Are you leveling up outside of EQ? (fitness thread)

[Mead]

Originally Posted by Tankdan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

lots of non-D1 athletes ITT giving advice.

All D1 athletes are medical professionals as well? Interesting

[maskedmelonpai]

so, I started my program last night. i limited my protein to 20g and I did the following:

3x20 db flies 5lb
3x20 db front lat raise 5lb
3x20 db curls 5lb
3x20 db tri kickbacks 5lb

i woke up a hour and half early so only got 6hr sleep or so and had a headache all day. Felt a bit nauseous too most the morning.


tonight I bumped all that by 5 more reps, but doubled my proteintoday because I felt like poo most the morning and felt better after I had some chicken. i am a bit of a weeny and don't liek feeling poopy, especially when it affect my work ;n; gonna cut back again tomorrow and see how it go.

[Ella`Ella]

Originally Posted by maskedmelonpai [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

so, I started my program last night. i limited my protein to 20g and I did the following:

3x20 db flies 5lb
3x20 db front lat raise 5lb
3x20 db curls 5lb
3x20 db tri kickbacks 5lb

i woke up a hour and half early so only got 6hr sleep or so and had a headache all day. Felt a bit nauseous too most the morning.


tonight I bumped all that by 5 more reps, but doubled my proteintoday because I felt like poo most the morning and felt better after I had some chicken. i am a bit of a weeny and don't liek feeling poopy, especially when it affect my work ;n; gonna cut back again tomorrow and see how it go.

Do you have an idea of how many total calories you took in throughout the day?

[Swish]

Originally Posted by skarlorn [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

1 mile = 1.6 km or 1 km = .6 miles RUFFLY

Always struck me as strange that America is on full Imperial Measurements, but now the UK is using centigrade, metric for most things? Do you guys measure things in feet anymore, swish?

really fucked up state of the world.

Give us the metric system. MAGA!

Britain was always about imperial measurements, then "Europe" being our neighbours and everything there was a movement to push us to centimetres/kilometres/litres/etc.

I grew up learning both, because everyone said their height in feet/inches, and on medical records they went by centimetres. A marathon to me is still 26.2 miles, not 40-whatever kilometres. Kids in the UK still aim to be 6 feet tall, I have friends in their early 20s who use imperial measurements - we just live in a world of both.

KMs are a great way to measure distance if you're just starting running, like a 5km run etc...but I still prefer miles, pints, feet, inches, etc despite knowing both. Gym equipment always seems to be in km/h for speed so I use that. If I'm running outside I do it in miles. It sounds confusing explaining it [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[xtraball]

Originally Posted by maskedmelonpai [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

i woke up a hour and half early so only got 6hr sleep or so and had a headache all day. Felt a bit nauseous too most the morning.

Forgot your morning Bloody Mary ?

[skarlorn]

please, maskedmelon does not drink like that

[xtraball]

jk... [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Swish]

Originally Posted by Swish [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Smashed 13.4km/h for 35 minutes today after having a rather shit attempt at it when the thread opened lol.

Amid a guy doing walking handstands (for fitness, right?), off duty PTs walking around flexing while saying hello to the gym rats and other general gym etiquette I sweated to videos on the wall including Da Rude - Sandstorm (spotted a couple of 19-20yr old Twitch nerds react when that came on) and some shit Janet Jackson song from 1998.

Main thing is it's progress, and attempting 13.6km/h next session. I set a target of clearing 14.0 by Christmas but it feels like a big leap ^^

Hope y'all are getting out there, or even grinding out some sets/reps while on the elf sim <3

I rarely do the gym 2 days in a row but with a pal wanting to go again, I went again lol...didn't plan to do 13.6 the first time out but somehow managed it, the treadmill was showing about an 8km run which is nice to see and if I could keep that pace for ~90 minutes (note, I can't and would struggle!) I'd clear a half marathon in that time... my best half marathon time is 1 hour 50 minutes almost on the dot.

So 13.8km/h next session, it's the fastest I ever cleared on a treadmill before I took a break. 14 would be a brave new world (8.7mph) and I might have to consider going up in .1's instead of .2's :/

Sidenote: No dickheads doing attention whore walking handstands across the mat area today but when you're on the end of a row of 5 treadmills and there's nobody else there...then a guy gets on the one next to you just after you start, you wonder why... like "dude, I'm gonna be sweating here" lol

[maskedmelonpai]

Originally Posted by Ella`Ella [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Do you have an idea of how many total calories you took in throughout the day?

yeah, I am eating for maintenance, not cutting calories, just altering the source/composition. if I start losing weight I am going to eat more carbs/fat. i weigh myself daily before my morning shower and was down .4lb this morning (unusual). maybe a bit dehydrated.

good news is my arms dropped a quarter inch, which I gonna attribute to the muscle not being so soggy. Same thing happen when I do core work a few days in a row after not doing it a while.

also, it occur to me this morning that what I doing may be counter productive because there a chance my body may prioritize repairing the damages muscles over maintaining unused ones and catabolis lower body mass of protein is insufficien, so in a actually want to do the opposite of what I am doing. I gonna keep monitoring and adjust if I start seeing any undesirable results. So far, no changes in lower body measurements.

[Lhancelot]

Originally Posted by maskedmelonpai [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

good news is my arms dropped a quarter inch... So far, no changes in lower body measurements.

Not to be crass, but I think I only ever measured one body part when I was younger rofl. And it wasn't my arms.