Ab wheel or ab coaster or ab thingy (trying to do this daily)
Weekend: cardio and/or ab work
I’m not sure if I need more direct arm/trap work. Would love to work legs more often but I’m focused on the cardio now and that elliptical torches my quads/hamstrings.
I am in the process of losing weight, I’m down from 230 to 215 ish in around a month. I smoked weed for a grand total of six weeks (end of Aug to very beginning of October), let myself go and miraculously got fat. Looked in the mirror and quit. Now I’m not so fat anymore which I like.
I am also considering adding weight to some of my calisthenics but I’m unsure if reducing the frequency is a great idea.
Thoughts?
Haven’t touched a weight since April. I broke my bench PR and did 225 for 7 over the summer, I’m sure I could probably do something similar now.
Welcome back dude. Have you read any of Jim Wendler’s blog posts on his “WALRUS” training? Lots of pushups, pullups, dips, squats, lunges, etc, and lots of Airdyne/rucking. Seems incredibly similar to what you are doing and may be useful.
Thanks for the well wishes. Honestly I haven’t even thought about 5/3/1 since 2023 but I’ll have to check that out since I still have the 5/3/1 forever book.
today’s work
walked 3.4 miles (340 calories?)
burned 520 calories on elliptical
down 13-14 pounds since last month. 229 to 216
Ex cheated on me with someone skinnier for seven months out of the year we spent together and I just lost my best friend because it turns out he’s been trying to fuck me for the past five years and I’m not gay
It’s great motivation for the gym though I will say that. You couldn’t pay me to skip a workout nowadays
Yeah. Don’t get me wrong the circumstances suck but I am also on track to be in the best shape of my life by new year’s.
my ex is still gonna be doing what she does and chasing a new boyfriend for the validation. I’d be surprised if she wasn’t already in a relationship and we broke up last month. She was sexting this guy since March or April and I found out in October. Losing my best friend since 2020 hurts way more
Do you have to lose him, though? Can he not just be a friend and look for romance somewhere else?
I have friends who’ve hit on me. “No thank you” worked just fine.
Your masculinity is internal to you - nothing anyone else says or does can threaten that. So if he makes you laugh when you’re shooting darts, or whatever, keep doing that with him.
Nah, I’ll explain more. He tried to hit on me a few years ago and I told him I wasn’t interested. I looked past it, I always knew he was gay and never had an issue with it at all.
but he said some very off color things in recent weeks and then told me that I “should probably see him differently” because he wants to sleep with me.
I actually bought an extra gym membership just so he and I could work out together and now I feel violated because his intentions are weird. I don’t want to say exactly what he said but it was making a pass at me and I felt uncomfortable.
I tried to hit him up a few days later but he has me blocked. So I guess he wasn’t really my friend in the first place if that’s what it is now
What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
Ralph Waldo Emerson (misattributed, as I understand it)
regular calisthenics don’t feel like typing it out
burned 856 calories on arc trainer
3 x 15 ab wheel
I don’t really love that I’m back to using more nicotine than usual from the lozenges but it stops me from stress-eating
when I quit Zyn I gained about 30 pounds from eating normally
Now I use 1 mg lozenges every few hours and have no problems with appetite. I was down to 0.5 mg lozenges but fuck it I guess I don’t like being fat. I also have ADHD and I can’t concentrate without it for the most part
I chew the gum. The lozenges are too easy for me to go overboard with. At least with the gum I’ll keep mindlessly chewing on it long after its all wrung out of nicotine.
