Feeling Healthy - Diet, Weight Loss, Fasting

[rmaynard 16,167]

Don't try to do it all at once. That's how you hurt yourself. We don't need to see you in "bumps & bruises".

 

Edited March 11 by rmaynard

[Pullstart 65,659]

1 hour ago, rmaynard said:

Don't try to do it all at once. That's how you hurt yourself. We don't need to see you in "bumps & bruises".

 

Rylee is a good coach.  I’m not pushing myself any harder than I feel comfortable and she’s got great critique of my form.

[ebinmaine 71,748]

1 hour ago, rmaynard said:

Don't try to do it all at once. That's how you hurt yourself. We don't need to see you in "bumps & bruises".....  AGAIN 

 

 

 Fixed it for you Bob

[ebinmaine 71,748]

4 hours ago, Pullstart said:

exceeded those first timer goals.

 

 

You done goooooood.....

 

[Pullstart 65,659]

8 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

 

 

You done goooooood.....

 

 

When you have time, could you remind me what those percentages were?  Did we chat about it?

[ebinmaine 71,748]

15 minutes ago, Pullstart said:

 

When you have time, could you remind me what those percentages were?  Did we chat about it?

 

 

Yessir that was us. I don't have the numbers right in front of me but basically a novice under the age of 40, with over a year of training should be able to get within 80 or 90% of their body weight.

[Monstrosity 1,146]

On 3/11/2025 at 7:52 AM, Pullstart said:

 

The program i coached for was great. Most people can't lift their own body weight. If your setting goals for lifting start by achieving body weight you'll be in the top 10% of the population. 💪 then start sprinting... not running ..... sprinting spikes heart rate and brings back to resting state jump starting your metabolism. If you'd like I can post a "hurricane" workout on here for you to try. But I highly recommend doing it with someone else because mid way doing it yourself you'll need a push to keep going.

[ebinmaine 71,748]

29 minutes ago, Monstrosity said:

The program i coached for was great. Most people can't lift their own body weight. If your setting goals for lifting start by achieving body weight you'll be in the top 10% of the population. 💪 then start sprinting... not running ..... sprinting spikes heart rate and brings back to resting state jump starting your metabolism. If you'd like I can post a "hurricane" workout on here for you to try. But I highly recommend doing it with someone else because mid way doing it yourself you'll need a push to keep going.

 

 

I'd love it if you posted that on my thread for this year!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Pullstart 65,659]

I’ve been in the gym every week day still, with the kids.  It’s been a great experience, and Rylee is a great coach!  With her current low back injury, I wonder if she is pushing me because she doesn’t realize how bad off I am, or if it’s because she wishes she can push herself.  We do have a plan for Rylee, but medical things take time.  Part of the delay is she has a .177 pellet in her appendix, that needs to be removed before they can MRI her back.  Yesterday, we did bench press, some super sets of dumbbells, then narrow grip bench press, then this:  (Somehow, I made it through the 30 reps in 4 minutes!)

 

 

[Pullstart 65,659]

I proceeded to come home, and do active cleaning in the shop.  I re-hung the half RJ-58 that was taken down for the rack install, cut and installed two shelves’worth of hardwood, then filled the racks.  There are two GM transfer cases on the top shelf via ladder, one of the new stoves we purchased at an estate sale was hoisted up to the bottom shelf, then I relied on the hilo to put up the remaining wood stoves.  Moving the old press was no easy feat either.

 

Before:

 

After:

 

 

[Pullstart 65,659]

Today, we did dead lift.  After the core workout yesterday, and working around the shop, my low back was sore.  Dead lift was a bear!  I took 50 lbs off my normal and it was still quite challenging.  After some more free weights, we tried this push up workout:  (I made it to about 15, some of which I was on my knees.  After my arms died, I switched to yesterday’s active plank for 10 reps.  My arms are pretty whooped.  As are my low back muscles, and all the connected parts 

 

 

[Pullstart 65,659]

Today was leg day.  Squats three sets of 8, wall sits, side lunges, and we did the Sally song in the videos above to free squats with no weight.  We sprinkled in some sprints and some planks like Betty Crocker.  Legs are j-e-ll-o.

 

Oh yeah how could I forget??  We also did 12 20” box jumps, then 10 and 8 24” box jumps.  No 30 inchers in my forecast, that’s like waist high!

Edited March 19 by Pullstart

[Pullstart 65,659]

I tossed a few things in the dump trailer and headed off to the recycling yard.  It hurt to push the brake pedal!  

 

 

 

 

 

I must say, it hurt a little to send this one off.  It was free to me, and I replaced the engine once or twice, but my kids learned to drive a “tractor” on this old thing.  

[SylvanLakeWH 28,070]

What was wrong with it and the crapsman??? 

[Pullstart 65,659]

3 hours ago, SylvanLakeWH said:

What was wrong with it and the crapsman??? 

The Craftsman, Rylee bought a while back for $50 or less and it had some brake issue.  I told her someday you’ll be able to sell the engine alone for way more than that.  Last year one of her wrestling coaches gave (me) us a newer Husky with the same Briggs mill with low oil and a broken rod.  She swapped the engine and sold it for $800!  She put the money to vehicle use, worth her investment and some wrenching time!  The Simplicity, it was worn in every aspect, the engine burned a ton of oil, and with the couple two-tree Horses around, it’s been in the weeds for about 8 years.

[Pullstart 65,659]

Today was tough in the gym.  We pushed hard, and worked Sally into the bench press.  Most of our work out had a little less weight, but more reps, for one less set than usual.  It gave us time for Sally to beat us up.  I noticed this morning, I’m still holding about 180 after three weeks, but I feel a little less loose stuff on my body.  I’m trading fat for muscle.  Not only the gym, but working physically around the house has kept me busy.  That load of scrap was 2,600 lbs, that I loaded manually.  There’s a few pieces of wood to split, and I’m gonna do that too.

[ebinmaine 71,748]

Good work brother man. Keep it up.

[Pullstart 65,659]

I’m still hitting the gym with the kids every morning.  I see my weight has risen up to about 185, but I can feel and see parts of me bulking up.  The weight isn’t a bad thing, if I’m putting on muscle!  I’ve made a best treadmill mile in 7 minutes 34 seconds, and today I upped my personal best number on bench press, during our standard sets.  I’m at 180 PR bench, from 175, but I repped it.  There’s still more in the tank.  

[Pullstart 65,659]

We’ve been adding running to the weekly gym visits.  “One mile Wednesdays”.  I started trying to break through the 8 minute mile mark, and now have a personal best of 7:04.  Yesterday, a guy down the road invited me to run a 5k with him.  We were downtown at 6 am this morning.  I did pretty ok, but my knees are sore!  We stayed together through about 2.5 miles, then I dropped back.  He finished 21st in our group and in the 200s overall.  I was in the 400s in just a couple minutes difference!

[Pullstart 65,659]

Today’s gym visit was fun.  We haven’t done personal records since week one or two.  I’ve beat my bench press PR while repping.  Today, we started with a 6 minute jog on the treadmill, then went to bench press.  Personal records are the goal today and tomorrow.  I was warming up and whoops added more weight than I thought.  I repped 185 twice, my new PR!  I ended up adding 10 more lbs to the bar and squeaking 195 out.  This is more than my weight and it felt like if not for the run this weekend, I might have been able to do more!  I can’t believe how the nonstop running made my shoulders ache these last two days!  Next, was deadlift.  My previous record was 255, and it was hard to do the 225 warm up and the 255 match, but I ran it up to 270 and made it work.  My legs are toast, but we still did a little more treadmill before @Lil’ Pullstart would let me stop for the day!

[Pullstart 65,659]

2 hours ago, Pullstart said:

but I ran it up to 270 and made it work.  My legs are toast,

Tomorrow we’ll max our squats.  I might try for a bigger deadlift afterwards, depending on my leg fatigue feels.

[ebinmaine 71,748]

2 hours ago, Pullstart said:

Today, we started with a 6 minute jog on the treadmill, then went to...

Weight lifting?

 

Modern science says we should be doing this differently.

 

If gaining strength and muscle is a higher goal than Increasing cardio then:

Anything but very light cardio should be done after the weight lifting.

 

To warm up for weightlifting, take your one rep max and put it to 40%.

Bench press for example, 190x.4. That puts you around 80 lb. Do a couple sets at this weight to warm up your muscles and joints. Then increase from there.

[Pullstart 65,659]

11 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

Weight lifting?

 

Modern science says we should be doing this differently.

 

If gaining strength and muscle is a higher goal than Increasing cardio then:

Anything but very light cardio should be done after the weight lifting.

 

To warm up for weightlifting, take your one rep max and put it to 40%.

Bench press for example, 190x.4. That puts you around 80 lb. Do a couple sets at this weight to warm up your muscles and joints. Then increase from there.

Understood.  I was almost fortunate for the few minutes of jogging, it started off feeling like my wheels were square then I began feeling a bit more mobility.   

[Pullstart 65,659]

20 hours ago, Pullstart said:

Tomorrow we’ll max our squats.  I might try for a bigger deadlift afterwards, depending on my leg fatigue feels.

 

Big win today!  My squat previous was 255, and I got to 275 before stopping.  My face felt like a red tomato and my legs were wobbly.  I decided to see if I can up my deadlift from yesterday’s 270.  I quit counting and made it to 300 before the kids told me where I was at!  That’s enough for one day.

[Pullstart 65,659]

Yesterday morning we worked out, like every weekday morning, but this time we did AMAP reps.  The main workout was squats, and my max is 275 currently.  I put 265 on the bar, and did As Many As Possible, which was 8.  I took 20 off, did another 8 (again, as many as possible).  Another 20 off, another 8.  The last set, I dropped to 135 and got 15 out.  All is well.  Next were some side workouts, still running AMAPs.  I did 25 goblet squats with a 55 lb weight suspended in my hands (my hands holding the dumbbell like a goblet cup) and my heels on a 45 lb plate.  Something in my right shoulder blade locked up from the suspended weight.  I followed that with 25 kettlebell swings, also 55 lbs.  My personal trainer must not have realized I already did as many as possible.  She pushed me to try again, but my back muscle was not happy.  I still did another 25 goblet squats, and only 20 kettlebell swings.  The remainder of the day, breathing was an exercise.  Or moving about.  Or sneezing, coughing, etc.  I popped some Tylenol, some Motrin through the day, and a muscle relaxer before bed.  I still slept like crap, tossing and turning.  Needless to say, no gym day for me today.