Yikes, I Weigh 320lbs

Training Over 35 Lifter
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Being fairly new around here I though I’d offer a bit of gym humor instead of a workout post, although I did do 30 mins on the elliptical today.

Yesterday in the gym I’m standing around resting as I was doing my tri cable/rope pull downs. Across from me was this female trainer, and her client. The trainer is in her early/mid thirties or so and is working with some middle age woman. Every guy in the place stopped and you could see their heads swivel like a wave in an auditorium as the trainer walked into the gym.

She had a body, no I take that back at first glance you really don’t notice anything other than her ass, I mean its dynamite. Its hard, round, meatty, on a little woman frame. Everyone, including the other trainers (its a MetRx gym, the place has more trainers than members) stop what they’re doing to take a look (sorry ladies, I don’t mean to objectify, just reporting the facts of this encounter). To further the explanation she’s sexy, defiantly muscular in a feminine way, and athletic fashionable. Lets call her Dynaglute.

On the other side of the gym is a teeny bopper girl who looks like she’s never eaten a fatty meal in her life. If you were a young buck you’d definitely fall hard and fast. But she’s young, and for this 'ol guy too young, it just feels wrong to look needless to say consider, but she’s cute and bubbly and all that good stuff. Lets call her girly.

As I’m finishing my 2nd set girly comes literally skipping by Dynaglute and the following conversation evolves:

Girly: “Nice booty”. She stops
Dynaglute: Oh, thanks! I worked hard for it. As she slaps it.

Now ever guy in ear shot range is paying attention.

Girly: “If I had an ass like that I’d be in big trouble”
Dynaglute: Smiles, “What’s your name”,
Girly: “Girly”
Dynaglute: “Nice to meet you”, "You don’t need a big butt like mine yours is so nice and hard, and petite (as she twirls Girly around by the waist).
Girly: “Oh no, I don’t like my ass, I like yours”, “I want one just like yours”
Dynaglute: “You are such a sweet girl, I just want to eat you up”

They hug, and girly gives Dynaglute the old baseball pat on the rump, and then they part ways.

Now can you imagine having a conversation like that in the gym with a woman you didn’t know/just met?

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[quote]Crippler56 wrote:
Stay at it, and good work so far. Just remember, most people quit anything they do at first. Stay with it and before long it will be a good habit to have. [/quote]

Its already getting back to that feeling. Thanks for the encouragement.

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Sooooo…after that you have no problem with inspiration for showing up at the gym?

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[quote]corrmhona wrote:
Sooooo…after that you have no problem with inspiration for showing up at the gym? [/quote]

Happily married for 28 years now, but since the wife doesn’t have a problem with me admiring a truly good looking woman (Jessica Beil, Selma Hyek, etc) then no, absolutely no problem getting to the gym as often as possible.

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:slight_smile:

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Worked on my back squat form today. I could tell its been a very long time away since my form actually sucked big time. After warming up with body weight squats I used the bar to get the feeling of being under the bar again, and holly Toledo did those first squats look ugly!

I could feel my back was rounding and my hips, feet, shit even my hands felt out of place. I even had the bar centered up wrong until I noticed it after my first bar only set. Thank God for mirrors. My squat session today was really humbling, BUT it felt good to start working in the direction of getting back to squatting.

My legs with just the bar felt weak. Too weak. So I need to gain some strength in my legs. On my next lower (or full body) day I’ll start deadlifting and continuing to work on my back squat form.

Squats (Intermittent )

BWx10x40
Barx10x40

ISO Rear Delt Flyes 45x10x4, 70x10x4
Medial Delt Flyes 60x10x4

Leg Press 120x10x4
Quad Extensions 115x10x2, 130x10x2
Hamstring Curls 120x10x4
Calf raise 235x10x4

Ironically made three new friends at my new gym. Two guys who I’ve seen somewhat regularly, and a gal I’ve seen a couple of times. She’s a bodybuilder in her mid to late forties. Like I said earlier in another post this gym feels like a community place even though its a bodybuilding meca for the area. Very cool!

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Most experienced people at the gym are cool and will help you out. The a-holes are easy to spot.

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No.

Glad to see you back. Keep up the good work!

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Keep with the squat. Form over weight. Better squatting the bar deep and solid than piling a bunch of weight on. Suggestion though, and that is do it first before deadlifting. It will be easier to keep the form up.

Keep up the good work. We still need to organize the superhero team up… :wink:

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[quote]kpsnap wrote:

No.

Glad to see you back. Keep up the good work![/quote]

I know, right! And your female…a guy would get, and probably deserve, a backhand to the face with the 1st two words in this conversation.

I read through your log a week or two ago. Nice progression. I look forward to hearing more about your goals and gains.

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After an early 5:00 am rise this morning I ended up skipping the planned trip to the gym. My quads are really sore from Saturdays beginning squat work. Instead I hopped on the elliptical in the garage for 30 minutes, and then went outside and hopped on the stationary bike in the backyard for 20 minutes while I watched the sun come up.

It wasn’t what I was hoping for this morning, but regardless it was a great start to the day.

My niece is in town visiting from out of state and she wants to go for a hike. If my legs start to feel a little better then we’ll hike a trail near the house which is about 3~4 miles start-to-finish with 30% at a 45 degree incline. I love this hike, maybe just not today, but will hike the trail just for her.

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[quote]kpsnap wrote:

No.

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Ha! I laughed.

The best thing IMO for getting rid of sore quads is more squats. Welcome back and keep it up.

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[quote]FarmerBrett wrote:

[quote]kpsnap wrote:

No.

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Ha! I laughed.

The best thing IMO for getting rid of sore quads is more squats. Welcome back and keep it up.
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FB, thanks. I’ve read through your old log and watched the vids. Dude, you’re killin-it! Truly inspiring stuff.

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It may not have been the workout you wanted, but any workout is progress. Keep moving forward, there is no looking back.

…but yeah, Squat more… :wink:

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[quote]corrmhona wrote:

…but yeah, Squat more… ;)[/quote]

Absolutely!

I wobbled into the gym tonight with still sore quads, but fixed’em all up with 20 minutes on the elliptical and was ready for an upperbody workout. More squat work planned for Thursday.

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Bench
135x10x2, 135x8x3, 135x4x4, 145x4x3, 145x2x2

ISO lateral incline press
45x10x3

ISO lateral wide chest
45x10x3

Lat raise
70x10x2

db military press
25x10x3

Shrugs
40x25x2

db bicep curls
27.5x10
30x10x2
40x6x1

Cable/rope tricep pulldowns
120x10x3

Elliptical
20 minute warm up
30 minutes

Recently ordered the most recently edition of 531 and waiting for it to arrive. I look forward to reading through it and seeing if I might be able to use its principals to bring some structure to my workouts. I’m kind of hoping this program will have some milestone markers built into it to help me track my progress.

I’m not usually a fad kind of guy, in fact the first word in my company name is Contrarian, if that gives you any clue as to my philosophy towards most things in business, and in life. I can see its a popular program by reading through some articles and forums, but just because it popular isn’t necessarily why I’m looking into it.

Being a neophyte lifter I need a “See Jane Run” kind of program BUT, I also need to see the entirety in stuff. As a developer I’m forced to look at dirt and see something else, but it all starts on a piece of paper with a design, then the materials are chosen, and then an image of something in the future develops.

I imagine that’s also true in lifting. I want something I can use immediately (See Jane Run) but also a program that has flexibility to choose my flavor of lifts. Some I may know now, but others I’ll learn which I’m starting to work on now.

Any thoughts on the 531 program?

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As an aside, one of my immediate goals is to get to sub 300 lbs before my 50th birthday in mid September. I’m somewhere in the 320 range now. Heck I could be 5 lbs on either side of 320, but I don’t know because I haven’t weighed myself since I started working out in early May. Heck I don’t think I’ve actually weighted myself since sometime last year and then the scale said OUCH you’re a fat-son-of-a-mother-load. It actually said 345 lbs, and I know I put on weight during the interim months leading up to May.

I can usually judge my weight within +/- 5 lbs by how my clothes fit. If they fit tight I know I’m creeping towards 350. Lose and I know I’m right around 320/325. For the last two weeks my suit pants (thank God I only have to wear them for certain meetings) and trousers are to big so that suggests to me that I’m probably below 320.

Now you might rightfully say, well fool just get on the damn scale and find out. Ha, I say that’s easier said than done. One of the things I struggled with on my first attempt to lose weight and lift to add muscle was watching the scale. I could feel I was reducing fat, but the scale didn’t move much because I was also adding muscle. The needle moved slowly. I went from 350 to 320 in six months. Not bad progress, but I was working out five days a week which made it almost torturous to step onto the scale.

So when I began working out again in May I just made the decision to ignore the scale. And thus far I’m glad I did, but in order to realize my immediate goal of being sub 300 lbs before I head into my 2nd half century I think I’m going to need to bruise the scale. I’m going to weigh myself this week.

Anyone else struggle with watching the scale?

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First off, I think 5/3/1 would be good for you. It will give you nice, steady results. Just stay with it. As for the scale. I hate mine too. I check my weight everyday, but I probably shouldn’t.

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Elliptical
29 minutes to be exact, and not 30 min because I had to pee so fricken bad it was all I could do to get out of the side door in the garage to pee in the bushes on the side of the house. Thankfully the neighbor kids weren’t in their backyard playing.

I guess the three glasses of water and four cups of coffee before hoping on the machine should have been a clue. Alas, we learn new things everyday!

I made up for the minute by walking to the store which is about 1 mile round trip.

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[quote]Crippler56 wrote:
First off, I think 5/3/1 would be good for you. It will give you nice, steady results.

Nice and steady is exactly what I’m looking forward to. I’ll read through the book when it arrives. Until then I’ll just keep trying to build some strength through the lifts I’m doing now, and adding back and front squats. Deadlifts too, I enjoyed deadlifting a couple of years back.