everyone!
Sorry Floydy but apart from doing the driving and usually selecting the location I have very little input among the other occupants in the motor…
We did have a brill meal at the ‘Old Tile Works’ [recommended] on the South side of the bridge though, but then got chased back over the bridge by the rain…
It was November 2017 Surfermom, the last time I ran that 9.5 mile course, since then 8 miles is as far as I had been going, and it could be that I wasn’t completely over the cold I had a few weeks ago… Running long distances does erode away your ability to fight off infection for a few hours directly after the run, so woe betide the runner who has been carrying an undetected infection around.
So I wasn’t expecting anything special this morning as I closed the door behind me and stepped out into the rain. After listening to it roaring on the ground throughout the night [I live in a bungalow and sometimes it sounds fierce!] I decided a road course would be the best choice considering how much standing water there would be. My shortest road route is six miles and I thought it would be ample for this mornings effort…
I was right about the standing water, either long diversions or splash through water up to the knees in places…‘Perhaps a little exaggeration!’ but it was wet, and still raining, albeit gentle…
I was surprised how good I felt and not a touch of tiredness, so the decision to take the eight mile turn was made without a second thought and I even added some speed work along the busy road bit even though I didn’t see a vehicle all morning, car booters and fishermen don’t appear to like the rain and dogs don’t appear to like the rain either, and my passage of the farm went unnoticed by the bad tempered canine that resides there…
So all in all a very comfortable, if not wet, 8.2 miles added to the journal this morning. Amazingly, my waterproof jacket had done its job well because my tee shirt was bone dry underneath, and bare legs are even more waterproof than the jacket. My shoes didn’t fare so well though and are going to need wringing out and drying in time for Tuesdays outing…
Whatever the problem was last week it seems to have cleared itself up…
Monday, 11 Mar 19: Upper body: Early Week. 40mins.
(All weights in kgs)
1-Lat p/d, hammer-12X35-10x50
2-DB press, incline bench-17x24’s
3-Bench press, c/g-21x40
4-Seated row-22x47-10x53-8x59
5-Shoulder press-6x60-6x70-6x80-5x90-3x100
6-E-Z curl, standing-15x18-10x28-8x38
7-DB preacher curl, alt.-10x12-6x14
It’s dead in here, what’s occurring folks? 
Thursday 14 Mar 19: Legs: “Paused tension training”. 1 hour.
(All weights in kgs)
Continuing my current inglorious death-by-torture method of acute definition training for the legs, today’s session proved almost too much to bear. Yes, it develops the quads like nothing else (save for squats, which I don’t do anymore) but for this 50-something it’s borderline lunacy. Breathless isn’t the word…I was screaming for mercy!:shock:
Incline press:
A: Outer, top & inner knee quads (Feet low on plate/heels close/toes pointing out).
B: Hamstrings, glutes (Feet high/heels & toes centre plate).
A: 20x150-p-15x150-p-10x150
B: 10x200-p-6x200
A: 8x250 DEEP to failure
B: 50x150
Seated ham curl:
Hamstrings, glutes, calves (normal position).
20x45-p-12x45-p-8x45
10x55-p-6x55
7x65 to failure
50x35
Sled press:
A: Outer quads, top quads, hamstrings (Feet low on plate/heels close/toes pointing out).
B: Glutes, hamstrings. (Feet high/heels & toes centre plate).
A: 20x150-p-15x150-p-10x150
B: 15x200-p-10x200
A: 8x200 DEEP to failure
B: 50x120
Sled press: Calves
(Toe push only, bottom of plate).
20x100-p-15x100-p-10x100
15x120-p-10x120
14x140 to failure
25x80
Extensions:
Inner knee quads, top quads, outer quads, hip flexors (normal position).
20x40-p-12x40-p-8x40
Lying ham curl:
Hamstrings, glutes, calves (Prone on bench, curling legs back).
15x25-p-10x25-p-8x25
10x32.5-p-6x32.5
6x40
20x20
Yes, the legs are pumped up like never before and my strength is still in the upper echelons of the scale but the work involved to reach that pinnacle (which I thought was long gone years ago incidentally) is all too much for this particular oldie bodybuilder to be honest. I’ll retain the tension method but next time I do this (and perhaps a similar upper body routine) I’ll be adding more sets instead but with lesser reps and weight. All trial and error in this crazy and maniacal pastime they call exercise!
Thanks for reading.
Whilst other regular members of this thread are oddly boycotting this one but are reassurringly posting elsewhere (I was beginning to worry), I’ll keep this exercise thread going solo for now
Just nipping out to the gym soon for a quick upper body workout. Unfortunately my printer is out of order so I have no template to refer to, i.e. I have no idea on my current routine. Therefore I won’t be submitting a write-up later. Pointless wasting time anyway.
Have a nice day and if you are doing some exercise, this door is still open…
I noticed that too Floydy…:shock:
That Surfermom can be so fickle…
Cheer up Floydy, it sounds like you’ve got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning.:-).
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Just wondering where everyone was, Mags. Nothing wrong with being concerned about people is there?
Oh I forgot…we’re not allowed to ask about missing members are we?
Don’t worry Floydy, it wasn’t intended to be a serious post
Hahahaha 
Doing my level best to be a full-fledged member of the “Excuse of the Month Club,” I thought it in bad form to show up here moaning and groaning that the only rubber hitting the pavement is not my running shoes but the well-worm miles of the Acura, poor thing.
That said, when I wasn’t collapsing (literally) into bed the last week, I did read up on the crew here and must congratulate you all on your diligence.
I am relishing being home, and it has been a delightful day with a full three hours of working out - running, cycling, and doing step aerobics with weights. You can’t keep a good (or in my case mediocre or apparently, fickle :roll:) woman down.
I’m going to be soooooooore tomorrow. No matter, I will be working out like a fiend tomorrow because Monday morning, I am back on the road.
Sheesh. Just like a bunch of men…first we talk to much…then we don’t talk enough… 
:-p!
Happy weekend!
Well it’s about time you got back into some decent exercise Surfermom…
I was up an attem’ around six thirty this morning and put in eight good miles in blustery conditions. It was nice and dry and I managed to avoid the yappy dog at the farm of doom… I still felt chipper at seven miles, and the time wasn’t too shabby either…
Not been exercising much the last few weeks as I hurt my leg somehow, I thought I’d yanked a muscle and went to the Doc for painkillers, she also sent me for an xray as I have a history of arthritis and she wanted to see if the pain was coming from my hip joints. 
It came back clear thank goodness. Our pool does not have proper ladders or walk down steps it’s a really awful row of slits cut into the tiles on the side of the pool with a small hand rail on the pool side/edge. It’s always put an awful strain down my right side going up this, the top slat to the pool side is very hard for me to do and quite painful sometimes, I’m sure I yanked my muscle at the top of the leg a few weeks ago. I went back just the one day last week but I asked my OH to come with me as I was scared of something happening when I tried to get out of the pool. He stood behind me incase I fell back but I didn’t. I’m going to have to go back myself because if I leave it much longer I know I won’t go as I’m starting to get a real fear of that blasted ladder thing. :shock: I’ve been in a lot of different pools over the years but this is the only one with a stupid ladder that’s not a ladder.
Well, back in the saddle, so to speak, after that damn chest ailment! Thank the gods. 
Totals for the 90 minute session…
Pull-down: 195 @ 40kg
Back Extension: 150 @ 45kg
Chest Press: 35 @ 35kg, 45 @ 35kg, 40 @ 40kg
Arm curl: 40 @ 20kg
Leg Extension: 70 @ 20kg
Leg Curl: 40 @ 25kg
Pec-dec: 90 @ 30kg, 35 @ 35kg
Pull-down: 100 @ 40kg
Gym console says 483 calories burnt and “trained like an athlete”, which always makes me chuckle. It should have, in brackets, "an old, decrepit athlete. Legs are still hard going after wasting away for a couple of years, but they are improving. It’s a pity some of the machines don’t seem to record properly as, for one example, the chest press machine lists 125 moves and shows the weights, but said my total moves on it was 207 for the session. I wuz robbed I’m tellin’ ya!!
Keep up the good work, everyone. I love reading what you are all up to. I get particularly wistful about you runners and the descriptions paint a lovely picture in my mind’s eye.
Roxy, I know exactly what you are talking about with those type of steps; they can be very slippery:confused: . I know there are add on ladders and steps if you can squeeze the project into a busy spring. Good news about the arthritis results, but that muscle injury sounds miserable. Can you afford a few weeks to really heal properly?
Tachyon, that was a very solid workout, and I know exactly how you feel about legs. I felt like I lost more than a little leg strength in January, and though I am fighting my way back, I feel like my legs and brain are waging a battle between “Go run” and “Just take it easy.” Thankfully the first is louder and more stubborn than the second. 
OGF, your distances ever amaze as does your stoic determination to stand up against the beasts of farm and field. It’s windy too and no matter which direction I ran today, the wind was in my face. Now how could that be? 
It felt fantastic to be outside with the robins and starlings, the latter of which will be migrating north soon. The azaleas are in full bloom, creating riotous bursts of pinks and white lining the trail. All of which are gorgeous distractions from my laboring lungs and legs. My pace is slow - slow enough that I am not looking until completion 
, but each day is one day closer to the surf season. Five very hard-earned miles. Yay!
Nice to see you in here again Tachyon now that you’re finally getting your chest problems out of the way.
Those totals for your 90 minute session are seriously something; a real volume-fest of a workout. Well done on that! Some good weights too now you’re getting the grips of it all.
I would say one thing about the dodgy machine tallying though - can you ignore the read-outs and manually count your reps instead, writing it down the old-fashioned way perhaps? Just an idea bud 
Roxy - Sorry to hear of your injury. Keep that pool in order too and be careful
Bob and Suzie - sorry to be a bit of a grump the other day.:hug: It’s my fault to be honest. The bodybuilding site I re-joined isn’t really up to scratch; in fact there’s even less participation than there is on here. They tend to do their own thing, write their journals and don’t encourage others to join in. Funny thing, but not my thing too so I’ve left.
I haven’t actually done a session since Thursday, a legs workout which went really well (I noted it here) but upper body-wise I’ve had some problems with both forearms due to over-training the previous week and I need to rest more.
Coupled with that, I’ve been enjoying a break watching Homeland which I can’t stop viewing. It’s a gripping series and I’m getting through it very fast, but I need to halt that for a while I think.
I’m going to continue my training today (Monday) with some light work but as far as relaying it back to this thread (or anywhere else) I’m just going to decide what to do on the spot without any noting down. It just takes so much of my little time I have in the afternoon. But I will give you a brief overview of my training session.
Take care folks 
Well I managed the pool ladder thing, must admit I was more than a little bit worried. But I was OK. Took a photo of the ladder as you can see it’s just slats cut into the wall and the top one is half the depth of the others. Not nice at all. AND look who’s standing yapping… Not the ladies lol.