Or 52…
Same. I keep improving (I think) my diet and training and not seeing any real improvements in physique. At this stage I feel like it’s more about keeping what you’ve got.
Luckily all I have to do is look around me at the people my age who aren’t continually working at it to see the consequences of not doing it!
50-something men mostly look like a piece of string with a knot in it: skinny-fat.
Or they look like they went to a barbeque and swallowed the Weber…
Almost 58.
My back-room Corona gym workouts are based on a set of adjustable DBs I ordered from Amazon. Now that I’m a number of months in (I’m still not going to the gym–live in a bit of a hotspot), I am finding to my surprise that I can lift poundages I thought were forever beyond my abilities. In fact, I’m so much stronger than expected that I’m beginning to suspect the DBs may be lighter than advertised.
Confession: I could easily weigh the DBs to determine their actual weights, but haven’t (and probably never will).
I do this all the time - can confirm suspicion with an easy, reliable measurement. Choose to ‘trust my gut’ - profit!!
I have an Ohio bar. It is not a power bar, but it’s nice for pulls. It has two sets of rings, which frankly is weird. A Power bar has center knurl (As @T3hPwnisher noted) and is also thicker diameter than an Olympic bar and flexes less. There should only be two rings on a Power bar at the max hand width for bench grip (I don’t remember the number, but it’s common to all).
Depending on your preference, I would go with the Ohio or the Ohio Power bar, with cerakote. The cerakote is really nice for protecting the finish against rust or oxidation.
I am seriously contemplating buying heavyweight elastic bands for pump/hypertrophy work at home. I don’t want to head back to the gym yet and maybe it’s wishful thinking but bands are looking better and better.
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Getting endorphins following a run is pretty common but it does need to be at a higher intensity rather than duration, at least in my experience.
Actual runners high (getting it while you’re running) is pretty rare. I experienced it once during a 5k and ran over a minute PR that I’ve never come close to touching again.
My uncle bought some bands and looks like he put on some good muscle … honestly haven’t seen him look as healthy as he did last time I saw him - Resistance is resistance and some of those bands offer a shit ton of resistance
Bands are pretty cool, you can do lots of stuff with them. They aren’t 100% great for every motion but they’re nothing to be ashamed of.
Definitely Cerakote. I’ve had mine for 3 years and it looks like I don’t use it.
Wait, that’s NOT the much-heralded high?? And all this time…
Thanks all for the support. I’m well aware that exercise staves off aging - which I’ve managed to do well for a very long time now. I just have this SICK OF IT feeling at a level I’ve never experienced before. Like, why do I have to be special? Why do I have to meet this impossible standard of health and preserved youth? Why can’t I just fuck around in the mornings and then go to work like everyone else, then come home and have dinner?
I may be having an official depression, I don’t know. I worked out yesterday, did not do today, and will to tomorrow or Thursday, then over the weekend. I’m going to try three days a week for a bit, see if that’s better. I’m also actively dieting, because I’m sick of being at this weight, and I think I was feeling betrayed that I was going so hard, workout-wise, and still staying right at the same place. Of course I recognize that my eating was the problem, not the going hard, but still.
Pretty much share all of your sentiment here @EmilyQ. It’s tough, especially when the world around you essentially stops. There’s an awful lot of different psychological things going on that are playing havoc on everyone. Hopefully the 3-day schedule and eating change helps.
You don’t have to, and nobody should give you shit for this.
But yeah, if you are feeling really down, reduce to 2-3 times a week, doing workouts you enjoy, and use the spare time to do other activities. That’s what I did
@polo77j, @boilerman ah gotcha. Sounds good! Thanks!
@T3hPwnisher no oly lifts for me, so center knurling would be preferred. Thanks for pointing that out!
@hardartery crap. Thanks for pointing out that the power bar is thicker than the olympic bar. 3mm it seems. Now I don’t know which bar we had in my old gym.
I think your “standard” gym bar is 28.5mm or 28mm… I have the Echo 2.0 and it feels “normal” so use the specs for that for reference.
That’s what I use personal trainers for. I don’t actually need them to work out. I need them for accountability and to prevent me from paying a no show fee because I feel like blowing off a work out.
Motivation comes and goes like everything else. I used to pop a dbol, become invincible, and be dying to move some iron. May try that again someday. But now I have a trainer call me a pussy and get to the gym.
It really makes me sad how calorie dense duck is. My mom went to the Chinese store and brought back 1/2 a roast duck and a lb of char siu.
I already had a couple of pieces of each thinking it was 300kcal. Turns out I had more like 600. I just want to polish everything off 
Oh… and I didn’t workout today
Incoming Snark… -I am All Powerful, and I deem that you cannot make any more of these “overeating” posts until you actually gain weight.
And I disagree with your #s.
Well… my mom bought me a food scale and I measured out a similar portion, weighed it and looked online… definitely 600kcal, being VERY lenient
I just figure the 5 hours per week you get back for avoiding exercising is not worth the risks that come with not exercising. I’d also like to not have to shower but that has issues too.
I see…rechecked and I think the 25mm are 15kg bars only. Thanks J!