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very enjoyable 6.5 mile run- upper 50's- absolutely perfect!

Good lift this morning. Tied PR deadlift.
Youngest son wanted to go for a hike with a weighted pack like Dad does so we wandered around behind the house for an hour or so. His pack was 9lbs; mine 32lbs. Good stuff teaching about trees, tracks, lay of the land, and he has a pretty good sense of direction for a 9 yr old. Proud dad here.
Bad - my back tightened up bad on the last climb. That sucked.

4.5 miles on the trails, glorious weather is holding- about 50 degrees w/ just a slight breeze

Back
Power Cleans
Jail House
Heavy 110 lb DB Rows
DLs
Lat Pull downs
Narrow grip incline Tricep Press

Intervals on C2

20 Min Stairmaster

25 minute crossrope workout switching between a 1/4lb rope and a 1lb rope.

After that I just worked on push ups, pullups and dips.

Elliptical: 25min

4x5: Incline BP-Dead lift-Standing press.

weighted box step ups: 1x10, Light DP curls 2x10. Light BP 3x15.

Rower: 3x500M

Rower: 25min

strength training today

20 sets of 20 pushups, 20 situps and 5 pullups- the first ten sets I got done in just under 15 minutes, the next ten sets took 22 minutes

^ my triceps are a wee sore today

12 miles on the trails w/ about 2700' of gain today; if all goes well going to shoot for the same tomorrow

4 miles hiking looking for sheds with a 38lb pack.

Been doing my best to walk with my pack on up and down my hill adding more weight each time. Up to 55 lbs now for 40 minutes. Alternating that with 5K jogs, and walking up and down my stairs for a hundred sets.

Strength training with Squats, Power thrusts, Overhead press, dead lifts, Pull ups and dips.

Ruining the majority of that effort by eating too much and not eating smaller amounts more often. Gotta get that under control and stop wasting my training.

Legs today.
Hurting freaking unit.

Squats, leg presses, lunges, stepups, hacksquats,

C2 Intervals fastly 5,2,5,2,5,2,5,2 under 1:40 for 200m under 1:50 for 500 M.

20 min stairmaster

We need to start separate thread for food.

I was eating a grapefruit before my evening meal and after I worked out but I started getting acid reflux so I had to find something else.

Every night that I work out hard I get a small dish of greek goddess honey vanilla low fat yogurt, walnuts, honey, cinnamon, cardamon and sariva(powdered Indian Sasparilla). Its better than ice cream and every part of it is really good for you.

Nights that I don't I get an apple.

Right now my #1 priority is recovering from a back injury and things are coming along well. Planning on being in awesome shape for summer fishing and then sheep. This thread is good motivation and its cool to see lots of fitness minded people here.

today:

-pullups x5 (250
-pistol squats x3 (per leg) (30)
-pushups x10 (50)
-dips x10 (50)

for 5 sets

I did some running:

-5k easy (21 min)
-6x100m sprints
-1 mile easy cool down


As for diet, Ive just been doing IF, I find it really easy and I dont really even get hungry in the mornings any longer. I just have a coffee before work, then eat my lunch at some time after 12, then make sure I eat dinner by 7 or at the latest 8. Im not really a big "snack guy" either so its basically 2 meals a day.

Losing weight isnt something Im concerned about, Im 6'4, 205lbs, my only goal is to get as fit as I possibly can and not gain weight wile im recovering from this injury.

Thanks again for all the posts, I like seeing you alls workouts.

Strength day. Squats: 3 sets of progressively heavier warm ups of five reps. Then 250 lbs for five sets of five reps. Weighted pull ups and dips between each squat set. Finished in about 25 minutes. Rested for five minutes then did 5 sets of 10 reps overhead press with 95 lbs. Wrapped it up with 20 minutes walking up and down my stairs.

Diet this morning was a couple eggs, a slice of toast, and two sausage links. The Wife made breakfast, and as any married man will tell you, ya' better what she made you.

I work tonight, so I' can save myself by packing my lunch. Lunch will be a couple boiled eggs and a couple slices of turkey breast, and some apple slices. Supper will be Chicken breast salad with crushed almonds, dried blue berries, mixed greens and a dash of oil and balsamic vinager. Cup of cottage cheese with beets for a snack. I'll have to will myself to not got refridgerator searching when I get home.

Sleep is another problem issue. I rarely manage to get a full 8. Mostly because of my work schedule has me out of wack with the rest of the worlds schedule. I maybe get 4 hours at a time. I try to get a half hour nap in if I can. If nothing else I'll relax my mind and try to "meditate" if at all possible.

my triceps are still sore

got the other 12 mile out and back in today



that gave me another 40 mile week and just shy of 10,000' of gain

Chest Day

DB Incline Press 95lbs X 5 Sets X 5 Reps
Landmine Squats 90lbsX 5 sets
Hack Squats 215lbs X 5 Sets X 10 Reps
BP 5X 5 X 275
2 sets X 295 X 5 reps
2 sets X 315 X 4 reps
1 sets X 365X 3 Reps

5 sets Incline PressX 225lbs X 5 reps
3 sets of Tricep narrow grip pressX 185lbs X 10 reps\\
3 sets of tricep narrow grip incline X 185lbs X 10 reps

Hammer Strength Hammer Curls 5 sets X 90lbs X 10 reps
Preacher Bench 110lbs X 5 sets X 10 Reps
Cable flies 5 sets X 90lbs X 10 reps

2 X 1000 m C2 under 3:40 Min

20 min Stairclimber

I had a crunch wrap from Taco Bell for my efforts.

to be honest I don't pay a ton of attention to my diet; a couple of years ago out of curiosity I kept track of my weight daily and accurately recorded my daily calories for about a month or so.

what I found is my weight didn't vary more than a couple of pounds over that period and my calorie intake was pretty high (~ 4000-ish calories)

I do try to eat healthy- lots of fresh fruits, veggies, lean meats, whole grains, etc, but I don't balk about eating a double cheeseburger or pizza every now and again (or a microbrew or two! :D)

I think it's important to eat healthy, but regular exercise trumps diet in importance imho

strength training this evening with weights

warmup
squats 3x5
bench 3x5
deads 3x5
pullups 3x11
dips 3x30
core

I think I'm going to invest in a weight vest (one I can adjust the weights) the leather belt/chain deal at the gym is a pain in the ass, going to be even more of a pain doing pullups/chinups

Before work I took the mutts for a brisk 6 mile poop patrol. Tonight after I get home I'll get on the the treadmill and jog a couple of miles.

Back
DLsX 7 Sets (455lbX2 Reps on heavy lift)
Goblet SquatsX 5Sets
DB RowsX 110lbsX 5 sets
TBar Rows 180lbsX 5 Sets
lat pull Downs X 250lbs X 5 Sets X 10 Reps
Cable Rows X 260lbs X 5 sets X 10 Reps

C2 intervals 4X 200m 4 X 500m 2 X 1000m

30 min Stairmaster

Lots of kettlebell for me today:


32kg
-1 hand swings 10x 15 (150 total, 75 each hand)
-Turkish get ups 8 each side (16 total)
-goblet squats 5x10
-goblet squat test for 6 mins
-1 hand swings for 2x2min, switching hands every 10, ~ 65 every 2 mins.

-push-ups 5x10

My warm up was just glute stuff, bridges, leg raises and some band pull throughs.