Working to Stay Lean ~

[roadwarrior]

 

 

                                                           

[A-Jay]

After celebrating my 63rd successful lap around the sun yesterday,

I was once again fighting gravity this morning. 

As scheduled, Total Body 3 was the focus and I was highly motivated.

Happens right after most every birthday these days. 

#borninfiftynine

A-Jay

[roadwarrior]

After your workout, this is what you need!

 

Huey's World Famous Cheeseburger

I like mine medium rare with everything, plus grilled onions.

https://hueyburger.com/

[A-Jay]

5 minutes ago, roadwarrior said:

After your workout, this is what you need!

 

Huey's World Famous Cheeseburger

I like mine medium rare with everything, plus grilled onions.

https://hueyburger.com/

Looks Really Good !

I'm actually enjoying a pretty killer plate of sushi ~ Chef's Special . . . .

A-Jay

[A-Jay]

Total Body 1 this morning.

Showing my last working set on this one.

Cranked out a 15 lb improvement on the Vertical Leg Press.

Finally back up to my fighting weight 167 this morning. 

#borninfiftynine

 

A-Jay

[throttleplate]

good morning, good afternoon and good evening, happy birthday.

[A-Jay]

Total Body 2 this morning.

Sometimes it's just about getting Clean Reps.

That's what this one was about.

Showing one working set of six exercises.

#borninfiftynine

A-Jay

[A-Jay]

Total Body 3 this morning.

Two working sets got it done.

The Partial Dead lifts were particularly intense.

#borninfiftynine

A-Jay

[A-Jay]

After a scheduled day off and a day on the water, I was back in the home gym.

The convenience/importance of which, can not be over stated.

Pumped out Total Body 1 with last working set shown here.

#borninfiftynine

A-Jay

[steve carpenter]

Injured my right bicep lifting weights yesterday. doing standing military presses. Big knot today and bruising. iced it down and its not hurting at rest, but when flexing it s a killer pain. Have done this 100's of repetitions. Will lay off upper body  work for awhile. Concentrate on lower body and abs.

Work out at least five times per week so will miss it. My 75 yoa body s catching up with me.

[A-Jay]

1 hour ago, steve carpenter said:

Injured my right bicep lifting weights yesterday. doing standing military presses. Big knot today and bruising. iced it down and its not hurting at rest, but when flexing it s a killer pain. Have done this 100's of repetitions. Will lay off upper body  work for awhile. Concentrate on lower body and abs.

Work out at least five times per week so will miss it. My 75 yoa body s catching up with me.

Sorry to hear that.

Resting something and still training, has rarely worked well for me.  Usually just prolongs the healing to a point where I simply just stop training altogether and let my body focus on healing. Hope you can be back at it soon.

A-Jay

 

[A-Jay]

Total Body 2 this morning.

There's always a certain amount of this in every training session,

however this morning we were at about 7.9 on the grueling scale.

Additionally, made an improvement on my weighted pull ups.

#borninfiftynine

A-Jay

[steve carpenter]

Thanks A-Jay. 

[LrgmouthShad]

1 hour ago, A-Jay said:

weighted pull ups.

Oh boy…. Yeah you might get a little stronger doin those ???

[throttleplate]

4 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Total Body 2 this morning.

There's always a certain amount of this in every training session,

however this morning we were at about 7.9 on the grueling scale.

Additionally, made an improvement on my weighted pull ups.

#borninfiftynine

A-Jay

Dont know if i ever asked you but do you stretch your muscle groups and do you ever just hang from a bar letting gravity stretch you?

[A-Jay]

1 hour ago, throttleplate said:

Dont know if i ever asked you but do you stretch your muscle groups and do you ever just hang from a bar letting gravity stretch you?

Besides doing the hanging and pulling work you've seen here, no.

I used to do some traditional stretching but stopped because it never really proved beneficial.   I wasn’t any better doing it than not.

However before every workout, I do perform a complete warm up.  Seems to serve me well.

A-Jay 

[Jigfishn10]

Warm-up prior to a workout used to be "a complete waste of time". Can't believe how wrong I was until I got older.

 

I've been doing more of the Olympic lifts lately and really like it. Never realize how tight my lats were until I started out trying to overhead squat and press in s n a t c h (sots press) as a progression to the Olympic  s n a t c h. Kept losing the position out front. Finally got an appreciation for foam rolling and stretching. Not so much static stretching where your holding a stretch for like 30 seconds or more but more like contract/relax stretching where you contract the muscle and relax into a stretch for a 4-5 breath count. Only like 3-4 sets is all that's really needed. 

 

Anyway, I've really never been able to press in squat, overhead squat and Olympic s n a t c h very well until I started this journey. Really liking the mobility/flexibility my body has now.

[A-Jay]

Nice ~

My days of running that style program are a bit behind me.  No doubt super effective just a little too much injury risk for this OG at this point. 

 And the warm up is Everything for me.  I need to have a decent lather going in order to feel 'ready'.

Heading into the Home Gym right now.  

Keep grinding my friend.

A-Jay 

 

[A-Jay]

 

Completed a 'light' version of Total Body 3 this morning.

Two working sets of what amounted to just a bit over warm up weight.

** Point of interest ** After over 10 straight weeks of training, it's time for a de-load.

So I will be taking a break, not in the gym, for a week or so.

Plan to be back at it 1st week of Sept.

#borninfiftynine 

A-Jay

[Jigfishn10]

Rest up @A-Jay

[A-Jay]

Just checking in here ~

Been taking full advantage of my 'off time' to be on the water quite a bit

and it's been paying off with a few respectable bass.

However, I haven't been totally out of the gym.

Still getting in there every other day to do a 'light' sort of warm-up

style workout.  30 minutes just to keep everything moving & lubed up.

Cut my calorie intake down to mainainance or even slightly below that. 

Should eventually result in less 'smoothness'. 

Expect to be participating in more of an actual regimented deal in a few more days.

Unless the big brown bass bite goes completely nuts.

Then, all bets are off . . . .

A-Jay

 

[Deleted account]

Does NC style pulled pork and 12 oz lifts count?...

[A-Jay]

29 minutes ago, Deleted account said:

Does NC style pulled pork and 12 oz lifts count?...

May depend on how you define 'count'.

A-Jay

 

[LrgmouthShad]

1 hour ago, Deleted account said:

NC style pulled pork

Dang I should cook some pulled pork one night

[Deleted account]

19 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Dang I should cook some pulled pork one night

 

I do a slow cooked shoulder on the grill, and have like 5 meals from it, pulled pork, pernil, pork lo mein, tacos, and Cubanos usually.