04-08-2018, 10:56 AM
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Today then, following a sweltering, broken sleep I was up and ready and after a quick bowl of fruit and fibre I was more than ready for the gym and a catch up. My session was shorter than I’d have liked as I have things to do later, but this will suffice nicely for now.For the sake of having to meticulously amend every intricate detail on my write-ups, which takes forever, I’ve decided to revert back to my original basic format. It does what it says on the tin:
Saturday 4/8/18
Bench:
10x50, 6x60, 6x80
DB bench press:
15° incline – 10x28’s, 6x32’s, 6x34’s
Flat – 6x36’s, 5x38’s, 3x40’s
*Very happy with reaching 40kg today. I was going for the 38, but exceeded that. Bloody hard work though.
Chest press:
10x80, 6x95, 6x105, 6x110
*Again, anything over 100kg was unexpected but rather welcome.
Pec dec (reverse sets):
10x60, 12x50, 15x40
Barbell curl, seated, 60° bench, wide grip:
10x30, 10x30, 10x30, 10x30, 10x30
*These were a great pump-up for the biceps. Five straight sets all the same curling from waist to shoulders with only a few seconds rest between sets.
E-Z preacher curl, low pull, close grip:
10x38, 8x43
*Didn’t spend too long on this apparatus today. A group of idiots were hovering around it wanting to use it and I couldn’t be bothered resting between sets and hanging around.
Tricep extensions:
25x40 high reps
Tricep pushdowns (reverse sets):
25x20, 25x15, 25x10
Bicep stack curls (reverse sets):
25x20, 25x15, 25x10
*Two final light exercises to pump up triceps and biceps to the max!
1 hour.
Quite a good session which did me the world of good following my sojourn into Lazytown yesterday. Feeling invigorated, I left the house of iron with a sprightly spring in my step.
This afternoon I'm out with my pals for a few drinks and taking a friend who is suffering badly with cancer out with us as well. It's a while since he's been able to go out with us but it will do him good.
Thanks for reading
04-08-2018, 02:44 PM
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I'm feeling pretty pleased with myself for being able to get to the "big gym" this morning, which is the first time in many months I have managed the walk there and back. It's only a mile or so each way but my legs were just too painful for the job until the doc worked his miracle a couple of days ago.
I looked at some of the weights I was doing (I don't know what most of them are called, lol) and on the sit-up machine I'm doing about 35 kilos with sets of 50 reps, and on the sitting-back machine I'm doing around 40 kilos for about 30 reps. Sitting back puts pressure on the legs so I have to go easier on that machine for now. There's a machine where you sit and push weights down behind your back and that's another 40 kilos or so, for sets of 20 reps.
Arms/chest are quite disappointing, with the pec deck a puny 20 kilos for 20 reps a time. I must do better than that!! In the "little gym" the pec deck machine is way too easy to do, so even though I do a lot on it it isn't really helping me.
I did manage 10 minutes on an exercise bike + a 5 minute cool-down, but I was on a very low setting to avoid knee problems. The knees were much more flexible during and after the 15 minutes of pedalling though. I finished with 15 minutes on the arm-bike, a machine I really like.All in all a decent exploratory hour, and after a year of not being able to get there I felt like I had achieved something worthwhile on a personal front. That's 11 hours in the gym this week! I must try and transition over to the "big gym" though, because I need the heavier machines if I am going to show any improvement.
What made the session very pleasant was a lady a bit younger than me who was obviously new to the gym and she was asking how certain machines worked and I was happy to show her. I think she was glad of a bit of company in a strange place, but it was nice to socialise a bit during training - everyone (including myself) usually seems to stay solo in the gym, listening to their music as they train!
04-08-2018, 02:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Floydy
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Love it, Tabby. The domestic housewife's version of bodybuilding 
05-08-2018, 11:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Tachyon
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I'm feeling pretty pleased with myself for being able to get to the "big gym" this morning, which is the first time in many months I have managed the walk there and back. It's only a mile or so each way but my legs were just too painful for the job until the doc worked his miracle a couple of days ago. I looked at some of the weights I was doing (I don't know what most of them are called, lol) and on the sit-up machine I'm doing about 35 kilos with sets of 50 reps, and on the sitting-back machine I'm doing around 40 kilos for about 30 reps. Sitting back puts pressure on the legs so I have to go easier on that machine for now. There's a machine where you sit and push weights down behind your back and that's another 40 kilos or so, for sets of 20 reps.
Arms/chest are quite disappointing, with the pec deck a puny 20 kilos for 20 reps a time. I must do better than that!! In the "little gym" the pec deck machine is way too easy to do, so even though I do a lot on it it isn't really helping me.
I did manage 10 minutes on an exercise bike + a 5 minute cool-down, but I was on a very low setting to avoid knee problems. The knees were much more flexible during and after the 15 minutes of pedalling though. I finished with 15 minutes on the arm-bike, a machine I really like.All in all a decent exploratory hour, and after a year of not being able to get there I felt like I had achieved something worthwhile on a personal front. That's 11 hours in the gym this week! I must try and transition over to the "big gym" though, because I need the heavier machines if I am going to show any improvement.
What made the session very pleasant was a lady a bit younger than me who was obviously new to the gym and she was asking how certain machines worked and I was happy to show her. I think she was glad of a bit of company in a strange place, but it was nice to socialise a bit during training - everyone (including myself) usually seems to stay solo in the gym, listening to their music as they train!
I know Surfermom dabbles a little on the machines from time to time, so other members do share their training notes. I just wish I could run these day, but like yourself I have knee issues in that department which ease off virtually altogether when I'm using the weights but affects me more doing very simple things such as walking down stairs. Ho hum, maybe I'll try it again someday.I like the idea of a "big gym" and a "little gym". Are they both in the same building, as I know these places are split into four mainly different areas:
1. Free weights
2. Resistance machines
3. Cardio machines
4. Core and stability work
5. Aerobics classes
Anyway, it's fantastic that you're spending so many hours at the gym, you're easily putting me to shame. You're doing a great job, Tachyon. keep up the good, hard work but remember to train those body parts to your ability without too much on the same areas on successive days. They will need rest, that is a big part of anyone's exercise agenda.
The leg machines you speak of should be among the thread of apparatus listed in the link below if you're interested, along with others you may want to try out.
http://www.over50sforum.com/showthread.php?t=52874
05-08-2018, 08:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Floydy
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I like the idea of a "big gym" and a "little gym". Are they both in the same building....
The "big gym" has at least 10 exercise bikes, 10 treadmills, 10 cross-trainers and about 20 other sundry machines for carious muscle groups. They have quite a lot of free weights too, but training solo I don't risk using those, lol. The buddy system works best with those I think. With my £7 discount card because of my age, a visit there costs £2.75 which isn't bad really.
I've had a day off today but I think I'll go to the "big gym" tomorrow for a while. I have to get used to using the heavier loads, really.
06-08-2018, 05:39 AM
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Dragged around for three hours by two hyper twenty-year-old college students.
Does that count?It's been a jam-packed weekend, but it was wrapped up with a sunset surf session, so while I did a little something, it was not as impressive as Silver Tabby!
It's still Sunday evening her, but in a few hours I'll be off to North Carolina in with plenty of time to respond to the great work here. This thread makes my day!
Have a good start to Monday whether lifting weights or groceries
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08-08-2018, 02:46 AM
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Update.My apologies for my absence in here lately, but things tend to crop up when you least expect them too.
I will have more time now it's school holidays for the kids and even when they are back the school run won't need to be done anymore by me (or by my wife) as all three will be going to the same school (instead of two different ones, plus a nursery), which will free up so much time. I didn't mind picking up my granddaughter twice a week as I love to see her, but on the other hand, it will be good to have my afternoons back after so long trying to find time to fit everything into those precious three short hours I am left with between waking up and getting ready for bloody work again!
But now I am finding that some of my time is being spent by doing those DIY jobs around the house that have been neglected for so long. Okay, the weekends are available for such tasks, but I prefer to keep them largely free for gym time, spending some quality time with Mrs. Floydy and also I have my Saturday social afternoons.
Friday is only half a day due to sleeping off my final night of the week and Sunday is mostly spent relaxing before the onslaught of another week. Saturday is my only full day I have.
Anyway, I do intend to go to the gym on Monday and Tuesday but we had a catastrophe with our toilet cistern. It is a very old unit and I have been constantly trying to repair leaks on it over the years. There has always been a plastic jug at the back of it collecting a steady stream of water: drip, drip, drip.
While I was in the garden for a few minutes hanging out some washing, I returned to find the kitchen had water pouring through the ceiling!! I rushed upstairs and saw that water was spurting out from the base of the cistern where the brass nut was supposed to be attached to the plastic inflow pipe - which I had loosened the previous day to try to stop the dripping.
Flying down the stairs, I turned the water off and grabbed lots of towels to try to soak up some of the water, at the same time going upstairs again to plug the hole in the inner pipe to stop the cistern draining altogether.
After an hour or so of cleaning up, I then tried to find a plumber, which was impossible. In the end I rand my boiler insurance supplier who said I was in fact covered for general leaks too. They sent someone round to fit a stopper to the external pipe for a temporary measure so at least we had the water back on. The toilet has to have a bucket of water thrown down it as a manual temporary flush alternative. I managed about 10 minutes sleep before going to work all night on Tuesday and was shattered by the morning.
So yesterday they were supposed to be coming to fit some new insides to the cistern, so I awoke early after five hours sleep, the heat not helping matters either. They eventually rang at 2pm to say that they couldn't get the parts until Wednesday but suggested we actually had a new complete toilet supplied and fitted instead on Thursday. Expensive, but we agreed that it the best solution and they will be coming at 12pm to do that.
So that brings me to today (Wednesday) and I will at last have some time for the gym this afternoon, though the kids will be coming around too, so I'll have to see them too.
I have had about twelve hours broken sleep in the past three days I think, but I'll get over it!
Isn't life grand?!
08-08-2018, 03:20 PM
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I didn't get to the gym either. I planned to go on Monday, but things conspired against me. I managed Tuesday, plus had a good walk on my almost pain-free knees, and I'd hoped to go today as well but one of my strange "sleep sessions" came along. I don't know why but sometimes I just have no choice but to sleep until my body has had enough, because I go so sleepy. This sleep only lasted about 14 hours, but recently I went to bed feeling tired and woke up 34 hours later! :ODefinitely going to the gym tomorrow though! I hope they fix that toilet, Floydy.
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