***The Exercise Challenge***

I'm going to do 30 push-ups and do 2 and a half minutes of planks

 

Nothing specific today, but I've been moving around and carrying things all day. Plus, I just got a guitar for the first time since my house burned down, and I played that thing for probably 7 hours today.

 

One hour at the gym today with full-body strength training, plus I'm doing a lot of walking these days it seems!

 

Swimming. 30 laps. 6000 feet. 1 mile + 720 ft. Time. 44 minutes 10 seconds.
Dark squares equal days of the pool.

 

Good to hear! I'm sorry about the house thing but it seems that you've gotten out of there well and sound.
Playing 7 hours is quite a training in itself!

Update:
Joint regenerative exercises in combination with my lovely kettlebells aaand pull ups.

It is inspiring to see you guys exploring your capabilities and impressive how consistent you are! Great job!
/Baldur

 

Day 7
8 crunches, 4 pushups, 8 bw squats, 2 chin ups, 8 russian twists, 4 pikes, 8 sumo squats, 2 more chin ups
I might do another set later. Tomorrow I will do 2 sets of everything, or maybe just do each exercise to failure.

 

Starting Long Distace this week. Excercise Monday thru Saturday

 

What? Who are you?
Where's Deth?
Imposter!

 

Day 6 of that workout challenge program thing, it was another not-too-intense-but-I-still-felt-it-doing-something days.
30 Arm Scissors
14 Rhomboid Pulls
6 Triceps Kickbacks
6 Incline Push-ups
30 second side-lying floor stretches/side
16 Arm Raises
12 Rhomboid Pulls
10 Inchworms (the rest was easy, but Inchworms always kill me)
6 Triceps Kickbacks
6 Incline Push-ups
30 sec Cat-Cow Pose
2x 14 Prone Triceps Push-ups
2x 12 Reclined Rhomboid Squeezes
30 sec Child's Pose

 

Yeah well trust me, the intention was not to get the exercise haha. It's amazing how good old songs can sound on a new instrument!

Sorry to let you down *sigh* I'm back

 

Integrated Circuit Training (Work Capacity)

A)5 Circuits of:

10 pull ups
20 reverse lunges
30 air squats
*60 seconds rest between circuits

5 circuits of:
10 pull ups
20 power over push ups
10 heavy band kneeling face pulls
*60 seconds rest between circuits
**28 minutes completion of both circuits

B)Followed with Isometric training of begin, mid, end range
horizontal push
vertical push
behind the neck rope pull
curl

C)Full body stretching

D)Finisher:

4x10 wide grip pull ups
4x20 push ups

 

Again some joint regenerative exercises and some variations with my kettlebells. Get up, snatches, squats, presses.
Cheers!
/Baldur

 

Upper body for me in the morning at the gym and basketball in the evening. Tomorrow I should do legs.

 

I was looking at the usual sad excuse for a workout that app gives me, and then I'm like "fuck this", because I realized that I'm just giving myself an excuse not to work out by doing what's basically stretches mislabeled as workouts. Back on my own schedule.
15 burpees (fuck burpees, also)
7 (went for 15 but they killed me) Hindu pushups
15 staggered pushups
4x 20 pushups
I'll play my guitar for half an hour or so later on.

 

30 Day Strength Training Boot Camp Challenge Update and Changes

I was out of town for several days and haven't been able to update in a few days. Due to being at a busy conference, I wasn't able to do the full workout every day but I kept the core exercises of 100 pushups, 50 squats and at least 5 planks per day.

Now after the first ten days, I've decided to change the workout--not because I can't handle it but because I want to make sure it's most effective at helping me get where I want. From now on, I'm calling it Core Workout Challenge and not worrying about an arbitrary number of days. This workout will change as I advance!

So I'm going to only do the 100 pushups per day until I can do 50 at a time and then starting to mix things up more. Because planks do more core work, I'm giving up situps/crunches until some point in the future I want to target ab areas as they are interfering with the planks, which have broader impact for strengthening my core.

So today's workout goals completed!
100 pushups in only 4 sets (down from original 10 sets)
50 squats/lunges
3 standard planks 90 sec, 75 sec, 60 sec
1 left plank and 1 right plank at 30 sec each
10 Australian pull-ups
1 planche prep exercise (burn in those shoulders! Ouch but an awesome kind of ouch!)

Feeling great! Getting results!

So funny!

 

Day 8
2x12 crunches
2x6 pushups
2x8 body weight squats
2x4 negative chin ups
2x8 supermans
2x6 pikes
2x8 sumo squats

My upper body and back are very weak. Only my abs are at all strong.

 

Swimming. 33 laps. 6600 feet. 2 km. Time 48 minutes 53 seconds

 

Day 9
My back was sore when i woke up today, so i will work on planking.

 

Core Workout Challenge Update
Day 13

Today's workout goals completed! This is the first time I've finished everything before 5:30 pm. Woot!
100 pushups including a set of diamond pushups
50 squats/lunges (Burn, baby, burn!)
3 standard planks 90 sec, 90 sec, 90 sec
1 left plank and 1 right plank at 30 sec each
10 Australian pull-ups
1 planche prep exercise. ouch.

Feeling like jelly at the moment but starting to see some hypertrophy in the abs and triceps and much more strength all around. These were what I was looking for in this time period, so yeah! C'mon, @Deth !! Stop with the sissy stretching!

Try and keep up with the old guy!

 

Good job. No excuses. Stay on track. It'll make the guitar sound sweeter. The workout that is