Harbard

Good start to the week. Decent workout last night, drank 6 glasses of water yesterday, and weighed exactly 185 this morning. Almost went off the rails with the eating this weekend though--will have to watch that. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It is! It's also pretty stressful, but our lives are going to get much simpler when it's done (I hope). Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Howdy folks. I'm going to be moving into a new house next month with a much larger garage. As such, I'm gonna be adding a hex dumbbell station to my home gym to add some alternatives to the power rack/barbell setup. Does anyone have any good recommendations for an adjustable bench? Criteria are: 1. Adjustable positions from vertical to decline. 2. Little to no wobble 3. Medium capacity is probably good enough. I'm 185 and average strength. Half the time stuff on the web just sounds like advertisements. Also, do you think adding mirrors is worth it? Purely for observing proper form of course [emoji16] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah, my annual check up was terrific, but there were a couple of markers that indicated my kidneys were (while still perfectly healthy) working a little harder over the last year than before. Plus, I was starting to feel a little flat in my workouts. The change is already make by me feel a little more energized. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This goal may get a little dicey. I ran some numbers and decided to up my carb intake and decrease my protein intake before I shred my kidneys. May have to go back and forth a bit before I rind the right balance again. My calories are apparently too low, but I'm probably miscalculating something, so I'm not going to mess with that.

That's awesome! You're gonna need a holiday from your holiday.

If I lived somewhere where hiking wouldn't feel so much like a mosquito-infested steam room, I'd probably be a Ranger. As it is, I cry tears of joy in my just-as-hot garage gym instead. But Crossfit? I'd rather squat live monkeys.

Long time no post...so long in fact, you probably don't remember me. Anyway...damn, you've moved up the strength ladder for sure. I'm just over here bro-curlin' and avoiding the deadlift platform like the plague.

Thanks! And I'm in on the challenge.

So I'm back after a very long break. This is my first challenge in a long time, so I'm going to keep it very simple My wife and I are building a new house, and it should finish near the end of May. Needless to say, we have a lot to do between now and then. I've been lifting three nights a week, but that's going to be hard to keep up during this month. So... 1. Lift twice a week. If I can keep this up with all of the "house" stuff to do, I'll be happy. 2. Stay below 185 lbs. I'm sure my diet will slip a little bit with all the stress, so my only goal is not to add any pudge. Keeping my weight stable will be a win. 3. Drink five glasses of water a day. In addition to the milk and coffee I have, this should suffice. That's it. Let's see if I can stick to this newb-level plan, and then I'll think about doing something more challenging down the road. Maybe I'll try to make it the median point of the lifting leader boards...at some point...later

Wow. It's been another year since I last posted. See my previous respawn posts if you're interested in my past efforts. This time, I'm not actually returning from any drastic dip in my fitness--far from it. I've been steady at 180-185 pounds for most of this last year. My lifting had to pause for a while during the last quarter of 2017 while I got my house ready to put on the market. We sold it, and moved into an apartment while building our new house--the one I hope to send my kids to college from. My exercise priorities have definitely shifted. I'm 39 now, so having any delusions about powerlifting competitions or burning down the Powerlifting leaderboards are out the window. At this point, I just want to improve my health and appearance as much as possible, training in the way most enjoyable to me. This means lifting moderate weights with some bodyweight movements mixed in, focusing on supersets to maximize my limited workout time (3 nights a week). I've been doing this consistently since I moved into the apartment, and the results have been good. My diet is also still a fairly solid 80/20 Paleo-Primal, and I love eating that way. Looking forward to the new house being finished so I can ditch the machines and go back to my pig iron-based home gym. I'll be adding a full range of hex dumbbells so I can continue the superset pattern I've fully adopted in the apartment fitness center. You might even say my "warrior" training has started to resemble a "ranger," but I don't think I'd go that far. I'm more like the older, more seasoned warrior who's looking to just survive the fight and look half-way decent doing it. No need to bend bars. Oh, and far as logging my workouts go...#&$^ that. I'm just going to keep track of lifts in my head and follow where my body takes me. The name of the game is fun and consistency now--numbers be damned. I'll be lurking around the forums, looking for inspiration and a little nerd comradery. MIght even do a challenge now and then, but they'll be the kind of challenge threads more concerned with general goals, gifs and memes. See ya around.

Got a stomach bug over the weekend, so I'm taking a few days off. Will pick back up on Wednesday.

3/24/2017 9:30 pm Squats/Calf Raise/Bench Dip Superset: 10x187.5, 10x227.5, 10x267.5. 20/20/20 on the dips will need to to add some weight in my lap for the dips Deadlift/DB Lateral Raise Superset: 10x198 : 10x20, 8x238 : 10x20, 6x278 : 10x20 lateral raise weight needs to drop to keep better form. May replace this exercise with OHP Ab Wheel/Dragon flag/BW Squat superset 20/20/20 only did one of these cause it was late overall good workout. Need to figure out the optimal shoulder exercise, because I'm kind of cautious about my rotator cuffs

7/13/2015 - Octoberish 2016 I get lazy and squishy. Octoberish 2016 - March 2017 I go Paleoish/Primalish, start lifting 3 times a week, lose 26 pounds, and feel better than I have in a while. Will start back logging my workouts here starting with my March 24 workout. I'm doing an A-B-A / B-A-B split. Workout A is Bench/Chin supersets 8-12, Dips/Rows/Curls Supersets 8-12, Ab Wheel/Dragon Flags/Pushups supersets at 20 reps. Workout B is Squat/Calf Raise/Bench Dip Supersets 8-12, Deadlift/Upright Row Supersets 8-12, Ab Wheel/Dragon Flags/BW Squat supersets at 20 reps. By the end of each session, I feel like I've gotten both a good pump and a cardio workout all in one. May not be the optimal program, but it's working for me for now.

So it's been almost two years since I posted on NFitness. Life got in the wa--record scratch--no, no it didn't. I just started making excuses to be lazy and careless with my eating again. Yes, I have twin toddlers. Yes, both my wife and I have careers. No, that does not mean I had to allow myself to gain up to 206 and lose the strength I had been building back in 2015. What happened? I almost injured myself back in 2015 because I was letting my ego get the best of me, pushed linear progression without enough deloading, and then I psyched myself out and went dark for a while. The good news? I decided back in October to go Paleo-ish and start lifting again. The difference? I was finally honest with myself, in that I don't want to just get stronger--I want to look good too. The result: my lifting is now more balanced, I do lighter weight/higher reps and focus on technique, my diet is WAY better, and I've lost 26 pounds since October. I'm 180 lbs, probably about 12-14 percent body fat, and feeling (and looking) better now than I have in a long time. I'm going to start posting my exercise logs again (which will probably look pretty pathetic next to a lot of the other Warrior logs now) and hopefully receive and provide some motivation by being part of a like-minded community again. At some point, I may even do a few challenges. Will I ever try to do a competition like I thought back in 2015? Probably not, but who knows. My goals are all personal now, and the visible/tangible results I'm seeing in my health and appearance are all I need for the time being. That feels good.