ScottCollins
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Post by ScottCollins on Mar 13, 2013 19:51:46 GMT -5
Does anyone have a workout routine that I could follow? I've tried to come up with a good one but it never really works out, no pun intended.
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Post by soldatjakob on Mar 13, 2013 20:19:25 GMT -5
Well, the best advice i could give is find a good farm to work at in the summer doing hay. If thats not an option, walk everywhere with a backpack with some weight in it. Lift weight but dont do it in the sense of weight lifting if that makes any sense at all. Lift like you are working its builds muscle faster and its "practical" muscle that stays on you. Just weight lifting builds "cosmetic" muscle. You'll look good but if you stop working out for a few weeks you'll lose it....I'm no expert but thats what i know.
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Post by brownien on Mar 13, 2013 20:20:57 GMT -5
I tend to go for jogs in the woods with my full web kit. The added weight helps simulate game conditions, and if I really want to feel the burn, I use my full BAR kit! I feel that cardio is the best and simplest thing you can do for your body.
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Post by aj czarkowski on Mar 13, 2013 21:31:40 GMT -5
Well, the best advice i could give is find a good farm to work at in the summer doing hay. If thats not an option, walk everywhere with a backpack with some weight in it. Lift weight but dont do it in the sense of weight lifting if that makes any sense at all. Lift like you are working its builds muscle faster and its "practical" muscle that stays on you. Just weight lifting builds "cosmetic" muscle. You'll look good but if you stop working out for a few weeks you'll lose it....I'm no expert but thats what i know. Not true... It's not just cosmetic... if it was how would you be able to lift heavier and heavier weights and it doesn't go away in a few weeks, probably more like a few years ------------------------------ Here is what I do: Warm up before each workout for me is ~150 sit ups, ~50 push ups Day 1: Chest & shoulders Chest: -bench press -dumbell press -fly's Shoulders: -upright rows -shrugs -side lateral raises -front lateral raises (basically a heil hitler with dumbells ) Day 2: Arms and legs (bicep and tricep) Legs: -leg press -leg curls -squats Arms: Bicep -bar curl -dumbell curl -preacher curl Tricep -french curls -pushdown -kickbacks Day 3 Back -lat pull downs -seated pulley rows
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Post by wilhelmmoa on Mar 14, 2013 21:30:35 GMT -5
When a event is 1 month away I start to run on a trail in my impression. For the summer I do my airbourne impression with the parachute and for winter I use my helmet greatcoat and gear. That gets me pretty prepared and the runs are like a half an hour to a hour.
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Post by Sgt_Tom on Mar 15, 2013 13:19:07 GMT -5
What are your goals Strength, Muscularity, endurance, a mix of all? Strength training is almost a hobby for me, my personal suggestion if you want to look better and perform better would be either weight lifting, calisthenics, or a mix of both. A good place to start for weight lifting would be a book called Starting Strength. You'll have to invest in at least $200 worth of weight lifting equipment though. If you don't want to spend cash on weights here is a good calisthenics workout you could do. Something like this 3-4 times a week. Pistols(one leg squats) Dips Pull Ups Push Ups Planks I'd go for 3 sets of as many as you can do on each exercise. As the exercises get easier you can switch to harder variations of them. Keep it intense but I wouldn't suggest going to failure, stop few reps short. For planks I'd do about 5 of them for as long as you can hold. They are a lot harder then they look. I like to watch this guy on Youtube. He only does calisthenics and he is pretty muscular. www.youtube.com/user/TheF0rtress/videos?view=0Just a little note before you read the rest of this post: A rep means performing the exercise a single time. So doing 1 push up= 1 rep or 1 squat= 1 rep A set is a group of reps. So 1x5 would mean 1 set of 5 reps. So 5x5 would mean 5 sets of 5 reps. Its like you do 5 reps then rest a minute, repeat 4 times. Anyways I've done Stronglifts 5X5 for a while now but stopped recently. My current workout looks like this: Monday: Barbell Front Squat Light: 3x5 Weighted Dips: 3x5 Deadlift Heavy: 3x3 Tuesday: Barbell Back Squat High Bar Heavy: 3x5 Overhead Press: 3x5 Pull Ups Bodyweight: 3 sets of as many as possible Thursday: Barbell Front Squat Heavy: 3x5 Dips bodyweight: 3 sets of as many as possible Deadlift light: 3x5 Friday: Barbell Back Squat High Bar Light: 3x5 Handstand push up: 5 sets of as many as possible Overhead Press Light: 3x5 Pull Ups weighted: 3x5 I do a lot of mobility work before hand to stay flexible. soldatjakob, I wouldn't really agree. Weight lifting, especially certain compound movements like squat, deadlift, overhead press can greatly aid strength in everyday activities. Its probably the most efficient way to gain strength. If you do it right there are a lot of health benefits as well. If you stop working out you will lose all your muscle and most of your strength eventually, it will take more then a few weeks though. That is true with anything though, do it or you lose it.
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Post by ScottCollins on Mar 15, 2013 15:37:48 GMT -5
Yeah I want to be able to run far and fast at events so I guess endurance and strength.
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Post by Sgt_Tom on Mar 15, 2013 16:57:07 GMT -5
You could try a mix of jogging and sprinting. Go running 3 times a week. Set a certain distance then do 10 secs of sprinting followed by 10 secs of running. Keep that pace going the whole time. Keep track of the time it takes you to run whatever distance you choose and I am sure you'll see improvement. Just stay consistent and stick to it.
If running faster and longer is your only goal this should work for you as its a mix of endurance and speed training. Don't plan on gaining much of an muscle or any heavy duty strength though.
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Post by aj czarkowski on Mar 16, 2013 10:57:32 GMT -5
If your going for endurence the trick is to do more reps with less weight, being on a swim team that is how I do it myself. If your goal is just to run far and fast, stick to what sgt. Tom told you about jogging and sprinting. When I posted my routine I guess I assumed you meant weight lifting (which still can help alot with endurence).
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Post by ScottCollins on Mar 16, 2013 11:47:13 GMT -5
Well that's a random happenstance, I also happen to be on a swim team XD
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Post by warbirdguy1 on Mar 16, 2013 12:18:23 GMT -5
Play WWII airsoft and stop being fat :3
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Post by brownien on Mar 16, 2013 15:37:12 GMT -5
Thats what I do and I just get bigger!
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Post by Sgt_Tom on Mar 16, 2013 16:20:06 GMT -5
Yea "not being fat" doesn't mean your in good shape though.
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Post by ScottCollins on Mar 16, 2013 16:33:11 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm not fat, it's more just that my endurance is down. I'll be running track in a few weeks so that ought to help.
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Post by Sgt_Tom on Mar 16, 2013 16:41:42 GMT -5
Yea the main trick to progressing in a workout is of course putting your all into it every time but also its just staying consistent. A lot of people will quit after a few weeks or a month. Progression takes time.
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Post by warbirdguy1 on Mar 16, 2013 18:48:30 GMT -5
All joking aside, I agree, it takes alot of work, I have learned just to cut back on katchup, ranch, and honey mustard on my part. At my job, Progress Energy, I dont take the work carts around, I walk to destinations on the power plants.
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