The VN workout thread!

#377
#377
after this M&F workout i'm doing...i'm gonna start on one of those x-reps...not sure which one just yet...
 
#378
#378
makes me wonder what i'm gonna do without food tomorrow. I have a first aid training class from 9am to 1pm. Looks like this is where the bars come into play...
 
#379
#379
Just getting back into working out myself. I figure at 6'2 330 pounds its time. Just a few years ago I was a jacked up 240. But, when you break your right ankle 3x in the past 3 years and your left ankle one time it was pretty hard for me to stay in shape plus I got burnt out and lazy. Oh, and I got a serious staph infection from a cut in 07 and spent a good bit of time in the hospital and nearly died. You could say I had a run of bad luck for a time lol.

Anyway, it took me about 9 months when I got into working out hard the last time to go from 310 to 240. At that time though I didn't have a wife and two jobs to worry about either and had more disposable income to spend on supplements. Plus, I was going to college full time and would get out each day at 11:30 or so and I done a work study program through the High School I graduated from. At the High School I assisted the Wellness coach by teaching some PE and health classes. For 4 weeks out of 6 we would have PE in Wellness class and the 4th period class I had was advanced PE II so it was all PE stuff. When you are 24-25 years old playing sports with 14-18 year old kids every day for sometimes 4 hours straight you tend to get in pretty good shape. I would use that as my cardio and I lifted weights about 5 days a week at the gym in the mornings before I went to school.

I'm not a complete blob IMO - I have done some working out off and on over the past two years. I can definitely tell I need to lose a bunch of weight but somehow I've maintained a decent upper body muscle mass. Everytime I would work out something would happen or my ankles couldn't take the pain. I started back walking a little last week just to see how they held up and they were fine. So today I went back to my normal gym and renewed my membership for a year and went 40 minutes on my favorite old machine I used there - the elliptical. With all the ankle problems I had previously - I had broke my right ankle 3x BEFORE the others that I mentioned above so I've always had a bad right ankle - I liked the elliptical because it was no impact on my ankles.

I got 40 minutes and I was definitely one whipped pup but I mustered to maintain over 100 strides per minute at level 10 on a 16 level machine and got 450 calories. In my "heyday" I could definitely get 700+ calories in the 40 minutes. I am going to do this cardio for about a week to try to detox the crap out of my system before I start lifting any weights at all. Then I'll wean myself back onto doing weights 2-3 days a week and cardio 3 days a week to start off. I am more worried right now about the weight loss but know that the weights will help me tone up too.

The main thing I have to deal with is trying to eat healthy enough. Its so easy to grab the fast food on my way to work in between jobs. Working two jobs basically full time makes it pretty difficult to eat right at least 5 days a week. I am going to try to pack my lunch during the day more now though and start going back to the grocery store getting deli meats and eat wheat bread - thats what I used to do. I could eat the good deli turkey and roast beef and I never missed the fast foods. Need more fruit and vegetables too. At least I don't have to worry about drinks that much - I drink OJ in the morning before work then drink water through the day. I will usually drink a glass of sweet tea or a can of Coke once a day but I don't worry too much about that. I know I get enough water and don't overload on sodas.

So this is basically the "restart" of my working out. My wife and I are expecting our first baby in early September. I know I'll be on the go much more then so I want to get back into some kind of decent shape to prepare myself for the sleepless nights and being on the go even more constantly than I am right now.
 
#380
#380
If anyone needs help let me know i'd more than glad to help. I'm a personal trainer and an expw major.
 
#381
#381
I guess I could look it up, but what is the deal with this X-rep yall have been talking about. How does it work? Thanks.
 
#385
#385
no, it was for work. I wouldn't mind being a personal trainer, but afraid of not having enough clients.
 
#387
#387
Yeah, there's so many things i wanna do (career wise), but having a hard time deciding. What's your career like?
 
#388
#388
i'm an MIS grad. i'm a consultant w/ SAIC workin on one of NASA's projects. we keep up w/ their finances w/ various comp. programs. it's not a bad gig. i do some work, go to some mtgs. i can work from home if i have to. can't complain at all
 
#390
#390
DownNDirty said:
Just getting back into working out myself. I figure at 6'2 330 pounds its time. Just a few years ago I was a jacked up 240. But, when you break your right ankle 3x in the past 3 years and your left ankle one time it was pretty hard for me to stay in shape plus I got burnt out and lazy. Oh, and I got a serious staph infection from a cut in 07 and spent a good bit of time in the hospital and nearly died. You could say I had a run of bad luck for a time lol.

Anyway, it took me about 9 months when I got into working out hard the last time to go from 310 to 240. At that time though I didn't have a wife and two jobs to worry about either and had more disposable income to spend on supplements. Plus, I was going to college full time and would get out each day at 11:30 or so and I done a work study program through the High School I graduated from. At the High School I assisted the Wellness coach by teaching some PE and health classes. For 4 weeks out of 6 we would have PE in Wellness class and the 4th period class I had was advanced PE II so it was all PE stuff. When you are 24-25 years old playing sports with 14-18 year old kids every day for sometimes 4 hours straight you tend to get in pretty good shape. I would use that as my cardio and I lifted weights about 5 days a week at the gym in the mornings before I went to school.

I'm not a complete blob IMO - I have done some working out off and on over the past two years. I can definitely tell I need to lose a bunch of weight but somehow I've maintained a decent upper body muscle mass. Everytime I would work out something would happen or my ankles couldn't take the pain. I started back walking a little last week just to see how they held up and they were fine. So today I went back to my normal gym and renewed my membership for a year and went 40 minutes on my favorite old machine I used there - the elliptical. With all the ankle problems I had previously - I had broke my right ankle 3x BEFORE the others that I mentioned above so I've always had a bad right ankle - I liked the elliptical because it was no impact on my ankles.

I got 40 minutes and I was definitely one whipped pup but I mustered to maintain over 100 strides per minute at level 10 on a 16 level machine and got 450 calories. In my "heyday" I could definitely get 700+ calories in the 40 minutes. I am going to do this cardio for about a week to try to detox the crap out of my system before I start lifting any weights at all. Then I'll wean myself back onto doing weights 2-3 days a week and cardio 3 days a week to start off. I am more worried right now about the weight loss but know that the weights will help me tone up too.

The main thing I have to deal with is trying to eat healthy enough. Its so easy to grab the fast food on my way to work in between jobs. Working two jobs basically full time makes it pretty difficult to eat right at least 5 days a week. I am going to try to pack my lunch during the day more now though and start going back to the grocery store getting deli meats and eat wheat bread - thats what I used to do. I could eat the good deli turkey and roast beef and I never missed the fast foods. Need more fruit and vegetables too. At least I don't have to worry about drinks that much - I drink OJ in the morning before work then drink water through the day. I will usually drink a glass of sweet tea or a can of Coke once a day but I don't worry too much about that. I know I get enough water and don't overload on sodas.

So this is basically the "restart" of my working out. My wife and I are expecting our first baby in early September. I know I'll be on the go much more then so I want to get back into some kind of decent shape to prepare myself for the sleepless nights and being on the go even more constantly than I am right now.
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what kind of detox program are you doing?
 
#393
#393
utvols20 said:
yup, and along with turkey breasts and protein bars
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all good ideas, and i do eat all these things, i guess just not enough of them. in a regular meal, i tend to eat more veggies and fruit than meat, so i guess i have to adjust that.

protein bars are tricky. many of them have TONS of either sugar or high fructose corn syrup, both of which will outweigh the benefit of the protein.
 
#395
#395
ksushalovesthevols said:
all good ideas, and i do eat all these things, i guess just not enough of them. in a regular meal, i tend to eat more veggies and fruit than meat, so i guess i have to adjust that.

protein bars are tricky. many of them have TONS of either sugar or high fructose corn syrup, both of which will outweigh the benefit of the protein.
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yeah...To be big, you gotta eat big. Lots of carbs, proteins and keep the calories up (depending on what you weigh)
 
#399
#399
no...haven't tried yet. I'm gonna stick with this M&F workout for a few more weeks and then give it a try. Any recommendation on which workout to go with?
 
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