Exercise Goals for 2009

It shouldn't be if you're truly lifting a 5 rep max.

My 5th rep for example is one where I'm barely able to get the bar up...one where the 6th rep would be impossible for me to lift w/ correct form.

The only way I'm able to lift that heavy for 3 sets is with that 3-5 min rest.

Now, to speed it up you can superset..for example, you do your single leg squats...while you're resting your legs from the squats you can do your bench press or abs or nothing.

Then again, if you are able to lift a true 5 rep max 3 times w/ a 1 minute rest more power to ya, feel free. The most important thing is getting 3 sets of a real 5 rep max (one where the 6th rep would be impossible).

Thanks, M!

Is it one of those that shows body fat % and water %?
We've got one and I don't trust the percentages I see.

Oh no. I really didn't want all of that info. Not right now. I'm afraid those numbers would not be very encouraging. I'm just trying to lose pounds. Maybe later I'll get into all that.

But dig this!!! I've got such a dilemma on my hands. My godson just got back into town with our Christmas gifts from his family in Houston. His grandmother"my aunt"sent us a small box of ten homemade pralines. Homemade pralines. Homemade. With her own little hands. I want to eat them all in one sitting. I want to eat them so bad I could spit. What am i gonna do???
HELP!

Eat one, or two.

And keep exercising.

Then eat one or two tomorrow.

And in ~five days (especially if hubby gets an equal portion) they'll be gone, you will have enjoyed them, and you won't have freaked out and eaten all 10 of them at once.

And they will have been demystified.

Yes, I'd do as sozobe said: don't deprive yourself of the pralines, eoe - just
eat one a day and exercise a bit more and you won't even feel the extra
calories.

Of course, you always can send them to me! :

Okay. I've eaten 2.
They are good.

Wait a minute!!
Okay, so somehow half of January is gone. Who took it? I need the 5th, the 9th, the 12th and yesterday back on my desk right now. I mean it.

Goals
Run 1000 miles
Run a faster 5 mile, 10 mile and half-marathon.
Run the NYC 2009 Marathon.
Finish in 4 Hours and 30 Thirty minutes
Reduce my weight to 170 pounds and keep it there. (185.4 this AM)
Work on Upper Body, Arms and Stomach.

Goals for my head and heart and soul
Make new friends
See more things
Sing

Joe(I would like my afternoon nap for the 11th returned, I still need it.)Nation

Excellent advice on the pralines.
Damn, you folks are good!

I was at the gym with Clive examining our chart for January. The first row was
"Bench Press (Smith)", and the entry in my column was "155". That meant I
was intending to do 3 sets of 10 at 155 lbs, which represented a 10 lb increase
from the last time we benched. "Well," thought I, "I'll do a three by five set
to try out marporshe's program." I put a couple of 45s on the bar and then,
just to see, added a couple of 25s. That plus the bar would be 175 lbs. Only
it wasn't, of course. It was 185 lbs. I squeezed out five reps, but the last one
was torture.

We replaced the weights with Clive's amount. I glanced at my watch so I
would make sure I had three to five minutes rest. I needn't have bothered.
I never realized how much time gets chewed up what with changing the weight
and Clive's dawdling.

On my next set I got two and a half reps. I had to hook up the bar only
halfway up on rep three. I was toast. On the third set I wimped out and
did 135. I entered "165" for next time.

I did three-by-fives with higher weights for my row, military, lat pulldown,
dip, and reverse curl routines. I could feel the heat in my muscles after
each routine. Great workout. I warned Clive that this was coming for him
in February. He seemed willing to give it a try.

Okay, I'm losing the battle with the pralines but I'll add five reps to each exercise today to counteract it. 2 sets-10 additional reps. Good news: I weighed myself last night and the number is not as high as i feared. My target weight is not as distant as I thought. But I will NOT have another praline to celebrate.

That's the trap I always fall into.

Go eoe!

No school today -- too cold. (I know, I know, stop snickering all of you people who live in places where 20 below zero is not such cause for alarm, especially when it's just windchill.) Gym-mom's son is sick so getting together and taking turns watching kids was out. I had to improvise.

Went pretty well actually! Usually today at the gym I do 20 minutes cardio and then biceps, triceps, lunges, and ball crunches. Today at home I did stair sprints (run up and down 10 times), then 2 sets of 10 pushups, 2 sets of 10 situps, 2 sets of 10 biceps and triceps with the one free weight we have at home (20 lbs), 2 sets of 10 lunges, and then miscellaneous stuff with sozlet, including what she calls "superman" and which was interesting. (Lay on tummy, then raise arms and legs in a flying-superperson pose, mostly supported by just your pelvis and lower ribcage.)

Definitely helped battle cabin fever, to get the heart going and sweat a bit.

Gymmed today. I hadn't done much cardio yesterday so made up for it today. Oofa. I hope I'm not too sore tomorrow -- it was abs & legs day, which kinda works as a spoonerism.

I have no idea what it's called, but it's a standard part of the routine on the nights we do pilates as part of our warm-up/cool-down. When it's part of the warm-up, you hold and raise in 5 and 10 second increments. When it's part of the cool-down, you just get into the position. It's one of the "DO NOT BOUNCE !!!" ones.

wow that was some major workout, sozobe.

I'm sore from yesterday and only walked today - first to the 6th floor again,
and at home with the kid ca. 3 miles up and down the small but steep hills here
in our neighborhood.

The dirty water of the Charles River flows for nineteen miles from Riverside
Park in Dedham to Herter Park in Brighton. Larry and I were out to canoe it as
fast as we possibly could. So were a lot of other people. We were competing
in the Run of the Charles Canoe and Kayak Race and hoped to win our
category (Masters, AKA Old Farts). Somewhere in Newton, I felt like a bridge
troll had grabbed me just under the rib cage and was trying to pull out the
makings of a Georgeburger.

My upper abdominals were cramping. I told Larry what was happening. He'd
seen this show before so he just kept paddling. I arched my back as far as I
could and started massaging under my ribs. A couple of guys in boat near the
other bank stopped fishing. They saw a man contorted in obvious agony,
clutching his chest. I guess they were thinking "heart attack", because they
hurried on over. "Go back! Go back!" we screamed. "Don't touch the canoe,
we'll be disqualified."

"You OK?"

"Yeah, just a cramp. I'm fine."

They shook their heads and went back to annoying the fish.

I'm reminded of this because my good old upper abs cramped on me as I
got out of my Lazy Boy just now. Maybe it's from last night's ab routines
at the gym. Maybe it's dehydration. Maybe it's a bridge troll.

well i was trying to files my taxes for 2 years and for some reason i can get them both completed 95% of they awy and then im not allowed to efile them.

im not one who likes being fucked with so i went out and ran for like 2 hours, im currently home and stressed out becasue THEY WONT LET ME ******* FILES MY TAXES, AGAIN.

but i released a lot of anger in the process.

**** THE I.R.S.
**** THE I.R.S.
**** THE I.R.S.

what morons organize this institution? seriously, i need last years AGI, and to file last years i need the year before thats AGI..

i call them and they are like well u didnt file last years, I ******* KNOIW

MOTHER OF GOD, GIMME 06'S AGI, U DIDNT FILE THAT EITHER

wlel i guess they dont want me to file mty taxes, and there isnt a damn thing i can do ?

>=(

roadblock roadblock roadblock.. jesus ******* christ this is stupid..

good ******* game.

at least i got some exercise i guess..

Deep breaths, Dude, deep breaths.
Dunno much about the IRA.
My strategy was to marry a woman who's good with forms.
That's worked out well for me.
Post the problem.
There's folks here who understand the system.