Man to Man: A Support System for Men

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  • Umpire57
    Umpire57 Posts: 389 Member
    lacrolix - I give you props. The Zumba at my Y is an estrogen jungle. I do not think I have ever seen one guy go in. How was that? My coordination is crap so I did not think it would be good for me so I have never tried it.
  • Umpire57
    Umpire57 Posts: 389 Member
    Also good job on the 5k, Watch out: They can get addicting :-)
  • aj_rock
    aj_rock Posts: 390 Member
    Sounds like a good thread guys! Keep it up!

    Dunno about you ump, but I foudn the P90X EXTREMELY back intensive, like the only lift that saw significant change was back (went from 1/2 a chin-up to like 5... this was about 3.5 years ago tho!).

    For guys trying to add strength. I've been test driving a CKD for the las three weeks, and the results are just blowing me away.
  • lacroyx
    lacroyx Posts: 5,754 Member
    lacrolix - I give you props. The Zumba at my Y is an estrogen jungle. I do not think I have ever seen one guy go in. How was that? My coordination is crap so I did not think it would be good for me so I have never tried it.

    yep. 30 peeps. 3 guys. me, older gent and a young mid 20's guy. rest of them girls. I could barely keep pace. defintely good though.
  • Umpire57
    Umpire57 Posts: 389 Member
    My pullups/chinups have improved like you said (from 1/2 to approx 7 pre/post P90x). I have really been trying to add Yoga more which has done wonders for my flexibility, joint health (My knees are not great but 1000% better than pre-Yoga), balance, etc. and while I haven't gained or lost any weight (+/- 5 on any given week) in a year, I can definitively tell I have toned up tremendously since before I did Insanity (x2) then P90x.
  • aj_rock
    aj_rock Posts: 390 Member
    I never had time for the full yoga class (did the program during a fitness class in highschool, only 70 minutes time), but I know what you mean. The thing with these programs is that the nutrition packages they come with, while somewhat simplified, are ESSENTIAL for best results.

    The best workout program in the world can't overcome a donut and pizza diet :P
  • Umpire57
    Umpire57 Posts: 389 Member
    Hybrid Week 1 Day 5 Complete - P90x Legs and Back followed by Insanity Cardio Abs. - My lower extremities are on fire!

    AJ - I agree with the nutrition part but I can not be on a "program" for the rest of my life so I have learned how I can eat and keep the results I need. With that said, no donuts or pizza :-)
  • dinos
    dinos Posts: 1,390 Member
    I agree with the nutrition part but I can not be on a "program" for the rest of my life so I have learned how I can eat and keep the results I need. With that said, no donuts or pizza :-)

    Yep I agree, however I still allow myself the luxury of the occasional pizza and beer :ohwell:

    I joined the Athens Classic Marathon race on Nov 13. Don't get too excited, I'm only running the 5K distance. My current 5K time is about 31 mins, I should be able to go sub 30 if I prepare and eat decently over the next 6 weeks.

    My main issue is a herniated neck disk which causes numbness to my left arm and has weakened the triceps. This prohibits me from doing chinups, pushups or even bench presses, but at least it doesn't stop me from doing planks, situps and a few exercises with dumbbells. Hopefully the situation will get better with PT.
  • Umpire57
    Umpire57 Posts: 389 Member
    You might also want to look into adding Yoga to your routine. It has helped me tremendously. More than I could have imagined.
  • Umpire57
    Umpire57 Posts: 389 Member
    Hybrid - Week 2 Day 1 Complete - Upper Body Plus & Abs/Core Plus ending in the RushFit Cooldown. Abs/Core ended with 2 moves called 360 Chatarunga and the Cherry Bomb (They are as painful as they sound!)
  • keith0373
    keith0373 Posts: 2,154 Member
    Still working with a balky knee, so running has been out. Ellipticals, exercise bikes, and swimming will have to do for a few more days.
  • Umpire57
    Umpire57 Posts: 389 Member
    I really should add swimming to my routine. That will work you!
  • Umpire57
    Umpire57 Posts: 389 Member
    Hybrid Week 2 Day 3 Complete - RushFit Full Body Strength and Conditioning - Round 5 was brutal!
  • Umpire57
    Umpire57 Posts: 389 Member
    Hybrid - Week 2 Day 5 Complete - Plyo Legs - I was going to do Killer Abs as well but time got away from me so only legs today. - I liked it but seemed to have too much dead time between moves.
  • keith0373
    keith0373 Posts: 2,154 Member
    First run on my crappy knee in a few weeks. 35:45 for 4 miles. Not too much pain. I hope it is getting better!
  • Umpire57
    Umpire57 Posts: 389 Member
    Keep working at it Keith and it will for sure.
  • Umpire57
    Umpire57 Posts: 389 Member
    Hybrid Week 3 Day 5 complete

    I am still kinda bummed that as far as I have come that I cant do double digit pullups in any form yet.

    I realize that when I started P90x I couldn't do 3 chinups and no wide arms but I would think that at this point I would.

    Today was a pullup intensive day and I pulled 7 close grip chinups at one time and that was the most of anything. Wide arm, and others I usually end up with about 5 per set.

    For the "300 Workout" you start the workout with 25 standard width pullups. I want that!
  • lacroyx
    lacroyx Posts: 5,754 Member
    hi all. did my 2nd 5K just this Saturday. course is about 70% flat, 30% hilly especially in this one part where it's just a long S curvy all uphill. according to my GPS tracker 300 feet in elevation. I didn't think I'd beat my time of 46:56 from my 1st 5K with those damn hills slowly me down :mad: but I did! 46:37. feels great. I think the best part was at the start of the long hilly part a 60 yr old woman passed me, smiling and giving my a thumbs up. It made me smile too. :blushing: then when I reached the top of the hills and the rest of course was flat, I was determined to catch up to her. never did though. :sad: lol:laugh:
  • ianwalker1969
    ianwalker1969 Posts: 20
    Didn't know there was a thread just for us fellas.

    Hi everyone :)
  • Umpire57
    Umpire57 Posts: 389 Member
    Keep it up lacrolix. It gets addicting. :)

    Welcome Ian
  • Umpire57
    Umpire57 Posts: 389 Member
    Hybrid Week 4 Day 2 Complete - Hour 1 - Yoga and then AbAttack classes - Hour 2 - P90x Core Synergistics. - Anyone who knows Yoga can appreciate this: I held Crane and a full wheel for like 7 seconds each! The Yoga instructor had me try wheel last week and all I had was this broken down wheel on my big noggin. This week I took it up! (I'm stoked)

    And Also.....GO CARDS!!!
  • Umpire57
    Umpire57 Posts: 389 Member
    4 days away from another 5k. I have not run in months until a few weeks ago when my daughter's XC team entered a public 5k so I signed up to run with them. I now haven't ran since and they did it again so I signed up again. I also have a full day of football officiating scheduled to start 2 hours after the race is scheduled to start and I will be about 40 minutes away. So I run, finish, jump in car and drive to football then almost immediately hit the field for about 5 hours. Should be an interesting Saturday :)
  • drh1111
    drh1111 Posts: 46 Member
    This is a good thread. I restarted the Couch to 5K program last week. During W4 I had to stop running because of an injury. This morning I completed W2D1, and it went well, much better than the first time. This is a part of an effort to lose weight, which I have lost 20 lbs and have another 20 to go.
  • Umpire57
    Umpire57 Posts: 389 Member
    drhendricks11: Keep it up. It works!

    I did my first 5k off the completion of C25k, My pastor and his wife (Who were truly "couch") ran their first 5ks a few weeks ago with me off completion of that program. If you stick with it, it works.
  • jcearth
    jcearth Posts: 46 Member
    Running my first 5k race this weekend. I've been running at least a 5k every day for the past few weeks, but I'm interested to see how my time will be in a race setting. I'm debating about whether to take it easy to make sure that I finish, and to try and go all out and get a good time, and also whether I should take walk breaks or not.


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  • ArroganceInStep
    ArroganceInStep Posts: 6,239 Member
    Hey all, just saw this thread here.

    I'm in Sao Paulo on business for the next three months. Being away from my fiance is tough, having to behave with so many beautiful women around is tougher still...so I'm trying to get more serious about my workouts. Got a wedding to get in shape for after all.

    Problem is the gym in my apartment is extremely basic, one universal machine and a few treadmills, there is an olympic size pool though. I'm giving myself a few challenges to try to reach by the time I go back home to New York:

    1) 250 Burpees (no pull-up) in one sitting (at 290 currently, this will be brutal but all I have for lifting is calisthenics)
    2) 10k jogging in 75 minutes (I can do a 5k in between 40 to 45 minutes right now for reference)
    3) 20k walking no time limit
    4) 5k swim no time limit (I'm a pretty good swimmer, this one I can probably do right now will just take forever)
    5) 10k swim no time limit (No idea if I can do this one or not, it'll be a reach)

    Assuming I don't get back to the apartment too late I'm going to make my first go at the burpees tonight and shoot for a sub-40 minute 5k (I did 5.11k in 50 minutes this morning). Wish me luck!
  • ArroganceInStep
    ArroganceInStep Posts: 6,239 Member
    Running my first 5k race this weekend. I've been running at least a 5k every day for the past few weeks, but I'm interested to see how my time will be in a race setting. I'm debating about whether to take it easy to make sure that I finish, and to try and go all out and get a good time, and also whether I should take walk breaks or not.


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    When I do a 5k race, it's all about jogging the whole thing for me. Even if I end up with a time slower than if I had just walked some of it, I feel like it's a mental victory if I can keep my feet moving the whole time. That being said when I'm just exercising on the treadmill, I'll walk from time to time and do intervals and all sorts of stuff, I find that adding walks in improves my time by a good few minutes or so. I'm extremely slow (my last 5k race was in central park and I finished it in like 51 minutes), so no idea if you're in the same boat as me. Good luck either way! Just finishing you're doing better than most folks.
  • Umpire57
    Umpire57 Posts: 389 Member
    He is right, Find a pace that will allow you to "run" the whole way.

    Note: I take "run" as "not walk", not meaning "sprint".
  • jcearth
    jcearth Posts: 46 Member
    So I completed my first 5K race! My time was 30:49, which I thought was pretty good and was about where I was training. I ended up running the whole way, and solved my pacing problems early by finding other people to pace myself off of (which ended up being a 7 year old girl and her dad who both crushed me at the end). The most interesting part was having conversations with other people while the race was going on - I've never talked while running before. At the end I felt like Apollo Creed at the end of Rocky ("Ain't gonna be no rematch"), but after letting it sink in, I would like to try another one in a few months. All in all, it was a pretty cool experience.

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  • keith0373
    keith0373 Posts: 2,154 Member
    I ran a 5k on my bad knee the weekend before last. I did suprisingly well for being hurt. 22:26. Last year I ran it in 22:07. I think I could have broken 20:00 if I hadn't been dragging around a bad leg. If you stick with them, you will see big improvements. Just don't fall down a hill on a training run and screw up your knees!
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