Eat right, Run..bike..work out..swim..yoga..and die anyway. What’s your health and workout plan

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Hunter10139 said:
I like my adjustable dumbbells but I would definitely fill up a rack if the regular dumbbells weren't so expensive.
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I have found them on sale at Academy before. Also if you have Facebook people sell them on there sometimes. You could really find deals on them after the first of the year when people lost motivation after New Year. But honestly if you have what you need that's all that matters.
 
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Orangesmokey said:
I have found them on sale at Academy before. Also if you have Facebook people sell them on there sometimes. You could really find deals on them after the first of the year when people lost motivation after New Year. But honestly if you have what you need that's all that matters.
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Yeah you can find sales but they'll never compete with adjustable prices. Mine go up to 90 lbs. I would have to spend a fortune to get individual dumbbells to that weight.
 
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Hunter10139 said:
Yeah you can find sales but they'll never compete with adjustable prices. Mine go up to 90 lbs. I would have to spend a fortune to get individual dumbbells to that weight.
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The heaviest I have is 60. I used to have up to 95s but I sold them off. At one point I was doing 5 sets of 5 on bench with the 95s. That’s just stupid and bad for your joints. I use the 60 for over head triceps 20 reps. I don’t do bench at all anymore and if I can’t do 12 reps it’s too heavy. Try to get 16 reps.
 
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Orangeslice13 said:
The heaviest I have is 60. I used to have up to 95s but I sold them off. At one point I was doing 5 sets of 5 on bench with the 95s. That’s just stupid and bad for your joints. I use the 60 for over head triceps 20 reps. I don’t do bench at all anymore and if I can’t do 12 reps it’s too heavy. Try to get 16 reps.
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Yeah 5 sets of 5 reps is a bad scheme imo. Combines a heavier weight with too many sets. 3-4 sets seems like enough per exercise based on my very limited experience. I also prefer rep ranges that are higher than 5, specifically for my joints. The only thing I have that is close to that is my squats, which are 3 sets of 4-8 reps.

The only time I get close to my dumbbells' max is on rows currently.
 
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Orangeslice13 said:
The heaviest I have is 60. I used to have up to 95s but I sold them off. At one point I was doing 5 sets of 5 on bench with the 95s. That’s just stupid and bad for your joints. I use the 60 for over head triceps 20 reps. I don’t do bench at all anymore and if I can’t do 12 reps it’s too heavy. Try to get 16 reps.
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I have up to 80#, but they have dust on them. I can do 70s x8-10, before my shoulder issue. I may never do barbell bench again after this.

Good news: I went to Fox Den and hit balls today with only a little pain. Hopefully I can work through this without intervention.
 
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SuzyVol said:
I'm ten weeks into my walking program. Ten-week average steps per day is 15,871, down from my eight-week average of 16,112. I'm spending more time on the treadmill. Trying to work up to the 12-3-30 workout. I think I can reach that level in about three more weeks.
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Music makes all the difference for me if I do a 12-3-30, but I don't do it very often cause it feels so boring. Not sure how to change my mindset on that.
 
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SuzyVol said:
I'm ten weeks into my walking program. Ten-week average steps per day is 15,871, down from my eight-week average of 16,112. I'm spending more time on the treadmill. Trying to work up to the 12-3-30 workout. I think I can reach that level in about three more weeks.
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Also, amazing average! I never get anywhere near that even when I do 5k steps during my morning workout.
 
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Orangesmokey said:
Gotta start somewhere. I made it my mission two years ago to get good at push ups. I started at struggling to get ten. I started doing them everyday to get better. It was interesting to see what it did for my workouts.
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I was a doing an elbow plank to push up when my rotator cuff shredded enough to tear (bone spur). I didn't do pushups before then (just on my knees because I never committed to getting better at them). That was in 2012 I think.

I started last year trying to do them, and stayed with it about a month. It has never felt like the mechanics work right for me to do one. But this morning, I think I tried to stay with the video and didn't have time to get set on my knees, and just did them. It was weird. I'm sure form was terrible, but I always feel like I have to be sure I'm straight enough, and I think I end up over compensating. Hard to explain.

Anyway, I reckon I'll try again tomorrow morning and see what happens.
 
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vollygirl said:
I was a doing an elbow plank to push up when my rotator cuff shredded enough to tear (bone spur). I didn't do pushups before then (just on my knees because I never committed to getting better at them). That was in 2012 I think.

I started last year trying to do them, and stayed with it about a month. It has never felt like the mechanics work right for me to do one. But this morning, I think I tried to stay with the video and didn't have time to get set on my knees, and just did them. It was weird. I'm sure form was terrible, but I always feel like I have to be sure I'm straight enough, and I think I end up over compensating. Hard to explain.

Anyway, I reckon I'll try again tomorrow morning and see what happens.
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No I get what you are saying. I always have to adjust my form and remind myself to make sure my chest is staying engaged in the movement. The biggest thing I can tell you is making sure your elbows are flared out and that if you are are doing a full push up to stay on your toes do it feels like you are pushed forward. I am 100% positive that out of 40 push ups I do at least 10 of them are incorrect in form.
 
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Orangesmokey said:
No I get what you are saying. I always have to adjust my form and remind myself to make sure my chest is staying engaged in the movement. The biggest thing I can tell you is making sure your elbows are flared out and that if you are are doing a full push up to stay on your toes do it feels like you are pushed forward. I am 100% positive that out of 40 push ups I do at least 10 of them are incorrect in form.
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I think at some point I saw someone with their butt way too high, and ever since then mine has been way too low. I think I'm usually closer to cobra than downward dog.
 
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vollygirl said:
Also, amazing average! I never get anywhere near that even when I do 5k steps during my morning workout.
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My average will be dropping. I tried to walk twice a day most days this summer, virtually all outdoors. That's one advantage of being retired. But I am cutting back to once a day while I am doing treadmill. I do 30 minutes at elevations, working toward 12-3-30. Then I do another 3 miles at low or no elevation at 3.8 - 4.0 mph. That gets me a little over 5 miles with warmups and cooldowns.
 
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