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2024 Getting/Staying In Shape Motivation Thread

Monday: 1.5 hours of kung fu, then spent 30min learning a new Chinese broadsword form. After that I did 10 sets each of standing high-to-low and low-to-high weighted reverse flys on the arc trainer. 5 pumps on the unassisted chin up is about all I’m good for, so I did it with the intention of getting to 6 or 7 by the end of the month. Not a lofty goal but I’m not a lofty chinner-upper. After that I spent 20min (a little over 1 mile) of the hill course on the elliptical. Finished with about 5-6 sets of long-bar curls at max weight and at 10# under max.
 
Diet and exercise are going well, although I’m looking forward to the end of football season. I promised the kids I’m coaching I’d do all the sprints (and associated pushups when somebody jumps) and I’m tired of pulling hip flexors . Probably need to stretch out better before practice.
 
boxerboxer said:
Diet and exercise are going well, although I’m looking forward to the end of football season. I promised the kids I’m coaching I’d do all the sprints (and associated pushups when somebody jumps) and I’m tired of pulling hip flexors . Probably need to stretch out better before practice.
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Ballerinas are the most flexible people I know and all the ones I know recommend a light warm up with full range of motion, then your main bout of stretching, then the main workout. Never do a hard stretch after the workout (I know that’s not what you said).
Philosophy is: don’t do a lot of stretching until your body remembers where the hell it’s at and what the hell it’s doing, then after your workout don’t stretch the muscle groups you worked (anaerobically-speaking) until after you’ve had several hours to recover and get rehydrated, so that you don’t undo the work itself on those groups.
If you had a more aerobic workout, you can still stretch afterwards but only lightly to readjust your body. Still save the heavy stretch for after you’ve had some food and water and a chill.
I’ve been practicing and teaching martial arts for over 30 years and had to take dance class for 5 years as a former music teacher. I follow this regimen and structure all my martial arts classes like this. At 5’7” I have no problem kicking a 6’2” dude in his face.
 
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Wednesday: taught a 30-minute private MMA lesson, then kids MMA for an hour, then sparred for 6 rounds with the big boys.
Rowing machine, rear leg press, lightweight free flys to open my back and chest up a little after rowing.
I’m 182 as of this morning, feel good and don’t much care about the number on the scale but I wouldn’t cry if I shed to 175 or even 170 by Thanksgiving so I can eat it all back by New Year’s.
 
Just back from one of my last hard workouts before raceday, long run this weekend/likely pushing to Monday evening, then possibly one more tempo session midweek, then it's time to start the taper and see what all this work adds up to. Did 10 miles today, 9.5 at 8:45ish avg (though it was more of an up and down than I hoped and I stopped a few times for water/gels) then a half mile cooldown. 9:10 pace is a 4 hour marathon, we'll see what happens on the 27th. I did splurge on some super shoes- asics metaspeed sky Paris, don't think they will help a TON at my pace but I've been wearing the novablasts for daily trainers and every little bit helps. It's mainly because I'm feeling good about the last years worth of work that got me here and wanted to get myself something, kinda like buying new saddle hunting gear when the stuff I have still works just fine. Hopefully they arrive before this weekends long run so I can test them out to ensure the opinions I've heard/read match with my feet/legs opinions, if not I've got a few 8-10 mile runs yet where I'll give them a go and can always go back to the novablasts for the race if I hate them.

Novel over, that was almost as long as my run lol.
 
BTaylor said:
Skipped everything yesterday. Had a really bad sinus attack about lunch. Bad enough my boss sent me home at 2:30. Loaded up on sinus meds and crashed.
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I’m right there with you, I had what I thought was a bad cold, then Covid now sinus infection. Zero gym time in 10 days……. Finally starting to feel 1/2 way right again hiked 5 miles with the pups yesterday after work……
 
Bigterp said:
I’m right there with you, I had what I thought was a bad cold, then Covid now sinus infection. Zero gym time in 10 days……. Finally starting to feel 1/2 way right again hiked 5 miles with the pups yesterday after work……
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Been there. Not fun. Hopefully you're back to normal in no time

I got another 6 easy miles under the belt yesterday. Legs were feeling a bit out of it
Almost 3 tempo in today. Ready for the "rest" day tomorrow of hiking, hunting, hanging, dragging (fingers crossed)
Another 6 on Sunday. 2 weeks til race day
 
Horn said:
What allergens do you guys have in fall down there?

Workout related, I have to take a break. Got a sore knee, LCL according to Google, that I don't want to get any worse.
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No idea what it could be. As a kid my allergies got so bad I developed asthma. Parents took me to get tested and they said I had no food or medicine allergies but reacted to every other thing they tested for. Had to take shots once a week for a couple years and took a supped up allergy pill twice a day every day for about 5 years and then dropped that back to once a day for a couple years before being able to stop. The asthma went away after about a year or so. Thankfully. Now I will have a flare up every once in a while but claratin or zyrtec normally knock it out. Yesterday zyrtec didnt touch it. Had to add Astepro spray to it and took a muccinex just in case. Weird thing is I reacted to every plant they tested for but have never had a reaction to poison ivy or oak.
 
Sunday update- my super shoes came today. man they are light, and feel great on the feet. 6ish on the treadmill tonight and then going to put them through their paces on a 16 miler tomorrow. if nothing else, I'm hoping they give me a bit of new gear placebo effect to help push in the race. My two hurdles will be 1. Still feeling like I could be in better shape (but that'll only come with multiple years, feeling good for "year one") and 2. Pushing into being uncomfortable. I think I run slower than I could because I'm not willing to embrace pain as much as I could. Time will tell for that one as well.

Evening edit- got my treadmill 6 in, looking forward to tomorrow evening.
 
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