Workout

[Irving]

Try drinking all milk, juice, whiskey, wine, soda, pickle juice, etc straight from the container from now on. Buy in as large (heavy) of containers as you can.

[blacklabel]

And my wife didn't think I was working out when I drink straight from the milk jug.

[Tim K]

Bought the thing in the back yesterday. Daughter and I rode for 65min. yesterday and about 90min. today.

To get home there's about 2 miles of no-shit climbing. She doesn't help much, so hauling her up the hill is quite an effort. It's my private alpe d'huez (for all you Tour de France fans). I entered my first bike race 35 years ago. It's still fun.

[Irving]

Congratulations on posting a picture of yourself that is by FAR the most happy I've ever seen any of our members in a photograph.

[Tim K]

Yeah, I forgot my war face.

[hurley842002]

After 6 years of being pampered by saunas, hot tubs, towel service, and wealthy hot chick's, I made the decision to cancel my Lifetime fitness membership. Sad day, but it's no longer making sense financially.

I'll instead be going to the Anytime fitness on 120th. It's about half the price, and there is one right down the street from where I work, so I can catch a workout anytime (no pun). I had no idea how many gyms anytime had until researching them (over 2700 in 19 countries), and I can go to all of them. Nice little gyms with everything you need and nothing you don't.

Anyway, thought I'd bring this thread back from the dead in the spirit of Halloween.


ETA: A slightly related side note, after several years of not going to the Dr. I went for a checkup with all the blood work and what not (no prostate check lol), and everything came back perfect. I attribute this to working out 5 days a week for the last 9 years or so, and eating a reasonably healthy diet (cheat weekends, a few beers every now and then, etc.). There were a couple short periods in that time frame where my diet got away from me, and my weight went up, but overall I've maintained a consistently healthy lifestyle.

I guess I mention this in light of all the health care BS surfacing these days. If everyone would just be proactive instead of reactive with their health, imagine where the country would be? I realize there are emergencies, and handicaps and what not, but your every day person really has no excuse. I'm one of the few that has paid into the health care industry for years and literally taken nothing from it (knock on wood).

Just my little health/fitness related soap box.

[babarsac]

I haven't had a gym membership for a few years now. We just moved from the DC area where I would bike to work every day or walk during inclement weather. Our apartment had a pretty nice gym.

After moving to Colorado two months ago our new apartment has a nice gym that NO ONE EVER USES! It's like have a private gym. Plus we are getting out to the mountain every chance we get. The elevation gives us quite a workout.

[ZERO THEORY]

Been running a 5/3/1 and PHUL hybrid for a few months now. Monthly PRs, and the only thing that's really stalled is my OHP. If any of you are looking to get some volume in your heavy program, I'd be happy to lay down the details.

[Erni]

@ZT numbers?

[ZERO THEORY]

@ZT numbers?

Best is a ~20% increase on bench 3RM; ~18% 1RM

OHP, deads, and squats are more modest. I don't log dates or priors, so I don't have super specific counts. Sorry.